VIGIL AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY . . . Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty vigil every Monday, noon to 1:00pm, in front of the governor’s mansion, 1425 H Street, Lincoln. The legislature may debate this session’s two related bills, LB 306 to repeal, and LB 36 establishing lethal injection, as early as this week. Please contact your senators in support of ending state killing in Nebraska. Click here (pdf) for 2009 state senators contact information, listed alphabetically, and by district. Join Monday vigilers for a few minutes, or the hour. In case of bad weather, meet inside the State Capitol Building at the ground floor information desk. To contact NADP, phone 402.477.7787.

WALK-IN VOTING . . . Monday April 27, through Friday, May 1, 2009, registered voters in Lincoln may vote at the Lancaster County Election Commissioner’s office, 601 North 46 Street. Click here for a sample ballot.

LINCOLN BUDGET SURVEY . . . Lincoln residents are invited to provide input to the City’s 2009-2010 budget in an online survey available here.  The “Taking Charge” survey focuses on programs and services in danger of being eliminated or reduced in the new budget.

RENEWABLE ENERGY LECTURE . . . Learn about a renewable energy based economy, Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 7:00pm, when Glen Andersen, Energy Policy Specialist with the National Conference of State Legislatures, examines public policy energy topics at a “Devil is in the Details” lecture, Hardin Hall Auditorium, on UN-L’s East Campus, 3310 Holdrege. For more information, e-mail esohl [at] nlcv [dot] org, or phone Eva Sohl at 438.9341.

OMAHA PEACE VIGILS . . . Omaha peacemakers vigil every Wednesday, 4:30-5:30pm, at StratCom/UN-O, 6801 Pine Street, east of the Scott Technology Center on the Un-O campus. For more information, phone Jerry Ebner, 402.502-5887. Every Saturday, 1:00-2:00pm, there is an Anti-War and Peace Vigil at 72nd and Dodge Streets. Contact Steve Horn at 426.9068 for more information.

LINCOLN PEACE VIGILS . . . Join weekly peace vigils at the Federal Building, 15th and O streets in Lincoln, every Wednesday from 5:00 to 6:00pm. Contact Mark at 402-499-6672 or e-mail mark [at] weddleton [dot] com for more information.

CENTRAL NEBRASKA PEACE WORKERS VIGIL . . . The regular monthly CNPW Vigil for Peace is Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 5:30PM, at State Street and Webb Road in Grand Island. Join Greens and Peace Workers for a few minutes, or for the hour from 5:00 to 6:00pm.

KLAMATH RIVER FILM NIGHT IN OMAHA . . . This week the Omaha People’s Film Festival will present Upstream Battle.  Activists from the Klamath Justice Coalition will be upstairs at McFoster’s Natural Kind Cafe, 38th and Harney Streets, Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 7:00pm, to lead a discussion following a free showing of the film. Click here for information about the historic struggle to tear out four environmentally damaging hydropower dams along the Klamath in southern Oregon and Northern California. The film night and discussion is hosted by Progressive Omaha, expanding political consciousness since 2004.

NEBRASKANS FOR PEACE FUNDRAISER . . . Friday, May 1, 2009, 5:45pm, join OMAHA Nebraskans for Peace at the Annual Rice and Beans Fundraising Dinner, First United Methodist Church, 7020 Cass Street, five blocks north of Dodge, in Cary Hall (entrance on the east side). The theme is “US Health Care, Today and Tomorrow.” Click here (pdf) for details from the March/April Peace Matters Newsletter.

NEAC AND NEBRASKA FOOD CO-OP CONFERENCE . . . The Nebraska Environmental Action Coalition and the Nebraska Food Coop are co-hosting the 2009 Annual Meeting & Banquet in AURORA, Nebraska on Saturday, May 2, at The Leadership Center, 1609 East Highway 34. For a map, click here. Speakers at the event include John Ikerd, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri Columbia , Bill Bullard of R-CALF USA, and Chris Peterson of Iowa Farmers Union. A bus has been chartered from Omaha and Lincoln. To rsvp dinner and find more information, click here.

ECONOMIST TO ADDRESS CRISIS AND CHANGE . . . UN-L Professor of Economics Hendrik Van den Berg will speak in Omaha on Saturday, May 2, 2009, 2:00pm, at the W. Dale Clark Library, 215 South 15th Street. The free lecture, “We Cannot Go Back to Normal, (but we can do much better than that)” is open to the public and will be in meeting room 2 on the library’s lower level.

LINCOLN HIGH FLEA MARKET . . . The Lincoln High School Booster Club will host the first LHS Flea Market Saturday, May 2, 2009, to raise money for school clubs, teams and groups. Students will provide entertainment and information during the event, 8:00am to 3:00pm, at the school’s north parking lot, 2229 J Street. The Flea Market is in conjunction with the Near South Neighborhood Association’s first Community Garage Sale. A rain date is May 9th.

LINCOLN PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISTS MEET . . . Sunday, May 3, 2009, Nebraskans for Peace-Lincoln will meet from 3:00 to 4:00pm at the Gere Public Library, room 2, 2400 South 56th Street.  Join Lincoln progressives and get involved.  For more information, contact Eva Sohl at 326.1375 or Chuck Holm at 340.8292.

We are no longer the alternative; we are the imperative. –Rosa Clemente