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item 1 Eternal Capitol Peace Vigil Sunday & Thursday
=item 2 Green Drinks 27AUG2008
item 3 Florida's First Mass Anti-War March to Prevent War with Iran 30AUG2008
=item 4 LABOR DAY PICNIC 01SEP2008
item 5 JOHN McCUTCHEON 07SEP2008
=item 6 Unitarian Universalist Art Show and Sale 14/20SEP2008
item 7 International Day of Prayer for Peace 21SEP2008
item 8 Rock the Vote 2008
=item 9 1 Million Doors 20SEP2008
item 10 School of the Americas 21-23NOV2008
item 11 Tallahassee Food Not Bombs 26JUL/02AUG2008
=item 12 APOYO NETWORK Water Drive August 2008
=item 13 linked items of interest at least to me
item 14 Removal and Submission Instructions
WAR IS NO THE ANSWER yard signs
Free Web Listings for your activities
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item 1 Eternal Capitol Peace Vigil Sunday & Thursday
Join the Tallahassee Network for Justice and Peace, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families for Peace, Code Pink.
Now in year six. Signs provided.
Sundays 12:30-2:30
Thursdays 4:00-6:00
in front of the Old Capitol
BUSH LIES - KIDS DIE; NO IRAN WAR; FREE IRAQ ; FREE AFGHANISTAN
850-893-7390 Leave Message
peacevetstally@gmail.com
=item 2 Green Drinks 27AUG2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
5:45 p.m.- until
(The last Wednesday of every month)
Where: WATERWORKS located at 1133 Thomasville Rd
(Venue is subject to change )
Speaker: Karen Ellis, Capital Business Interiors, "Cradle to Cradle Products"
Formal introductions at 6:30pm
On the last Wednesday of each month, people interested in making Tallahassee
an Eco-friendly city meet up for a drink at informal sessions known as Green Drinks.
We have a lively mixture of people from all sects. It's a great way of catching up
with people you know and also for making new contacts. There's always a different
crowd, making Green Drinks an organic, self-organizing network.
We start the evening with a speaker from one of the many areas of sustainability, who will briefly share news, tips, and information about their area of expertise.
GreenDrinks.org/SustainableTallahassee.o
FMI
sustainabletallahassee@gmail.com
item 3 Florida's First Mass Anti-War March to Prevent War with Iran 30AUG2008
2pm, Saturday, August 30 Melbourne Florida
March from Front Street Park, 2205 S. Front Street, Melbourne, FL 32935
to
Melbourne City Hall, 900 E. Strawbridge Ave., Melbourne, FL 32901.
Organizations Endorse Patriots for Peace's
Mobilization to Stop War with Iran
CODEPINK Florida, Humanists for Peace, Brevard NOW, Peace Now Citrus County, Marions for Peace, People for Peace and Justice/St. Augustine, Social Concerns Committee of the Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship of Key West, Humanists of Greater Fort Walton Beach, Central Florida VeteransFor Peace, CODEPINK of East Central Florida, St Pete for Peace, and Military Families Speak Out (Florida Chapter).
=item 4 LABOR DAY PICNIC 01SEP2008
Big Bend Chapter of Northwest Florida Federation of Labor, CLC
LABOR DAY PICNIC
SEPTEMBER 1, 2007
From 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
MYER’S PARK
Myers Park Dr, Tallahassee, FL
This year we are going to be located at the picnic tables just south of the swimming pool. Look for the BBLC banner.
Meet local candidates and elected officials.
Bring your lawn chairs, blankets, hats, sunscreen, bats, balls, gloves, Frisbees, horseshoes – you name it. Come hungry and plan on staying all day. Meet your union brothers and sisters. And bring your friends – show them the union spirit.
This is a free event that is open to the public so spread the word.
FMI
Phyllis Garrett 850-566-9281
item 5 JOHN McCUTCHEON 07SEP2008
returns to Tallahassee for the 5th time to do a benefit concert for the 36-year-old Grassroots School on SUNDAY, SEPT. 7, 4:00 p.m. at Tallahassee Community College's Turner Auditorium on Appleyard Drive (great venue!).
http://www.folkmusic.com/
Tickets are $15 adults and $8 high school students (and under) from Monday, Aug. 4th thru Friday, Sept. 5th at
GORDON'S STRING MUSIC on North Monroe,
COMMUNITY CHIROPRACTIC on East Oakland,
CRYSTAL CONNECTION behind Olive Garden,
MUSIC CENTER across from Cabo's,
GRASSROOTS SCHOOL east of Capital Circle on Old St. Augustine Rd., and
AT THE DOOR.
