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Green Party
Green party of Utah LJ
Green Party of Utah Facebook
Green party of Utah My Space
Green Party Peace Network WordPress
Green Party Peace Network Facebook
Green Party Peace Network Green Change
Green Party Peace Network My Space

Other

Utahns for Cynthia McKinney Facebook
Progressive Grandparenting

Peace

People for Peace and Justice of Utah LJ
People for Peace and Justice of Utah Facebook
People for Peace and Justice of Utah My Space
People for Peace and Justice of Utah Calendar Word Press
Utah Peace House Portal Digital Universe

PomPomsNotBombBombs LJ
Co-managed by Jenni
PomPomsNotBombBombs Facebook,
Co-managed by Jenni

Green Blogs and Forums – Green Politics and Living Green Values
Appalachian Greens 12th Harmonic 513 GPAC Babblemur BlogGreen Campus Greens Chlorophyll Cincinnati Greens City Hippy Dave Chandler Dave Goldsmith Dean of Cincinnati Detroit Greens Dufferin Caledon Ester Republic Fairly Informed Frogblog Future is Green Green Party of Utah Bulletin Board Green Party of Utah LJ Community Green bloggers Green Commons Green Horizon Green Knitters and Crocheters	Green Imagination Green L.A. Girl Green Alliance Green Thoughts Greens for Greens Gregg Jocoy Jen’s Green Journal JMBzine Michael Rochmes Montgomery County Greens One Green, One Voice Political Moose Progressive Politics Re Collection Thomas Leavitt Toward Green Future Triple Pundit World Changing Future is Green WWID Green bloggers York Greens Yummy Yummy Blog.

Other Blogs and Forums

Utah
A Liberal Mormon
Buttercup and Bean
Climate Crisis Action Team
Davis County Watch
Democracy for Utah
Eric Hamilton’s Reality Check
Formaline
Gary Thornock’s Weblog
Green Party of Utah
Hot Blava
Jen’s Green Journal
Juniper West
KCPW Midday Metro
KRCL Community Discussion
Liar Paradox
Media Relations
Obiter Dicta by Steve
Obligatory Anecdotes
One Utah
Part of the Plan
Pete Ashdown
Planet Legislature
Political Spyglass
Pom Poms Not Bomb Bombs
Reach Upward
RedStateBlues
Running, But Not Out of Breath
Rural Blogging
SLC Spin
Senate Site
The State of the Beehive
Steve Urquhart
The Stygian Times
The Third Avenue
This Divided State
The World, According To Me
The Utah Amicus
Unabashed Utahn
Utah Bloggers
Utah Centralist
Utah Conversations
Utah Conservative
Utah Planners’ Corner
Utah Politics
Utah True Blue
Utahnia
Voice of Utah
Wasatch Watcher
Ye Olde Swimming Hole

GLBT
AmericaBlog
Andrew Sullivan
Christian Grantham
Doug Ireland
Petrelis Files
Sisters Talk
The Dooryard

Around and About
Crooks & Liars
Daily Kos
Eschaton
Greenboy
Liberal Oasis
My DD
Political Animal
Talking Points Memo
TPM Cafe
White House Briefing

Etcetera
Big Brass Alliance
City Desk
Concerned Scientist
Drinking Liberally
Earthside
Leftist and Progressive Blogs List
Oread Daily
Politics1
Progressive Utah
Side Salad
Stray Matter

Women’s Blogs

Blogher
Dierdre Helfferich
Dress Like a Young Republican, Talk Like an Anarchist
Grandparenting
Green Knitters
Green L.A. Girl
Jen’s Green Journal
Kayln’s Kitchen
Leona Lunarlight
One Green One Voice
Progressive Grandparenting
My Thoughts and Things That Amuse Me
Newspaper Girl
Revolutionary Stitching

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Green Party of Utah

Posted on December 8, 2004 | Leave a comment

Green Party of Utah
Ballot Access Drive Complete:New Name Required
Julian Hatch for U.S. Senate

Perspectives on the Utah split
Some Myths About the GPUT Split

Green Party of the United States
Map of State Green Parties

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Café à la Green: Monthly Features

Posted on December 7, 2004 | Leave a comment

Monthly Features
January February March April May June	July August September October November December

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Café à la Green: Statistics on Gift Giving and Stress

Posted on December 7, 2004 | Leave a comment

Statistics and information on holiday spending and stress:

Reasons why you should simplify

Americans spend APPROX. $1,042 on holiday gifts
(Annual per capita income of a Vietnamese citizen: $280)

Average number of months it takes a credit-card user to
pay off holiday bills: 4
(57% of consumers plan to pay for holiday purchases with
credit)

Total U.S. credit-card debt: OVER $600 BILLION

Rate at which consumer debt is growing in the United
States: TWICE THE RATE OF WAGES

Number of extra tons of trash produced in the U.S. each
year between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day: 5 MILLION

Almost 52 percent of women, ages 35 to 54, said their stress levels go up during the holidays. By contrast, 40 percent of surveyed men in the same age bracket said their stress levels increase with the holidays.

Folks 55 and over expereince the least increases in stress at the holidays.

Forty-seven percent making $15,000 to $30,000 said stress levels increase for them during the holidays.

Forty-nine percent of working women with children experience elevated stress levels during the holidays. Forty-eight percent of working women without children expereience higher stress in the holidays. Homemakers, follow at 44 percent.

46 percent from the West experience holiday stress-more than in the Midwest at 43 percent.

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Café à la Green: Other Ideas

Posted on December 7, 2004 | Leave a comment

(Find more at Adbusters or Buy Nothing Christmas)

Just hang out with your friends and/or family. Make improvised arts and crafts. Bake. Sing. Have a cuddle puddle.

