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Events Planned by Spokes Network Members and Others Announcements - What You Should Know About What's Going On in the North Bay
Wednesdays 6:00-7:00 p.m: Peace vigil. CODE PINK-Women for Peace: Corner of Hwys 12 and 116, by Bank of the West Wednesdays: Women in Black silent vigil. 12:00
noon -1:00PM, Intersection of highway 12 and highway 116 in Sebastopol.
Call 823-8122. Benicia Vigil - Every Thursday at 5pm - Meet us at the Corner of Military West/First Street in Benicia! Warning! We've been discovered by the Protest Warriors. This event is brought to you by Icasualties.org and the Solano Peace and Justice Coalition, www.solanopeaceandjustice.com. Thursdays: Peace Vigil. 6:00PM - 7:00PM,
Healdsburg Plaza. Call Robert 431-1129. THURSDAY
NIGHTS at the Peace
& Justice Center from 7-9pm Fridays: Women in Black silent vigil. 12:00
noon -1:00PM, Intersection of Mendocino and College Avenues, Santa
Rosa. Call 573-8189. Santa Rosa Peace Vigil - every Friday 5:30-6:30 PM, Courthouse Square, 3rd and Mendocino, Santa Rosa Petalumans for Peace will host a vigil for peace in Iraq each Friday evening from 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM -- beginning February 25th -- at the fountain in Helen Putnam Plaza in downtown Petaluma. Clergy and lay persons from local religious congregations will join with others as a visible sign of hope for peace in Iraq. In silence, participants will stand in witness to lives lost and lives irrevocably changed by the Iraq war. Tim Nonn, vigil co-organizer, says: "Recognizing the tremendous cost of the Iraq war in human lives, we invite Petalumans [and everyone] to come together to express their grief over the ongoing violence and their hope for a speedy end to the war. We stand in solidarity with Americans and Iraqis whose lives have been torn apart by the war." All those interested are invited to join the vigil each Friday at 5:00 PM. Women in Black: Vigil Fridays 12 - 1 PM at the corner of Highways 12 and 16 in Sebastopol and at Mendocino and College in Santa Rosa. Every Friday: Sonoma Peace Vigil. 5:00PM,
Sonoma Plaza at Broadway. Contact Dale or Carol Todd, 935-0712. 3rd Saturday of each month: The Activists' Lounge, hosted by Susan and Ari, may have folded, but the potluck/gathering lives on. George Romandy is now the host at the Peace and Justice Center. The Center opens at 6:00, though eating usually doesn't begin before 7:00. Bring something to eat or drink to share and socialize with fellow activists.
Chuck Sher, Food
Not Bombs has a weekly protest event in Courthouse Square, Santa
Rosa every Sunday from 5-7pm (or until everyone is full or we are
out of food). Anyone is welcome to come by the serving or help us
cook, the kitchen is transient now so call Ben or Desiree at 707-544-3266
if you want directions.
Schedule of Events Planned by Spokes Network Members and Others
January:
I look forward to hearing your questions and feedback about the new Medicare Drug Plan at one of my community Meetings on January 9, 2006. There will also be an opportunity to make an appointment for "individual counseling" with HICAP. Monday January 9, 2006 2 pm - 3 pm Speakers: For more information or to request special accommodations,
please call Emmie Morgan, Field Representative for Congresswoman
Lynn Woolsey (707) 542-7182
also in Ukiah on Wed., January 11th and Willits
on Thursday, January 12 (times and venues TBA) $6; permission arranged exclusively with Gaiam,
Inc. (Awakened Media) and All farmers who farm more than 10 acres are admitted for FREE!! The Real Dirt on Farmer John (US, 2005, 82 min.) The Real Dirt on Farmer John is the epic tale of a maverick Mid-western farmer. An outcast in his community, Farmer John transforms his world amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and violence. By melding the traditions of family farming with the power of art and free expression, this quintessentially American story heralds a resurrection of farming in America. Through highly personal interviews and 50 years of beautifully textured footage, filmmaker Taggart Siegel shares Farmer John’s haunting and humorous odyssey, capturing what it means to be wildly different — a fiercely individual artist in a suspicious rural community. Question and Answers after the film...
