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................................................... Section One: Table Notes ............................................................................ (Note: these notes were taken at
the table and have NOT been approved or corrected by the speakers. Reader
Beware of inevitable misunderstandings and misrepresentations. E.B.)
Table notes 11.8.06
Jubilation at the table over the Democrat win!
Linda Gruber, Shari Able, Janet Kalven, Mary Biehn, Judy Cirillo, Mira Rodwan, Spencer Konicov, Gerry Kraus, Marvin Kraus, Himavat Ishaya, Joyce Alpiner, Ellen Bierhorst, Steve Sunderland, Selma McHiller, Brooke Audreyal. (Welcome to Brooke, Joyce, and Selma!)
At the table: ANNOUNCEMENTS/ TOPICS
Steve: Fanchon gave a wonderful dance piece Sunday at St. John’s.
LINDA: the election
Judy: the contact Center in OTR , an advocacy group for poor people, are having an awards ceremony tomorrow at 6 at St. John’s UU.
Gerry: Muse is having fall concert next weekend, Nov 17… Fri, Sat, Sun (see announcement in Announcements section)
Himavat: I will be teaching a class on the “Enlivening Techniques” Sat and Sun, Tourmaline Life Center in Blue Ash.
Janet: public read around tomorrow, Women Writing for a Change.
Marvin: the Shakespeare Festival is putting on an excellent “Macbeth”. Highly recommend.
Madison’s organic market is now open in Northside, regular store.
DISCUSSION
Shari: I’d propose we discuss an aspect of the election. How did that change take place. A lot of people who voted for Bush then decided to vote against the Republicans. I think it was the Foley scandal… the falsity and corruption. The fact that many knew about it for two years and the leadership did nothing.
Janet: I think it was the war.
Spencer: I think the Democrat candidates were responsible: moderate, responsible… that plus the scandals. The electorate woke up. But the main thing: the Democrats have learned how to collect huge sums through the internet from small donors.
Brooke: it was Howard Dean’s breakthrough… the majority of the donors were small people, never before gave to politics. Howard Dean as chairman of the Dem. Party launched the 50 state focus. He took much flack for that.
Spencer the dems. Had only 2/3 of the sum of the Reps.
Joyce: the Dems. Learned also to speak out immediately when lies were told about them.
Gerry: Diane Rehm (DRehm.com) show. Some lifelong Republicans who voted for the Democrats…fiscal responsibility, the war, also the moral issues: Foley, Delay, Abramoff.
Linda How much of the vote was a protest vote?
Shari Apparently the vote was considered a protest of Bush’s leadership of the war and the war.
Janet: I don’t think it is always that somebody looses, rather than somebody wins. Some candidates are great communicators, have real charisma.
Marvin consider the Ohio senate race. DeWine was not a yes man for Bush. Yet Brown won. … A man named Ron Emmanuel went around the country recruiting Democrats through the country on Senatorial and Congressional races. Getting quality people to run. The results of the election were not just a rebuke of Bush… some quality Democrats.
Gerry Why did DeWine not win? The Republican party wrote him off a month ago. He didn’t support bush on some issues. Does anybody know?
Brooke Weren’t his polls running behind a month ago?
Spencer The Republicans didn’t spend early money on him because they were confident of his win; then when Brown came on strong, they felt it was too late.
Judy It’s ironic. Two years ago it was said, “You can’t tell the dif. Between Reps. And Dems.” Now they are saying “They came to the middle.” … this time I just voted a straight party ticket. In protest.
Mary Mike DeWine on NPR this morning. Many people would come up and tell him “You have done a great job but we can’t vote for you this year.”
Shari I heard the same thing. The southern vote… Voting against Bush.
Ms. X.: Yes, I wasn’t crazy about Cranley but I voted for him because I wanted to see a Democratic congress.
Marvin I’d like to hear about people’s experiences voting.
Mira I went at 3:00 and saw piles of people voting. At my polling place a man donated 12 pens…
Spencer there were 368 registered voters; at 2:00 pm I got ballot 248. Excellent turnout.
Judy I voted absentee. I liked that.
Brooke I heard an interesting thing. A man who is active in Dem. Politics said it was said that Republicans sent out absentee ballot information to Independents and Democrats. Did they know ahead of time that they were planning to contest the absentee vote? Or based on postage?
Gerry I heard that one county in Ohio put the wrong amount of postage required on the ballot for absentee voters.
Marvin … if you were at the poll voting, the ballot was scanned immediately. …if the person scribbled outside the box, the scanner rejected the ballot and a message showed up, and the voter given a new ballot.
Joyce I thought it was the worst system I’ve seen. It was long, it was hard to see it, it was printed on both sides. I t hought it was a mess. It probably took me
Ten minutes to vote.
Ellen Accuracy of vote? Hack-able scanning system? Paper trail.
Gerry: some states require an audit of the vote; Ohio is not one of them.
Ellen: judges races?
Marvin Mallory vs. Helmich—judge race . Both ran unopposed. … O’Reilly lost.
Ellen: Himavat?
Himavat: I am not very political any more. …exciting to me that the Democrat leadership (Dean) brought up a new, grassroots vision, against opposition. I hope the vision goes beyond the politics, so that each person becomes more empowered in their own little world. …that’s where the bigness is.
Mira Does it bother anyone else that we never heard much from other parties? Greens, libertarians…
Brooke systematically excluded.
Spencer: This election shows You can Fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all of the time.
Gerry there was a complaint that the marijuana party in Montana took some votes away from the Democrats.
Shari Lieberman’s win shows you can win on a third party.
Judy why can media stations charge anything they want for political ads?
Gerry I think there is something wrong with the Feingold McCain campaign finance reform law.
Spencer I don’t agree. Free enterprise system;
Himavat it used to be the law that the stations had to give free a certain amount of time to bona fide candidates.
Gerry the commercials should be regulated. Terrible ads. Smears.
Shari There is some kind of law; they always say, “My name is John Doe and I approved this message.”
Gerry the advertising against Wulsin by Schmidt was incredibly horrible.
Marvin on a lighter side, I heard that some states people have changed their name to “None Of the Above” and ran for office.
Ms. Y.: I am in line with what Himavat said. I am not really happy about this election. Woke up sad this morning. Yes, a lot of things happened that I wanted to happen. But I basically felt it is a huge illusion. The average American doesn’t know what their congress people do for the most part. Most don’t really want to know. They are so caught up in their own lives so intensely. I even feel it is a burden to try to learn about the candidates and issues. I get information from friends who do intense research, and I feel that what we see and deal with is not real. … how well you can manipulate people’s emotions … How do we get past this.
