Peace House E-news #113
From: editor@peacehouse.net, 01.07.2007 21:57
Peace House puts out E-news #113 and provides a calendar of diverse events for the progressive community.
Here are the first three calendar items.
Read the full story for the full E-news #113.
Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan
Monday, July 2
7:30 pm (Potluck at 6 pm)
First Presbyterian Church of Ashland
Siskiyou Blvd and Walker Ave
Eyes Wide Open Exhibit
Monday, July 2
10 am – 5:30 pm
Vogel Plaza
Central Av and Main St, Medford
Greg Walden Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday, July 3
10:30-11:30 am
Jackson County Auditorium
10 S. Oakdale
Medford
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Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan
Monday, July 2
7:30 pm (Potluck at 6 pm)
First Presbyterian Church of Ashland
Siskiyou Blvd and Walker Ave
Eyes Wide Open Exhibit
Monday, July 2
10 am – 5:30 pm
Vogel Plaza
Central Av and Main St, Medford
Greg Walden Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday, July 3
10:30-11:30 am
Jackson County Auditorium
10 S. Oakdale
Medford
WILPF Monthly Meeting
Friday, July 6
1 pm
Unitarian Center
87 4th St, Ashland
DUDE Empowerment Seminar and Art “Walk”
Friday, July 6
5-6pm
AFC Classroom
193 A St., Ashland
KS Wild: Old-Growth Timber Sale Hike along Sucker Creek
Saturday, July 7
9 am departure
Shop n Kart parking lot
2268 Ashland St
Ashland
Community Discussion
Re-Opening Ashland Library and Beyond
Monday, July 9
7-9pm
Peace House
543 S. Mountain Ave., Ashland
Hiroshima Nagasaki Vigil and Related Events:
July 14 Education Training, Congregational Church
July 18 Letter-writing Workshop, SOU Stevenson Union
July 30 RV Peace Choir Japan Trip Presentation
Aug 6 & 9 Vigils, Ashland Plaza
Aug 7 & 8 Educational Films & Events, RVML
Jefferson Center Summer Institute: “The Earth in the Hot Seat: ETHICS
AND THE ENVIRONMENT”
Aug 3-5
SOU Campus
Honoring Peace Fence Artists
Peace House Benefit Variety Show & Concert
Saturday, August 4
7:30 pm
Unitarian Center
87 4th St, Ashland
Remember the War
Showing August 17 – 31
Nuwandart Gallery
258 A Street, Ashland
Ashland Peace Village Festival
August 24-26
Jackson Wellsprings, Ashland
WOMEN IN BLACK - Silent Vigils for Peace
Meet in Medford, Grants Pass, Cave Junction, Roseburg and Ashland to stand silently for Peace
In Medford, (Changed Time!) every Wednesday at Vogel Plaza from 12:00 - 12:30 pm
In Grants Pass, every first and third Monday at 12:00 - 12:30 pm next to the Post Office.
In Cave Junction, every Monday from 12:00 - 12:30 pm at the County building.
In Roseburg, every Friday from 12:30 - 1:00 pm in front of the Fire Station on Garden Valley Boulevard.
In Ashland, every Friday and Saturday from 12:00 - 12:30 pm on the Ashland Plaza, standing silently on Main St.
Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan
Monday, July 2
7:30 pm (Potluck at 6 pm)
First Presbyterian Church of Ashland
Siskiyou Blvd and Walker Ave
The Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan is coming to the Rogue Valley on Monday July 2!! Meet us at the Presbyterian Church, Siskiyou at Walker, Ashland, for the 6 pm potluck, and 7:30 pm program.
For information, call Mary Ann Jones at 482-8915.
The speaker will be Richard Becker of San Francisco, active for more than 15 years in Cuba solidarity work. He is a compelling and well-informed speaker who always draws a good crowd in Ashland. He has been a Cuba Caravan speaker many times, and also writes and speaks extensively about the Middle East, in opposition to the US military presence there.
What is the Cuba Caravan? On 14 separate routes, participants and vehicles travel through the US and Canada, making pre-arranged stops in cities along the way. Speakers discuss what is happening in Cuba and the purpose of the trip. Humanitarian aid is gathered, consisting of medical and educational supplies and equipment, and also computers, bicycles, tools and sports equipment. These are items difficult or very expensive to obtain in Cuba, due to the 45-year-long economic blockade imposed by the US government.
This project offers concerned US citizens an opportunity to demonstrate solidarity, and an alternative foreign policy based on justice and mutual respect, towards our neighbor country, only 90 miles away.
We are planning to send some cartons of bicycle equipment (tubes, parts, etc.) on the Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan. It costs us $450. to reserve 50 cubic feet of space, for the cost of gas, vehicle maintenance, etc. from here to Tampico, Mexico, the port from which supplies are shipped to Havana. We are presently raising these funds, and donations would be a great help!
