For details on the following events scroll down:
* August 2 (Wednesday): Lecture on Carcinogens in Food in Babylon at 7pm
* August 6, 13, 20, 27 (Sundays): Vigil for Cease Fire in Lebanon, Gaza, End to Occupations of Iraq, Palestine
* August 6 (Sunday):August 6(Sunday): World Peace Vigil Commemorates Hiroshima in Bellport at 5:30pm
* August 19 (Saturday): A Day of Youth Celebration of Diversity in East Hampton 3 to 8 pm
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Repeating Events:
( see Counter-Recruiting for listing of weekly and monthly demonstrations)
* Sunday Nights: "Bush is a Liar Choir" rehearses in Lindenhurst from 7 to 9pm
* First Thursdays: Waging Peace - Meditation and Visualization in Westhampton Beach at 7pm
* Every Thursday evening - Book Study Group in Water Mill at 6:30
* "Herstory" Writing Workshops on Wednesdays in Farmingville (Spanish and English) 3 to 5 pm and Thursdays in Spanish only in East Hampton at 7 pm
* Second Tuesday of Month: South Fork Chapter of LI Progressive Coalition Meets in Water Mill at 6:30 pm
Details Follow:
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August 2 (Wednesday): Lecture on Carcinogens in Food in Babylon at 7pm
On Wednesday, August 2, 2006 at 7pm, the Babylon Green Party will host Don Hassig, Director of Cancer Action NY, to speak about eliminating the release of chemical carcinogens into the environment. While the ultimate goal of Cancer Action NY is to stop the release of chemicals from happening, they also work to prevent cancer by educating the public in the avoidance of exposure to carcinogenic pollutants which now exist in our air, water and food.
For directions to the Babylon Green Gathering, call 422-4702 or email
ian.wilder@yahoo.com
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August 6(Sunday): World Peace Vigil Commemorates Hiroshima Bombing in Bellport at 5:30pm
Join South Country Peace Groups' 24th Annual World Peace Vigil on Sunday, August 6th, the 61st anniversary of the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima.
A march will begin at 5:30 p.m. from the sidewalk adjacent to Woodland Cemetary on Station Road at Head of Neck Road in Bellport. The march will end at the water where a rally will be held with speakers from the Long Island Chapter of Veterans For Peace and others. Music by Catherine Greene and Sonny Meadows.
You may wish to wear white, the traditional Japanese color of mourning and/or bring a white candle.
A reception will follow at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bellport.
Contact: 631-281-0055 or email dmu7@optonline.net
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August 6, 13, 20, 27 (Sundays): Vigil for End of Occupations of Palestine and Iraq and a Cease Fire in Lebanon - in Bridgehampton at 5pm
East End Women in Black continue their long running vigil this Sunday August 6 at 5pm at the Bridgehampton monument, Route 27 and Ocean Road.
There will be a weekly vigil each Sunday at 5pm in Bridgehampton (Aug 6, 13, 27) and in Sag Harbor (August 20). August is the 4th anniversary of East End Women in Black.
More Info: www.eewib.blogspot.com or 631-831-4966
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August 19 (Saturday): A Day of Youth Celebration of Diversity in East Hampton from 3 to 8 pm
Of the Youth, by the Youth, for the Youth: We are planning a day of vibrant celebration! Through music, poetry, photography, painting, etc. this youth-led event will showcase the powerful capabilities of the youth community on the east end of Long Island.
It is our hope that by bringing together the lively expression of various ages, ethnicities and social groups within the community, we will demonstrate the realities of youth today.
Diversity is the key to success for all species.
Join us Saturday August 19 from3 to 8pm at a location to be announced.
Contact: youthsoul06@yahoo.com or 631-512-2808 or 917-881-3355.
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Repeating Events:
See Suffolk Peace Vigils for a complete list of weekly and monthly vigils.
See Counter Recruiting Schedule for a listing of weekly and monthly demonstrations.
