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Metro Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance
Bringing together metro UUs to strengthen our pursuit of peace, justice, and sustainability in our local and global communities
Help Register Voters!
UUs across the country are working to REGISTER VOTERS this summer and early fall, heeding UUA president Bill Sinkford?s call to save our democracy. In the Twin Cities, UUs are joining together to register voters in an effort coordinated by the Metro UU Social Justice Alliance (MUUSJA). Your church is part of it. You can help.
Our goal is to register 100 percent of the members in each of our churches. A second goal is to recruit UUs (including youth) to register disenfranchised groups in our larger community in partnership with several Twin Cities organizations. MUUSJA's effort will include a special training and outreach opportunity for youth, thanks to a small grant from the UU Service Committee.
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS to coordinate congregational efforts and to register new voters! HELP MAKE DEMOCRACY WORK! Send your name, email address and phone number to Ken Jerome-Stern, MUUSJA Voter Registration Campaign, at kenjeromestern [at] aol.com.
EVENT UPDATE
1) 4/19 - FRONT-LINE TRAINING FOR WIND POWER ENTHUSIASTS, a MUUSJA
Event
2) 4/19 - "LIFE AND DEBT," WAMM 3rd Mon. Movies
3) 4/19 - C4CR General Meeting [Campaign for Corporate Responsibility]
4) 4/19 ? FRONTLINE Repeat ? Mon., 8pm on TPT-17 after "NOW with Bill Moyers."
5) 4/20 - AMY GOODMAN interviewed by Lydia Howell, 11am. KFAI Radio 90.3 FM
6) 4/20 - The POWER of WATER: A vision for water in the 21st century. A Kolshorn
Lecture
7) 4/20 - "INVESTIGATION: MEDIA IN POLITICS, a GetBob Seminar
8) 4/20 - "CHALLENGING CORPORATE POWER: ASSERTING THE PEOPLE'S
RIGHTS", Betsy Barnum
9) 4/20 - "A CONVERSATION ABOUT CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY"
Ralph Nader
10) 4/20 - STOP WALMART meeting of Midway Citizen Consumer Community
Coalition.
11) 4/21 ? WALK WITH GRANNY D FOR FAIR AND CLEAN ELECTIONS ACT!
12) 4/24 ? AMY GOODMAN talks about her new book and shows new documentary
film "INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN A TIME OF WAR".
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FRONT-LINE TRAINING FOR WIND POWER ENTHUSIASTS
Are you ready to meet the public? Learn to talk with confidence about wind power. If you're wind-smart already, come practice your stuff. J Drake Hamilton from ME3 (Minnesotans for an Energy Efficient Economy) has offered to lead us in a hands-on training session.
What: Front-Line Training for Wind Power Enthusiasts
Date: Monday, April 19, 2004
Time: 7 PM-9 PM
Who: J Drake Hamilton, ME3 (Minnesotans for an Energy Efficient Economy)
Where: First Universalist Church, 3400 Dupont S., Minneapolis
Enter ground-level entrance on Dupont
Sponsor: Metro UU Social Justice Alliance--Economic Globalization Group (Sustainability Circle)
Get smart about wind power! Bring your friends. RSVP to Chris Burda at cburda [at] earthlink.net so we prepare enough hand-outs or just come.
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Set to a reggae beat, Life and Debt explores the role of the World Bank in the economic decline of Jamaica and its connection to globalization, with parallels to other countries such as Haiti.
Lively interviews with Jamaican people--laborers, farmers, business owners and anagers. Learn how free trade zones, imports and World Bank regulations affect Jamaicans and their ability to make a living and provide human services such as schools and hospitals. Voice over is by renowned author Jamaica Kinkaid.Sponsored by WAMM.
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On Thursday, 4/15/04 TPT aired an updated 60-min. version of "Frontline: The Man Who Knew" that initially aired as a 90-min. special on 10/2/02. Its reprise, which includes extensive testimony by Richard Clarke and other 9/11 Commission figures, couldn't be more timely. Unless it's preempted by an extended session of the Minnesota Legislature, it repeats Monday at 8pm on TPT-17 after "NOW with Bill Moyers."
Below are excerpts from the updated Website, which includes the original 90-min. version in streaming video (to access it search the program's title on your browser). In its recent national convention, the Television Critics Association again cited "Frontline" as the best "News and Information" program on American TV. "The Man Who Knew" exemplifies why.
April 12, 2004: In the week that the 9/11 Commission holds hearings scrutinizing the FBI's actions in the years prior to the terrorist attack, FRONTLINE rebroadcasts the remarkable story of John P. O'Neill, the FBI's counterterrorism expert who long warned of Al Qaeda's threat. . . .
