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Robert Redford’s Accomplishments

Robert Redford, creator of the annual Sundance Institute in Utah (which was created to support independent film), will receiving an award tonight at the 28th annual Kennedy Center Honors, an award given to people who have amassed a life of achievement in the arts.
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Today in history

(Sources: Peace Buttons and War Resisters League Calendar)

December 4

1916
Five members of a Woman’s Suffragist group unroll a banner from the visitor’s gallery during President Wilson’s address to Congress, asking, “Mr. President, What will you do for woman suffrage?”

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The Poor in Utah

Each year the Green Party of Utah participates in the Utah Issues Annual Conference in Salt Lake. This organization’s mission is line with the key value of Social Justice. Utah Issues, a Center for Poverty Research and Action, is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to develop long-term, systemic and sustainable solutions and approaches to the problems of poverty in Utah. This is its 30th year of existence.
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Provding Electricity for California: A Dirty Deal for Utah

In exchange for providing 20% of California’s electricity Utah gets more pollution, according to an article in today’s Salt Lake Tribune.

I pass the Intermountain Power Project Plant when I go camping in the Thomas Range of Utah’s West Desert. You can see the plumes of steam from miles away. It is one of four plants that provides California’s electricity.
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Today in history

(Sources: Peace Buttons and War Resisters League Calendar)

December 3
Viola Liuzzo and Bhopal Union Carbide plant leak.
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Salt Lake’s events – Rosa Parks Day and World Aids Day

Members of the NAACP took a bus rideon a 1953 bus in downtown Salt Lake in honor of the 50th anniversary of the day that Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man.

I found an article in the Salt Lake Tribune about a “leadership breakfast” held yesterday in recognition of
World Aids Day. While the cause is noble, I find it odd that a fancy breakfast in a fancy corporate hotel was held. I cannot help but think that a low-cost event would have been just as effective and the money that would normally be spent on a swank affair could be donated to the Utah Aids Foundation. Perhaps the cost of the event was absorbed in some other way, the article did not say.

At any rate,the article stated that in Utah, the HIV numbers have tripled since 2001, from 36 that year to 102 projected for 2005, a startling figure. Yes, more resources are needed to address this issue.

Also today in history….

…I gave birth to my beautiful daughter, Emily, 16 years ago. Out of my three wonderful children, Emily is the “baby”.

Happy birthday, Em.

December Peace History

(Sources: Peace Buttons and War Resisters League Calendar)

Today in history

(Sources: Peace Buttons and War Resisters League Calendar)

December 2

1942
Enrico Fermi, the Italian-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist, directs and controls the first self-sustaining fission reaction in his laboratory beneath the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. The result of this experiment made the atomic bomb possible and ushered in the nuclear age. Upon successful completion of the experiment, a coded message was transmitted to President Roosevelt: “The Italian navigator has landed in the new world.”

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Happy Birthday, Emily

Today my baby turns 16. It’s hard because she is 2,000 miles away from me. I miss her very much. I’ll be seeing her in a few weeks and we will have a party for her then.

Here is my “baby”:


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