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National Counter-Recruitment and Demilitarization Conference

It's Our World • Change It!: National Counter-Recruitment and Demilitarization Conference

Please join us July 17-19, 2009 at Roosevelt University, Chicago. Mark your calendars!!

This conference will bring together a broad spectrum of people to share skills and form the relationships needed to build a permanent resistance to militarism. Youth, parents, educators, veterans, artists, members of social justice organizations and more will come together for practical training on counter recruitment, legislative challenges and public pressure to promote nonmilitary alternatives.

This historic event is being organized by activists and volunteers across the country working in collaboration with NNOMY, the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth, http://www.nnomy.org crconf@gmail.com You can also reach us at 1-312-427-2533.

Posted on Feb 03, 2009 by Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft


News and Articles:

Dorothy Reik Urges Going to a Meeting

All around the country Obama is mobilizing his forces to support HIS programs - but are his visions for healthcare, education and the environment the same as yours? Is discussion of the ongoing occupations off the table at your house? I, for one, want to see Obama implement MY ( and YOUR) visions for America - ending war and occupation, single payer healthcare and a faster clean up of the environment (no "clean coal", no nuclear power plants).

To be sure your voice is... [ more ]

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains


Marcy Winograd, a long-time anti-war activist, runs for Congress.

Marcy Winograd, a long-time anti-war activist, invites progressives around the state to get involved in her 2010 congressional race (Winograd4Congress.com) to unseat Jane Harman in the 36th district. The district, which spans 30 miles, runs from West Los Angeles down through Venice, the beach cities, and the harbor area, including the Port of Los Angeles, where workers and residents struggle with asthma and other pollution-related ailments. Winograd, the founder of the LA chapter of Progressive... [ more ]

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains


Two Videos on Sustainablity

The first video is just over one hour long and it is a conversation that connects everything from establishing sustainable human colonies galaxy wide to gracefully transforming our own on-sustainable economies and ways of life, into prosperous and completely symbiotic futures as the prerequisite for doing it in space.

"We are the first organism on our planet with the technology and know how to protect our planet's life-support system from arrant space objects large to cause serious... [ more ]

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Ecological Life Systems Institute


Problems? What water Problems?

Problems? What water Problems?
Water, water everywhere and all we want to drink, shower in, swim in, grow food with, etc.

A Jim Bell Commentary

Many experts are projecting doom and gloom, scenarios of decreasing water supplies and increasing cost, yet the San Diego/Tijuana Region can easily become renewable water self-sufficient and even become a net water exporter.

Even if we assume the worst case scenario of zero precipitation and the complete... [ more ]

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Ecological Life Systems Institute


Electricity Supply and Price Security in San Diego County

While the following brief only focuses on becoming electricity net-metered-out, it develops a self-funding economic strategy that can be applied to our city and region to make us completely renewable energy self-sufficient. The same economic strategy, with minor changes, can also be used to develop self-funding processes to make our city and region water and food self-sufficient as well.....http://www.jimbell.com/mayor/index.htmlmore ]

Posted on Nov 23, 2008 by Ecological Life Systems Institute


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Advocate TODAY! Help save MiND TV





Several months ago, we learned that Governor Rendell zeroed out funding for Pennsylvania's eight public television stations in his FY2010 budget. At that time, the stations began a campaign to mobilize the public to let the governor and all of the state legislature know that public tv plays a very important role ... [ more ]

Posted on PAActionNetwork by PA Action Network


Emergency Action Alert: Coup in Honduras!

[This action alert comes to you from the Alliance for Global Justice and its member projects, the Nicaragua Network, the Campaign for Labor Rights, the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, and the Respect for Democracy Campaign.]

EMERGENCY ALERT: COUP IN HONDURAS!
Demonstrate at Honduran Consulates or US Federal Buildings Sunday or Monday
[See list of consulates below!]

MOBILIZE YOUR COMMUNITY NOW!
Demand Obama Denounce the Coup and Demand Return of President... [ more ]

Posted on CRIpjen by American Friends Service Committee - CT (AFSC)


6/30 - 7/6/09 Peace/Justice Feature

Hi folks:

NOTE: The next two Features (July 5 and 12) will be put out by my intern Andrew Kimmel. So email events to him at andkimme@iupui.edu We are assuming that events for the first Sat. (July 4) will occur on the second Sat.;
let Andrew know if this is not so or if any monthly event is taking a summer hiatus.

The Peace/Justice Feature for this week (Tues-Mon) focuses on:

1) The Indianapolis Peace Institute and our community of students living... [ more ]

Posted on Network4Peace by Northwest Indiana Code Pink


OH UU posts CommUUnity in Challenging Times

The Economy has experienced a major meltdown in recent months. Savings and jobs continue to vanish and the recession feeds on itself. Congregations and congregants are and will be affected. Major restructuring is needed, and The Great Turning is an important part of that change!

As a part of that turning to Earth Community, what is the role of our community - our church - in helping to mitigate the impact of what is surely to come to some or many of us? How can we ensure that, ... [ more ]

Posted on OhioPeaceNetwork by Unitarian Universalist for a Just Economic Community (UUJEC)


19 NH community organizations elect Martin Luther King Coalition officers

The Martin Luther King Coalition is made up of 19 NH community organizations having missions that reflect the principles of the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In addition to those listed above, the following organizations are members of the Coalition: the American Friends Service Committee-NH, represented by Arnie Alpert; the Arab- American Forum, represented buy Nabil Migalli; the Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains, represented by Jess Riendeau; Global Citizens Circle, represented... [ more ]

Posted on NHVpjen by Martin Luther King Coalition - NH


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