When the Twin Towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, among the thousands killed was the one man who may have known more about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda than any other person in America: John O'Neill.
The former head of the FBI's flagship antiterrorism unit in New York City, O'Neill had investigated the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Africa and the USS Cole in Yemen. For six years, he led the fight to track down and prosecute Al Qaeda operatives throughout the world. But his flamboyant, James Bond style and obsession with Osama bin Laden made him a controversial figure inside the buttoned-down world of the FBI. Just two weeks before Sept. 11, O'Neill left the bureau for a job in the private sector -- as head of security at the World Trade Center. He died there after rushing back into the burning towers to aid in the rescue efforts.
An Update: John O'neill and the 9/11 Commission
FRONTLINE's story on John O'Neill spotlights two central issues that emerged during the 9/11 Commission hearings held in the spring of 2004 investigating why the U.S. intelligence community failed to prevent the Sept. 11th terrorist attack:
- The 9/11 Commission's investigation revealed that America's $30 billion intelligence community, spread over more than a dozen agencies, was disorganized, fractured and impaired by organizational and legal restrictions on the sharing of information.
These disclosures directly relate to John O'Neill's story. He came tantalizingly close to possibly uncovering the 9/11 plot. But his investigations into the USS Cole terrorist attack and into Al Qaeda's presence in the United States were both undermined by the CIA and FBI's failure to share information with each other.
Read FRONTLINE's "What If" report for details. . . .
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Tues April 20 at 11am "Catalyst: politcs & culture" prd/host Lydia Howell interviews AMY GOODMAN - KFAI Radio 90.3 FM Mpls 106.7 FM (archived for 2 weeks after broadcst at www.kfai.org)
Amy Goodman, host of the national, daily radio/TV program Democracy Now!, is on a national tour to mark the launch of her first book "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them" (co-written with her brother, journalist David Goodman). The tour includes fundraisers for Pacifica radio stations and affiliates that carry Democracy Now!
Spread the word! For event details and a complete schedule of tour dates, and how to order a book as a gift, for yourself, or for a library or a prison book program, go to http://www.democracynow.org/book. The book tour website has downloadable posters, flyers, and an easy event-by-event Email A Friend option.
Immediately below are Democracy Now!'s suggestions about how you can help make this tour a huge success. Following that are details of Amy's speaking events in Minnesota. Hope to see you there! From: Lydia Howell <lhowell [at] visi.com>
Subject: Goodman/Howell 4.20 11am
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The Kolshorn Lecture - Part of the President's 21st Century Interdisciplinary Conference Series, by Dr. Peter H. Gleick, President, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security, Oakland, CA
Water is vital for human health, our economy, and the environment. Water also cuts across traditional lines of inquiry connecting science and economics with political and social concerns. As part of the University of Minnesota's Earth Week celebrations, world water expert Dr. Peter H. Gleick, a 2003 MacArthur Fellow, will give a wide-ranging talk on water issues in the new century and how we can prepare for the future with
intelligent planning and a forward-looking vision.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by the Water Resources Center, the Consortium for Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, the Bell Museum, the Graduate School and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
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Please join us for the upcoming GetBob seminar on media and politics on Tuesday, April 20. Check out www.getbob.org for more information.
"Investigation: Media in Politics" - A freewheeling, non-partisan conversation on the relationship between media and politics.
Tuesday, April 20 7-9pm.
Southwest High School (47th & Chowen Av S)
How does the news make the news? Who creates (or manipulates?) political images, themes and issues? What is the role of free-for-the-taking, local newspapers? How can readers make their opinions heard? What in the world is E-democracy? And, how about all those ads?
**Enjoy some tunes by songwriter/guitarist Dean Alger, too!**
*This effort brought to you by Southwest Citizens for Civic Engagement and Southwest Community Education. Southwest Citizens for Civic Engagement is a non-partisan project of the Fulton Neighborhood Association in cooperation with a growing list of neighborhood organizations including Linden Hills, Lynnhurst, Windom, Kenny, Armatage, and Kingfield. Call (612) 922-3106 for more information.
Michelle Martin Armatage Project Coordinator
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Tuesday, April 20 from 7 to 9 pm
BETSY BARNUM ON "CHALLENGING CORPORATE POWER, ASSERTING THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS," a national campaign of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
Betsy Barnum is the Executive Director of the Great River Earth Institute, a fellow of the Center for Prosperity, and a member of the Alliance for Democracy and WILPF; she has received training from the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy.