Doors open at 3:30 and entry into the auditorium is determined by ticket purchase date, so get 'em early...and thanks for helping us spread the word! Info at 656-3629 weekdays.
loganhthompson@hotmail.com
=item 6 Unitarian Universalist Art Show and Sale 14/20SEP2008
Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee to Host Art Show and Sale
Schmid, Picart, and Beaudin among Twelve Exhibiting Artists
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee (UUCT) is proud to announce it will host an
Art Show and Sale from September 14 – September 20, 2008, showcasing a variety of artwork by
UUCT congregation members. The church has long recognized the wealth of creative talent that
exists within its congregation—now it will bring these talents to the fore during its first-ever
Members’ Art Show and Sale.
Artwork from 12 painters and photographers will be on display; among them are Molly Schmid,
Caroline (Kay) Picart, and Michele Beaudin. Daughter of nationally-known artist, Richard Schmid,
Molly Schmid graduated magna cum laude from FSU with a degree in Fine Art. Her artwork is in the permanent collection of the State of Florida, as well as private corporate and museum collections. Visit: www.mollyschmid.com for more information.
Caroline (Kay) Picart is an academic, a dancer, and an artist whose work has been exhibited and sold in South Korea, England, the U.S., and the Philippines. Several of her pieces are owned by UNICEF. Visit: www.kinaestheticssportasart.com for more information.
Michele Beaudin is a writer and photographer whose photography has been shown on four continents and has won several prizes and awards. Visit: www.immigesandwords.com for more information.
A special feature of the show is a drawing for a signed lithograph from nationally-known artist Richard Schmid. The lithograph is of his painting "Nancy and Rose in the sculpture garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art." View it online at: www.stoveprariepress.com.
Tickets for the drawing are $10.00, and will be available for purchase every day the exhibit is open, with the winner announced the final day of the exhibit, Saturday, September 20, at 4:30 p.m.
The show commences with a reception Sunday evening, September 14, from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. The exhibit will be open the following Monday through Friday, September 15 - 19, from 3 p.m. - 8 p.m., and Saturday, September 20, from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. The event is planned as a fundraiser for the church, with all items affordably priced. Admission is free, and all are welcome.
The UUCT Art Show and Sale will be held in the UUCT Sanctuary located at 2810 N. Meridian.
For more information, contact Barbara Sterling via e-mail at: sterlingsilver@ earthlink.net
or by phone at: 385-5115. Visit UUCT online at: www.uutallahassee.org
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item 7 International Day of Prayer for Peace 21SEP2008
On Sunday September 21, 2008...
Will Your Church Be Praying for Peace?
Will Your Church Speak Up About Violence?
On Earth Peace invites your congregation to join the World Council of Churches' 2008 International Day of Prayer for Peace campaign.
You know your community.
Is there domestic violence, homicide, poverty, child abuse, racism?
You also know God has a different vision for life -- for abundant life, for dignity for all, for justice and shalom.
Will you consider calling together a public prayer service about your community's violence this September?
Hundreds of thousands of people from churches, synagogues, and mosques around the world will join together in the International Day of Prayer for Peace.
For participants connecting through On Earth Peace, there will be opportunities to connect with other peace-committed Christian congregations concerned about violence, access to On Earth Peace resources, and guidance on how to make praying and acting for God's peace an ongoing activity.
We look forward to working with you to creatively address the needs of your community with spiritual power. For more information and to register, please visit our website by clicking
www.onearthpeace.org/prayforpeace
Peace Witness
On Earth Peace
item 8 Rock the Vote 2008
September 24 from 6:30 to 10 PM in the Florida State ballrooms in the Union at FSU in Tallahassee.
This event is free for everyone and is being publicized at FSU, FAMU, and TCC.
=item 9 1 Million Doors 20SEP2008
1 Day
25,000 Volunteers
1 Million Doors
On Saturday, September 20, thousands of volunteers across the U.S. will knock on a Million Doors for Peace.
Veterans For Peace is joining, United for Peace and Justice, SOAW, US Action/True Majority, Win Without War, and other organizations to make this day the biggest peace action of 2008.
Volunteer doorknockers will ask people to sign an antiwar petition directed to Congress. Our message: End this immoral war, bring our troops home, and invest in America's future. In addition, we will encourage people to join local anti-war groups, engage in voter education work, and become a part of the organized antiwar movement in their area.
