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The Civic Media Center presents a list of some upcoming events
involving progressive organizations in the Gainesville area.
Please share this information with your group(s), friends,
and co-workers. Help connect us.

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Saturday, 6/17

* 8 pm - Live acoustic music to benefit the CMC, at the First Street
Music Hall, a splendidly renovated old church: 619 NE 1st St.
with Rain Dogs (folk) and Hamhock & Slide (new 'space' bluegrass)
$5 donation requested.

* 9 pm - Live music at the CMC
Ivy Labs (from Philly) (progressive fusion rock)
Aegis, Sachul, and Joe 747 (college rock)

Monday, 6/19

* 3 pm - carpooling from dirt lot at SW 3rd St. & 2nd Ave., for:
* 5:30 pm - Join the protest against an ICHETUCKNEE CEMENT PLANT!
Suwannee County Commission meets to issue the batch plant permit.

Tuesday, 6/20

* 7 pm - Labor Party / "Just Health Care" Campaign
A meeting at the IBEW Union Hall, 2510 NW 6th Street. 373-4841

Wednesday, 6/21

* 7 pm - Gainesville City Plan official workshop.
Find out & weigh in about housing, land use, transportation.
At Westside Recreation Center, 1001 NW 34th St. Info: 334-5022

* 7 pm - Consciousness Raising, organized by NOW,
at the Institute for Hispanic and Latino Cultures (La Casita).

* 9:15 pm - Michael Moore's "THE AWFUL TRUTH" night, at the CMC.
+ 9:15 - the previous episode (Holiday Inn workers & BMW)
+ 10:00 - this week's Brand New episode! (fun with campaigns)

Thursday, 6/22

* 6:30 pm or so - Gainesville City Plan meeting: use of our land.
Learn what's going on, be heard! City Hall Auditorium, 200 E Univ.
Shown on Cox channel 12. commdev@ci.gainesville.fl.us 334-5022

* 9 pm or so - Poetry Jam, at the CMC.

Saturday, 6/24

* 9 pm - Live music at the CMC
Carnival Waste, Flair, Orange Stool Chariot, and more.

Monday, 6/26

* 2-6pm - Free, anonymous HIV testing by the North Central Florida
AIDS Network, at the CMC.

* 6 pm - Ralph Nader for President / Green Party meeting, at CMC.

* 7:30 pm - Sierra Club hosts a meeting to discuss/plan for the
Forest Service's big public hearing on Thursday the 29th.
Ask Kathy for info/directions: 331-8831 or kacmd@aol.com

* 8 pm - Gainesville-Cuba Friendship Network meeting, at the CMC.
Preparing for Pastors for Peace fundraiser on July 9th.

Tuesday, 6/27

* morning - County Commission meeting. The Labor Party asks your
support for presenting a universal health care ballot initiative.

* 7:15 pm - Gainesville Area NOW meeting at Wild Iris Books.

* 8 pm - Jacksonville Anarchist Black Cross Federation presents
"The Hunt for Justice," a film about an '80's underground group.
At the CMC.

Wednesday, 6/28

* 9:15 pm - Michael Moore's "THE AWFUL TRUTH" night, at the CMC.
+ 9:15 - the previous episode
+ 10:00 - this week's Brand New episode!

Thursday, 6/29

* Nat'l Forest Conservation Plan public hearing, at the Sheraton *
* 5:00 pm - enjoy a conservationists' rally & info session, Ballroom A.
* 5:30 pm - press conference
* 6:00 pm - Forest Service's public hearing, Ballroom C.
The Forest Service is listening to the public's concerns this summer
at 300 hearings nationwide, but this is the only one in Florida.
A big turnout means better protection for our threatened wilderness
ecosystems. At 2900 SW 13th St. (Highway 441)
Info: Sierra Club, prism009@aol.com or also EAG, melbakat@goplay.com

* 9 pm or so - Poetry Jam, at the CMC.

Weekend of 6/30 to 7/2

* National NOW Conference, in Miami. Info: Emily at 376-7479

Sunday, 7/9

* Pastors for Peace fundraiser, at Westminster Church, presented
by the Gainesville-Cuba Friendship Network. Contact: 331-5069

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Save the Ichetucknee! Protect our air and water!

We still have a chance to stop Suwannee American, a company with a
horrible environmental record, from building a heavy-industry cement
kiln next to the pristine Ichetucknee River. The plant would be 3.5
miles from the river, 40 miles northwest of Gainesville.

Lisa Edgar from the DEP is in charge of issuing this company an
air permit: 850-488-2960 or lisa.edgar@dep.state.fl.us

Come join the demonstration at the commissioners' meeting on 6/19!
Info/updates: 335-2553 melbakat@goplay.com www.ichetucknee.org

Suwannee County Commissioners (area code 904):
Jerry Scott    362-4955
Douglas Udell 362-4189
Barry Baker    776-2285
Robert Taylor 963-4138
Donald Odom    935-1647

Two news stories about the situation:
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/060400/opl_3218672.html
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/060900/met_3268542.html
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The Labor Party's "Just Health Care" referendum campaign.

The Alachua County Labor Party will pursue a non-binding referendum
calling for universal health care in Florida, whereby everyone is
covered for all of our health care needs by a single, simple plan.
Everybody in, nobody out. This can send a message to Tallahassee &
Washington that we no are no longer willing to be at the mercy of
health insurance companies with their astronomical prices, impossible
paperwork, exclusions, co-pays, deductibles and denials of care.

