When: SATURDAY NOV. 3RD, 2007 – ALL DAY
Where: Farmer's Market / City Park / Wood Theater +
Purpose: To raise public awareness about Global Climate Change
EVENT SCHEDULE
10:00 am Bike, Walk, Carpool to Farmers Market at South Street Pavilion
Information, displays and entertainment at the Farmers Market along with locally grown and made food and other products. Save energy that would be used transporting imported alternatives. Traveling to the market by foot or bicycle reduces your carbon footprint even further! Entertainment by Bill Campbell. Meet people who use their bikes to commute. Rick’s Bike Shop will show commuter bikes. Local food and snacks, solar oven cooking, biodiesel info-samples. Also, get to know the Toyota Prius hybrid.
11:30 am Entertainment by C.E. Skidmore at City Park (Bay & Maple Streets)
Fun Activities for Children organized by Joy McCoola and National Honors Society
12:00 Noon Rally for the Planet at City Park
Representatives from the Sierra Club will introduce the Cool Cities program. Mayor Roy Akins will sign the U.S. Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement. Commuter-biker David Legg will describe his positive experiences traveling by bike in Glens Falls. Kirsten Gillibrand’s representative, Lisa Manzi, will describe the Congresswoman’s efforts in regards to climate change. A group photo will be taken to relay to Washington. On the way to the Wood theater, stop out front to see the Natural Gas Honda!
1 – 5:00 pm Presentations and Exhibitors at Wood Theater (207 Glen Street)
1:00 pm Author James Howard Kunstler – The Long Emergency (Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century) Book signing to follow in the lobby
2:15 pm Barton Mines video presentation on Green Building
2:30 pm Green Builders/NYSERDA Presentation
3:00 pm GroSolar’s Carbon Challenge - How solar energy works in your home
4:00 pm Seth Jacobs - Local Agriculture as Part of the Solution to Global Climate Change
Exhibitors: GroSolar, Green Builders, G.F. Electric, Community Energy, Thermal Associates, NYSERDA, Cornell Cooperative Extension/Agricultural Stewardship Association.
5:45 pm Premiere of “The Eleventh Hour” (Leonardo DiCaprio's Directorial Debut)
Aimie's Dinner & A Movie 190 Glen Street (518) 792-8181 Reservations suggested.
7:30 pm “Live N' Local” Premieres at Rock Hill Cafe with Local Bread Giveaway!
“Live n' Local” will happen every Saturday Night at 7:30 pm. Rock Hill is going to establish a venue for original music and an audience who appreciates it. Local food and local musicians. Three Dimensional Figures, a great local jazz/jam and techno trio will be their first guests. No Cover Charge!
Sponsors: Barton Mines, City of Glens Falls, Rock Hill Cafe
Contacts: Judy V White jvwhite2004@yahoo.com
Ruth Lamb cooperlamb@yahoo.com 761-6125
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
[Events] Glens Falls Peace Fair on Dec. 8
Neal Herr has informed us of the following peace event.
UUCGF's 2nd Annual Peace Fair is scheduled for Saturday, December 8 from 10 to 5 at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Glens Falls, in Queensbury, New York, and you and your group are invited to table again and attend!
This year's fair will be bigger, better and way more peacefuliscious! As before, there will be tables, vegetarian soup and desserts, music, childcare and lots of peace-minded folk. This year will include handcrafted holiday gifts as well, while discontinuing workshops and videos.
If your group would like to table, please respond by November 15. The cost to table is $25, and you may keep any income you make from sales (no food, please). We will provide a table, electrical power, a warm reception, and a big, peaceful welcome.
We would love to have you share your ideas and learn from others at the Peace Fair.
RSVP and hope to see you there!
UUCGF's 2nd Annual Peace Fair is scheduled for Saturday, December 8 from 10 to 5 at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Glens Falls, in Queensbury, New York, and you and your group are invited to table again and attend!
This year's fair will be bigger, better and way more peacefuliscious! As before, there will be tables, vegetarian soup and desserts, music, childcare and lots of peace-minded folk. This year will include handcrafted holiday gifts as well, while discontinuing workshops and videos.