In order to reach a million people in a single day, we must organize at least 25,000 volunteers in all 50 states. Peace groups have never implemented such an elaborate communication and organizing plan before now, but with new and traditional communications tools available, we anticipate success with this groundbreaking, grassroots project. This project will not end on September 20, but it will be a new beginning of a more organized grassroots movement for peace and justice.
Training materials, petitions, local groups to canvass with in your area, and handouts will be provided.
Click here to join Million Doors for
http://tinyurl.com/6z8mm2
item 10 School of the Americas 21-23NOV2008
For further information about the School of the Americas and the grassroots effort to close it down, please visit our website at www.soaw.org. There, you will find resources such as our database of School of the Americas graduates and instructors
http://soaw.org/grads/
as well as information on how you can help shut down the School of the Americas and about the annual November vigil at the gates of Fort Benning.
http://www.soaw.org/article.php?id=1
The November 21-23, 2008 vigil will follow the presidential election by two weeks. It will be an opportunity for the progressive movement to push for the closure of the SOA/ WHINSEC, to end torture, and to set an agenda against oppressive U.S. foreign policy, no matter who wins the presidency.
item 11 Tallahassee Food Not Bombs Every Sunday
TFNB makes use of leftover produce and other food that is considered past shelf life for stores but still healthy and delicious to eat to prepare vegan meals and share them in Carter Howell Strong Park. Cooking is every Sunday, 1230 pm start time, 800 N Bronough St, leave for park around 3. Come to cook, come to eat, come to hang out with other activists and members of tallahassee homeless community. Not only an indictment of the waste and misdirected priorities of our government and society, but an opportunity to build an alternative.
Add Anna Castagna (727)-744-6958 in their place. List that Greg has moved to Philadelphia, and Virginia has moved to New York.
thanks for all you do, Tom
Greg
Call Virginia (727)543-1488 or Greg (727) 215-7344 for directions. Always looking for new food sources. Produce, beans and rice, and canned food always needed. prepared stuff great too!
=item 12 APOYO NETWORK Water Drive August 2008
Apoyo Network started Water Drive in the month of July; this small drive was very successful. And because of the success of this drive we are continuing with the efforts to help people in need. Today we are asking for you help and support. Our new goal is 200 cases of water to be delivered among institutions that help people in need. We are also accepting donations for school supplies.
We count on you, if you want to make a donation please call Apoyo Network line at 850-879-2125, or just reply to this email with your support.
For more information visit www.ApoyoNetwork.com or call at 850-879-2125
item 13 22 Links of Interest
IMPERIUM, Decline and Fall of - 5 items
GEORGIA - 3 items
PALESTINE - 7 items
AFGHANISTAN - 1 item
IRAQ - 4 items
IRAN - 2 items
IMPERIUM - 1
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL IS FAR WORSE THAN YOU THOUGHT
In 2004, the journalist Philip Delves Broughton walked away from what sounds like a peach of a job, Paris bureau chief for the Daily Telegraph, to enroll in Harvard's world-famous MBA course.
Feelings of unease emerge even before he arrives. He reads a student guide on What to Bring. "Don't bring that guitar . . . Don't bring any books from literature or history classes . . . Don't bring your cynicism. Do bring all the diverse rest of you. We can't wait to share the experience." Immediately, his bolshie British bullshit- detector thrums into life: "Who were these people? And why did they talk like this? Why can't I bring my cynicism? Or my books? Aren't they a part of the ‘diverse rest of me'?" . . .
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.u
IMPERIUM - 2
Obama Selects Biden to Reassure the US Ruling Elite
The selection of Senator Joseph Biden as the vice-presidential candidate of the Democratic Party underscores the fraudulent character of the Democratic primary campaign and the undemocratic character of the entire two-party electoral system. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, the supposed protagonist of “change,” has picked as his running-mate a fixture of the Washington establishment, a six-term US senator who is a proven defender of American imperialism and the interests of big business.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/aug20
IMPERIUM - 2
FBI May Start Spying On Americans "Without Any Basis For Suspicion"
New Guidelines Would Give F.B.I. Broader Powers
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
A Justice Department plan would loosen restrictions on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to allow agents to open a national security or criminal investigation against someone without any clear basis for suspicion, Democratic lawmakers briefed on the details said Wednesday
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
IMPERIUM - 3
Dr. Doom(Dr. Nouriel Roubini) - The Prophet Of Economic Disaster Was Right!
