Thursday, July 29, 2010

Weekly 7/29/10 - 12

Next week we will have a special presentation: Scott Gabard Seeborg will give us some training on what to say when touting Democratic candidates either canvassing or phone banking, or even just talking to folks we know. Scott is excellent! Please come. See his blurb below in Announcements section. ellen

The Lloyd House Wednesday Night Salon WEEKLY
(See at end of this email for introductory material)

SECTION ONE: TABLE NOTES

Ellen, Lauren, Viddle

At the Table: Viddle, Lauren Hanisian, Ellen Bierhorst

Viddle told about his career making documentary films, starting with a 1969 film of an anti Vietnam War protest that still is shown around the world. Talked of filming in Moscow, in Belorus (Belorussia), in Ukraine, in Israel. The importance of a regional cuisine in forging peoplehood.

Watched Barbara Wolf's documentary on the proposed sale of the Cincinnati Water Works department to a Regional Water Board, who would pay off the purchase over a 75 year period.

Attendance tonight is light ~ at least in part because tonight was the meeting at Cintas Center called to attempt to persuade the public that the sale is a good idea.
In Barbara Wolf's documentary (see it here: http://vimeo.com/13379237 )
Chris Smitherman and Roxanne Qualls were eloquently opposed.

Discussed Rudolph Steiner, Anthroposophy, Waldorf education, biodynamic farming.

~ end of table notes ~

Hugs to all,

Ellen

SECTION TWO: ACTIVITIES, OPPORTUNITIES

This is the Barbara Wolf documentary mentioned at table: (it is about 30 minutes long.)

(I'd say it doesn't make the case very well. I'd like less talk about carbon filters and more explanation about why smart Cincinnatians should vote No in November to selling the Water Works to a Regional Water District. Roxanne Qualls is against it. Chris Smitherman is against it. Barbara Wolf is against it. There is a lot of talk always about how the suburbs ought to be incorporated into the city for everyone's benefit. Well, couldn't this be a big fat carrot enticing them to join up? We already supply their water... What if we said No, not unless you join the team...? Ellen)

Our Water Works! (If it aint broken or broke, don't fix it.)
http://vimeo.com/13379237

About this video:
"There's talk afoot about "regionalizing" Cincinnati's Water Works. Make no mistake, we're not talking about water here, we're talking about money and what it gets spent on. Right now, the Greater Cincinnati Water Works provides some of the cleanest water in the United States and the world to its customers (the citizens of Cincinnati, and several surrounding counties including some in northern Kentucky). Our water is not only very clean, it is very cheap. In part, that's because all the revenues our Water Works takes in must be spent on our water and the infrastructure that supports and delivers it. The City is now suggesting we should regionalize our water system so that they can release that designated-for-water money to pay for other things. Meanwhile, the City refuses to raise taxes on the richest citizens and corporations because those people and corporations are their major donors. We must say NO to their plan or we will literally be forced to buy our Water Works from ourselves so it can be put under the control of a board made up of those same richest citizens and corporations. (This video was made to perform as one of two characters in THE WATER DRAFT, a live theatre piece about protecting things we hold in common. We think it also speaks just fine by itself.)"

What to say to Voters; Scott Gabbard Seeborg returns to Salon Wed. 4 Aug, this Wed.

Hello Lloyd House Salon!

I had a blast talking with you all a few weeks ago. Thank you so much again for having Jason and I.

What's at stake in Ohio 2010:
Speaking to voters on values and policy

We are planning a general talking points session for quick, clear cut, and effective messaging to motivate people to keep Ohio BLUE. These will be mainly based on issues many of us care very much about, and centered around the hot-button issues of the day. I am also excited to be able to provide answers to the questions left open from our last session.

The talking points session will be oriented around how real world application can work best, and framed around the kind of voter contact that must happen to keep Ohio Blue in 2010 (think re-districting). We will also be going over how speaking to values specifically can persuade a voter from the heart, and best practices on talking to someone about the policy issue that is most important to you at a door, on the street, or on the phone.

Looking forward to next Wednesday, and many thanks to Ellen and the Salon at large for the opportunity.

Best Regards,
Scott Gabbard Seeborg
Hello Lloyd House Salon!

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... And incidentally,
Intuitive Readings with Elizabeth Dolma
Elizabeth gives really wonderful Tarot Card readings. Clifton. Call: 861-0712. Let her know I sent you. Ellen

PUBLIC MEETING ON PROPOSED PUBLIC REGIONAL WATER DISTRICT

Mira went to this last night. Said there was no provision of Q & A, but some questions were asked nonetheless of the presenters, all of whom were in favor of selling the water works.

Memorial for Joan Friedland (February 6, 1936 to June 20, 2010) will be held on Saturday, July 31, 2010, 2pm at Clifton United Methodist Church, 3416 Clifton Avenue (45220).

If you have any questions, please phone 513-591-3003 any day before 7pm.

Edible Forest Gardens; talks to be given this month in town. Check here:
http://www.oeffa.org/forest.php

HAMILTON COUNTY OPENS CITIZEN SURVEY

Hamilton County Administration is seeking input from county residents as
part of the development

of the 2011 budget. The survey is available to all Hamilton County residents
and will be posted on

the county website at www.hamiltoncountyohio.gov from July 8 through August
8, 2010.

Questions are on 12 distinct policy issues- some issues are listed below:

. stadium fund revenue shortfall

. 911 call center consolidation

. drug incarceration policies

. election policies

. Sheriff's road patrols

. approaches to public health

. mass transit

. overall county government reform

County administration anticipates releasing the survey results in
mid-August, along with revisions

to the 2011 budget forecast, and department responses to the current
forecast budget. The survey

responses may impact budget decisions and engage discussion during budget
hearings between

county officials and the Board of County Commissioners during September.

Hamilton County residents will also have an opportunity to express their
views at public budget

hearings to be scheduled in October.

The 2011 citizen survey was developed entirely through the use of existing
county resources, and

entails no new expenses for county taxpayers. Over 2,000 citizens
participated in last year's

survey. Take the survey here:

http://www.hamilton-co.org/hc/default.asp

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Fw: Get Green, Get evolutionary, Study Permaculture this Fall
Posted by: "Caeli" caelimg@fuse.net caelimg
Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:34 pm (PDT)

Salonista Caeli Good forwards this from Salonista Braden Trauth, Permaculture Guru

This is a GREAT course!
Subject: Get Green, Get evolutionary, Study Permaculture this Fall

Howdy Folks
We here at OM Valley Permaculture and the Cincy Permaculture Guild are proud to announce our first Fall Permaculture Design Certification kicking off October 1st. There has been such positive support and interest in these classes that we have decided to embellish the beautiful season of fall with the joys of awakening to the evolutionary and regenerative science of Permaculture.
This class will kick off October 1st and continue through November 21st (Oct 16,31 & Nov. 13,14 will be off). It will be hosted at OM Valley Permaculture's urban demonstration sites in Northside, Cincinnati as well as a couple of weekends hosted by Wind Dance Farm, Greensleeves farm and several other locations to be announced. The cost of this course will be 550$ with scholarships available. We are also proud to announce that Locally grown lunch from our host farms will be available for purchase.

