Events calendar follows for Sept and beginning of Oct.
If you have an event which you would like included, please let me know and I will try to get it included here. And I know that I have forgotten one event with Jeff Smith but I can't find the email. Sorry Jeff, sent it to me again and I will get it on.

David e. Delk, Alliance for Democracy - Portland Chapter, 503.232.5495

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September
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Friday - Sunday, Sept 10- 12, St. Philip Neri Church at 2408 SE 16th Avenue

The Muddy Boot Organic Festival - a soulful celebration of sustainable living
Nourishing Spirit: City to Farm

Please join us on Friday, September 10, at 7pm, for the Muddy Boot Organic Festival Keynote Address by filmmakers Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney food and agriculture policy advocates, and makers of the films King Corn, Big River and Truck Farm.Keynote Address tickets are on sale NOW through Tickets Oregon.
The Muddy Boot Organic Festival features:

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Local, sustainable food and beverages
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Organic and sustainable beer and wine
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Live music
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Fun, ecofriendly kids' activities
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Workshops on sustainable living
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Local vendors of sustainable, organic products and services

$5 admission to the outdoor festival per person per day, at the gate (children under 12 are admitted free). Keynote address tickets must be purchased separately.

We are sorry, but no dogs (except service dogs) are permitted on the festival grounds.

More info at http://www.muddyboot.org/
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Saturday, Sept. 11th, 9Am to 5 PM, Easter Short Park, 8th and Columbia St in Vancouver,

Vancouver Peace and Justice Fair

The Vancouver Peace and Justice Fair is a full-day celebration surrounding the work of peace, environment, and social justice organizations in the greater Clark County area.

Over 50 organizations and businesses will be present for networking, signing up volunteers, educating and disseminating information.

More info at http://www.vancouverpeaceandjusticefair.org/
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Saturday, Sept 11th 9am-12pm: training and doorknock; 12-2 pm picnic
Wilshire Park NE 33rd and Skidmore

Changing the climate in Cully Neighborhood Walk

The Sierra Club and Metropolitan Alliance for Common Good are proud to join Americans across the country who are volunteering on September 11th, a National Day of Service in honor and remembrance of those who bravely serve our country. In honor of this day the Oregon Sierra Club and MACG wish to make a significant contribution to an important local effort on energy efficiency, equity, and community building. Please join us for a Changing the Climate in Cully Neighborhood Walk! We’ll go door to door to promote a city initiative, Clean Energy Works, which helps residents fund energy efficiency improvements to their home and provides worker training for low-income people and communities of color. Don't worry. We'll pair you up with a buddy, provide a quick training on what to say, and answer any questions you may have. It's going to be a lot of fun and will help make a big difference in our community, so sign up today!

Here are the event details:

WHO: You, your friends, and family.

WHAT: Changing the Climate in Cully Neighborhood Walk. After the canvass we will host a picnic at Wilshire Park where you can get free food and drinks and revel in the great work you did!

Questions: Robin Everett robin.everett@sierraclub.org 503-238-0442 x307

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Sunday, September 12, Tualatin Community Park on the Tualatin River

Tualatin Riverfront Music Festival, A homegrown event to ban single-use plastic bags in Oregon

A homegrown festival featuring live local music, local food and beverage, recreational kayaking and fun nature activities for children. The hope is to raise $10,000 to support Tualatin Riverkeepers' efforts to ban plastic bags in Oregon during the 2011 legislative session.

GET TICKETS!
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Tuesday, September 14, 7 PM, Board Room of the Multnomah County Building, 501 SE Hawthorne Boulevard,

Panel Discussion on Campaign Finance Reform and Voter-Owned Elections
Hosted by the The League of Women Voters

Voter-Owned Elections are a comprehensive system that provides candidates a voluntary option when running for Mayor, City Commissioner, and Auditor without special interest contributions.

A panel of four will address several aspects of campaign finance reform during the first hour, followed by audience questions.
• Leslie Hildula, former chair, Portland’s Citizen Campaign Commission,
• Willie Smith, district director, Representative Earl Blumenauer,
• Janice Thompson, executive director, Common Cause, Oregon, and
• Barbara Dudley, adjunct professor, Hatfield School of Government, P.S.U.

Panelists will discuss the current Voter-Owned Election system in Portland, other similar programs in other locations around the United States, the status of federal campaign finance reform, and some of the attempts and implications of regulatory reform.

Voters in Portland will vote in November, deciding if they want to continue the voter owned elections which were instituted by the Portland City Council in 2005.

Event is free and the public is invited.

