[GreenNotes] GreenNotes - 9/18/2007 (additions and corrections)

Tue Sep 18 08:54:46 PDT 2007

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

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PROGRESSIVE EVENT CALENDAR

* Community Forum for Economic Development (CFED) Meeting
Tuesday, Sept. 18, 7-9 pm
Office of the Minority Health Coalition, in LaSalle Square

* Days of Decision (vigils and rallies)
September 14-21
Rep. Donnelly's office
207 W. Colfax Ave.
South Bend, IN

* Great Lakes Compact
Thursday, September 27, 6 pm
St. Joseph County Library, Main Branch, South Bend

* GreenTV
every Wednesday evening, 7 pm (new time)
Comcast channel 99

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COMCAST ALTERS GREEN-TV AIR TIME

Gary Stephenson, the local Comcast studio supervisor, issued an email
this morning to all public access producers announcing drastic changes
in the broadcast schedule for October. Some shows will be curtailed.
Others will be broadcast on new days and times.

GreenTV will continue to air through October on Wednesday nights as
usual. However, the new air time is 7 pm.

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Following is the letter Mr. Stephenson sent with the new schedule:

As you know, due to the State of Indiana enacting legislation which
no longer requires a provision for local public access personnel,
studios or equipment, we are in the process of discontinuing access
operations. As part of this process, the studio will be closing September
28. 

Continuing with the process, as of October 1, we will be curtailing the
airing of a number of programs. The following schedule is the result of
the first stage in the suspension of playback operations. As the process
continues, we will notify you when playback of your program will end.
With that in mind, please note that the schedule is subject to change
and that some of the programs listed may not air throughout the month of
October.

It has been my distinct pleasure to work with you these past months and
years. I thank you for your ontribution to Local Public Access.

Gary

Gary L. Stephenson
Comcast
Local Origination Supervisor
Mishawaka, Indiana
Ph. (574) 252-2557

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GREAT LAKES COMPACT INFORMATION MEETING

Several organizations within the St. Joseph River Basin will host
an information meeting on Thursday, September 27 at the St. Joseph
County Library, Main Branch, to share information regarding the Great
Lakes Compact. The meeting begins at 6:00 p.m. and will include a
representative of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to
provide details of the Compact.

For those unfamiliar with this policy, it was originally signed by
the governors of all the Great Lakes states as a first attempt to
preserve and protect the waters of the Great Lakes Basin by preventing
diversion of Great Lakes Basin waters outside the Basin. The Compact
concerns both ground and surface water. The St. Joseph River Basin
which includes in Indiana parts of St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko,
Noble and Steuben counties, and all of LaGrange county, is a part of
the Great Lakes Basin. Additionally, Berrien and Cass, parts of Van
Buren, Kalamazoo, Calhoun, Branch, Hillsdale, and St. Joseph counties
in Michigan are also in the St. Joseph River Basin, and subsequently
in the Great Lakes Basin.

Legislation will be presented to the General Assembly in 2008 that
further supports the Great Lakes Compact, and adds protection to our
water resources. The planned meetings should help the citizenry of
our region further understand the impacts of the Compact and add their
support to the proposed legislation.

--Karen Mackowiak
Water Quality Manager
St. Joseph River Basin Commission
227 W. Jefferson Blvd.--#1120
South Bend, IN 46601-1830
P: 574-287-1829
F: 574-287-1840
kmackowiak at macog.com
www.sjrbc.com

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DAYS OF DECISION VIGILS AND RALLIES

September 14-21
A Week of Coordinated Actions
"We the People Declare Peace"

At Every Congressional Office Across the Country:

Nonviolent actions to end the funding for the war on
Iraq and establish a comprehensive peace plan for
Iraq.

Monday-Friday
Sept. 17-21
4 pm onward

Rep. Donnelly's office
207 W. Colfax Av.
South Bend, Indiana

Rep. Donnelly has stated that he intends to make President Bush
accountable for the war in Iraq. Yet he voted to fully fund the
escalation of the war without any meaningful accountability. The
funding did, however, require the fulfillment of 18 benchmarks for
progress as a measure of success in the war.

According to most studies, only 3 of 18 benchmarks have been
fully met. The surge/escalation announced by President Bush
six months ago has not succeeded. It is time for Rep.
Donnelly to take the next step, enforce the benchmarks and
support only funding for a safe, responsible redeployment of
troops out of Iraq. We call on him to do so.

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REP. DONNELLY DOES NOT SUPPORT ENDA

Rep. Donnelly has not pledged to support the Employment
Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). The Human Rights
Campaign asks you to contact Donnelly and let him
know you want his pledge of support. A vote could take
place in the next two weeks.

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GREENTV SHOWS (corrected)

* Sep 19: Good Jobs/Fairer Taxes.
Greg LeRoy explains the economic gutting of cities due to poor
economic planning and undemocratic economic development.

* Sep 26: Competing Visions: Economic Development in St. Joseph County,
1/2.
Marty Wolfson builds on Greg LeRoy's insights and applies them to
specific economic development conditions in St. Joseph County, IN.

* Oct 3: Competing Visions, 2/2.
Marty Wolfson builds on Greg LeRoy's insights and applies them to
specific economic development conditions in St. Joseph County, IN.

* Oct 10: /Community Benefit Agreements, 1/2.
Madeliene Janis-Apparicio tells us how organizers in the one of the
poorest and neglected communities in Los Angeles force the City of
Los Angeles and developers to negotiate enforceable agreements that
benefit the community directly, not just the politicians, the
developers and huge corporations.

* Oct 17: /Community Benefit Agreements, 2/2/. Madeliene Janis-Apparicio
tells us how organizers in the one of the poorest and neglected
communities in Los Angeles force the City and developers to negotiate
enforceable agreements that benefit the community directly, not just the
politicians, the developers and huge corporations.

* Oct 24: to be announced

* Oct 31: to be announced

GreenTV airs Wednesdays, 7:00 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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