It will be taught by Grailville's Mary Lu Lageman,
Sakina Grome (formerly of Permaculture Research Institute Australia),
Greensleeves Farms' Gretchen Vaughn,
Wind Dance Farms' Ande & Lauren Schewe,
TreeYo Permacultures' Doug Crouch,
Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillages' Suellyn Schupe (salonista),
Om Valley Permaculture's Salonista Braden Trauth,
Along with Kat Grover (Formerly at Growing Power, Milwaukee & The Farm in TN), Amanda Nash (Transition Town Norhtside),
Patrcik Sherwin (Solar Engineer) and many others to be announced.

For more info please visit OMValleyPermaculture.wordpress.com or for questions or to Register please contact Sakina at OMValleyPermaculture@gmail.com or via phone at513-746-5149
We hope you can join us for another wonderful course and if you've already had the good fortune to take the course please pass on the word.
Thanks for your time & Keep on Growin'!
Braden Trauth

OM Valley Permaculture
"Evolving Humanity through Natural Design"
OMValleypermaculture.wordpress.com
513-569-2579

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No one else in town has studied with all the somatic masters of our time.
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Growth in Motion classes are open to all types of movers and non-movers. Work-scholarships available if you cannot afford the full tuition.
Please speak with me personally, Everyone is welcome.

Monday night at 6:30pm

Wednesday morning at 9:30am

Classes meet in Fanchon's beautiful home studio in North Avondale at 4019 Red Bud Ave., 45229 (Map)

Registration: 513-221-3222 or classes@growthinmotion.org

$48 for 4 classes or $20 per class

The benefits of your classes are never temporary--they never get washed away by life.
Instead, each class plants a powerful seed of personal growth that stays forever. I now have an entire forest.
- Alok Narayana

ARTICLES AND LETTERS

Six Facts no War Supporter Knows
Bentley Davis' Advice re. Where to volunteer for fall election
Atia Huff sends this: Public Option is alive! Support it now.
Household tips: using Bounce in fascinating ways
Atia sends more on politics...see this also

Crowley Endorses Tarbell for County Commission

I am writing to urge you to come out and vote Jim Tarbell for Hamilton County Commissioner this November 2nd. During this difficult period, our community needs experienced leadership and the right vision to ensure Hamilton County lives up to its fullest potential. I know Jim will approach Hamilton County's problems with the same tenacity and intelligence as he did for Cincinnati when he served as Councilmember and Vice-Mayor. I encourage you to get involved with his campaign and visithttp://www.jimtarbell.com for more information.
Sincerely,

David Crowley

Six Facts No War Supporter Knows

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Donna Park <donnapark50@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Subject: Six Facts No War Supporter Knows

To CGS: Greater Cincinnati Chapter,

See e-mail below forwarded by Father Ben.

--donna park

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Urmston, Benjamin <urmston@xavier.edu>
Date: Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:21 PM
Subject: FW: [members_pjsa] Six Facts No War Supporter Knows
To: "donnapark50@gmail.com" <donnapark50@gmail.com>

I think, Donna, this is worthy to be sent to members of Citizens for Global Solutions, Greater Cincinnati Chapter. And war today makes us more insecure than if we had different attitudes and different structures.

Peace, Ben

Father Benjamin J. Urmston, S.J., PhD

www.xavier.edu/frben

From: members_pjsa-owner@lists.riseup.net [mailto:members_pjsa-owner@lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of Paul Chappell
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 9:55 PM
To: PJSA Members
Subject: [members_pjsa] Six Facts No War Supporter Knows

Six Facts No War Supporter Knows

By dswanson - Posted on 24 July 2010

By David Swanson

This coming week, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on $33 billion for war. A majority of Americans opposes this, but a sizable minority of Americans supports it. No one who supports it can be aware of any of the following six facts.

1. For many months, probably years, at least the second largest and probably the largest source of revenue for the Taliban has been U.S. taxpayers. We are giving the Taliban our money instead of investing it in useful things at home or abroad. "WARLORD, INC.: Extortion and Corruption Along the U.S. Supply Chain in Afghanistan," is a report from the Majority Staff of the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs in the U.S. House of Representatives. The report documents payoffs to the Taliban for safe passage of U.S. goods, payoffs very likely greater than the Taliban's profits from opium, its other big money maker. And this is neither new nor unknown to top U.S. officials. But it must be unknown to Americans supporting the war. You can't support a war where you're funding both sides unless you want both sides to lose. We lock people away for giving a pair of socks to the enemy, while our own government serves as chief financial sponsor.

2. Our top consumer of oil is the U.S. military. We don't just fight wars in areas of the globe that are coincidentally rich in oil, but fighting those wars is the single biggest way in which we burn oil. We pollute the air in the process of poisoning the earth with all variety of weaponry. According to the 2007 CIA World Fact Book, when oil consumption is broken down per capita, the U.S. military ranks fourth in the world, behind just three actual nations. There's no way to care about the environment while allowing the money that could create renewable energy to be spent instead on an operation whose destructiveness is rivaled only by BP. We could have 20 green energy jobs at $50 K each for what it costs to send one soldier to Afghanistan. We're fighting wars for the fuel to fight wars, even though the process is eating up the funds we could use to try to survive its side-effects.

3. Over half of every U.S. tax dollar is spent on wars, the military, and payments on debt for past wars and military spending. Here's a pie chart that breaks it down for you. If you're concerned about government spending, you can't just be concerned with the minority of it that is carefully funded with taxes and off-setting cuts elsewhere. You have to also consider the single biggest item, the one that takes up a majority of the budget, large chunks of which are routinely funded off the books, borrowed from China, and passed with so-called "emergency supplemental" bills of the sort now before the House of Representatives, the sole purpose of which is to keep the money outside the budget. Numerous economic studies have shown that investing in the military, even at home, does less for the economy than tax cuts, which do less for the economy than investing in education, energy, infrastructure, and other areas. Its wars or jobs, we can't have both. The labor movement has mostly (with some good exceptions) been silent on war spending, in part because jobs spending has been packaged into the same bill. Now it's not. Now the House is confronted with a bill that spends on war the money that is needed for jobs, for housing, for schools, for green energy, for retirement. Will advocates of these raise their voices this week?

