Jan 30 - PETITION SIGNING EVENING SOCIAL - . 7pm at Ambassador Hotel 7794 Peach St., Erie PA. Hosted by Erie County Dems."Help candidates from across the state get their petitions signed as part of Northwest Weekend III. Many local, state and reps for presidential candidates will be in attendance. No fee to attend. Food provided with an open bar." Registered PA Democrats only.
Jan 31 - RECLAIM OUR BRIDGE "Come to the McBride Viaduct (East 12th and East Ave.) ' Gather with us and help send this visual message to the city: "We need our bridge." Bring a cell phone or flashlight; bring friends and family to the north end of the Viaduct."' Call 844-7626 with questions. #easteriehope
Jan 31- 6TH ANNUAL CVC CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT 12pm and 4pm $50 Food Included. Cash Bar. Chinese Auction, Please register by Jan 15. Important fundraiser for Crime Victim Center of Erie County which is a victim of the budget crisis. (814) 455-9414
Feb 1 - WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? "As Dr. King said in his watershed speech, Where Do We Go From Here - Chaos or Community, the Urban Erie Community Development Corp is sponsoring a public forum on the Unified Erie 'call in strategy' with the goal of serving the highest good through open dialogue." Blasco Memorial Library, Hirt Auditorium, Erie PA. 6pm.
Feb 1 - WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? "As Dr. King said in his watershed speech, Where Do We Go From Here - Chaos or Community, the Urban Erie Community Development Corp is sponsoring a public forum on the Unified Erie 'call in strategy' with the goal of serving the highest good through open dialogue." Blasco Memorial Library, Hirt Auditorium, Erie PA. 6pm.
Feb 2 - "THE 99%: OCCUPY EVERYWHERE" 12pm Link TV, also 3am on 1/31 and 2/7
Feb 3 – THE BIG SHORT (2015) Movies @Reg, Reg Lenna Jamestown NY
Feb 4 – CORNEL WEST AT CLARION West will deliver a lecture open to the public, “Inside Politics,”at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 4 in the Marwick-Boyd auditorium, Clarion University. (earlier engagement is for Clarion students). Info: Brian Hoover, assistant director for leadership and involvement, at (814)-393-2356
Feb 4 – CORNEL WEST AT CLARION West will deliver a lecture open to the public, “Inside Politics,”at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 4 in the Marwick-Boyd auditorium, Clarion University. (earlier engagement is for Clarion students). Info: Brian Hoover, assistant director for leadership and involvement, at (814)-393-2356
Feb 5 – VIGIL: JUSTICE FOR IMMIGRANTS. 12:15pm at Federal Building, Erie PA.
Feb 6 - EXPERIENCE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: MULTICULTURAL ASIA DAY. 420 French, Erie PA. "This fun day is filled with Asian Cultural displays of games, clothing, music and art. Special cultural performances begin at 1pm and each country prepares a fun art activity. All activities are included with admission or free to Erie Children's Museum embers."
Feb 6 - Speaker: ZANELE MUHOLI (Cleveland Museum of Art, Recital Hall, 11150 East Blvd, Cleveland OH) 2pm. Zanele is an artist and visual activist who records the lives of black lesbian women in South Africa Free; registration recommended. Reserve tickets at or call ticket desk at (216) 421-7350 or tickets.clevelandart.org
Feb 13 - AGENTS OF CHANGE CONFERENCE 9am - 3pm at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. Our featured keynote AmeriCorps Alum and PA Senate Candidate John Fetterman will be kicking of a day focused around Political Participation. The conference in its entirety will explore political participation through the lens of student power, social justice, tools for community organizing, and volunteerism and activism. Breakfast and Lunch will be provided. $15 registration fee for participants, free for Allegheny students and presenters/panelists. (814) 332-5318 Hosted by Lake Effect Leaders
Feb 6 - Speaker: ZANELE MUHOLI (Cleveland Museum of Art, Recital Hall, 11150 East Blvd, Cleveland OH) 2pm. Zanele is an artist and visual activist who records the lives of black lesbian women in South Africa Free; registration recommended. Reserve tickets at or call ticket desk at (216) 421-7350 or tickets.clevelandart.org
Feb 13 - AGENTS OF CHANGE CONFERENCE 9am - 3pm at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. Our featured keynote AmeriCorps Alum and PA Senate Candidate John Fetterman will be kicking of a day focused around Political Participation. The conference in its entirety will explore political participation through the lens of student power, social justice, tools for community organizing, and volunteerism and activism. Breakfast and Lunch will be provided. $15 registration fee for participants, free for Allegheny students and presenters/panelists. (814) 332-5318 Hosted by Lake Effect Leaders
Feb 13 - "DEEP RIVER: MUSIC OF HARRY BURLEIGH AND ANTONIN DVORAK Erie Chamber Orchestra 7:30pm Cathedral Prep Auditorium.