We will also be organizing study groups around the campaign during the evening.
Trinity Lutheran Congregation Offices Meeting Room (upstairs from St. Martin's Table), 2001 Riverside Av Minneapolis. Call the number below if you need directions.
Limited parking in the lot behind StMartin's Table. Otherwise park on the street.
Enter in back, outside and up the stairs from the parking lot. (Not through StMartin's Table!)
Free and open to the public. Organized by the Corporations and Democracy Committee of the MN Metro Branch of WILPF. FFI 651-458-7090 or wilpf [at] earthlink.org
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A discussion of this very timely topic between the nation's foremost consumer advocate and a University of Minnesota business ethics professor who has examined the recent state of corporate accounting scandals. (free and open to the public)
How the climate of corporate responsibility has changed during the almost four decades since the publication of Nader's seminal work, Unsafe At Any Speed, and the resulting efforts of a major auto maker to undermine his credibility. (free and open to the public)
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You are invited to attend the next meeting of MC4: Midway Citizen Consumer
Community Coalition. We will be meeting to give updates and plan our actions for the Midway Wal-Mart's Opening Day.
An MC4 meeting regarding StPaul's incoming University Av Wal-Mart store.for area residents, MC4 members, workers, students, and activists, to plan our opening day actions.
Tuesday, April 20 at 7pm. (If you are new to the effort, please show up at 6:45pm)
Location is TBA. (It will be somewhere in the Midway Neighborhood.) Please RSVP to Chris Conry at 651-451-6240 x. 241 or at chrisconry2000 [at] hotmail.com.
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WALK WITH GRANNY D FOR FAIR AND CLEAN ELECTIONS ACT!
Join the national campaign. "As students and community members join together to walk with Granny D, we will be displaying the power of people to reclaim our democracy. . . .to change the way we fund elections so that voters are in charge, not big money donors with narrow agendas," says Breanna Peterson, St. Olaf student.
Doris (Granny D) Haddock is a 94-year-old great-grandmother of 16, who in 2000 walked 3,200 miles from California to Washington D.C. to demonstrate her concern about big money in politics. She has inspired countless ordinary citizens of all generations to get engaged in politics to reform our democracy.
The Fair and Clean Elections bill (HF 1382 and SF 998) is modeled after
successful campaign finance reforms in Maine and Arizona. This legislation will put voters, not donors, in charge of elections by providing state candidates for office with the option of nearly full public financing if they can meet certain public trust requirements. Candidates must demonstrate grassroots support by collecting hundreds of small contributions from $5 to $50; agree to strict spending limits; and agree to forego nearly all private money. The goal is to allow qualified community leaders to run for office regardless of their means and restore voter confidence in our elections.
The event is sponsored by the League of Women Voters, MPIRG, AAUW, the
Senior Federation, the Minnesota Alliance for Progressive Action, and Democracy Matters.
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Amy Goodman talks about her new book and shows new documentary film "Independent Media In A Time Of War".
$10 (goes to KFAI Radio)
info:(612)341-3144
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Welcome keynote speaker: J. Drake Hamilton
10:20-10:45 and 12:20-12:45 Chalice Room
Global climate change expert and wind-power educator from Minnesotans for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ME3)
Children activities provided outside library. Banjo music to lighten your spirits.
This event is brought to you by the Sustainability Circle of the Economic Globalization Group, a Working Group of the Metro UU Social Justice Alliance. For more info and/or to volunteer call Chris Burda (612-827-1596) or Linda Littrel (651-645-2718). See you there!
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LIVING GREEN EXPO
May 1-May 2, 2004
10:00am - 6:00pm
State Fairgrounds in St. Paul Free!
www.livinggreenexpo.org
Benefit from a healthy, more sustainable life!
The Living Green Expo provides information and products to enable those in and around the Twin Cities to reduce the environmental impact of their day-to-day living. The Expo features 200+ product, service and information exhibitors. It includes 90+ workshops and presentations on a variety of sustainability and living green topics; music, art, food, demonstrations; and activities for youth and children.
Please visit the Living Green Expo web site www.livinggreenexpo.org for detailed descriptions of workshops that will be offered at the Expo by local resource people on green buildings, alternative energy, transportation, household practices, yard care, gardening, sustainability education and sustainable lifestyles. This year?s expo will also feature wonderful family, children?s and youth entertainment a rich variety folk, acoustic, blues and international music on the outdoor and indoor stages. Our 200 green business, nonprofit and government exhibitors are listed on the web site by topic area. An immigrant forum, Saturday at 11am and related workshops will share resources for families to keep their kids safe and healthy while saving money and building community. Featured presentations include: Kim Carlson, the EarthSmart Consumer Finding Hope in a Time of Hopelessness - Anna Lappe, co-author Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, Greening Your Home - Robyn Griggs Lawrence, Natural Home Magazine and Eco-municipalities: The Next Swedish Export - Torbjorn Lahti & Sarah James, Sustainable Sweden Association.
