[Sosfbay-discuss] TONIGHT Bike4Peace/Catalysts of Hope Event, Sunday SJ 5PM, Earth Day Ap 22

Mon Apr 23 00:04:25 PDT 2007

Hi All,

Tonight definitely was inspiring.  Vernnon, Michele and her three children 
Willow and Gracie (both under two years old) and Tala her 11 year old daughter 
are amazing.  They will be spending the next 5 months bicycling across the 
country and meeting with groups in every city and town they travel to.  They are 
called Catalysts Of Hope.  They truely are catalysts.  The discussions they 
facilitate with the people they meet, such as us tonight, starts the imagination
going.  Imagination in the sense of "I imagine I can do this" ( develop a 
community in my neighborhood, create a community garden, build the much needed 
multiparty Democracy, etc) and then "Imagine" how to bring these ideas into 
reality.

I'm pleased our Green Party is co-sponsoring Vernon and Michele's Catalysts 
Of Hope/Bike For Peace Tour.  That's great that they will be wearing our 
T-shirts as they travel across the U.S.
However, If we could also co-sponsor by donating some money I'm sure that 
would help them greatly. My idea is if we all donated $5 - $10 dallars and gave 
the money to Cameron to put in our checking account then Cameron could write 
them a Green Party check for that same amount and we could mail it to them at 
one of their stops on their itinerary.

What do you all say?  Can we do that?  Who will donate?  I pledge $10.00.  
Who else will pledge? 

Merriam

Subj:   Re: [Sosfbay-news] TONIGHT Bike4Peace/Catalysts of Hope Event, Sunday 
SJ 5PM, Earth Day Ap 22     
Date:   4/22/2007 10:48:07 PM Pacific Standard Time 
From:   jamboi at yahoo.com    
Reply-to:   JamBoi at Greens.org   
To: sosfbay-news at cagreens.org   
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Merriam, Bob, Cameron, and I made it to this event.  As co-sponsors of
the event we got our famous Green Party t-shirts with the bicyclists
for the riders and this should get our Green Party name out there not
only in California but all over the country!  We gave them some Green
Pages and other GP literature as well.

The discussion questions of the evening were 1) what are we most
concerned about our society.  2) what kind of society would we like to
build?  3) What changes in our personal lives would we like to see to
get there?

In general we came up with the vision that we'd like to see more
creativity, individual empowerment, voluntary work, egalitarian
community self-governance, Peace Social Enterprise (as opposed to
Military Industrial Complex), creative nonviolent conflict resolution
techniques, multiparty Democracy, flowers, bees, community gardens and
other community building.

A fun and inspiring time!

--- JamBoi <jamboi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> We managed to wrangle a "Co-sponsorship" status for the GPSCC on this
> event.
> 
> I'm (& I think Merriam too are) going to try to make it to tonight's
> http://PagesinColor.com event at 5PM (detailed below) and hope that
> others will join me.  
> 
> Bob Alavi, Tian Harter and I met with Michelle Darr, 3 of her 
daughters and her partner-in-cycling Vernon Huffman and got to here a
little about the
> cross-country biking journey they are on (to culminate in a
> multi-rider
> gathering Sat Sept 22 World Car-Free Day. in Washington DC). 
> Michelle
> and Vernon invited all who can to join in on their cross-country trip
> and/or join in supporting the trip.  I will be proposing the GPSCC to
> be co-sponsors of their endeavor.  I expect Tian will post some
> photos
> from our time together.  Below are the DETAILS OF EVENT TONIGHT!
> 
> http://www.catalystsofhope.org/
>  
> Title:  Cross Continental Bicycle Journey for Peace & Sustainability
> START DATE:     Sunday April 22
> TIME:     5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
> Location Details: Pagesincolor.com 888 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA
> 95116 @ 19th St.
> Event Type:     Teach-In
> Contact Name    John Thielking
> Email Address    pagesincolor [at] aol.com
> Phone Number    408-924-0846
> Address    888 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95116
> Junction of Santa Clara and 19th st.
> http://www.CatalystsofHOPE.org
>  
> Healing Our People & Earth Cross Continental Bicycle Journey for
> Peace
> & Sustainability will facilitate a discussion on Building Community
> 
> ___________________
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> 
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> 
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