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P R O G R E S S I V E C A L E N D A R 07.12.11 1. Cost of Coal 7.12 5pm 2. Occupation 101/film 7.12 6:30pm 3. Last Mountain/film 7.12 7pm 4. Alliant vigil 7.13 7am 5. Tax the Rich 7.13 12noon 6. Green drinks 7.13 6pm 7. Immigration 7.13 6:30pm 8. Carlos Montes/film 7.13 7pm 9. Chris Hedges - Carlos Montes and the security state: a cautionary tale --------1 of 9-------- From: Eric Angell <eric-angell [at] riseup.net> + Subject: Cost of Coal 7.12 5pm "The True Cost of Coal" (Part 1) The beehive collective is a group of artists and educators who, through their unique and elaborate works, share narratives about some of the most expansive and important topics of the day. Their newest piece is called "The True Cost of Coal" and centers around the history of industrialization in southern Appalachia. Through story-telling and information about the main driving force behind this industrialization, mountain-top removal coal extraction, we get a sense of our own history and likely struggles for our future. (filmed in April, UofM) SPNN 15 viewers: "Our World In Depth" cablecasts on St. Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN) Channel 15 on Tuesdays at 5pm, midnight and Wednesday mornings at 10am, after DemocracyNow! Households with basic cable may watch. Tues, 7/12, @ 5pm & midnight + Wed, 7/13, 10am "The True Cost of Coal" (Part 1) "Our World In Depth" features analysis of public affairs with consideration of and participation from Twin Cities area activists. "Our World In Depth" is locally produced and not corporately influenced. Order a dvd copy or contact us at ourworldindepth [at] gmail.com. --------2 of 9-------- From: patty <pattypax [at] earthlink.net> Subject: Occupation 101/film 7.12 6:30pm Tuesday, July 12, we will be watching a film called Occupation 101, presented by Liza Burr. It is a documentary of the current and historical root causes of the Palestine/Israel conflict and the US government involvement. Liza is a member of WAMM's Middle East Committee. Remember, the book for Little Book of the Odd Month Club will discuss the book, In the Heart of the Sea, the Tragedy of the Whaleship, Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick. It is an intense and mesmerizing read. Hope you can read it. This will be on last Tuesday of July. We want YOU to be a whistle blower Pax Salons ( http://justcomm.org/pax-salon ) are held (unless otherwise noted in advance): Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Mad Hatter's Tea House, 943 W 7th, St Paul, MN Salons are free but donations encouraged for program and treats. Call 651-227-3228 or 651-227-2511 for information. --------3 of 9-------- From: "Lisa Daniels" <lisadaniels [at] windustry.org> Subject: Last Mountain/film 7.12 7pm Join us for a special screening of The Last Mountain and a social hour following the film, proceeds will benefit the nonprofit Windustry. 7 PM, Tuesday July 12, 2011 Lagoon Cinema, Uptown Minneapolis and Bar Abilene, right next door. Tickets are $10, available only through Windustry www.windustry.org/events/the-last-mountain-july-12-at-the-lagoon-cinema The new documentary, The Last Mountain looks at the effects of mountaintopcoal removal in West Virginiaâs Coal River Valley, and the grassroots fight
to stop it. It had its world premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition category of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Windustry is pleased to be among the wind energy experts consulted for the film, which presents Community Wind as an alternative energy solution to mountaintop removal. Windustry Executive Director, Lisa Daniels, says: "The subject of this film goes far beyond West Virginia. It shines a light onAmericaâs energy needs, how those needs are being supplied, and takes a stand
for supporting renewable energy." This screening was made possible with the generous support of the owners ofBuild Sustainable Homes, The Twin Cities' Green Building Referral Network and
