7:00 - 8:30 pm, Wednesday, March 10, 2010
East West Bookshop 6500 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98115
FREE!
Do you long to recapture a sense of true community, where friends know and help one another? Learn why intentional communities are attracting increasing interest as models of cooperation, friendship and sustainable living. Members of NICA (Northwest Intentional Communities Association) from local communities will share their experiences and perspectives on the benefit of community life and touch on topics such as decision making, problem solving, structure, income and ownership. You’ll leave with inspiration and practical techniques for sustainable living wherever you live, serve or work!
The panel will consist of representatives from the following communities:
Arundhati Roy has written just one novel, but what a debut. The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize in 1997, and ever since, the Indian activist has concentrated her writing on political issues. Tonight, she’ll read from her latest book of political essays, Field Notes on Democracy, followed by a Q&A moderated by Anthony Arnove and a book signing. Presented by Seattle Arts and Lectures and Elliott Bay Book Company.
Tickets are $15 general/$30 patron at www.lectures.org or 206/621.2230. Visit www.lectures.org for more information. A patron ticketholders’ reception at the Sorrento Hotel begins at 9 pm.
Solsticio (Cafe)
1100 N Northlake Way
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) 547-0404
Michael and I have returned from our trip to Costa Rica where we visited a few Eco-Farms/Intentional Communities and would like to share our experiences with you all and discuss next steps. Please join the discussion whether or not you were able to attend the first meeting last month.
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Original Meeting topic:
I would like for us to come together to discuss what we can do individually or together as a group to help create the world we would like to see. Our world is, first and foremost, our immediate home and our local community.
Some ideas for discussion:
1) Becoming Self-Sufficient (Shelter/Food/Energy)
– Purchasing Farm Land
– U.S. or Foreign?
– Skills Needed
2) Strengthening the Local Truth Community
– Jobs/Skills/Tool Sharing within the community
3) Outreach - How can we improve awareness in our immediate communities?
My dream is for us to combine our gifts, talents and resources and help each other to survive and thrive in a world that we help create. Without our input, the world will become what others want it to be and we will forever react on the stage rather than ACT.
Please suggest other topics for discussion in your RSVP or in the “Discussion Board” on the meetup page.
The rise of America’s surveillance state over the past 25 years highlights a dangerous paradox, says journalist Shane Harris: It’s now harder for the government to catch terrorists, and easier for it to spy on the rest of us. Harris, the intelligence and Homeland Security correspondent at the National Journal and author of The Watchers, says high-tech spycraft has moved from the province of Bush era ‘emergency response measures’ into the mainstream, creating a capacity to gather a disquieting trove of personal information on every American. Presented by Town Hall’s Center for Civic Life, with University Bookstore. Series supported by The Boeing Company Charitable Trust and RealNetworks.
Tickets are $5 at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006, and at the door beginning at 6:30 pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating. Late seating is not guaranteed.
LEARN MORE: shaneharris.com
Read an interview with Harris by The New New Internet
Let’s ask him “What are you doing about the paper given to you in LA about the scientific fact that active nanothermite explosive was found throughout the dust found on 9/11?”
Be a part of change. See the real changes you want to see in the world. Let’s awaken the masses to the truth of 9/11, Let’s awaken everyone to the fact we have been lied to and we continue to be lied to. Gather at Westlake Market at 10:30. Bring your voice, signs, books, banners, flyers, dvds, etc. Bring your videocamera and let’s get some footage!
Unable to make it down to Westlake? Download any of the flyers here on the site and distribute them in you community. Coffee Shops, Book and Music Stores, your favorite place to hang out.
Be a part of change. Be change you want to see in the world. Let’s awaken the masses to the truth of 9/11. Let’s awaken everyone to the fact we have been lied to and we continue to be lied to. Gather at Westlake Market at 10:30. Bring your voice, signs, books, banners, flyers, dvds, etc. Bring your videocamera and let’s get some footage!
Every first Wednesday of the month, we get together at Linda’s for their prime-time happy hour where they have cheap pitchers of good beer and $1 mini-burgers (or sliders). This is a great opportunity to kick around ideas and get things off our chest. Its also a great way for new people to come out and find out what we’re about without any obligation of activism. Of course, we hope to inspire you to do some of that in the future.
I would like for us to come together to discuss what we can do individually or together as a group to help create the world we would like to see. Our world is, first and foremost, our immediate home and our local community.
Some ideas for discussion:
1) Becoming Self-Sufficient (Shelter/Food/Energy)
– Purchasing Farm Land
– U.S. or Foreign?
– Skills Needed
2) Strengthening the Local Truth Community
– Jobs/Skills/Tool Sharing within the community
3) Outreach - How can we improve awareness in our immediate communities?
My dream is for us to combine our gifts, talents and resources and help each other to survive and thrive in a world that we help create. Without our input, the world will become what others want it to be and we will forever react on the stage rather than ACT.
Come show your support for the end of the reign of financial overlords. Come demand the private bankers yield the money back to the people. Come to boycott and End the “Federal Reserve”.
MARCH ON THE FED: Have you heard about the March on the Federal Reserve? On November 22, 1910 a malevolent Creature was conceived in the darkness. Ninety-nine years after its illegitimate conception, on November 22, 2009, we will gather at the gates of its lair to signal the end of its reign.
We have our chance to wake up the underlings of the financial overlords. Let’s go spread the truth about these private bankers who meet in secret to put a noose on our lives. Let’s protest, let’s educate, let’s peacefully but pro actively show our 1st amendment right.
