Event Reminders:  San Diego Rally to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline
Sunday, 02/17/2013
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 17–SAN DIEGO RALLY TO STOP THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE! FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE! IT’S TIME TO PUT BOOTS ON THE GROUND! This day of action is part of nationwide rallies, including in Washington, DC! SanDiego350.org, Citizens Climate Lobby, Sierra Club San Diego, Environmental Health Coalition, and many other organizations are organizing a rally against climate change and the Keystone XL Pipeline designed to carry dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. Dr. James Hansen says it’s “GAME OVER” for the climate if Keystone is approved.
SOS for Quarry Creek-Hearing on Feb. 20
Wednesday, 02/20/2013
On Feb. 6th, in about 10 minutes, without taking objections or comments from the public, the Carlsbad Planning Commission delayed the Quarry Creek hearing to Feb. 20. They did this deliberately, because Feb. 20 is right after the President's Day holiday on the 18th, and they are counting on people NOT TO SHOW UP to oppose it! What can YOU do to help save the Buena Creek Valley and the Marron Adobe? The BEST ways are to SHOW UP in force at the hearing on Feb. 20 and sign the petition!
Free Movie in Vista - THE INTERRUPTERS
Saturday, 02/16/2013
A free showing of the movie "THE INTERRUPTERS" at the Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (church) in Vista on Saturday, Feb. 16th at 3:00PM. Films for Change will present the award-winning documentary film, which has won many awards, including two for Best Documentary from the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Independent Spirit Award. And the director, Steve James, was awarded as the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary by the Directors Guild of America, USA.
Keystone Pipeline Protest in San Diego Feb. 17
Sunday, 02/17/2013
Join us to protest the Keystone XL Pipeline and call for action on climate change here in San Diego – in support of the massive rally in Washington DC that 350.org, the Sierra Club, and other groups are organizing. We'll call on President Obama to firmly and permanently deny a permit for the proposed Keystone Pipeline, which would carry Canadian tar sands across the US for refining. n Mission Bay Park Visitors Center 1-3 PM.
Candlelight Vigil for gun safety in Escondido
Wednesday, 02/20/2013
A candlelight vigil advocating gun safety for Wednesday Feb 20th at Grape Day Park in Escondido, 5:30PM to 7:00PM. You can sign up for this event.
CPUC Meeting Regarding Ratepayer Refunds
Thursday, 02/21/2013
The CA Public Utilities Commission will meet in Costa Mesa regarding possible ratepayer refunds for the San Onofre shutdown. The San Onofre Safety organization recommends that the public attend this event.
CPUC Meeting Regarding Ratepayer Refunds
Thursday, 02/21/2013
The CA Public Utilities Commission will meet in Costa Mesa regarding possible ratepayer refunds for the San Onofre shutdown. The San Onofre Safety organization recommends that the public attend this event.
Annual Birdhouse Auction to Benefit BV Audubon
Saturday, 02/23/2013
Annual Birdhouse Auction to Benefit Buena Vista Audubon Society. This is a don’t miss event! For a $5 donation you get to see (and bid on) some of the most amazing birdhouses you could imagine, hear live music, enjoy munchies and hosted bar, and enjoy Emcee Martha Barnoble from KPBS’s "A Way with Words". Pay at the door and bring a few friends.
Oceanside Candlelight Vigil For Gun Safety
Saturday, 02/23/2013
Join OFA and others opposed to gun violence in an observance of the need for gun safety in a candlelight vigil in Oceanside. We urge students, families, mayors, clergy, Republicans, Democrats to bring the community together to remember those victims and to promote gun safety. Bring your candles or lanterns. Bring pictures of victims. This is a non partisan political event. Bradley Manning justice rally, SD, Feb. 23
Saturday, 02/23/2013
Join The San Diego Coalition to Free Manning for a rally and candlelight vigil in Hillcrest. This event will take place to show support for accused army whistleblower Pfc. Manning and the defense's motion to dismiss charges for lack of a speedy trial. The ruling will take place between February 26th and March 1st. Start at 7:00PM, University Ave & 10th Avenue. Bring banners, posters, pots and pans and whistles and noise makers.
NCFC Screens: Mrs. Henderson Presents
Sunday, 03/03/2013
The North County Film Club Screens: Mrs. Henderson Presents, on Sunday, March 3, beginning at 3 pm. Laura Henderson buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, among other things, its all-nude revues. Nominated for 2 Oscars with 6 wins & 25 nominations at film festivals.
Pledge to Go Dark for Earth Hour
Saturday, 03/09/2013
On March 23 at 8:30 pm local time, hundreds of millions of people around the world will turn off their lights for Earth Hour, the world’s largest collective display of commitment to protect the planet. By turning off your lights for just 60 minutes that day, you can take positive action for the environment and inspire others to do the same. Mini-tour of the BV Creek Valley and Marron Adobe
Saturday, 03/16/2013
Here is your chance to come and see the Buena Vista Creek Valley and see why this area is too priceless to bulldoze for 656 more homes! There will be short walk into the valley, tours of the grounds around the historic Marron Adobe, and exhibits that tell about the early history of this area. NCFC Presents: Searching for Sugarman
Sunday, 03/17/2013
The North County Film Club Presents: Searching for Sugarman, on Sunday, March 17, beginning at 3 pm. Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.
