SOME EVENTS FOR PROGRESSIVES IN BROWARD AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES-621
Bob Bender
SOME EVENTS FOR PROGRESSIVES IN BROWARD AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES-621
Sunday April 19, 2 p.m. Tribute to Pete and Toshi Seeger
When friends rejoice both far and near, how can I keep from singing?
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Doors open at 1:30 for the 2 p.m. performance by a variety of artists, with opportunities for audience members not only to sing lustily but also to get involved in local causes like those that dominated the lives of Pete and Toshi.
Folksinger and educator Rod MacDonald, event initiator and program producer, confirms that the following artists will be with us, donating their services:
Nick Annis is an award-winning songwriter, but he is also admired by folk fans for the storytelling talent that makes his performances so memorable. Drawing on his diverse background and Greek roots, Nick crafts “true” stories and timeless accounts of humanity. www.nickannis.com
Allan Aunapu: “Pete and I were introduced by scholarly folk-author Henry Glassie in 1967. I had just rigged and sailed the schooner Mystic Whaler up from Florida. Then we rigged the sloop Clearwater for her maiden voyage. What a fun time! All fair winds; I got to open for Pete with the world calypso Zombie Jamboree.” auna...@gmail.com; 954-240-4900
Ellen Bukstel is an activist in the truest sense. Her fundraising music videos have collectively helped to raise close to $100m for community causes such as Housing the Homeless. www.ellenbukstel.com; el...@bukstel.com
Michelle & Scott Dalziel formed their duo in 1997, each playing guitar, with Michelle adding djembe and hand percussion. They exchange lead and harmony, delivering their lyrics with soul and compassion at festivals, concerts and more. They were winners of the Vic Heyman songwriting award at the 2013 South Florida Folk Festival. http://www.reverbnation.com/scottandmichelledalziel
Jennings & Keller: Laurie and Dana are an award-winning Americana-folk duo who spend part of each year on tour criss-crossing the country. For the past seven years, Laurie has worked with incarcerated women through Artspring. (www.artspring.org); jenningsandkeller.com
Grant Livingston has written about Florida's history and environment since the mid-1980s. Relentlessly positive, his songs employ a little swing, a little singalong, a quirky sense of humor, and a cast of characters including dogs, cats, pythons and armadillos.
gmlivi...@gmail.com www. GrantLivingston.com 305-444-1230
Rod MacDonald moved to south Florida in 1995 after two decades as a leading Greenwich Village singer-songwriter. New Times named him one of the “Ten Greatest South Florida Folksingers of All Time.” Teaches Music Americana in FAU’s Lifelong Learning program. Of his latest CD, Later That Night, Sing Out! wrote: “The next time someone asks you where good protest music has gone, make that person listen to this CD.” www.rodmacdonald.net; rod...@aol.com; 561-414-4834
Marie Nofsinger, an award-winning songwriter, national touring performer and recording artist will take you on a journey into the soul of America. Tales of outlaws, anarchists, the common working man, Jesus and broken hearts fill her original repertoire. Lilting melodies, swamp stomp rhythms, as well as jazzy swing tunes carry the lyrics into your memory. marieno...@hotmail.com
PinkSlip Duo: The harmony-centric PinkSlip Duo (Joan Friedenberg and Bill Bowen) is known for its multimedia sing-along tribute programs to its folk and folk-rock heroes, and for showing up on the sidewalk to support a good cause. Pinkslipband.com; pinks...@gmail.com; 561-926-4650
South Florida Raging Grannies: “Raging Grannies” started in Canada in 1986 when several peace activists banded together to protest injustice musically. South Florida Raging Grannies has been raging and singing to bring positive change since 2006. mjbeck...@yahoo.com
Tony Thomas has performed at folk, old time, and blues venues and festivals in Europe and the United States. His pioneering work on African Americans and the banjo has been published by Oxford University and Duke University Press. Writ...@aol.com
Impressario and producer Susan Moss, leader of the Labyrinth Café, is making the well-oiled resources of the group available for this worthy cause for the gate, program (the timing/line-up/logistics in collaboration with Rod), and refreshments. Net ticket proceeds will be donated to nonprofit causes working for Seeger-aura social changes.
2015 Concert Beneficiaries:
Dream Defenders (Uprising from communities in conflict shifting culture through transformational organizing)
Everglades Earth First (Environment)
Fort Lauderdale Food not Bombs (Homeless)
Friends of Broward Detainees (Immigration)
Haitian Women of Miami (to empower Haitian women and their families, as well as to facilitate their adjustment to South Florida)
MoveOn Council of South Palm Beach/North Broward, Delray Beach Affiliate of Move to Amend (Advocacy)
South Florida Interfaith Workers Justice (Labor)
South Florida Jewish Voice for Peace (Peace)
Pete Seeger (May 3, 1919 - January 27, 2014)
Toshi Aline Ohta Seeger (July 1, 1922 - July 9, 2013)
In the 1930s, Pete Seeger sang in support of Spaniards and inter-nationalists defending Spanish democracy from the fascist attack, as well as for the historic CIO union organizing in the United States. In 1949, along with Paul Robeson, he faced fascist vigilante attacks with police compliance at Peekskill, New York.