The power of the atomic bomb resonates far beyond megatons, says Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Garry Wills: Its very existence has transformed our nation by dramatically increasing the power of the modern presidency and redefining the government as a national security state.
Wills, author of Bomb Power, says the Manhattan Project was a triumph of official secrecy and military discipline—perhaps expected in wartime, but then growing into the covert operations and overt authority that have defined American government in the nuclear era.
According to Wills, this signals a radical break from the division of powers established by our founding fathers, enfeebling Congress and the courts as it threatens our Constitution. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life, with University Bookstore. Series supported by the Otto Haas Charitable Trust.
Advance tickets are $5 at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006, or at the door beginning at 6:30 pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating. Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street.
The second installment of the new Town Hall/University of Washington Communication Department series, The Revolution is Here: How Digital Media and Awakened Citizens Are Changing the World, will feature Hanson Hosein, director of UW’s Master of Communication in Digital Media program. Each evening in the four-part series zeroes in on a different “top story”; Hosein specializes in storytelling, social media strategies, and new models of communication.
Advance tickets are $5 at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006, or at the door beginning at 6:30 pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.
LEARN MORE: http://hrhmedia.com/
The federal government’s financial bailout was a scary and maddening wake-up call for America. But former Wall-Street-insider-turned-journalist Nomi Prins, author of It Takes a Pillage, says our eyes aren’t all the way open yet.
Prins, former managing director at Goldman Sachs and current senior fellow at Demos, knows Big Finance and big money, and says that amid the bailout’s exposure of greed, irresponsible regulation, and selfish mind-sets, the scariest part is that for all the trillions we’re spending or committing, our economic system remains in disarray—and Washington has no real plan for fixing it. Prins does, though. Presented by Town Hall’s Center for Civic Life, with Demos and Elliott Bay Book Company. Series supported by the Otto Haas Charitable Trust.
Advance tickets are $5 at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006, or at the door beginning at 6:30 pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.
LEARN MORE: www.nomiprins.com
Monday • November 23 • 7pm
Robert Merry | A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent (SIMON & SCHUSTER)
Reading & Book Signing University of Washington Bookstore, U District store
When James Polk was elected president, we were in a diplomatic struggle with Britain over the Oregon Territory (Washington, Oregon, Idaho), Texas was threatened by Mexico, and the territories west of Texas (California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado) belonged to Mexico outright.
When, four years later, Polk relinquished his office, all of that land was a part of the United States of America. How did Polk acquire it all? Find out in Robert Merry’s new book A Country of Vast Designs.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 7:30 – 9pmLocation: Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street.For the past two decades, author and award-winning journalist Mark Danner has reported from Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans, and the Middle East, exploring not only the real consequences of American engagement with the world, but also the relationship between political violence and power.From the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti to the tumultuous rise of Aristide; from the onset of the Balkan Wars to the painful fragmentation of Yugoslavia; and to the invasion of Iraq and the legacy of the Bush administration, Danner, former staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Stripping Bare the Body, has visited some of the world’s most troubled regions, bringing back lessons on politics, violence, and war.Presented by Town Hall’s Center for Civic Life, with Elliott Bay Book Company. Series supported by RealNetworks Foundation, the Brown Foundation, and the Otto Haas Charitable Trust.Advance tickets are $5 at www.brownpapertickets.com or 800/838-3006, or at the door beginning at 6:30 pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.LEARN MORE: www.markdanner.com
From baby bottles to kitchen cookware, Americans are more concerned than ever about chemicals and their effect on our health. The stories are unnerving: Our children play with toys that leach unsafe chemicals, our makeup and sunscreen carry toxins, and nearly every child born today carries hazardous chemicals in his or her blood.
Even the air we breathe can alter our genes. Maybe we’ve had enough, on every level.
Investigative journalist Elizabeth Grossman, author of Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry, thinks we have. A “benign by design” chemical revolution is brewing, she says, and its hope is the promise of green chemistry—a world where the pollutants stay out of products and out of people. Presented by Island Press through the Town Hall Center for Civic Life, in association with IslandWood and Elliott Bay Book Company.
Every first Wednesday of the month, we get together at Linda’s for their prime-time happy hour where they have cheap pitchers of good beer and $1 mini-burgers (or sliders). This is a great opportunity to kick around ideas and get things off our chest. Its also a great way for new people to come out and find out what we’re about without any obligation of activism. Of course, we hope to inspire you to do some of that in the future.
We always have a great turnout and a ton of fun at this event, so don’t miss it. With the weather getting better and better, its about time we get back out on the street to reach the masses with our message of Change and Peace through Truth. So, bring a friend and an idea… oh, and your drinking pants.
PLEASE NOTE: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DRINK TO COME OUT AND HAVE A BLAST!
Every first Wednesday of the month, we get together at Linda’s for their prime-time happy hour where they have cheap pitchers of good beer and $1 mini-burgers (or sliders). This is a great opportunity to kick around ideas and get things off our chest. Its also a great way for new people to come out and find out what we’re about without any obligation of activism. Of course, we hope to inspire you to do some of that in the future.
We always have a great turnout and a ton of fun at this event, so don’t miss it. With the weather getting better and better, its about time we get back out on the street to reach the masses with our message of Change and Peace through Truth. So, bring a friend and an idea… oh, and your drinking pants.
PLEASE NOTE: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DRINK TO COME OUT AND HAVE A BLAST!
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