4. A leading, and probably the leading, cause of death in the U.S. military is suicide. U.S. troops are killing themselves in record numbers. One central reason for this is likely that these troops have no idea what it is they are risking their lives, and taking others' lives, for. Can we expect them to know, when top officials in Washington don't? When the President's special representative to Afghanistan testified in the Senate recently, senators from both parties asked him repeatedly what the goal was, what success would look like, for what purpose the war went on. Richard Holbrooke had no answers. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) told the Los Angeles Times: "A lot of folks on both sides of the aisle think this effort is adrift. A lot of folks you'd consider the strongest hawks in the country are scratching their heads in concern." Corker complained that after listening for 90 minutes to Holbrooke he had "no earthly idea what our objectives are on the civilian front. So far, this has been an incredible waste of time."

5. The $33 billion about to be voted on cannot possibly be needed to continue the war in Afghanistan, because it is exclusively to be used for escalating that war. The President was publicly pressured by his generals several months ago to begin an escalation, but Congress has yet to fund it. To the extent that it has been begun unfunded, it can be undone. CNN reports: "Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned senators in June that military operations will need to be reduced for the rest of the year unless Congress approves additional funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." This is nonsense. If this escalation funding were blocked, the war would remain at the level it was at before. And that's if the Pentagon respects the authority of the Congress. The other alternative, openly indicated by Gates, is that the Pentagon will fund the escalation out of its standard budget. Congressman Alan Grayson has a bill called "The War Is Making You Poor Act" which would require that wars be funded out of the military budget, which would eliminate federal taxes on the first $35,000 anyone earned and reduce the national debt. How horrible would that be?

6. War would be the greatest evil on earth even if it were free. Watch this new video of a man whose father was shot and killed while sleeping in bed. More of our tax dollars at work. How many of these stories of what our military does can we write off? Our drones kill both civilians and "insurgents," as do our night raids and check points. Or, maybe not the check points. General Stanley McChrystal said that of the amazing number of people we've killed at check points, none of them have been any threat. And the damage lasts in the places we destroy. Look at this new report on the damage done to the children of Fallujah. This is not because U.S. soldiers aren't brave or their parents didn't raise them well. It's because these wars don't involve pairs of armies on battlefields. We're occupying countries where the enemies look like everyone except us.

Well, maybe our representatives know all of this and still fund wars because people who fund them tell them to. But what can we do about it? We vote whenever there's an election, or at least some of us do. Isn't that our role? What does this have to do with elections? It should have everything to do with them. When we call our congress members this week we should not just ask them to vote No on war money, we should demand it, and we should let them know that we will work to unelect them, even replacing them with someone worse (since you can't get much worse), if they vote for this money. And we should spend August rewarding and punishing accordingly. Here are 88 candidates for Congress this year who have committed to not voting a dime for these wars. They are from every party and political inclination. They should be supported.

If this war funding can be blocked for another week it will be blocked until mid-September and perhaps for good. If we can get closer to doing that than we have before, we will have something to build on. Just holding a straightforward vote in which war opponents vote No and war supporters vote Yes, no matter how close or far we are from winning, will identify who needs to keep their job and who doesn't. If most of the Yes votes are Republican, we will be able to confront the President with the opposition of his own party. We're moving toward peace.

--
"Longfellow said, 'In this world a man must either be an anvil or a hammer.' We must be hammers shaping a new society rather than anvils molded by the old." - Martin Luther King Jr. (Autobiography, p. 332)

www.paulkchappell.com

Ellen Asked Bentley Davis: Where Should I volunteer to help the fall election most?

Ellen,

Below is an answer to your question. And, yes, you may publish my response.

There are three ways a progressive can volunteer to help win the fall elections:

volunteering for an individual candidate,
volunteering for the party,
or volunteering for a progressive organization that is doing electoral work.

The most effective means of volunteering would be canvassing (most effective) or phone banking (2nd best) for an individual candidate or through a progressive organization. This is not to discount volunteering for the party. Let me explain:

When canvassing or making calls for a candidate, you are giving that specific candidate your endorsement. People find it persuasive that you are willing to give your all for a specific candidate.

When volunteering on behalf of a progressive organization and talking to people who are sympathetic to that organization, people are more apt to be motivated to support the candidates the organization is endorsing. There are also progressive organizations that don't endorse, but canvass or phone bank to encourage people to vote.

I have been very active in party politics in the past, and they need volunteers too. But people are less apt to be persuaded by a purely party message unless they already identify with the party.

Depending upon the hours one has to give, it is possible to do volunteer work for more than one candidate or for an organization as well as a candidate or the party.

Finally, don't forget letting your social networks (twitter, facebook) know who you are supporting and why. When talking to your own friends, you can be profoundly effective.

If you have any other questions at all, please feel free to contact me.

Best,

Bentley

Ellen Bierhorst Ph.D., M.AmSAT CBO: Public health option would save $68 billion through 2020

(I sent this question to Bentley Davis, our policy wonk, and here is her response:)
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Ellen Bierhorst <ellenbierhorst@lloydhouse.com> wrote:
Hi Bentley,

Atia Huff forwarded this ... I am confused. I thought the health care bill as passed precluded public option. Is there really a bill on the floor of the HOuse that could bring it back?
ellen

Hi Ellen,

The health care reform doesn't make a public option illegal, it just didn't create one. There is a bill to create a public option -- HR 5808. It is not on the floor yet. It is currently in committee (energy and commerce committee). While it will not hurt to ask representatives to join the 128 cosponsors or to at least vote for it, it is unlikely to pass this year. The senate had a hard enough time just passing the unemployment extension, I don't see them developing the courage to vote for this.

But in general, the health care law can be amended. Republicans are threatening to amend it to non-existence if they gain control after the midterms. We can pressure progressive candidates/ office holders to amend the law to make it more progressive -- such as adding a public option.

Best,

Bentley

(So here is the article Atia sent:)

Creating a public option that all Americans could choose would save $68 billion through 2020, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office.

The analysis was included in a letter to Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), who along with Reps. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) is introducing a bill this week creating a public option in the state exchanges that start in 2014.



Bill Text                                                                                                                              111th Congress (2009-2010)

H.R.5808 -- To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to establish a public health insurance option. (Introduced in House - IH)
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.5808:

The new CBO report scores lower savings than the public options discussed during the healthcare reform debate because they were tied to legislation that differs from the law that was enacted in March.

The bill has more than 100 Democratic co-sponsors but faces strong opposition from the insurance industry, and physicians and hospitals worried that it would bring down payment rates.

