Green Dove Among Sponsors of Amy Goodman in Bloomington, IN

- Green Dove Among Sponsors of Amy Goodman in Bloomington, IN

Hello, It is a gray day. The sky is gently raining. The birds are brightly chirping. - Good words and works to you all.

Today in Bloomington, IN The US Senate will hold hearings to determine the fate of Social Security. Make your voice heard.... RALLY TO PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY Tuesday, April 26th 3:30 PM OUTSIDE CONGRESSMAN MIKE SODREL'S OFFICE 812 Walnut Street BLOOMINGTON We will meet and rally outside the office. Signs, buttons and stickers will be provided. FOR MORE INFORMATION, contact Anna Gustina at gustina@americansforsocialsecurity.com

First Annual Bloomington AIDS Walk, 4/30

Sat. April 30th (rain date is Sun. May 1st) 10am : Registration begins at Indiana Ave. Starbucks . 11am : Walk begins at the Sample Gates! Who? Everyone who wants to help out Bloomington Hospital ‘s . Positive Link , south-central. Indiana ‘s only AIDS service organization. Come see the band, win prizes, and drink free Starbucks coffee!

How? To register visit www.indiana.edu/~sgac or email bloomingtonaidswalk@yahoo.com or call Starbucks at (812) 333-6075 sponsored by Iuâ’s Student Global AIDS Campaign and the Indiana Ave. Starbucks

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Amy Goodman Presentation, 5/5 Thursday, May 5: Amy Goodman ~ "Un-embed the Media!" speaking engagement Amy Goodman, nationally acclaimed independent journalist and host of Pacifica Radioâ's "Democracy Now!" will give a public talk as a part of her national "Un-embed the Media!" tour to promote the paperback edition of her book, "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them." She will address the role of alternative media in a landscape of U.S.-corporate-sponsored media and its responsibility to give voice to independent and international journalists, activists, artists, academics, independent analysts, and ordinary people from around the world. Local singer/songwriter and "Rounder Records's" recording artist, Carrie Newcomer will open the evening's presentation with a performance of her music, past and present. Cost: $5 per person; $3.50 / students Time: 7:30 pm Location: Buskirk-Chumley Theater, Kirkwood Ave. , Bloomington Un-EMBED THE MEDIA! TOUR Help support local alternative media. Amy Goodman's visit will also promote efforts to bring Democracy Now! to local TV and Radio channels. Funds donated will be used to cover event expenses and to support local public and independent media initiatives such as WFHB and BMAG. The newly created web site for the event has a sponsorship form for you or your organization to fill out and return to Boxcar Books. Thanks for your support of local alternative media! Get Your tickets now before it sells out!

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For Earth Day
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Declaration of the Four Sacred Things

by Starhawk

The earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth.

Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of he interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them.

To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves become the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. No one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy.

All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity.

To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. To honor the sacred is to make love possible.

To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives