Mn-prog-events Mailing List: Progressive Calendar 10.01.11 /4 (fwd)

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

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Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 05:26:38
From: David Shove <shove001 [at] umn.edu>
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Subject: Progressive Calendar 10.01.11 /4

P R O G R E S S I V E   C A L E N D A R  10.01.11

1. Cavlan/Senate   10.01 10am
2. CUAPB             10.01 1:30pm
3.  Northtown vigil   10.01 2pm
4. 9/11 play/talk     10.01 4pm
5. Who killed Che? 10.01 4pm
6. Farm animals     10.01 4pm
7. DemoEconomy  10.01 7pm

8. Happiness         10.02 9am
9. Stillwater vigil     10.02 1pm
10. Revolution        10.02 3pm

11. Chris Hedges - OccupyTogether: The Best Among Us
12. ed                 - Family Jewels  (haiku)

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ollamhfaery [at] earthlink.net
Cavlan/Senate 10.01 10am

Next Cavlan For US Senate Meet Up
Saturday October 1st 10 am
Walker Community Church3105 16th Ave S Minneapolis
Food, fun and great political talk included


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From: Michelle Gross <mgresist [at] visi.com>
Subject: CUAPB 10.01 1:30pm

Meetings: Every Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at Walker Church, 3104 16th Avenue
South http://www.CUAPB.org <http://www.cuapb.org/>
Communities United Against Police Brutality
3100 16th Avenue S
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Hotline 612-874-STOP (7867)


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From: Vanka485 [at] aol.com
Subject: Northtown vigil 10.01 2pm

Peace vigil at Northtown (Old Hwy 10 & University Av), every Saturday
2-3pm


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MIZNA
9/11 play/discussion 10.01 4pm

This is the final weekend of
"Zafira the Olive Oil Warrior"!
The play has been getting great reviews and some national attention. Don't
miss it while it's in Minneapolis! See the group rate on tickets at the
bottom of this message.
Friday & Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, 4 p.m.
At the Avalon Theatre (in the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre),
1500 E. Lake St., Minneapolis

Mizna continues to co-sponsor the free discussions and workshops surrounding
the show. This weekend, join us for the following free discussions and
workshops (please note the workshop times):

 Saturday, October 1, 4 p.m.: Pre-show Workshop: "9/11: Ten Years of Media
Coverage," lead by Nahid Khan. Bring your laptop or tablet to this session

 Saturday, October 1: Post-show discussion moderated by Lana Barkawi

 Sunday, October 2, 2 p.m.: Pre-show Workshop: "Artistic responses to
9/11," lead by Charlotte Karem Albrecht

All discussions and workshops take place at Heart of the Beast.


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WAMM
Who killed Che? 10.01 4pm

Book Discussion: âWho killed Che? How the CIA Got Away with Murder.â
Saturday, October 1, 10:00 a.m. 3019 Minnehaha Avenue, Suite 20,
Minneapolis.
4:00 p.m. Mayday Books, 301 Cedar Avenue, Minneapolis.

Join co-author, Michael Steven Smith as he discusses his book âWho killed
Che? How the CIA Got Away with Murder.â Sponsored by: the Minnesota Cuba
Committee. FFI: Visit www.minnesotacubacommittee.org.


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Unny
Farm animals 10.01 4pm

Progress for Farm Animals with Paul Shapiro of the Humane Society

Join Compassionate Action for Animals for an exciting kick-off event for the
group's eighth annual VegWeek
(http://www.VegWeek.org<http://www.vegweek.org/>).
CAA is hosting Paul Shapiro of the Humane Society of the United State for a
speaking engagement at the University of Minnesota. Hear from one of the
nationâs most seasoned farm animal advocates on why these animalsâ plight is
so dire, the truly amazing work thatâs being done to help them, and how YOU
can get involved and take action for the too-often forgotten and terribly
abused billions of animals who suffer in the meat, egg, and dairy
industries.

This FREE event is on Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 4pm in the Mississippi
Room on the third floor of Coffman Memorial Union (300 Washington Ave SE,
Minneapolis).
Contact: Compassionate Action for Animals at 612-276-2242 or
info [at] ExploreVeg.org

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jtmiller jtmiller jtmiller [at] minn.net
Democracy/economy 10.01 7pm

Working Democracy Discussion Forum:
How Working Democracy Can Solve the Economic Crisis
Saturday, October 1, 2011
7:00 PM
Mayday Books
301 Cedar Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55454


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Atheists
Happiness 10.02 9am

Sunday, October 2, 9:00am-10:00am  âAtheists Talkâ RadioAM 950 KTNF in the
Twin Cities or stream live at .Guest:  http://www.am950ktnf.com

Jen Hancock - "The Humanist Approach to Happiness".  Contact us during the
show with questions or comments at (952) 946-6205 or radio [at] mnatheists.org.

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From: scot b <earthmannow [at] comcast.net>
Subject: Stillwater vigil 10.02 1pm

A weekly Vigil for Peace Every Sunday, at the Stillwater bridge from 1- 2
p.m.  Come after Church or after brunch ! All are invited to join in song
and witness to the human desire for peace in our world. Signs need to be
positive.  Sponsored by the St. Croix Valley Peacemakers.

