<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><I>Hi All,<BR>
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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<BR>
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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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.<BR>
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What do you all say? Can we do that? Who will donate? I pledge $10.00. Who else will pledge? <BR>
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Merriam<BR>
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</I>Subj: <B>Re: [Sosfbay-news] TONIGHT Bike4Peace/Catalysts of Hope Event, Sunday SJ 5PM, Earth Day Ap 22 </B> <BR>
Date: 4/22/2007 10:48:07 PM Pacific Standard Time <BR>
From: <A HREF="mailto:jamboi@yahoo.com">jamboi@yahoo.com</A> <BR>
Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:JamBoi@Greens.org">JamBoi@Greens.org</A> <BR>
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Merriam, Bob, Cameron, and I made it to this event. As co-sponsors of<BR>
the event we got our famous Green Party t-shirts with the bicyclists<BR>
for the riders and this should get our Green Party name out there not<BR>
only in California but all over the country! We gave them some Green<BR>
Pages and other GP literature as well.<BR>
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The discussion questions of the evening were 1) what are we most<BR>
concerned about our society. 2) what kind of society would we like to<BR>
build? 3) What changes in our personal lives would we like to see to<BR>
get there?<BR>
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In general we came up with the vision that we'd like to see more<BR>
creativity, individual empowerment, voluntary work, egalitarian<BR>
community self-governance, Peace Social Enterprise (as opposed to<BR>
Military Industrial Complex), creative nonviolent conflict resolution<BR>
techniques, multiparty Democracy, flowers, bees, community gardens and<BR>
other community building.<BR>
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A fun and inspiring time!<BR>
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--- JamBoi <jamboi@yahoo.com> wrote:<BR>
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> We managed to wrangle a "Co-sponsorship" status for the GPSCC on this<BR>
> event.<BR>
> <BR>
> I'm (& I think Merriam too are) going to try to make it to tonight's<BR>
> http://PagesinColor.com event at 5PM (detailed below) and hope that<BR>
> others will join me. <BR>
> <BR>
> Bob Alavi, Tian Harter and I met with Michelle Darr, 3 of her <BR>
daughters and her partner-in-cycling Vernon Huffman and got to here a<BR>
little about the<BR>
> cross-country biking journey they are on (to culminate in a<BR>
> multi-rider<BR>
> gathering Sat Sept 22 World Car-Free Day. in Washington DC). <BR>
> Michelle<BR>
> and Vernon invited all who can to join in on their cross-country trip<BR>
> and/or join in supporting the trip. I will be proposing the GPSCC to<BR>
> be co-sponsors of their endeavor. I expect Tian will post some<BR>
> photos<BR>
> from our time together. Below are the DETAILS OF EVENT TONIGHT!<BR>
> <BR>
> http://www.catalystsofhope.org/<BR>
> <BR>
> Title: Cross Continental Bicycle Journey for Peace & Sustainability<BR>
> START DATE: Sunday April 22<BR>
> TIME: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM<BR>
> Location Details: Pagesincolor.com 888 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA<BR>
> 95116 @ 19th St.<BR>
> Event Type: Teach-In<BR>
> Contact Name John Thielking<BR>
> Email Address pagesincolor [at] aol.com<BR>
> Phone Number 408-924-0846<BR>
> Address 888 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95116<BR>
> Junction of Santa Clara and 19th st.<BR>
> http://www.CatalystsofHOPE.org<BR>
> <BR>
> Healing Our People & Earth Cross Continental Bicycle Journey for<BR>
> Peace<BR>
> & Sustainability will facilitate a discussion on Building Community<BR>
> <BR>
> ___________________<BR>
> <BR>
> JamBoi: Jammy, The Sacred Cow Slayer<BR>
> The Green Parties' #1 Blogger<BR>
> http://dailyJam.blogspot.com<BR>
> <BR>
> "To the brave belong all things"<BR>
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> <BR>
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http://dailyJam.blogspot.com<BR>
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"To the brave belong all things"<BR>
Celt's invading Etrusca reply to nervous Romans around 400BC<BR>
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"Live humbly, laugh often and love unconditionally" (anon)<BR>
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