Campaign finance reform. Otherwise it is just control by the corporations.
…I want to get down to some truth. It’s a game we play. Candidates are beholden to other powers who control…
How can we evolve here?
The Unitarians have a phrase, “Speak peace.” Imagine the consciousness if everyone spoke peace every day.
Mira quoting from Monday’s Enquirer. Marcy Kaptur from Toledo wants to push new campaign finance rules. I like what Ms. Y said.
Lobbying and campaign rules, two wings to this bad bird.
Ellen I believe the wisdom of the people does ultimately correct huge departures from rightness on the part of the leadership, as they have done here. But it takes a long time… hundreds of thousands of lives lost.
I’ve been thinking. It is not possible for most people to inform themselves responsibly about issues and candidates. Here at the salon we are fortunate to have some expert members…I feel much better about voting than I used to feel before the salon.
But I have been imagining a better system. How about a system where you join a little “pod” of, say, 100 people who would inform themselves as they can and select one smart person to go to the n ext level. At the next level, there would be discussion and deliberation and someone would be selected to represent all those pods at the next level up. Like what Jethro recommended to Moses in the Torah. (smile). Everyone would belong to a smallish community of mutual trust. You would rely on your representative to up on the issues, make responsible choices for leaders etc. And to inform your group of the reasons. Seems like it would leave big money out of it.
It would be a representative democracy.
Mira moveon.org does a wonderful service.
Spencer I see things from a different direction. The internet is a great leveler. If you want to know what a candidate believes, you can go to their websites. And it is free.
…the biggest thing that happened is that the small contributor has stood up, giving their $50 or $75.
This society is evolving at a tremendous rate. I think Democracy is thriving in our system.
Joyce do you think people have gotten so tired of these large industries that contribute, is the reasons why so many small contributors have come forth.
Spencer yes, someone has said to them on the internet, “Send me $25 if you believe in my message.”
Shari go back to your point, Ellen, having a group of 100 or less, and that group selecting a person to go to the next group. The Chinese Communists tried t his. It results in a Central Committee. Apparently it did not work.
Gerry I was impressed by the second hour of the Diane Rehm show about the VA reform. …the first woman prisoner taken in the Iraq war; an officer who had his leg shot off in Iraq. A caller asked, “did it bother you that we were not there under the right auspices.” And they both said, “that doesn’t matter now; tell our reps. to get our troops safely out now that they are there.”
(Also, someone pointed out how wonderful it was that Ohio voters discerned the difference between the two Smoking issues and defeated the Amendment while passing the Law that would protect us from passive smoke inhalation. That was a tricky one!)
(I was under the weather recovering from an intestinal flu ... Thrilled with the homeopathic treatment from Shirley Reischman our singular Classical Homeopath in Cinti.! Feeling secure with my 2006-7 Influenzinum remedy in the cabinet. Anyway, that’s why the notes are skimpy this week.)
~ End of Table Notes~
Hugs to everyone, Ellen
(P.S. See what Weekly readers sent in responding to my call two weeks ago about why folks didn’t answer the “questions” posed of the readership by the table. Look in the Blue Articles section.)
Section Two: Announcements
*AccentFest Fall 2006**AccentFest Fall 2006**AccentFest Fall 2006*
Please join us for two evenings of music
performed by wonderful young musicians!
The Accent Program presents an end-of-the-year festival of chamber and solo
music
Sunday, Nov. 12 and Saturday Dec. 2 at CCM
*Chamber Music Recital
Sunday, Nov. 12 at 7:00pm
in Watson Hall
Masterworks by Leukauf, Mozart, Beethoven, Villa Lobos, Jones, Rudig, Smith,
Wong, B. Hoffman, N. Hoffman.
This event is open to the public free of charge
*Solo Recital
Saturday Dec. 2 at 6:00 pm
in Mary Emery Hall 3250
Works by Vivaldi, Bornemann, Suzuki, Jones, Hoffmeister, Bach, Reger, and more
This event is open to the public free of charge
*Reception after both recitals
in the CCM café
YOU ARE INVITED!
*AccentFest Fall 2006**AccentFest Fall 2006**AccentFest Fall 2006*
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Dorotea Vismara Hoffman
Director, Accent Programs
University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music
http://www.ccm.uc.edu/musicx/accent
Come discuss the election with ACLU people:
ThisWednesday.
What the 2006 election results mean to civil liberties! Regardless of the election outcome, the battle to protect fundamental rights and liberties rages on. Join a panel of scholars and activists to discuss the impact of the elections on the issues we care about.
For more information about the events, please visit www.acluohio.org. To RSVP for any of these events, please click the button above or call (216) 472-2200.
Wednesday, November 15
Cincinnati Election Dissection
7:00 p.m. at St. John's Unitarian Universalist Church, 320 Resor Ave.
Howard Konicov, environmental civic actist (and Spencer’s son) forwards th is:
Sent: Fri 11/10/2006 4:18 PM
From: Dave Altman [mailto:daltman@environlaw.com]
Subject: Office of Environmental Quality --Action Alert
Our opportunity to be sure we have an Office of Environmental Quality is coming to a head next Thursday, November 16 at Cincinnati State . We urgently need people to attend and speak briefly at the Mayor's Budget Forum so that Mayor Mallory can use our show of support for an OEQ to convince the full City Council that this should be a priority. Please call me to let me know whether you can attend and whether you would like to know how to help.
The mayor is seeking input from the public on what the 2007-2008 budget should include.
What: Mayor's Forum on the Budget
When: Thursday, November 16, 6 p.m.
Where: Cincinnati State;
3520 Central Parkway Main Building Conference Center ,
Rm. 344
Dave Altman
thanks to Julie Murray for sending on this:
Community Conversation: Courageous Listening [Wednesday 15 November; light refreshments @ 5:30 PM; conversation @ 6-8 PM]: Making connections. Join our gathering to consider youth, community, & violence. What gifts can we bring to address these issues? Is youth violence a public health issue? What’s possible? Let’s move from isolated concern to networks of action. Please join us. Youth and adults together. Wednesday 13 December will be a follow-up gathering to work on building action networks. Sponsored by Woman’s City Club with National Conference of Community & Justice, & First Unitarian Church. At Carl H. Lindner Family YMCA, 1425 Linn Street (1 block south of Linn & Liberty), West End, Cincinnati, OH 45214. More info @ 513.751.0100 or wcc@womanscityclub.org.
