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OMAHA COMMUNITY CONVERSATION . . . “Women’s Health and Racial Justice: A Prescription for Success” is the topic of a Community Conversation Monday, April 6, 2009, 7:00 to 9:00pm at the Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition<\/a>,\u00a0 2240 Landon Court. The conversation is part of a Series on Racial Justice.<\/p>\n

PRIMARY ELECTION DAY . . . Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 8:00am to 8:00pm, please vote in local Primary Elections at your polling place. Click here<\/a>\u00a0to find a sample ballot for the Lincoln primary (pdf). Click here<\/a> for a Douglas County sample ballot (pdf). Candidate and polling place information for Douglas County is here<\/a>;\u00a0 for Lancaster County, click here<\/a>.\u00a0 In Lincoln, you can also vote Monday, April 4th, at the Lancaster County Election Commissioner’s office, 601 North 46th Street.<\/p>\n

PEACE FEST AT DANA COLLEGE . . . Tuesday April 7, 2009, 10:00am, through Thursday, April 9, Dana College in BLAIR will host Peace Fest 2009. Workshops begin with Tim Rinne, State coordinator of Nebraskans For Peace<\/a> speaking on StratCom:\u00a0 The Most Dangerous Place on the Face of the Earth, and concluding April 9 at 10:00am with Sr. Maryann Klostermann speaking on Alternatives to Violence. Many other speakers will present! For a Schedule of workshops, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

WACHISKA AUDUBON ANNUAL POTLUCK . . . The Wachiska Audubon<\/a>\u00a0 annual awards program and potluck will be Wednesday, April 8, 2009, beginning at 6:15pm. The event will be held at Van Dorn Villa 3001 South 51 Street, Lincoln. This year’s Earthkeeper Award will be presented to Lincoln environmental activist Foster Collins. Following dinner and awards, Alan C. Kamil, director of the School of Biological Sciences and George Holmes Professor of Biological Sciences and Psychology at Un-L, will speak on the cognitive abilities of birds.<\/p>\n

OMAHA PEOPLE’S FILM FESTIVAL . . . There is a People’s Film Festival every Wednesday evening, 7:00pm, at McFoster’s Natural Kind Cafe<\/a>, 38th and Harney in Omaha. This week’s film is Don’t Call Me A Saint<\/a>.\u00a0 The event is always free and open to the public. Food and drink is available. A lively discussion follows each showing. For more information, click here<\/a>. The People’s Film Festival – Expanding Political Consciousness Since 2004.<\/p>\n

PROGRESSIVE OMAHA MEETING . . . Saturday, April 11, 2009, 6:00 to 9:00pm, Progressive Omaha<\/a>\u00a0 will meet at 4924 Chicago, (the corner of 50th and Chicago) in Omaha’s Dundee neighborhood. A potluck will be from 6:00-7:00pm. The guest speaker at 8:000pm will be Tristan Bonn, former Public Safety Auditor, addressing the current status of a Public Safety Auditor ordinance, and other City issues. Progressive Omaha is an organization that provides information, education and support to progressive people and groups through website outreach, speakers bureau, a weekly film festival, calendar of events, and monthly meetings.\u00a0 All are welcome.<\/p>\n

We are no longer the alternative; we are the imperative. –Rosa Clemente<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OMAHA COMMUNITY CONVERSATION . . . “Women’s Health and Racial Justice: A Prescription for Success” is the topic of a Community Conversation Monday, April 6, 2009, 7:00 to 9:00pm at the Nebraska Urban Indian Health Coalition,\u00a0 2240 Landon Court. The conversation is part of a Series on Racial Justice. PRIMARY ELECTION DAY . . . … Continue reading Green Notes Week of April 5, 2009<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}