Some late summer – early fall 2026 news and events 6

 With some re-editing:

[Stand for Palestine September 26th, 11am-1pm, at the 2026 Common Ground Fair in downtown Unity, Maine – from went2thebridge on substack.com September 13th 

[From Bruce Gagnon September 13th –

• Friday, October 2 at Bath Iron Works navy shipyard for Keep Space for Peace Week. We gather at 11:30 am on Washington Street. BIW builds Aegis destroyers now parked off the coasts of Iran, Russia and China with ‘missile defense’ interceptors on-board.

• Saturday, November 28 in Brunswick at the intersection of Pleasant Street and US Hwy 1 across from the police department. We begin at 1:30 pm.

• Saturday, December 5 at Xmas shopping mecca Freeport in front of L. L. Bean mega-store on Hwy 1 at 1:30 pm.

[There will be a live Due South (on local NPR affiliate WUNC) event on the evening of September 24th in downtown Durham?]

[September 26th is National Public Lands Day.]  [The Three Rivers Land Trust, based in Salisbury, NC, is holding a week of events – trlt.org 

[The North Carolina Botanical Garden's Fall Plant Sale will be September 25-26th.]

[The 29th annual Carrboro Music Festival will be September 26-27th – www.carrboronc.gov/m/NewsFlash/home/detail/3282 ]

[The 30th Annual California Condor Release at Vermilion Cliffs National Monument will be September 26th. – peregrinefund.org/help-condors ]

[Author M G... of the New Yorker and the NYT will speak on “Hope, Hopelessness, & Human Rights in a Time of Autocracy” at Duke University's Page Auditorium, Monday September 28th at 6pm.  This is part of the Rights and Humanities Annual Series and is "jointly sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) and the Duke Human Rights Center @ FHI and is co-presented this year by the Provost's Initiative on Pluralism, Free Inquiry, and Belonging," and is co-sponsors by Duke's International Comparative Studies, Forum for Scholars & Publics @FHI, and Slavic Studies.]

[The 22nd annual Fall Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance will be October 1st-4th in Pittsboro, NC. – ShakoriHillsGrassRoots.org ]

[Annual fall-winter art studio tours are coming up beginning in October?]

[Mark Keep Space for Peace Week with leafletting Friday, October 2nd at 11:30am at the gates of General Dynamics' Bath Iron Works shipyard on Washington Street in Bath, Maine (?); organized by Smiling’ Trees Disarmament Farm and Peaceworks (?).

[Saturn (magnitude 0.3) and the Moon will be about 6 degrees apart and closing on the evening of September 26th.  Saturn will reach opposition October 4th [(at about 8am EDT).]

[Asteroid 192 Nausikaa will reach opposition September 30th [at about 6pm]:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/192_Nausikaa ; the 'fiery' (?) mythological figure:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausicaa ]

[The People's Republic of China was proclaimed October 1, 1949. – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China ]

[The Japanese-American company ... was founded around October 1, 1995. –... ]

[The Moundville Native American Festival, at Moundville Archaeological Park, near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will be October 1st-3rd in 2026:  calendar.ua.edu/department/moundville_archaeological_park  and festival.museums.ua.edu ]

The Park's 2026 Moundville Lithic Arts Festival (it had been called the Knap-In) was March 6-7th:  moundville.museums.ua.edu/2026/01/05/moundville-lithic-arts-festival/ 

moundville.museums.ua.edu 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moundville_Archaeological_Site

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moundville_phase ]

[More events are listed in the Archaeological Conservancy's magazine (the organization's website is:  thearchcons.org/ ).]

[Mazin Qumsiyeh of the Bethlehem University Institute for Biodiversity and Diversity was live from Palestine on WBAI 9-10am October 1st?]

[The Moon and the star Elnath or beta Tauri will be about 2 to 3/4 degrees apart October 1st-2nd; the Moon will reach +27.6 degrees of declination, about one degree from its last maximum northern lunar standstill, not to be repeated before January 2043.  The Moon was between the Hyades and the Pleiades in Taurus and I think I could see the star Alphard in Hydra rising the morning of the 1st.]

[October 2nd – Durant Nature Preserve BioBlitz - October 2026 ]

[Demonstrate to Free Venezuelan President Maduro & Cilia Flores October 3rd-4th – unac.notowar.net/free-venezuelan-president-maduro-and-first-combatant-cilia-flores-all-out-on-saturday-october-3/october-3-action-list-free-president-maduro-and-cilia-flores/ ]

This is the post 1,006 on DS, unintended, and there are other duplicate posts ( durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/02/machine-censored-posts-2.html , etc.