Checks or money orders should be made out to IFCO (the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization is the parent organization of Pastors for Peace.) These are tax deductible. They should be mailed to me: Mary Ann Jones, 2295 Tolman Creek Road, Ashland, OR 97520. I will send them all together to the IFCO office in New York.
Thanks for your support! With best wishes, Mary Ann
Eyes Wide Open Exhibit
Monday, July 2
10 am – 5:30 pm
Vogel Plaza
Central Av and Main St, Medford
Greg Walden Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday, July 3
10:30-11:30 am
Jackson County Auditorium
10 S. Oakdale
Medford
A Where's Walden Town Hall? One big reason that Greg Walden decided to hold town hall meetings in Medford & Grants Pass this summer is because a group of folks, including several members of Citizens for Peace & Justice (CPJ), CodePink and other groups, went to his office twice to request a town hall meeting on the cost of the Iraq War to Oregonians. The second time we went to his Medford office we got a teleconference with Walden himself and he promised to do a town hall here on that subject and said it would probably be during the August recess.
This week several of us who were at Walden's office for the teleconference received phone calls from John Snider of Walden's staff alerting us to the fact that Walden had scheduled the town hall for 10:30 to 11:30 am in Medford as we had requested. I told Snider that we had hoped for an evening meeting in a larger venue where many more people could attend and for a considerably longer session. Snider was noncommital and pretty much indicated that this is it, take it or leave it.
CPJ will probably have some signs outside the Jackson Co. Auditorium on July 3rd protesting the inadequacy of this short little town hall meeting during working hours when most working people will be unable to attend and most people won't have an opportunity to ask their questions. We'll probably also be handing out sheets with a bunch of questions for Walden that we think he needs to address about Iraq War funding and the cost of war to Oregonians and other related issues. We'll also be caravaning to Grants Pass to attend the town hall meeting over there in Anne Basker Auditorium at 1:30 pm the same day, July 3rd.
--Allen Hallmark
DUDE Empowerment Seminar and Art “Walk”
Friday, July 6
5-6pm
AFC Classroom
193 A St., Ashland
The Ashland Food Cooperative just continued an ongoing partnership, with a gracious $1000 donation to help underwrite a series of events focusing on access and inclusion for Southern Oregonians with disabilities, and we are glad to invite you to the first of a year-long series of educational events and discussion. We decided to hold these events on the first Friday of every month around the Rogue Valley, and some of these events will coincide with First Friday art walks where those events take place.
This first session will celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the DUDE bill HB3268, which protects all 500,000+ Oregonians with disabilities from arbitrary reclassification as less disabled when services get cut because state budget revenues come in short. We will hold a brief discussion of your rights under the new law and then discuss DUDE’s goals, direction, and campaigns for the 2007-08 project year.
Please join us for healthy snacks and light refreshment provided by the Ashland Food Cooperative and our other gracious donors who have just started out a new year of projects with DUDE (below). The seminar will end at 6 p.m. in the heart of the Ashland Art Walk, and the adventurous can join us for a DUDE Art “Walk” around the neighborhood, as we find out how accessible the Ashland art scene really is. Ashland Food Cooperative Community Classroom is accessible by public transportation.
Join us at the Ashland Food Cooperative Community Classroom in the A Street
Marketplace next to the Stage Works, 193 A St. 5-6 p.m. Friday July 6, 2007
WILPF Monthly Meeting
Friday, July 6
1 pm
Unitarian Center
87 4th St, Ashland
KS Wild: Old-Growth Timber Sale Hike along Sucker Creek
Saturday, July 7
9 am departure
Shop n Kart parking lot
2268 Ashland St
Ashland
Join KS Wild for a hike into the Althouse/Sucker timber sale on the slopes of the western Siskiyou Mountains. Visit old-growth trees, jump into the cool waters of Sucker Creek, and find out how you can help save special places. Carpools leave 9am from the Ashland Shop n Kart parking lot (2268 Ashland St ); 10am from Gooseberries Natural Foods parking lot (1533 NE F St.) in Grants Pass; and 10:45am from Coffee Heaven (409 S Redwood Hwy) in Cave Junction.