More Info on voter-owned elections available at http://lwvpdx.org/issues-and-advocacy/campaign-finance-reform
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Tuesday, September 14 , 7 -9 PM, Portland Building auditorium, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue

Columbia Riving Crossing Alternatives Discussion,

Metro Councilor Robert Liberty Convenes Panel Discussion of Alternatives to Current Columbia River Crossing Proposal
7 to 9pm, Tuesday September 14, 2010

The Columbia River Crossing project is a $2.6 to $3.6 billion proposal to widen I-5, rebuild and replace freeway interchanges and extend light rail between Vancouver and North Portland.

The Columbia River Crossing project in its current form is facing very serious financial and political challenges.
Metro Councilor Robert Liberty believes it is important to begin a community discussion of some alternatives to the current proposal, in the event it is infeasible.

Over the last several months he has solicited suggestions of alternative approaches to the problems which the current CRC is supposed to address. He has asked a panel of experts and community leaders to gather for a group discussion of the merits of these proposals.

Confirmed panelists are:
• Gary Toth, Senior Director, Transportation Initiatives with the Project for Public Spaces & former Director, Project Planning and Development, New Jersey Department of Transportation
• Mary Nolan, Oregon House Majority Leader
• Chris Girard, President/CEO of Plaid Pantry
• Keith Lawton, transportation consultant; previously Transportation Planner, Metro, Portland, Oregon 1975 - 2004.
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Friday, Sept 17, 5:30 PM, Portland City Hall, City Council Chambers, 1221 SW 4th Avenue

The Mending Wall: Immigration and Human Rights in Perspective
(The is a FREE EVENT but pre-registation is required. Click here. )

What does good immigration policy look like? How do we reconcile the prerogatives of states to control immigration without infringing on the rights of immigrant and refugee communities? Can we establish immigration laws that are in line with international human rights standards and that ensure a people’s continued access to their cultural heritage?

Borrowing its title from Robert Frost’s famous poem which suggested that “good fences make good neighbors,” this panel of interdisciplinary writers and scholars delves into the controversy and complexities related to Arizona’s recent immigration law, SB 1070, including Portland City Council’s subsequent resolution condemning the law as well as the larger historical and international human rights dimensions of the issue.

Moderated by Daniel J. Tichenor (Philip H. Knight Professor of Social Science and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, University of Oregon) who has published extensively on immigration and national identity, and is the author of the forthcoming Faustian Bargains: The Origins and Development of America’s Illegal Immigration Dilemma (University of Michigan Press); Elizabeth Hovde, editorial columnist for The Oregonian; Juliet Stumpf (Associate Professor of Law at Lewis and Clark College) whose research focuses on the intersections between immigration law and constitutional, criminal, national security, civil rights, and employment law; and from the Netherlands, Cas Mudde (currently Nancy Schaenen Scholar at The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics and visiting associate professor at the department of political science of DePauw University) author of the forthcoming Defending Democracies: Liberal Democracies and the Extremist Challenges of the 21st Century.

This project was made possible in part by a grant from Oregon Humanities (OH), a statewide nonprofit organization and an independent affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds OH’s grant program.

The is a FREE EVENT but pre-registation is required. Click here.
Sponsored by the World Affairs Council, the City of Portland, and the City Club of Portland
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Wednesday, Sept, 22, 7 PM, Bagdad Theater, 3702 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd

Stealing the Light, a documentary film

This inspiring documentary focuses on the story of Mohammad Khan Kharoti and his extraordinary journey to build a school in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. With a deep love of learning Kharoti (an Afghan refugee who now works for Kaiser Permanente in Nuclear Medicine) wanted to pass on to the children of his village the same opportunity he had, to attend school and to learn to read and write. In 2001 he obtained permission from the Taliban to start classes for both boys and girls, started a non-profit organization called Green Village Schools—and eventually grew the school to 1200 students, 400 of them girls, before it was destroyed in 2008. Through interviews in Portland and with Afghans in Helmand Province, the film gives insights into the burden of illiteracy on Afghanistan and the tension of working under the constraints of two parallel governments—asking along the way the important question, “what role can education play in promoting peace in conflict-torn countries?”

Ticket price: $13.50 pre-sale/$12.50 day of show
Tickets can be purchased at Crystal Ballroom or through TicketMaster, 800-745-3000
Sponsored by the World Affairs Council
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Friday, September 24, 2010; 9AM-1PM, Providence Willamette Falls Education Center, Oregon City, OR
An Oregon Healthy Food in Healthcare Roundtable
Balanced Menus: A Recipe for Serving Healthy Sustainable Meals, Mitigating Climate Change and Reducing Cost

Presented by Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility

Registration is open!

Information: See below or download the flyer for more Roundtable Information and Registration Instructions.