In 1943, Pete had married Toshi Aline Ohta, a dancer and filmmaker specializing in folk music, a producer, and an environmental activist. Toshi had attended Manhattan's Little Red Schoolhouse and graduated from New York City's High School of Music and Art in 1940. Six years into their marriage, Toshi and Pete moved from Manhattan to Beacon, New York, building a log cabin without running water or electricity.
Pete and the Weavers achieved national acclaim in 1950 when their recording of Good Night Irene hit the top of the charts. A string of ensuing hits with the Weavers notwithstanding, Pete was blacklisted from the mainstream media. In 1955, he invoked the First Amendment when questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee, was indicted for contempt of Congress in 1957, and convicted in 1961. That conviction was overturned the following year.
While blacklisted from the mainstream media, Pete still became a mainstay (and the backbone) of the 1950s folk revival, playing college auditoriums, summer camps and folk festivals. In the early 1960s, he popularized We Shall Overcome as the civil rights movement's anthem.
The foundation of Pete's personal and professional success, Toshi took part in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama. In 1966, she produced and directed a public television series hosted by Pete, and in 2007 produced the Academy Award-winning documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song.
In 1966, Toshi and Pete co-founded the Clearwater organization and the annual Great Hudson River Revival/Clearwater Festival,to rally public support for cleaning up the Hudson River. The Festival, now in its 49th year, started as a fundraising picnic to help build the Sloop Clearwater. It will next be held on June 20-21 of this year.
Under Toshi's direction, and with a cohort of activist supporters, the Festival's innovations included providing sign language interpreters, wheelchair access, recycling programs, massive volunteer participation, and a prominent activist area.
Pete’s contributions to the American folk process have been recognized with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Harvard Arts Medal, Kennedy Center Award, Presidential Medal of the Arts, and membership in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
On January 20, 2009, Pete performed with his grandson, Tao Rodriguez Seeger, and Bruce Springsteen on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at Barack Obama’s inauguration.
After his death on January 27, 2014, Pete was the posthumous recipient of the first Woody Guthrie Prize for “speaking, singing, and organizing for and with the less fortunate through music, and serving as a positive force for social change.”
Throughout his lifetime, and often with Toshi by his side, Pete appeared around the world at thousands of small group meetings, demonstrations and concerts pro bono to promote social justice. Well into his 90s, he responded in his iconic handwriting and uniquely artistic banjo signature to the thousands who reached out to him.
Pete will be remembered and revered for his inimitable capacity throughout his life successfully to elicit the Meek and the Mute to join the Bold and the Boisterous of all ages, races, religions and politics, in and out of tune and key, to sound out lustily and sometimes courageously, in multi-part harmony, for Peace, Justice, Ecology, Equality and Internationalism.
Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft Lauderdale
3970 NW 21st Avenue
Oakland Park 33309
Tickets @ $20, with additional donations requested for scholarships/subsidies. All tickets will be held at the door.
A sellout is anticipated; advance payment is required. Checks payable to UUCFL can be mailed to UUCFL, 3970 NW 21st Avenue, Oakland Park 33309 marked: “Attention Susan Moss.” Annotate check: “April 19.”
Those needing a scholarship/subsidy should contact Patty Bender: pattyg...@gmail.com; 908-477-7811
Bob and Patty Bender and Ed Wujciak, producers with the Activist Advisory and Working Committee, invite nonprofit activist groups who wish to promote their cause at the event, as well as other groups willing to assist by being sponsors, to contact Ed: ewuj...@gmail.com; 954-673-8210. Such groups are asked to promote the event to their members and contacts, and to recruit volunteer workers for big or little tasks. Each group will be provided free table space on a first-come, first-served basis and will be listed on the program handout. Each tabler must also purchase a ticket. Applicants are asked to submit a one-or-two sentence organizational description to Ed.
Refreshments for purchase will be available.
Producer contacts:
Rod Macdonald: rod...@aol.com; 561-414-4834
Bob Bender: b...@benderworld.com; 954-531-1928
Susan Moss: ozwom...@aol.com; 954-478-8637
Ed Wujciak: ewuj...@gmail.com; 954-673-8210
Patty Bender: pattyg...@gmail.com; 908-477-7811
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Friday April 10, 7 p.m. Discussion of Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Discussion will be led by Carol Lewis.
Co-sponsored by War vs Human Needs and First United Church of Christ.
ALL ARE ENCOURAGED TO READ THE BOOK.
First United Church of Christ
1415 North K Street
Lake Worth 33460
Saturday April 11 The Town Hall about the Trans-Pacific Partnership
will no longer take place on this date. As
soon as the event has been rescheduled, notice will be posted here.
