I am collecting Video and Audio Clips and cartoons from websites, local shows, and other sources for archiving on issues such as Green Politics, Living Green, and Peace and Justice.
Please feel free to forward to me anything you suggest would be appropriate for this page.
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Tom King, a Green Party of Utah member and participant with People for Peace and Justice of Utah appeared in the KCPW Radio Program Miday Metro, speaking about the Utah Peace Movement. Tom appeared with another guest from another newly formed Utah Peace Organization.
Interesting Note: Both guests refer to the Green Party of Utah, but only one speaks the truth.
Click on the 10:20am segment, “Utah Peace Train”.
You can also listen to the segement at: Peace Train. (ability to listen to mp3 required. File size=4.7MB)
….Buy and Sell! It’s Christmas time for conumers! Ring-a-ling….Cash Registers Ring! Must we spend Christmas this way?
No, we mustn’t and we don’t have to!
Jen’s Green Journal has a post on Gift Giving. She suggests that everything post things to their blog.
I have created a page of gift giving ideas. You can access it from my links to the left atHoliday Gift Giving Ideas.
I will add to it as the weeks go by. Please feel free to drop me suggestions!
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Are you a shopaholic? Do you crave shopping on “Black Friday”? Well, here’s a solution:
Friday, November 25th, is Buy Nothing Day!
Yes, that’s right – Buy Nothing Day.
The Buy Nothing Day TV and Radio Spot is priceless. Share it with your friends.
Locally, the Salt Lake Radical Cheerleaders is organizing an afternoon of cheerful song in caroling fashion on the pitfalls of consumerism. There are lots of ideas and events descriptions at Adbusters.
Jen’s Green Journal has an article on alternative gifts to give this holiday season.
For several years now I have been giving things like Peace Calendars from the War Resisters League; CodePink herbal tea; handmade crocheted and sewn gifts; hand made and sewn items from my friends and their businesses and home grown food from my garden. It is satisfying to purchase things locally and to give gifts that do not come from sweatshops and that I did not purchase on typical shopping days. In fact, I ususally spend up to 6 months planning and making things for the holidays.
This holiday season, celebrate buying nothing. Give the gift of nothing but yourself.
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A fellow Green recently hooked me up with Peace History – a service of peacebuttons.info.
This morning, this cartoon by Gark Huck came across:
From Wage Peace:
The sad day that we’ve been dreading is here. Today, the Defense Department has announced the 2,000th military death in Iraq.
I want to thank you all for organizing events in your community. Together, we have more than 400 events in 49 U.S. states, which will involve thousands of people calling for an end to this war. The media has already started reporting on your work, with stories carried by Reuters, ABC News, and Yahoo! News. We are bound to change the perception of this war during this sad milestone. And we are showing that we are the majority.
Here is the plan for the “Not One More Death – Not One More Dollar” event. AFSC, in conjunction with Gold Star Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, and with the support of the United for Peace and Justice Coalition, is calling for events tomorrow, Wednesday, October 26. Some of you may have other plans that work better in your community.
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Ken Sain has reported that 1,997 soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the 2003 invasion there.
The Iraq casualties website reports 1,999, with 9 not being confirmed by the DOD. I have also heard that CNN has reported that Air America Radio has already reported the 2000th soldier death.
Besides being involved in the Green Party, Tom and I also volunteer for and participate with People for Peace and Justice of Utah, which has been doing outreach during the past month (ironically before UFPJ‘s call for action) for a vigil that will occur when the 2000th soldier is reported to have died. Details on that vigil are at the PPJ website and also at Progressive Utah.
Yesterday Tom was interviewed by a reporter from the Deseret News and also from a reporter from KCPW public radio in Salt Lake.
I had an earlier post containing a video about the 2000th soldier death.
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a section of bus dedicated for white people only.
Article in today’s Deseret News:
Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, dies at 92 – has a timeline of Parks’ activities.
Some links to information on Rosa Parks:
Rosa Parks- The Woman Who Changed a Nation
Biography: Rosa Parks – Pioneer of Civil Rights
Rosa Parks – Her simple act of protest galvanized America’s civil rights revolution
The Rosa Parks Portal
AP Photo of Rosa Parks
In 1956, Rosa Parks’s arrest and the bus boycott that followed was big news
CREDIT: Associated Press Photo. “Woman Fingerprinted. Mrs. Rosa Parks, Negro Seamstress, Whose Refusal to Move to the Back of a Bus Touched Off the Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.” 1956. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
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Here is a taste of “out of the norm” gift giving ideas that are more friendly to our planet.
Many of these organizations have online stores. Those without stores can have donations made to them in a loved ones name.
Special Note: Ideas are happily accepted for this page. My criteria for listing is that the vendors/organizations are socially responsible and environmentally friendly – free from sweatshop labor; promoting reducing, reusing, recycling; advocating the community/people business concept as the alternative to corporate globalization; promoting and supporting fair trade products; promoting the use of organic materials where possible; and advocating peace, justice, human rights and living wages.)
DISCLAIMER: Listings of businesses and organizations here are endorsed as socially conscious businesses, for the convenience of shoppers who are seeking such businesses, in accordance with the criteria listed above.
The listings do not imply or insinuate endorsement of businesses,their philosophies or practices by the other businesses and organizations listed here.
Special Announcement for Christmas 2007
Please consider giving a tax-deductible donation to Blue Sky Institute for acquisition of property in Salt Lake for a Community Peace House. The property would be used for office space for peace and justice and education non-profits, common community meeting and event space and space for a garden and greenhouse. Contact Blue Sky Insitute or 801-502-8556.
Thanks to those who have generously donated!
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