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SF Mayoral Race Up Close and Personal

Barri Boone reports on Green Matt Gonzalez' runoff race for the Mayor's office in San Francisco, CA... more

IGP Coordinating Committee Meeting, Sat., Dec. 6

The IGP CC meeting comes early in December because of the holidays and a few other competing events. Local chapter delegates to the state party meet once per month to conduct the business of the Indiana Green Party. Green party members are welcome at the meeting.

The CC meeting is a video conference. The CC meeting is usually 1-3PM. And the northern Indiana conference site is usually Northern Indiana Educational Services Corporation offices in Mishawaka, IN. Check the IGP web site for final details.

Winona LaDuke: Bashing Greens won't help

'Tis the season to bash Greens. David Sarasohn's Nov. 14 commentary about Nader/LaDuke's impact on the 2000 presidential election falls far short on facts, and relies on lies, rhetoric and a really mean undercurrent to make a few points. Sarasohn's suggestion that Ralph Nader is "the worst thing to happen to civil liberties and poor people in quite a while," is insane, and fails not only to put the blame where it should be but also to talk about where we need to go... more

Great Lakes Campaign School Dec. 5-7

DECEMBER 5-7: Calling all Great Lakes Greens! The Green Party of Kenosha/Racine will host the Great Lakes Campaign School to help progressive candidates and campaign staff prepare for the 2004 elections. Kenosha/Racine Greens are planning a weekend of training sessions for folks from Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan. The event will be held at the DeKoven Center in Racine, on the shores of Lake Michigan. Suggested fee to attend, including tuition and food, is $50. No one will be turned away for inability to pay. Carpools are being planned. The Green Party of the United States is co-sponsoring the Campaign School, to make it more affordable to aspiring candidates. Speakers, including elected Greens and those with extensive Green campaign experience, will be announced soon. Sessions will include how to develop a campaign plan, raise funds, attract volunteers, develop a 'Green" message, and work with the media. More:

Sewage in Our Streams

On behalf of the Indiana Clean Water Coalition, IKE publishes the Sewage in Our Streams newsletter focusing on animal and human sewage management issues in Indiana. It was published in February, May, and September of 2003.

Key issues of interest are:

See www.ikecoalition.org/publications.htm for links.

Organizing for Community Controlled Development

South Bend community citizens, civic leaders, organizers, professors, and students are invited to a conversation entitled "Organizing for Community Controlled Development: Renewing Civil Society."

This event will take place on Thursday, November 20, 6:00 PM, at the Robinson Community Learning Center on 921 North Eddy Street in South Bend. It is being sponsored by the Robinson Community Learning Center and several departments of the University of Notre Dame.

The conversation will be facilitated by guest speakers Patricia Watkins Murphy and James V. Cunningham from the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. They are the authors of the book Organizing for Community Controlled Development: Renewing Civil Society in which they argue that genuine community participation should be at the heart of economic development. To begin the discussion, the authors will explain what they mean by "organizing for community controlled development" and provide examples taken from their book.

For more information on this event, please feel free to contact Rachel Tomas Morgan, Center For Social Concerns (phone: 631-9404) or by email: tomasmorgan.2@nd.edu.

SJVGreens Meet Monday, Nov. 10

The Saint Joe Valley Greens next monthly meeting will be held November 10th at 7pm: The St. Joseph County Public Library, Pokagon Meeting Room, 304 S. Main St., South Bend, IN. Take the elevator on the main floor downstairs to the meeting rooms. All members active and inactive are encouraged to come.

GreenTV Features Stop-FTAA Rally on Comcast Cable Access, Channel 03

GreenTV reporters covered the Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, rally protesting the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and have included it in their second cable access TV show. Featured interview with Paul Mishler, Assis. Professor of Labor Studies, IUSB and footage of the rally. Ken Zeller, Pres. of AFL-CIO, Indianapolis, IN, speaks in a brief segment. Rally sponsored by South Bend Jobs for Justice and the ND Progressive Student Alliance. Links to FTAA information can be found on the SJVGreens web site.

Airtime for GreenTV will be 4PM EST Thursdays on Comcast Channel 03, beginning Nov. 6. Check your local cable access listings for schedule in your area. Future shows to be announced.

