| GREEN NOTES --Week of Sunday,
January 13, 2008
GREEN PARTY CO-CHAIR PRODUCES FILM . . .
Steve Larrick and Janine Copple have produced "A Walk in Epworth
Park" featuring a tour through Epworth Lake Park by Jim McKee. Historic
Epworth is now known as Wilderness Park. Join Greens and Friends of Wilderness
Park on Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 7:15pm, at Meadowlark
Coffee Shop, 1624 South Street in Lincoln for a showing.
GREENS SPEARHEAD COALITION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT . . . The Nebraska
Green Party is organizing a new Coalition for the Environment. The first
collaborative project will be creating an Earth Day Celebration for the
City of Lincoln on April 20, 2008 at Antelope Park, noon to 4:00pm. Environmental
organizations, private businesses, visual and performing artists, and
"green" advocacy groups are invited to join the Coalition. Contact
Barb van den Berg for
details.
GREENS ADVOCATE DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION . . .
In LINCOLN: Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 7:00pm, Unitarian
Church, 6300 A Street, Death Penalty Forum presented by the League
of Women Voters of Lincoln-Lancaster County. J. Kirk Brown, Nebraska Solicitor
General advocating retention V. Alan Peterson, Lincoln Attorney, advocating
abolition. Q&A will follow. On Thursday, January 17, Nancy Field and
Sister Elaine Herrold present on the death penalty at Lincoln chapter
of NAACP, 6:00pm, the Malone Center,
2032 U Street.
Abolition Action Group Meetings are every Saturday, 11:30am, First
Presbyterian Church, 18th & F Streets, Lincoln, to organize events,
actions, and abolition awareness. Enter east side doors. Follow the signs.
Contact information: (402)570-7951; jacksonmeg@hotmail.com.
In GRAND ISLAND: Presentation of Living the
Questions DVD featuring Sister Helen
Prejean's life journey and work for abolition. Sunday, January 20
and January 27, 2008, 5:00pm, Trinity
United Methodist Church, 5th & Elm, lower level room 4. Enter
East doors.
Sunday Forum January 20, 2008, 9:30am: ONE FAMILY CHOOSING FORGIVENESS,
Trinity United Methodist Church
Gollaher Chapel, 5th & Elm. Featured speaker: Kurt Mesner, murder
victim family member from Central City.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WEEK AT UN-L . . . Begins
with a 2:00pm Chancellor's Program at the Nebraska
Union City Campus Auditorium, 1400 R Street, Lincoln, Monday January
21, 2008. "Martin Luther King Jr's Expansive Dream" will be
presented by Reverend Irene Monroe, religion columnist, public theologian,
and motivational speaker. The week ends with the 13th Annual MLK Banquet,
6:30pm, Saturday January 26. Other events are listed at http://mlkweek.unl.edu/
GREENS PROMOTE "MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE"
. . . The play "My
Name is Rachel Corrie" will be performed by the production company
Countdown to Zero, with Julie Rada, Thursday, January 24, 2008, 7:30pm,
First Mennonite Church, 7300
Holdrege Street, Lincoln. The arts inform people of important issues of
the day. Sponsored and/or supported by the Nebraska
Coalition for Peace, Nebraskans
for Peace, First Mennonite Church
of Lincoln, Friends of Palestine, The Angels Company, Nebraska Green
Party, and many concerned individuals in the arts and peace community.
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