Events
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September ‘09
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Sunday, Sept 6th, 3 – 6 PM, First Unitarian Church, SW 12th Ave at Main.
Proposition One, an anti-nuclear weapon initiative
Since 1994, the “Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act” has been introduced into Congress with the cosponsorship of congresspeople like Dennis Kucinich, Lynn Woolsey, Charles Rungel, John Lewis, Cynthia McKinney and others. Again this year, the “Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act of 2009′ the was reintroduced (HR1653) and the people of Proposition One are touring the nation to gain support.
Proposition One is a grassroots movement for disarmament of nuclear weapons and the conversion of nuclear and other weapons industries to provide for human and environmental needs.
Proposition One aims to put Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion on the ballot in every state
Proposition One in 2010! Campaign is a national multimedia action tour that educates the public on the need and opportunity to eliminate nuclear weapons.
The group is headed by Washington, DC, peace activist Ellen Thomas, who has helped maintain a round-the-clock antinuclear vigil in front of the White House for 18 years, and in 1993 helped coordinate the successful DC Ballot Initiative 37 for Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion, which has been introduced into US Congress nine times since 1994 by DC’s Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.
More info on Proposition One is at their website.
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Wednesday Sept. 9th, 7-0 PM, St. Francis Churh, 1182 SE Pine
In Transition: from Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
This film includes the stories of Transition communites around the world creating their own currencies, setting up their own pubs, planting trees, growning food. You’ll see local authorities getting behind these local initiatives, and get a sense of the scale of this emerging movement.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009, 6:30 pm-8:30pm, SEIU Union Hall (MLK Room), 1730 Commercial St SE, Salem
Immigration MythBusting Session
We are a country of immigrants, yet time and time again, immigrants bare the brunt of the blame for everything that goes wrong in our country. Very soon, Congress will restart the debate about the need for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and it will be up to all of us to make sure that we separate “Fact” from “Myth”. Please join us in a community session designed to dispel common myths about immigrants by empowering participants with facts about the root causes of immigration and share effective methods to
challenge anti-immigrant statements/actions.
For more information please contact:
Timothy Welp at 503/580-2197 welpt@opeuseiu.org
Samuel Davila at 503/931-1060 davilasam@yahoo.com
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Friday, Sept. 11, 7PM,St. Philip Neri Church at 2408 SE 16th Avenue
Bill McKibben, author of numerous books including The End of Nature and Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, is keynote speaker for the 4th Annual Muddy Boots Festival. The Muddy Boots Festival continues on Saturday and Sunday. See below.
More info at 503-231-4955. Purchase tickets in advance at tickets@muddyboot.org
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Saturday, Sept 12, 9:00 am, Sierra Club office at 1821 SE Ankeny
Sierra Club Outing to proposed Bradwood Landing LNG site
Day trip to the lower Columbia River estuary to meet impacted community members and see the Bradwood site first hand. Come learn how communities have been fighting foreign fossil fuel development on the Columbia River for the past half-decade and get a view of the Bradwood site from a beach just across the river. At our destination we will have a beach picnic, hear from leaders of the anti-LNG campaign and get basic info on what is proposed.
Contact Olivia to rsvp and get pertinent info.Olivia, 971-533-2390
Bus and carpool will leave from Sierra Club office at 1821 SE Ankeny @ 9am
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Sat and Sunday Sept 12/13, St. Philip Neri Church at 2408 SE 16th Avenue
The Muddy Boot Organic Festival – Connecting Communities in a Changing Climate
The Muddy Boot Organic Festival will continue September 12 and 13 in a vibrant, bustling, outdoor sustainability-themed festival featuring stellar live music, organic and sustainable foods and beverages, information booths, sustainable products, educational workshops, and fun activities for families and children. The live music lineup includes musical performers Weinland, Portland Cello Project, Stephanie Schneiderman, Freak Mountain Ramblers, the March Fourth Marching Band and others.
The Muddy Boot Organic Festivals mission is to promote sustainable living practices within our local communities, thereby enhancing the health of our world, our neighborhoods and ourselves. The theme of this years festival is Connecting Communities in a Changing Climate.
For more information, please visit www.muddyboot.org .
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Saturday, Sept, 12, 9 Am- 5PM, Esther Short Park West 8th and Columbia Street Vancouver, Washington
Vancouver Peace and Justice Fair
The Vancouver Peace and Justice Fair is a nonpolitical community gathering of vendors, nonprofit groups, and other exhibitors coming together to promote a harmonious, healthy, peaceful, and sustainable community.
The Fair is a FREE community celebration with live entertainment, kids’ activities, and strolling historical actors.
We look forward to seeing you at the Vancouver Peace and Justice Fair!
www.VancouverPeaceandJusticeFair.org, 360.696.4840, vanpeaceandjusticefair@yahoo.com
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Thursday, Sept. 17, 7:30 PM, Trinity United Methodist Church at 39th and SW Steele
The Power of Community: How cuba Survived Peak Oil.
This film is being shown by a new group, Transition SE South. The film outlines the crisis resulting from the loss of over half of Cuba’s petroleum imports, and 80% of food imports, after the collapse of the Soviet union and how Cubans turned to organic agriculture, conservtion and cooperation to transition toa more sustainable, low-energy-use society.
More info at www transitionpdx.org.