New Veterans for Peace website: http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
Tri-State Treasures
Tri-State Treasures is a compilation of unique local people, places, and events that may enrich your lives. These treasures have been submitted by you and others who value supporting quality community offerings. Please consider supporting these treasures, and distributing the information for others to enjoy. And please continue to forward your Tri-State Treasures ideas to jkesner@nuvox.net.
Information about Tri-State Treasures and how to submit Tri-State Treasures are at the bottom of this email. Please help me by providing all basic information and formatting your submissions as described below.
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Click for Free Soup: Keep clicking www.chunky.com/clickforcans.aspx to get thousands of can of Chunky soup donated to the Cincinnati freestore foodbank. Bookmark the site & vote everyday. Tell your friends, even if they're not Bengals fans.
Sophia's Deli & Restaurant: Charlie & Sophia, along with son Pete & daughter-in-law Anna, welcome you into their intimately charming, bustling breakfast & lunchtime nook in the heart of downtown. Delicious gyros & other Greek treats; homemade macaroni & cheese, fried fish sandwiches, deli sandwiches, salads, daily specials. 7 AM - 3 PM Monday - Friday. Also specialty desserts & catering. At 811 Main Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.723.1055.
Learn How to Podcast [Saturdays 11 & 18 November @ noon - 2 PM]: Not sure what that is? Well, a podcast is a multimedia file distributed over the Internet for playback on mobile devices & personal computers. In other words, podcasting is an easy & affordable way to send your message out to the masses. Join the good folks at Media Bridges to learn how to start your very own podcast. This amazing & educational event is free. At Media Bridges, 1100 Race Street, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.651.4171 & sara@mediabridges.org.
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers [Monday 13 November @ 7 PM]: An opportunity to see this important film in the comfort of a wonderfully cozy coffee cafe. Despite spirited debate about the decisions & merits of having declared war on Iraq, little information has been provided about the profiteering that permeates the war. In the final speech of his presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower warned "we must guard against the... militaryindustrial complex" through an "alert and knowledgeable citizenry." This documentary describes what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war. Director Robert Greenwald takes the viewer inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows, & children who have been changed forever by profiteering during the reconstruction of Iraq. "Iraq for Sale" describes the connections between the huge profits made by private corporations in Iraq and the decision-makers who allow this to happen. Discussion will follow the film. Free & open to the public. Not rated; 75 minutes. Sponsored by & shown at Rohs Street Café in Clifton Heights, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info @ 513.328-7647 & www.rohsstreetcafe.com.
The Movies That Changed Us with Nick Clooney [Wednesday 15 November @ 6-8 PM]: Broadcast journalist Nick Clooney discusses his book "The Movies that Changed Us: Reflections on the Screen" by showing film clips & discussing the movies that have impacted our lives, include Saving Private Ryan, Star Wars, & The Birth of a Nation. Free; RSVP @ 877.672.9965. At the Harriet Tubman Theater, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.
Community Conversation: Courageous Listening [Wednesday 15 November; light refreshments @ 5:30 PM; conversation @ 6-8 PM]: Making connections. Join our gathering to consider youth, community, & violence. What gifts can we bring to address these issues? Is youth violence a public health issue? What’s possible? Let’s move from isolated concern to networks of action. Please join us. Youth and adults together. Wednesday 13 December will be a follow-up gathering to work on building action networks. Sponsored by Woman’s City Club with National Conference of Community & Justice, & First Unitarian Church. At Carl H. Lindner Family YMCA, 1425 Linn Street (1 block south of Linn & Liberty), West End, Cincinnati, OH 45214. More info @ 513.751.0100 or wcc@womanscityclub.org.
New School Open House [Wednesday 15 November @ 7-8:30 PM]: The New School is the area's oldest full-day Montessori serving children ages 3-12, with full & half-day programs available, located in the historic Mitchell mansion. Children & parents are welcome to come & meet the staff, tour the school, & enjoy refreshments while learning about Montessori. At the New School, 3 Burton Woods Lane, North Avondale, Cincinnati, OH 45229. More info @ 513.281.7999, barbara.gray@thenewschool.cc, & www.thenewschool.cc.
Celebrating 20 Years of the Duncanson Artist-in-Residence Program [thru Thursday 30 November]: Named for Robert S. Duncanson (1821–1872), the internationally renown painter of the 8 landscape murals at the Taft Museum of Art, the Duncanson Artist-in-Residence program recognizes outstanding African American artists. This year's celebration brings 17 of 19 past artists for 20 days of programs, school outreach, events, workshops, performances, & an exhibition. Programs are free & take place at Taft Museum of Art (TMA, 316 Pike Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202) unless otherwise indicated. RSVP indicates reservations are required. More info & RSVP @ 513.241.0343 ext 39, ythomas@taftmuseum.org & www.taftmuseum.org/duncanson_society.htm.
— Opening: 20 Years & Evolving [Friday 3 Nov @ 6-8 PM, thru 30 Nov]: Exhibit features works by visual artists Tyrone Geter, Tarleton Blackwell, Melvin Grier, & Thom Shaw. Free to TMA members; $10 general public. Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center, 1028 Scott Boulevard, Covington, KY 41011.
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— Twenty Men & a Tabletop [Sunday 12 Nov @ 5-9 PM]: Twenty men of distinction display thematic tabletops, while guests enjoy dinner by the bite & great music during this fundraising event. $75. RSVP. At TMA.
— Adult Studio-Digital Photography [Saturday 18 Nov @ 10 AM - Noon]: Photographer Melvin Grier explores the difference between a picture & a photograph as participants take photographs around Lytle Park. Bring a digital camera. RSVP. At TMA.
— Taft Thursdays for Teachers: Printmaking with Thom Shaw [Thursday 30 Nov @ 5-8 PM]: Back by demand, Thom Shaw invites educators to join him in his studio to see & participate in his woodblock printing process. $8-10. RSVP. At TMA.
ViewPoint 2006 National Juried Art Exhibition [Saturdays & Sundays @ 2-5 PM thru 19 November]: The 38th annual juried art competition of the Cincinnati Art Club, includes more than 70 selected works from many nationally known artists. The Cincinnati Art Club is one of the oldest & most active nonprofit art organizations in the US, founded in 1890. Cincinnati artists, Richard Luschek, is among those selected to present at the exhibition with his painting "Garden in the Park." At the Cincinnati Art Club, 1021 Parkside Place, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.821.0459 & ieffler1@cinci.rr.com, & www.cincinnatiartclub.com.