Communications Workers of America, Local 3181
594 1st Street
West Palm Beach 33413
Phone: 561-640-5559 or 877-475-5559
Tuesday April 7, 6:30 p.m. Food & Water Watch
The critically acclaimed anti-fracking film Groundswell Rising is coming to Broward County. This film tells the story of people from all walks of life and across the political spectrum who are working to stop fracking. Join us on our Florida film tour for a free film screening and conversation with special guest Craig Stevens.
As you may know, Craig Stevens is a Pennsylvania resident and activist whose fight for clean water is featured in the film. Craig will share his personal experiences in battling fracking on his land.
RSVP to reserve a seat and join the conversation. Find out how you can plug in to the movement to ban fracking.
Fern Forest Nature Center
201 South Lyons Road
Coconut Creek 33063
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Wednesday April 8, 7-8:30 p.m. PinkSlip— Voices of Women of the 60's: Joan, Joni, Judy, Janis, Carly and Carole
A multimedia program
FAU-Jupiter Lifelong Learning
Society
Rosenthal Complex, Florida Atlantic University
5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter
(Donald Ross Road Exit off I-95, go east)
Tickets: $25/member; $35/non-member (+$5 if at the
door)
More information: 561-799-8547
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Friday April 10, 7 p.m. Discussion of Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Discussion will be led by Carol Lewis.
Co-sponsored by War vs Human Needs and First United Church of Christ.
ALL ARE ENCOURAGED TO READ THE BOOK.
First United Church of Christ
1415 North K Street
Lake Worth 33460
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Friday April 10, 7 p.m. Pace e Bene and Campaign Nonviolence
Father John Dear from Pace e Bene and Campaign Nonviolence will speak.
John Dear is an internationally known voice for peace and nonviolence. A peacemaker, organizer, lecturer, and retreat leader, he is the author/editor of 30 books, including his autobiography, A Persistent Peace, and his latest book, The Nonviolent Life. In 2008, John was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. A former Jesuit, John is a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Monterey, California.
From 1998 until December 2000, he served as the executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest interfaith peace organization in the United States.
After the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, John served as a Red Cross Chaplain, and became one of the coordinators of the chaplain program at the Family Assistance Center.
From 2002-2004, he served as pastor of several parishes in northeastern New Mexico. Nowadays, he lectures to tens of thousands of people each year in churches and schools across the country and the world.
John has been arrested over seventy-five times in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience for peace, and has organized hundreds of demonstrations against war and nuclear weapons at military bases across the country, and he has worked with Mother Teresa and others to stop the death penalty.
John has two masters degrees in theology from the Graduate Theological Union in California.
http://www.fatherjohndear.org/
Saint Maurice Catholic Church
441 NE 2nd Street
Dania Beach 33004
If you plan to attend, please call John Schmidt at 954-999-6552, or email him at Joh...@bellsouth.net. He needs to have an idea of how many people will be attending.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1010264028998589/
Saturday April 11 The Town Hall about the Trans-Pacific Partnership
will no longer take place on this date. As
soon as the event has been rescheduled, notice will be posted here.
Communications Workers of America, Local 3181
594 1st Street
West Palm Beach 33413
Phone: 561-640-5559 or 877-475-5559
Saturday
April 11, 2-3:30 p.m. PinkSlip—Bleecker Street and Beyond:
The Greenwich Village music scene of the 60's
Mandel Public Library
411 Clematis Street
West Palm Beach
561-868-7782 www.mycitylibrary.org
No charge
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Sunday April 12, 12 noon MoveOn Council of South Palm Beach/North Broward, an affiliate of Move to Amend
Films for Thought: Join us one Sunday of every month for an update on local MoveOn activities followed by a viewing and informal discussion of a thought-provoking film.
Earth Under Water—As we witness the effects of sea level rise in our own neighborhoods, many are still denying the effects of climate change. This film promises to illustrate what our future in Florida and the world will look like as the sea rises around us. Join us for this free film and discussion.
Gizzi’s Coffee Shop
2275 South Federal Highway
Delray Beach 33483
RSVP: http://pol.moveon.org/event/moveonaction/143367
We encourage purchase of a drink or a snack from the coffee shop to show appreciation for allowing us to show these films there. Likewise, please don't bring in outside food.
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Wednesday April 15, 8 a.m. Fight for $15 Fort Lauderdale
Following the paltry pay increase announcement by McDonald’s we will continue to demand $15 an hour and the right to a union without retaliation. South Florida will join the nationwide rallies.
Employees ranging from fast-food cooks to adjunct professors are planning to participate in the largest-ever mobilization of underpaid workers —a series of tax day strikes, marches and rallies that will crisscross the entire nation and reach countries from Brazil to Japan— calling for wages that boost the economy and the freedom to join together in unions without retaliation.
For the first time since fast-food workers walked off their jobs in November, 2012, sparking a nationwide movement for $15 and union rights, college students will join the coast-to-coast protests, with students from more than 170 universities planning campus rallies and marches—from Columbia University to the University of South Florida. And the Fight For $15’s connection to the #BlackLivesMatter movement will continue to deepen, as the fights for racial and economic justice come together as one.