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/110321-cbo-public-option-would-save-68-billion-through-2020-?page=3

please, contact Steve Driehaus:

email:
https://forms.house.gov/driehaus/webforms/issue_subscribe.htm
Phone: Washington, DC at (202) 225-2216 or in Cincinnati at (513) 684-2723

thank you.
http://www.fixcongressfirst.org/

Increases in the national debt
http://www.lafn.org/gvdc/Natl_Debt_Chart.html

Using Bounce Sheets in Novel Ways
(forwarded by Marcia Combs)

My mail carrier told me that the U.S. Postal service sent out a message to all letter carriers to put a sheet of Bounce in their uniform pockets to keep yellow-jackets away.

Use them all the time when playing baseball and soccer. I use it when I am working outside. It really works. The insects just veer around you.

All this time you've just been putting Bounce in the dryer!

1. It will chase ants away when you lay a sheet near them. It also repels mice.

2. Spread sheets around foundation areas, or in trailers, or cars that are sitting and it keeps mice from entering your vehicle.

3. It takes the odor out of books and photo albums that don't get opened too often.

4. It repels mosquitoes. Tie a sheet of Bounce through a belt loop when outdoors during mosquito season.

5. Eliminate static electricity from your television (or computer) screen.

6. Since Bounce is designed to help eliminate static cling, wipe your television screen with a used sheet of Bounce to keep dust from resettling..

7. Dissolve soap scum from shower doors. Clean with a sheet of Bounce.

8. To freshen the air in your home - Place an individual sheet of Bounce in a drawer or hang in the closet.

9. Put Bounce sheet in vacuum cleaner.

10. Prevent thread from tangling. Run a threaded needle through a sheet of Bounce before beginning to sew.

11. Prevent musty suitcases. Place an individual sheet of Bounce inside empty luggage before storing.

12. To freshen the air in your car - Place a sheet of Bounce under the front seat.

13. Clean baked-on foods from a cooking pan. Put a sheet in a pan, fill with water, let sit overnight, and sponge clean. The anti-static agent apparently weakens the bond between the food and the pan..

14. Eliminate odors in wastebaskets. Place a sheet of Bounce at the bottom of the wastebasket.

15. Collect cat hair. Rubbing the area with a sheet of Bounce will magnetically attract all the lose hairs.

16. Eliminate static electricity from Venetian blinds.. Wipe the blinds with a sheet of Bounce to prevent dust from resettling.

17. Wipe up sawdust from drilling or sand papering. A used sheet of Bounce will collect sawdust like a tack cloth.

18. Eliminate odors in dirty laundry. Place an individual sheet of Bounce at the bottom of a laundry bag or hamper.

19. Deodorize shoes or sneakers. Place a sheet of Bounce in your shoes or sneakers overnight.

20. Golfers put a Bounce sheet in their back pocket to keep the bees away.

21. Put a Bounce sheet in your sleeping bag and tent before folding and storing them. It will keep them smelling fresh.

22. Wet a Bounce sheet, hose down your car, and wipe lovebugs off easily with the wet Bounce.

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hi, ellen,

after reading your salon minutes today, i thought of dropping you a personal note and i hope this will not mess up your routine too much. lol.

first, would you tell me how you find time to read in your busy day? i think i know your answer: where there is a will... anyway, good on you.

second: let me compliment you on the eclectic compilation of subjects in the minutes. very impressive. what struck me or rather shocked me were the questions posed to the DEM visitors by salonistas, regarding the lack of information that trickles down to citizens. it seems to me, that if citizens of salon caliber feel they don't know enough about the job our president is doing, there must be some serious problem with messaging by the WH and the administration.
if only we had better or real media. i realize the 24 hour news cycle by the corporate media, always seeking the breaking sensational story that brings highest ratings is hard to compete with, but nevertheless, it is an obvious failure of framing and messaging. WH press corps has long lost its usefulness and i'm not sure Gibbs is the best presenter.

to illustrate my claim, i compiled a list of some of the news that got lost in the mail or in the din of 'reporting' by our media. you can tell me to bug off, of course, but i'm presenting it with most sincere intent; hope you are not offended. IMO, Obama is doing lot of good, slowly correcting many injustices under very difficult circumstances, and gets limited amount of credit for it. here we go:

PARTIAL LIST WHAT OUR PRESIDENT DID LAST WEEK:

he signed Credit-Card Reform Succeeds in Ending Many Deceptive Practices, Pew Finds http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-22/credit-card-reform-succeeds-in-ending-many-deceptive-practices-pew-finds.html

Statement by President Barack Obama on Senate Passage of Unemployment Insurance Extension http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/statement-president-barack-obama-senate-passage-unemployment-insurance-extension

Executive Order--Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-stewardship-ocean-our-coasts-and-great-lakes

The Accountable Government Initiative: The Obama Administration's Effort to Cut Waste and Modernize Government

http://www.cio.gov/pages.cfm/page/Making-Government-Work-Closing-the-Gap

President Obama Expands Greenhouse Gas Reduction Target for Federal Operations http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-expands-greenhouse-gas-reduction-target-federal-operations

Statement by the President on the Passage of the Tribal Law and Order Act http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/statement-president-passage-tribal-law-and-order-act

Statement by the President on the Senate Judiciary Committee Vote on Elena Kagan http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/statement-president-senate-judiciary-committee-vote

signed Finance Reform law - Video: What Wall Street Reform Means For You http://www.whitehouse.gov/WallStreetReformVideo?utm_source=site&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=wallstreform

Hosted UK Prime Minister David Cameron.

Exclusive interview: President Obama on Shirley Sherrod, Elizabeth Warren (very enlightening)

http://abcnews.go.com/gma/consumernews/video/exclusive-president-obama-shirley-sherrod-11234264&tab=9482931&section=2808950&playlist=2808979

GOOD SOURCES OF INFO:

1. http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions

2. http://mediamatters.org/

3. http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

thanks for listening, ellen.

peace,

atia huff

REVIEWS: BOOKS, MUSIC, CONCERTS, RESTAURANTS, WEBSITES ...

Please send me your tips...love to hear what you are reading etc. ellen
......................................
Check out review of movie about a lesbian couple and their teenage sperm-donated children meeting the donor: http://wearegoodkin.com/article/kids-are-all-right

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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Save homeless children, Monday! - 12

Dear Salon Weekly subscribers,

I forward this urgent appeal to help save a Cinti. public schools program for homeless children. School board meets tomorrow at 4, Monday 7/26. The article here explains the program: http://cincinnatibeacon.com/

I expect the board meets at the board of ed. offices here:

The Central Office for Cincinnati Public Schools is located at the Education Center in Corryville.

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 5381, 45201-5381
Location: 2651 Burnet Avenue, 45219 (between Taft and University)
Phone: (513) 363-0000

However, it is a good idea to phone them if you can attend the meeting.

