Join the Greater Boulder Green Party for a multi-faceted discussion and musical expression of what “Sustainability” means. Stay the day or participate in your favorite sessions.
Admission is free. Organic food and beverages will be provided. Organic wine and organic beer from Asher brewery for attendees over 21. Donations gratefully accepted.
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SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS:
Saturday September 7th from noon – 10:00pm
Noon – 12:30 : 350.org – Alisa Navrkal
350.org is a global movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries.
350.org campaigns in Boulder County include: banning fracking in Boulder county, fossil fuel divestment, Boulder city electricity municipalization, promoting local mass transit, and green building and water usage.
http://colorado350.org/350-
12:30-1:00 Food Democracy: GMO’s, GMO labeling and Monsanto – Harry Hemp
Harry Hempy is an organic gardener. He has founded two community gardens in Boulder County. Harry spoke against introduction of genetically modified, Roundup-ready sugar beets to Boulder County at Boulder County Commissioners hearings. He will discuss health and environmental risks of genetically engineering our food. Learn how the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will further concentrate control of global food supplies and force Monsanto’s seed into every nation on Mother Earth.
http://itsoureconomy.us/occupy
1:00 – 1:30 Colorado Ocean Coalition – Susan Bruce
Susan Bruce grew up on the coasts of Australia and Brazil and enjoyed water sports while working for corporations; after 15 years she decided to turn her professional life toward conserving the natural world. She is now working with the Colorado Ocean Coalition (COCO) which is part of the The Ocean Foundation, a 501(c) 3 organization that engages and connects people in the effort of caring for the oceans from Colorado through diverse ways, including lifestyles and political choices that lead to healthy oceans.
http://coloradoocean.org/
1:30-2:00 Colorado Health Care Cooperative – Lyn Gullette
Lyn Gullette is Executive Director of Co-operate Colorado and provides information to the public about how Colorado can have healthcare for all and for less. The Cooperative can eliminate the 20-30% overhead costs created by insurance companies. A Smart Card could reduce fraud and duplication expenses. It would also lower costs for prescriptions and medical supplies by being able to negotiate purchasing in bulk.
www.Co-operateColorado.org
2:00-2:30 (Music) Solidarity Singers from the RMPJC
The Solidarity Singers from the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center (RMPJC) inspire people to come together for social justice and environmental protection and to become better informed on important issues.
http://rmpjc.org/visiondescrip
2:30-3:00 Economic Justice/U.S. Foreign Policy – Carolyn Bninski
Carolyn Bninski is a staff member at Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center (RMPJC) and has been a leader and organizer in many of the most important justice and sustainability issues in the U.S. She with others at RMPJC work on both foreign and domestic policy issues. Carolyn recently spoke out against the Walmart’s actions in Boulder and in Asian sweatshops. RMPJC was a key contributor to the campaign in Boulder to overturn the Citizens United v. FEC decision by calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution stating that corporations are not people and money is not protected speech. The referendum passed by a 3 to 1 margin in November 2011.
http://rmpjc.org/
3:00-3:30 Move to Amend – Shannon Fritts-Penniman
Shannon Fritts-Penniman is an attorney and an active member of Metro Denver Move to Amend. He has presented on behalf of Move to Amend in Boulder previously and was active in the Greater Boulder Green Party. Move to Amend is a movement, advancing an amendment to the US Constitution to state that inalienable rights belong only to human beings and that money is not a form of protected free speech under the 1st Amendment and can be regulated in political campaigns.
https://movetoamend.org/co-
3:30-4:00 Protecting CO from Fracking – Kaye Fissinger
Kaye Fissinger worked with Our Longmont to ban fracking. Longmont is one of the first cities in the Colorado front range to put the health and well being of people above the economic interests of the oil and gas industry. She has also supported and spoken out on behalf of a ban on fracking in Broomfield.
4:00-4:30 (Music) Matt Nicodemus
For nearly 20 years, Matt Nicodemus has entertained Taiwan audiences with original, powerful musical creations, his wide-ranging styles and meaningful lyrics bringing miles of smiles and touching hearts and heads alike. Both a soloist and the co-founder of ensembles including Red 23, Thoroughly Modern Dinosaurs, and the Solidarity Singers, Matt, now living in Boulder, Colorado, is back in Formosa to visit family and friends, and to share his unique, unforgettable songs, guitar instrumentals, and “mouth band” with the people of this, his second home. Be prepared for an evening of light, love, and laughter, bursting forth from lyrics that address everything from romance found & lost, artistic expression, ocean exploration, life & death, fishing & friendship, and parenting to Taiwan culture and politics, darling relatives, dancing, war resistance, prison, environmental protection, Walmart, and much more. You’re guaranteed to go home whistling or singing at least one or two of Matt’s songs!
4:30-5:00 Occupy Boulder – Tom Cummins and Daniel Ellis Schwartz
Tom Cummins (Grandpa Tom) is a retired former Wall Street executive, who spends his days babysitting for one of his five grandchildren, and fighting for the future of all children. He has been part of the Occupy Boulder group that gathered on the street corners of Canyon and Broadway. He appreciated the thrill of the actions and believes the group has had an important role in recognition of problems in the U.S.
Daniel Schwartz has been involved in the local Occupy community since early on in the movement. While working with Occupy Boulder, he studied the ideological background of the movement, and spent some time living at the encampment on Pearl St. After Occupy Boulder, he worked with the small Occupy CU group and took a lead role in organizing a march on April 20th of 2012, in protest of CU’s campus closure. Since then he has helped lead smaller marches, co-founded a student group to foster in depth discussions on modern issues. Daniel is currently developing a political theory which will enable all persons on this planet to live a fulfilling life.
