NC Stop Torture Now
NC Stop Torture Now's last trash clean up as part of the State's Adopt a Highway program, near the hangar of a reported CIA front company linked to "extraordinary rendition" for torture, was supposed to be this coming Saturday, but actually the last one was in September. STN is lobbying organizations and governments to pass resolutions in support of an NC Commission of Inquiry into the State's role in "extraordinary rendition" and torture. Interested people are welcome to join STN's next meeting, December 11th at 2:30pm in Raleigh, I think at the Unitarian Universalist church.
Upcoming pipeline protests (from a WILPF email):
"November 14th. 10:00a.m. Chatham County Justice Center in Pittsboro to hear what the judge decides about the case involving EnvironmentaLee and Chatham County Citizens Against Coal Ash.
November 15th, Standing Rock: National Day of Solidarity Actions
Greensboro: 3pm. More information here. https://www.facebook.com/ events/1608668676105291/? notif_t=plan_user_joined& notif_id=1479001018542975
RALEIGH: 4:00-5:30, 150 Fayetteville St. in front of Wells Fargo Bank. .go to NODAPL# for more information or https://www.facebook.com/ events/1608668676105291/? notif_t=plan_user_joined& notif_id=1479001018542975
Wilmington: 2pm. More information on Facebook page previously given
November 16th, 11:30 NC Policy Watch luncheon ($10) in Raleigh at the Education Building on Salisbury St.(across from the auditorium)
November 17th 3:00 National call with Climate Reality re: pipelines 641-715-3650 code 615986#
November 19, 2016 [contact WILPF for carpooling]
WALK TO PROTECT OUR PEOPLE AND THE PLACES WE LIVE:
STOP THE PIPELINE
NOVEMBER 19 ROBESON COUNTY PRAYER WALK
Sponsored by Eco-Robeson
1:30 PM; Meet at the Pembroke Town Park, 413 West Third Street in Pembroke across from UNC Pembroke. 2 mile walk. Rally and prayer circle at corner of Prospect Rd and Hwy 72 near the Methane Transfer Station. Snacks & water will be available.
For more information contact Rev. Mac Legerton, 910-736-5573, mac_cca at bellsouth period net or Alisha Locklear 910-827-2528. lockleara at Hotmail period com
NOVEMBER 19 CUMBERLAND COUNTY WALK
Sponsored by Cumberland County Caring Voices
9:30 AM: Meet in front of Cape Fear Regional Theater in Fayetteville. 1209 Hay St, Fayetteville, NC 28305. March 1 mile down Hay Street to Rally at Market House for rally and speak out. Ending about noon. Snacks & water will be available.
For more information contact Denise Bruce, 910-726 5745 greenaction at sustainablesandhills period org
Mary Walker, 910-584-4343 walkerm0185 at yahoo period com
NOVEMBER 19 NASH COUNTY WALK
Sponsored by Nash Stop the Pipeline
10:00 AM: Meet at Ennis Recreation Park in Red Oak, on Hwy 43. (Take exit 141 east from I-95; go 3 miles turn right into Park at 1st stop light.).
Walk is 9 miles and will end at Nash County Court House about 3 pm in Nashville, NC with rally and speak out. Shuttles available to return participants to Red Oak.
Snacks & water will be available.
For information contact Marvin Winstead, 252-478-5442 marwinstead at gmail period com
For more information about housing and the organizing contact: Connie Leeper of NC WARN connie at ncwarn period org 704-731-6762
Steven Norris earthsun2 at gmail period com 828-777-7816 Walk for the Protection of the People and the Places we Live, Stop the Pipeline! Flier here.
Nash County: 10 am. Meet at Ennis Recreation Center, 4605 N. Old Carriage Rd, Rocky Mount (close to town of Red Oak).
Robeson County: 1:30 pm. Meet at Pembroke Town Park, 413 W. 3rd St, Pembroke.
Cumberland County: 9:30 am. Meet at Cape Fear Regional Theater, 1209 Hay St., Fayetteville.
