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CITIZENS
of VENTURA
IT’S
TIME TO CHANGE THE RULES!
The
Supreme Court’s Citizens
United ruling
is just the latest - and most blatant - example that corporations
have hijacked our government.
The
ruling opens the door to a floodgate of corporate money in elections
and leaves ordinary citizens little opportunity to participate in our
democracy.
Corporations
are using
OUR
legal system against us!
Overrule
the Court
On
Sunday, February 5th
From
3-5 p.m.
In
the Topping Room of the E. P. Foster Library
Join
Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions and David Cobb from Move to Amend for an informational action meeting to develop our Ventura
Community’s response to the Supreme Court and plan what we can do
to join the
National
movement to
Abolish
Corporate Personhood!
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Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream
Symposium
AND the Getting Into Action Workshop at The Unitarian Universailist Church of Ventura
Where on Earth are we going?
And what can we do about it?
These questions are at the heart of the
Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium
The Symposium is a profound inquiry into a bold vision: to bring forth a sustainable, just, peaceful and thriving human presence on Earth.
You will gain fresh insight about our world, meet like-minded people, find hope and inspiration, and leave clear how you can help create a new future.
If you are ready to explore what this vision means for you, we invite you to participate.
“It is easy to feel overwhelmed with the problems that our world faces. This workshop helps each participant to identify his or her own concerns and passions and empowers each of us to individually make a difference.”
- - Robert Dodge, Ventura, CA.
SAT. MAR 10, 2012 9:00 AM - SUN. MAR 11, 2012 5:00 PM
5654 Ralston Street Ventura California
This will be two events combined into one. The first is the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium and the follow up event that is being combined into one is the Getting Into Action Workshop. Saturday 9am-5pm will offer the Symposium for the majority of the day but then begin the first half of the getting Into Action Workshop. Sunday 1-5pm we will complete the Getting Into Action Workshop. These two days are not stand alone and participants should plan on attending both days. The Symposium is about waking up to where we are, how we got here and what your role might be in this Great Turning. The Getting Into Action Workshop provides a structure for people to create the next steps in their personal path towards a sustainable, just and fulfilling human presence on this planet.
A suggested donation of $15.00 is being requested, including lunch on Saturday and all refreshments. No one will be turned away, so please do not let money be a deterrent from participating.
For more details or to register, contact
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or (818) 281-6249
You may also register online at
Co-sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Church of Ventura (Social Action,
Adult Programs, and Green Sanctuary committees); Beyond War; and Citizens for
Peaceful Resolution.
The symposium and workshop will be offered again at the same venue Sat. June 9 - Sun. June 10, 2012
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Green
Conversations
A
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
connect informally WITH OTHERS who care about
green living and values
We welcome anyone interested in
issues of
sustainability, green choices, ecojustice, and related
themes.
Our books are chosen based on topics of interest to
participants and written by authors we wish we could invite
in person. We start with the book and go from there.
WHEN: 1st and 3rd (and
occasional 5th)
Mondays at 6:30 pm
WHERE: Java
Joe’s Coffee Shop,
Ste. 125, 2950 Johnson Drive (805) 642-4332
Selection for January 2012:
EcoMind:
Changing the Way We Think to Create the
World We Want
by Frances Moore Lappe
“In
EcoMind,
Frances Moore
Lappé—a giant of the environmental movement—confronts
accepted
wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research
from
anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience,
she argues
that the biggest challenge to human survival isn’t our
fossil fuel
dependency, melting glaciers, or other calamities. Rather,
it’s our
faulty way of thinking about these environmental crises that
robs us
of power. Lappé dismantles seven common “thought traps”—from
limits to growth to the failings of democracy— that belie
what we
now know about nature, including our own, and offers
contrasting
“thought leaps” that reveal our hidden power.
You
can also listen to videos of her speeches and
interviews at
http://smallplanet.org/videos
Selection for February 2012:
The
Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Soieties Stronger
by
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
The
eye-opening and headline-generating UK bestseller that shows how one
single factor—the gap between its richest and poorest members—can
determine the health and well-being of a society.
“This is a book with a big idea, big enough to change political thinking…In
half a page [The
Spirit Level]
tells you more about the pain of inequality than any play or novel
could.” —Sunday
Times (UK
)
Monday, February 6: Introduction, Chapters 1-9
February 20: Chapters 10-16
For
an interview with Richard Wilkinson and Thom Hartmann, go to:
http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2011/08/transcript-thom-hartmann-prof-wilkinson-london-riots-and-economic-inequality-12-august-
FAQ: Do I
have to read the book?” Well…… it is great if
you do read the book. On the other hand, if the topic interests you, please
come, even if you don’t always have time to do all the
reading.
Green
Conversations
is a project of the Ventura Unitarian Universalist Committee
for Green Sanctuary with Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions
and Java Joe’s.
For more information contact Janette at 652-1213 or
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Inspired by our friends at Occupy Wall Street, and Dr. Cornel West, Move To Amend is planning bold action to mark the second anniversary of the infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision!
Occupy the Courts will be a one day occupation of Federal courthouses across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Friday January 20, 2012.
Move to Amend volunteers across the USA will lead the charge on the judiciary which created — and continues to expand — corporate personhood rights.
