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Action Alert from U.S. Labor Against
the War (USLAW):
Iraq Minister closes all union
offices
USLAW just learned that Iraqi
troops and police have raided the offices of the Electricity Union all
across Iraq as they execute a new decree issued by the Minister of
Electricity (who is also the Minister of Oil). That anti-union decree
is the latest in an escalating series of measures designed to
incapacitate and destroy the Iraqi labor movement.
The unions of Iraq have
called upon the labor movement of the world to respond to this
outrageous assault on worker rights.
USLAW has designed a very
easy process by which you can generate a protest message to Iraqi Prime
Minister Maliki, the Minister of Oil/Electricity al-Shahristani, Iraqi
ambassadors in the US, other Iraqi officials and have copies sent to
Secretary of State Clinton.
It will take just a few
minutes of your time. Please demonstrate your personal solidarity with
our courageous sisters and brothers in Iraq. Send the message we have
drafted or modify it to send your personal message. When you have
finished, you'll have an opportunity to forward this appeal to others.
Thanks in advance for
standing up for international labor solidarity.
An injury to one, is an
injury to all!
Action Alert from Jewish Voice for Peace
– Tell TIAA-CREFT to DIVEST from the Occupation
It took the courage of over 700
humanitarian aid activists and the needless deaths of nine of them to
put the siege of Gaza and the broader issue of the Israeli occupation on
the front pages of the world's newspapers, day after day, for a week.
There were demonstrations across the globe and diplomatic condemnations. While other
countries condemned the illegal attack, here in the US, President Obama
played games with words and ensured that no resolution would pass the UN
Security Council. And instead of demanding an impartial international
investigation, he gave his blessing to a widely criticized Israeli plan
to investigate itself.
Please
sign
the petition - regardless of your religion, ethnicity or profession, or
whether you participate in a TIAA-CREF retirement plan. *Please send all
meeting and event announcement information to
chammon@columbus.rr.com Submissions for the
upcoming newsletter will be included if received by Saturday.
Membership in CPA is
inclusive due to its format. CPA does not officially endorse the actions
and ideas of participants or the groups and views included in this
newsletter. Can You Pass The Iran
Quiz?
Make Economic Justice
an Everyday Event with Fair Trade Coffee from Haiti.
The Columbus
Catholic Worker House is spoiling Columbus rotten one bag at a
time! We are proud to be the only distributors of Haitian
coffee in the city. Contact us to take home a bag of
fairly traded, shade grown, organic coffee from Haiti.
Not only is this absolutely delicious coffee, but you'll enjoy
knowing that your coffee purchase is making a healthy,
sustainably lifestyle possible for the people of Haiti.
Medium and Day roast is available, whole bean or ground.
Frank Lesko at 614-267-3322 or
franklesko@yahoo.com, or visit the Catholic Worker House
at 1614 Oakland Park Ave., Columbus.
To inquire about coffee
Link to details about
Death Penalty
Vigils:
Join us on Fridays from noon -
1:00 PM at the NW
corner of State and High Streets downtown. On the week of a scheduled
execution, the vigils will be on High Street in front of the capital at
10:00 am, on whichever day of the week it is (usually a Thursday). There is one scheduled every
single month through September this year. Sponsor: Pax Christi and
Catholic Worker.
Every Friday from 6:00-7:00 PM
in Front of the Governor’s Mansion at North Parkview and Maryland Ave in
Bexley. To find the Governor's Mansion, go east on Broad St from I-71
(downtown). As you enter Bexley (crossing Nelson Rd and Alum Creek),
you will go up a hill. The light at the top of the hill is Parkview.
Turn left (North), and it is several blocks down on the right, at the
corner of Parkview and Maryland. There is typically plenty of parking -
participants are asked not to park right in front of the house, as that
would block the protesters! Citizens United for Alternative to the
Death Penalty,
http://www.cuadp.org/otsefridaynightvigil.html
Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform
The Columbus
Catholic Worker and Pax Christi groups are helping the
Catholic Diocese distribute postcards urging our senators
and representatives to pass a comprehensive immigration
reform bill. They are also would like to ask folks from
other groups or denominations to get involved. If you or
your group is interested, please contact:
franklesko@yahoo.com Supreme Judicial Treason -
Corporations are NOT PEOPLE - Take ACTION: URGENT CALL
TO ACTION FROM HOWARD ZINN, THOM HARTMANN, MEDEA BENJAMIN, FRAN & DAVID
KORTEN, BILL MCKIBBEN, BILL FLETCHER, JIM HIGHTOWER, TOM HAYDEN, REV.
YEARWOOD, & MANY MORE . . . Exxon.
AIG. Enron. Blackwater. Edison. Halliburton. Diebold. A Supreme
Act Of Judical Treason Against The People Of The United States, And What
We Can And Must Do About It.
Oppose the Iranian visa ban bill! STOP
S.T.E.P.
