Robby e-mails to alert everyone to the following events covered by Mark at Hudson Mohawk Indy Media:
Ralph Nader and rock icon Patti Smith will headline a rally for Peace in Albany on Saturday April 16th at the Emmanual Baptist church, 275 State St., Albany NY at 1:30 PM. Other speakers will include Dr. Alice Green, New Paltz Deputy Mayor Rebecca Rotzler and Joe Lombardo. The rally will call for: Bring the Troops Home, No War for Oil, Stop to Corporate Profiteering, Protect Civil Liberties. Starting at 9 AM before the rally, the Greens are organizing a progreasive grassroots organizing conference. Workshops will be offered on peace; labor; women; campus organizing; universal health care; and running for local office
Ralph Nader and rock icon Patti Smith will headline a rally for Peace in Albany on Saturday April 16th at the Emmanual Baptist church, 275 State St., Albany NY at 1:30 PM.
The event is being sponsored by local Green groups and urges that American troops be withdrawn from Iraq. Nader has also called for a halt to the corporate profiteering that has been rampant in the war effort in Iraq.
Other speakers will include Dr. Alice Green, New Paltz Deputy Mayor Rebecca Rotzler and Joe Lombardo. The rally will call for: Bring the Troops Home, No War for Oil, Stop to Corporate Profiteering, Protect Civil Liberties
Nader will also be speaking at peace rallies in Buffalo, Syracuse and Glens Falls during a three day upstate tour.
Suggested ticket prices at $10 in advance, $12 at the door. For more information, call 286-3411. To reserve a ticket, call 377-9478.
Smith will perform four songs at the event.
Punk rock's poet laureate, Patti Smith ranks among the most influential female rock & rollers of all time. She is a two-time Grammy nomineee.
In the 1970s, Patti Smith hit the underground music scene with an ecstatic blend of free-form poetry and three-chord rock. The woman hailed as the "godmother of punk" credits her signature sound to lessons in free-verse defiance from 19th-century poet Arthur Rimbaud and 20th-century music legend Bob Dylan.
Starting at 9 AM before the rally, the Greens are organizing a progressive grassroots organizing conference. Workshops will be offered on peace; labor; women; campus organizing; universal health care; and running for local office----------------
Grassroots Organizing Conference, Sat. April 16, 275 State St.
9 registration
9:30 Welcome, introductions, overview of day, bagels and cream cheese
9:45 Workshop One universal health care - Mark Dunlea Organizing Campus Greens - Steve Heath. Opposing the Draft / Military Recruitment- Carole Feraro
10:45 Plenary The Green Agenda for 2006- building the peace movement- 2005 local elections- getting 50,000 plus votes for GovernorJoe Lombardo, Peter LaVenia, Loralyne Krobetzky:
11:30 Workshop Two Running for Local office - Mark Dunlea Electoral Reform - David Lussier Women and the Greens - Rebecca Rotzler, Meghan Keegan, Mo Hannah
12:45 Adjourn
So if you're in the Albany, NY area and looking for something to do this weekend, this sounds like it could be both fun and informative.
As always, if there's an event in your area that you'd like highlighted (or one not in your area that you think members should know of) e-mail common_ills@yahoo.com.
There will be an Indy Media Review tonight. I'm picking out events from the e-mails at present because we have a member who's filing his income tax for the first time (he's young, not someone attempting to beat the government) so I'm in an i.m. window with him. Until he's completed the form, I'll just be noting announcements. After he's completed his form, I'll go on and start the Indy Media Review proper.