Purchase gifts from locally owned businesses

Create your own gifts

Donate money to a socially worthy cause in the name of a loved one.

Make a hand-made recipe book

Books on tape

Adopt a polar bear, snow leopard or giant panda in the name of all my friends and family members from World Wildlife Fund.

Gift basket of organic teas and fair trade coffees

Give Linux for Christmas! It’s free and it works like a charm!

Write a song or poem. Perform it. Frame it.

Make a family calendar

Avoid commercial wrapping paper, ribbons, bows and tape, which are not recyclable, and opt for gift bags, tea towels or nice boxes, which are eco-friendly.

Give something you don’t use any more.

Give herb plants

Make hand-made soap or candles

For the elderly people in your life, research newspaper and magazine articles from their youth and present in a creative fashion.

Write and illustrate a book for the young people in your life

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Café à la Green: Musicians

Posted on December 7, 2004 | Leave a comment

Musicians:

David Rovics – Prolific progressive songwriter and lyricist – Click on the link in the top center of the page, until December 31st the “all 9 of David’s recordings for $75” deal is now $55. A darn good bargain if you ask me, so there you go…David writes about all sorts of issues and performs at events like the School of Americas annual “Close the SOA” protest in Ft. Benning, GA.

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Café à la Green: Online Vendors

Posted on December 7, 2004 | Leave a comment

Online vendors:

No Sweat Apparel.
100% Union-made Sweatshop-free apparel and shoes.

Alterni-ts – Shirts, notecards and posters – All proceeds from shirt sales are used to benefit the causes that the T-shirts promote: nonviolence. education, bicycles, land trust,alternative energy, projects in Mexico and Central America, and other people in need.

Left Books – Books to change the world – that’s the point!
All proceeds donated to fight against U.S. war, racism & injustice. Books, videos, and holiday calendars

Peace Buttons – Peace items

The Peace Company has peace gifts in every price range. Here are some features:

As this year draws to a close and our thoughts turn to the holidays and time with friends and family, we ask you to help make the spirit of peace the way we live – everyday. By planting seeds of peace within your heart and sharing them with others, we truly can help make peace more pervasive in our societies.

The Peace Company’s mission is to help make peace the way we all relate to the world. We offer merchandise and educational opportunites to enable anyone to walk the path of peace. Please help spread peaceful possibilities by sharing gifts of peace this holiday.
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Café à la Green: Political Organizations

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Political Organizations:

Green Party of the United States Merchandise – Union made t-shirts, organick cotton, made in USA; peace pennants, bumper stickers, buttons, and car magnets.

True Majority – BE THE FIRST ON YOUR BLOCK TO OWN THESE MARVELOUS, FANTASTIC, AND MIRACULOUS TRUEMAJORITY GOODIES. They delight and amuse while helping you change the world. And all purchases support the TrueMajority campaign. Many of our fabulous TrueMajority tchotchke’s have been designed by internationally acclaimed and award winning designer Stefan Sagmeister.

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Café à la Green: of Peace and Justice/Social Justice Organizations

Posted on December 7, 2004 | 1 comment

Online Stores of Peace and Justice/Social Justice Organizations:

California Peace Action – offering cards for International Human Rights Day: The Forgotten Holiday, Saturday, December 10.

Oxfam – 50 Unusual Gifts for Christmas

A Greater Gift – a program of SERRV International, a nonprofit alternative trade and development organization. Their mission is to promote the social and economic progress of people in developing regions of the world by marketing their products in a just and direct manner. Their goal is to alleviate poverty and empower low-income people through trade, training and other forms of community support as they work to improve their lives.

Giving Twice
Thoughtful gifts that benefit charities, education, and research – Fair Trade Peace Candles, scarfs, handbags and accessories, calendars and more.

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – books, publications and apparel. All proceeds from the sale of these items will be used to expand the Foundation’s work for peace and a world free from the threat of nuclear weapons.

War Resisters League Peace Calendar – Peace-Loving Nations:
Music of Peace and Resistance – A songbook and music sampler, the War Resisters League 2006 Peace Calendar, brings you lyrics and music from around the world representing an integral part of the struggle against war and its underlying causes — racism, sexism, poverty, capitalism, and class.

War Resisters League Bookstore – Choose from B O O K S on:
– Pacifism & Nonviolent Action
– For Young People
– Disarmament & Alternative Defense
– Counter-Recruitment & Conscientious Objection
– Gandhi
– Feminism & Nonviolence
– History
– International
– Organizing Materials
– Peace & Troublemakers
– Martin Luther King
– Raising Children
– Socialism & Anarchism
– Prisons & Capital Punishment

From Union Voice
Union-made-in-the-USA gifts and stocking stuffers from The Union Shop.
You can speak out this holiday with gifts that show where you stand. Like our Rosie the Riveter long-sleeve T-shirt
Or how about buttons for stocking stuffers
There’s something for everyone on your list at The Union Shop Online–the AFL-CIO’s retail store for activists.

Union kids love The Union Shop, too! Books, shirts, puzzles and much more: Find the perfect gift for that special child in The Union Shop!
Visit The Union Shop

Buy Nothing Christmas – a national initiative started by Canadian Mennonites but open to everyone with a thirst for change and a desire for action.Buy Nothing Christmas is a stress-reliever, and more people need to hear about it. You can change your world by simply putting up one of the posters (or make your own) in your church, place of worship, home or work. Be sneaky about it if you have to. The point is to get people thinking. It’s an idea whose time has come, so get out there and make a difference!

The Alternative Christmas List the charitable gift list with choice, contains a variety of gifts to a selection of charities enabling family and friends to make donations that change lives.