Green Notes for the week of 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 barbvandenberg@hotmail.com for details about the first organizational meeting mid-January.

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.