Resource buildsustainablehomes.com and others. Watch the Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5wmUkpOCKE&feature=youtu.be Reserve your tickets now www.windustry.org/events/the-last-mountain-july-12-at-the-lagoon-cinema Lisa DanielsExecutive Director Windustry Windustry promotes progressive renewable energy solutions and empowers communities to develop and own wind energy as an environmentally sustainable asset. Through member supported outreach, education and advocacy we work to remove the barriers to broad community ownership of wind energy. --------4 of 9-------- From: AlliantACTION <alliantaction [at] circlevision.org> Subject: Alliant vigil 7.13 7am Join us Wednesday morning, 7-8 am Now in our 14th year of consecutive Wednesday morning vigils outside Alliant Techsystems, 7480 Flying Cloud Drive Eden Prairie. We ask Who Profit$? Who Dies? directions and lots of info: alliantACTION.org --------5 of 9-------- From: kim defranco <kimdefranco [at] yahoo.com> + Subject: Tax the Rich 7.13 12noon Join Welfare Rights Committee at the St. Paul state capitol this Wednesday. July 13, 2011 MN State Captiol 75 DR. MLK Blvd St. Paul, MN 55155 12 noon to 1 pm WRC will still hold Governor Dayton's promise to Tax The Rich! WRC will demand the Republicans tostop holding the State of MN hostage. We can't afford their All-Cuts Bill! We will have our 12 King-Size Tax The Rich banner. and stand outside to hold the legislature accountable to Taxing the rich and not harming poor, people with disablitites, working and elderly people. Please come and stand with the Welfare Rigths Committtee. welfarerightsmn [at] yahoo.com --------6 of 9-------- From: Do It Green! Minnesota <Do_It_Green_Minnesota [at] mail.vresp.com> + Subject: Green drinks 7.13 6pm Twin Cities Green Drinks - Wed, July 13 6PM Do It Green! Minnesota is hosting the monthly Green Drinks event atthe Midtown Global Market June - September. Come join us this Wednesday for a
presentation, drinks and networking. July 13th 6-7:30 Do It Green! Resource Center inside the Midtown Global MarketLearn more about local residential energy programs, energy audits and the top three home improvement projects that can make a big difference for your home's
energy use. Presented by Neely Crane-Smith from the Center for Energy and Environment on Advanced Home Energy Efficiency. --------7 of 9-------- From: Lisa Peterson-de la Cueva <lisa [at] tcdailyplanet.net> + Subject: Immigration 7.13 6:30pm The Twin Cities Daily Planet's series, The New Normal: Deciding Community Priorities in a Downsized Economy, tackles a different issue each month. In July we'll be talking about immigration, and will ask people in the Twin Cities: "How can we fix immigration policy?" Come and chat with others over snacks, learn some basics about trends inimmigration, and let us know how you think we should reform immigration policy. We'll be using research from the Wilder Foundation's MN Compass project and an article from the Twin Cities Daily Planet to get this interactive conversation
going. By participating in this discussion, though, you'll provide the partthat matters most. We'll report on these conversations in the TC Daily Planet,
and will share the results with policy makers. Wilder Foundation July 13, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Amherst H. Wilder Foundation 451 Lexington Parkway North St. Paul R.S.V.P. lisa [at] tcdailyplanet.net --------8 of 9-------- From: kim defranco <kimdefranco [at] yahoo.com> + Subject: Carlos Montes/film 7.13 7pm Movie Night: Walk Out! Learn more about Carlos MontesWednesday, July 13th @ 7pm @ May Day Books (below Midwest Mountaineering), 301
Cedar Ave, Minneapolis In May, Carlos Montes joined the ranks of the 23 anti-war and international solidarity activists facing grand jury and FBI repression, when his home wasviolently raided by the FBI and the Los Angeles Sheriff. Carlos is best-known for his work for immigrants rights and Chicano liberation. Carlos is featured
in the HBO movie "Walkout," a 110 minute film about the East L.A. ChicanoMovement of the 60's and the role of the Brown Berets. Please join us for this inspiring film, and a chance to get to know one of the people targeted by this
investigation and hear more about our case. Organized by the Anti-War Committee. --------9 of 9-------- Carlos Montes and the Security State: A Cautionary Tale By Chris Hedges Jul 10, 2011 TRUTHDIGOn May 17 at 5 in the morning the Chicano activist Carlos Montes got a wake-up
call at his home in California from Barack Obamaâs security state. The Los Angeles County sheriffâs SWAT team, armed with assault rifles and wearingbulletproof vests, as well as being accompanied by FBI agents, kicked down his