Locally, in Santa Barbara:
in Ojai:
January 21 National Day of Action Against Corporate Impostors
Saturday, JANUARY 21, 2012 10 am — 4 pm
In the heart of Ojai: Ojai Avenue/Highway 150 and Signal Street
The Arcade and the Libby Park Arches
Celebrate the beginning of the end of corporate control of our democracy
Petitions, Music, Singing and Dancing, Guerilla Theater, Fun for the Kids
and, in Ventura:
Corporate Personhood and GM Food
4 pm -- 7:30 pm in the Topping Room of the E.P. Foster Library
651 E. Main Street, Ventura
4 -- 6 pm: Open workshop; bring your info, insights and art to mark the anniversary of the Supreme Court's horrible decision in Citizens United vs. FEC
6 pm: Optional vegan organic box supper $15.00 (prepay 643-3640)
to benefit Womn's International League for Peace and Freedom's Earth Democracy Committee
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Topping Room, E.P. Foster Library
651 E. Main Street, Ventura
I AM
A film by Tom Shadyac
 I AM is an utterly engaging and
entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and
provocative questions: what's wrong with our world, and what
can we do to make it better? The filmmaker behind the
inquiry is Tom Shadyac, one of Hollywood's leading comedy
practitioners and the creative force behind such
blockbusters as "Ace Ventura," "Liar Liar," “The Nutty
Professor,” and "Bruce Almighty.” However, in I AM, Shadyac
steps in front of the camera to recount what happened to him
after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly
for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged with a
new sense of purpose, determined to share his own awakening
to his prior life of excess and greed, and to investigate
how he as an individual, and we as a race, could improve the
way we live and walk in the world.
Armed with nothing but his innate curiousity and a small crew to film his adventures, Shadyac set out on a twenty-first century quest for enlightenment. Meeting with a variety of thinkers and doers -- remarkable men and women from the worlds of science, philosophy, academia, and faith -- including such luminaries as David Suzuki, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Lynne McTaggart, Ray Anderson, John Francis, Coleman Barks, and Marc Ian Barasch -- Shouadyac appears on-screen as character, commentator, guide, and even, at times, guinea pig. An irrepressible "Everyman" who asks tough questions, but offers no easy answers, he takes the audience to places it has never been before, and presents even familiar phenomena in completely new and different ways. The result is a fresh, energetic, and life-affirming film that challenges our preconceptions about human behavior while simultaneously celebrating the indomitable human spirit.
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Annual Season
of
Peace Meeting
The Pursuit of Peace
Sanderson Beck has been working for
and writing about world peace for more than thirty years. He
will share with us his knowledge of the teachings of peace found
in the major religions of the world such
as the Jewish prophets, Lao-zi, Confucius, Mahavira and Jainism,
Buddha and Buddhism, Hinduism and the nonviolence of Gandhi,
Jesus
and early Christianity, Islam and the Sufis, and other Christian
pacifists throughout history.
Sunday,
December 4
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Foster
Library’s Topping Room
651
E. Main St.,
Ventura, CA
Sanderson earned an M.A. in Religious
Studies at UCSB in 1971 and was ordained a minister in the
Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA) in 1972. He
completed
a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1980.
Sanderson Beck was a conscientious
objector during the Vietnam War and has been arrested for
protesting war crimes more than fifty times.
He has written and
published more than 25 books. The most important ones on peace
are:
THE HISTORY OF PEACE in 2 volumes
PROGRESSIVE
DEMOCRACY
BEST FOR ALL: How We Can Save the World
Nonviolent
Action Handbook
The Art of Gentle Living
PEACE OR BUST: My
Nonviolent Action Campaigns
He has also written 12 volumes so far
on the Ethics of Civilization.
All these books and more are
available in their entirety on his website:
san.beck.org.
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 Diverse citizens, united in solidarity with the national Occupy Wall Street movement, in non-violent protest against many injustices, have organized events in Ventura and Oxnard.
Among these injustices are:
• high un-and-under-employment
• a concentration of wealth in the top 1%
• the bubble economy, which destroyed first retirement savings and now has resulted in the mass foreclosure of homes
• a state of permanent, undeclared, war in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan
• the inability for the common citizen to afford adequate access to healthcare, education, nutrition and human services
• destruction of the environment
They assert that the unifying cause of these injustices is the collusion between government and corporations and call for the separation of corporation and State.
The rally to kick off the weekend's activities began on Friday, Oct. 14 at the Ventura County Government Center at Victoria Ave. and Telephone Rd. in Ventura.
Occupy Oxnard convened at 2 p.m., Saturday Oct. 15 in Oxnard's Plaza Park, 500 S. C St., for a rally and march. More information can be found at the Facebook page Occupy Oxnard.
The Ventura group occupied Ventura's Mission Park on Saturday, Oct. 15, beginning at noon.
Coming off a successful Oct. 15-16 action drawing people of all ages to Downtown Ventura’s Mission Park, Occupy Ventura is planning to now Occupy City Hall in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. In solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Ventura continues its occupation this Friday, October 28 at 6 pm at the lot behind City Hall. Marches are planned.
For more information, go to http://occupyventura805.wordpress.com
The topic for the Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions monthly meeting for November will be the Occupy movement.
Sunday, November 6
3:00 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m.
Topping Room, E.P. Foster Library
651 E. Main St.
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Formerly homeless veterans bring their award-wining a cappella music to Ventura -- performing soul, traditional gospel and popular music.
Unitarian Universalist Church of Ventura
5654 Ralston Street, Ventura
$20.00 Advance Tickets / $30 Door
Doors open 6:00 p.m
Concert 6:30 p.m.
Refreshments 7:45 - 9 p.m.
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