The STEP Act as introduced on January 13th
labels all Iranians as "terrorists" and would ban them from getting US
visas. This bill would prevent Iranians from visiting their family in
the US, and at a time of increasing repression in Iran, would impose
even greater burdens on Iranians seeking refuge.
Follow Ashley Franz in Palestine
with the International Solidarity Movement.
.
Blog:
http://voice-for-voiceless.blogspot.com
ISM:
http://palsolidarity.org/
CODEPink (Hosting the Gaza Freedom March;
ISM will be joining this collation):
http://www..codepink4peace.org/
CPA Pages and Links:
Independent News Media
Speaking Truth to Power
Senator Bernie Sanders Unfiltered on Health Reform –
Click Here!
Senator Bernie Sanders Unfiltered on Afghanistan -
Senator Bernie Sanders Unfiltered - Where's the Fed?
HUMAN RIGHTS IN PALESTINE AND OTHER OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES –
Sept 15, 2009
Complete report (PDF) – 575 pages.
David Swanson in Columbus
Bob Fitrakis Introduces best-selling author David Swanson in Columbus at
Areopagitica Bookstore in Columbus. See it on youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUWooBY0j9w
"It's an incredible book...It deserves the
widest possible reading..This is what we need to stay true to our
Constitution and our values.." A limited number of signed copies
are still available. Contact Bob Fitrakis,
truth@freepress.org
David Swanson spoke in Columbus on September 9th, 2009 at Areopagitica
Bookstore. It was great! If you missed it you can
See it on
YouTube!
The working topic for the latest issue of
The Link is BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) – An Update.
Recently, the executive director of AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby,
concluded that the growing movement for boycott, divestment and
sanctions against Israel could fundamentally change U.S. policy towards
the Jewish state. The latest issue of The Link would seem to
confirm his assessment.
The Link is published quarterly by
Americans for Middle East Understanding –
www.ameu.org.
Click here for to download a pdf of the
entire issue:
Current Issue
WE DECLARE PEACE IN IRAQ! - Support Comprehensive Peace Plan:
Sign AND support the Declaration of Peace....
Iraqi Health Now, an organization providing humanitarian
aid and medical supplies to families in Basra, Iraq.
U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation:
Action Alert
for Gaza
December 27,
2008
Take ACTION TO END THE ATTACK
ON GAZA
Phyllis Bennis -
Washington's Wars and Occupations:
Month in Review #46
By Max
Elbaum, War Times/Tiempo de Guerras
Oppose the Iraq War: Sign the Online
Petition to Columbus City Council
Several Central Ohio civic organizations are conducting a
petition drive asking Columbus City Council to pass a resolution
opposing the Iraq War. The war is taking urgently-needed dollars away
from cities - in particular, the Bush Administration has cut funds
formerly available to help municipalities upgrade sewer systems. Find
out more and sign the petition electronically by going to the
ProgressOhio website.
Red Bird Columbus Books to Prisoners Project
Information
How to end the war in
one day
War Resisters
League
Releases Special
Report Assessing the Antiwar Movement based on interviews with 90 peace
and justice organizers.
http://www.warresisters.org/node/415
War Times/Tiempo
Guerras – Month in Review #38 – June 2008,
Stop the War of Torture and
Lies – Max Elbaum.
War Times/Tiempo de
Guerras - March 2008 Issue
Not Another War Petition
Sign the True Majority Online Petition
http://www.notanotherwar.org/ohio.php
"The United
States should not start a war with Iran. Iran is not an
immediate threat, nuclear or otherwise, and should be dealt
with diplomatically. Talking about war with Iran is only
making the world a more dangerous place."
SPAN Comparison of Clinton, McCain, Obama,
and Single Payer Healthcare Proposals
War is just a racket.
-Smedley Butler Links:
Central Ohioans Peace Network -
COPN The worldwide update of
reported civilian deaths in the Iraq war and occupation.
Columbus Coalition for the
Homeless
National Campaign for a Peace Tax
Fund ____________________
“Naturally
the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor
in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the
leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple
matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being
attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” Karl Rove?
No~Herman Goering, Adolf Hitler’s deputy.
The catastrophe on the high seas off the Gaza Strip has only underscored
the urgent need to end Israel's occupation of Palestine and to bring a
just peace.
In the last year, divestment campaigns at U.S. universities including
Hampshire, Berkeley, and Evergreen have galvanized discussion and action
about Israel's treatment of the occupied Palestinian territories.
Building on that momentum, I am proud to tell you that Jewish Voice for
Peace is announcing today
a new
divestment campaign that you, your family, your friends, and your
community can all help build.
The goal is to get TIAA-CREF, one of the largest pension funds in the
United States, to divest from companies that are profiting from the
occupation.
Why TIAA-CREF?
TIAA-CREF's tagline is "finance for the greater good." It takes pride
not just in its financial acumen, but also in its ethical standards.