The Perfect Anomaly [thru 30 November]: This exhibit featuring Cincinnati artist & musician Cynthia Matyi will emphasize the artist's versatility in a retrospective of over 40 original oil paintings. The art includes loose, colorful landscapes & unique works with intricate patterns & intertwining elements that creatively depict spirituality, fantasy, humor & reverence for our natural world. Refreshments & live Irish music at the opening. Free. At Christ Church Cathedral, 318 East Fourth Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.621.1817, matyi@fuse.net, & www.christchurchcincinnati.org.
Film: “The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins” [Thursday 16 November @ 7:30 PM]: Media as if People Mattered: Leading at the Speed of Bleeding vs History at the Speed of Love. Geoff Bowie presents & discusses his film (2001, 76 min). ‘The Universal Clock’ refers to the standardization of TV programs to fit all TV stations anywhere in the world, with ad breaks. ‘The Universal Clock’ refers to the industrialization & commodification of TV programming; the McDonald-ization. It refers to the conditioning of our perception of time from a more human scale to something dictated by the preferences of a global, free market economy. British director Peter Watkins opposes this trend. At the heart of “The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins” are portraits of several participants in Watkins' major new film “La Commune (Paris, 1871),” (showing at the Contemporary Arts Center thru November 15). The eloquent, personal reflections of the portraits testify to the empowering, consciousness-raising effect Watkins’ filmmaking process has on the 'ordinary citizens' with whom he works. Free & open to the public. At Union Station Video Café, 825 Main Street, Downtown Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513-861-2462 & br_wolf@hotmail.com.
It's Beaujolais Nouveau Time [Thursday 16 November @ 6-9 PM]: In a custom dating back half a century, the Beaujolais Nouveau is released on the 3rd Thursday of November & shipped around the world that same day, creating the excitement & pleasure befitting the start of the holiday season. French American Chamber of Commerce sponsors this festival for the 3rd year in a row. A fun opportunity to taste French specialties & win French products in an informal, beautiful setting. Beaujolais Nouveau & other Beaujolais, French buffet, French pastries by Jean-Philippe Chocolatier, & raffle. $35 before 13 November; $40 thereafter. At The Carnegie, 1028 Scott Boulevard, Covington, KY. More info @ 513-852-6510, facc@france-cincinnati.com, & www.france-cincinnati.com.
Vito's Café 5th Anniversary Celebration Benefits Opera [Thursday 16 November @ 5-10 PM]: Cincinnati Opera Guild & Vito’s Café join together to celebrate the restaurant’s 5th anniversary with an evening of a special menu, entertainment featuring bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch, Cincinnati Opera Artistic Director Evans Mirageas dishing up delights, & more fun surprises. Vito’s is an Italian-style neighborhood trattoria featuring authentic Italian specialties, some American favorites & live music. Graduate students from local music schools serve tables & entertain diners nightly with operatic classics & Broadway favorites. Proceeds will benefit Cincinnati Opera. $60 per person includes appetizer, salad, choice of entrée & dessert, coffee or tea, gratuity & $10 tax-deductible donation to the Opera; limited seating. At Vito’s Café, 654 Highland Avenue, Fort Thomas, KY 41075. More info & RSVP @ 859.442.9444, JBellin@cincinnatiopera.org, & www.cincinnati.com/dining/vitoscafe/.
Sing, Heal, Celebrate - MUSE Fall Concert & Health Fair Event [Friday-Sunday 17-19 November @ 8PM (Fri-Sat) & 3PM (Sun)]: MUSE Cincinnati Women's Choir presents the regional premiere of "Where I Live," a breast cancer oratorio written by Diane Benjamin for women's chorus, strings, percussion, piano, & narration. Also, inspirational music, interjecting humor & love to create a concert experience full of gratitude & joy. MUSE will collaborate with local health care providers & orgs to host a health fair as part of the concert experience to educate audiences about prevention, detection, services, & support. Actress Dale Hodges will narrate the performance on Friday & Saturday; actress & singer Claire Slemmer will narrate on Sunday. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door; sliding $10-50 scale. At St. John's Unitarian Universalist Church, 320 Resor Avenue, Clifton, Cincinnati, OH 45220. More info & tix @ 513.221.1118, muse@musechoir.org, & www.musechoir.org.
Studio Collection [Saturday 18 November @ 10 AM – 4 PM]: A group of 10 women artists celebrate their 11th anniversary exhibiting together with an eclectic mix of drawings, prints, handmade paper, bead jewelry, functional & decorative pottery, textile wall pieces, dolls, quilts, homemade jams, soaps, & mustards. Free & open to the public. Refreshments served. At Harmony Lodge, 646 East Epworth Avenue, Winton Place, Cincinnati, OH 45232. More info @ 251-9071, 513.451.0052, & rhcw@fuse.net.
Indian Country Diaries [Saturday 18 November @ 1-3 PM]: This public television special about what it’s like to be a Native American in today’s urban areas features playwright & journalist Mark Anthony Rolo, joined by local Native American representatives to discuss the topic after the show. At the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Harriet Tubman Theater, 50 East Freedom Way, Cincinnati OH 45202. More info @ 513.333.7500, ETurner@nurfc.org, & www.freedomcenter.org.
Holiday Treasures Show [Saturday 18 November @ 6-8 PM]: Great gifts & artwork from over 50 artists. Grand opening party with live music & refreshments. The show continues through Saturday 27 January 2007. Open Saturdays 10 AM - 4 PM. At Kennedy Heights Arts Center, 6546 Montgomery Road (0.8 miles NE of Ridge Road), Cincinnati, OH 45213. More info @ 513.631.4278, info@kennedyarts.com, www.kennedyarts.com.
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Tri-State Treasures is compiled by James Kesner.
Hello to All the Women on my E-mail List,
This is a wonderful group and you are all welcome to come check us out. This is NOT The Wellness Society for cancer survivors. This is a group of women who are interested in wellness and alternative health. We brought Christine Horner back to Cincinnati last month and we’ll be doing other interesting things in the future.