STATEWIDE MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT
Friday, November 11, 2016
On Tuesday, November 15th, a Press Conference will be held in Fayetteville, N.C. to announce the first simultaneous events to educate the public of North Carolina regarding the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). The Press Conference will be held at 12:45 PM at the East Regional Library at 4809 Clinton Rd, in Fayetteville, NC 28312. The Press Conference is sponsored by a growing partnership of local, statewide, and national organizations committed to responsible economic, educational, environmental, energy, and equitable development of local communities, cities, and counties in North Carolina.
On Saturday, November 19, 2016, three events to inform and educate the public of North Carolina regarding the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) will take place in Eastern North Carolina Counties: Nash County, Cumberland County, and Robeson County. Entitled: “Walk for the Protection of People and the Places Where We Live: Stop the Pipeline” the walks will include a 9 mile walk in Nash County, a 1 mile walk in Cumberland County, and a 2 mile walk in Robeson County. The walks will conclude with gatherings and presentations on the negative impacts of the pipeline and the positive impacts of moving our State’s economy toward a more profitable present and future based on clean, renewable energy. In Nash and Robeson Counties, the walks will occur near the proposed route of the pipeline. In Pembroke, the walk will end across the street from the proposed end of the three-state, 550 mile pipeline.
The two major goals of the walks are: (1) to educate the public of North Carolina about the proposed methane gas pipeline, its negative impact on the people, economy, and environment of our state; and (2) to advocate for the present and future economic development of NC to be based on a full and immediate commitment to the expansion of clean, renewable energy. These walks will be followed by a two-week walk in early March 2017 along the entire 165 miles of the proposed route through Eastern N.C., ending in beginning on the Virginia border with N.C. and ending in Pembroke, N.C.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (USEIA), the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline is the third longest pipeline being planned in the nation (550 miles) and the second most costly ever proposed in the U.S. at a price of $5 billion. The proposed pipeline is planned to start in West Virginia, cross Virginia, and continue down through Eastern North Carolina. While the public in W. Virginia and Virginia have become very engaged in the pipeline debate and opposition, there has been little public discussion or media coverage of this major proposal in North Carolina. For example, 175 registrants will gather tomorrow – on Saturday, November 12 – in Natural Bridge, Va. for the Pipeline Summit, sponsored by the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance.
The Press Conference next Tuesday in Fayetteville will include an overview of the planned walks, the negative impacts of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline, its proposed route through Eastern N.C., its route through Native American, African American, and low-income communities and counties, its unnecessary high costs to landowners and consumers, and its irresponsible and negligent approach to economic development, The proposed ACP and expansion of natural gas production will also be compared to both public and corporate understanding, commitment, profitability and cost-saving measures for consumers and the environment in moving directly to a full commitment and development of clean energy.
There has been no widespread public education or debate in North Carolina regarding the shift from coal to natural gas to renewable energy as the basis for present and future economic development. The present controversies regarding coal ash and fracking have created some public discussion and major opposition, but considerable examination of the negative impacts of further natural gas production and its full costs, including to consumers, local governments, businesses, and the environment have neither been deliberated nor calculated. Most economic development planners, states and nations that are not swayed by political pressure alone know that the future is here now and that clean energy is the cornerstone of proactive, economic development. Clean energy presents a marriage between economic profitability, consumer and environmental protection, and the promotion of expanding jobs, businesses, diversified renewable energy sources, electric transmission lines, and new technologies in the energy marketplace.
Cities like San Diego, CA and Burlington, VT, states such as California and Connecticut, and nations such as Costa Rica, Germany, Portugal, Austria, and Scotland have all made commitments to moving to abundant, renewable energy sources as soon as possible. The expansion of natural gas production and use is the greatest disincentive, the most expensive, and the most environmentally harmful alternative to clean energy expansion, production, and exploration.