But TIAA-CREF, invests its money--my retirement money-- in companies
that help maintain the Gaza blockade, build West Bank settlements, embed
spy equipment in the illegal Separation Wall, and sell Israel navy ships
and other war equipment used to attack Gaza and, most recently, the
Flotilla. Even TIAA-CREF's "socially responsible" funds are invested in
some of the companies JVP is targeting, including Caterpillar and
Motorola.
Yet TIAA-CREF was the first major fund to divest from those doing
business in the Sudan, and then other companies followed suit. If we can
just convince TIAA-CREF to follow its own guidelines, as it has in the
Sudan, we will have a major impact.
TIAA CREF participants are public school teachers, college and
university professors, hospital doctors and staff, researchers, artists
and non-profit workers. We are launching this campaign with the
endorsements of over 250 prominent professors, doctors authors,
artists, and many others who are standing up for what is right. You
can see who has signed on here.
This
is just the beginning. Will you join us?
You'll be standing with scholars
such as Professor Richard Falk and Professor Noam Chomsky, authors and
activists such as Naomi Klein, Juan Cole, Bill Fletcher Jr., and Nadia
Hijab, a dozen rabbis from around the country, and many others fighting
for justice.
This campaign demands
accountability from the ground up, starting with you and me. An old
bumper sticker sums it up: "If the people lead, the leaders will
follow."
By Jeffrey Rudolph
What can possibly justify the relentless U.S. diplomatic (and mainstream
media) assault on Iran? Take the test!
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http://www.MovetoAmend.org
They've gone after our tax dollars. Our services. Our jobs. Our schools.
Our military. Our votes. Our future. Our freedoms. And the federal
courts have helped them every step of the way.
Today, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election
Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons,
entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our
government.
Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions. The Supreme
Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy,
the people rule.
We Move to Amend.
We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme
Court's ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution
to:
Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not
corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
Guarantee the right to vote and to participate, and to have our votes
and participation count.
Protect local communities, their economies, and democracies against
illegitimate "preemption" actions by global, national, and state
governments.
Because of the gravity
of the crime against the Constitution committed by a gang of 5 right
wing judicial outlaws on our Supreme Court yesterday, we are launching
two critical action pages at once:
Action Page: Corporations Are NOT The People
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1029.php
Action Page: Impeach The Supreme Court 5
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1030.php
This is unacceptable.
Write your representative today, telling them that you object to the
STEP Act!
Ask them to consider true common sense reforms that open doors between
the Iranian people and the US—not close them. You can send an email
message using this link:
www.niacouncil.org/stopstep.
Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza
Conflict:
Ending
Israel's Occupation
by John F. Mahoney
Your donations to
Iraqi Health Now
are now urgently needed!
by Gregg Gordon
March 13, 2008
States
Consider Calling Back Nat'l Guards from Iraq
|
Columbus Peace Network Newsletter Last Updated July 25, 2010 |
Important Upcoming Events
Monday, July 26th, 7:00 PM. Anarcho-feminism at the Spore.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 7:30 PM. Special Event Movie, “DIRT!”
Friday, July 30th, 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM. Medicare is 45! Medicare Birthday Party and more.
Friday, July 30th (evening) and all day Saturday – ACLU Annual conference with
kenote speaker AMY GOODMAN ON SATURDAY
Details follow below.
EVENTS
Monday, July 26th, 2010, 7:00 PM. Anarcho-feminism. A discussion on womyn and sexism in the anarchist community. Location: Sporeprint Infoshop, 172 E. 5th Ave., Columbus. Any questions? E-mail info@sporeprint.info or sallylouisepolk@gmail.com
Monday, July 26, 2010. Air Pollution & the Capital City: A discussion on ozone pollution. (A repeat of the July 19 program). Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, 111 Liberty St. Watch the acclaimed film, The Search for One Clean Breath, and participate in a panel discussion with health and
environmental experts, community leaders, and environmental experts about the air quality in central Ohio. RSVP (required) to Lisa Estrella at OEC@theOEC.org or 614-487-7506.
Monday, July 26th, 2010, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM. Medicare Turns 45 Event. Location: UFCW 1059, 4150 E. Main Street 43213. For more information, contact Cathy Levine (614) 456-0060 or clevine@uhcanohio.org.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 7:30 PM. Special Event Movie, “DIRT!” Floods, drought, climate change, even war are all directly related to the way we are treating dirt. DIRT! The Movie tells the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility--from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. It shares the stories of experts from all over the world who study and are able to harness the beauty and power of a respectful and mutually beneficial relationship with soil. But more than the film and the lessons that it teaches, DIRT the Movie is a call to action. What we've destroyed, we can heal. Sponsored by the Sierra Club, Simply Living, the Columbus International Film and Video Festival and the Free Press. Free and open to the public, donations accepted. Location: the Drexel East, 2254 E. Main St. in Bexley.