Yours,
Shirley Reischman
The Women's Wellness Society
Cincinnati Chapter
November Meeting
“A Holiday Celebration with New Friends”
Come join us for fun evening of networking and friendship with your fellow members of our Cincinnati Chapter
The members of the Women’s Wellness Society will have products and gift certificates from their businesses to sell, so that you can give a Gift of Wellness this Holiday Season
Guests are also welcome to join us and find out more about the Women’s Wellness Society and share in our fun
Date: Wednesday, November 15th
Time: 6:30 pm ~9:00 pm
Location: Maggiano’s Little Italy
7875 Montgomery Rd,
Cincinnati, OH (Kenwood Mall)
Dinner will be served, advanced seating required
Members $35.00 in advance, guests & members at the door $45.00
To Register Online: www.wwscincinnati.com <http://www.wwscincinnati.com/>
For questions, contact Tammy @ wwscincinnati@aol.com <mailto:wwscincinnati@aol.com>
Or 859-441-1250
For more information, visit our website at www.womenswellnesssociety.com <http://www.womenswellnesssociety.com/>
"Behind every great woman is herself!"
(This is Mike Murphy’s third annual thanksgiving gathering. Two years ago, M.R. Met D.Q. At t his event. And next month they will be married! So m agic lurks... Make the scene at Mike and birdie’s. I’ll be there this year. Ellen)
You are invited to a
Thursday, November 23 (thanksgiving day)
Vegetarian
Thanks-Giving & Future-Thinking
Dinner Gathering and Conversation
We Welcome Your Thoughts
About Creating a Sustainable Village
We Will Take Our Cues From Peak Oil and Global Warming Plus Our Desire to Create a Small Example of What a Harmonious, Earth-Friendly, People-Friendly Human Society Can Look Like.
At this time, we think we can begin by purchasing a small farm, then welcoming others to live and work on this farm with us, raising organic vegetables for the local market. A place where younger couples with children will want to live and work and raise children. A place for older people to find peace and appropriate work and a friendly community. A place where we can build energy-efficient straw-bale houses and a meeting hall. Where all will want to live and work and put up our feet at the end of a day and talk about our dreams, our plans, our projects.
Please come, share our food, and share your thoughts with us.
Please try to arrive by 2pm for greetings and introductions
Meal served at 3pm.
Conversation to follow until….maybe 7pm.
Menu we will provide:
Roasted Vegetarian Tofurkey w/ Stuffing, plus Delicious Meat-like Seitan w/ Gravy
Mashed Potatoes w/ Gravy, and Sweet Potatoes w/ Butter
Green Beans and Lima Beans and Steamed Greens and Steamed Carrots
Biscuits and Apple Sauce and Cranberry Sauce
Pumpkin Pie and Apple Pie
Cider and Wine
Please feel free to bring additional mouth-watering delights!
Come to 2941 Spring Grove Ave, Hopple Street area, Cincinnati, OH
Second Floor of Gastrich Rebar Bldg.
Parking on either side of building.
Please RSVP So We Can Cook Enough. Or Come Early & Help Cook!
513-542-7097 mmurphy10@fuse.net <mailto:mmurphy10@fuse.net>
MLK chorale now morphed into Voices of Freedom chorus
Still under the
direction and inspiration of Cathy Roma (of Muse, of St. John’s, etc.) and
- Bp. Todd O’Neal of House of Joy church in College Hill. Rehearsals :
- Tuesday November 14 at 6:30
- Tuesday November 28 at 5:00 in preparation for panel about King called
Together We Can: A Time to Break Silence. We will sing In Times Like These
- Tuesday December 12 at 6:30
- We'll celebrate our various traditions on Tuesday December 26, and cancel rehearsal at the Freedom Center. Merry Solstice, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year.
- Monday January 1 at 11:00 we sing at CME Church on Melrose for Emancipation Day Program sponsored by the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance
- Tuesday January 2 rehearsal at 6:30 at the Center
- Tuesday January 9 at 6:30 rehearsal NURFC
- Friday January 12 at 5:30 at Warren Correctional
- Saturday January 13 (final rehearsal for King)
- Monday January 15 at 10:00 Music Hall for 12:00 program
- Tuesday January 23 rehearsal at 6:30 to prepare for our final concert of the season in March
Rehearsals in the Tubman theater at the Freedom Center. Go down Walnut street, cross over third. Freedom Center is on your right. Park on Walnut...there are spaces at that hour. Free. Put “Freedom Chorus” sign on your dashboard.
It’s beautiful down there. A blast singing together.
Singers needed! No audition! Men
singers especially needed.
This is a fantastic opportunity to build
interracial healing bridges in our city AND have a marvelous time as well.
I have sung in the chorale for many years. The group will perform at the
MLK Day celebration at Music Hall, of course, and also will sing in
March at the Freedom Center on Internat’l Women’s Day, March 8. Then off for the spring and summer. Parking: at the very foot of Walnut street. Carpooling is great. Cincinnati has
historically been a city of singing, thanks to those old Germans and to the
Black folks and the Appalachians. And the hispanics and the Italians and...
It is one of our strengths as a city. Cathy and Todd are wonderful to sing
for and with, and the spirituals music will lift your heart. Come give it a
try. Great fun, important piece of civic activism. Ellen.
Get this: The FREEDOM CENTER (NURFC) is FREE on the second Tuesday of every month f rom 2 to 5. This means you can pack your bag dinner, go down at 4 on the second Tues., get in free and see the Center, eat dinner, and be right there for the chorus rehearsal. Is what I’m going to do on Nov. 14. ellen
Diane Fishbein sends this link, a page updating t hings like world population (watch the numbers spin!), number of bicycles, books ..... fascinating. http://www.worldometers.info/
Section Three: Articles
Contents:
- “the questions” asked by the Salon table of the readership: is anyone listening?
- Salnista Charlene Tu responds re. Diversity of the Table
- Novelist Doctorow on Bush
- Local Currency for Cincinnati?
- Bob Gates’link to “black box voting”
- Ohio PIRG says thank environmentally friendly congressional candidates
- Michael Moore on election results
- Turkish scholar reveals origins of the burkah...and is indicted for blasphemy.
Is anyone listening? Readers response to explicit request for feedback to Weekly:
Two weeks ago I asked readers to let me know if they had noticed that the Wednesday night tab le had asked the Weekly readership if they had the answers to several questions. The table was dismayed that nobody wrote in with the answers. Well, so I got seven response emails from readers. What’s that, one percent? Out of our 600 subscription list.