Read below, Bentley Davis' call for us to help save this program, etc. It must be about to be axed or else she wouldn't have written in this manner.

If you can't go to the meeting, phone t hem. Or write. I have heard about the Interfaith Hospitality Network (referenced below) that helps house homeless families in churches in town. Wonderful work.

ellen

Ellen Bierhorst Ph.D., M.AmSAT

Holistic Psychologist and Teacher of the Alexander Technique

ellenbierhorst@lloydhouse.com

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Begin forwarded message:

From: Bentley Davis <bentleysdavis@gmail.com>

Date: July 25, 2010 4:01:22 PM EDT

To: Ellen Bierhorst <ellenbierhorst@lloydhouse.com>

Subject: Project Connect -- URGENT!

This is really short notice, but this program needs to be saved. The school board meets tomorrow at 4. If people could make it that is great. If not, or in addition, letters of support are helpful. The article on the Cincinnati Beacon is more informative than the appeal below.

Best,

Bentley

From: Georgine Getty georgine@ihncincinnati.org

Subject: Project Connect -- URGENT!

Please see the email below from Karen Fessler and check out the full article at www.cincinnatibeacon.com. Project Connect is one of the best resources for homeless children in this city. I know that we at IHN could not do what we do without their support. Our kids are attending their summer camp right now and they come back happy. Our kids don't always get the chance to be happy, but Project Connect makes that happen for them and it would be a long, hot, miserable summer without them. And that doesn't' even touch the work Project Connect does keeping homeless kids in their school of origin, providing uniforms, transportation, etc. etc. etc. We can't even begin to imagine the impact if we lost them. If you are able, please come support Project Connect tomorrow. I know I will be there! Take Care, Georgine Georgine Getty Executive Director Interfaith Hospitality Network of Greater Cincinnati The faith community's response to family homelessness 2110 St. Michael St. Cincinnati, OH 45204 Phone: (513) 471-1100 fax: 471-0100 website: www.ihncincinnati.org -----Original Message----- From: Karen Fessler [mailto:fesslek@cpsboe.k12.oh.us] Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 1:42 PM To: georgine@ihncincinnati.org Subject: Re: Please Help!! Leverage Letter We are happy to do this but we may not have a program to support you. Please go to www.cincinnatibeacon.com and read the article. We need your advocacy and help right now. Meeting tomorrow at 4. This is URGENT!! Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.560 / Virus Database: 270.12.26/2116 - Release Date: 5/15/2009 6:16 AM

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Weekly 7/22/10 - 12

Wonderful presentation by Scott on the important campaign this fall. See Table Notes. I am ready to hold training sessions for canvassers and phone banking volunteers. Who is interested? ellen

The Lloyd House Wednesday Night Salon WEEKLY
(See at end of this email for introductory material)

SECTION ONE: TABLE NOTES

David, Marguerite, Viddle, Mira, (Mr. G.), Alan, Lauren, Jason, Scott, (not pictured: Julia, Marvin, Gerry, Sophia)

At the Table: David Rosenberg, Margueritte, Viddle, Alan Weiner, Lauren Hanisian, Jason Manny, Scott Seeborg, Ellen Bierhorst, Mr. G, Gerry Kraus, Marvin Kraus Mira Rodwan, Julia Yarden, Sophia Yarden

Mira:  still looking for my July Funny Times...
Margurite: a gathering Sat 2-4 in Washington Park protesting the theft of the park , protesting the city's plans for redoing the park. They want to tear out trees, build parking lot. Give it to 3CDC. No swim pool, no basketball courts.
Gerry: They are redoing the whole thing as part of the renovation of that section. It is for the people who are going to live there. Posh. Up-scale. Will have a dog run. Make the park less intimidating for people going to the Music Hall. Also better for the SPCA school. They will keep the band stand/gazeebo. Some people think it will inhibit the homeless from using it. There will be more trees, flowers. It sounds nice.
Margurite: the current residents are opposed. Wanted to keep the pool, the basketball courts. We need to consider income and class issues. Is it going to be friendly for both low and high income folks. ?

THE WATER WORKS SALE PLAN
Margurite: technically it is not "privatization" but ... (amounts to the same thing.ellen)
Gerry:  the proponents claim that they won't privatize it, but Barbara Wolf's video documentary explains that this could be changed. See her video: http://vimeo.com/13379237
David  Barbara Wolf is a brilliant video journalist. We are so lucky to have her here.

Gary: I switched to the Duke offer, "Duke Retail" for guaranteed lower electricity prices. I researched it, and there didn't seem any reason not to take it.

David:  a Barbara Wolf story. In the late 70's or early 80's, Winton Place Civic club meeting. It was a conservative blue collar neighborhood. They send a rep from a garbage incineration company, wanting to build an incinerator at Este and Center Hill, right near Winton Place. They sent a slick salesman. "We will have jobs... No pollution... Contribute taxes..." We were skeptical, and I convinced everyone to be skeptical. I said, "We need a professional helper. ... Hire an environmental coordinator." The motion carried. Whoo to hire. I called Roxanne Q who was running Citizen Action. She recommended Barbara Wolf, and she became our environmental action coordinator and we beat the pants off the slick incinerator guys. A wonderful ending. She learned the facts and communicated them well. ... She also has a partner, Michael Burnam, one of Cinti's great story tellers, is at CCM.

SCOTT SEEBORG: Democrat Political Organizer
Scott:
Still tired from election of 2008; why is this election important;
how effective can our efforts be;
how is the campaign organized;
What is the strategic importance of this race;
Obama's positions.

Myself:
Grew up Portland, OR. Loved camping. I ran a record lable there. 911 shut off my business. Moved to Philadelphia. I had worked for liberal candidates in OR. I answered an ad in Philly "We are looking for environmental superheros", and worked for a water protection non profit. 2003, worked for the Clean Water Act. I did 30,000 door to door calls. Left me with a sense of power, an American, ... To make people's lives better.
Money is more valuable when seen as a tool for people. Human life comes first. I cannot stand putting money above life. ... E.g. Pittsburg; a steel town, high cancer rates. Many polluting industries along the river. So much soot in the air, my knuckles turned black knocking on doors. The regulatory agencies looked at polluters one by one w/o noticing the concentration of polluters in this one area.
An individual citizen took videos of smoke coming out of chimneys, showing color. His efforts enabled us to blow the whistle on polluters. We won... The Bush administration tried to destroy the Clean Water Act.
It was an amazing time for me. ... The night the Iraq war started I was canvassing, people invited me in to see the war on TV. Blew me away. ... In 2004 I worked hard for Kerry. We lost, and I was discouraged.
So we started organizing against US Senator Rick Santoro for 2006. He had less than an F record with the League of Conservation Voters. Worked for 13 months. In 2006 an event that changed my life. Was traveling all over the country, working on election. Ended up in Chester Co Pennsylvania. Curt Weldon had held power a long time, great conservative voter, terrible on environmental issues. We succeeded in unseating him from the US House of Rep. ... On election day, 2006, we had had 300 canvasers... Were really tired at 7:30, but polls didn't close until 8. Decided to get another half hour... The election was so close there had to be a recount; the Dem won by 23 votes. I believe that was the work of that small group of committed individuals.