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010. Be a Change Agent
- New Course promoted by Simply Living begins this
Wednesday - Spaces Still Available! If you are excited about creating a more sustainable community,
this course is for you! Identify a change you'd like to
make happen in your workplace, child's school,
neighborhood, faith community, or even your family.
Through this six-session class participants will select a
circle of influence, develop a strategy and plan for
change, and begin implementing it in consultation with
other members in the class. This class is appropriate
for individuals who are just starting out or those
already deep into the process of creating change.
Specific topics covered include: theories and strategies
for cultural change; key role of the circle of influence,
mindset of the agent of change; clarifying your vision,
understanding your circle of influence; first steps to
effect change, implementing your plan, and maintaining
momentum.
The class begins Wed. 7/28 and meets for four consecutive
session through 8/25, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., then reconvenes
for a final class on 9/22. For motivated individuals (YOU
CAN DO THIS!) who wish to help create a sustainable
future! Cost: $35 or $30 for Simply Living members.
Location: 2350 Indianola Ave., corner of E. Maynard (in
the Maynard Ave. United Methodist Church). Please contact
Marilyn at
mwelker@ctcn.net or 447-0296 for more information or
to register. (Simply Living plans to offer another class
beginning in late September. Please let Marilyn Welker
know if that works for you.)
Thursday, July 29th, 2010, 6:00 – 6:30 PM. Medicare Turns 45 - Town Hall Meeting. Sponsored by Campaign for Better Care. Location: Carrie’s Caf é, 670 Harmon Ave., 43223. For more information, contact Cathy Levine (614) 456-0060 or clevine@uhcanohio.org.
Friday, July 30th, 2010, 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM. Medicare is 45! Join Us for a Medicare Birthday Party. Support Heath Care, Not Warfare. Celebrate the success of Medicare and ensure it’s continuation to old age! Join us to celebrate with birthday cake and speakers who will address Medicare successes as well as future proposals and hopes. Location: Central Health Center 1180 E Main St, Columbus, OH 43205. Sponsored by: RESULTS, SPANOhio, Columbus Progressive Alliance, Progressive Peace Coalition, Columbus Campaign for Arms Control, Central Ohioans For Peace, and Democratic Socialists of Central Ohio. Contact Ginnie Vogts for more information: 614-580-7005.
July 30-31, 2010. Action! A Conference for Civil Libertarians. ACLU statewide membership conference. Friday, July 30th, registration 6:00 PM, cocktails and conversation, 7:00 PM. Saturday, July 31st, 8:00 AM registration, program 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM. T he ACLU of Ohio is excited to announce Amy Goodman, author and host of Democracy Now! as the lunchtime speaker at our statewide conference this summer. This is your opportunity to: convene with civil liberties legends like Mary Beth Tinker and Louise Melling, network with activists from around the state, attend 15 workshops about the latest issues, learn to argue the hot button issues, and get new gear for your activist toolkit. Location: Hyatt on Capitol Square, 75 E. State St. Columbus 43215. Registration is required.
Get more information at www.acluohio.org/conference2010 or email contact@aclu.org
Friday, July 30, 2010, 7:00 – 9:00 PM. Gardening Like the Forest. Public evening talk: home-scale ecological food production with Dave Jacke presented by the Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association. Healthy forests maintain, fertilize, and renew themselves, naturally. Wouldn't you like to grow an abundant food-producing ecosystem like this in your back yard? You can! Edible forest gardens mimic the structure and function of natural forests through all their stages of development and grow food, fuel, fiber, fodder, fertilizers, farmaceuticals (sic), and fun. We can meet our own needs and regenerate healthy ecosystems at the same time! This talk introduces the vision of forest gardening with some scientific background, a few living examples, and a sampling of some useful perennial edibles you can use in your own garden. Cost: Free, $10 donation appreciated for those who can afford it. No preregistration necessary. Location: Clinton Heights Church. 15 Clinton Heights Ave., Columbus, Ohio
Saturday, July 31-Sunday, August 1, 2010-8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Gardening Like the Forest. Two day workshop: fundamentals of ecological gardening with Dave Jacke presented by the Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association. Ecosystem agriculture mimics the structure and function of natural ecosystems in food-producing ecologies. This workshop explores the vision, theory, design, and practice of ecosystem agriculture using the temperate deciduous forest as the model. Lectures, field observations, and experiential classes will reveal the nature of ecosystem architecture, social structure, underground economics, and succession. Participants will draw conclusions from these experiences, developing practical design principles, practices, patterns, and processes for garden design and management. Cost: $175-$225 (sliding scale). Lunch will be provided. Pre-registration required. Register by sending a check (along with your name, address, phone number and email) to OEFFA Forest Garden, 41 Croswell Rd. Columbus, OH 43214. For more information, contact Laura Wies at (614) 421-2022 or laura@oeffa.org. Space is limited. Location: Stratford Ecological Center 3083 Liberty Rd., Delaware, Ohio.
