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May 2013
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5	6	7	8	9	10	11 Sustainability Summit 2013 May 11, 2013 9:00 am – 6:30 pm Join us for Co-op Power's 9th annual Sustainability Summit at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, on Saturday, May 11th from 9:00am-6:30pm. Find out what activisits, thinkers, green professionals, and organizations are doing to promote justice and sustainability. Share ideas with like-minded people on topics from green business development and community finance to sustainable heating options and green energy. Figure out what resources are available going forward. Keynote Speaker, Halina Brown
12	13	14	15 Why Not? on www.wmua.org @ 4:30pm May 15, 2013 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Daria Fisk and UMass student, Kyle Sullivan, and I are joining forces on "Why Not?"... a talk show and still on social justice and critical issues of the day. Every Wednesday 4:30 to 5:30pm 91.1fm or www.wmua.org -----	16	17 Kickin' It For Peace May 17, 2013 7:00 am – 9:00 am Kickin' It For Peace, Culture & Education Local music and interviews. Interviews will be drawn from local, state and national politics, local history, publishing, technology, peace building, music, religion, green home building, the renewal energy fields and other areas. WXOJ-LP 103.3FM and http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/ Friday mornings: 7am to 9am Kickin' It For Peace Tax Day Friday: Stop the cuts! May 17, 2013 3:45 pm – 6:00 pm Budget for All Tax Protest and March: Join residents of Western Massachusetts for a postponed tax day protest. Last year Massachusetts voted 3 to 1 in ballot questions across the state to: create jobs, save vital services, tax rich individuals and corporations, end the war and cut pork from the Pentagon. We will repeat this message again on May 17 at three different locations: City Hall, BoA, Verizon Proceed to Bank of America to protest its backing of “Fix the Debt” which forged this austerity plan that is making people pay more and more, while receiving less and less. Then march with us to the Verizon Office, the company that pays no taxes, to present them with a tax bill. Hear Council President Bill Dwight, former Mayor Clare Higgins, Councilor Pamela Schwartz, and speakers from UAW local 2322, WMass Jobs with Justice, Amherst NAACP, Arise, PHENOM, Traprock, WMass AFSC, Mass Senior Action, Student Labor Action, Just Communities & MORE... Sponsored by Western Mass Budget for All/Fund Our Communities Not War, Arise for Social Justice, Amherst NAACP, Coop Power, Climate Action NOW, Pioneer Valley Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Can’t Be Neutral, Western Mass American Friends Service Committee, Western Mass Chapter Progressive Democrats of America, Episcopal Peace Fellowship of Grace Church, National Priorities Project, Traprock Peace Center, Northampton Committee to Stop Wars, Northampton Democratic City Committee, UAW Local 2322, Western Mass Jobs with Justice, PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of MA) & Springfield Chapter Mass Senior Action Council. Tax Day Friday: Stop the cuts!	18
19 Occupy The Airwaves May 19, 2013 10:00 am – 11:00 am Locally produced occupy movement program covering the national and local OWS activism. Show content may include recordings of street actions and events, interviews with activists and supporters, and discussions about critical issues affecting the movement. Occupy the Airwaves can be contacted at: occupywxojlp@gmail.com. WXOJ-LP 103.3FM and streaming at http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/ Every Sunday Morning: 10am to 11am Occupy The Airwaves Monthly CAN Meeting May 19, 2013 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Our monthly meeting, open to the public. Among our usual business we are starting to plan our 2nd annual Fall Conference with the hope to include all of Western Mass including our urban areas.	20	21	22 Why Not? on www.wmua.org @ 4:30pm May 22, 2013 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Daria Fisk and UMass student, Kyle Sullivan, and I are joining forces on "Why Not?"... a talk show and still on social justice and critical issues of the day. Every Wednesday 4:30 to 5:30pm 91.1fm or www.wmua.org -----	23 Green Communities Act and solar energy May 23, 2013 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Together with Westfield Concerned Citizens and Climate Action Now! Massachusetts, the Greens are holding a public meeting on May 23 to promote the Green Communities Act and solar energy. The meeting is at the Athenaeum, 6 Elm Street, Westfield. For more details visit the News page of BeatBackFracking.org. Green Communities Act and solar energy	24 Kickin' It For Peace May 24, 2013 7:00 am – 9:00 am Kickin' It For Peace, Culture & Education Local music and interviews. Interviews will be drawn from local, state and national politics, local history, publishing, technology, peace building, music, religion, green home building, the renewal energy fields and other areas. WXOJ-LP 103.3FM and http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/ Friday mornings: 7am to 9am Kickin' It For Peace	25 March Against Monsanto May 25, 2013 1:45 pm – 4:30 pm The fight for our food!! Is anyone interested in a sign 7 banner-making event this Saturday at the Arise office, 467 State St.? We will gather at Mason Square, at the green triangle just before State St. and Wilbraham Rd. split, at 1:45, so we're ready to kick off the march at 2 pm. (A few speakers first?) We will MARCH to Gardening the Community, 256 Hancock St., where we will have more speakers (music, anyone? I have one guitarist/singer) where young people from 10-18 will be working on a community garden (sort of a captive audience). And THEN we have been asked if we would like to stay and volunteer a little time in the garden. LOTS more to do on this, but i just couldn't get started until I had Gardening the Community's go-ahead. For more info: MarchAgainstMonsantoSpfldMA@gmail.com March Against Monsanto
26 Occupy The Airwaves May 26, 2013 10:00 am – 11:00 am Locally produced occupy movement program covering the national and local OWS activism. Show content may include recordings of street actions and events, interviews with activists and supporters, and discussions about critical issues affecting the movement. Occupy the Airwaves can be contacted at: occupywxojlp@gmail.com. WXOJ-LP 103.3FM and streaming at http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/ Every Sunday Morning: 10am to 11am Occupy The Airwaves	27	28	29 Why Not? on www.wmua.org @ 4:30pm May 29, 2013 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Daria Fisk and UMass student, Kyle Sullivan, and I are joining forces on "Why Not?"... a talk show and still on social justice and critical issues of the day. Every Wednesday 4:30 to 5:30pm 91.1fm or www.wmua.org -----	30	31 Kickin' It For Peace May 31, 2013 7:00 am – 9:00 am Kickin' It For Peace, Culture & Education Local music and interviews. Interviews will be drawn from local, state and national politics, local history, publishing, technology, peace building, music, religion, green home building, the renewal energy fields and other areas. WXOJ-LP 103.3FM and http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/ Friday mornings: 7am to 9am Kickin' It For Peace