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Sat, Sept 19, 10 am to 8 pm, Oregon Convention Center
The Fifth Annual Portland VegFest: live entertainment, free food tasting, cooking demos, and more!
Live better, feel better, and save the planet! Oregon’s premier vegetarian food extravaganza is back with a prestigious roster of best-selling wellness authors, highly acclaimed chefs, and activities for the whole family. $5 at the door. Kids 10 and under get in free! For a printable coupon good for $1 off (available as of August 2009), visit www.portlandvegfest.org. Visit the website again in September for a complete schedule of events, an updated list of speakers, and other details.
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Monday, Sept 21, 8 PM, Lloyd Center 10, 1510 NE Multnomah St in Portland or Cedar Hills Crossing 16 at 3200 SW Hocken Ave in Beaverton
The Age of Stupid
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Wed, Sept 23rd, 5:30 PM, Bicycle Transportation Alliance office at 233 NW 5th Ave
A FREE VEHICLE LAW CLASS FOR BICYCLISTS
Class on Oregon’s vehicle laws from a bicyclist’s perspective with Bike Lawyer Ray Thomas.
Contact Bicycle Transportation Alliance (503) 226-0676 to pre-register
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Friday, Sept 25th, 7 PM, McMenamins Bagdad Theater (doors open at 6 pM).
Ingredients, a documetary film.
The local food movement takes root.
American food is in a state of crisis. Health, food costs and our environment are all in jeopardy. A movement to put good food back on the table is emerging. What began 30 years ago with chefs demanding better flavor, has inspired consumers to seek relationships with nearby farmers. This is local food.
This film takes us across the U.S. from the diversified farms of the Hudson River and Willamette Valleys to the urban food deserts of Harlem and to the kitchens of celebrated chefs Alice Waters, Peter Hoffman and Greg Higgins. INGREDIENTS is a journey that reveals the people behind the movement to bring good food back to the table and health back to our communities.
This showing is part of the Multnomah county Sustainablitity Film Series. It will be followed by a Local Food panel discussion with” Robert Bates – Dir. Ingredients, Greg jhiggins, Higgins Restaurant, Anthony and Carol Boutard, Ayers Creek Farm and Kat West, Multnomah County.
This film will also be shown on September 26 and 27 at the Bagdad – doors open at 5pm
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Wed, Sept 30, Noon – 1PM, in front of Portland City Hall
Rally for a REAL Recovery
Join Jobs with Justice National Week of Action for a Real Economic Recovery.
Our City Council shouldn’t work just for the banks and the corporate interests. They should work for us.
Yet every day we are feeling more and more squeezed by their decisions.
As City employees we are members of this community. Like every Portlander, we need affordable health care. We ant to feel secure in our jobs. We need to know that our work serving the public is respected and rewarded.
And now we need to know that our City council isn’t jost looking out for themselves a or a narrow set of interests.
Sponsored by Jobs with Justice and AFSCME Coucnil 75.
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October ‘09
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Thursday, Sunday, Oct 1 -4
First Unitarian Church, SW 12 and Main, Sunday portion of Gathering will be at Portland State University
Twin Crisis: Time of Action
Northwest Regional Gathering on the Economic and Environmetnal Crises
Join a growing coalition of activists from movements including labor, environmental, peace, gender, student, and human rights organizations from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Northern California, in conversation with citizens, elected officials and academics, to explore the way forward. The four day gathering will include a keynote speech by Noam Chomsky, teach ins, workshops, panel discussions, debates, a final strategy session and a variety of cultural events.
THIS IS CONFIRMED: NOAM CHOMSKY Oct 2nd 7 PM at 1st UU Church, SW 12th and Main.
Also confirmed is Derrick Jensen. Saturday Oct 3rd, 7 PM at the 1st UU Church, SW 12th and Main.
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November ‘09
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WED., NOVEMBER 18, 7:30 PM, Keller Auditorium
Al Gore – Our choice
Since the publication of the New York Times bestseller, An Inconvenient Truth, Mr. Gore has led more than 30 “Solutions Summits” with top scientists, engineers and policy experts to examine every solution to the climate crisis in depth.
Drawing on the conclusions developed through those summits, Mr. Gore describes the bold choices necessary to save the earth’s climate. Those same bold choices are also the foundations of policies worldwide to create new jobs and stimulate sustainable economic progress
Enter the code: WORDS into the Special Offers Box.
$45 – $65 All seats are reserved seating and include a copy of his book Our Choice. Books will be distributed the night of the event.
Pre-sale valid through 8/22/09 at 5pm.
Purchase tickets online or by phone at 1-800-745-3000.
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January ‘10
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Thursday, Jan 6, site/time unknown
Daybreak, : Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union” with author David Swanson
Daybreak is a prescription for political reform that literally ends with a to-do list for citizens, and draws inspiration from the misdeeds and missteps of the Bush and Obama presidencies.
What powers were stripped from Congress and handed to the White House while George W. Bush lived there, and what would it take to permanently move them back? Which of these powers is Barack Obama making use of or even expanding upon? And in the future, how can we expand our rights, create democratic representation in Congress, and make presidents into executives rather than emperors?
This is a citizens’ guide to the long-term task of removing power from the hands of one person, placing it in a body of representatives, and (here’s the hard part) making that body truly representative of the American people.
More info on book at http://davidswanson.org/book