Nouriel Roubini is a brilliant Economist and predicted the current financial crisis, including housing and bank failures – The signs are showing the worst may be coming with credit card and auto loan defaults.
http://tinyurl.com/6yx7y7
IMPERIUM - 4
Suffocating Dead Zones Spread Across World's Oceans
David Adam, The Guardian UK: "With more than 400 oxygen-starved dead zones in global coastal waters, scientists are calling for such dead zones to be recognized as one of the world's great environmental problems. Man-made pollution is spreading a growing number of suffocating dead zones across the world's seas with disastrous consequences for marine life, scientists have warned."
http://www.truthout.org/article/suffoca
IMPERIUM - 5
The Candidate We Still Don’t Know
McCain has even prompted alarms from the right’s own favorite hit man du jour: Jerome Corsi, who Swift-boated John Kerry as co-author of “Unfit to Command” in 2004 and who is trying to do the same to Obama in his newly minted best seller, “The Obama Nation.”
Corsi’s writings have been repeatedly promoted by Sean Hannity on Fox News; Corsi’s publisher, Mary Matalin, has praised her author’s “scholarship.” If Republican warriors like Hannity and Matalin think so highly of Corsi’s research into Obama, then perhaps we should take seriously Corsi’s scholarship about McCain. In recent articles at worldnetdaily.com, Corsi has claimed (among other charges) that the McCain campaign received “strong” financial support from a “group tied to Al Qaeda” and that “McCain’s personal fortune traces back to organized crime in Arizona.”
http://tinyurl.com/577qqf
GEORGIA - 1
Tbilisi admits it miscalculated Russian reaction
Jan Cienski, Financial Times, August 22 2008
Georgia did not believe Russia would respond to its offensive in South Ossetia and was completely unprepared for the counter-attack, the deputy defence minister has admitted.
Batu Kutelia told the Financial Times that Georgia had made the decision to seize the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali despite the fact that its forces did not have enough anti-tank and air defences to protect themselves against the possibility of serious resistance.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/950911bc-6
GEORGIA - 2
The Puppet Masters Behind Georgia President Saakashvili
By F. William Engdahl
Mihkail Saakashvili was deliberately placed in power in one of the most sophisticated US regime change operations, using ostensibly private NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) to create an atmosphere of popular protest against the existing regime of former Soviet Foreign Minister Edouard Shevardnadze, who was no longer useful to Washington when he began to make a deal with Moscow over energy pipelines and privatizations.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
GEORGIA - 3
BUSH REGIME SPENT SIX YEARS ARMING & TRAINING GEORGIA. . . LOST IT ALL IN SIX DAYS
Ian Traynor, Guardian, UK - Pity Georgia's bedraggled first infantry brigade. And its second. And its hapless navy. For the past few evenings in the foothills of the Southern Caucasus on the outskirts of Joseph Stalin's hometown of Gori, reconnaissance units of Russia's 58th army have been raking through the spoils of war at what was the Georgian army's pride and joy, a shiny new military base inaugurated only last January for the first infantry, the army engineers, and an artillery brigade.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/au
PALESTINE - 1
Harsh Words: But True
By Seth Freedman
The language used by al-Aqsa TV shocked me, but there's no denying it reflects the reality of the Palestinian experience.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
PALESTINE - 2
What Price Israel? (1953)
By Alfred M. Lilienthal
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson sent the King-Crane Commission (30) to Palestine and other places in the Near East for an American survey of conditions in the former Ottoman Empire. On its return, the Commission declared that a "National home for the Jewish people is not equivalent to making Palestine a Jewish State" and that such a "State could not be erected without the gravest trespass upon the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
PALESTINE - 3
Sailing To Gaza
By David Halpin
''The mission is to break the Israeli siege, an absolutely illegal siege which has plunged a million and a half Palestinians into wretched conditions: imprisoned in their own homes, exposed to extreme military violence, deprived of the basic necessities of life, stripped of their most fundamental human rights and dignity. The siege violates the most fundamental principle of international law: the inadmissibility of harming civilian populations.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
PALESTINE - 4
Israel to change route of West Bank barrier
Israel has agreed to alter the planned route of its separation barrier outside a major West Bank Jewish settlement to allow Palestinians more access to their land, the justice ministry said on Thursday. The state prosecutor's office told the High Court that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defence Minister Ehud Barak have decided to "significantly" alter the course of the security fence near Maale Adumim, a statement said.
