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UPCOMING EVENTS: Thursday, February 5, 2009: Granny Meeting, 10:00 a.m. to Noon, at the 1199 Hospital Workers Union building at 1319 Locust Street. This IS a Granny Event. Lois Durso is facilitator so if you have items for the agenda, send them to Lois Durso LDurso@mtholyoke.edu Saturday, February 7, 2009: Community-Based Water Projects in Developing Countries, at Historic Fairmount Waterworks Interpretive Center (640 Water Works Drive), 5:30 to 7:30 p[.m. Contact: jaelson@comcast.net or call for info at (215) 438-5323. This is a WILPF Philadelphia event, NOT a Granny Event. On the other hand, many Grannies are active WILPF members. Contact: Ruth Balter at nalydiv@vzavenue.net or call her at (215) 545-4486. Contact: Dory Loder at doryloder@msn.com or call her at (215) 438-5323. Monday, February 9, 2009: Eduardo Otero, Esq. will speak on Flawed Immigration at 1919 Chestnut Street, at 8 p.m. This is NOT a Granny event, but the program is organized by Granny Evelyn Alloy. You can call her at (215) 567-7151. Monday, March 9, 2009: Sister Mary Scullian will discuss Steve Lopez's book, The Soloist, a "One-City--One Book" selection. Location: 1919 Chestnut Street, Time: 8 p.m., Contact: Evelyn Alloy at (215) 567-7151. This is NOT a Granny event. SAVE THE DATES FOLLOWING: March 19th (marking the 6th year of the Iraq War), April 4th (the anniversary of MKL's speech at Riverside Church in NYC and his death a year later), and May 9th (the day before Mother's day). Various peace events being planned. Monday, February 9, 2009: Edardo Otero speaks about Flawed Immigration Policies at 1919 Chestnut St. in the evening. April: Stay tuned. There will be a peace event at Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College, and Haverford College. Contact: Zonnie Price at zonnie2@yahoo.com and please note that this is a NEW email address. April 26, 2009: Legs Against Arms yearly event will take place at La Salle. Save the date. Contact: Jean Haskell at jeanhaskell@comcast.net or call her at (215) 977-9382 (W), (215) 870-3886 (H). SAVE THE DATE: May 9, United for Peace and Justice, Delaware Valley Network planning an event in Philadelphia area. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Meeting
with Congress people and Pending Legislation: Paula Paul
collected a packet of information about pending legislation.*
Here is a summary. 1) House Resolution 3797, 2) Senate Bill 2426,
3) Senate Bill 2130, 4) A bill about the Military Budget that went to
the Military Budget Committee, and 5) House Resolution 4959 Iraq
Strategic Agreement on Congressional Oversight. Look below for a
full copy of Paula's material. All of this is
in preparation for appointments we plan with various Congress people
when they are on break in March. We want to go as representing
many groups. Why just in the room we can name these groups:
Granny Peace Brigade, United for Peace and Justice, Code Pink, WILPF,
ACLU, ADA, Sierra Club, and Kol Tzedek. We also want to get
constituents to go to the meetings. Contact: Paula Paul at
pauladance@aol.com or call her at (215) 438-9319 (H), (267) 253-7849
(cell).
Meeting with Mayor Michael Nutter: We want to talk with him about the relationship between the city budget and the cost of the war. We want him to go public as being opposed to the war. Contact: Marlena Santoyo at marlsan@cavtel.net or (215) 247-4385 and Ruth Balter at nalydiv@vzavenue.net or (215) 545-4486. Grannies to help in New Orleans? Do we want to go? Contact: Jean Haskell at jeanhaskell@comcast.net or call her at (215) 977-9382 (W), (215) 870-3886 (H). |