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Workshops:
International Human Rights and the Western Shoshone
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According to Utah Policy‘s Lavaar Web in his “Monday Buzz”. Lavaar’s piece, “Population Bomb is a Bust”, highlights parts of readings on population around the world, the decline of population in Europe and how Utah’s high birth rate will one day be an advantage:
One day Utah’s high birth rate will be seen as a significant competitive advantage. We’ll have a workforce when others are lacking.
While the U.S. increases the size of its population with force, the dollars spent on services to support its population is severely lacking, something that many European countries have an advantage over the U.S.
See my post on the numbers of people who die each year as a result of not being able to afford healthcare.
Big article in today’s Deseret News about Utah’s largest political donors – complete with charts and graphs.
May 22
189
Eugene V. Debs was imprisoned for his role in the Pullman railway strike in Woodstock, Illinois.
Pullman strike and the Origin of Labor Day
1978
Four thousand protesters occupied the Trident nuclear submarine base site in Bangor, Washington.
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1984
Declaration of the Six-Nation Five Continent Peace Initiative.
“…the pursuit of peace must be uncoupled from strategies of nuclear deterrence,
and such strategies must be universally repudiated….” -Rajiv Ghandi, prime minister of India
I am a co-coordinator of scheduling workshops at the Divine Strake Action at the test site next weekend. So far, here are the workshops scheduled on Saturday, May 27th at Peace Camp:
International Human Rights and the Western Shoshone
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Tom and I spent the better part of this weekend working our back garden. We planted 17 tomato plants that we had started inside some time ago. We also planted summer squash, cucumbers, peppers, basil, cauliflower and lavendar. The garden already had tarragon, oregano, chives, and a salad bed full of lettuce, spinach, chard, beets and carrots. We plan to plant strawberries in our perennial beds.
Our front garden is ready to be worked. We will plant corn, winter and summer squash and beans.
I am proud to say that we do not use chemicals in our garden. We water with irrigation water. (I dig all the water trenches – I am really sore today!).
Here is the page I’ve started to post photos of our gardening adventures:
Gardening 2006.
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Yesterday Earth Jam organizers held a thank you picnic in Salt Lake City for participants in the 2006 Earth Jam. Everyone brought food and organizers gave each participant strawberry and other assorted plants. Everyone had a chance to speak to the group about their experience in Earth Jam. Earth Jam organizers were very pleased with this year’s event. About 3,000 people attended. Earth Jam Productions plans to pursue non-profit status this coming year and will be holding events and actions throughout the year to raise money for next year’s Earth Jam.
Here are some photos:
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We got a lot done this weekend. We got our back garden just about done. We have our salad bed full of spinach, lettuce, chard, beets, and carrots. We planted 17 tomato plants and still have 4 left over that we will have to give away. We have chives, oregano, tarragon, cauliflower, basil, and peppers. We planted summer squash, cucumbers and I planted a row of lavendar.
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May 21
1420
With the betrothal of Henry VI, King of England to Catherine de Valois of France, England & France swear perpetual peace.
1956
The United States conducted the first airborne test of an improved hydrogen bomb, dropping it from a B-52 bomber over the tiny island of Namu, part of the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The United States first detonated a hydrogen bomb in 1952 in the Marshall Islands, also in the Pacific. This bomb was far more powerful than those previously tested and was estimated at 15 megatons or larger (one megaton is roughly equivalent to 1 million tons of TNT). Observers said that the fireball caused by the explosion measured at least four miles in diameter and was brighter than the light from 500 suns.
1978
4,300 rally at Bangor Naval Base, Washington, to protest against nuclear sub USS Trident.
1971
Members of American Indian Movement(AIM) occupy Naval Air Station near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1981
The U.S. Senate approved a $20 billion program to return U.S. to full-scale production of chemical and nerve-gas weapons. Though the U.S. maintained a public policy opposing chemical weapons, it extended financial and military assistance to Iraq in its war against Iran, despite its almost daily use of such weapons. Iraq had developed its “CW production capability, primarily from Western firms, including possible a U.S. foreign subsidiary.” (from a memorandum to Secretary of State Alexander Haig)
Watch a video on the U.S./Saddam Hussein partnership
Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein
1993
Kyrgystan announces plans to dismantle its army.
May 20
1867
John Stuart Mill’s bill to permit women to vote was rejected by the British Parliament.
1961
A white mob attacked “Freedom Riders” in Montgomery, Alabama, prompting the federal government to declare martial law and send in United States Marshals to restore order.
Freedom Riders challenged racial segregation at Montgomery bus depot.
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