Saturday, July 31 (10 AM – 5 PM) and Sunday, August 1 (noon – 5PM), 2010. Summer Plant Showcase. Location: Inniswood Gardens, 940 Hempstead Rd. in Westerville. Purchase plants directly from local nurseries and tour the gardens with our horticulturist. Experts will be available to answer gardening questions. Sat.10-5; Sun. 12-5.
Sunday, August 1, 2010, 5:00 PM. Ongoing Demonstration to End the Wars and Occupations. Every first Sunday – bring your signs and enthusiasm for ending all wars! Location: 15th and High (entrance to OSU campus). For more information, contact walk@igc.org
Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 7:00 PM. Collapse Profiles Michael Ruppert at Gateway Film Center's Green Screen. See the film that NY Times film critic calls “shockingly persuasive… unexpectedly moving”! Only showing once as part of the Green Screen environmental film series, Collapse profiles Michael Ruppert, a former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter and author of Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. Ruppert predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. This time Ruppert turns his sights to the U.S. dependence on oil. Location: Gateway Film Center, 1550 North High St, Columbus, OH 43201. Buy Tickets: $8.50 adult, $5 student. Sponsorship and nonprofit partnership opportunities available. Contact the Ohio Environmental Council (OEC) <membership@theOEC.org> for details.
Thursday, August 5, 2010, 6:00-8:00 PM. Green Building and Health Workshop: Basement & Attic. Presented by John Hetterscheidt, Hetter Heating & Cooling and Donna Jurden, Indoor Radon Program, Ohio Department of Health. Location: Greenovate, 9 E. Second Ave.
Friday, August 6th, 2010, 7:30 PM. Hiroshima and Nagasaki Vigil. At 8:15 AM, August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped a uranium bomb over the city of Hiroshima and in the blink of an eye vaporized thousands of women, men and children. By the end of the year 140,000 were dead. At 11:02 AM on August 9, the U.S. dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki, killing another 60,000 - 80,000. Many thousands more continue to die or suffer from psychological trauma and illnesses caused by the prolonged effects of radiation exposure. This must never be allowed to happen again! Join central Ohio residents for a time for reflection and dedication to peacemaking.. Lanterns, cranes, and songs welcome! Bring song, poetry and spoken word to express yourself. Location: Battelle Memorial Park, Marconi Blvd and W. Broad Street at the Scioto River. Contact: walk@igc.org
Fri day, August 6, 2010. Local Foods Potluck Features Sustainable Clintonville & Geoff Tolle on Permaculture at First UU Church 6:30 Potluck, 7:30 Programs. Celebrate the abundance of an Ohio summer with a local foods potluck. How much of your potluck dish is grown or raised locally? Label your local ingredients with pride! After you eat, stay for the programs starting at 7:30pm. 1) You’ll meet members of Sustainable Clintonville, then Geoffrey Tolle will speak on What is Permaculture? Permaculture is about our relationship as humans to the world around us. It’s a way of designing our lives to work with the natural flows around us without consuming the natural resources of future generations. Geoffrey Tolle is a Certified Permaculturist and founded the Columbus Permaculture Guild. He is currently working on a project to develop a cookbook based solely on locally-growable foods and seasonings. Also, 2) A humorous but serious video, "Letting Go of God," will be shown. It stars Julia Sweeney from Saturday Night Live. This is a very entertaining show and would be of interest to anyone who is questioning the idea of God. The UU Atheist and Agnostic Circle invites you to come and bring your friends. Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd 43214.
Friday, August 6th, 2010, 7:00 PM. What Continues? A talk with Avery Solomon at First Community Church. Birth and death are markers in the lives of everyone. If we are only an ego personality that lives for a few years, then vanishes with nothing remaining, what is the significance? If we are divine souls which come into life on earth, only to return to the same divine state we started with, what is really accomplished? In order to live with purpose, we need to understand what really happens between birth and death--and between death and (re)birth. Saints, Sages and Philosophers have explored these questions for centuries, and left us a record of their experiences. Contemporary scientists have also begun similar inquiries, and their findings are often in striking agreement with traditional sources. Dr. Solomon, well known for his animated and engaging style, will speak on these questions, as well as explore the consequences of a more inclusive paradigm: one which goes beyond the generally accepted material view of scientific evolution, and the traditional religious view of a creation. With a solid background in science, philosophy, and the healing arts, Dr. Solomon has travelled and taught throughout the world, yet his favorite qualification is, “I’m just a guy who likes to think and talk about these things”. Location: First Community Church, South Campus, 1320 Cambridge Blvd, in Brownlee Hall. Sponsored by Philosophers Center. There is no fee, but donations will be gladly accepted. For more information, call Linda or Charles Baldeck, 459-0722.