If you have a United Nations flag or a United States flag please bring it.
Be sure to dress for the weather . For more information go to
<http://www.stcroixvalleypeacemakers.com/>
http://www.stcroixvalleypeacemakers.com/

For more information you could call 651 275 0247 or 651 999 - 9560


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EXCO
Revolution 10.02 3pm

Everyday Revolutions Workshop and Discussion Series
A workshop series focusing on topics and skills that contribute to building
resilient communities and relationships based upon resistance, mutual
support, well-being, and joy.  See below for a schedule of the workshops.
More detailed info on each workshop at www.excotc.org coming soon!   Join us
for the kick off event Sunday, Oct. 2 and let's discuss the revolution! All
workshops will take place at the
Minnehaha Free Space (3458 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis)

Schedule of workshops:
October
Sun. 10/2 (3-5pm) Revolution! kickoff, discussion, food, fun
Wed. 10/5 (6-8pm) Stenciling
Sun. 10/9 (3-5pm) White Privilege
Wed. 10/12 (6-8pm) Mental Health
Sun. 10/16 (3-5pm) Protest: know your legal rights
Wed. 10/19 (6:30-8pm) Zine Making starting
Sun. 10/23 (3-5pm) DIY Soaps, Shampoo, and More
November
Wed. 11/2 Screen printing
Sun. 11/6 Queer and Trans Issues
Wed. 11/9 Sewing and Fibers (tentative)
Sun. 11/13 Direct Action
Wed. 11/16 How to Deal with Police
Sun. 11/20 First Aid


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Published on Friday, September 30, 2011 by TruthDig.com
OccupyTogether: The Best Among Us
by Chris Hedges

There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall
Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or
you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only
form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal
class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that
sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous
evil. Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and
revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy. Either you are a rebel
or a slave.

To be declared innocent in a country where the rule of law means nothing,
where we have undergone a corporate coup, where the poor and working men and
women are reduced to joblessness and hunger, where war, financial
speculation and internal surveillance are the only real business of the
state, where even habeas corpus no longer exists, where you, as a citizen,
are nothing more than a commodity to corporate systems of power, one to be
used and discarded, is to be complicit in this radical evil. To stand on the
sidelines and say âI am innocentâ is to bear the mark of Cain; it is to do
nothing to reach out and help the weak, the oppressed and the suffering, to
save the planet. To be innocent in times like these is to be a criminal. Ask
Tim DeChristopher.

Choose. But choose fast. The state and corporate forces are determined to
crush this. They are not going to wait for you. They are terrified this will
spread. They have their long phalanxes of police on motorcycles, their rows
of white paddy wagons, their foot soldiers hunting for you on the streets
with pepper spray and orange plastic nets. They have their metal barricades
set up on every single street leading into the New York financial district,
where the mandarins in Brooks Brothers suits use your money, money they
stole from you, to gamble and speculate and gorge themselves while one in
four children outside those barricades depend on food stamps to eat.
Speculation in the 17th century was a crime. Speculators were hanged. Today
they run the state and the financial markets. They disseminate the lies that
pollute our airwaves. They know, even better than you, how pervasive the
corruption and theft have become, how gamed the system is against you, how
corporations have cemented into place a thin oligarchic class and an
obsequious cadre of politicians, judges and journalists who live in their
little gated Versailles while 6 million Americans are thrown out of their
homes, a number soon to rise to 10 million, where a million people a year go
bankrupt because they cannot pay their medical bills and 45,000 die from
lack of proper care, where real joblessness is spiraling to over 20 percent,
where the citizens, including students, spend lives toiling in debt peonage,
working dead-end jobs, when they have jobs, a world devoid of hope, a world
of masters and serfs.

The only word these corporations know is more. They are disemboweling every
last social service program funded by the taxpayers, from education to
Social Security, because they want that money themselves. Let the sick die.
Let the poor go hungry. Let families be tossed in the street. Let the
unemployed rot. Let children in the inner city or rural wastelands learn
nothing and live in misery and fear. Let the students finish school with no
jobs and no prospects of jobs. Let the prison system, the largest in the
industrial world, expand to swallow up all potential dissenters. Let torture
continue. Let teachers, police, firefighters, postal employees and social
workers join the ranks of the unemployed. Let the roads, bridges, dams,
levees, power grids, rail lines, subways, bus services, schools and
libraries crumble or close. Let the rising temperatures of the planet, the
freak weather patterns, the hurricanes, the droughts, the flooding, the
tornadoes, the melting polar ice caps, the poisoned water systems, the
polluted air increase until the species dies.

Who the hell cares? If the stocks of ExxonMobil or the coal industry or
Goldman Sachs are high, life is good. Profit. Profit. Profit. That is what
they chant behind those metal barricades. They have their fangs deep into
your necks. If you do not shake them off very, very soon they will kill you.
And they will kill the ecosystem, dooming your children and your childrenâs
children. They are too stupid and too blind to see that they will perish
with the rest of us. So either you rise up and supplant them, either you
dismantle the corporate state, for a world of sanity, a world where we no
longer kneel before the absurd idea that the demands of financial markets
should govern human behavior, or we are frog-marched toward
self-annihilation.

Click there to access OCCUPY TOGETHER, a hub for all of the events springing
up across the country in solidarity with Occupy Wall St.

 2011 TruthDig.com

Chris Hedges writes a regular column for Truthdig.com. Hedges graduated from
Harvard Divinity School and was for nearly two decades a foreign
correspondent for The New York Times. He is the author of many books,
including: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should
Know About War, and American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on
America.  His most recent book is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy
and the Triumph of Spectacle.


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