Contact: Victoria Webb, GreenTV Producer. email: vic@furiousdreams.com

SJVGreens Need Camcorder

The SJVGreens need a camcorder to tape location interviews and footage for our cable access show. The very best camcorders for us are digital prosumer models: Sony TRV900, Sony VX200, Canon GL1 or GL2. But we'll use any camcorder that has audio/video in and out. We need audio out for headphones and audio in for external microphones. Comcast requires tapes in S-VHS format so we need a S-VHS VCR to record our shows.

Contact Tom Brown, 574-289-2089 (work phone) or tbrown@sjvgreens.org, to donate or let us borrow gear.

Stop FTAA Local Rally, Wed., Oct. 29, Notre Dame U.

The United Steel Workers of America and the Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment announced a local rally to support the March to Miami to stop the FTAA. The rally will be held in South Bend, 6:00 PM EST, at Notre Dame Library parking lot. A teach-in is scheduled for 7-8:30 PM EST, at DeBartolo Hall, just west of the stadium. Contact Joe Carbone, 574-674- 6645.

Download a Stop the FTAA flyer in PDF format.

IGP Coordinating Committee Meeting, Sat., Oct. 18

The Indiana Green Party Coordinating Committee meeting is this Saturday, October 18, 1pm-3pm. The meeting is a videoconference. There are three regional sites listed on the IGP website. The northern Indiana site is Northern Indiana Educational Services, 56535 Magnetic Drive, Mishawaka, IN.

Civic Alliance Announces 2003 Meetings

According to Jitin Kain of the Division of Community Developement, City of South Bend the City Plan Outreach Meetings (for phase 1) have been announced. "The purpose of this first round of public meetings is to listen to South Bend residents and help establish what the community desires South Bend to be 20 years from now." more

Santa Cruz County Green Reports on CA Recall

Barri Boone, former South Bend resident and expatriate Hoosier, sends us info about the CA recall election.

SJVGreens Meet Monday, Oct. 13

The Saint Joe Valley Greens next monthly meeting will be held on Monday, October, 13, at 7pm at:

The St. Joseph County Public Library, Pokagon Meeting Room, 304 S. Main St., South Bend, IN. Take the elevator on the main floor downstairs to the meeting rooms.

Paul Mishler, Coordinator and Assist. Professor of Labor Studies at IUSB will speak on the role of the Green Party and Labor.

All members active and inactive are encouraged to come.

Civic Alliance Outreach Meetings Begin Oct. 28

The Civic Alliance and City of South Bend is inviting you to attend outreach meetings beginning Oct. 28 from 6:30-8pm and continuing through December. We ask you to use your imaginations in forging how you'd like to see South Bend in twenty years. The meetings will be posted on flyers around town and on the city website and you can call 574.235.9475 for more information... more

SJVGreens Appointed to City Advisory Committees

Dave Vollrath, an IGP delegate and SJVGreens member, has been appointed to the City Advisory Committee on CSO's (Combined Sewer Overflow), which will work to provide input over the next two years to establish future sewer rate structures and tackle future environmental challenges on community in the South Bend area.

Victoria Webb, an IGP Media coordinator and SJVGreens coordinator, has been appointed to the Civic Alliance, a group working on South Bend's twenty year proposed City Plan. The Alliance will invite and involve public participation in the first comprehensive planning process since 1961.

Energy Dept. Seeks Power to Redefine Nuclear Waste

Matthew L. Wald / NY Times 1oct03

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 — The Energy Department has asked Congress to allow it to redefine some nuclear waste so it can be left in place or sent to sites intended for low-level radioactive material, rather than being buried deep underground... more

Time to Act

By Paul Rogat Loeb

The ad in the airline magazine shows a young boy on a swing, the backdrop for an interactive pager being held by a man's hands. "Maybe you don't have to send an e-mail right now," says BellSouth's ad for their interactive paging service. "But isn't it cool that you can?" The ad, with its headline of work@lifespeed, celebrates a world where our jobs engulf our every waking moment... more

Labor Greens Network Calls for National Support of Tyson Strike

The national Labor Greens Network formally announced their support of UFCW Local 538 in their strike against Tyson Foods Inc. at the Dokosil plant in Jefferson, WI. The Labor Greens Network is calling on labor activists and Green Party members across the country to actively support 470 strikers in Jefferson, Wisconsin, who have been on the picket line since February when Tyson Foods refused further contract negotiations.