Answering that they saw our querie were: Beverly Welbourne, Brock Fortman, Dan Zavon, Nicole Gunderman, Sean Mullaney, Irene Giessl, and Lynn Woodward. Many thanks to these folks!
Brock wrote:
Ellen
Thanks for assembling this. I don't often get to read the whole newsletter, but this voting guide is very helpful. I sent it on (with a couple notes on why, so my former R friends know that D is better) to about 40 people. Thanks again.
BrockAnd Lynn wrote:
Ellen -- I don't remember seeing the questions. I am deterred by the length of these postings, so I don't read some large sections of most of them them even though the intellectual level is quite exciting. Primarily, however, I'm not as interested in politics as this group seems to be, which is probably the largest reason for my not showing up there despite the fact that the people in this group, including YOU, sound really interesting!So does that encourage you? I just know that when we have had a call for involvement, like to attend the Earthsave event introducing Nobel Maseru MD, our new Health Commissioner, last winter, or after the Uprising in 2002 (?) when we called for folks to join the MLK Chorale to show solidarity, that the response has been thrilling. At the Masseru event something like 20% of the entire audience were salon Weekly readers. At the MLK chorale that year there were something like 6 brand n ew singers who were there because of our call. That’s out of a total group that night of about 70. Also, when we get together and sign a letter to City Hall, we get serious attention and respect.
Lynn Woodward
So why didn’t more people respond to our request? In the first place, they didn’t respond to the questions because they didn’t know the answers! Second, people read the Weekly in a scanning manner, and are not expecting to be asked to respond.
Finally, I know that wherever I go in public I meet people who read the Weekly some of the time at least, and are warmly appreciative, saying things like, “It makes me feel less alone in Cincinnati.” I’d say that’s pretty terrific.
Ellen
Charlene Tu responds re. “Diversity of our Salon Table” issue:
The problem is not that difficult to solve, if you TRULY want to fix it! Outreach to the mosque? and various professional and social groups of color do exist! The problem is also URBAN vs. SUBURBAN in this town many minority communities are located in the suburbs. Why is that? Is it jobs, school districts? or just a general "fear" and perception of danger in the "predominately" poor and black OTR? I think so. After all, that is truly where the majority of the money and population growth is occurring. We are living in a DONUT city.
Charlene
A Hard Hitting, On-target Essay on our President
By E.L. Doctorow:
Edgar Lawrence Doctorow occupies a central position in the history of American literature. He is generally considered to be among the most talented, ambitious, and admired novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. Doctorow has received the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Edith Wharton Citation for Fiction, the William Dean Howell Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the residentially conferred National Humanities Medal.
Doctorow was born in New York City on January 6, 1931. After graduating with honors from Kenyon College in 1952, he did graduate work at Columbia University and served in the U.S. Army. Doctorow was senior editor for New American Library from 1959 to 1964 and then served as editor in chief at Dial Press until 1969. Since then, he has
devoted his time to writing and teaching. He holds the Glucksman Chair in American Letters at New York University and over the years has taught at several institutions, including Yale University Drama School, Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of California, Irvine.
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An Essay On Our President
An essay by E.L. Doctorow
I fault this president (George W. Bush) for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our twenty-one year olds who wanted to be what they could be.
On the eve of D-day in 1944 General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he knew were going to die. He knew what death was. Even in a justifiable war, a war not of choice but of necessity, a war of survival, the cost was almost more than Eisenhower could bear.
But this president does not know what death is. He hasn't the mind for it. You see him joking with the press, peering under the table for the WMDs he can't seem to find, you see him at rallies strutting up to the stage in shirt sleeves to the roar of the carefully screened crowd, smiling and waving, triumphal, a he-man. He does not mourn. He doesn't understand why he should mourn. He is satisfied during the course of a speech written for him to look solemn for a moment and speak of the brave young Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
But you study him; you look into his eyes and know he dissembles an
emotion, which he does not feel in the depths of his being because he has no capacity for it. He does not feel a personal responsibility for the thousand dead young men and women who wanted be what they could be.
They come to his desk not as youngsters with mothers and fathers or
wives and children who will suffer to the end of their days a terribly torn fabric of familial relationships and the inconsolable remembrance of aborted life.... They come to his desk as a political liability which is why the press is not permitted to photograph the arrival of their coffins from Iraq.
How then can he mourn? To mourn is to express regret and he regrets nothing. He does not regret that his reason for going to war was, as he knew, unsubstantiated by the facts. He does not regret that his bungled plan for the war's aftermath has made of his mission-accomplished a disaster. He does not regret that rather than control- ling terrorism his war in Iraq has licensed it.
So he never mourns for the dead and crippled youngsters who have fought this war of his choice. He wanted to go to war and he did. He had not the mind to perceive the costs of war, or to listen to those who knew those costs. He did not understand that you do not go to war when it is one of the options, but when it is the only option; you go not because you want to but because you have to.
This president knew it would be difficult for Americans not to cheer the overthrow of a foreign dictator. He knew that much. This president and his supporters would seem to have a mind for only one thing --- to take power, to remain in power, and to use that power for the sake of themselves and their friends. A war will do that as well as anything. You become a wartime leader. The country gets behind you. Dissent becomes inappropriate. And so he does not drop to his knees, he is not contrite, he does not sit in the church with the grieving parents and wives and children....
He is the President who does not feel. He does not feel for the families of the dead; he does not feel for the thirty five million of us who live in poverty; he does not feel for the forty percent who cannot afford health insurance; he does not feel for the miners whose lungs are turning black or for the working people he has deprived of the chance to work overtime at time-and-a-half to pay their bills --- it is amazing for how many people in this country this President does not feel.
But he will dissemble feeling. He will say in all sincerity he is relieving the wealthiest one percent of the population of their tax burden for the sake of the rest of us, and that he is polluting the air we breathe for the sake of our economy, and that he is decreasing the safety regulations for coal mines to save the coal miners’ jobs, and that he is depriving workers of their time-and-a- half benefits for overtime because this is actually a way to honor them by raising them into the professional class.
And this litany of lies he will versify with reverences for God and the flag and democracy, when just what he and his party are doing to our democracy is choking the life out of it.
But there is one more terribly sad thing about all of this. I remember the millions of people here and around the world who marched against the war. It was extraordinary, that spontaneously aroused oversoul of alarm and protest that transcended national borders. Why did it happen? After all, this was not the only war anyone had ever seen coming. There are little wars all over the world most of the time.