From '06 to '08 I got involved trying to get young people into environmental action. Citizens' Campaign Network. ...
Now working for the Democratic party.

My wife's family are all from Cincinnati. She grew up here. She is at UC in grad school gender studies.
And I wanted to be in Ohio, a battleground state.

Look back to 2004. The Bush Administration doing egregious things. Civil Liberties. Fear strategy. Scare people into things .... They had a Grover Norquist (economist) alpproach. "Make gov't so small it can be drowned in a bathtub." I was alarmed by that. It was terrible. Enormous anti war demonstrations did not thing to curb the war...Over a million people dead in Iraq. (Lauren: and we spent a trillion dollars on that war.)
I felt responsible.

I personally have arthritis of the spine (ankylosing spondalitis). I wasn't able to get meds I needed because it was "pre-existing condition"... Huge run around, red tape.
In the future I might have a shot at getting health insurance because of the reforms. That was not possible back in 2008; if McCain had won, it would not be happening either.

In PA they were spraying pesticides on school yards during school hours... We got involved... Asked them to spray in the evenings, weekends. They refused. But in 9 years of work we got a bill passed, finally. Protects kids in schools from those pesticides. So government takes a long time.

Jason Manny:  Scott is paid, but I am a volunteer. Cincinnati almost all my life. ... I got involved in the Article 12 repeal campaign, that was successful. Since then in organizing. Obama in 2008.
Young people, LGBT, Blacks, Hispanics were targeted by the campaign, and is a big reason why we won.
Republicans have controled Ohio for 20 year, and controlled the reapportionment board. (Gerrymandering of districts). In 2008 we won only because we had so many volunteers. We want to control the reapportionment board for the next ten years so we don't have to do so much heroic volunteers work. Governor, Sec-y of state, State Auditor. Very important, key.
Ted Strickland, D. is up for re election.
Marilyn O'Shaugnasee, D. is running for Sec'y of State.
Rich Cordray is running for Att'y Gen.
David Pepper is running for State Auditor.

Scott:
Why is this election so important?
Redistricting is going to happen next year. If the Republicans are in control of those key posts (gov, Secy state, State Auditor) it will be very bad for us. Gerrymandering. See the graph athttp://hamiltoncountydems.org/ showing democrat/republican voting in Hamilton Co.
Thanks to Obama, we have a wonderful organization here. He got more % of the vote in to turn out to vote, than any president in history. Did it by using the snowflake model. Neighbors talking to neighbors. Around each neighborhood team leader are volunteers who manage phone bank, etc. etc.
(What is the GOP's model?) In my experience the GOP has maintained a centralized get out the vote effort, centered on religious institutions. Not as grass roots. Not a neighbor to neighbor volunteer operation.
I get paid, but I work 7 days a week, 80+ hours.

David: I think the Republicans out message the Dems and get the average person to vote against their interests time and again.

Scott: we need to turn Ohio blue or else lose all our hard work from 2008. In addition to reapportionment issue, if we can get new voters to vote again for the dems, they will stay dem all their lives.
In '08 we did tremendous new registered voters. We need to keep those new voters voting.

We can be as effective now as we were in 2008. It's all about people volunteering.
Phone banking, canvassing: the crux of any organizing work. When people are face to face it is qualitatively different from media messaging. The big money pays for media. Face to face voter contact is the premier way to win elections.

What would volunteers do in this campaign? Spend a few hours talking to neighbors, ask others to get involved.

It might come down to 23 votes.

Jason:  historically the mid term election sees loss of seats for the White House party.
We want to win Voinovich senate seat. Lee Fisher.
We want to keep Driehaus. The alternative is super conservative Chabot again.

Scott:  ohio going blue in 2008 was a really big deal. When you have a democratic governor and senators, the president does better on re election. If we hold Ohio now, it will be great for Obama's reelection in 2012.
Every strategist and analysis say that if the Republicans are to regain control, they must get Ohio. So Ohio is THE key battleground state.

Mira:
Many people like me are disappointed with Obama's playing ball with Geithner and Sommers. I am an independent. I am on the left fringe of this group.

David
Why vote Democratic? What are the issues.

Scott:
I am from the left, from Oregon.
There would not have been movement on "don't ask don't tell"
Mountain coal removal... Halted by Obama. Environmental impacts are being studied.
Draw down of military action in Iraq. Eventual draw down in Afghan.
Student loan reform; a massive impact. Graduates to pay only a % of their income in debt repayment; and if they go into public service you may be allowed to pay less than the full amount of your loan. There is a point at which the debt is forgiven.

Mr. G.  we would love to have some details about these points. It is hard to get information. What concrete things have been enacted? Especially contrasting points: Bush did X, Obama did Y. Concrete facts.

Scott: that is important. I agree. Want to get these facts.

David:  to me Obama squandered the first year in office; didn't point out how awful things really were under Bush.
When I try and assess where we are at in the electorate by feel it is dismal! Media is saying "Dems will lose the house" and "Dems might lose the senate".
I sure don't buy the argument that "the media is controlled by money alone". I think good information is not getting out there.

Scott:  we will be talking door to door about these issues.
Gerry:  I am in Jean Schmidt's district... Her dem opponent is Surya Yalamanchili "Chili"...
http://votechili.com/
Not Kirkorian. I don't think he has a chance. I don't feel like working for him. Why did the local Dems put up Chili instead of Kirkorian?

Margurite:  you can donate $50 to the campaign of a candidate for state office and deduct it from your Ohio tax bill. You can spread it out over governor, sec'y of state, reps etc.
Yes, there is plenty Obama has done that disappointed me, but you still want to put your energy in the campaign this year. There are all these different jobs...it might be volunteering for the Dem party, or for a candidate, or from the League of Women Voters, or taking people to the polls. Everybody can find a job.

Mr. G.  Think of this as campaigning against Sarah Palin, the tea party... We've seen how bad things can get. Even if Obama isn't so great...

Ellen: I am very strong for Obama... Reading the biography The Bridge
Marvin: Obama promoted the 700 billion bail out for the banks, but the little businesses can't borrow money. Big banks get the money ... They are keeping it. They make their money from credit cards.

The 700 billion could have been put to better use, given to little businesses.
Obama's advisors were never little people.
What do I tell people when I ask them to vote for Democrats.

