Yesterday was fabulous. I got to the Gallivan Center around 1:00pm with a handful of other folks and by 1:30 had staked out my spot for the first concert in the annual Twilight Concert Series of the season, featuring artist Michael Franti & Spearhead.
The highlight for me was meeting Michael.
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(Sources: Peace Buttons, War Resisters League, and the Peace Center.)
July 7
1863
First military draft by US (exemptions cost $100).
1903
Labor organizer Mary Harris (“Mother”) Jones led the “March of the Mill Children” over 100 miles from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt’s summer home in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York to publicize the harsh conditions of child labor and to demand a 55-hour work week. It is during this march, on about the 24th, she delivered her famed “The Wail of the Children” speech. Roosevelt refused to see them.
1977
The United States conducted its first test of the neutron bomb. The neutron bomb was a tactical thermonuclear weapon designed to cause very little physical damage through limited blast and heat but was designed to kill troops through localized but intense levels of lethal radiation. a neutron bomb explosion at a test site |
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1979
2,000 American Indian activists and anti-nuclear demonstrators marched through the Black Hills of western South Dakota to protest the development of uranium mines on native sacred lands.
1988
The first of many syringes, blood vials & other hospital souvenirs — some contaminated with the AIDS virus — washes ashore on Long Island, forcing the closing of miles of beaches in the midst of the worst East Coast heat wave of the decade.
Took photos today of things growing. More can be seen on my garden page.
I am on the organzing committee for Imagine Peace, a Festival being planned for September 23rd.
This is the brainchild of Pom Poms Not Bomb Bombs, Utah’s Radical Cheerleaders, and is a collaborative grassroots effort of that group, People for Peace and Justice of Utah, and Roots and Shoots of Westminster College.
The Festival will include art displays by children and adults on the theme of “Imagine Peace”, music, poetry, films and workshops.
This is a “special event”, requiring all sorts of expenses – liability insurance, mass gathering permits, tents, etc.
We need financial assistance. Please forward this post widely. Visit our donation page at Imagine Peace Fest to find out ways to donate funds. This is the first festival of its kind in Salt Lake City and we hope to make it an annual event.
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(Sources: Peace Buttons, War Resisters League, and the Peace Center.)
July 6
1982
In one of the worst cases of violent union-busting, a fierce battle broke out between the striking employees of Andrew Carnegie’s steel company, and a Pinkerton Detective Agency private army brought on barges down the Monongahela River in the dead of night. Twelve were killed. Henry C. Frick, general manager of the plant in Homestead, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had been given free reign by Carnegie to quash the strike. At Frick’s request, Pennsylvania Governor Robert E. Pattison then sent 8,500 troops to Homestead to intervene on behalf of the company.
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Irene Morgan, a 28-year-old black woman, refused to move to the back of the bus eleven years before Rosa Parks. Her appeal, after her conviction for breaking a Virginia law forbidding integrated seating, resulted in a 7-1 Supreme Court decision barring segregation in interstate commerce.
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Students try to block troop trains in Berkeley, CA
Thursday evening I am going to attend the Twilight Concert Series opening concert, featuring Michael Franti & Spearhead:
Michael Franti & Spearheadcreate an ultra-infectious mix of classic soul, funk and hip-hop culminating in a unique and powerful blend. Frontman Michael Franti has been important in the world of music for years, fi rst emerging as a quick-tongued rapper fronting the groundbreaking hip-hop group the Beatnigs, followed by the highly critically acclaimed Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. Fusing superb musicality with politically-charged lyrics, Michael Franti & Spearhead use their music as a vehicle for social conscience, maintaining a positive attitude while tackling some of today’s most complicated issues. Michael Franti has shared the stage with some of the biggest names in music including Nirvana and U2.
Michael Franti walks the talk. I have admired him for quite awhile. I was priveleged to hear him perform in Park City a couple of years ago. Here is what is documented in Wikipedia:
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EAch time I ride TRAX wtih my bicycle I become more and more convinced that we need more accomodations for bicycles.
Tonight we rode our bikes to the nearest TRAX station to attend a meeting in Sugarhouse. ON our way back, about 9pm, we missed the first train because all the bike spaces were full (they allow only 2 bikes on the ends of each car). So we had to wait for the next train. This is not the first, second or third time this has happened to us. This is happening more and more when we travel this way.
My solution:
Provide a large bicycle space at the back of each car to accomodate about 10 bikes. Have fold up seats in that space so that when it isn’t filled with bikes, it can still be used for seats for people.
I saw this done in D.C. on its light rail system. It works.
Yesterday I participated in a “virutal hunger strike” in solidarity with the Troops Home Fast project. See photos of actions around the country.
Common Dreams posted an article last night about the fast at the White House which began yesterday. In the photo below is Father Louis Vitale. I crossed the line and was arrested with him at the Nevada Test site in May.
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I have been riding my bicycle a lot for the past several years. You discover a lot by bicycling and walking.
Walking affords one to really see their surroundings. Each time I walk in my neighborhood I see new things.
Bicycling really allows one to get to places more quickly than walking. It also allows one to see how reckless many automobile drivers are. I’ve known several people who have been hit by cars while on bikes (car drivers’ fault), including my son.
Both forms of transportation afford one more exercise. They both involve more planning and time, but the benefits far outweigh the “benefits” of driving for convenience and is healthier to our bodies, mind and planet.
We need more walkable communities, better mass transportation, and more incentives to walk and bicycle.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 