The announcement came September 14th at the biannual Labor Notes conference in Dearborn, Michigan... more

Winona LaDuke Speaks at SIUC October 13

On Monday, October 13, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale will celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day. While some acknowledge “Columbus Day,” SIUC will celebrate and honor the contributions, culture, struggles and victories of the Indians of the Americas.

The event features keynote speaker and former Green Party vice presidential candidate, WINONA LADUKE, who will speak at 7 p.m. at SIUC Student Center Ballroom D. NAMMY award winner, ANNIE HUMPHREY, will perform before LaDuke's speech... flyer

Art in the Heart of Downtown South Bend

ArtBeat 2003 -- Art in the Heart of Downtown South Bend (Sept 18th, 4:30 pm to 8:00 pm). Stroll the Beat for Art, Food, Music and Entertainment. For more information please visit Downtown South Bend.

Comcast Broadcasts American City Lecture Series

Comcast is airing videos of the American City Lecture Series on Comcast Channel 3 beginning Friday, September 19th, at 8pm. The program will be cablecast to South Bend, Mishawaka, Elkhart, Goshen, Plymouth and the surrounding county areas. It will also be available in Edwardsburg, Michigan. The series will run, in rotation, each Friday through December 12 (no play on November 28 during Thanksgiving weekend), giving each program two plays... more

Nanotech Ultrafine Particles Linked to Disease

The issue #744 of Rachel's Newsletter (named after Rachel Carson) alerts readers to the pending increase of a dangerous industrial air pollutant.

"In sum the nanotech industry and the U.S. government are rapidly ramping up a new industrial capacity to manufacture ton quantities of ultrafine particles, very similar to particles already known to be killing tens of thousands of people in the U.S. each year. The complete catalog of harm from these particles remains to be written, but we already know that they cause or aggravate asthma and cardiovascular disease, damage the small airways of animals, adults, and children, carry metals and cancer-causing combustion byproducts deep into the lungs and even into the brain where they promote the growth of amyloid plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease."... more

Green Appointed to Civic Alliance

St. Joe Valley Green Coordinator Vicki Webb has been appointed to the Civic Alliance for the South Bend City Plan. The members of the Alliance will be advocating for and developing the content of the City Plan, South Bend's comprehensive twenty year plan for growth and 'smart' development.

Ralph Nader at Bowling Green State U., Sept. 10

Ralph Nader is speaking at a rally this Wednesday, September 10th, at Bowling Green State University. The main issue is ENERGY, specifically nuclear energy and FirstEnergy's Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, 30 miles east of Toledo. The plant has been closed since February 16, 2002, at which time plant officials found extensive corrosion in the reactor head. FirstEnergy wants to restart Davis-Besse sometime this month, and the rally is a call to permanently shut it down.

Demcracy Rising and other sponsoring organizations are hoping for a large turnout from the Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana area. Hope you can be there. Please spread the word.

September 8th SJVGreens Meeting

The Saint Joe Valley Greens next monthly meeting will be held September 8th at 7pm at:

The St. Joseph County Public Library, Pokagon Meeting Room, 304 S. Main St., South Bend, IN. Take the elevator on the main floor downstairs to the meeting rooms.

There is no guest speaker this month. The meeting will be a working meeting -- we have the IGP Congress to prepare for and our first Cable Access show.

All members active and inactive are encouraged to come.

August 11th SJVGreens Meeting

The Saint Joe Valley Greens next monthly meeting will be held August 11th at 7pm at:

The St. Joseph County Public Library, Pokagon Meeting Room, 304 S. Main St., South Bend, IN. Take the elevator on the main floor downstairs to the meeting rooms.

Craig Fritts, owner of Child's Play Organic Lawns, will speak on providing an alternative to using chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides for lawn treatment and pest control.

All members active and inactive are encouraged to come.

Life in Palestine

Recently Jane Smith spoke informally to the St. Joe Valley Greens. Jane Smith is not the speaker's real name. Jane is outspoken and has been threatened by some who don't want her to share her account of common life in Palestine so we are withholding her name.