Saturday, August 7th, 2010. Columbus Civic Theater Plans All Day Fundraiser, Features Music, Food, Vendors and More! Clintonville's own, new, 49-seat performing arts space will hold a major all-day fundraiser event on its site at 3837 Indianola Ave. 43214. The event will feature many bands and acts, including local familiars such as Grassahol, Endless Recess, Halfway Home & Friends. There will be food, refreshments, vendors, events, and entertainment throughout the day, both outside in the parking lot, and inside the theater, including live music, poetry readings, theater activities, and more. Different tickets will be available for indoor and outdoor events, to allow visitors to design their own fun day. More information will be available soon, but set aside the date and come out to support your local live theater! Columbus Civic Theater is a 501(c)3 nonprofit arts organization providing live theater to Columbus. www.columbuscivic.org or visit our facebook page. Contact Ben Gorman <iwentbacktoohio@wowway.com> for more info on this developing story!
Saturday, August 7, 2010, 6:30-8:30 PM. Biodynamic Herbs & Honey. Learn about the biodynamic approach to herb production and Dawn and Carson Combs’ unique approach to sustainable bee hive management. Location: Mockingbird Meadows, 16671 Burns Rd., Marysville. Contact dcombs@mockingbirdmeadows.com 614-354-5162.
Sunday, August 8,
2:00 - 7:00 PM. Simply Living's Sixth Annual Summer Canoe
Outing.
Come and enjoy a cool event for the dog days of summer!
Enjoy a peaceful 2-hour canoe trip on the scenic Mad River
(an hour west of
Columbus), followed by a potluck picnic at the nearby home
of the Welkers. Canoe livery cost: $13 per adult (over
12); $31 - 2 adults and up to 3 children (12 or under) per
canoe; $18/kayak; $8/tube. Please register with Becky
Allen by Aug. 2nd at
razwriter@yahoo.com
or 488-7122. Include your name, phone, email, participant
names, number of canoes, etc. needed. To carpool from
Columbus, meet in the vicinity of the Get Go gas station
in the Giant Eagle parking lot at 2801 N. High St. by
12:15 PM. Canoeing at 2 PM and picnic at the Welkers' at 5
PM, 3538 W US HWY 36, Urbana 43078. Please bring a dish
for six to share and your table service. Becky will
email directions and details upon registering.
Monday, August 9, 2010, 6:30 PM. Central Ohioans for Peace Meeting. Program: Janet McLaughlin and friends will share what they have learned about nuclear issues. Location: Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. Directions can be found at http://www.ColumbusMennonite.org/streetmap.htm For more information, see www.centralohioansforpeace.org
Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM. “Ohio Education Reform Challenges” featuring Checker Finn. Cost $40.00 (includes lunch). Location: Athletic Club of Columbus, 166 E. Broad St. Registration (required) at CMC website.
Monday, September 13, 2010, 7:00 PM. Central Ohioans for Peace Meeting. Program: We are on Diverse Humanity. Presenter: Greg Knepper. Greg Knepper has had extensive experience working, learning, socializing and living with people from many different cultures and countries, and has happily come to the above conclusion. Greg is in the process of building a one-world organization whose purpose is to unite humanity at least at a basic coexistence-survival level, offering services in public speaking, intercultural training and consulting, human relationship building, share-life groups, and conflict management and mediation. He hopes this will become a vessel of assistance for uniting the human race for the first time in history.
Greg has also spent many years teaching Intercultural Communication at the college level and previously taught English as a Second Language to students from all over the world at the college and graduate levels. He spent 3 of those years teaching in central China in the mid-1980’s.
His "formal" education includes a BA in English, an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and finally an interdisciplinary MA in Intercultural Communication and International Relations. Location: Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. Directions can be found at http://www.ColumbusMennonite.org/streetmap.htm For more information, see www.centralohioansforpeace.org
Saturday, August 14th, 2010, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Planned Parenthood Activist Bootcamp. Want to better learn how to fight for reproductive justice in your community? Join Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio at Spore for their first, totally FREE, ACTIVIST BOOTCAMP! There will be a lunch provided and some teaching materials (that's why it's important to register!)
Reproductive Justice and Grassroots Organizing 101
Writing for Reproductive Justice: Embrace Creativity and Let Your Voice be Heard
Voting For Reproductive Justice: Navigating the Political Landscape & Mobilizing for Action
Social Media & Reproductive Justice: Tweeting, Blogging and Facebooking For Change
Location: Spore, 172 E 5th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio.
If you would like to attend this event, they ask that you pre register here: http://bit.ly/ppactivistbootcamp
August 14-19, 2010. Dawes Arboretum Annual Art Show. With Licking County Arts, featuring artists from all over central Ohio. Opening night is Sat., Aug. 14 from 6-8pm with artists participating. This free show continues daily through Aug. 29. Hours are 8-5 Mon-Sat and 10-5 Sun. Dawes is on Ohio Rt. 13, five miles south of Newark and 3 miles north of I-70, Exit 132. Visit www.dawesarb.org or phone 800.44.DAWES for information or to register for the camp.