What People Are Saying

"Game Over for the Climate"

If Canada proceeds, and we do nothing, it will be game over for the climate.

Canada’s tar sands, deposits of sand saturated with bitumen, contain twice the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by global oil use in our entire history.

James Hassen http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/opinion/game-over-for-the-climate.html?_r=3&ref=opinion&

"Global Warming's Terrifying New Math"
Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is

Bill MCKibben http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719

"I’ll still be here on my hunger strike until the actual meeting takes place."
Chief Theresa Spence expressed joy Friday at news that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has agreed to meet First Nations leaders, but said she won’t end her hunger strike until the meeting actually takes place next Friday.

Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence http://idlenomore.ca/

Climate Action Now! in Massachusetts

On Global Warming & Rising Seas

WORLD RENOWNED OCEANOGRAPHER JOHN ENGLANDER ON GLOBAL WARMING AND RISING SEAS

Sustainability Summit 2013

The Fossil Fuel Resistance

As the world burns, a new movement to reverse climate change is emerging – fiercely, loudly and right next door

The center of gravity has also shifted from big, established groups to local, distributed efforts

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-fossil-fuel-resistance-20130411

Climate Change

Making you sick,

keeping you broke,

AND

it doesn’t have to be that way!

Join us NOW!

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How we Communicate

From Our Facebook Page

Sustainability Summit 2013

Why Not? on www.wmua.org @ 4:30pm

Kickin' It For Peace

Tax Day Friday: Stop the cuts!

Occupy The Airwaves

Monthly CAN Meeting

Why Not? on www.wmua.org @ 4:30pm

Green Communities Act and solar energy

Kickin' It For Peace

March Against Monsanto

Occupy The Airwaves

Why Not? on www.wmua.org @ 4:30pm

Kickin' It For Peace

What People Are Saying

"Game Over for the Climate"

"Global Warming's Terrifying New Math"

"I’ll still be here on my hunger strike until the actual meeting takes place."