Free Blue Sky Guides, which contain over $5,000 in discounts for products and services from local businesses (retail value of $20), will be given to the first 200 attendees each day (limit one per family), compliments of Great River Energy
Please help spread the word about the Expo. Posters, sample announcements and flyers are available on our web site under "Help spread the word."
Please consider biking, car pooling or taking the bus to the event. Parking is free, secure bike storage is available, and attendees who ride the bus will get a free ride home. Map and directions.
The Living Green Expo is sponsored by a coalition of nonprofits, businesses and state and local government agencies.
For more information, contact:
Ned Brooks, MPCA 651-296-7242
Sean Gosiewski, Alliance for Sustainability 612-331-1099 x 2 , sean [at] allianceforsustainability.net
www.livinggreenexpo.org
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Chante served in the Air Force 1980-92. Her background training was Air Traffic Control and Top Secret Telecommunications, Cryptographic Security. She served 7 of her 12 years in Spain and was deployed to Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War from January 15 - March 1991.She is currently the Coordinator for Chapter 27, Veterans for Peace, Inc.
This event takes place at 7 pm on Monday, May 3 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Minnetonka, 605 Rice St., at the corner of Rice and Walker streets, one block South of Wayzata Boulevard in Wayzata. All are welcome.
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UUs BUILDING POWER for SOCIAL CHANGE!
A one-day training for UUs committed to living out their UU values. The first in an ongoing program to create a community of skilled and inspired UU justice makers. How relationships form the basis for building community, organization, and power and ultimately winning issues!
SATURDAY, MAY 8 ?04
8:30 am-4:30 pm - First Universalist Church (Cummins Room)
3400 Dupont Ave So, Minneapolis
Lead Trainer: Jackie Byers, Organizing Apprenticeship Project Inspiring Teacher, Training Director
Register by Monday, May 3rd
Contact MUUSJA co-chairs: Betsy Allis─612-871-6946, erallis [at] aol.com or Jo Haberman─612-822-8870, jojane [at] juno.com. $20.00 donation includes materials, breaks, and lunch.
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Bringing together metro UUs to strengthen our pursuit of peace, justice, and sustainability in our local and global communities
Help Register Voters!
UUs across the country are working to REGISTER VOTERS this summer and early fall, heeding UUA president Bill Sinkford?s call to save our democracy. In the Twin Cities, UUs are joining together to register voters in an effort coordinated by the Metro UU Social Justice Alliance (MUUSJA). Your church is part of it. You can help.
Our goal is to register 100 percent of the members in each of our churches. A second goal is to recruit UUs (including youth) to register disenfranchised groups in our larger community in partnership with several Twin Cities organizations. MUUSJA's effort will include a special training and outreach opportunity for youth, thanks to a small grant from the UU Service Committee.
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS to coordinate congregational efforts and to register new voters! HELP MAKE DEMOCRACY WORK! Send your name, email address and phone number to Ken Jerome-Stern, MUUSJA Voter Registration Campaign, at kenjeromestern [at] aol.com.
EVENT UPDATE
1) 4/19 - FRONT-LINE TRAINING FOR WIND POWER ENTHUSIASTS, a MUUSJA
Event
2) 4/19 - "LIFE AND DEBT," WAMM 3rd Mon. Movies
3) 4/19 - C4CR General Meeting [Campaign for Corporate Responsibility]
4) 4/19 ? FRONTLINE Repeat ? Mon., 8pm on TPT-17 after "NOW with Bill Moyers."
5) 4/20 - AMY GOODMAN interviewed by Lydia Howell, 11am. KFAI Radio 90.3 FM
6) 4/20 - The POWER of WATER: A vision for water in the 21st century. A Kolshorn
Lecture
7) 4/20 - "INVESTIGATION: MEDIA IN POLITICS, a GetBob Seminar
8) 4/20 - "CHALLENGING CORPORATE POWER: ASSERTING THE PEOPLE'S
RIGHTS", Betsy Barnum
9) 4/20 - "A CONVERSATION ABOUT CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY"
Ralph Nader
10) 4/20 - STOP WALMART meeting of Midway Citizen Consumer Community
Coalition.