Saturday, August 21, 2010, 10:00 AM – Noon. Guided Tour of Stratford Ecological Center. Meet the animals, visit the gardens and greenhouses, and explore the forest. $5/person. Advance registration required at www.StratfordEcologicalCenter.org or phone 740-363-2548. Location: 3083 Liberty Rd. outside Delaware.
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010, 5:00-9:00 PM. Sierra Club Potluck Picnic! Members and non-members invited. Bring plate, cup and utensils, a dish for the potluck, and if you wish equipment for outdoor games (there is a horseshoe pit at the site). We'll supply the drinks, talk about the environmental issues we're addressing, and lead anyone who's interested on a hike on one of the park's trails. Location: Mansion Shelter, Highbanks Metro Park, 9466 US Route 23, 4 miles north of I-270.
Monday, August 23, 2010, 7:00 PM. Central Ohioans for Peace Meeting. Program: Screeing of the documentary, The 800 Mile Wall. In 2006, Congress passed The Secure Fence Act calling for construction of 700 miles of fence along the US/Mexico border. They were not prepared for what followed. "The Wall," documents the impact of constructing a border fence along the Southwest. From policy makers to citizens of border towns the debate elevates as residents respond to having a fence built in their backyard. For information about the film, visit http://thewalldocumentary.com/. Location: Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. Directions can be found at http://www.ColumbusMennonite.org/streetmap.htm For more information, see www.centralohioansforpeace.org
August 26, 2010, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM. Columbus Green Building Forum Lunch and Leaders Event, Presentation by Dave Phillips, Mid-Ohio Food Bank Vice-President of Operations. Learn about the process, pitfalls and opportunities experienced by the owner of one of the newest LEED buildings in Central Ohio. Lunch can be ordered online up to 48 hours before the event at www.usgbc-coh.org; the presentation is free.
Saturday, August 28, 2010, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM. Fourth Annual Wessie Fest at Otterbein Lake. Live native animals, fish & critters, children's activities, exhibits, native plants, music, and food. Bicycle to the event! Location: Alum Creek bikeway just south of Main St. in Westerville. Vehicles enter through 60 Collegeview Rd. Sponsored by Westerville Parks and Recreation and the Friends of Alum Creek and Tributaries.
October 2-3, 2010. Annual Ohio Solar Tour. Green Energy Ohio welcomes the annual 2010 Ohio Solar Tour! Green Energy Ohio is the Ohio Chapter of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES), and GEO's 8th Annual Ohio Solar Tour is part of the National Solar Tour managed by ASES. This FREE statewide event on October 2 & 3 provides the unique opportunity for people to visit hundreds of Open House Sites and talk with owners living and working with clean energy technologies. “The economic benefits of investing in clean energy technologies have never been better. Learn how friends and neighbors are combating rising energy costs, slashing utility bills, reaping rich cash incentives and big new tax credits. Visit an Ohio farm powered by wind, a home heated and cooled by ground source heat pumps, a commercial building supplemented by solar electricity, or a school with a 'living-machine' and LEED certified dorms. Alternative energy solutions can be found in all 88 Ohio counties...learn about opportunities for all Ohioans to invest in a brighter, cleaner future by joining Green Energy Ohio during the 8th annual Ohio Solar Tour, Saturday and Sunday, October 2nd and 3rd. How to Participate: Visit the Ohio Solar Tour Welcome Page on the GEO website (http://www.GreenEnergyOhio.org).
Saturday, October 16, 2010. Hold the date for Midwest Regional Antiwar action in the downtown Chicago area. More details soon.
Saturday, October 23, 2010, 9:00 am (registration begins at 8)-4:30 PM. Israel/Palestine: Pathways to Peace.
Keynote Speaker: Mark Braverman, author of Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land.
Workshop sessions: Eyewitness accounts from Gaza and the West Bank, international law, BDS movement, and much more.
Moved by the witness of our members who have worked or traveled in Israel/Palestine, we offer this conference to our community and the larger region to explore paths to peace in the Middle East. A variety of workshops will accommodate both newcomers to the issues as well as long term advocates who wish to network and learn ways to better work for a just peace.
Registration Fee: $25 ($15 student). Includes refreshments and Middle East luncheon. Scholarships by prior arrangement.
Organizations and individuals are invited to consider becoming cosponsors. Information tables are also an option.
SPONSORSHIP CATEGORIES
Supporter ($50) This entitles the donor to one complimentary admission to all conference activities, listings in the program and on the conference website.
Advocate ($100) This entitles the donor to two complimentary admissions to all conference activities, listings in the program and on the conference website, and an information table.
Peacemaker ($500) This entitles the donor to four complimentary admissions to all conference activities, listings in the program and on the conference website, and an information table.
Please make checks payable to Tiffin Area Pax Christi and mail them to Sr. Julie Grote, 200 St. Francis Ave., Tiffin, OH 44883. Sponsor deadline for inclusion in brochure: August 6.
For further information, contact Conference Chair Jo Hollingsworth, wjh@filmtecinc.com.