Jason: the 700 billion was proposed by Bush. The stimulus Obama passed was for job growth. Most of the 700 billion has been paid back by most of the banks.
They haven't made small business loans; disappointing; so now there is planning to divert the money that has been repaid towards small businesses...

Marvin:  the administration has real power in the regulations that really control who gets the money, enforcement, oversight...
The regulations say, "You hae to have so much in reserves..."

Scott: as Obama was being elected we saw the economy spiraling downward. The Bush administration did the TARP program. Unleashed a massive amount of money. Obama had to deal with that as he came in ...
I think they could have done a better job with the financial bail out; now the reforms that are being passed are edging us back towards ethical responsibility in banks.
The health care reform bill also edging us back towards towards ethical responsibility ...
Children can remain on parents' policy until age 26...
Stem Cell research opened up ...

Mr. G.  There was a NYTimes article this week. Health Insurance companies now threatening to limit your choice of docs and hospitals.
Re. Ellen's loving Obama: many people have a worse life in the last year and a half. What are you going to say to them?
What can we say to support Strickland, Fisher, the others.? Under Strickland many jobs were lost.
Gerry: Strickland's opponent Kasich,

Scott: Kasich came from wall st. where he made a lot of money. ...
Strickland: He passed landmark education reforms; lowered senior citiz. Tax; created 50,000 new jobs by a legislation. Lowered tuition for college.
Kasich worked for the rich, against the poor. ... http://www.ohiodems.org/

~ end of table notes ~

Hugs to all,

Ellen

SECTION TWO: ACTIVITIES, OPPORTUNITIES

This is the Barbara Wolf documentary mentioned at table: (it is about 30 minutes long.)
Our Water Works! (If it aint broken or broke, don't fix it.)
http://vimeo.com/13379237

About this video:
"There's talk afoot about "regionalizing" Cincinnati's Water Works. Make no mistake, we're not talking about water here, we're talking about money and what it gets spent on. Right now, the Greater Cincinnati Water Works provides some of the cleanest water in the United States and the world to its customers (the citizens of Cincinnati, and several surrounding counties including some in northern Kentucky). Our water is not only very clean, it is very cheap. In part, that's because all the revenues our Water Works takes in must be spent on our water and the infrastructure that supports and delivers it. The City is now suggesting we should regionalize our water system so that they can release that designated-for-water money to pay for other things. Meanwhile, the City refuses to raise taxes on the richest citizens and corporations because those people and corporations are their major donors. We must say NO to their plan or we will literally be forced to buy our Water Works from ourselves so it can be put under the control of a board made up of those same richest citizens and corporations. (This video was made to perform as one of two characters in THE WATER DRAFT, a live theatre piece about protecting things we hold in common. We think it also speaks just fine by itself.)"

Premptive Forgiveness
My friend Elizabeth Dolma passed along to me as a 70th birthday present a morning spiritual practice: you forgive in advance each morning anyone and everyone, including yourself, who will possibly offend you in any way during the day. This morning I realize it is a stretch to forgive the national and international energies of greed and war that cause so much suffering around the world... And yet I see that this is precisely what stands between me and serenity. What would it be like to forgive humanity for its humanness... really? Ellen

P.S. ...maybe I need to ask for help to forgive... From the Wellspring of life and Light.

.......................................................................

... And incidentally,
Intuitive Readings with Elizabeth Dolma
Elizabeth gives really wonderful Tarot Card readings. Clifton. Call: 861-0712. Let her know I sent you. Ellen

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Midnight Rose Trio (Celtic Harp + Flute)
Hello Dear Friends,
Just a note to let you know that we will be playing from 8:30 - 10:30 at Marty's
Hops and Vines on Hamilton Avenue on Friday, July 23rd.
Hope you can stop by! We'd love to see you!

Pam, Laurie and Rose

PUBLIC MEETING ON PROPOSED PUBLIC REGIONAL WATER DISTRICT
(see Barbara Wolf's documentary explaining this at: http://vimeo.com/13379237 )

The Kraus' have explained to us that this is actually the short-sighted plan to sell off the water works in order to raise money for the city to pay operating expenses. It is like eating your seed corn in lean times; then you have nothing to plant come spring.
    The issue is that revenue from the water works, which has always been owned by the city, may not be used for anything but the utility itself, by state law. As councilwoman Leslie Ghiz has said, a solution would be to change that state law! (We don't often agree with Ms. Ghiz.)
    The public meeting will be Wed. July 28 at 6 pm in the Cintas Center, XU(1624 Herald Ave). Details: http://www.cincinnatiwater.org
    We urge you to attend and speak out against selling the water works. It is like killing and eating the goose that lays golden eggs!

Spiritual Cinema proudly presents
AVATAR
This Friday Evening, July 23, 7:00pm
Unity Church on McMillain near Woodburn: Friendship Hall
Love Offering (means you can give what you want for admission)
A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Tom Sylvester facilitating the discussion.

This Friday
Good People,

This coming Friday, you get another fix of Poetry & Pinot. As if the event wasn't already hot enough...we have moved it to a new location this month. That new location is at Beluga in Hyde Park. You were already getting free wine, spoken word from Lady J and friends, a great band (Shades of J), me of course :), and great sounds (this month from DJ Prolifik). Now I have added 1/2 price sushi and a book signing from author John Harshaw in the equation.

Let's do a recap...
Spoken Word 10pm-12am
Free Wine Tasting 10pm-11pm
Half Price Sushi 11pm-2am
DJ Prolifik 12am-2am
Book Signing from John Harshaw
and you get me all NIGHT!

That is alot of bang for your buck...
For more info call/text 513.293.3515

Sincerely Yours,
Donny Young aka One Bad Mutha(shutyourmouth)!

CELTIC ROSE Free Concert
(harp and flute music. Gorgeous!)

Hello Dear Friends,
  Three new concerts to tickle your ears and get your Celtic toes a-tapping!
Hope you can join us!

Thanks so much,

Pam Jurgens (Ellen's dear friend, harpist), Rose Reidmiller and Laurie Phenix

     Friday, July 23 8-10 p.m.,
                         Marty's Hops and Vines
                   6110 Hamilton Avenue
                   681-4222

Memorial for Joan Friedland (February 6, 1936 to June 20, 2010) will be held onSaturday, July 31, 2010, 2pm at Clifton United Methodist Church, 3416 Clifton Avenue (45220).

Beloved daughter of the late Isidore & Esther Friedland, she is survived by loving family, friends and colleagues. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions to the charity of one's choice would be appreciated.