Feb 15 - ETHNIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE Noon to 1pm at Erie Art Museum. Free Admission, donations encouraged Jazz greats Kahil El’Zabar, Hamiet Bluiett, Craig Harris return in a special Black History Month concert.
Feb 15 - SPEAKER SERIES: BENJAMIN JEALOUS “The Forgotten Origins and Consequences of Race in America” Penn State Behrend begins at 7:30 p.m. in the McGarvey Commons of the college’s Reed Union Building and is free and open to the public. "Under Jealous’ leadership, the NAACP grew to be the largest civil rights organization online and on mobile platforms, and became the largest community-based nonpartisan voter registration operation in the country. During his tenure, he helped get environmentalist organizations to join the fight to protect voting rights and convinced several well-known conservatives to join the NAACP." Info: (814)898-6171
Feb 16 – "BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION" (2015) Episode of Independent Lens. 9pm. Premieres on PBS, check listings for times. "first feature-length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails." Worth it just for the Second Amendment aspect. Watch preview.
Feb 19 - BIGG WASH "INFINITY GEMS " 8pm, Poet's Hall Avalon, 16 W 10th, Erie "Bigg Wash will be performing his works, some from his forthcoming Poets' Hall audio chapbook "Infinity Gems". The night will begin, as usual, with an open mic." (814) 602-8175
Feb 19 - YEAR OF MEADVILLE EVENT: BEN HEWITT 7PM For Chapel, Allegheny College Meadville PA. Author and small-scale, sustainable farmer. In addition to the talk, a regional food system panel and discussion will be held on Saturday, February 20, at CHAPS, Inc. (944 Liberty Street) in Meadville.Ben's website
Feb 19-21 - PA PROGRESSIVE SUMMIT Statewide gathering of progressive activists; workshops, speakers, social events, skills-building, US Senate debate, etc.. Schedule from previous summit.
Feb 22 - CARLOS ANDRES GOMEZ "Award-winning poet, actor, speaker and writer, will present his spoken word poetry." 8pm, Scot Cinema, Frank G Pogue Student Center, Edinboro University, Edinboro PA
Feb 22 - ENRICHMENT SERIES: ISLAM IN THE UNITED STATES
7pm Mount St Benedict, hosted by Erie Benedictines, free and open to the public.
Feb 22 - CARLOS ANDRES GOMEZ "Award-winning poet, actor, speaker and writer, will present his spoken word poetry." 8pm, Scot Cinema, Frank G Pogue Student Center, Edinboro University, Edinboro PA
Feb 22 - ENRICHMENT SERIES: ISLAM IN THE UNITED STATES
7pm Mount St Benedict, hosted by Erie Benedictines, free and open to the public.
Feb 25 - Mar 5 - THE LARAMIE PROJECT and THE LARAMIE PROJECT TEN YEARS LATER (Bartlett Theatre of the Rockefeller Arts Center, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia NY.) Ticket Office 716-673-3501 www.fredonia.edu/tickets. Performance times and details here.
