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Join us Saturday, July 5th, in celebrating sustainability, patriotism, and new community at the downtown Austin Farmers Market. Austin’s 2nd Annual Green 4th of July (green4th.com) offers all the amenities of locally grown, artisan-crafted foods, an exciting play area for children, the world’s first Farmers Olympics, real actionable green living strategies, and a focus on thought-provoking discussions led by local green stars Randy Jewart and Brandi Clark. It’s a party! Help us inaugurate a new Austin tradition: renewing our relationships to America, as world citizens - while enjoying icy beverages, fresh
food, and cool people.

What’s happening:
• The “Green 4th” celebration is FREE and open to all, from 9am to 1pm.
• Discussions — Begin at 9:30, with a special event: Announcing SHARE350, taking place at 11:30. Plenty of shaded space to sit, relax & participate in our speaker tent area.
• About Share350 — Share350.com is an Austin-based, interactive website that empowers everyday citizens to build more sustainable community relationships.
• Republic Square Park (adjoining) — Will host colorful kid’s art projects and entertainers, plus lots of shade and soft blankets, under the trees.
• World’s first “Farmer Olympics” — Witness old fashioned fun, as regulars of the Austin Farmers Market compete in cooler hurdles, timed pea shelling, and melon bowling (using squash for pins).
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Organic food: from coffee to breakfast tacos, baked goods to produce, eggs to eggplant, plus lots of fun!

Come share this Groundbreaking Experience, Saturday July 5th. Thanks!
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Contact/Info
Chris Searles, Coordinator/ Producer
Austin’s 2nd Annual Green 4th of July Celebration!
em: coremediamail@ gmail.com
http://www.green4th.com/
ph: 512.789.4652

Presenting Partners
Core Media, Austin Green Art, Sustainable Food Center, Austin Eco
Network, Share350, & The Austin Farmers Market.

Sunday July 6th, 2008, 3:00- 4:15 PM, Brave New Books = 1904 Guadalupe in Austin

FOCUS OF DISCUSSION: This will be a very action focused meeting where we will discuss petition signatures, letter writing, developing a volunteer base for legislative inventory visits and a phone banking campaign. We will then turn our attention to Harlan, as he gives us his logistical inventory of volunteer needs to make this event a super success. Hopefully everyone will have at least four main actions that you or anyone you know can do to oppose a federal ID in Texas.

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Tuesday, July 8, 7:00 PM, Spiderhouse Cafe, 29th and Fruth (one block east of Guadalupe)

Come to informal meeting and find out how to get involved in the struggle against Texas’ criminal injustice system.

More info: cedpaustin at gmail.com

Monday, July 14 – Friday, July 18 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Cameron Retreat Center, 2403 E. Holcombe.

2008 marks the ninth year of the Peace Camp for children kindergarten through 5th grade. Sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, the camp’s mission is to provide an alternative day camp experience that fosters understandings of peace, justice, and care for the environment appropriate to the ages of the children involved. A major goal is for the children to have fun while learning peacemaking skills. The program includes lots of arts and crafts, story telling, and cooperative games. Open to anyone in the designated age range. Tuition is $120, but there are subsidies and scholarships for those who cannot afford the full cost. For more information and to register, contact Lynn Furay, 713/726-1266, LFuray33 at sbcglobal. net

August 1-3: IN JEFFERSON (East Texas) A Vets4Vets Workshop is being held at Shepherd’s Pasture, 5645 US HWY 59 South, Jefferson, TX 75657, Friday, August 1, 2008, 5 p.m. to Sunday, August 3, 2008, 2 p.m. Vets4Vets (www.vets4vets.us) is a non-partisan peer support organization for veterans dedicated to helping post 9/11 Iraq and Afghanistan-era veterans support one another in healing from the negative effects of service and war. This workshop is designed to train veterans to establish local groups. Travel, lodging and meals will be provided. To obtain an application, contact Monica, vets4vets@gmail. com, (520) 319-5500.

August 14th-21st

The Second Annual Global Youth Peace Summit will unite youth from around the world for an eight day overnight conference. To sponsor a youth or register, please contact Kizzy at 476-8884 or email youthprojects@amalafoundation.org

Saturday, July 19th Global Youth Peace Summit Benefit: Brazilian Night

An evening of dinner and music from Brazilian and Latin Musicians from the Austin Community. All proceeds will be used to offer sponsorships to youth attending GYPS. Please call 476-8884 to learn more.

Oct 3-5

A group of the Austin Mennonite Church has organized to host the first ever National Assembly to Honor Freedom of Conscience. Walter Wink, activist and author of numerous texts relating to non-violence and the myth of redemptive violence, will be our guest speaker. His wife, June, will also be present and will offer a workshop on Movement and Meditation.
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October 3-5

National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation: NCDD’s biennial conferences, which are highly participatory, highly innovative and surprisingly affordable, bring together leaders and future leaders in public engagement and conflict resolution to share resources and strategies, build lasting relationships, increase the visibility and effectiveness of their work, tackle challenges facing this emerging field, and initiate collaborative projects. For more information (registration is $300) visit www.thataway.org/events.

October 10-11: The Mexican-American Cultural Center will be holding its 2nd Annual Bilingual Symposium on Immigration. Topics include: Guest Workers and the New Slavery, Jorge A. Bustamante, Ph.D.President and Founder of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte United Nations – Human Rights for Migrants, University of Notre Dame; A Story of Becoming a Good Samaritan, Mr. Rubén Garcia, Co-Founder and Director, Casa AnunciaciónBorder Shelters, El Paso, Texas; Who is my neighbor? Luke 10:25-37, Arturo Chávez, Ph.D., President and CEO, Mexican American Cultural Center. For more information contact: (210) 732-2156, www.MACCsa.org.

October 11th (Saturday), St. Martin’s Lutheran Church

Texans for Peace is proud to announce our fourth annual educational conference, which will focus entirely on the subject of gang activity–prevention, intervention, and disruption to education as well as society. The conference is aimed primarily at elementary and secondary educators, from both private and public institutions.

We are asking for proposals (due July 15th, 2008) for workshops. Presenters should email me, aburgin@texansforpeace.org, with their current curriculum vitae as well as a brief summary of what their workshop would entail. Last year’s event drew approximately one hundred people, and we are anticipating twice as many this fall.

–Alyssa Burgin

NOVEMBER 15 & 16 TUCSON

http://southwestwitness.org Save the dates… plan to join us! HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WILL JOIN TOGETHER IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA TO SAY NO TO TORTURE

Saturday, November 15, Tucson, Arizona

Plan for Action: Civil Initiative to Stop the Training and Practice of Torture will be held from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. We will work together on a plan for beyond the weekend that will accomplish this goal, followed by:

Sign making
An evening program
Procession to federal building for a vigil

Sunday, November 16
Sierra Vista, Arizona

An anti-torture rally with music and speakers at Veteran’s Memorial Park, ending with a procession to and presence across the street from the main gate of Ft. Huachuca. Ft. Huachuca is the home of USAICS, the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School, and has a long history of complicity in U.S. crimes of torture. The torture manuals used at the School of the Americas came from Ft. Huachuca.

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