11 ITEMS 6 NEW 6 Links of Interest 11MAY2007

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item 1 Eternal Capitol Peace Vigil
www.honk4peace.org

=item 2 Musical Benefit for Darfur 12MAY2007

=item 3 World Fair Trade Day 12MAY2007

item 4 CODE PINK "Women Stand for Peace" 13MAY2007

item 5 The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering 13MAY2007

=item 6 Disaster Animal Response Team Training 18-20MAY2007

=item 7 Jazz for Justice 20MAY2007

item 8 Call for WOMEN artists for Healing Night 01JUL2007

=item 9 Tallahassee Equality Florida Meet-up Social 22MAY2007

=item 10 6 Links of interest...

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item 1 Eternal Capitol Vigil Sunday & Thursday
Join the Tallahassee Network for Justice and Peace, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families for Peace, Code Pink
Sundays 12:30-2:30
Thursdays 4:00-6:00
in front of the Old Capitol
BUSH LIES - PEOPLE DIE

=item 2 Musical Benefit for Darfur 12MAY2007
Come to a musical benefit for the displaced citizens of Darfur!
Darfunk: Get Down for Peace!
Saturday May 12th, 5:30-10:00
Where? At the Mickee Faust Clubhouse
Railroad Square
Featuring:
The Ums - Oh!Geography - Lions - Mosey...and more music...
Food and Unique Pins for sale!
Beautiful FreeTrade Items to buy!
Also get information on the situation in Darfur and how you can help.
Admission is free, but donations are greatly appreciated.
Come to learn and have fun!
For more information, call 877-2523

=item 3 World Fair Trade Day 12MAY2007
Ten Thousand Villages will be celebrating World Fair Trade Day, Sat. May 12th, from 11am-4pm. Joins us for entertainment from local musicians playing world music, food from Soul Vegetarian Restaurant, chair massage, henna tattoos, and fair trade coffee tasting. Book signing by Gladys Gikiri. Film screening of "Black Gold" in the Market Square Pavilion at 8pm - bring your lawn chairs! Call for more info: 850-906-9010.
Ten Thousand Villages is a non-profit store supporting artisans in developing countries. They are paid a fair wage for their work and use sustainable, eco-friendly materials.

item 4 CODE PINK "Women Stand for Peace" 13MAY2007
SIGN UP HERE:
https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/codepink/event/di...
http://tinyurl.com/2mjdr9

item 5 The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering 13MAY2007
The women of Ohio, U.S.A., call upon the women of the world, from day-old babies to our most senior elders, to stand with us on May 13, 2007, to save the world. Our project is based on Sharon Mehdi's book The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering. If you don't know the story, a summary of the original version is on the website http://www.standingwomen.org

If you think it is appropriate, please send this message on to all of the women throughout the world who you think might like to join us. We will be standing for the world's children and grandchildren, and for the seven generations beyond them.

We dream of a world where all of our children have safe drinking water, clean air to breathe, and enough food to eat. A world where they have access to a basic education to develop their minds and healthcare to nurture their growing bodies. A world where they have a warm, safe, and loving place to call home. A world where they don't live in fear of violence--in their home,
in their neighborhood, in their school, or in their world. This is the world of which we dream.

This is the cause for which we will stand.

If you share this dream, please stand with us for five minutes of silence at 1 p.m. your local time on May 13, 2007, in front of the Old Capitol to signify your agreement with this statement. We ask you to invite the men and
boys who you care about to join you. We ask that you bring bells to ring at 1 p.m. to signify the beginning of the five minutes of silence and to ring again to signify the end of the period of
silence.

=item 6 Disaster Animal Response Team Training 18-20MAY2007
Learn about disaster planning for animals, emergency pet shelters, large & small animal handling and first aid, communications & alert systems... and more

Tuition: $75 (last chance at this price — it’s going up to $125 this summer)
includes all training materials plus lunch on Saturday & Sunday

Friday evening, May 18th, to Sunday, May 20th
Prescribed Fire Training Center
3250 Capital Circle SW, Tallahassee, Florida

Registration and payment deadline is May 15, 2007. Download registration form by going to http://www.bigbenddart.org and click on Events and then on DART Training. For more information, e-mail DARTcat@comcast.net or call 850-531-9759

=item 7 Jazz for Justice 20MAY2007
JAZZ FOR JUSTICE

LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE, “JAZZ FOR JUSTICE 2007" A LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA BENEFIT ON SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2007 AT CHEZ PIERRE RESTAURANT IN MIDTOWN TALLAHASSEE. THIS SPECIAL ANNUAL EVENT WILL BE HELD FROM 4 TO 7 P.M. AND WILL FEATURE LATIN ATTITUDE, BIG DADDY & RED HOT JAVA AND ACME RYTHUM & BLUES TO KEEP US DANCING.