It is the civic role of media to not only cover and inform the public of known plans, decisions, and events, but also to educate the public concerning their options and consequences. For example, because of methane’s ability to trap infrared radiation more effectively than CO2, the effect of natural gas on climate change is 84 times greater than that of coal over a 20-year basis. The majority of the public perceives natural gas to be safer, cheaper, and greener than coal. This is certainly not the case when all of the risks, costs, and impact of natural gas are taken into consideration.
Please join us at the Press Conference next Tuesday and come to listen and learn, dialog, and deliberate, and prepare responsible stories on the full scope, scale, financial and non-financial costs, and impact of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline on North Carolina.
For more information, contact:
Nash County Walk sponsored by Nash Stop the Pipeline:
Marvin Winstead, 252-478-5442
Cumberland County Walk, Sponsored by Cumberland County Caring Voices
Denise Bruce, 910-726 5745 and Mary Walker, 910-584-4343
Robeson County Walk sponsored by Eco-Robeson
Rev. Mac Legerton, 910-736-5573 and Alisha Locklear, 910-827-2528
Statewide Partners:
Connie Leeper of NC WARN, 704-731-6762 Hope Taylor and Ericka Faircloth of Clean Water for North Carolina, 919-401-9600
National Partner:
Steven Norris of Beyond Extreme Energy, 828-777-7816
December 2, 11:30 am- 4:30 pm, Washington D.C., The Peoples' Hearing, National Press Club, 529 14th St NW. Join us for a Peoples' Hearing to expose the abuses of FERC! If you would like to attend/testify, you must sign up here, deadline November 11. More info.
Dec. 5, Water is Life, 7-9 pm, at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Finlator Hall in Raleigh. Speakers will connect water, climate, pipelines and more, in solidarity with Standing Rock. A panel discussion will feature John Wagner, who traveled to Standing Rock in September, NC State hydrology professor Ryan Emanuel, and 350 Triangle member Tom Fletcher, who is attending the climate summit right now in Morocco."
Arbor Day in Chapel Hill:
Announcement from Chapel Hill Parks & Recreation: "The Town of Chapel Hill’s annual Arbor Day celebration will be held at 10:15 a.m. Friday, Nov. 18, at Southern Community Park, 100 Sumac Road.
Sarada Dudley Brown and Shelby White’s second grade class from Scroggs Elementary School will participate and help plant an ‘Happidaze’ Fruitless Sweetgum.
Mayor Pam Hemminger will read the Arbor Day Proclamation and accept the 2015 Tree City USA Award from a the County Assistant Forest Ranger of the North Carolina Forest Service’s Orange County Office. 2015 was Chapel Hill’s 17th consecutive year as a Tree City.
To be named a Tree City, a town or city must meet four core standards set by the National Arbor Day Foundation: maintaining a tree board or department, having a community tree ordinance, spending at least $2 per capita on urban forestry and celebrating Arbor Day.
The first Arbor Day in the United States took place in April 1872 in Nebraska where it is said that an estimated one million trees were planted. Each state now chooses its own date on which to observe the holiday. North Carolina celebrates on the first Friday following March 15, but Chapel Hill doesn’t follow the rest of the state.
Arbor Day was set by the Chapel Hill Town Council in 2000 as the first Friday after Nov. 15. Each year the Town celebrates trees at its Arbor Day ceremony by planting one or more trees at a Town-owned facility such as a park or entryway. Last year a Red Maple tree was planted next to the Town’s Housing Department offices where Tanyard Branch Trail crosses Caldwell Street.
Chapel Hill contains a diversity and abundance of trees. Its residents have had a long love affair with trees dating back to 1889, when cutting down a tree in town was punishable as a misdemeanor and carried a $20 fine [I wonder if this only applied to streetside trees planted by the Town government]."
From an activist calendar in Chapel Hill:
"SUPPORT FOR BOWE BERGDAHL AT HEARING NOVEMBER 15 Parents of US Army soldier held prisoner by Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan and Pakistan 2009 to 2014 would be grateful for witnesses at his hearing where he is charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Bowe_Bergdahl. Join Quaker House and members of NC Stop Torture Now at 9 AM, Tuesday, November 15, Fort Bragg Courthouse, Normandy Drive, off All American Highway, Fayetteville. Carpooling/directions: lynewsom at gmail period com, 919-403-2712.