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Sunday nights from 7:00 to 9:00 in Lindenhurst: wants you to join their political action singing group.
Participate in songs regarding environment, anti-war, labor, multiculturalism, civil rights, and other issues. Sing historic songs of struggle and social change. Explore the role of music in political movements. Experience singing musical arrangements, in four part harmony.
Perform these songs for others. Contribute to the progressive movement while becoming culturally enriched. If you've ever wanted to be in a singing group, now is your chance! Experienced and non-experienced singers are welcome. All we ask is that you are able to sing on pitch.
Rehearsals take place, Sunday nights from 7:00 to 9:00 in Lindenhurst.
Anyone interested, please call Lisa Fishbein at: (631) 957-4954
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First Thursday each month: Waging Peace - Meditation and Visualization in Westhampton Beach at 7pm
A community gathering designed by a psychotherapist to combat feellings of helplessness and powerlessness. 32 Mill Road in Westhampton Beach from 7 to 8pm.
Contact Nancy Privett at 325-1402 or nlprivett@yahoo.com
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Thursday evening Book Study Group in Water Mill at 6:30 pm
The group meets at the Lutheran Church at Hayground Road and Montauk Highway on Thursdays at 6:30pmContact Pastor Vita at 631-537-1187 or pastorvita(at)verizon(dot)net
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"Herstory" Writing Workshops in Spanish and English
Mondays in Farmingville:
Herstory Writers Workshop meets every Monday afternoon at the Farmingville branch of the Workplace Project from 3 to 5. Both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking women come together to share and shape their life experiences through memoir writing. The workshop is conducted in both English and Spanish.
Call 631-723-0150 for more information and directions to the center.
Thursdays in East Hampton:
Every Thursday Spanish-speaking women come together to share their writing with one another and receive feedback on how to structure and shape their lifewriting.
The East Hampton workshop is open to East Hampton Town residents and is conducted entirely in SpanishIt meets every Thursday, 7-9 p.m., at the Senior Citizens Center, 128 Springs-Fireplace Road.Call 631-723-0150 for more information.
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Second Tuesday each month:
South Fork Chapter - LI Progressive Coalition Meets in Water Mill at 6:30pm The regular monthly meeting of the South Fork chapter of the Progressive Coalition is at 6:30pm on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at the Lutheran Church on Montauk Highway & Hayground Rd. between Water Mill and Bridgehampton.
Info: 516-541-1006, ext.55 or www dot lipc dot org
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Week of July 27
For an updated East End Report click here
In this week's report: [ click on any of the bold headers below ]
Southampton Town Board Delays Approval of Romeo Sub-Division
Call to Halt the Violence
Kathy Engel: Daily Instruction to My Self When the Bombing is there, responsibility here
Rev. Holly Haile Davis: I Denounce the Violence
Sunday July 30: Emergency Vigil in Bridgehampton
Peace & Justice Calendar
Suffolk Peace Vigils
Counter Recruiting Schedule
Alternative Media for Eastern LI
Support Independent Media: WUSB and WPKN/WPKM need your support.
Go to wpkn(dot)org and wusb(dot)fm and contribute on line.
See wpkn.org/today for program details on WPKM heard at 88.7 Montauk to Water Mill and WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport to Southampton and Southold.
Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez: Monday- Saturday on Riverhead/Southampton/Southold Channel 20.
Monday 10pm
Tuesday 9 pm
Wednesday 6am
Thursday 5pm
Friday 7pm
Saturday 8pm
See the North Fork People of Conscience web site
Also see the Suffolk Progressive Vision web site for links to more local events.
The East End Report is compiled by Tony Ernst.
Send comments, corrections and event listings to eastendreport@yahoo.com
In this week's report: [ click on any of the bold headers below ]
Southampton Town Board Delays Approval of Romeo Sub-Division
Call to Halt the Violence
Kathy Engel: Daily Instruction to My Self When the Bombing is there, responsibility here
Rev. Holly Haile Davis: I Denounce the Violence
Sunday July 30: Emergency Vigil in Bridgehampton
Peace & Justice Calendar
Suffolk Peace Vigils
Counter Recruiting Schedule
Alternative Media for Eastern LI
Support Independent Media: WUSB and WPKN/WPKM need your support.