11) 4/21 ? WALK WITH GRANNY D FOR FAIR AND CLEAN ELECTIONS ACT!
12) 4/24 ? AMY GOODMAN talks about her new book and shows new documentary
film "INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN A TIME OF WAR".
13) 4/25 - SPIRIT THE WIND, LIGHTEN YOUR STEP! AN EARTH DAY
CELEBRATION ? a MUUSJA Event
14) 5/1 - 5/2 - LIVING GREEN EXPO
15) 5/3 ? West Metro Neighbors4Peace, CHANTE WOLF on THE COSTS OF WAR
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FRONT-LINE TRAINING FOR WIND POWER ENTHUSIASTS
Are you ready to meet the public? Learn to talk with confidence about wind power. If you're wind-smart already, come practice your stuff. J Drake Hamilton from ME3 (Minnesotans for an Energy Efficient Economy) has offered to lead us in a hands-on training session.
What: Front-Line Training for Wind Power Enthusiasts
Date: Monday, April 19, 2004
Time: 7 PM-9 PM
Who: J Drake Hamilton, ME3 (Minnesotans for an Energy Efficient Economy)
Where: First Universalist Church, 3400 Dupont S., Minneapolis
Enter ground-level entrance on Dupont
Sponsor: Metro UU Social Justice Alliance--Economic Globalization Group (Sustainability Circle)
This front-line training is for anyone who would like to: __ learn to converse with others about wind power __ answer frequently asked questions about wind power __ talk about the role of wind power in the race to stop global warming __ explain how wind power relates to Minnesota jobs and homeland security __ convince people to sign the Renewable Energy Objective petition __ convince people to buy into Xcel's WindSource (a green pricing program) __ explain the option of supporting wind power, but not green pricing
Get smart about wind power! Bring your friends. RSVP to Chris Burda at cburda [at] earthlink.net so we prepare enough hand-outs or just come.
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"LIFE AND DEBT," WAMM Third Monday at the Movies, World Bank & Debt Monday April 19, 6:30pm St Joan of Arc Church, Upper Room, Parish Center, 4537 Third Av S Mpls
Set to a reggae beat, Life and Debt explores the role of the World Bank in the economic decline of Jamaica and its connection to globalization, with parallels to other countries such as Haiti.
Lively interviews with Jamaican people--laborers, farmers, business owners and anagers. Learn how free trade zones, imports and World Bank regulations affect Jamaicans and their ability to make a living and provide human services such as schools and hospitals. Voice over is by renowned author Jamaica Kinkaid.Sponsored by WAMM.
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C4CR General Meeting - [Campaign for Corporate Responsibility] Monday April 19, 6:30pm The Walker Church, 3104 - 16 Av S Minneapolis (side door). VISITORS ARE WELCOME. See our website for a map: http://www.c4cr.org/nextmeeting.html http://www.c4cr.org
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NOW/Frontline 4.19 ? 7:00 and 8pm
On Thursday, 4/15/04 TPT aired an updated 60-min. version of "Frontline: The Man Who Knew" that initially aired as a 90-min. special on 10/2/02. Its reprise, which includes extensive testimony by Richard Clarke and other 9/11 Commission figures, couldn't be more timely. Unless it's preempted by an extended session of the Minnesota Legislature, it repeats Monday at 8pm on TPT-17 after "NOW with Bill Moyers."
Below are excerpts from the updated Website, which includes the original 90-min. version in streaming video (to access it search the program's title on your browser). In its recent national convention, the Television Critics Association again cited "Frontline" as the best "News and Information" program on American TV. "The Man Who Knew" exemplifies why.
April 12, 2004: In the week that the 9/11 Commission holds hearings scrutinizing the FBI's actions in the years prior to the terrorist attack, FRONTLINE rebroadcasts the remarkable story of John P. O'Neill, the FBI's counterterrorism expert who long warned of Al Qaeda's threat. . . .
When the Twin Towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, among the thousands killed was the one man who may have known more about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda than any other person in America: John O'Neill.
The former head of the FBI's flagship antiterrorism unit in New York City, O'Neill had investigated the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Africa and the USS Cole in Yemen. For six years, he led the fight to track down and prosecute Al Qaeda operatives throughout the world. But his flamboyant, James Bond style and obsession with Osama bin Laden made him a controversial figure inside the buttoned-down world of the FBI. Just two weeks before Sept. 11, O'Neill left the bureau for a job in the private sector -- as head of security at the World Trade Center. He died there after rushing back into the burning towers to aid in the rescue efforts.