Workers chose tax day—4/15— to highlight their demand for $15 an hour and to call on profitable corporations to stop paying workers’ wages so low that they can’t afford basic needs without taxpayers’ help through public assistance programs like food stamps.
“I’m tired of struggling for a million dollar company for so little pay,” said Laura Rollins, a McDonald’s worker who participated in the last September’s Fight for 15 strikes and was arrested for the cause. Rollins is a 63-year-old grandmother from Fort Lauderdale who says, “Making $15 an hour for me would be a tremendous help in my life. The extra money would mean a lot to me because I could pay an extra bill instead of living paycheck to paycheck. I’m not just doing this for me but so my grandchildren won't have to struggle so much. I believe we can win this fight.”
Inspired by cooks and cashiers from restaurants like McDonald’s and Burger King, adjunct professors, who are calling for $15,000 per course, have joined in, along with home care, child care, airport, and Walmart workers. For several months, these workers have been organizing and mobilizing for the 4/15 protests in their cities and regions, joined by college students, who have launched Fight for $15 chapters on campuses throughout the country, and advocates from more than 2,000 partner groups, including the NAACP, the Moral Mondays movement, the coalition of groups organizing around #BlackLivesMatter, the Center for Popular Democracy, the International Union of Foodworkers, MoveOn.org, Credo, and many others.
The campaign has also continued to spread across the globe, with strikes planned for 4/15 in Italy, and several other countries, store occupations set for several European capitals, and other protests planned in as many as 40 countries on six continents.
Meanwhile, in the United States, the federal government has launched a case against McDonald’s, accusing the fast-food giant of rampant labor-law violations, and arguing that the corporate parent, and not just franchisees, are responsible for the illegal actions. This is all on top of suits alleging wage theft and racism in the US; more than two-dozen complaints filed with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration alleging McDonald’s workers are being burned on the job, with many told to use condiments like mustard to ease the pain; and the more than $1 billion in public assistance taxpayers spend on its employees here.
The urgent need for solutions to America’s low-wage crisis is already emerging as a key issue in the run-up to the 2016 election. In The New York Times, David Leonhardt wrote, “[a]s the 2016 presidential campaign begins to stir, the central question will be how both parties respond to the great wage slowdown.” And Democrats and leading economic experts are increasingly looking to restore Americans’ rights to form unions as a way to bring balance back to the economy and create jobs that enable more communities to thrive.
Join us for a rally at Fort Lauderdale Airport. We are demanding livable wages for workers, and we are fighting for their right to form unions.
FLL Airport
Outside of Terminal 1, 2nd Floor
100 Terminal Drive
Fort Lauderdale 33315
#FightFor15 #FastFoodGlobal
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Saturday April 18, 10:30-11 a.m. Everglades Restoration and Sea Level Rise
Mary Crider, Program Coordinator
Arthur R. Marshall Foundation for the Everglades
Originally from Georgetown, Texas, Mary was first inspired to participate in the protection of the environment while earning her B.S. in Marine Biology and Environmental Sciences from Nova Southeastern University. In May 2012, Mary received her Masters in Environmental Sciences from Florida Atlantic University with a focus on human/environmental interactions. After completing her thesis research in Ecuador, Mary pursued a career in environmental education, joining the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation staff in August 2012. As a member of the education department, Mary enjoys teaching students, college interns, and the community about the unique Everglades system to encourage the development of stewards of this life-giving habitat. Since sea level rise will impact the Everglades this century, she also produces curriculum and helps organize an Annual Sea Level Rise Symposium to increase student and community awareness.
The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton
2601 St. Andrews Boulevard
Boca Raton 33434
In the Main Sanctuary
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Saturday April 18-Sunday April 19 Earth Day Fair, the Heart of Florida Earth Festival 2015
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton
2601 St. Andrews Boulevard
Boca Raton 33434
and the adjoining Woodlands Park
Plan to visit the alternative-fuel car park, the bicycle corral, the green business eco-park, the kids’ activity area, and the food truck. Enjoy live music.
Renewable energy. We will highlight alternative-fuel cars and solar energy in booths and in the alternative-fuel car park.
Youth programming will teach our kids about energy. The need for renewable energy sources is acute in our region, because our current energy grid cannot support the amount of pumping that will be necessary to manage water as the sea level rises.
Sea level rise in Southeast Florida. The HighWaterLine Delray Project will culminate in a community project drawing 15 miles of chalk line showing the high water line at 3 feet or 6 feet of sea level rise in Delray Beach. Our region is already experiencing climate change impacts in the form of flooding, saltwater intrusion into our drinking water wells, and failing canal infrastructure.
Protection of our water supply and Everglades restoration. Outreach and education on water conservation are important to protect our water supply. Youth programming on water issues, with Girl Scout Badges, and booths and displays for adults on water management, will be highlighted at the festival.
Air quality. Youth programming on air quality will be offered. Non-profit booths will offer opportunities for citizens to sign petitions and to learn about Florida’s air quality challenges.
