Events.
Other
notices.
Letter
to the editor: see Article # 5.
Articles:
1.
Collect
signatures now to get our
Greens
on the ballot!
2. Tom
Fox, peace worker and Green, slain
in Iraq.
3. Air America Radio
returns April 3.
4
. Other radio you might like.
5. Tempe
candidates discuss eminent domain, etc.
6. Humor: global warming and church.
7. Arizona Green e-group
open for discussion.
8.
How
to attract people to the e-mail you send.
9. How to call a talk show successfully.
10. Save Arctic refuge again.
11. Help solar energy bill in Arizona
Senate.
12. Can you count to 4?
13. Mixed
Greens (short news,
etc.).
Articles sought
for future issues.
Masthead: publication identity, address,
owners, etc.
End
of TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Events
2006
April
April 2,
Sunday,
3
p.m.
Jerry and Sis Levin
speak on "Peacemaking and Piecemaking in Palestine and Iraq". Free.
The Levins are internationally renowned advocates of non-violence who have a
unique perspective on Israel and Palestine. They moved to Beirut,
Lebanon, in 1983, when Jerry was appointed CNN Middle East bureau chief.
Three months later Jerry was kidnapped by Hezbollah while walking to work.
That ended Jerry’s climbing the ladder of media success, and launched Sis’s
peacemaking. She negotiated her husband’s return to freedom and struggled
against the hypocritical rhetoric of her own government. Since his escape
from 11 months of captivity,
aided by her,
they
have dedicated themselves to non-violent conflict transformation, and against
Western foreign policy.
Jerry works with the Christian Peacemaking Team (see also Article # 2 below
about Tom Fox) in Hebron. Sis works in Bethlehem teaching teachers
how to promote non-violence.
Sponsored by Muslim American Society and the Arizona Institute for Peace
Education & Research (AIPER). At the AIPER building, 2510 South Rural
Road, # 102, Tempe, AZ. Parking in rear. Telephone 480-967-3880,
www.aiper.org.
April 3, Monday. Air America Radio returns to Phoenix on KPHX 1480
AM. See article # 4
below.
April 3, Monday. Tempe
publishes its free publicity pamphlet for the local election.
Should include a statement
by
your editor (Korky Day)
under Bond # 2 (as in last issue, March, Article # 8).*
April 5, Wednesday, noon to 1:30 p.m.
Decision
Center for a Desert City Water Briefing. Herb Dishlip
on A New Plan for Operations of the Colorado River Reservoirs: How the
Basin States Proposal Was Developed. Room 175, 21 E. 6th
St., Suite 126-B, Tempe (The Brickyard Orchid House, Arizona State
University). Free. A reservation is required, as lunch will be
served: Michelle Schwartz at 480-965-3367 or
Michelle.Schwartz@asu.edu.
April 6, Thursday.
Probable d
eadline
to register for April 7-9
below.
April 7, Friday, 6 - 11 p.m.
First Friday Art Walk, central
Phoenix, AZ. (First Friday of each month.) The Green Party
usually has a table in the parking lot just west of Modified Arts, 407 East
Roosevelt Street, from about 6 to 10 p.m.
Free shuttle bus all around central Phoenix to participating art
galleries, etc., such as the Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 North Central
Avenue. Free admission to most galleries.
www.cenpho.com/journal/2005/11/5/first-fridays-art-walk.html
and
www.maricopagreens.org.
April 7 to 9,
Friday 2:30 p.m. to Sunday 3 p.m.
Camp Wellstone is coming to
Arizona! Training how to win on issues and elect good candidates, based
on the late Senator Paul Wellstone's success. Exercises, lectures, and
simulations. Choose Candidate Track; Campaign Track; or Citizen
Activist Track. Register by April 6 probably. 75 $ or 35 $ for
students, low-income, or unemployed. Location to be announced.
www.wellstone.org. Info: Cietta Kiandoli
cietta@grassrootssolutions.com or telephone 202-419-3077.
April 15, Saturday.
Due date for articles for
the next issue of this e-newsletter. Later submissions are
welcome–we'll try to squeeze them in.
April 15,
Saturday, 11 a.m. Animal Tails: Phoenix Zoo's Liesl Pimentel
and Heather Buck present What’s In Your Backyard? Your
wild neighbors; do’s and don’t’s! Free. At Changing Hands
Bookstore, 6428 South McClintock Drive, Tempe, AZ; telephone
480-730-0205. www.changinghands.com.
April
20
, Thursday,
4 p.m. to 5 or
5:30 p.m
. A
t
each-in about the Iraq
War. At Scottsdale Community
College, Turquoise Room, 9000
East Chaparral Road, Scottsdale, AZ. A
spectrum of anti-war
and pro-war
views. Free.