If your group would like to table, please respond by November 15. The cost to table is $25, and you may keep any income you make from sales (no food, please). We will provide a table, electrical power, a warm reception, and a big, peaceful welcome.
We would love to have you share your ideas and learn from others at the Peace Fair.
RSVP and hope to see you there!
Thursday, October 4, 2007
[First hand account] Report from Syracuse peace rally
Soldier's Rally, 9/29/07 in Syracuse, NY
by Neal Herr
So I took off from work to attend a Soldier's Rally in Syracuse, initiated by active duty soldiers from Fort Drum, to see what it was like and to wave my peace flag.
Two cars from Glens Falls joined others, from Saratoga Springs, Ballston Spa, Schenectady, Latham, Selkirk and a bus from Albany, in a caravan to Syracuse on a blissfully blue day on a trip through the rolling farmlands of central New York.
We reconned in the rest stop parking lot to trade leaflets and meet face to face people who had previously been only names in emails. There was a pickup truck – the only truck in the peace caravan – which had been adapted to run on free waste oil from a pizza shop. They said it smelled like french fries and made you hungry.
We joined a feeder rally sponsored by the Greens in Syracuse (Green is the new Black) which met in a lot in an impoverished neighborhood protesting the proposed placement of a water treatment plant which had been moved there from an upscale neighborhood. Winding under freeway overpasses and through downtown streets, chanting “Show me what democracy looks like/This is what democracy looks like” and “Get out of Iraq/Stay out of Iran,” we joined the main rally at a large plaza with fountains and tables and speakers, an area which had once been Onandaga Aboriginal Territory.
The Raging Grannies sang from their antiwar songbook, there was a working 1970 VW microbus, and, most impressive, a table staffed by active duty military speaking out against the Iraq war. I am antiwar and anti military, but pro-dissent, so I shook the hands of these young men and women and just said thank you, choking up.
As an older veteran explained to me, although it is technically legal for soldiers to protest as citizens as long as they don't wear their uniforms or claim to be speaking for the military, they stand to suffer unofficial reprisals upon their return to the base, from harassment to dangerous deployments.
About four blocks of protesters marched the mile or so to the Syracuse University campus, chanting and stopping traffic, but with no arrests or other disturbances. I saw no counter-protesters. We joined the final rally on the Syracuse campus, estimated to be 2,500 by local media, to witness a die-in staged by college students: a large street corner of “dead” bodies, draped by “bloody” sheets.
About ten people held large canvasses with the names and pictures of US soldiers who had died in the war and dozens of others held large, cardboard signs with supergraphics of statistics. There were artists and authors and animal liberators, petitions and pundits, and picnic blankets and dogs and kids, much like a street fair, but without the commercialism.
A musician from Ithaca handed out free CDs of his band “because of the great feeling here.” People came from all over New York State, from the Pennsylvania border to Buffalo to NYC, to even some pagans I met from Montreal with painted tears on their cheeks and union healthcare workers from Boston. It was very well-organized without being restrictive, mostly thanks to the main organizers Veterans Against the Iraq War and Veterans for Peace, and went without a hitch.
As they stood on the stage later in the day, one soldier said, “No war in history has ever been declared by the people. To the Iraqi people, this is what peace looks like.” A Creole speaker noted, “War is everywhere. This is nothing less than a fight for the soul of our country.”
A Green Party speaker said, “There is an agency for homeless veterans. Those two words should never be in the same sentence.”One protester noted you hardly ever see any Bush/Cheney bumper stickers any more – what happened to them? Sample signs:
War is expensive. Peace is priceless.
Wasting All Resources
Healthcare, not warfare
Fight War, not wars.
Anything war can do, peace can do better
Who would Jesus torture?
Rapture is not an exit strategy
Proud of our son, ashamed of this war
Impeach Cheney first – business before pleasure
Draft Hillary
BU**SH**
College not Combat
After the rally, on the walk back to our cars, I saw a middle-aged woman with a sign that said, simply, “Bring my son home.” Isn't that what it's all about?
by Neal Herr
So I took off from work to attend a Soldier's Rally in Syracuse, initiated by active duty soldiers from Fort Drum, to see what it was like and to wave my peace flag.