Go to wpkn(dot)org and wusb(dot)fm and contribute on line.
See wpkn.org/today for program details on WPKM heard at 88.7 Montauk to Water Mill and WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport to Southampton and Southold.
Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez: Monday- Saturday on Riverhead/Southampton/Southold Channel 20.
Monday 10pm
Tuesday 9 pm
Wednesday 6am
Thursday 5pm
Friday 7pm
Saturday 8pm
See the North Fork People of Conscience web site
Also see the Suffolk Progressive Vision web site for links to more local events.
The East End Report is compiled by Tony Ernst.
Send comments, corrections and event listings to eastendreport@yahoo.com
Southampton Town Board Delays Approval For Romeo Subdivision
View of Cleared Land From Montauk HighwayIn Southampton, a movement to preserve 13 undeveloped acres high above
Shinnecock Bay was given a lift Tuesday evening when the Town Board
postponed approval of variances on the property for 30 days. The land is
believed to be a sacred burial ground by Long Island native tribes.
Southampton Supervisor Patrick Heaney said the Board needs more
information about the project.
Town approval would have created a new sub-division. The delay will allow
more time for on-going efforts by the Town and Suffolk County for purchase
of the property for preservation.
Professor Emeritus John Strong of Long Island University is an historian
specialising in the Native peoples on Long Island. He spoke in favor of preserving
the land.
Dr. Strong said the archeological survey done at shallow depths was
"not as thorough as required". He said "Archeologists have a predictive model
for these burial sites, archaic burial sites about 4000 years old, and they tend to be
on the eastern slopes of high hills. Because these burial sites were sometimes 6 to 8
feet deep some kind of magnetic resonance survey should be done on it. "
Lisa Votino-Tarrant of Shinnecock spoke for the Inter-Tribal Historic Preservation
Task Force. She says approval of the sub-division conflicts with the Town's desire to
purchase the land from developer Robert Romeo.
She said "..the land was not preserved since Mr. Romeo was asking for too much money.
Now that they're sub-dividing it the land is worth a lot more. It's 13 continuous acres
overlooking Shinnecock Bay. It just has beautiful scenic and cultural value"
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This report was filed for WPKN Local News heard Monday-Friday on
WPKM Montauk 88.7 and WPKN Bridgeport at 89.5
Call to Halt the Violence
Letter sent to the Southampton Press on Monday, July 24:
To the editor:
Those who love peace and justice are sickened by the latest outbreak of useless destruction and death in Lebanon. In answer to a call from our sisters and brothers of Women in Black in Israel/Palestine we met last Sunday in a vigil sponsored by East End Women in Black at the
Bridgehampton monument. We will hold another vigil, again in response to the call from Israel/Palestine, at the same time and place next Sunday, July 30 at 5pm.
What is the war in Lebanon about?
Hizbullah, the Party of God, was founded in 1982 in response to a previous Israeli invasion of
Lebanon. Although some label Hizbullah as a 'terrorist' organization it is a significant force in Lebanon’s politics and a major provider of social services, operating schools, hospitals and agricultural services for thousands of Lebanese Shiites according to the US Council on Foreign Relations.
But Palestine is really the issue. The continuing Israeli land grab on the West Bank and its
attack on Gazans who can not leave their open air prison is the root cause of the violence.
Uri Avnery, former Israeli Member of Parliament and leader of the Israeli Peace Bloc (Gush Shalom) said last week that if an Israeli-Palestinian agreement had been achieved by now, Hizbullah would be no more than a local Lebanese phenomenon, irrelevant to Israel's situation.
One wonders what new 'terrorist' group in the Arab middle east this totally immoral US-backed and funded war will produce. It is immoral since the deaths on both sides will bring nothing but
more deaths rather than resolution of a conflict.