door, burst into his house with their weapons drawn, handcuffed him in his pajamas and hauled him off to jail. Montes, one of tens of thousands of Americans who have experienced thisterrifying form of military-style assault and arrest, was one of the organizers
of the demonstrations outside the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., and he faces trial along with 23 other anti-war activists from Minnesota, as well as possible charges by a federal grand jury. The widening use of militarized police units effectively nullifies the PosseComitatus Act of 1878, which prohibits the use of the armed forces for civilian policing. City police forces have in the last few decades amassed small strike
forces that employ high-powered assault rifles, armored personnel carriers,tanks, elaborate command and control centers and attack helicopters. Poor urban neighborhoods, which bear the brunt of the estimated 40,000 SWAT team assaults
that take place every year, have already learned what is only dimly beingunderstood by the rest of us â in the eyes of the state we are increasingly
no longer citizens with constitutional rights but enemy combatants. And that isexactly how Montes was treated. There is little daylight now between raiding a
home in the middle of the night in Iraq and raiding one in Alhambra, Calif.Montes is a longtime activist. He helped lead the student high school walkouts in East Los Angeles and anti-war protests in the 1960s and later demonstrations against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was one of the founding members of
the Brown Berets, a Chicano group that in the 1960s styled itself after theBlack Panthers. In the 1970s he evaded authorities while he lived in Mexico and he went on to organize garment workers in El Paso, Texas. He and the subpoenaed activists are reminders that in Barack Obamaâs America, being a dissident is
a crime.âIt was an FBI action, as I recall,â Sgt. Jim Scully told reporters of the
Pasadena Star-News. âWe assisted them.â Montes was arrested ostensibly because he bought a firearm although a felony conviction 42 years ago prohibited him from doing so. The 1969 felony conviction was for throwing a can of Coke at a police officer during a demonstration. The registered shotgun in his closet, bought last year at a sporting goods shop, became the excuse to ransack his home, charge him andschedule him for trial in August. It became the excuse to seize his computer,
two cellphones and files and records of his activism on behalf of workers, immigrants, the Chicano community and opposition to wars. Prosecutors saidMontes should have disclosed his four-decade-old felony charge when he bought
the shotgun at Big 5 Sporting Goods. Because he neglected to do this he will face six felony charges. The case is to be tried in Los Angeles. âThe gun issue was clearly a pretext to investigate my politicalactivities ,â he said when I reached him at his Alhambra home. âIt is about my anti-war activities and my links to the RNC demonstrations. It is also about
my activism denouncing the U.S. policy of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, their support for Israel and the Colombian government. I have been to Colombia twice.â âI thought someone is breaking in, somebody is trying to jack me up,â hesaid. âI was a victim of an armed robbery in December of 2009 in my home. I do have a gun in my bedroom for self-defense. I was startled. I jumped out of
bed. I saw lights coming from the front-door area. They looked likeflashlights. I saw men with helmets and rifles. I gravitated towards the front door. I didnât take my gun. I could have done that. I have it there. It is a
good thing I didnât pick anything up and put it in my hand.ââI yelled, âWho is it?â â he said. âThey said, âThe police. Carlos
Montes, come outâ or âcome forward,â something like that. I approached the entryway. They rushed in. They grabbed my hands. They turned me around. There were two police officers on each arm. They brought me out holding myarms. I have a little patio. They handcuffed me and patted me down. I am on a
little hill. I looked down the street and [it was] full of sheriffâs vehicles, patrol cars and two large green vans. They were bigger than vans.People could stand in there. They didnât have any logos on them.â I thought
it was an Army truck at first. Later on I found it was from the sheriff.ââIt was kind of misty,â he said. âThe ground was wet. They put me in the back seat of the car. I was handcuffed. They closed the doors and the windows.