But the cry of protest was the appalled understanding of millions of people that America was ceding its role as the last best hope of mankind. It was their perception that the classic archetype democracy was morphing into a rogue nation. The greatest democratic republic in history was turning its back on the future, using its extraordinary power and standing not to advance the ideal of a concordance of civilizations but to endorse the kind of tribal combat that originated with the Neanderthals, a people, now extinct, who could imagine ensuring their survival by no other means than pre-emptive war. The president we get is the country we get. With each president the nation is conformed spiritually. He is the artificer of our malleable national soul. He proposes not only the laws but the kinds of lawlessness that govern our lives and invoke our responses. The people he appoints are cast in his image. The trouble they get into and get us into is his characteristic trouble. .
Finally the media amplify his character into our moral weather report. He becomes the face of our sky, the conditions that prevail: How can we sustain ourselves as the United States of America given the stupid and ineffective war making, the constitutionally insensitive lawgiving, and the monarchal economics of this president? He cannot mourn but is a figure of such moral vacancy as to make us mourn for ourselves.
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(Spencer Konicov sent this in. Robert McGeorge sent the following response. Who is t his? Ellen)
I assume neither you nor the good author have ever seen my President Bush visit the Maupin Family in my hometown.I have personally seen my President mourn with the Maupins. You and your chosen author are incorrect. To make a statement that the President doesn't know death or how to mourn may be the most riduclous statement since "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". While I am always up for a good "rub" politically.. please make sure what you send has merit.
Local Currency: A way to keep dollars spent here I n our local economy. sent in by Mike Murphy
A Local Currency for Cincinnati??
Posted by: "mmurphy10@fuse.net" mmurphy10@fuse.net mjmurphyzz
Mon Nov 6, 2006 3:03 pm (PST)
Salonistas--I'be been reading some about local currencies. They help slow down the flight of capital, help small businesses, thereby strengthen local communities. So, with the 'Big Collapse' on the way, and the growing need to 'go local,' maybe we need to design and issue a local currency. Trend started about 20-some years ago with DeliDollars in Great Barrington, MA [urged on by EF Schumacher Society www.schumachersociety.org ], now morphed into 'BerkShares'. And Ithaca, NY, has a local scrip with the liberating and localizing phrase 'In Ithaca We Trust' printed on it. BTW, They are legal. Might wanna check out "Local Money Strengthens Communities" online by Dave Block at www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/localmoney.html
Mike Murphy
Bob Gates’ link to Black Box Voting
Get the goods on Gates
Permission to excerpt or reprint granted, with link to http://www.blackboxvoting.org
Rumsfield replacement (Robert Gates) was director of voting company
by Bev Harris
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfield will resign, reportedly to be replaced by former CIA director Robert Gates.
Gates was on the board of directors of VoteHere, a strange little company that was the biggest elections industry lobbyist for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). VoteHere spent more money than ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia combined to help ram HAVA through. And HAVA, of course, was a bill sponsored by by convicted Abramoff pal Bob Ney and K-street lobbyist buddy Steny Hoyer. HAVA put electronic voting on steroids.
You can find copies of the VoteHere lobbying forms here: http://sopr.senate.gov/cgi-win/m_opr_viewer.exe?DoFn=0
I can't get them to save to pdf, perhaps you can. Enter search terms in both "registrant" and "client" fields and put in terms "Rhoads" "Livingston" and "Votehere" (one at a time.). Then look at the gravy train while it was in the process of derailing American democracy.
I first became acquainted with VoteHere when I met a source, Dan Spillane, who is the wonderful guy that identified the Diebold source code modules for me after I found the Diebold files. He is the person who introduced me, and subsequently everyone else, to the odd role of The Election Center and R. Doug Lewis in the elections industry.
Spillane also filled me in on The Livingston Group, VoteHere lobbyists, run by Bob Livingston -- the fellow that Hustler publisher Larry Flynt outed during the Bill Clinton blow job days. Larry Flynt offered a million dollars to anyone who could locate a Republican congressman committing adultery, and out popped peccadilloes by Livingston.
Livingston couldn't live that one down, so he resigned his post as House Speaker-Elect and became a lobbyist -- but that's not all! He also launched a group called "Center for Democracy" which was going to "monitor elections." This group also featured several good old boys from the tobacco industry and some mining companies.
Former VoteHere test engineer Dan Spillane was looking into all this because he had been fired after he questioned the certification process on a touch-screen system in which he had identified 250 flaws. It was way back in November 2002 that Spillane told me, "The voting machine industry is a house of cards. And the certification and testing process is the bottom card in the house of cards."
BUT DON'T RUN OUT OF THE ROOM TO TAKE A SHOWER YET. There's more.
VoteHere was a company shilling cryptographic solutions and filled with NSA types (another director was Admiral Bill Owens, another crony of Rummy, Perle and Wolfowitz). For some reason this company claims it was unable to prevent itself from being hacked. In this alleged hack, VoteHere claims that someone stole their source code. Said source code was offered to me in October 2003, an obvious attempt at entrapment which I refused.
Nevertheless, VoteHere claimed to the media that its master security experts had supposedly "tracked" the hacker and had identified the hacker as an activist in the election reform community.
For some reason, it was decided that I should be investigated in connection with this "hack" of VoteHere -- nevermind that I can't remember how to change the password on my own laptop. Therefore I was interviewed by the Secret Service several times about this. Curiously, they never seemed to ask any questions about VoteHere, only my role in finding the Diebold files and publishing the Diebold memos.
This nonsense eventually culminated in a gag order and a letter from the U.S. Attorney to appear in front of a federal grand jury with information on all the visitors to the Black Box Voting Web site. (As if they couldn't get that in less dramatic ways in post-Patriot Act America). Attorney Lowell Finley (now with http://www.VoterAction.org ) went to bat for me on this. A reporter named George Howland from the Seattle Weekly also got wind of it. When it hit the press, and with Lowell Finley's help, their harassment of me stopped.
VoteHere never sold any voting machines that I can find, but apparently did set up some deals to embed its cryptography into some voting systems. We found memos in the Diebold trash about VoteHere's crypto-crap, and Maryland Director of Elections Linda Lamone shows up in VoteHere-related letters. Sequoia Voting Systems signed an agreement with VoteHere, but its not clear to me whether they ever did anything about it.