Two cars from Glens Falls joined others, from Saratoga Springs, Ballston Spa, Schenectady, Latham, Selkirk and a bus from Albany, in a caravan to Syracuse on a blissfully blue day on a trip through the rolling farmlands of central New York.
We reconned in the rest stop parking lot to trade leaflets and meet face to face people who had previously been only names in emails. There was a pickup truck – the only truck in the peace caravan – which had been adapted to run on free waste oil from a pizza shop. They said it smelled like french fries and made you hungry.
We joined a feeder rally sponsored by the Greens in Syracuse (Green is the new Black) which met in a lot in an impoverished neighborhood protesting the proposed placement of a water treatment plant which had been moved there from an upscale neighborhood. Winding under freeway overpasses and through downtown streets, chanting “Show me what democracy looks like/This is what democracy looks like” and “Get out of Iraq/Stay out of Iran,” we joined the main rally at a large plaza with fountains and tables and speakers, an area which had once been Onandaga Aboriginal Territory.
The Raging Grannies sang from their antiwar songbook, there was a working 1970 VW microbus, and, most impressive, a table staffed by active duty military speaking out against the Iraq war. I am antiwar and anti military, but pro-dissent, so I shook the hands of these young men and women and just said thank you, choking up.
As an older veteran explained to me, although it is technically legal for soldiers to protest as citizens as long as they don't wear their uniforms or claim to be speaking for the military, they stand to suffer unofficial reprisals upon their return to the base, from harassment to dangerous deployments.
About four blocks of protesters marched the mile or so to the Syracuse University campus, chanting and stopping traffic, but with no arrests or other disturbances. I saw no counter-protesters. We joined the final rally on the Syracuse campus, estimated to be 2,500 by local media, to witness a die-in staged by college students: a large street corner of “dead” bodies, draped by “bloody” sheets.
About ten people held large canvasses with the names and pictures of US soldiers who had died in the war and dozens of others held large, cardboard signs with supergraphics of statistics. There were artists and authors and animal liberators, petitions and pundits, and picnic blankets and dogs and kids, much like a street fair, but without the commercialism.
A musician from Ithaca handed out free CDs of his band “because of the great feeling here.” People came from all over New York State, from the Pennsylvania border to Buffalo to NYC, to even some pagans I met from Montreal with painted tears on their cheeks and union healthcare workers from Boston. It was very well-organized without being restrictive, mostly thanks to the main organizers Veterans Against the Iraq War and Veterans for Peace, and went without a hitch.
As they stood on the stage later in the day, one soldier said, “No war in history has ever been declared by the people. To the Iraqi people, this is what peace looks like.” A Creole speaker noted, “War is everywhere. This is nothing less than a fight for the soul of our country.”
A Green Party speaker said, “There is an agency for homeless veterans. Those two words should never be in the same sentence.”One protester noted you hardly ever see any Bush/Cheney bumper stickers any more – what happened to them? Sample signs:
War is expensive. Peace is priceless.
Wasting All Resources
Healthcare, not warfare
Fight War, not wars.
Anything war can do, peace can do better
Who would Jesus torture?
Rapture is not an exit strategy
Proud of our son, ashamed of this war
Impeach Cheney first – business before pleasure
Draft Hillary
BU**SH**
College not Combat
After the rally, on the walk back to our cars, I saw a middle-aged woman with a sign that said, simply, “Bring my son home.” Isn't that what it's all about?
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
[Activist news] Local anti-war citizens attend Syracuse peace rally
A number of local citizens attended a peace march in Syracuse this most recent weekend. Some 3000 people attended the rally, which was sponsored by peace groups and union organizations. 100 members of Veterans For Peace were in attendance as well as several dozen active duty soldiers, members of the Fort Drum (in northern NY) chapter of Iraq veterans against the war.
There was an Associated Press piece on the rally that was ignored by The Post-Star, but the piece can be found here.
A first hand account of the rally as well as photos will be posted in this blog in the next day or so.
There was an Associated Press piece on the rally that was ignored by The Post-Star, but the piece can be found here.
A first hand account of the rally as well as photos will be posted in this blog in the next day or so.
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