Joan Friedland had a PhD in biochemistry and taught at the State University of New York in Brooklyn before making a mid-life career change to public health. After receiving a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology at the University of California at Los Angeles, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to work at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Joan was one of the pioneers in the NIOSH worker notification program, where she developed notification materials for industry-wide studies. She also collaborated on studies on biological markers and occupational cancer.
Despite a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer shortly after her 1998 retirement from NIOSH, Joan continued her lifelong work for a better world and contributed substantially, both financially and actively, to many causes such as EarthSave Cincinnati; the ENVIRONMENT: Sierra Club, Imago, Environmental Community Organization (ECO), Union of Concerned Scientists; HEALTH: Action on Smoking and Health, Breast Cancer Action, The Wellness Community, UCLA School of Public Health; COMMUNITY: League of Women Voters, Woman's City Club; NATURE: Highlands Nature Sanctuary, Highland Cemetery Nature Trails, Western Wildlife Corridor, ORGANIC GARDENING/SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: Grailville Community Supported Agriculture Project; PEACE/JUSTICE: Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center; VEGAN FOOD: The Loving Café, Love Force Raw Foods, World Peace Jubilee; ANIMALS: Animals, People and the Earth (APE), Cincinnati Zoo; WOMEN: Older Women's League; WORKERS: American Federation of Government Employees Local 3840; and YOUTH: Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, Easter Seals Work Resource Center; MUSIC: Cincinnati Symphony, Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Ballet. Despite her quiet demeanor, Joan was passionate about her causes. She initiated a successful campaign to ban smoking in Cincinnati outdoor stadiums years before the Ohio ban on smoking in public places.
Joan attributed her remarkable 12 year breast cancer survival to her vegetarian diet and exercise. Her friends, who are grateful for those extra years, remember her love of music, her joy in sharing limericks, and her delight in her feline companions. In her last months, Joan enjoyed the Cincinnati Ballet, asked about tickets to La Boheme, and collected signatures for a state ballot initiative to protect farms animals. Joan practiced tai chi faithfully and went to her tai chi class the day she entered hospice care. Joan's friends and colleagues will miss her lovely smile, her gracious manner, and her dauntless spirit.

If you have any questions, please phone 513-591-3003 any day before 7pm.

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Fw: Get Green, Get evolutionary, Study Permaculture this Fall
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Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:34 pm (PDT)

Salonista Caeli Good forwards this from Salonista Braden Trauth, Permaculture Guru

This is a GREAT course!
Subject: Get Green, Get evolutionary, Study Permaculture this Fall

Howdy Folks
We here at OM Valley Permaculture and the Cincy Permaculture Guild are proud to announce our first Fall Permaculture Design Certification kicking off October 1st. There has been such positive support and interest in these classes that we have decided to embellish the beautiful season of fall with the joys of awakening to the evolutionary and regenerative science of Permaculture.
This class will kick off October 1st and continue through November 21st(Oct 16,31 & Nov. 13,14 will be off). It will be hosted at OM Valley Permaculture's urban demonstration sites in Northside, Cincinnati as well as a couple of weekends hosted by Wind Dance Farm, Greensleeves farm and several other locations to be announced. The cost of this course will be 550$ with scholarships available. We are also proud to announce that Locally grown lunch from our host farms will be available for purchase.

It will be taught by Grailville's Mary Lu Lageman,
Sakina Grome (formerly of Permaculture Research Institute Australia),
Greensleeves Farms' Gretchen Vaughn,
Wind Dance Farms' Ande & Lauren Schewe,
TreeYo Permacultures' Doug Crouch,
Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillages' Suellyn Schupe (salonista),
Om Valley Permaculture's Salonista Braden Trauth,
Along with Kat Grover (Formerly at Growing Power, Milwaukee & The Farm in TN), Amanda Nash (Transition Town Norhtside),
Patrcik Sherwin (Solar Engineer) and many others to be announced.

For more info please visit OMValleyPermaculture.wordpress.com or for questions or to Register please contact Sakina at OMValleyPermaculture@gmail.com or via phone at513-746-5149
We hope you can join us for another wonderful course and if you've already had the good fortune to take the course please pass on the word.
Thanks for your time & Keep on Growin'!
Braden Trauth

OM Valley Permaculture
"Evolving Humanity through Natural Design"
OMValleypermaculture.wordpress.com
513-569-2579

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U.S. troops en route to Costa Rica???
George Lakoff: framing the message

(Rec'd 7/20/10. ?? Have not checked.)

The outrageous announcement that 46 US warships and 7000 Marines are heading for Costa Ricato "fight drugs" should alert all peace and justice organizations to the real significance of this action. Such a move will raise legitimate alarm in the Caribbean, Central and Latin America of the real intent of the United States and react accordingly.

Regardless whether this was done with the connivance of the Costa Rica government or not, as peace and justice activists, we are opposed to the extension of US military force, especially, at these times, when our Brothers and Sisters in the South are moving forward in their struggle for national sovereignty and independence from US influence.

Endorse the "Declaration Against US Military Forces in Costa Rica, the Declaration against Invasion and Military Impunity":

- We the undersigned and organizations of our support network, categorically reject the U.S. military ships entering Costa Rican territory, as well as any further increase of militarism to attempt to solve conflicts in global politics.

- We oppose the permission granted by the Costa Rican Legislature, which allows for joint patrols against trafficking of drugs into Costa Rica with up to 46 warships, 200 helicopters, 10 AV-8B Harrier aircraft and 7,000 marines.

- With this action, the government of Costa Rica aims to join the U.S. military agenda in Latin America. The solution to drug trafficking is social, not military.

- Costa Rica, with its neutral and pacifist tradition, cannot allow its territory to be used for a military objective that violates their sovereignty. This U.S. military contingent will be able to move freely throughout Costa Rican territory with immunity for its troops. Such a military presence in a country without an army is unacceptable.

- We call on our respective governments and peoples to jointly promote all possible action to defend Costa Rican sovereignty, and to reject this military action.

Call to Action: United for Peace & Justice encourages UFPJ Member Groups and other organizations to individually endorse this declaration and communicate it to Hendrik Voss, School of the Americas Watch, hvoss@soaw.org. To support endorsement, we encourage that issue information and calls to action be forwarded to member group constituencies.

Background:

We Love Costa Rica article, 46 US Warships Plus 7,000 US Marines On Route To Costa Rica?

Global Post Article, 7,000 US Marines Landing on the beaches of Costa Rica

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George Lakoff: help progressives frame the message

Good example of progressive framing.

Lakoff needs to give us more such examples based on key issues.
Why do conservatives seem to frame more easily than progressives?
Is it in the nature of the frame that the punitive father is served more advantageously than the nuturing parent?

Jeanne Nightingale (and also Mr. G.)
(read Lakoff's article here:)

http://www.truth-out.org/disaster-messaging61170

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