Robert Gates stepped away from VoteHere shortly before he showed up in Chapter 8 of my book, Black Box Voting, in a short bit about the VoteHere company history. You can read that here: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf
I don't know about you, but I'd rather use a paper, pencil, and count by hand at the polling place than have former CIA director Robert Gates fooling around with my vote.
But that's just me.
-- Bev Harris
Founder, Black Box Voting
P.S. Since the HBO special, I have plenty of moral support, but even after the Secret Service interviews and all the rest of the nonsense my husband and I have had to put up with, there are others who have had it rougher.
I'd like you to take a moment to visit this Web site -- not affiliated with Black Box Voting -- to meet one of the heroic citizens in this movement who has faced the most brutal retaliation of all:
Stephen Heller. If you saw the HBO film "Hacking Democracy" you may remember a scene where I am chastising Diebold for lying about correcting problems with its product. I refer to "Release Notes." Those notes came from a source. Stephen Heller is being threatened with up to five years in prison for allegedly leaking me those documents. Kevin Shelley then decertified Diebold, and recommended criminal prosecution of Diebold. Diebold was never prosecuted, but Stephen Heller is being prosecuted RIGHT NOW. I hope you will donate to his defense. If not for citizens like him, where would your vote be now?
To contribute to Stephen Heller's defense fund:
http://www.hellerlegaldefensefund.com/
* * * * *(I was moved to give money to Stephen Heller. thanks Bev Harris! thanks, Stephen! ellen)
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Michael Moore on Election Results
November 8th, 2006
Friends,
You did it! We did it! The impossible has happened: A majority of Americans have soundly and forcefully removed Bush's party from control of the House of Representatives. And, sometime today perhaps, we may learn that the same miracle has happened in the Senate. Whatever the outcome, the American people have made two things crystal clear: End this war, and stop Mr. Bush from doing any more damage to this country we love. That is what this election was about. Nothing else. Just that. And it's a message that has sent shock waves throughout Washington -- and a note of hope around this troubled world.
Now the real work begins. Unless we stay on top of these Democrats to do the right thing, they will do what they've always done: Screw it up. Big Time. They helped Bush start this war, and now they should make amends.
But let's take a day to rejoice and revel in a rare victory for our side -- the side that doesn't believe in unprovoked invasions of other countries. This is your day, my friends. You have worked hard for it. I can't tell you how proud I am to count all of you as part of the greater American mainstream we now occupy. Thank you for all the time you gave this week to get out the vote. Some of you have been at this since the large demonstrations of February 2003 when we tried to stop the war before it started. Only 10-20% of the country agreed with us at that time. Remember how lonely that was? Some people were even booed! Now, 60% of the country agrees with our position. They are us and we are them. What a nice, strange, hopeful feeling.
A woman, for the first time in our history, will be Speaker of the House. The attempt to ban all abortion in the conservative state of South Dakota was defeated. Laws to raise the minimum wage were passed. Democrats were elected to fill Tom DeLay's and Mark Foley's seats. Detroit's John Conyers, Jr. is going to be the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. The Democratic governor of Michigan beat the CEO from Amway. The little township next to where I live in Michigan voted Democratic for the first time since... ever. And on and on and on. The good news will continue throughout today. Let's enjoy it. Savor it. And use it to get Congress to finally listen to the majority.
If you want to do one thing today, send an email or a letter to both of your senators and your member of Congress <http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/> and tell them, in no uncertain terms, what this election means: End the war -- and don't let George W. Bush get away with any more of his bright ideas.
Congratulations, again! Now let's go find a spine for the Dems to do the job we've sent them there to do.
Yours in victory (for once!),
Michael Moore
mmflint@aol.com
www.michaelmoore.com <http://www.michaelmoore.com/>
P.S. Thanks for all those photos you sent me of you with your brooms at your polling places. They're still coming in and we're posting them here <http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmflint/> throughout the day. And for those of you who asked how "Sicko" is coming along, the answer is: better than we ever expected! We're hard at work in the edit room and it will be in theaters in June. Thanks again, everyone, for your support.
Ohio PIRG says, thank your congresspeople:
Hi Ellen,
Thanks to all the hard work we've done over the past few weeks, 185 Congressional candidates signed onto the New Energy Future platform.
Candidates from across the nation and political spectrum-from progressive Democrats like Maryland's Ben Cardin to conservative Republicans like Pennsylvania's Rick Santorum-responded to voters' concerns about our dependence on dirty, unreliable energy sources and endorsed our common-sense solutions.
Unfortunately, Representative Steve Chabot has not yet endorsed the platform. But it is never too late to support clean energy! Join me in urging Representative Steve Chabot to support these common-sense solutions once in office.
To take action, click on the link below or copy and paste it into your web browser:
http://ohiopirg.org/OH.asp?id=1909&id4=ES
Diane Fishbein sends in link to last May Harper’s article on Ted Haggard, the Colorado fundamentalist pastor of mega church, recently outted in scandal
http://www.harpers.org/SoldiersOfChrist-20061103288348488.html
>>
>> I found this on line had seen it referred to I think it's a must
>> read.
>> diane fishbein
David Rosenberg forwards this article on the Turkish scholar charged with blasphemy for discovering that the burkah originally used by sacred prostitutes:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/01/news/turkey.php
(She was acquitted). ellen
Section Four: Books/Magazines/Reviews
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So, Nu? What are you reading? Watching? Seeing? Send it to me. ellen.
The Lloyd House Salon (usually about 12 people) Meets on WEDNESDAYS at 5:45,
EVERY Wednesday, 52 WEEKS/YEAR come hell or high water, as my mother used to say.
We of the Lloyd House Salon gather in a spirit of
respect, sympathy and compassion for one another
in order to exchange ideas for our mutual pleasure and enlightenment.
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Our Salon blog is a promising interactive site: http:lloydhouse.blogspot.com
Also, we have an Interactive Yahoo Salon group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LloydHouseSalon
For Pot Luck procedures including food suggestions, mission and history visit
http://home.fuse.net/ellenbierhorst/Potluck.html .
You are invited also to visit the Lloyd House website: http://www.lloydhouse.com
> To unsubscribe from the Lloyd House Potluck Salon list, send a REPLY message
> to me and in the SUBJECT line type in "unsub potluck #". In the place of #
> type in the numeral that follows the subject line of my Weekly email. It
> will be 1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7. This tells me which sub-list your name is on so I can
> delete it. Thanks! ellen bierhorst
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