Partners include: The Unitarian Universalist Southeast Florida Cluster; Unitarian Universalist Justice Florida; First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches; Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida; The U.S. Green Building Council South Florida Chapter; Sierra Club Loxahatchee Chapter; Eve Mosher and the HighWaterLine Project; The League of Women Voters of Palm Beach County (with partial funding from the Florida Humanities Council); The U.S. Green Building Council South Florida Chapter; Florida Atlantic University Pine Jog Environmental Center; The City of Delray Beach; EcoArt South Florida; The Delray Beach Rising Waters Task Force; The Delray Beach Historic Marina District Home Owners Association
For further information, please go to: http://www.FloridaEarthFestival.com
Saturday April 18, indoor activities:
10
a.m.
Gridley-Howe Room
Breath Meditation for Teens
South Palm Zen Group
10:30
a.m.
Main Sanctuary
Everglades Restoration & Sea Level Rise
Arthur R. Marshall Foundation
Rockberger Hall
Great Cloth Diaper Change 2015
You and your baby can be part of the Great Cloth Diaper Change 2015 attempt to set a new Guinness Book of World Records number of babies changed into reusable cloth diapers around the world, sponsored by Stinkin’ Cute Natural Baby Boutique. Arrive for registration at 10:30am, so your baby can be photographed and documented to be a part of this internationally coordinated event. The event includes Cloth Diapering 101. Let’s keep disposable diapers out of landfills!
See how presenter Claudia Limerick is working to change the reputation of cloth diapers.
Smith
Room
Girl Scouts Activities
Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida
Sunflower
Room
Gardens that Drink Less Water (2-3 grade)
UUFBR Green Sanctuary Committee
11 a.m.
The Main Sanctuary
Highwaterline Delray Beach: From Science to Street Maps
GIS mapping specialist Dr. Keren Bolter (FAU Center for Environmental Studies) presents the science behind sea level rise predictions in Palm Beach County, and how the neighborhoods and streets that will be chalked on April 25th were determined.
11:30
a.m.
Main Sanctuary
HighWaterLine Delray Beach Project: History at Risk
Dr. Sandra Norman (FAU History Department) presents the history of the three
Delray Beach neighborhoods, highlighting personal oral histories and the
historic and cultural structures that are threatened by sea level rise. She
will also introduce best practices in compiling an Oral History.
Smith
Room
Girl Scouts Activities
Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida
12
noon
Main Sanctuary
HighWaterLine Delray Beach Project: How to Participate in a Performance Art
Project
All volunteers who will participate in chalking the line in Delray Beach on
April 25th will learn how to speak to the public about sea level
rise, their specific responsibilities and routes, and the logistics of chalking
the lines.
Gridley-Howe
Room
Breath Meditation for Teens
South Palm Zen Group
1
p.m.
Main Sanctuary
Vertical and Edible Walls
Green Living Technologies International
Hartley Room
Dr. Sandra Norman, FAU Department of History, conducts brief
video interviews with Delray Beach residents of the Nassau Historic District,
the Historic Marina District, and the Frog Alley area.
HighWaterLine Delray Beach project
Smith
Room
Girl Scout Activities
Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida
1:30 p.m.
Main Sanctuary
Climate Change at the Municipal Level
What we can do to engage our local communities in the climate change discussion, presented by Climate Action Coalition of South Florida members Rachelle Litt (Organizing for Action) and Julia Hathaway (Sierra Club Florida).
2
p.m.
Main Sanctuary
Beautiful Trouble/Beautiful Solutions Workshops for artists, sponsored by the
Delray Beach Public Art Advisory Board.
(Please see listing for 2 p.m. Sunday April 18 for further information)
Rockberger Hall
Just One Backyard: One Man’s Search for Food Sustainability
Dr. John Zahina-Ramos is a trained psychologist and ecologist. His Just One Backyard Project began as a search to promote urban agriculture. He worked for the South Florida Water Management District for 16 years, and has also been a consultant for major universities around the country on wetlands.
His book Just One Backyard: One Man’s Search for Food Sustainability is an entertaining and enlightening tale of how Dr. John Zahina-Ramos turned his urban residential backyard into a research study to measure the many benefits of urban agriculture. This is no dry lecture based on puffed-up rhetoric. Dr. Z has skillfully accomplished one of the more difficult challenges- weaving heartwarming storytelling and scientific facts together in a way that even a novice can appreciate and enjoy. The first half of the book takes the reader on a thoughtfully told journey through the history of food growing, from ancient times through the 21st century, carefully describing how our food supply has become dominated by an industrialized production system that is dependent of unsustainable practices and harms the environment. By drawing upon historical facts, his family’s experiences and stories told to him by food gardeners around the world, its eloquent message remains fresh right up to the end. The second half of the book gets down to the nitty-gritty of what sustainable urban food growing is and the numerous benefits it can give. Several chapters describe the social, environmental, ecological and economic benefits of urban agriculture in a way that has never been possible before- with hard numbers, rather than broad generalizations. Even though the current unsustainable food system is fraught with problems, Dr. Z lays out solutions that can provide for the needs of the 21st century. The result is inspirational and empowering.