For more information, visit www.kswild.org/KSNews/suckercreek
Please RSVP to lesley@kswild.org or call 488-5789
Community Discussion
Re-Opening Ashland Library and Beyond
Monday, July 9
7-9pm
Peace House
543 S. Mountain Ave., Ashland
Hiroshima Nagasaki Vigil and Related Events:
July 14 Education Training, Congregational Church
July 18 Letter-writing Workshop, SOU Stevenson Union
July 30 RV Peace Choir Japan Trip Presentation
Aug 6 & 9 Vigils, Ashland Plaza
Aug 7 & 8 Educational Films & Events, RVML
“The time has come for those nations that rely on the force of nuclear armaments to respectfully heed the voices of peace-loving people, not least the atomic bomb survivors, to strive in good faith for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, and to advance towards the complete abolishment of all such weapons.” – The late Nagasaki Mayor Iccho Itoh
Local groups are collaborating to move the dream of nuclear abolition forward in honor of Mayor Itoh, the Mayor of Nagasaki, who was not only a founding member and Vice President of Mayors for Peace, but a lifetime advocate for nuclear abolition as a survivor of the bombing in 1945. Mayor Itoh was tragically murdered on April 17, 2007. Our local events have been planned following the lead of national organizations including Mayors for Peace, Global Network, Abolition 2000, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Disarm Committee.
This year’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemoration will include two full days of vigil on the plaza Aug. 6th and 9th. In addition, a play reading, "The Face Of Jizo", a survivor story of a young Japanese woman, will be held at the Rogue Valley Metaphysical Library on the evening of Aug. 7th. Educational films, featuring Helen Caldicott in "The New Nuclear Danger" and a film that records an artistic response to the bombings,"Hell Fire", will be shown on the evening of the 8th at RVML.
This summer we will also have additional public education events leading up to the vigil that include a nuclear education/communication training by Linda Richards of the national WILPF Disarm Committee on Saturday, July 14, 10 am to 1 pm at the Congregational Church, 717 Siskiyou in Ashland to practice talking points, Satyagraha tactics and skills to engage the public and prepare for the vigil.
On July 18 at 7 pm, a 2 hour letter writing workshop will be facilitated by Mike Jager from the Department of Peace and Beyond War specific to nuclear issues, at the Southern Oregon University Guanajuato Room on the third floor of the Stevenson Union.
The additional pre-vigil summer events include a community presentation by the Rogue Valley Peace Choir on July 30 at 7 pm at the Havarah to share songs, slides and inspiration from their epic Peace Journey to Japan last summer. They sang in several cities, including Hiroshima's Peace Park on August 6th. The trip was conceived by RVPC member Hideko Tamura Snider, local Medford author and Hibakusha--survivor of the Hiroshima bombing--as a way to connect people of formerly warring countries through songs of peace.
To find out more about this year’s vigil and for updates see the 2007 Press Release at www.atomicvigil.org or call Linda at 488-1230. Our local 2007 Ashland commemoration is the 22nd year of the vigil on the plaza, and this year is a diverse local collaboration, including the Rogue Valley Peace Choir, the Ashland Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Medford Citizens for Peace and Justice, The Department of Peace, Veterans for Peace Grants Pass, Beyond War, the Women's Resource Center at SOU, the First Congregational UCC and Peace House.
Jefferson Center Summer Institute: “The Earth in the Hot Seat: ETHICS
AND THE ENVIRONMENT”
Aug 3-5
SOU Campus
The Jefferson Center of Ashland will hold its third annual Summer Institute entitled “The Earth in the Hot Seat: ETHICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT” on the Southern Oregon University Campus August 3-5, 2007. Sessions open Friday August 3, 7:30 p.m. in the Stevenson Union Arena with a keynote address by former California Congressman Pete McCloskey. Over the next two days registrants will hear lectures by J. Baird Callicott, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Ethics, University of North Texas, Linda Mearns, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Director, Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, and Nalini Nadkarni, Ph.D.
Environmental Studies Faculty, Evergreen State College, Olympia WA, authority on forest canopies. These speakers will also lead interactive and action-oriented workshops. There will be a selection of other workshops as well conducted by local leaders Michael Parker, Nadine Kanim, Eric Allen, Jeff Golden, Joseph Vaile, Jack Williams, and Bob Hunter.
All sessions are open to the public. High school and university students may attend at reduced prices and obtain course credit. Detailed information about the schedule of events, faculty, pricing, registration, and The Jefferson Center are available at www.thejeffcenter.org or by calling 488-9450 or 944-4626.
Honoring Peace Fence Artists
Peace House Benefit Variety Show & Concert
Saturday, August 4
7:30 pm
Unitarian Center
87 4th St, Ashland
Remember the War
Showing August 17 – 31
Nuwandart Gallery
258 A Street, Ashland
A visual demonstration of the Iraqi occupation. Opens: Friday, August 17th. People in black are invited to join in silence. This is a visual demonstration. Images may not be appropriate for children.
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Ashland Peace Village Festival
August 24-26
Jackson Wellsprings, Ashland
Watch 
http://peacevillagefestival.org for details
For more info: peacevillagefestival@gmail.com
