[GreenNotes] GreenNotes

[Tom Brown]

Please circulate widely. Contact us to include your announcement in
GreenNotes.

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PROGRESSIVE EVENT CALENDAR

* MPJC peace vigil - Every Monday 5-6 p.m. at Jefferson and Main St. 
South Bend and Saturday 1-2 p.m. at Grape and 23 (Cleveland), Mishawaka, 
IN. Contact info 574-289-2126 or www.michianapeacejustice.org.

* Progressive discussion group - every Wednesday evening, 7-9 at 611
Portage Ave, South Bend

* Portage Avenue salon - every Sunday evening, 7-9 at 611 Portage Ave,
South Bend

* GreenTV every Wednesday evening, 10 pm, Comcast channel 99


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PROGRESSIVE DISCUSSION GROUP

Hello everyone!

A quick recap of last week's discussion on "Beyond the Techno-Cave" by 
Harold Jaffe. There were two creative
essays that touched on a variety of social issues including the 
meaning/role of art and how our society deals with mental illnesses.

This week we're starting our discussion based on an article "Doping, 
dogs, and Donaghy, oh my" that was in the South Bend Tribune recently.

Ed, Bill, Rey: If you all have an article, essay, etc that you'd like to 
bring for us to read for the following week- please do so. If it is 
available online, you can just tell us how to find it, otherwise please 
make 6-8 copies.

Our study group meets Wednesday evenings, 7-9pm at 611 Portage Ave (home 
of Lily and Karl.

We're also holding a more informal gathering on Sunday evenings (also at 
611 Portage Ave) from 7pm onward. Optional vegetarian-friendly potluck & 
BYO beer or wine.

For more info- karl_j_hardy at yahoo.com or lily.hoang.326 at gmail.com

Thanks!
Karl


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PORTAGE AVE SALON

Hello!

This is an invitation to the "Portage Avenue Salon" an idea that has 
come from the Michiana Progressive Discussion Group. Our discussion 
group has been meeting monthly since September of last year and decided 
to evolve into two different meetings, one being the Salon and the other 
being a more focused study group.

We're inviting progressive-types to hang out and socialize at our place 
in what we hope to be a "salon atmosphere." Salon like French bohemian 
artists/intellectuals not the a place to get your hair cut.

Vegetarian-friendly potluck if you feel like it, same goes for BYO beer 
or wine. We won't be keeping score of who brings dishes or drinks to 
share- it's totally optional.

If you have friends who you think would be interested in this sort of 
thing, please feel free to bring them along.

When:
Sunday evenings, 7pm onward

Where:
611 Portage Avenue, located in the Near Northwest Neighborhood of South 
Bend. Parking available on the north side of the street - across from 
our house - and if needed in the alley behind our house.

Any questions, etc. please reply only to karl_j_hardy at yahoo.com 
<mailto:karl_j_hardy at yahoo.com> or lily.hoang.326 at gmail

Hope to see you Sunday!
Lily Hoang & Karl Hardy


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SJVGREENS.ORG

This week:

- BP Backs Down-IDEM Unrepentant
  http://www.sjvgreens.org/current/bpNews.shtml

- Fox Beating War Drums Again
  http://www.sjvgreens.org/current/bpNews.shtml

- Do You Subscribe to Rachels? Maybe You Should.
  http://www.sjvgreens.org/current/rachels921.shtml

Last week:

- New Daniels' "Partnership" Designed to Promote CAFOs, Thwart Citizen 
Opposition
  http://www.sjvgreens.org/current/cafoRedCarpet.shtml

- City of Seattle Owes 175 WTO Protesters' $1,000,000
  http://www.sjvgreens.org/current/wtoAward.shtml

- New Attempt to Exempt CAFO Toxics
  http://www.sjvgreens.org/current/cafo_Alert.shtml

- EPA suggests wishy-washy compromise in Indiana BP permit mess
  http://www.sjvgreens.org/index.shtml


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GREENTV SHOWS

* Aug 8: Opening of Riverside Trail. The grassroots effort to build a 
recreational bike/pedestrian trail alongside the St. Joseph River on 
Riverside Drive bears fruit. Speakers and interviews.

* Aug 15: BioJustice 2007: Biotechnology, Medicine and Human Rights - 
Part 1 of 4. Part 1 features Judy Norsigian, Co-Author and Executive 
Director of "Our Bodies, Ourselves", and George Annas, the father of the 
patient advocacy movment and Chair of Health Law, BioEthics and Human 
Rights at Boston University.

*Aug 22: BioJustice 2007: Biotechnology, Medicine and Human Rights - 
Part 2 of 4. Part 2 features John Abramson of Harvard Medical School on 
how biotech corporations encroach on and attempt to control the 
physician/patient relationship, and Sandy Eaton of the Masschusetts 
Nurses Association and Mass-Care, on single payer medical insurance.

* Aug 29: BioJustice 2007: Biotechnology, Medicine and Human Rights - 
Part 3 of 4. Investigative journalist Sonia Shah summarizes what she has 
learned after six years of research into drug companies' activities in 
developing nations. Also contains audience comments and responses. Video 
recorded at BioJustice 2007 in Boston, MA, USA, this past spring.

* Sep 5: BioJustice 2007: Biotechnology, Medicine and Human Rights - 
Part 4 of 4. Recap of audience questions and comments, now including 
panel responses.Video recorded at BioJustice 2007 in Boston, MA, USA, 
this past spring.

GreenTV airs Wednesdays, 10:00 p.m. Tune to Comcast cable channel 99.


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KEY VALUES OF THE GREENS

1. Ecological wisdom
2. Social justice
3. Grassroots democracy
4. Nonviolence
5. Decentralization
6. Community-based economics
7. Feminism
8. Respect for diversity
9. Personal and global responsibility
10. Future focus

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St. Joe Valley Greens, South Bend, IN
http://www.sjvgreens.org/
mailto: tbrown at sjvgreens.org or khardy at sjvgreens.org