4 p.m.
Main Sanctuary
Ms. Lynn Min (闵粼) presents community
building three dimensional origami art.
(Please see listing for 4 p.m. Sunday April 18 for further information.)
Rockberger
Hall
Vermi-Composting with Worms
UUFBR Green Sanctuary Committee
5-7 p.m.
Main Sanctuary
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
A documentary on the collective mobilization and creative innovations that helped Cuba survive the energy famine brought on by the Soviet collapse of the early 1990s. As the world now approaches peak oil resources, there is much we can learn from the Cuban example. 53 minute film (2006).
Hosted by MoveOn Council of South Palm Beach and North Broward.
Saturday April 18, outdoor activities:
Green
Kid Garden
10 a.m. 11 a.m. 12 noon 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 3 p.m. 4 p.m. 5 p.m.
Eco Stars Club for Kids Storytelling
Earth Music Stage
11:30 a.m. Jazzercise
12 noon Pink Slip Band
2 p.m. Jazzercise
2:30 p.m. Liddy Clark
3:30 p.m. ARTIKaL Sound System
5 p.m. Jess Lee
Sunday April 19, indoor activities:
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Main Sanctuary
Worship Service
You are welcome to join Rev. Harris Riordan and the members of
the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton in joyous community in
celebration of Earth.
The UUFBR Chalice Choir will be joined by members of the River of Grass Unitarian Universalists and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ft. Lauderdale. They will sing Julliard trained composer Aaron Venable’s choral setting of the Earth Day Poem.
1
p.m.
Main Sanctuary
Chi Dancing
Rockberger
Hall
Vermi-Composting with Worms
UUFBR Green Sanctuary Committee
Hartley
Room
Games, Books, and Apps to Save Earth
Eco Star Kids Club
Smith
Room
Girl Scout Activities
Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida
Sunflower
Room
Trees and Air (6-8 grade)
UUFBR Green Sanctuary Committee
1:30 p.m.
Main Sanctuary
Holistic Medicine
Boca and Beyond Holistic Chamber of Commerce
Dr. George Love Jr. is a licensed primary care physician in the state of Florida since 1986 as a Doctor of Oriental Medicine (DOM), Herbalist, Qigong master since 1994 and certified Acupuncturist for 31 years. He is the former Dean of Oriental Medicine Studies at Barna College of Health Science in Ft. Lauderdale and the author of nine books on health including Shield Your Immune System in just 12 Weeks. He is the lineage holder of Lung Qing Neidan Qi Gong aka Blue Dragon Qi Gong which he has renamed Meridian Qi Gong. He has been leading fasting workshops since 1985 with 3 Day Green Clean kits and 7 Day Juice Feasting kits. He has created Psycho-puncture, Psycho-pressure and Food Therapy. After 30 years as a healer Dr. Love is committed to raising the skill level of acupuncturists throughout North America as a CEU provider.
2 p.m.
Main Sanctuary
Beautiful Trouble/Beautiful Solutions Workshops for artists sponsored by the Delray Beach Public Art Advisory Board.
The people who came together to write Beautiful Trouble stayed together and became a community: an extraordinary alliance of artists, trainers and creative campaigners who continue to make, teach, and celebrate game-changing creative activism in several exciting ways:
Training Network
Less than 2 years old, BT’s training program has conducted over 20 trainings, and served a range of movements: our LA training with SEIU helped bring a new creative edge to the fight for fast food worker rights; our NYC training gave voice to the grassroots wave that ushered mayor DeBlasio into office; and our 5-day creative action intensive with 350.org in Budapest has helped the emerging global climate justice movement.
In 2015, we’re building an open-source library of training tools and initiating a series of trainings focused on the specific needs and challenges of activism-curious artists, helping them leverage their unique skills to have an outsized impact on social change efforts.
Beautiful Solutions (@be_solutions)
In partnership with senior staff from the New Economy Coalition, a second book is in the works: Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for the Future. Building off the groundbreaking model of the original, the new book will focus on constructive solutions, gathering the most promising and contagious strategies for building a more just, democratic and resilient world. In partnership with Naomi Klein, we recently launched an online “solutions gallery” housed alongside the website for her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate. We’re also working with The Other 98% to turn book modules into inspiring solution stories that can vastly expand the reach of the project.
Beautiful Rising (@BeautRising)
We’ve teamed up with the international NGO ActionAid to convene front-line activists from hotspots across the Global South. Adapting the Beautiful Trouble methodology, we will help participants map the approaches and tactical innovations that have been most effective at addressing the challenges faced by Global South movements. We will then disseminate these strategies via an innovative toolbox for global changemakers.
Climate Action Lab (@climateribbon)
BT’s Climate Action Lab is an incubator of exemplary creative interventions to advance climate justice. Most recently, we brought the Climate Ribbon to the streets of New York during the People’s Climate March. Dubbed “an AIDS Quilt for the Climate Justice movement,” the project has since been inundated with requests from communities and congregations seeking to host their own climate ribbon ceremonies. We’re assembling a DIY Kit and making plans for future large-scale climate mobilizations in the lead up to Paris and beyond.