An Update: John O'neill and the 9/11 Commission
FRONTLINE's story on John O'Neill spotlights two central issues that emerged during the 9/11 Commission hearings held in the spring of 2004 investigating why the U.S. intelligence community failed to prevent the Sept. 11th terrorist attack:
- The 9/11 Commission's investigation revealed that America's $30 billion intelligence community, spread over more than a dozen agencies, was disorganized, fractured and impaired by organizational and legal restrictions on the sharing of information.
These disclosures directly relate to John O'Neill's story. He came tantalizingly close to possibly uncovering the 9/11 plot. But his investigations into the USS Cole terrorist attack and into Al Qaeda's presence in the United States were both undermined by the CIA and FBI's failure to share information with each other.
Read FRONTLINE's "What If" report for details. . . .
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Tues April 20 at 11am "Catalyst: politcs & culture" prd/host Lydia Howell interviews AMY GOODMAN - KFAI Radio 90.3 FM Mpls 106.7 FM (archived for 2 weeks after broadcst at www.kfai.org)
Amy Goodman, host of the national, daily radio/TV program Democracy Now!, is on a national tour to mark the launch of her first book "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them" (co-written with her brother, journalist David Goodman). The tour includes fundraisers for Pacifica radio stations and affiliates that carry Democracy Now!
Spread the word! For event details and a complete schedule of tour dates, and how to order a book as a gift, for yourself, or for a library or a prison book program, go to http://www.democracynow.org/book. The book tour website has downloadable posters, flyers, and an easy event-by-event Email A Friend option.
Immediately below are Democracy Now!'s suggestions about how you can help make this tour a huge success. Following that are details of Amy's speaking events in Minnesota. Hope to see you there! From: Lydia Howell <lhowell [at] visi.com>
Subject: Goodman/Howell 4.20 11am
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The POWER of WATER: A vision for water in the 21st century. Bell Museum Auditorium Tuesday, April 20 4:30 PM Reception and book signing 5:15 PM Seminar
The Kolshorn Lecture - Part of the President's 21st Century Interdisciplinary Conference Series, by Dr. Peter H. Gleick, President, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security, Oakland, CA
Water is vital for human health, our economy, and the environment. Water also cuts across traditional lines of inquiry connecting science and economics with political and social concerns. As part of the University of Minnesota's Earth Week celebrations, world water expert Dr. Peter H. Gleick, a 2003 MacArthur Fellow, will give a wide-ranging talk on water issues in the new century and how we can prepare for the future with
intelligent planning and a forward-looking vision.
Free and open to the public.
For more information, visit the Water Resources Center web site: http://wrc.coafes.umn.edu/.
Sponsored by the Water Resources Center, the Consortium for Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, the Bell Museum, the Graduate School and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
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"INVESTIGATION: MEDIA IN POLITICS" From: Michelle Martin <mgemartin [at] earthlink.net>
Please join us for the upcoming GetBob seminar on media and politics on Tuesday, April 20. Check out www.getbob.org for more information.
"Investigation: Media in Politics" - A freewheeling, non-partisan conversation on the relationship between media and politics.
Tuesday, April 20 7-9pm.
Southwest High School (47th & Chowen Av S)
How does the news make the news? Who creates (or manipulates?) political images, themes and issues? What is the role of free-for-the-taking, local newspapers? How can readers make their opinions heard? What in the world is E-democracy? And, how about all those ads?
Presenters: Dean Alger, Ph.D., political scientist, author, media critic David Brauer, editor, Southwest Journal; host, Minneapolis Issues Forum Sara Buckwitz, former managing editor, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Craig Cox, editor, Minneapolis Observer
**Enjoy some tunes by songwriter/guitarist Dean Alger, too!**
*This effort brought to you by Southwest Citizens for Civic Engagement and Southwest Community Education. Southwest Citizens for Civic Engagement is a non-partisan project of the Fulton Neighborhood Association in cooperation with a growing list of neighborhood organizations including Linden Hills, Lynnhurst, Windom, Kenny, Armatage, and Kingfield. Call (612) 922-3106 for more information.
Michelle Martin Armatage Project Coordinator
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Tuesday, April 20 from 7 to 9 pm
BETSY BARNUM ON "CHALLENGING CORPORATE POWER, ASSERTING THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS," a national campaign of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
Betsy Barnum is the Executive Director of the Great River Earth Institute, a fellow of the Center for Prosperity, and a member of the Alliance for Democracy and WILPF; she has received training from the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy.
We will also be organizing study groups around the campaign during the evening.
Trinity Lutheran Congregation Offices Meeting Room (upstairs from St. Martin's Table), 2001 Riverside Av Minneapolis. Call the number below if you need directions.