Let us call on Congress to demand the US change course. Let our country stand for a negotiated peace with justice.
If you agree, let Congressman Tim Bishop know and join us in Bridgehampton this coming Sunday.
Sigrid Meinel
Hampton Bays, NY
Tom Cowan
Riverhead, NY
Anthony Ernst
Southampton, NY
We can call on our Representative Tim Bishop to endorse this resolution.
Call his Southampton office at 631- 259 - 8450 or his Coram office at 631-696-6500.
To the editor:
Those who love peace and justice are sickened by the latest outbreak of useless destruction and death in Lebanon. In answer to a call from our sisters and brothers of Women in Black in Israel/Palestine we met last Sunday in a vigil sponsored by East End Women in Black at the
Bridgehampton monument. We will hold another vigil, again in response to the call from Israel/Palestine, at the same time and place next Sunday, July 30 at 5pm.
What is the war in Lebanon about?
Hizbullah, the Party of God, was founded in 1982 in response to a previous Israeli invasion of
Lebanon. Although some label Hizbullah as a 'terrorist' organization it is a significant force in Lebanon’s politics and a major provider of social services, operating schools, hospitals and agricultural services for thousands of Lebanese Shiites according to the US Council on Foreign Relations.
But Palestine is really the issue. The continuing Israeli land grab on the West Bank and its
attack on Gazans who can not leave their open air prison is the root cause of the violence.
Uri Avnery, former Israeli Member of Parliament and leader of the Israeli Peace Bloc (Gush Shalom) said last week that if an Israeli-Palestinian agreement had been achieved by now, Hizbullah would be no more than a local Lebanese phenomenon, irrelevant to Israel's situation.
One wonders what new 'terrorist' group in the Arab middle east this totally immoral US-backed and funded war will produce. It is immoral since the deaths on both sides will bring nothing but
more deaths rather than resolution of a conflict.
Let us call on Congress to demand the US change course. Let our country stand for a negotiated peace with justice.
If you agree, let Congressman Tim Bishop know and join us in Bridgehampton this coming Sunday.
Sigrid Meinel
Hampton Bays, NY
Tom Cowan
Riverhead, NY
Anthony Ernst
Southampton, NY
UPDATE: from Democracy Now! (www.democracynow.org)House Concurrent Resolution 450 calls upon the President to appeal to all sides in the current crisis in the Middle East for an immediate cessation of violence and to commit United States diplomats to multi-party negotiations with no preconditions.
As the Israeli attacks on Lebanon enter its third week, pressure is growing on the Bush administration to back an immediate ceasefire. On Capitol Hill 24 members of the House of Representatives have backed a resolution calling on the president to appeal to all sides in the current crisis for an immediate cessation of violence. The resolution also calls for the United States to send diplomats to multi-party negotiations. The author of the resolution is Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich.
We can call on our Representative Tim Bishop to endorse this resolution.
Call his Southampton office at 631- 259 - 8450 or his Coram office at 631-696-6500.
Sunday July 30: Emergency Vigil for Cease Fire
In response to a call from Women In Black of Israel/Palestine
East End Women in Black will hold another vigil this coming
Sunday at the Bridgehampton monument.
East End Women in Black will hold another vigil this coming
Sunday at the Bridgehampton monument.
JOIN EAST END WOMEN IN BLACK
AND LOCAL PEACE GROUPS
FOR AN EMERGENCY VIGIL FOR
IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE
SUNDAY JULY 30, 2006 at 5 p.m.
Bridgehampton Monument
Route 27 and Ocean Road
AND LOCAL PEACE GROUPS
FOR AN EMERGENCY VIGIL FOR
IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE
SUNDAY JULY 30, 2006 at 5 p.m.
Bridgehampton Monument
Route 27 and Ocean Road
Info: 631-831-4966
www.eewib.blogspot.com
www.eewib.blogspot.com
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