I was sitting there looking around, in a state of shock, thinking is this adream or the real thing? I tried to close my eyes for a little while to see if
I could wake up from this nightmare. I always had it in the back of my mind,one day they will come and raid me. My name was on the anti-war committee FBI search warrant raid in Minnesota. People were saying âwe all got raided and
your name is there.â The lawyers said, âBewareâit could happen to you sooner or later.â They were raided on Sept. 24 last year.â Those who were raided were all issued subpoenas to appear before a federal grand jury in Chicago. They have refused to testify. The March on the RNC organizing committee was infiltrated by an agent although the protest groupshad obtained licenses to demonstrate at the Republican National Convention. The
Justice Departmentâs inspector general later released a report that criticized the FBI for invoking anti-terrorist laws to justify its investigations and harassment of peace and solidarity groups, including Greenpeace, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and the Catholic Worker. While Montes was in the back of the police car a man in a windbreaker and abaseball cap approached the vehicle. The sheriffâs deputies rolled down the right rear window. The man in the baseball cap told Montes he was from the FBI
and wanted to speak with him.âI blurted out, âDo you have a card?â â Montes said. âHe laughed and
said, âI donât have a card.â He said, âI want to talk to you aboutFreedom Road Socialist Organization.â I didnât say anything. I kept quiet.
And then he walked away.â Montes has written articles for the newspaper Fight Back News about Chicanoimmigrantsâ rights struggles in Los Angeles, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the fight against the rise of charter schools. He said he was not a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization. The organization, a Marxist group, is
reportedly being investigated by the FBI because of connections with theColombian rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the
Palestinian group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, both ofwhich have been labeled as terrorist organizations. The Sept. 24, 2010, search warrant for the anti-war committee offices in Minneapolis lists Montesâ name
among the groupâs affiliates.Montes was taken to the Los Angeles County Jail, known as the Twin Towers, and
held for 24 hours until he was able to post a $35,000 bail. âThey called my sister to secure [my] house,â he said. âShe called thehandyman and he put a piece of plywood over my door. I did not have my wallet with me. When I got out of the county jail I did not have any phone numbers or
money or an ID. I was walking around in slippers â at least they gave meslippers â and my pajamas. I got back about 5:30 the next morning. I got the door off. There were files and papers on the floor along with photograph albums
of the anti-war movement, Latinos Against the War, the â92 Rebellion, my sonâs wedding, my daughterâs birthday, scattered on my kitchen table andfloor. It looked like they lined up a bunch of stuff on tables and went through it. It was the same thing with my living room table. They had a file out from
1994 when we did a campaign against police brutality when the sheriffs weregoing crazy killing people. In my closet I had Chicano archives going back to the 1960s and 1970s. Those were pulled out and on the floor. They went through
all my political documents, including my work with the Southern CaliforniaImmigration Coalition and the campaign to elect a school board member, which we won, to stop the privatization of the local high school and the charters coming
in. They went through all those files. It took me a couple of weeks to clean things up. They took a bunch of stuff.ââThe government sees the Chicano people as a threat,â he said. âWe were
able to turn out millions of people in 2006. In 1994 we had hundreds ofthousands. We are growing. There are millions in the Southwest. We are all over
the country, but especially in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and California. Weare still unorganized, but if we get organized we could really demand changes. We had millions of people out in 2006 and then they came after us hard in 2007. There was a lot of police repression, especially in Los Angeles. They fear the
Chicano people challenging the status quo.â [Mort power to them - ed] âMany of the activists that were raided by the police are anti-war andsolidarity activists,â he went on. âAnd even though the anti-war movement is not massive right now, the potential is there because there is an economic
crisis. There is mass disgust with this economic system. People are out of work. It is not yet like COINTELPRO [Counter Intelligence Program] started under Hoover and the FBI to carry out surveillance, infiltrate and disruptdomestic political organizations, but the situation is getting worse. That is
why we have to have demonstrations to put a stop to it now.â ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shove rhymes with clove
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