ENJOY A NORTH FLORIDA AFTERNOON UNDER THE OAKS. ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT LEGAL SERVICES FIGHT TO PROVIDE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR JUSTICE” FOR ALL IN NORTH FLORIDA THROUGH CIVIL LEGAL REPRESENTATION OF CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES.

PATRON TICKETS AT $100 INCLUDE 2 VIP TICKETS, RESERVED PARKING, CHAMPAGNE
RECEPTION WITH PAM LAWS AND BILL PETERSON, PUBLIC RECOGNITION AND
SPONSORSHIP OF A LSNF CLIENT FAMILY TO ATTEND THE BENEFIT. GENERAL
ADMISSION TICKETS ARE $10 AND CHILDREN UNDER 12 ARE FREE. EVENT
SPONSORSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE AND ITEMS FOR THE SILENT AUCTION ARE BEING
SOLICITED. THE SILENT AUCTION WILL FEATURE TRIPS, FINE JEWELRY, BOAT
RENTALS, MASSAGES, AND MORE!

FOR TICKETS OR INFORMATION GO TO
WWW.JAZZFORJUSTICE.ORG ]
(850)385-9007 X22. VISA/MC ACCEPTED

=item 8 Tallahassee Equality Florida Meet-up Social 22MAY2007
Please stop writing Discrimination into the Florida Constitution !
You are invited to a social reception and to join a coalition of fair-minded Floridians, that includes seniors, business leaders, consumer groups, and social justice organizations. We are fighting a proposed amendment that would strip away existing employee benefits and other legal protections for ALL families.
Join us for The Tallahassee Equality Florida Meet-up Social
The United Church in Tallahassee
1834 Mahan Drive
Tallahassee, Florida
Tuesday May 22nd, 6pm—8pm
Beverages and Snacks Provided
For more info:
www.rightsforall.meetup.com/189
www.eqfl.org

Item 9 Call for WOMEN artists for Healing Night 14JUL2007
From now through July 1 ~
Call for WOMEN artists for Healing Night - Let Your Voice Be Heard
WOMEN are invited to display any type of creative object, read their written work or act in any type of performance piece they choose.
Art can be offered anonymously. Healing Night is an evening when women showcase art/writing/stage performances inspired by women’s experience with domestic or family violence, sexual abuse or assault, child abuse or other forms of interpersonal violence.
Held on July 14th at 7pm, at Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee
2810 N. Meridian Rd.
Contact: Vicki Spray, 850-322-6944, Harvest1225@earthlink.net
or Robin McDougall, 850-212-0670, robin@capmed.org

=item 10 6 links of interest

1-Majority of Iraqi Lawmakers Now Reject Occupation By Raed Jarrar and Joshua Holland 09 May 2007 On Tuesday, without note in the U.S. media, more than half of the members of Iraq's parliament rejected the continuing occupation of their country. 144 lawmakers signed onto a legislative petition calling on the United States to set a timetable for withdrawal, according to Nassar Al-Rubaie, a spokesman for the Al Sadr movement, the nationalist Shia group that sponsored the petition.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050907R.shtml

2-IRAQ: Drug abuse among children on the rise
BAGHDAD, 9 May (IRIN) - The increase in drug abuse among children and youths in Iraq is worrying specialists who say continued violence is responsible for the rising number of users - something that is compounded by the easy availability of different narcotics.
Http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=72042

3-Iraq War General: "Mr. President, You Did Not Listen"
The anti-war veterans group, VoteVets.org, which has been influential with Capitol Hill Democrats, is launching a half-million-dollar TV ad campaign featuring Major General John Batiste (Ret.), former commanding general of the first infantry division in Iraq. The ad begins with a clip of President George Bush saying, "I have always said that I will listen to the requests of our commanders on the ground." Batiste then appears, saying, "Mr. President, you did not listen."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050907A.shtml

4-Patrick Cockburn | A Small War Guaranteed to Damage a Superpower
Patrick Cockburn writes: "The extent of the military failure over the previous three and a half years was extraordinary. The foreign media never quite made clear how little territory the US and the Iraqi army fully controlled - even in the heart of Baghdad."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050907E.shtml

5-US Commander Apologizes for Massacre
A US Army brigade commander in Afghanistan yesterday told the families of 69 civilians who were killed or wounded by members of an elite Marine Special Forces unit in March that he is "deeply, deeply ashamed" about the incident, describing the series of shootings along a civilian thoroughfare as a "terrible, terrible mistake."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050907F.shtml

6-We Soldiers Once Assumed Our political Bosses Would Not Lie To Us. That Is Over
By Leo Docherty:
We realized the issue was not replacing tyranny with democracy, but gaining long-term access to oil. Blair, in bowing to American oil-mad energy hunger, had deployed the British Army on a lie, a much bigger lie than the one about WMDs. Today, the appalling sectarian violence killing hundreds of Iraqi civilians every week is the direct result of our invasion and botched occupation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17668.htm

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