5:00-5:30 Colorado 9/11 Visibility – Founded by Fran Shure
Colorado911Visibility.org is a multipartisan group of Colorado citizens dedicated to educating the public about what really happened on 9/11.
Goals are:
- Full public disclosure of and accountability for the events of 9/11, via an independent investigation willing to follow the truth wherever it leads;
- The restoration of human rights and civil liberties lost in the aftermath of 9/11; and
- The cessation of “false-flag” terrorist events, perpetrated by hidden parties with the goal of mobilizing public opinion against a predetermined enemy.
They strive to maintain the highest standards of evidence and ethics and resist unfounded speculation and disinformation.
Daniel K. Sage, PhD will present State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs). Dr. Sage is an Adjunct Professor in Psychology, Philosophy, Logic, and Ethics at the Community College of Aurora. He currently teaches full-time at Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colorado.
In a 2006 peer-reviewed journal article, Lance deHaven-Smith, PhD, coined the term State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs), which is defined as illegal or extralegal actions by public officials or elites that weaken or subvert democratic structures or popular sovereignty–in other words, SCADs are attacks by insiders/elites on democracy itself. Examples of confirmed SCADs with a high degree of confirmation are Watergate and Iran-Contra. Examples with a medium degree of confirmation are 9/11 and the assassinations of JFK and RFK. Dr. Sage will tell us how this new term will help liberate us from “incident-specific myopia,” i.e. each progressive organization working in isolation, to the detriment of our making progress toward a more authentic participatory democracy.
5:30 -6:00 Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) and other important democratic-political concepts – Bob Kinsey
Bob Kinsey is a former teacher. He was the Colorado Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2010. Bob Kinsey, Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for The Colorado Coalition for the Prevention of Nuclear War, is a long-time Colorado resident, a widower who helped raise seven children, and a proud grandfather also! He attained his undergraduate degree in World History from Dartmouth University, his Master’s Degree Guidance and Counseling from Colorado State University and his Master of Divinity from Chicago Theological Seminary.He has been active in Occupy, peace movements, and numerous other issues.
6:00-6:30 (Music) Dave Bell, from Earth Died Screaming
Dave Bell is a musician who is playing an acoustic set and is a member of Earth Died Screaming, He has been an active member in Occupy Ft. Collins and the Green Party. His creative skills were appreciated when he designed the website for US House candidate, Susan Hall, Dave has joined with a group of people to create the new business called Mama’s Tofu Collective.
6:30-7:00 Colorado Coalition Against Attacking Iran (C-CAAI) Tom Mayer
Tom Mayer will be the Speaker for the Colorado Coalition Against Attacking Iran (C-CAAI). He is a Professor Emeritus, Sociology at CU Boulder. The C-CAAI goal is to organize and particpate in actions to prevent the U.S. from attacking Iran. The C-CAAI believe attacking Iran would be an economic, politicial and moral disaster. They do not want the U.S. to add Iran to the list of wars that are like Iraq, Afghanistan or Viet Nam.https://sites.google.com/site/cocaati/
7:00-7:30 (Music) Elena Klaver
Elena told the Daily Camera in Boulder, “I was one of the Boulder County citizens who disrupted the county commissioners’ meeting on Dec. 4 over the discussions on hydraulic fracturing.” In 1978, Elena was one of hundreds of people who put their lives on the line protesting the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. They were called all kinds of names and dismissed as crazy, communist, lazy and many other things, but a mere eight years later, were vindicated, and although the environment is not cleaned up, the danger is much less. If we do not speak out and act for the water and the environment that sustain us, who will? Please join people, not only in Colorado but all over the country. Speak out athttp://bit.ly/COpetition (Parts copied from Daily Camera).
7:30-8:00 Human Rights/Gitmo – Susan Hall
Susan Hall has a B.A. in Chicano Studies with minors in history and education. She is a 4th generation Coloradoan, who was the Green Party candidate for U.S. Congressional District 2 in 2012 and is CoChair of the Greater Boulder Green Party. She recognizes the absolute necessity for securing a human rights in order to have a valuable and safe civilization and society. The people need to stand for what is right and resist fracking, NDAA, and austerity measures. The Concentration Camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba continues for the 11th year to be a violation of human rights according to the Geneva Convention. Prisoners are held indefinitely without charges, tortured, and maimed. The U.S. has an extremely large number of prisoners, persecuted whistle-blowers as well as political prisoners who have been charged and in some cases convicted with corrupt evidence, like Leonard Peltier.
The Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights notes, “the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom”.
8:00-9:00 (Music) Egg Planet
Egg Planet’s music has been described as the Red Hot Chili Peppers meets Rage Against the Machine. The band’s first record entitled If You Only Knew featured heavy grooves with a message such as “Dividends of Peace,” and “Weapons of Passive Resistance.” Egg Planet has performed at the Oriental Theater, Mercury Cafe, and Quixote’s in Denver and Center Stage, Little Bear, and Evergreen School of Music in Evergreen. The band is currently completing it’s second record at Evergroove Recording Studio in Evergreen. Founding member Kevin Alumbaugh is the co chair of the Greater Boulder Green Party and is committed to delivering a message of social justice through music.
9:00-10:00 (Music) Kunundrum
Heavy Metal with a message.
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