This & That ~ Dec 4, 2014

Posted online at http://eriebluegreen.blogspot.com This & That is published now and then for the Erie area progressive community. Always good to double-check dates and times.  Event submissions should have “T&T” in subject line, send to moonkat2014@gmail.com. If you don’t want to receive this please reply with “Unsubscribe” in subject line.

CALENDAR

Dec 5 - Vigil: Justice for Immigrants 5:15pm 2nd & State. Organized by Benedictine Sisters.
Dec 9-16 – Dramashop Staged Reading Series: “Clybourne Park” Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the 2012 Tony Award, features two intriguing acts set in the same house, but fifty years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as neighbors are trying to stop an African-American family from moving to their quiet, suburban street.  Act Two is present-day, and the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification. Showcase preview
Dec 10 - Human Rights Day
Dec 12 - 50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary 9:30PM WQLN and most PBS stations, 120 minutes.
Dec 17 - Nature: "Elsa's Legacy: The Born Free Story"  WQLN 8pmThe story behind the book and movie about an orphaned lion cub named Elsa who was raised by conservationists Joy and George Adamson and then released into the wild, featuring entries from George's diary, home movies and interviews.
Dec 13 -#Blacklivesmatter Rally at Perry Square Come out to support the national movement that has been bringing attention to the unjustifiable use of deadly force by policemen. 3pm Perry Square, Erie PA.
Dec. 25 - "Selma" release date. (wide release Jan. 9, 2015).
Dec 26 - First Day of Kwanzaa 
Jan 3 - 5th Annual Steve Arrington Memorial Booker T Washington Center gym, 18th & Holland, Erie PA
Jan 7 – “NOT ONE WELL” RALLY Albany NY. Website:  http://nyagainstfracking.org/ “January 7 is Governor Cuomo’s State of the State address, and we need every single New Yorker against fracking in Albany to tell Cuomo we will not accept even ONE WELL. It is imperative that we pack the Capitol to call on him to reject fracking and fracking infrastructure, and lead New York in a transition to safe renewable energy. NOTE RALLY IS INDOORS”
Jan 9, 2015 – Lewis Black: “The Rant is Due: Part Deux” Warner Theatre, Erie PA.
Jan 11 - Close Guantanamo Send information about events in the region before Dec 29.
Jan 16 - ECO: "Celebrating Dr Martin Luther King Jr" Matthew Kraemer Conductor Peter Boyer Ellis Island Cathedral Prep Auditorium 250 West 10th Street, Erie, PA
Jan 19 - Martin Luther King Jr holiday.
Jan 19 -Martin Luther King Jr. Day Keynote Address by The Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak Allegheny College, Meadville PA. 11am.
Jan 20 -  Vigil Against Hate Mary Seat of Wisdom Chapel Details TBA
Jan 31 - Alex Bevan Coffeehouse Concert  7:30pm Ashtabula Arts Center, 2928 W. 13th St. Ashtabula OH. $15 Call (440) 964-3396 to order tickets. Website
Feb 5 & 7 Garth Brooks in Pittsburgh with Trisha Yearwood, 3 shows
Mar 6 & 7 - Garth Brooks in Buffalo with Trisha Yearwood, four shows, First Niagara Center.

LOCAL NEWS

• Local Ferguson reaction  Group in Perry Square protests Ferguson Decision (Erie Times News) and WICU/WSEE
• Peace Activist Faces Up to Two Years in Prison for Protest at Drone Base Near Syracuse, NY
• "Postal workers protest planned Erie sorting facility closure." Erie Times-News.
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946) at the brand-new  Erie Movie House  and Tinseltown Dec 21 & 24
• "Falling Apart: America's Failing Infrastructure"60 Minutes segment that focuses on Pennsylvania
• Feds find shocking, systematic brutality and incompetence in Cleveland's police dept.

ALSO…

• TED Radio Hour The Nov. 10 edition provided some interesting segments on our health care system, our justice system, and money in elections. Listen to podcasts.
• CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914. When peace broke out among the troops. IWM podcast & transcript, Also, Operation Plum Pudding's Christmas Truce site out of UK is devoted to background and research on the event.