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LET THEM DIE - by Portland Director Elizabeth Atley about Katrina - more information forthcoming;
Possible FUNDRAISER - for local high school chapter - more information forthcoming
LEFT THEM DIE - by Portland Director Elizabeth Atley - more information forthcoming
FUNDRAISER - for local high school chapter - more information forthcoming
WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR?
A documentary that investigates the death and resurrection of the electric car
WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR is Chris Paine’s documentary that investigates the death and resurrection of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in our country's future.
Volatile gasoline prices, fossil fuel shortages, and unrest in oil producing regions around the globe spurred mainstream consumer adoption of the hybrid electric car. But the all electric car was killed.
Learn the story of the electric car, its place in history, and the larger story of our car culture and how it enables our continuing addiction to foreign oil.
HACKING DEMOCRACY is a timely, cautionary documentary that exposes gaping holes in the security of America's electronic voting system.
Bev Harris from Black Box Voting (www.blackboxvoting.org) will share her views from the voting security trenches.
The Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation Social Justice Committee and the Alliance for Democracy's South Sound Chapter presents movies on Anti-War, Corporate Power and Consumerism with a Conscience on the FIRST Friday of EACH month at the Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation sanctuary. Discussion and local organizing follows the movies.
AFFLUENZA and ESCAPE FROM AFFLUENZA is a fascinating look at one of the greatest social maladies of our time: overconsumption and materialism. Hosted by National Public Radio's Scott Simon, Affluenza explores both the comical and sobering aspects of our consumerism and its enormous impact on our families, communities and the environment.
One-day (Saturday) workshop in Olympia: "Enhancing the Power of citizens Over the Power of Money in Politics."
Post election Gathering to discuss common ways we will benefit from fixing our broken democracy. United on this issue, we can more easily achieve our various goals as citizens and citizen-based organizations.
This workshop is part of the Democracy Rising coalition building project being launched by the Alliance for Democracy. To learn more about this project, visit www.sounddemocracy.org.
COST: $30 INCLUDES LUNCH AND SNACKS
Lunch by Food Not Bombs
Timeframe: 9:30 - 4:30
Space limited to 30 people. PRE-REGISTRATIONRequested.
Two Great Ideas that Work Well Together… Public Financing of Campaigns and The Democracy Rising Project !
Washington Public Campaigns joins the Alliance for Democracy for a meeting on how they can work together to achieve clean elections and restore democracy.
We Invite you to attend and learn how you can participate!
Open to the Public. FREE
6:45- Doors Open
7:00- Post Election Feedback and Discussion (cookies & tea)
7:30- Publicly Funded Elections
“Road to Clean Elections” narrated by Bill Moyers;
Speaker Presentation by Washington Public Campaigns
8:30- Democracy Rising Project
Presentation & Discussion & Planning on Building Alliances around Change Needed to Empower People and
Fix our Broken Democracy
9:00- Adjourn
Musical Fundraising Event
Dana Lyons in Concert
with opening act by The Raging Grannies
Saturday, June 10, 7:00-9:30 p.m.
Washington Center for the Performing Arts-Stage II (Black Box)
512 Washington St SE (Downtown Olympia in the block between 5th and Legion)
To Benefit:
The Alliance for Democracy, South Puget Sound Chapter
www.SoundDemocracy.org
Tickets: $22, including $2 WCPA handling fee. Purchase tickets beginning in mid- May at http://www.washingtoncenter.o
A report from the trenches from populist crusader Carl Mayer, former campaign manager for Ralph Nader.
An evening seminar for:
- all people who struggle against corporations’ overwhelming dominance of our "democratic" process.
- all people seeking power as citizens who want their voice to matter in the democratic conversation.
1 hour presentation & 1 hour Q & A
The New York Times calls New Jersey’s Carl Mayer a populist crusader and maverick lawyer. Mayer is noteworthy for his scholarly works on the Supreme Court's treatment of corporations as people with human civil rights, his hard-hitting work as a Special Prosecutor for New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer and his undercover work in a corporate fraud investigation that Sixty Minutes reported resulted in jail terms for seventy-five elected officials and corporate lobbyists
This Panel Discussion/Forum about WALMART will provide students and community members the ability to engage in dialogue with local representatives of our community.Using Walmart as an example people, will discuss how big box chains affect communities. Bldg 26, Room 105 at Noon. PIZZA will be available.