All events at New College
There will be a Hearing on the EIR by the Planning
Commission on February
Each volunteer becomes part of a team of 3 - 4 people, which is given to a family who is committed to recovery from homelessness, violence, drugs or alcohol addiction and other trauma. Working together, as well as through one to one connections with either the parent or children, volunteers provide open-hearted emotional, social and practical support to their families for up to 1 year. Volunteers help tutor children, provide childcare, help parents enroll in school or attend custody hearings, and expose families to a different way of life than the one they have known. With the volunteer's support (about 2 hours a week) wonderful transformations occur. The strength of personal relationships helps to create a context in which families can become self-supporting members of our community, now and for generations to come. The next volunteer training is on two consecutive Wednesdays, Jan 11 and Jan. 18, 2006 in Santa Rosa. Contact Family Connection at 579-3630 for more information and to reserve your place. We can make a difference in this world. http://new.cots-homeless.org/how_cyclefamilies.php Lauren Darges COTS - Committee on the Shelterless - Including the Petaluma Kitchen and The Family Connection 707-765-6530 x110 Providing Help and Hope... One Life at a Time
Davide McGahee, Northern California coordinator
for Books Not Bars, will speak on his organization's efforts to
encourage a rehabilitation system in the California Youth The CYA continues to warehouse youth in abusive prisons, even though five youth have died there in the last two years. Read the latest news article here:
January 13, Friday, 2006 7:30pm FREE/$3 donation - Petaluma Progressives Present: "In Plane Sight" What really happened on 9/11/01? This updated film breaks new ground. "In Plane Sight" is a compilation of footage we've seen a million times and also footage that was mysteriously never shown, or only shown on 9/11/01. What is the 40 year old "Operation Northwood"? Come see this award winning film. 2nd and H Streets at the Foundry Wharf, Petaluma
January 14, 8:00 PM. Bruce Kunkel and Robert Harris Concert - at New College, 99 6th St., Santa Rosa (at Wilson) in Rail Road Square - Call 568-2605 for info
Sonoma Town Square Honoring those who have died in Iraq: *200 crosses representing the 2000 troops killled
in iraq will be placed on *Members of the spiritual community will conduct services * A bell will be rung 20 times to represent the 2000 troops slain * Anti-war Testimony will be given by Veterans
for Peace, Iraq Veterans,
January 18, Wednesday: Great Volunteer Opportunity to Help Transform Lives - At The Family Connection, a program of COTS, volunteers transform the lives of families, predominantly single mothers and their children, by helping them achieve stability and move toward financial independence. Each volunteer becomes part of a team of 3 - 4 people, which is given to a family who is committed to recovery from homelessness, violence, drugs or alcohol addiction and other trauma. Working together, as well as through one to one connections with either the parent or children, volunteers provide open-hearted emotional, social and practical support to their families for up to 1 year. Volunteers help tutor children, provide childcare, help parents enroll in school or attend custody hearings, and expose families to a different way of life than the one they have known. With the volunteer's support (about 2 hours a week) wonderful transformations occur. The strength of personal relationships helps to create a context in which families can become self-supporting members of our community, now and for generations to come. The next volunteer training is on two consecutive Wednesdays, Jan 11 and Jan. 18, 2006 in Santa Rosa. Contact Family Connection at 579-3630 for more information and to reserve your place. We can make a difference in this world. http://new.cots-homeless.org/how_cyclefamilies.php Lauren Darges COTS - Committee on the Shelterless - Including the Petaluma Kitchen and The Family Connection 707-765-6530 x110 Providing Help and Hope... One Life at a Time
Save Money on Gas, Have Fun and Save the World Guest Speakers: Christine Culver Portia Sinnott Jenny Bard Come listen and discuss ways to benefit yourself, your family and the environment! This will be an interactive forum. Bring your ideas, experience and creativity. Call 544-7651 or email Veronica Jacobi at vjacobi@sonic.net for more information. All Sierra Club members and the general public are invited.
Brief presentations followed by a round-table question/answer/discussion period. Featuring Stephanie Hiller,editor of the North Bay Progressive, Peter Phillips of Project Censored, Attila Nagy, our North Bay KPFA representative, Elaine Holtz, host of Women's Spaces on Cable TV channel 72, and speakers from the Free Mind Media Guild.
Producer David L. Brown of Brisbane has concocted a doozy of a cocktail here. "A Bridge So Far" (55 Min.) is the story of how the new span for the San Francisco Bay Bridge came into being. 2nd and H Streets at the Foundry Wharf, Petaluma
A documentary that takes you behind the glitz and
into the real lives of After you see this film, you will definately be
opposed to the new Wal-Mart
"Night of the Liana" (45 min. Director Glenn Switkes, 2002) details the experiences of three molecular biologists who traveled to the Amazon with anthropologist Jeremy Narby to see if shamanic techniques using ayahuasa (a powerfully psychedelic South American tea) could provide insights into their scientific work. The results of this "experiment" are surprising and inspiring. Join us for this intriguing and eye-opening film that shows the connection and parallel between shamanic practices and science. Then, join us in discussion with author Ralph Metzner after the film. 2nd and H Streets at the Foundry Wharf, Petaluma January 27, 8:00 pm: Mike Dowling Concert - at New College, 99 6th St., Santa Rosa (at Wilson) in Rail Road Square - Call 568-2605 for info
New College
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