[Announce-DAN] Upcoming events, alerts

[bninski@uswest.net]

Hi,

Please make two calls to your legislators today. The first is to ask President Bush to take the U.S. off hair trigger alert on nuclear weapons See info below.

The second is to call Joan Fitzgerald, State Senator who is in charge of the committee in the State Senate which will be looking at the issue of labeling genetically engineered foods. Her number is 303-866-4873. Tell her you support the Genetically Engineered Food Labeling Act of 2001. If you live in her district, let her know that. If you live in Adams County, call Stephanie Takis 303-866-4855 and Alice Nichol 303-866-4865 with the same message. Thanks.

Also, the hearing on the GE food labeling bill is next Monday (Feb. 12) at the State Capitol S354 from 1 to 5 p.m. We'd like a big crowd. Please take the afternoon off and join us there. To carpool from Boulder, meet at the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center at noon (1520 Euclid).
See upcoming events below.

Also just wanted to remind everyone that the People's Summit on Globalization will be March 8-11 at CU, Boulder. Lots of great speakers, workshops, strategy sessions and panels. Please put it on your calendar and check out http://powerful.as/people for more details. 

Thanks!
Carolyn Bninski
303-444-6981x5
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Upcoming events:

Wednesday, Feb. 7 International Collective of RMPJC 5:30 p.m. at 1520 Euclid. We've changed the time so that we can see the Marc Lappe talk. 

Wednesday, Feb. 7
Marc Lappe will speak on "The Biotech Industry's Brave Harvest: the Corporate Takeover of Your Food," Wednesday, February 7, at 7 p.m.,  in Math 100 at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Mr. Lappe recently co-wrote a new book, "Against the Grain," which explores the questions: "Do genetically engineered food crops really offer the "risk-free" breadbasket for the world promised by biotechnology companies like Monsanto? Or are there serious risks to human health and the ecosphere hidden in this silent revolution?"
Free and open to the public! Co-sponsored by Hedgerow Farms, Corporate Ethics Resource Center and the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center. For info, call (303) 444-6981.
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On Thursday, February 8 at NOON, award-winning world-renowned journalist and author John Ross will speak about the Zapatistas in Mexico. A Mexico City-based journalist and poet, Mr. Ross won a 1995 American Book Award for his book "Rebellion From the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas, and has recently come out with a new book, "The War Against Oblivion - Zapatista Chronicles 1994-2000."
The FREE presentation takes place in the UMC Forum Room at CU-Boulder. For info, call (303) 448-9868.

Thursday, February 8, 7:30 PM at the Left Hand store.
Mexico author, poet, correspondent, and activist John Ross brings his
newest handiwork "The War Against Oblivion - Zapatista Chronicles
1994-2000", the season-by-season, six and a half year saga of the
rebellion in Chiapas, to Left Hand.
For more information call (303) 443-8252.
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On Friday, February 9 at NOON, award-winning journalist and author John Ross will speak on "Globalization or Gobble-zation: Mexico's Embattled Environment." In this FREE EVENT, Ross plans to speak on how the globalization of resource exploitation is driving human rights, agrarian, and environmental struggles together in Mexico.
He will show the brief film "Defending Our Forests," which details the fate of environmental prisoners Rodolfo Montiel Flores and Teodoro Cabrera Garcia, who helped organize campesinos in southern Mexico against the rapid deforestation of their land by U.S. logging firm Boise Cascade, and for their efforts were tortured and jailed by the Mexican government. It is to be held in the UMC Forum Room at CU-Boulder.
John Ross is sponsored by the University of Colorado Department of Ethnic Studies, the Corporate Ethics Resource Center, Global Response, and the the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center.
For information, call (303) 448-9868
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George Lakey events this week:

Stop Hate on Campus brings George Lakey, director of Traing for Change, www.trainingforchange.org. He has been an activist for forty years working to for a world based on equality and peace against classism, racism, sexism, heterosexism not to metion police repression. He has run trainings for coal miners, therapists, homeless people, prisoners, Russian lesbians and gays, Sri Lankan monks, Burmese guerrilla soldiers, striking steel workers, South African activists, and anti-globalization protesters in the Philadelphia. Below is a schedule for the weekend. He focuses on privilege, campaigns, tactics, and our presonal struggles. Call with any questions SHOC, Eric, (303) 492-5449, loftman@colorado.edu

Thursday, Feb. 8:
Hale 270
7:30 to 9:30pm The History Future of Resistance: a discussion about tactics, armed uprisings and  activism in the United States of America Ward Churchill and George Lakey

Friday, Feb. 9:
Rocky Mountain Peace Center 1520 Euclid
6:30 - 9:00pm potluck and white people working on racism group George Lakey

Saturday, Feb. 10:
Rocky Mountain Peace Center 1520 Euclid
9:30 - 12:00am Class Matters
1:30 - 4:30pm violence, non-violence and property destruction effective tactics in local and global activism 6:15 - 7:30pm basic tool for being a trainer George Lackey

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Alert on Hair Trigger for Nuclear Weapons:

Dear Friends of DontBlowIt.org,

You've heard of trigger locks on handguns to avoid accidental firing, right? Well, its time our nuclear weapons - the world's big guns - are trigger locked and taken off high alert status. One false alarm could turn into nuclear war.

During his Presidential campaign, George W. Bush said that having thousands of US and Russian nuclear weapons on hair- trigger alert, "may create unacceptable risks of accidental or unauthorized launch."

We need your help in calling President Bush on his word! Please join us in a National Call-In Day to the White House to tell the President to work with the Russians to take all nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert.

Call the White House at (202) 456-1414 on Monday or Tuesday, February 5 or 6th.

PRESS "0" [zero] FOR THE COMMENTS LINE OPERATOR. (You may be put on hold for a few minutes.)

Feel free to use your own words, but here is a script you can use if this is your first time voicing your opinion to the White House. It's so easy, you'll be surprised.

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