Jane related her experiences as an American Christian woman married to a Palestinian Christian man and their life in the Occupied Territories in Palestine...more

June 9th SJVGreens Meeting

The SJVGreens are holding their next meeting on Monday, June 9. The meeting will be at Kathleen and David Kaiser's home north of South Bend, off Laurel Rd. just south of St. Patrick Park and Auten Rd. The meeting starts at 7PM.

Dave & Kathleen Kaiser
51840 West Gatehouse Drive
South Bend, IN 46637
If you need directions call:  (574) 277-7585   map

Mindfully.org archive

Looking for information on hormonally active agents in the environment or the transcribed text of a speech by Dr. Doug Rokke, the U.S. Army's expert on depleted uranium?

You will find it at mindfully.org. The information archive is free and incredibly popular. Type "mindfully" at Google -- its NUMBER ONE on the list.

Paul Goettlich, former member of the St. Joe Valley Greens, publishes the site.

NWI Greens meet

Northwest Indiana Greens met at the public library in Portage, IN, last week. Read the minutes.

The next NWI Greens meeting is Sat.,May 24, 2:00 pm, at the public library, 100 E. 4th St, in Michigan City, IN. Important legislation is in the offing. Please try to attend.

What Does It Mean To Be An American?

In the current state of our society -- in the wake of 9-11, the war on terror, the climate of fear and suspicion of Arabs and Muslims or people perceived to be Arabs or Muslims -- is the definition of what it means to be an American shrinking?

From the perspectives of history, political science, philosophy, literature, and theology we would like to discuss various definitions of American identity, within the context(s) of the continuing struggle(s) for justice, equality, and freedom.

Join the ICLU for its annual Spring Conference on May 17, at Valparaiso University.

Commmunity Forum on the War in Iraq

March 22, 2003 -- Today's Community Forum about the War in Iraq was held at Century Center, sponsored by SB Common Council. The Common Council didn't present the anti-war resolution because according to Charlotte Pfeifer, they would have no votes for it and she didn't feel that it was appropriate to present it. Since 160 cities including the largest 3 in the US have passed this, I'm still not clear why our council couldn't even present it for a vote on March 10. More reason to have a Green on board... more

Rev. John Dear to Speak at Notre Dame, April 24

Rev. John Dear, SJ, is scheduled to speak on the Notre Dame campus on April 24 at ND DeBartolo Hall.

Dear, the author of 17 books on peace and justice, is a longtime practitioner and teacher of nonviolence. He is a former executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest interfaith peace organization in the United States. Dear has worked in homeless shelters, soup kitchens and community centers throughout the country; traveled in war zones throughout the world; lived in El Salvador, Guatemala and  Northern Ireland; been arrested more than 75 times in acts of civil disobedience and spent nearly a year in  prison for a Plowshares disarmament action.

Dear has written hundreds of articles and given more than 1,000 lectures on nonviolence. His books include Living Peace, recently published by Doubleday.

IGP CC Meeting, March 29

The monthly Indiana Green Party Coordinating Committee meeting is Saturday, March 29, 1:00-3:00 PM.

The videoconference site for northern Indiana is:

Northern Indiana Educational Services Corporation (NIESC)
56535 Magnetic Drive
Mishawaka, IN... directions

Ralph Nader to Speak at Notre Dame, March 26

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader will deliver a lecture titled "Legislating Corporate Ethics" at 3 p.m. March 26 (Wednesday) in the Jordan Auditorium of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.

Sponsored by the Notre Dame Law School, the talk is free and open to the public... more

Not in Our Names

What: A nonviolent demonstration for peace.

When: The day after war commences in Iraq. The march will start at 4-5:30pm, EST.

Where: Gather on the green space in front of Morris Civic Auditorium, downtown South Bend. From there, participants will march to St. Margaret's House and the Federal Building.

Contact: Holy Cross International Justice, 574.284.5366

Candlelight Peace Vigil

Victoria Webb briefly describes the Candlelight Peace Vigil which took place in South Bend last Sunday evening, March 16... more

Northwest Indiana Greens Meet in LaPorte

Greens in northwestern Indiana are organizing. The NWI Greens met in Jan., Feb. and Mar. at the LaPorte Library. Until the NWI Greens have their own web site, the SJVGreens will publish their meeting minutes here... more

Blue-Green Alliance Conference Feb. 28 - Mar. 1

There's still time to make plans to attend the Midwest Labor 28-March 1, in South Bend... more

Peace Petition to South Bend Common Council

The Michiana Peace and Justice Coalition is circulating a petition to present to the South Bend Common Council. The petition calls for the Common Council to pass a resolution against a pre-emptive strike or act of war against Iraq unless it is a response to Iraqi aggression.

The petition favors returning U.S. troops from the Middle East military buildup and reaffirms the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the principles of international law.

Read and sign the petition online at the MPJC web site.

St. Joe Valley Greens Meeting, Mar. 10

Monday, March 10, 7:00 p.m. at the Central United Methodist Church, 1920 South Main Street, South Bend. Guest speaker will be Chuck Devleeschower, an activist in water fowl habitat and wetland restoration.

All members active and inactive are encouraged to come. If you need directions, contact us.

South Bend Peace March, Sat. Feb. 15

500 attend the South Bend March for Peace, organized by the Michiana Peace and Justice Coalition.

Lance Howar and David Kaiser carry the SJVGreens banner.
Lance Howard and David Kaiser carry the banner.

See all of Jeff Sutter's photos of the march... more

Indy Peace March, Sat. Feb. 15

Today 700 dedicated winter soldiers for peace gathered at Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis, braving inclement weather of freezing temperatures, falling snow, and howling winds, to protest against the policy of pre-emptive war and in support of American values, traditions, and ideals... more

NYC Peace March, Sat. Feb. 15

Article 1: Today's protest against the Bush Administration's warmongering brought one million people to the East Side of Manhattan... more

Article 2: We just got back from the protest march. A half a million of us attempted to march to 1st Avenue where the rally was being held. It was totally chaotic. Since the city refused to grant a permit for a march, different groups of people just showed up nearby (mostly at the public library) and started trying to make their way over to the UN... more

Peace March, Sat. Feb. 15

Saturday, February 15, 3 to 3:45 p.m - MARCH FOR PEACE, South Bend IN.

Join hundreds of others from our community in urging our nation's leaders to INVEST IN PEOPLE, NOT IN WAR at a MARCH FOR PEACE. We will gather at St. Paul Bethel Missionary Baptist Church (at the corner of Lindsey and Scott St. in South Bend's near northwest neighborhood), march with signs and banners through the neighborhood and along Lincoln Way West, and assemble in a vacant lot for brief comments and a prayer.

The Rev. CT Vivian, veteran of the civil rights movement and co-worker and friend of Martin Luther King, Jr, will lead the march. We will gather back at St. Paul Bethel for refreshments. Bring signs and banners (please no signs with personal attacks). This event coincides with demonstrations across the nation and around the globe on that day. The local march is sponsored by the Center for Peace and Nonviolence and the Michiana Peace and Justice Coalition.

For more information call 291-0924. Visit the MPJC web site.

Black History Movie at IUSB

The Indiana University South Bend’s Civil Rights Heritage Center and the Division of Labor Studies will present a showing of the film “The Killing Floor” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, in the third floor faculty lounge, Wiekamp Hall... more

Northwest Indiana Greens Meeting, Feb. 15

The Northwest Greens will meet on Sat., Feb. 15, at 2:00 CST. The meeting site is to be announced. Contact Karren Cooper for information.

IGP Coordinating Committee Meeting, Thu. Feb. 27

The Indiana Green Party Coordinating Committee will meet Thu., Feb. 27, at 7:00 PM, at IUSB. The conference room has not been determined. The last conference was in Northside Hall.

Although the CC meeting is for IGP officers and local chapter delegates to the CC, all IGP members are welcome.

Victory for South Bend Rate Payers

On Monday, January 13, 2003, the South Bend Common Council voted 8-1 to raise water/sewer rates for the first time in 15 years. Although raising the rates was a victory for the city and the environment, the big victory is the way the new rates are sturctured -- large users will no longer receive massive subsidies for water consumption and treatment in South Bend... more

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