To Register for the Roundtable:

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Roundtable Registration Fee: $20.00 (Includes lunch of local, sustainable bounty).
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Payment will be collected at the event - BUT PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO SECURE SPACE & FOOD.
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Information on directions, maps and parking will be provided with registration confirmation. Please bookmark the confirmation page for future review.
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Register online today!

Registration for the event will close Friday 9/17/10 – So register today! Please also share this information with others who might be interested in attending.
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Saturday, Sept. 25th, 11 - 2 PM, Pioneer Courthouse Square

Mobilization for Justice and Police Accountability
Portland March and Rally

Music and Gathering - 10:30 - 11:00
Rally, Speakers and Music - 11:00 - 12:30
March - 12:30 - 1:30

Sponsored by the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform

The Coalition is working for these five goals:
* federal investigaton by the US Justice Department of criminal and civil rights violations by the Portland police
* strengthening the Independent Police Review Division and th ecitizen Review Committee with the goal of adding power to compel testimony
* a full review of the Bureau's excessive force and deadly force policies
* The Oregon State legislature narrowing the language of the State statute for dealy force used by police officers
8 establing a special procescutor for police excessive force and deadly force cases
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Sunday, Sept 26, 1 - 2:30 PM , First Unitarian Church, SW 12th and Salmon

The Moral Underground: A Talk on Economic Disobedience

Boston University Professor and Author Lisa Dodson will discuss economic disobedience, take on the moral paradox of breaking
rules to do good, and talk about why she believes it is in the tradition of the underground railroad and other acts of civil disobedience that have propelled social justice movements throughout history.

For more information, contact Kate Lore or Lorna Garanp at ornagarano@gmail.com
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Monday, Sept 27, 7 PM, First Congregational Church, 1126 SW Park Ave.

Aftershock, The Next Economy and America's Future, Robert B. Reich

Aftershock (Knopf) delivers a brilliant reading of the economic crisis and how Americans should deal with its aftermath. This event presented by Powell's Books and the World Affairs Council of Oregon

A brilliant new reading of the economic crisis--and a plan for dealing with the challenge of its aftermath--by one of our most trenchant and informed experts.

When the nation's economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a perilous road ahead. He argues that the real problem is structural: it lies in the increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top, and in a middle class that has had to go deeply into debt to maintain a decent standard of living.

Persuasively and straightforwardly, Reich reveals how precarious our situation still is. The last time in American history when wealth was so highly concentrated at the top--indeed, when the top 1 percent of the population was paid 23 percent of the nation's income--was in 1928, just before the Great Depression. Such a disparity leads to ever greater booms followed by ever deeper busts.

Robert B. Reich is professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton, and was an economic advisor to President Obama. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Berkeley.

Cost: $25.00 includes signed copy of book.

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Saturday, Oct 2nd, 9 am - 4 PM, Madison High School, 2735 NE 82nd Ave.

3rd Annual NW Conference on Teaching for Social Justice w/keynote by Sonia Nieto
Rethinking Our Classrooms, Organizing for Better Schools

Sponsored by, among others, Rethinking Our Schools.
More info and to register: http://www.nwtsj.org/index.php

Both teachers and non-teachers are welcome to this conference. Our conferences attract hundreds of educators from along the I-5 corridor — from as far south as Eugene, OR and as far north as Vancouver, BC to rethink our classrooms and organize for better schools. Various community organizations will also be there at a Resource Fair, including the Alliance for Democracy. The Resource Fair is designed to connect educators with innovative social justice organizations and activists.
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Saturday, Oct 9, Anti-War Rally, March and Teach-in in Downtown Portland

MONEY FOR JOBS AND EDUCATION, NOT WAR AND OCCUPATION
* End the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq
* Stop funding Israeli apartheid: Equal Rights for Palestinians
* No war on Iran or Pakistan--Stop drone bombings!
* Hands off Latin America
* Stop scapegoating Arabs, Muslims and Immigrants

Downtown Portland (PSU area)
11:00 a.m. - rally, SW Park Blocks at Portland State University between SW Market and Clay
11:30 a.m. - march
1:00 p.m. - panel discussion related to teach-in
2:30 p.m. - workshops begin
(The event will end at approximately 3:30 p.m.)

Coordinated by: Peace and Justice Works Iraq Affinity Group
Co-sponsored by: Peace Action Committee of the First Unitarian Church, Portland Peaceful Response Coalition (503- 344-5078), RecruiterWatch PDX, Alliance for Democracy - Portland Chapter, International Socialist Organization, Metanoia Peace Community and others.

Endorsed by: Women in Black, Oregon Wildlife Federation and others.

More info at http://www.pjw.info/afghanistan9yl.html