Pledge to Go Dark for Earth Hour
Saturday, 03/23/2013
On March 23 at 8:30 pm local time, hundreds of millions of people around the world will turn off their lights for Earth Hour, the world’s largest collective display of commitment to protect the planet. By turning off your lights for just 60 minutes that day, you can take positive action for the environment and inspire others to do the same. San Diego Rally to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline
Sunday, 02/17/2013
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 17–SAN DIEGO RALLY TO STOP THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE! FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE! IT’S TIME TO PUT BOOTS ON THE GROUND! This day of action is part of nationwide rallies, including in Washington, DC! SanDiego350.org, Citizens Climate Lobby, Sierra Club San Diego, Environmental Health Coalition, and many other organizations are organizing a rally against climate change and the Keystone XL Pipeline designed to carry dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the U.S. Dr. James Hansen says it’s “GAME OVER” for the climate if Keystone is approved.
Mini-tour of the BV Creek Valley and Marron Adobe
Saturday, 02/23/2013
Here is your chance to come and see the Buena Vista Creek Valley and see why this area is too priceless to bulldoze for 656 more homes! There will be short walk into the valley, tours of the grounds around the historic Marron Adobe, and exhibits that tell about the early history of this area. This 'N ThatNo matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.
- Marian AndersonIf there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
- Henry Miller To save one life, it is as if you had saved the world.
- Talmud When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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Articles & News: Mr.Obama, did or did you not kill Anwar al-Awlaki?
Article
There are plenty of problems with President Obama's targeted killings in the war against terrorism: The policy remains secret in most aspects, involves no judicial review, has resulted in the deaths of innocent civilians, has been employed far from any battlefield and has sparked deep anti-American resentment in countries where we can ill afford it. -- one problem looms largest: The policy permits the government to kill its citizens in secret while refusing to acknowledge, even after the fact, that it has done so. [By David Cole - Washington Post]
Petition to Save Gregory Canyon
News
The petition to save Gregory Canyon from becoming a dump can be signed through April 14, 2013. When you sign it, please also make a comment on why you think a landfill in this location is NOT in the public interest!
Go to: www.savegregorycanyon.org. That's the place to go for information, and of course, to sign our petition to the Army Corps!
Help Save the Polar Bear's Arctic Home
News
The Coca‑Cola Company has partnered with World Wildlife Fund to help save polar bears. Through a program called Arctic Home, Coca‑Cola is raising awareness and funds, including a $2 million donation over five years, to contribute to WWF’s polar bear and Arctic conservation efforts. When you give to WWF through Arctic Home, 100 percent of your donation will go directly to help protect the polar bear's Arctic home. And, thanks to a dollar-for-dollar match up to $1 million from The Coca‑Cola Company, your donation will have twice the impact through February 15, 2013! AMAZING - Using a leaf as a musical instrument
You will be surprised at the music one can make with a leaf. A very delightful little video!
That's NOT capitalism. That's FRAUD!
Max Keiser explains how the banksters make all that dough by rigging the system in their favor, and against investors and pension funds. He zeroes in on Deutsche Bank ... but all the big bank mobsters use the same schemes.
Articulate protester distrupts pipeline speech
Feb 1, 2013: Anti-Keystone XL Protester Disrupts TransCanada Speech for Several Minutes' [DemocracyNow.org] - An opponent of the Keystone XL oil pipeline has been arrested after interrupting a pipeline industry conference by chaining himself to the sound equipment. Ramsey Sprague disrupted a speech by Tom Hamilton, the manager of quality and compliance for TransCanada's controversial pipeline, during a conference in Texas. He railed against the pipeline for several minutes as a security official tried to stop him. "Keystone XL will be a massive failure. Tar Sands Blockade has proof positive that the welds are false, we've been inside the pipe, light shining through at morning, with photographic and video evidence their welds are inadequate. That pipe went into the ground less than an hour later."
Vets for Peace providing protection for homeless
News
For the last several winters, the San Diego Veterans for Peace has sought out the homeless in San Diego, passing out gloves, hats, sleeping bags and and warm clothing. Here is a report from Gil Field on their humanitarian quest on Jan. 28. See Gil's practical and cheap way to give good nutrition to the homeless ...
Col. Wilkerson Warns Obama's Drone war illegal
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson Warns Obama's Drone War Violates International Law - the longtime aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell -- warns against the expanding U.S. drone war and President Obama's nomination of one of its key architects, John Brennan, to head the Central Intelligence Agency. "What's happening with drone strikes around the world right now is, in my opinion, as bad a development as many of the things we now condemn so readily with 20/20 hindsight in the George W. Bush administration. We are creating more enemies than we are killing. We're doing things that violate international law, even killing American citizens without due process and have an attorney general that has says due process does not necessarily include the legal process."
Largest glacier breakoff ever recorded
Largest Glacier-Calving Ever Filmed....it makes the glacier calving seen in Alaska look miniscule. - Adam LeWinter and Director Jeff Orlowski filmed a historic breakup at the Ilulissat Glacier in Western Greenland. The calving event lasted for 75 minutes and the glacier retreated a full mile across a calving face three miles wide. The height of the ice is about 3,000 feet, 300-400 feet above water and the rest below water.
50 Percent growth in Middle Class in Latin America
Article
World Bank report found that Latin America and the Caribbean registered a 50 percent jump in the number of people joining the middle class during the last decade, which was called by economists an historic achievement for a region long riven by wealth inequality. -- The report, called "conomic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class", found that the middle class in the region grew to an estimated 152 million in 2009, compared to 103 million in 2003, an increase of 50 percent.
No more Cheap and Easy Easters!
Article
Easter is coming when the churches across the United States of America will fill up with people who identify themselves as Christians to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Let me see if I have this right: This was a man who counseled us to "Turn the other cheek," and "Love your enemies." And this is in a country with the highest prison population in the world and a record number of inmates awaiting execution on death row; A country that assassinates people at will, from drones ....
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