Location: Elizabeth Schaefer Auditorium , 190 St. Francis Avenue, Tiffin, OH 44883. Sponsored by Riffing Area Pax Christi, A Northwest Ohio peace and justice community welcoming all.
Monday, October 25th, 2010, 7:00 PM. Central Ohioans for Peace Meeting. Program: Intercultural Communication and Relations. Presenter: Greg Knepper. Greg Knepper has had extensive experience working, learning, socializing and living with people from many different cultures and countries, and has happily come to the above conclusion.
Greg is in the process of building a one-world organization whose purpose is to unite humanity at least at a basic coexistence-survival level, offering services in public speaking, intercultural training and consulting, human relationship building, share-life groups, and conflict management and mediation. He hopes this will become a vessel of assistance for uniting the human race for the first time in history.
Greg has also spent many years teaching Intercultural Communication at the college level and previously taught English as a Second Language to students from all over the world at the college and graduate levels. He spent 3 of those years teaching in central China in the mid-1980’s.
His "formal" education includes a BA in English, an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and finally an interdisciplinary MA in Intercultural Communication and International Relations.
Location: Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. Directions can be found at http://www.ColumbusMennonite.org/streetmap.htm For more information, see www.centralohioansforpeace.org
November 19-21, 2010. Shut down the School of the Americas. SOA returns to Fort Benning because we must. The martyrs demand it. Thirty years ago, the graduates of the School of Assassins killed my good friend Maura and the other three Church women in El Salvador. It has been 21 years since 14-year-old Celina, her mother Elba and the six Jesuits were killed by SOA grads. It's been five years since it was revealed that instructors at the school worked with the paramilitaries in Colombia. One year has passed since SOA graduates overthrew democracy in Honduras. The school is still open and the violence continues. There has been no accountability. The martyrs made the ultimate sacrifice for their resistance. We will not forget the goals they fought for. We must return to Fort Benning to remember them and to recommit ourselves to those same goals. We must return to Fort Benning until this school is closed once and for all. Justice will prevail! For more information, see www.soaw.org
Saturday, November 6th, 2010, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM. CALL for Fall 2010 CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION. Conference THEME: EQUALITY IS MORE THAN THE VOTE!: After 90 years, What NOW? Ohio NOW and Ohio NOW Education and Legal Fund (ELF) Annual State Conference, Columbus, Ohio. Ohio NOW and Ohio NOW ELF joined forces and invite presentation and poster proposals. We also invite short videos on feminist issues facing women and girls and their allies in Ohio - and beyond. Proposals connected directly to the conference theme and/or to feminist vision and practice strongest candidates for presentation acceptance.
Presentation Proposals: We invite proposals for presentations and/or workshops that will be between 30 and 45 minutes long and that may be part of a panel presentation of either 3 or 4 persons total. Topics should be focused on issues of concern for women, girls, their families and their friends, and may focus on the identification of a problem faced or a solution to an existing problem that might be reporting on academic or community-based, action research. Action strategies advocating for social change are also welcome and, in fact, encouraged. Strict reading of papers is strongly discouraged. AV equipment MAY be available so please do indicate if you need a laptop and a projector for your use.
Poster Presentations: We invite poster presentations that address similar issues as above but information is placed on foam-based folding posters that will be on display from 9:30am through the entire day of the conference. There will be opportunities during breaks for attendees to review posters on display. You provide the poster and any handouts you may wish to offer conference participants. You are encouraged to place information at or near your poster such as handouts and business cards.
3-5 minute videos: We invite video presentations on issues of URGENCY to women and girls that tell a story of problem, effects, and solution/resolution through social action for our mini-video festival. We imagine these videos as part of our Ohio NOW/Ohio NOW ELF channel on YouTube and can be used in the public arena for educational purposes in classrooms, community organizing, political organizing, social change, research, and advocacy. We will ask that you give Ohio NOW/Ohio NOW ELF permission to post and use these videos for these purposes while we properly credit the video creators and other parties’ roles acknowledged through the viewings. The video can be fictionalized, documentary, or oral history interviews. The 3-minute segment MAY be a segment of a larger video project but the segment submitted for the conference and post-conference activities should adhere closely to the 3-5 minute length.
Interested in having a proposal, poster or video considered? Please send a one-page proposal with your name, address, email address, preferred phone number and any organizational affiliations you think are relevant along with a 250-word description of your proposal or poster presentation, a title, and a 35-word abstract (for program). For video submissions, send us your video by DVD or a link to your uploaded video on YouTube to either our surface mail or email address below (electronic submissions preferred but will not be rated more highly) along with a 250-word description of your video and your vision for its use. (No video will be shown publicly through this process unless it is selected and until the conference.) Send your information, along with how you heard about the conference, preferably electronically, to: Ohio NOW/Ohio NOW ELF 2010 Conference, P.O. Box 1425, Columbus, Ohio 43214. Email: ohionow2010conference@yahoo.com Conference l ocation: TBA
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