Meetings and Events
Peace Week: September 21 - 28.
Sunday 9/21: International Day of Peace 4:00 to 6:30 Community Picnic - Courthouse Square.
Tuesday 9/23: 6:30 -8:30 p.m. Film "Encounter Point" - Israeli-Palestinian production focusing on people coming toether to address issues of violence - Monroe County Public Library auditorium. Follow-up discussion with Julie Bloom, Sponsored by Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace and Muslims for Peace and Justice.
Tuesday 9/23: 7:30 p.m. Patten Lecture - Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling speaks on "Managing Nuclear Proliferation", Ballantine Hall, Room 109, IU.
Sponsored by the Patten Foundation.
Wednesday, 9/24 3:30 p.m. Film. "Dr. Strangelove", a Stanley Kubrick film, highlights how times have changed but nuclear insanity goes on. Monroe County Public Library auditorium. Discussion to follow lead by Rev. Bill Breeden, Unitarian Universalist Church, Sponsored by Bloomington Branch of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
Wednesday 2/24: 5:00 to 5:45 - Silent Peace Vigil at Courthouse Square, sponsored by Bloomington Peace Action Coalition and IN Dept. of Peace Campaign, includes "Eyes Wide Open" memorial boot display.
Wednesday 2/24 7:00pm to 8:30 p.m. Presentations by community members/organizations on the effects of violence as well as proposals for peace by members of Department of Peace Campaigin, at First Christian Church, 205 E. Kirkwood. Moderator: Gretchen Clearwater.
Wednesday 2/24 7:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion "Whose Water is it Anyway?" led by Byron Bangert at Unitarian Universalist Church sancuary, Sponsored by Bloomington Branch of Women's Ingerfnational League for Peace and Freedom
(WILPF) and the Green Sanctuary Group. Focus will be on the ethics of owning water supplies.
Thursday, 9/25: 7:00 p.m. Relational Agression. Michelle Martin Coleman leads workshop in defining and addressing violence in our personal and professional relagtionships at Barnes and Nobel Book Store.
Thursday 9/25: Patten Lecture by Nobel Laureate Thomas Shelling, "Managing the Greenhouse Problem" IU, Ballantine Hall, Room 109. Sponsored by the Paten Foundation.
Thursday, 9/25: 9:00 p.m. Poetry/Musical reflections on peace at Pourhouse, Kirkwood Avenue.
Friday, 9/26. Student Peace Day. 9:00 - 11:00 - Peace in Action. Visit seniors at Garden Villa. Intergenerational event. Contact Christine McKenna to participate at 812-935-2514.
Friday, 9/26: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Student Peace Alliance Event at IU, Venue TBA.
Friday, 9/26: 9:00 - 11:00 p.m. Open Mike Night: - Poetry/Musical reflections on peace at Rachael's Cafe on 3rd Street.
Saturday, 9/27: 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Peace Festival - Third Street Park.
Raindate - Sunday 9/28/08.
Saturday/ 9/27 - 3:15 to 3:45 Raging Grannies and skit - Small stage area
Saturday 9/27 Ongoing festival activities: tabling, display of Jane Addams Peace Award Books from WILPF, Civility Pledge opportunity/ Peace Bracelets and much else.
Challenging Corporate Power,
Asserting the People’s Rights 2007
A Discussion Group
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Monroe County Public Library, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
| Date | Session | Topic
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May 15 | One | Introduction
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May 29 | Two | Historical Overview of the Corporate Taking of Our Authority to
Govern
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June 12 | Three | Corporate Personhood
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June 26 | Four | The Regulatory State
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July 10 | Five | Private Property and the Recovery of the Commons
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July 24 | Six | People’s and Workers’ Resistance Movements
| Aug. 14 | Seven | Economic Development and Militarism
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Aug. 28 | Eight | Global Corporatization
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Sept. 11 | Nine | What Does Democracy Look Like?
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Sept. 25 | Ten | Where Do We Go From Here: Local Campaign Development
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The study packet costs $15.00. One study packet will be placed in the Monroe County
Public Library for general use. For further information phone 334-8890 (Deb Garretson).
Discussion Group Schedule [Printer Friendly PDF file]
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Book Club
"Storm from the East: The Struggle Between the Arab
World and the Christian West,"
by Milton Viorst (2006).
Location: Bell Trace.(all on Tuesday)
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Book club dates:
March 13, Chapters 1 and 2 (Memory, 622-1900, and Revolt, 1901-1918)
(48 pages).
March 20, Chapters 3 and 4 (Disillusion, 1919-1939, and Emancipation,
1940-1956)(62 pages).
March 27, Chapters 5 and 6 (Unity-Disunity, 1957-1967, and Theocrats-
Autocrats, 1968-2005), and Epilogue (68 pages).
Branch Meeting
Special Meetings
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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
What: An update with our localrepresentatives
When: Saturday, Feb. 27, 9:30 a.m.
Where: Monroe County Public
Library.
Branch Issues: Election reform, water
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THIRD HOUSE WITH LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES
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Sunday, Feb. 25, 7 p.m., I.U. Radio/TV Building. You may attend in person,
phone your questions at 812-856-9848 or 800-987-9848, e-mail your
questions during the show at wtiu@indiana.edu, or fax questions at
812-855-0729. You may e-mail questions before the show by means of
an on-line form www.indiana.edu/~radiotv/wtiu/form_third_house.html.
Legislative e-mail addresses:
Contact Jim and Tomi Allison at jimtomi@earthlink.net or phone 812-336-6671
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