Sunday, June 2                    3:00 - 5:00 pm

E.P.  Foster Library   Topping Room,        651 E. Main St.

Angela Johnson Meszaros, General Counsel at Physicians for  Social Responsibility-Los Angeles, will speak on current fracking activity in California, what we know and what is happening in Sacramento. This meeting is co-sponsored by 350 Ventura (a 350.org affiliate) Admission free.

Sunday, July 7, 2013           1:30  to 5:30 pm

E.P. Foster Library,   651 e. main st., ventura

admission free

Register at  The Pachamama Alliance

For more information, call 805-340-7073

 

A BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP connect informally with others who care about green living & values

WHEN:        1st and 3rd  (and occasional 5th)  Mondays  at  5:00 p.m. WHERE: Java Joe’s Coffee Shop, 2950 Johnson Drive, Ste. 125  (805) 642-4332

More info, contact Janette at 652-1213 or janettedw@sbcglobal.net

Selection for May-June 2013:

Humanizing the Economy by John Restakis

May 20: ­ Chapters 1-4        June 3: Chapters 5-8      June 17: Chapters 9-11

For a sort of Cliff Notes version of Humanizing the Economy, see: http://www.slideshare.net/NFCACoops/humanizing-the-economy-john-restakis-53112

Over six hundred Afghan girls are learning to read and write in two primary schools in a refugee camp in northwest Pakistan, near the Afghan border.  The schools were established eleven years ago -- after 9/11 -- and are supported and directed by a small group of volunteers from California.  Three Ventura County members of the governing committee, Beth Farnbach, Nagma Gandhi and Percy Severn, will share information and experiences about this small project that provides basic education for girls in a place where the challenges are great. For more information: http://afghangirlsschool.org/

At our May meeting, we honor  Julia Ward Howe's original intention for Mothers' Day.

In 1870, Julia Ward Howe took on a new issue and a new cause. Distressed by her experience of the realities of war, determined that peace was one of the two most important causes of the world (the other being equality in its many forms) and seeing war arise again in the world in the Franco-Prussian War, she called in 1870 for women to rise up and oppose war in all its forms. She wanted women to come together across national lines, to recognize what we hold in common above what divides us, and commit to finding peaceful resolutions to conflicts. She issued a Declaration, hoping to gather together women in a congress of action -- Click "Read More" to read it in its entirety.

  "The Food Commons model is a new economic paradigm and whole system for regional food." Larry Yee, Co-founder, and Coordinating Committee Member of The Food Commons (TFC) will present and discuss TFC at Citizens for Peaceful Resolution’s monthly general public meeting on Sunday, April 7th.  The Food Commons is a nonprofit organization that has developed a model for actualizing the food "revolution" in communities everywhere by creating the physical, financial and organizational infrastructure necessary for thriving regional food systems. The model is innovatively bold in scope and potential. Once built, it is a whole system, fully integrated and connected.  If you are interested in food, justice, environmental sustainability, equitable and functional social systems, check out the recently updated http://www.thefoodcommons.org/

Sunday, April 7, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., E.P. Foster Library's Topping Room

Missed the meeting? Watch Larry Yee's presentation at UCLA.

Larry Yee currently serves as the Co-founder and Coordinating Director for the Food Commons.  In 2008, Larry retired from a 32-year career with the University of California where he was the director of the Ventura County UC Cooperative Extension office and the UC Hansen Trust, which operated the UC Hansen Agricultural Center.