4 p.m.
Main Sanctuary
Ms. Lynn Min (闵粼) presents community building three dimensional origami art.
The executive director of the Michael Graves Foundation, is an architect and entrepreneur with a passion for envisioning and launching multi-disciplinary projects. Currently, as the Executive Director of the MG Foundation, Inc., she dedicates her time and many talents to being a catalyst for social change through designing integrated cultural-technological ecosystems. Ms. Min has a particular concern for finding solutions to grassroots problems through promoting culture and bio-diversity, as well as community engagement.
Rockberger
Hall
Vermi-Composting with Worms
UUFBR Green Sanctuary Committee
5 p.m.
Rockberger Hall
Girl Scout Activities
Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida
Sunday April 19, outdoor activities:
Green Kid Garden 12 noon 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 3 p.m. 4 p.m.
Eco Stars Club for Kids Storytelling
Earth Music Stage
1 p.m. Jazzercise
1:30 p.m. Ava Boswell
2:15 p.m. Jazzercise
3 p.m. Maggie Baugh
4 p.m. Nick Aquilino
5 p.m. Sol Republic Band
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Friday April 23, 6-7 p.m. Ecocentre-The Living Building Tour
The Living Building is a 33,000 square ft. Ecocentre incorporating natural “living” systems and green technologies designed to save energy, reduce carbon dioxide emissions and water consumption, and create an overall healthier environment. The building is registered with the U.S. Green Building Council, and is seeking Gold LEED Certification.
Palm Beach County’s first green, “living” building also features the Living Machine®, an on-site water purification and recycling technology that treats gray water (from the sinks and showers) and re-uses it for irrigation, further reducing potable water consumption in the building. In addition, rainwater from the rooftop is collected in an 8000-gallon cistern and re-used for flushing toilets, and air-conditioning condensate becomes the source of fish pond water, which is used to irrigate interior landscaping.
1005 Lake Ave
Lake Worth 33460
Contact: Elliot Richman ell...@romanolawgroup.com
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Saturday April 24, 2-4 p.m. FAU Engineering East Tour
The FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science is committed to sustainability. Their Engineering East Building is now certified as the first academic building in southeast Florida designed and built to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum level standards. This facility places the University, College, and local community at the national forefront of energy conservation and environmental stewardship efforts and acts as a catalyst for building sustainable infrastructures. This living learning laboratory serves the University, local K-14 students, and the general public, as an important showcase for “green” building and system design strategies and building management practices.
The Engineering East building was constructed with efficiencies to decrease the College’s carbon footprint in every imaginable way, including: 75% recycled rate for waste generated by project construction 50% reduction in restroom fixture water demand 75% reduction in landscaping irrigation water demand 50% reduction in restroom flush fixture waste water generation 50% more energy efficient than a conventionally designed facility 75% of the occupied spaces will be naturally day lit 90% of the occupied spaces will have a window view.
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton 33431
Contact: in...@floridaearthfestival.com
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Saturday April 25, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Delray Beach Earth Day Festival
A full day of activities in Delray Beach, including:
Lines drawn in the streets of Delray Beach
East of the Intracoastal Waterway: Nassau Historic District
West of the Intracoastal Waterway: Historic Marina District
Southwest Delray Beach
Art Tile Treasure Hunt
Storm Drain Art
National Water Dance Highwaterline finale in Veteran’s Park with the Stand up for Earth Petition Banner
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Saturday April 25, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Earth Day Festival/Fiesta Dia de la Tierra
Free tree giveaway, eco-exhibits, Earth Ball Games
12 noon-5 p.m. Kids Activities: Tot Play Area, make-and-take crafts, drumming circle, family fun. No charge.
12 noon-9 p.m. live music
1-2p.m. Mel and Vinnie duo
Cultural Plaza in downtown Lake Worth
(Across from the library and TooJays)
Sponsored by Lake Worth Kiwanis, Downtown Cultural Alliance and City of Lake Worth
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Saturday May 2, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Workshop
- 9 a.m. Continental Breakfast
- 9:45 a.m. Welcome
- 10 a.m. Empowerment Workshop:
- The Rev. Richard “Bud” Murphy will lead us in exercises that will bring clarity to our motivation & release our power to make a difference in Social Justice.
- 12:45 p.m. Lunch
- 1:45 p.m. Choice of Environmental Justice or Racial Justice Workshops:
- The Environmental Justice Workshop will build on the Commit2Respond Campaign. Irene Keim, President of UU Ministry for Earth and Bob Keim will help us grow hope and effective action as we build sustainability.
- The Racial Justice Workshop will feature the Rev. Kevin Jones. He is Co-President of PEACE (People Engaged in Active Community Efforts), the largest grassroots organization working on justice in Palm Beach County. Then Bill Turner and Barbara Woshinsky from UU Congregation Miami will lead a discussion on white privilege and structural racism, and how we can become stronger allies in the struggle for racial justice.