THE HALF LIFE OF A FREE RADICAL: GROWING UP CATHOLIC IN JIM CROW MEMPHIS Author Clare Hanrahan, “able to look back on the poverty, racism, consumerism, militarism, sexism, and Catholicism of her youth with passion and perspective,” discusses her memoir. 7 p.m., Tuesday, November 15, Highland United Methodist Church, 1901 Ridge Road, Raleigh; 7 p.m., Thursday, November 17, Durham County Library, 300 North Roxboro Street, Durham; 7 p.m., Friday, November 18, Church of Reconciliation, 110 North Elliott Road, Chapel Hill. 865-789-8912. [Also being interviewed on WILPF's Wake-Up Call program on 103.5 FM in Orange County, Wednesday, November 16th at 5pm and a TV version will be broadcast on The Peoples Channel at 10 am on a Thursday in the near future)
THE WAY TO THE SPRING: LIFE AND DEATH IN PALESTINE Journalist Ben Ehrenreich, who has lived on and off in West Bank since 2011, speaks about his reasons for writing his award-winning book and lives of Palestinians residing there. 5:30 - 6:30 p. m., Wednesday, November 16, UNC's FedEx Global Education Center, Pittsboro and McCauley Streets; 7:30 p. m., Wednesday, November 16, Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist Jones Building, 106 Purefoy Road, corner of Mason Farm Road; and 7 [BAJ says 7:30] p. m. [sponsored by Balance and Accuracy in Journalism with the Coalition for Peace with Justice, Charles M Jones Peace & Justice Committee, Carolina Seminar on Re-thinking Israel/Palestine, and Students for Justice in Palestine, UNC-CH], Thursday, November 17, NCSU’s Withers Hall Room 232B, 101 Lampe Drive. Sponsored by Coalition for Peace with Justice and 5 co-sponsors.. 919-914-9881"
Balance & Accuracy in Journalism December meeting:
"On December 14 our BAJ program will feature John Wagner on the Dakota Pipeline standoff by 200 indigenous groups defending water, life, and treaty rights.
John has been active with the fight over fracking, climate destabilization, and energy policy. He spent several days with the native people at the site, and will relate the significance of the struggle and the issues it illuminates."
The Friends of the Chapel Hill Public Library has its winter booksale that week. See:
If you will be in New York Saturday, US Friends of the Soviet People is meeting November 19th:
"Celebrate the 99th anniversary of the Socialist Revolution in Russia
While the mass media keeps telling us that socialism has failed, and Bernie Sanders tells us to vote for the warmonger Clinton, we are celebrating the success of the socialist revolution in Russia on November 7, 1917.
Immediately after the revolution, Russia pulled out of World War I, a war in which millions died, including hundreds of thousands from the U.S.
The revolution brought the economically backward peoples of Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus into a modern society, eliminating illiteracy and establishing a socialist economy planned for the interests of the people and not for the interest of the 1%.
Saturday, November 19, 2 PM
LGBT Center, Room #310
208 W. 13th St,
Betw. 7th & 8th Ave. in Manhattan
#1, 2, 3, A, C or E train to 14th St.
Committee to Celebrate the 99th Anniversary of the Russian Socialist Revolution
718-979-6563
Join Speakers:
- Prof. Grover Furr
- USFSP NY/NJ branch
- Communist Party of Labor of the Dominican Republic
- Labor Youth Turkey
- ML Communist Party of Ecuador
- Party of Communists USA, NY/NJ Metro Club.
The US government is driving us into endless wars, and even preparing for a possible third world war against Russia. The economy is going from one crisis to another; people are suffering in low-wage jobs, if they have any jobs at all. Police brutality is rampant, especially against Blacks and Latinos but against all working people. Come to a meeting to discuss the socialist revolution in Russia and what we can learn from it today."
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