We are planning a formal presentation to the County Commission
on Tuesday, June 27, and we need your help contacting commissioners
and asking them to place this initiative on the ballot.

For info, phone Mark at 377-9935. Childcare available, call ahead.
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Wilderness preservation & the US Forest Service: public planning

National Forests aren't protected in the way National Parks are. Over
half the lands managed by the Service have already fallen prey to decades
of clearcutting & tree 'farming', oil and gas development, mining, & other
industrial uses. Under public pressure, Clinton last Fall directed the
Service to develop a policy for saving remaining roadless wilderness.
A public meeting will be held June 29th at the Sheraton (2900 SW 13th St),
for review of the plan--which has many holes--and for public response.
Out of 300 hearings nationwide, this is the only one this side of Atlanta.
The public may comment by mail (or to roadlessdeis@fs.fed.us) until 7/17.

The Sierra Club urges you to insist that the plan should include:
1. Protection for every roadless Forest of at least 1000 acres.
2. Protection of Alaska's Tongass Forest, the largest temperate rainforest
left in the world, & currently specifically excluded (for harvesting).
3. No logging, mining, or off-road vehicles - not just no roadbuilding.
And hey, you're welcome to demand better protections than these!

Sierra Club: Joe (727)824-8813 prism009@aol.com
Environmental Action Group: Kat 335-2553 melbakat@goplay.com
For more info: http://www.ourforests.org http://www.sierraclub.org
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Michael Moore's "THE AWFUL TRUTH" - at the CMC

+ 9:15 - the previous episode
+ 10:00 - this week's Brand New episode!

"The smartest, funniest, most subversive satire on TV." (The LA Times)

The only station in America with the guts to run Moore's show is Bravo,
which you can't get in Gainesville without a satellite dish.
But wait! The CMC can show you The Awful Truth... What place could be
more fitting? That's what Mike thought, so we were one of ten
community centers in the nation that won a contest to show the program.
Check out the flyer: http://www.gator.net/~cmc/pages/miketry.htm

Moore is creator of "Roger & Me," about General Motors abandoning his home-
town, & "TV Nation," an Emmy-winning investigative-reporting comedy series.

Note: some of our local activists were 'guest stars' in a recent segment
about the rampant use of the death penalty in Florida and Texas.
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National Organization for Women - Consciousness Raising (CR)

Campus NOW and Gainesville Area NOW are conducting a CR series.
CR is a radical weapon of the feminist movement, used to:
- Get to the root of sexism. Who benefits? Who pays?
- Understand that the pain and struggles in our lives are not our
individual problems, and we cannot solve them on our own.
- For women to get what we want, we need to get together.

Where: The Institute for Hispanic and Latino Cultures (1504 W Univ.)
When: final CR 6/21 Cost: $5 per session. Childcare provided.
Candi 377-9935 or Rhiannon 246-7872 campus_now@hotmail.com
http://www.campusnow.8m.com/
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Ralph Nader for President / Green Party meetings

A gathering to discuss Nader's campaign, ways of supporting it, and the
Green Party in general. (It is not at all necessary to join the Greens
in order to attend or to support Nader.) Everyone is welcome.
Questions? Contact Zack, evenings, 337-1608. zackfinley@yahoo.com
check out http://www.metanet.org/ncf-greens/
Note: apparently Ralph is now backing the Labor Party's
universal health care plan, a Really Good Thing...
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Poetry Jam: a raucous weekly event at the CMC.
Read your poems or fiction, think your thoughts, make some music,...
or come hear others doin' it!
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UF Physical Plant plans to move 80% of Building Services custodial
staff to the night shift (11pm-7am) & increase their coverage area.

Employees have told the administration that night shift will:
- Disrupt child care, transportation, second jobs
- Strain marriages and families
- Jeopardize health, acc. to the Centers for Disease Control
- Place women in empty buildings in the middle of the night
- Decrease, not increase, the amount and quality of work,
due to chronic lack of satisfying sleep
- Cost $100,000's more per year in electricity, etc.

UF custodians start at less than $12,800 annually.

Administrators claim this is what their 'customers' want: for service
to be provided "transparently" (when no one has to look at them...)
Please let the administration know that custodians are not
a "disruption" and deserve to be treated with dignity:

UF President Charles Young: 392-1311 ceyoung@ufl.edu
Check out: http://www.afn.org/~share/nightshaft.html
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* Radical Rush 2000 will be the last week of September! *

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- Chris Zurheide, CMC
caz@ufl.edu

The Civic Media Center is a library of the alternative, non-corporate
press, an event center, and a hub for local social justice organizations.
Volunteers operate it, and the costs of survival are paid for through
grassroots donations. The CMC is at 1021 West University, with parking
in back off 'Alligator Alley'. 373-0010 http://www.gator.net/~cmc

Volunteer meetings are Sundays at noon. Newcomers welcome!

I mis-typed the phone number for Kathy, the contact for the Sierra Club's
preparation meeting at 7:30, Monday the 26th, where folks will be getting
warmed up for the wilderness protection public hearing that Thursday.

It should be 332-8831 (not 331). Very sorry.

In other news, the Save the Ichetucknee efforts have added a new website:

Ichetucknee Mobilization Web Site:
http://www.metanet.org/im/

yours,
Chris