April 22, Saturday. Earth Day.
April
24, Monday (plus April 25
and 26).
Cool Pavements – Sustainable Materials for an Urban
Environment Conference. Sustainable Materials and Renewable
Technologies (SMART) Program at ASU, with the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency.
Cool materials mitigate the urban heat island effect. 25 $ to
120 $. [Will they promote the remedy of refraining from paving
more land?
–Editor]
www.asusmart.org/smart/coolpavements/conference.jsp
The
above 1-day conference is in conjunction with the 2-day conference April 25 and
26, "Pavements / Materials Today and Tomorrow," also hosted by ASU, which
will include nationally and internationally recognized speakers (25 $ to 215
$). www.fulton.asu.edu/paving/
April 26, Wednesday, 7 p.m. Political Bookgroup discusses
Worse than Watergate by
John W. Dean. Free. At
Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 South
McClintock Drive, Tempe,
AZ. Bookgroup telephone: 480-755-1704;
jandj11@cox.net;
www.changinghands.com.
(Tentative) April 29, Saturday, 1 to 3:30 p.m.
R
egular
monthly
meeting
of the Maricopa County
Green
Party.
Free.
Phoenix
College,
1202 West
Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ; room
to be announced.
Voice-mail
and hotline: (602) 417-0213,
www.maricopagreens.org.
April 30, Sunday. Last
day for early registration for National
Democracy School for 300 $. See June 2
below.
Recurring
events
followed by events in May
and later
Mondays, 5 - 6 p.m. Peace Vigil outside at 740 South
Mill Avenue (n.w. corner of West University Drive), Tempe, AZ. Free.
Every second Saturday: April 8, 22; May 6, 20, etc., 10 a.m. to
noon. Grandma's for Peace protest. Free.
West Bell Road and 99th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ.
www.codepinkphx.org/local_groups.html
Saturdays, 5 - 6 p.m. Cold Turkey on television
Channel 51,
i Network (formerly
Pax). Re-runs of this great self-help, reality show with a
huge difference: no one can get "kicked off the island."
Instead, they are usually supportive of each other. The 10 unwitting
volunteers try to quit smoking. www.ionline.tv/shows/coldturkey/.
Saturdays,
10:25~ to 11 p.m. The Red
Green Show
on television Channel 8, PBS. Some women can barely tolerate
this low-brow Canadian comedy show. Maybe it's more for blokes who want
to laugh at their own ignorance of women, disregard for the environment,
apolitics, etc.
2006 May–and
later
(Tentatively) May 13 and 14, Saturday and Sunday. Prescott, AZ.
General meeting of the Green
Party of Arizona. Free.
May 16, Tuesday. Election in Maricopa County. Local offices, bonds,
etc.*
June 2 to 4, Friday to Sunday.
National Democracy
School
with Thomas
Linzey. Democracy is
difficult when corporate rights can overshadow those of citizens. Protecting
local environments and communities.
Workshop 275 $ and up.
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff,
AZ. www2.nau.edu/community/com_events.htm
www.constitution411.org/natl_dem_schl/main/natl_ds.html
September 12, Tuesday. Primary election for state
and federal offices.*
November 7, Tuesday. General
election for state and federal offices.*
Other
notices
E-discussion and notices. All Arizona
Greens are invited to join "The
Arizona Green Party" Y
ahoo Group. Send a request
to azgp-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
You will get automated instructions. See Article #
7.
Pima County Greens.
Includes city of Tucson, Arizona. You may read or subscribe free to our
sister e-newsletter
in Pima County, Green
Party Digest, no matter where you live, whether you are
registered
Green
or not:
http://pimagreens.org/getinvolved.htm.
Citizens'
assemblies. A blog about citizens' assemblies around the
world is now being written by Jim Snider. (See also the March issue of
this e-newsletter, Article # 7.) It includes new citizens'
assemblies in Nederlanden and Ontario.
http://snider.blogs.com.
Center for
Voting and Democracy. To
receive their news, etc., see
www.fairvote.org.
Working Assets.
To
receive their periodic action calls, etc., see
www.ActForChange.com.
See Article # 11.
9/11
Truth. Regular meetings
in Phoenix and Mesa, AZ, about what really happened 2001 September 11.
Telephone 602-246-4299. www.911Truthaz.org.
AZ One Voice, a new free local
monthly newsletter on paper. Available at AIPER,
or telephone 623-583-7070. PO Box 1959, Sun City,
AZ 85372-1959 azonevoice@earthlink.net.