Limited parking in the lot behind StMartin's Table. Otherwise park on the street.
Enter in back, outside and up the stairs from the parking lot. (Not through StMartin's Table!)
Free and open to the public. Organized by the Corporations and Democracy Committee of the MN Metro Branch of WILPF. FFI 651-458-7090 or wilpf [at] earthlink.org
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TWO EVENTS: April 20 - "A CONVERSATION ABOUT CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY" RALPH NADER and Prof. Ian Maitland 3:30pm University Center Rochester Hill Auditorium 851 30 Ave SE, Rochester MN
A discussion of this very timely topic between the nation's foremost consumer advocate and a University of Minnesota business ethics professor who has examined the recent state of corporate accounting scandals. (free and open to the public)
-- April 20 - "THE CURRENT CLIMATE OF CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY" - RALPH NADER 7pm Rochester Century H.S. Auditorium 2525 Viola Road NE, Rochester MN
How the climate of corporate responsibility has changed during the almost four decades since the publication of Nader's seminal work, Unsafe At Any Speed, and the resulting efforts of a major auto maker to undermine his credibility. (free and open to the public)
For more info: http://www.roch.edu/commontheme/ <http://www.roch.edu/commontheme/>
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From: Chris Conry <chrisconry2000 [at] hotmail.com> Subject: Stop WalMart 4.20 7pm
You are invited to attend the next meeting of MC4: Midway Citizen Consumer
Community Coalition. We will be meeting to give updates and plan our actions for the Midway Wal-Mart's Opening Day.
An MC4 meeting regarding StPaul's incoming University Av Wal-Mart store.for area residents, MC4 members, workers, students, and activists, to plan our opening day actions.
Tuesday, April 20 at 7pm. (If you are new to the effort, please show up at 6:45pm)
Location is TBA. (It will be somewhere in the Midway Neighborhood.) Please RSVP to Chris Conry at 651-451-6240 x. 241 or at chrisconry2000 [at] hotmail.com.
For more on this, please refer to University UNITED's website at: http://www.universityunited.com/projects.htm#cvs
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WALK WITH GRANNY D FOR FAIR AND CLEAN ELECTIONS ACT!
Where: Stone Arch Bridge (east bank at 6th Ave SE) to Mpls. City Hall When: Wednesday, April 21. Granny D and Mayor Ryback will take part. The walk will begin at 5:30 pm, and end at 6 pm for a rally at City Hall.
Join the national campaign. "As students and community members join together to walk with Granny D, we will be displaying the power of people to reclaim our democracy. . . .to change the way we fund elections so that voters are in charge, not big money donors with narrow agendas," says Breanna Peterson, St. Olaf student.
Doris (Granny D) Haddock is a 94-year-old great-grandmother of 16, who in 2000 walked 3,200 miles from California to Washington D.C. to demonstrate her concern about big money in politics. She has inspired countless ordinary citizens of all generations to get engaged in politics to reform our democracy.
The Fair and Clean Elections bill (HF 1382 and SF 998) is modeled after
successful campaign finance reforms in Maine and Arizona. This legislation will put voters, not donors, in charge of elections by providing state candidates for office with the option of nearly full public financing if they can meet certain public trust requirements. Candidates must demonstrate grassroots support by collecting hundreds of small contributions from $5 to $50; agree to strict spending limits; and agree to forego nearly all private money. The goal is to allow qualified community leaders to run for office regardless of their means and restore voter confidence in our elections.
The event is sponsored by the League of Women Voters, MPIRG, AAUW, the
Senior Federation, the Minnesota Alliance for Progressive Action, and Democracy Matters.
FFI about Fair and Clean Elections go to www.lwvmn.org/face. FFI about Granny D, visit www.grannyd.com. or Nick Palumbo, Minnesota Alliance for Progressive Action, 651-641-4050 npalumbo [at] mapa-mn.or
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AMY GOODMAN SATURDAY APRIL 24, 7:30pm--Minneapolis, MN St. Joan of Arc Church 4537 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis
Amy Goodman talks about her new book and shows new documentary film "Independent Media In A Time Of War".
$10 (goes to KFAI Radio)
info:(612)341-3144
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SPIRIT THE WIND, LIGHTEN YOUR STEP! AN EARTH DAY CELEBRATION FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
April 25th 10 AM-1 PM, after services at 9 & 11 First Universalist Church, 3400 Dupont Ave. S., Mpls
Welcome keynote speaker: J. Drake Hamilton
10:20-10:45 and 12:20-12:45 Chalice Room
Global climate change expert and wind-power educator from Minnesotans for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ME3)
Children activities provided outside library. Banjo music to lighten your spirits.