The controversial barrier would be moved around 1,000 acres closer to Maale Adumim, the largest Jewish settlement in the Palestinian territories. The decision came in response to complaints filed to Israel's High Court by Palestinian villagers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080821/wl
PALESTINE - 5
'Tossed Out Like a Dog'
By Gideon Levy
In the lawless South Hebron Hills, things are wild as usual: The settlers continue to attack shepherd children with clubs and stones, to steal their sheep and to make their lives miserable, while the Israel Police continue to abuse anyone who tries to file a complaint against the settlers.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
PALESTINE - 6
There are better options
Haaretz, August 22, 2008
Daniel Levy, Ha'aretz, 22/08/2008
Israel's response to the Iranian challenge has been out of synch with developing realities for some time. Recently though, it has become dangerously counter-productive, anchored as it is in denial. As Israel intensifies its role as threatener-in-chief, and clings to a "more sticks, bigger sticks" line, events all around are moving on.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/101
PALESTINE - 7
My Palestinian Wife
By Charley Reese
Every now and then, the rumor arises that I have a Palestinian wife. Some of my kin were highly amused by a debate on that subject that was being conducted by letters to the editor in their local paper recently.
Apparently, it does not occur to anyone simply to ask me. As a matter of fact, I don't have a wife. I'm a widower, and the one wife I had was a sweet Midwestern girl of Methodist, German and Swedish extraction. I don't have a Palestinian mistress or girlfriend. I don't even have a Palestinian bowling pal.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
AFGHANISTAN - 1
Millions of dollars spent on bribes every year' :
"Each Afghan family spends about $100 in bribes every year," he said. "Corruption in Afghanistan is endemic, it hurts the poorest people disproportionately, pushes people away from the state and undermines our joint efforts to build peace, stability and progress for Afghanistan's peoples." About 70% of the population live on $1 a day, he said. Eide announced that a new anti-corruption commission will be set up to counter official corruption.
http://tinyurl.com/6z2opb
IRAQ - 1
Iraq Takes Aim at Leaders of US-Tied Sunni Groups
The Shiite-dominated government in Iraq is driving out many leaders of Sunni citizen patrols, the groups of former insurgents who joined the American payroll and have been a major pillar in the decline in violence around the nation.
In restive Diyala Province, United States and Iraqi military officials say there were orders to arrest hundreds of members of what is known as the Awakening movement as part of large security operations by the Iraqi military. At least five senior members have been arrested there in recent weeks, leaders of the groups say.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/w
IRAQ - 2
Sadrists Protest New US-Iraq Pullout Deal:
Several thousand supporters of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr protested Friday against an emerging U.S.-Iraqi security agreement, saying it would turn Iraq into a U.S. colony.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
IRAQ - 3
Key U.S. Iraq strategy in danger of collapse
US paying $300 a month to former insurgents, many of them part of al-Qaeda 20 Aug 2008 A key pillar of the U.S. 'strategy' to pacify Iraq is in danger of collapsing because the Iraqi government is failing to absorb tens of thousands of former Sunni Muslim 'insurgents' who'd joined U.S.-allied militia groups into the country's security forces. Under the program, the United States pays each militia [known as the Sons of Iraq or Awakening councils] member a stipend of about $300 a month and promised that they'd get jobs with the Iraqi government. But the Iraqi government has brought only a relative handful of the more than 100,000 militia members into the security forces. Now officials are making it clear that they don't intend to include most of the rest. "We cannot stand them, and we detained many of them recently," said one senior Iraqi commander in Baghdad, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the issue."Many of them were part of al Qaida despite the fact that many of them are helping us to fight al Qaida."
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/49
IRAQ - 4
Meet the Economist Who Thinks We're Doomed
By Stephen Mihm, The New York Times
Dr. Nouriel Roubini believes we face a housing bust, a huge credit crisis, an oil shock and a deep recession. Just for starts
http://tinyurl.com/62a7r2
IRAN - 1
Christians United for Israel and Attacking Iran
The "squeeze Iran" and "confront Iran" positions are strongly encouraged by the increasingly powerful Zionist Christian Fundamentalist community. About 5,000 people from across the United States attended the third annual Washington-Israel Summit, organized by Christians United for Israel (CUFI). There, the "Iranian threat" loomed as a pervasive theme.
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5471
IRAN - 2
Blockades: Acts Of War
Blockades are acts of war. The Bush administration threatens to impose one on Iran. It risks a widened Middle East war and potential catastrophic fallout.
http://tinyurl.com/6l8bfp