End of Other
notices.
Letter
to the editor:
See Article # 5.
ARTICLES
Article
# 1:
Collect signatures now to get our
Greens
on the ballots!
Saif Al-Alawi for the Arizona State Senate in District 4.
Green Party candidate
Saif Al-Alawi met with
about
a dozen
party members and others at a
potluck
picnic March 26 at South Mountain.
He is challenging the incumbent Republican Jack Harper, who is running
again, but who might have some challengers in the primary on September 12.
Some of the campaign issues, according to Al-Alawi, are "education,
environmental issues and health care."
Let's help him collect the 577
signatures
needed
by
June 14. He also needs 5 $ from each of 210 people to qualify for "Clean
Elections." All the signatures and money must come from the district, but
others can help collect them.
Tom
Doran
Tom is a candidate for the Riverside Elementary
School Board in Phoenix.
That district is mostly between Van Buren Street on the north and the Salt
River on the south, 39th Avenue on the east and 67th Avenue on west.
We can help him collect signatures now.
He also
needs donations of 5 $ each to qualify for "Clean Elections." All the
signatures and money must come from the district, but others can help
collect
them.
Article
# 2:
Tom
Fox, peace worker and Green, slain in Iraq
Thanks to the Pima County (AZ)
Greens for the following from
their March 14 e-newsletter.
A
Green Who Changed the World
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Green
Party members expressed sorrow and anger over the death of Tom Fox.
Fox, who was in Iraq working as a member of the
Christian Peacekeeper Teams (CPT)
www.cpt.org, was also an active member of the
Green Party of Virginia. He was murdered after
having been abducted in Baghdad in November, along with three other CPT
members.
"Tom's dedication to nonviolence was absolute," said Kirit
Mookerjee of the Green Party of
Virginia. "His life is a model for Green
Party members and for all Americans who value peace, justice, and the
principles of nonviolent resolution of conflict.
His death was senseless, but it also reflects the senselessness of
the war on Iraq, which Tom, like the Green
Party, passionately opposed. Greens
join Langley Hill Friends Meeting, a peace group in Northern Virginia to which
Tom Fox belonged, in their appeal for peace in Iraq."
Greens expressed
their condolences to Tom Fox's
family and friends, and also joined CPT in their plea for the safe release of
Harmeet Sooden, Jim Loney and Norman Kember, and all other hostages held in
Iraq. [Those 3 were since released.
www.cpt.org/iraq/response/06-23-03statement.htm]
The Green Party of
the United States has called for immediate withdrawal of US troops from
Iraq. Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, over 2,300 US servicemembers,
and 55 foreign hostages have been killed as a result of the US invasion, and
Iraq is now on the brink of civil war.
For more about the Christian Peacekeeper Teams, see the April 2 event (above in
Events).
Green
Party of the United States
www.gp.org
1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404,
Washington, DC, USA 20009.
Telephone 202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN.
Fax 202-319-7193.
The
next edition of the Green Party Digest
from the Pima Greens will
tell about Michael Berg, the father of a contractor kidnapped and beheaded in
Iraq in 2004. The elder Berg is the Green
Party candidate for Congress in Delaware, running against a pro-war
incumbent. Berg is a 60-year-old retired teacher, riding his bicycle
across his state, knocking on doors, saying that the war must end.
Anyone may subscribe free to the Green
Party Digest, the e-newsletter of the Pima County (AZ)
Greens and to the national
GreenLine. Please see Other
notices (after Events, above).
End
of article # 2.
Article
# 3:
Air America Radio returns April 3 to Phoenix at
KPHX
1480 AM
From Air America Radio in
Phoenix:
On March 1 our Air America Phoenix station
was taken off the air by a religious broadcasting company. That was a
“dark” day for progressive talk radio in America. You have flooded us with
emails pleading to get us back on the radio and asking how you can help:
be a "founding sponsor" on the www.gotStation.com website.
KPHX
1480 AM will be our new position on the dial
and we are on track to be back on the air April 3. In the meantime we want
to hear your thoughts! Telephone our new comment line
602-297-6642!
-- from
www.saveairamericaphoenix.com.
Air America Radio in Phoenix
surprised
us by going off the air the same day we sent out the previous (March 1)
e-news.
You can listen
also via live Internet streaming on www.airamericaradio.com
or on XM satellite radio Channel 167, etc.
(2
previous stories on Air America Radio:
Article # 3 in Issue # 1,
January; and Article # 3 in Issue # 3,
March.)
Air America appears to be replacing All Comedy Radio
at that
radio frequency
on April
3: see Article # 4
below.
-- Korky
Day.