Enjoy a whirlwind of energy-packed activities 10 AM-1 PM Social Hall
- Learn why Minnesota summers may become like
summers in Kansas
- Discover how wind generators work
- How big is your energy footprint?
- Make pinwheels. Harness the wind!
- Hear how people-power put solar-power to work
- See your invisible heat-hand-print with an infra-red gun
- Stump the energy wizard
- Bike more; drive less
- Breathe deep for clean air
- Thank life-saving plants
- Demand clean energy�We¹ll show you 3 waysThis event is brought to you by the Sustainability Circle of the Economic Globalization Group, a Working Group of the Metro UU Social Justice Alliance. For more info and/or to volunteer call Chris Burda (612-827-1596) or Linda Littrel (651-645-2718). See you there!
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LIVING GREEN EXPO
May 1-May 2, 2004
10:00am - 6:00pm
State Fairgrounds in St. Paul Free!
www.livinggreenexpo.org
Benefit from a healthy, more sustainable life!
The Living Green Expo provides information and products to enable those in and around the Twin Cities to reduce the environmental impact of their day-to-day living. The Expo features 200+ product, service and information exhibitors. It includes 90+ workshops and presentations on a variety of sustainability and living green topics; music, art, food, demonstrations; and activities for youth and children.
Please visit the Living Green Expo web site www.livinggreenexpo.org for detailed descriptions of workshops that will be offered at the Expo by local resource people on green buildings, alternative energy, transportation, household practices, yard care, gardening, sustainability education and sustainable lifestyles. This year?s expo will also feature wonderful family, children?s and youth entertainment a rich variety folk, acoustic, blues and international music on the outdoor and indoor stages. Our 200 green business, nonprofit and government exhibitors are listed on the web site by topic area. An immigrant forum, Saturday at 11am and related workshops will share resources for families to keep their kids safe and healthy while saving money and building community. Featured presentations include: Kim Carlson, the EarthSmart Consumer Finding Hope in a Time of Hopelessness - Anna Lappe, co-author Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet, Greening Your Home - Robyn Griggs Lawrence, Natural Home Magazine and Eco-municipalities: The Next Swedish Export - Torbjorn Lahti & Sarah James, Sustainable Sweden Association.
Free Blue Sky Guides, which contain over $5,000 in discounts for products and services from local businesses (retail value of $20), will be given to the first 200 attendees each day (limit one per family), compliments of Great River Energy
Please help spread the word about the Expo. Posters, sample announcements and flyers are available on our web site under "Help spread the word."
Please consider biking, car pooling or taking the bus to the event. Parking is free, secure bike storage is available, and attendees who ride the bus will get a free ride home. Map and directions.
The Living Green Expo is sponsored by a coalition of nonprofits, businesses and state and local government agencies.
For more information, contact:
Ned Brooks, MPCA 651-296-7242
Sean Gosiewski, Alliance for Sustainability 612-331-1099 x 2 , sean [at] allianceforsustainability.net
www.livinggreenexpo.org
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WEST METRO NEIGHBORS FOR PEACE will host a discussion by CHANTE WOLF: THE COSTS OF WAR FOR ALL INVOLVED-DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY.
Chante served in the Air Force 1980-92. Her background training was Air Traffic Control and Top Secret Telecommunications, Cryptographic Security. She served 7 of her 12 years in Spain and was deployed to Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War from January 15 - March 1991.She is currently the Coordinator for Chapter 27, Veterans for Peace, Inc.
This event takes place at 7 pm on Monday, May 3 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Minnetonka, 605 Rice St., at the corner of Rice and Walker streets, one block South of Wayzata Boulevard in Wayzata. All are welcome.
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UUs BUILDING POWER for SOCIAL CHANGE!
A one-day training for UUs committed to living out their UU values. The first in an ongoing program to create a community of skilled and inspired UU justice makers. How relationships form the basis for building community, organization, and power and ultimately winning issues!
SATURDAY, MAY 8 ?04
8:30 am-4:30 pm - First Universalist Church (Cummins Room)
3400 Dupont Ave So, Minneapolis
Lead Trainer: Jackie Byers, Organizing Apprenticeship Project Inspiring Teacher, Training Director
Register by Monday, May 3rd
Contact MUUSJA co-chairs: Betsy Allis─612-871-6946, erallis [at] aol.com or Jo Haberman─612-822-8870, jojane [at] juno.com. $20.00 donation includes materials, breaks, and lunch.
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