- 3:15 p.m. Escalating Inequality Workshop and feedback from the Racial Justice and Environmental Justice workshops:
- Escalating Inequality is the UUA’s Study/Action Issue for 2014-18. Retired Economics Prof. Richard Hattwick will discuss how Escalating Inequality underlies many injustices: from economic injustice to mass incarceration; from migrant injustice to climate change; from sexual and gender injustice to attacks on voting rights. A short video will be shown.
4 p.m. Closing
First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Palm Beaches
635 Prosperity Farms Road
North Palm Beach 33408
Presented by the Unitarian Universalist SE Cluster www.uuflorida.org/secluster.htm http://www.facebook.com/UUFloridaSoutheastCluster and UU Justice Florida www.uujusticefl.org
$15 advance registration; $20 at the door. Registration includes lunch and continental breakfast.
Registration Scholarships and childcare available: please email seuuc...@gmail.com
To register in advance by US mail send a check payable to the SE Cluster for $15 each person to Kathy Jens-Rochow, Treasurer, 1420 SW 13 Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312. Indicate dietary preference on the note line.
For Childcare send a check for $15 for each child and their name[s] to the above address.
Deadline for advance and child registration is postmark Monday, April 27.
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Sunday May 3, 9 a.m.-Tuesday May 5, mid-afternoon Conference on
Prison Divestment
#BlackLivesMatter and immigrant rights movements are taking to the streets, demanding an end to criminalization and incarceration of our communities. We are beginning at ground zero—in Florida, where criminalization, state violence and prison expansion are rampant. The murders of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis are examples of what communities in Florida face on a daily basis. Just a week ago, an investigative article in the Miami Herald revealed that Florida Governor Rick Scott has been aggressively steering state prison contracts into private prison hands, while allowing conditions to further deteriorate in the same public prison system that scalded 50-year-old Darren Rainey to death in 2012. Florida is the state with the third largest prison population, at 101,000 people--a number which has increased by 400% over the past 30 years.
Prison divestment target company GEO Group now owns more than three quarters of private prisons in Florida, and donated over $1.3 million in direct campaign contributions last year alone to Rick Scott’s reelection campaign.
This kind of political corruption, and its consequences for Black and Brown lives, is exactly why we need to take the fight against criminalization, incarceration, surveillance and anti-immigrant violence to the next level. We need to build a multi-racial alliance with proactive strategies to change a system that continues to successfully target communities of color, recent immigrants and others.The campaign already has groups actively involved in #Not1More and #BlackLivesMatter.
Each of the three days will be devoted to a different theme:
Sunday, May 3: Convergence
A mini-conference where movement leaders and partner organizations are invited to hold trainings and workshops for participants. This will include a keynote panel with #BlackLivesMatter co-founder Opal Tometi, Judith Dianis, Desmond Meade, youth organizer Ruth Jeannoel, and moderator Maria Rodriguez of the Florida Immigrant Coalition.Monday, May 4th: Day of Action
Begin with learning your rights, continue with direct action trainings, and conclude with an action targeting the root causes of criminalization and mass incarceration.Tuesday, May 5th – National Strategy Session
A day of reflection and planning for national and regional strategic collaboration. The program will end by mid-afternoon.
Location TBA
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Sunday May 3, 2-6 p.m. Mel and Vinnie present: Sing Out! –a Tribute to Pete and Toshi Seeger (on his 96th birth date)
Community potluck—bring food/drink to share
Garden tours—Gray Mockingbird Community Garden
Concert with some stories from folks who knew Pete and Toshi Seeger, including: Allan Aunapu, Bob Lusk, Fifi, Kat Mahoney, Katherine Archer, Marie Nofsinger, Mel and Vinnie, Robert Killian, Ron and Bari Litschauer, Tracy Sands, Mike Vullo.
Half-hour video Broad Old River
Pete Seeger and Friends, an Oral History of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater followed by Q & A with Andy Mele, former Executive Director, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. More about Hudson River Sloop Singers.
After-party 6 pm—story/song share out in the garden: bring instruments and voices.
2000 North D Street
Lake Worth
(Rain or shine)
In partnership with the Lake Worth Scottish Rite Center and Gray Mockingbird Community Garden.
Seeking sponsors and helpers. Please contact: spittoo...@gmail.com, Maryellen (Mel) Healy 845-399-4630.
Benefit for
the Beacon Sloop Club restoration of the sloop Woody Guthrie.
$5 adults, children under 12 free.
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Sunday May 10, Time TBA Happy Birthday Oldest Person, the Corporation
MoveOn Council of Delray Beach, an affiliate of Move to Amend, will host a parade in downtown Delray Beach to raise awareness of the rights corporations were granted, beginning more than a century ago with the Santa Clara decision (long before the Citizen's United decision); and to promote the need for a constitutional change to state that only humans, not artificial entities, have rights and that money is not speech.