Feb 27 - "A DAY OF REFLECTION WITH EDWINA GATELY" 9 am – 4 pmSisters of Our Lady of Charity at Gannondale Main Building 4635 East Lake Road, Erie, PA Fee: $25 Please bring a bag lunch – pastry, snacks, beverages provided. Space is limited! Reserve your place by February 20, 2016. E-mail: Kathleen Kutz (shalomkutz@gmail.com) or call (814)520-9617
Feb 27 - "A DAY OF REFLECTION WITH EDWINA GATELY" 9 am – 4 pmSisters of Our Lady of Charity at Gannondale Main Building 4635 East Lake Road, Erie, PA Fee: $25 Please bring a bag lunch – pastry, snacks, beverages provided. Space is limited! Reserve your place by February 20, 2016. E-mail: Kathleen Kutz (shalomkutz@gmail.com) or call (814)520-9617
Mar 2 - JUDY SHEPARD "Legacy of Matthew Shepard" 7:00 PM, SUNY Fredonia, Rockefeller Arts Center King Concert Hall Fredonia NY. Part of The Laramie Project events at SUNY Fredonia. The event is open seating and free to the public, but ticketed. Tickets are free at the Campus box office or at the event, and there is a a nominal charge for phone or online ticket orders Fredonia Ticket Office: 716-673-3501 www.fredonia.edu/tickets
Mar 10 - YEAR OF MEADVILLE EVENT: TALK BY STACY MITCHELL Ford Chapel, Allegheny College, Meadville. Stacy Mitchell is co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and directs its Community-Scaled Economy Initiative and author. . Local economies workshop will be held on Saturday, March 12 at CHAPS, Inc. (944 Liberty Street) in Meadville.
Mar 10 - YEAR OF MEADVILLE EVENT: TALK BY STACY MITCHELL Ford Chapel, Allegheny College, Meadville. Stacy Mitchell is co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and directs its Community-Scaled Economy Initiative and author. . Local economies workshop will be held on Saturday, March 12 at CHAPS, Inc. (944 Liberty Street) in Meadville.
Mar 26 – AN EVENING WITH JOAN BAEZ Asbury Hall, Buffalo NY.
Mar 31 – "THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY” (2015) Edinboro Film Series, 405 Scotland Rd., Edinboro PA. The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life at the age of 26. Not Rated. Admission: Free for EU students. $5 General.
Apr 6 - BANFF MOUNTAINFILM FESTIVAL WORLD TOUR At Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown NY.
May 6 - 'WHO WANTS TO BE A US CITIZEN?" Trivia contest hosted by Multicultural Community Resource Center, co-sponsored by Crux, Inc. At Cathedral Prep Events Center, 5-10pm.
May 25 – HELEN PREJEAN AT THE MOUNT 6101 East Lake Road Erie PA. More details soon.
Jul 14-17 NETROOTS NATION 2016: ST LOUIS
Jul 14-17 NETROOTS NATION 2016: ST LOUIS
ALSO...
- ERIE TALK IN THE MORNING - WJETAM talk radio hosts have changed around a little. Liberal host Barry Dane Steinhagen will do Mondays and Fridays 6am to 9am; Jim LeCorchick will do Tues-Wed-Thurs 6am-9am. Doesn't appear to be ideological, Jim just said he needed a different schedule. Officeholder and Erie Reader visits will remain the same.
- "BROTHER OUTSIDER: THE LIFE OF BAYARD RUSTIN" The whole documentary will be available online for free through March 2016. "During his 60-year career as an activist, organizer and "troublemaker," Bayard Rustin formulated many of the strategies that propelled the American civil rights movement. His passionate belief in Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence drew Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders to him in the 1940's and 50's; his practice of those beliefs drew the attention of the FBI and police. In 1963, Rustin brought his unique skills to the crowning glory of his civil rights career: his work organizing the March on Washington, the biggest protest America had ever seen. But his open homosexuality forced him to remain in the background, marking him again and again as a "brother outsider." ... combines rare archival footage — some of it never before broadcast in the U.S. — with provocative interviews to illuminate the life and work of a forgotten prophet of social change."
- LOCAL VIGIL TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO (photos) Mary the Apostle House and Canisius students on alternate break. Actions took place across the country on Jan. 11.
- FILMS NOW AND UPCOMING "The Big Short" (2015) at Tinseltown at this writing; "Race" (2016) Jesse Owens biopic, release date Feb 19; "Where to Invade Next" (2015) Michael Moore's new one... no local screenings at this time.
CAMPAIGNS AND SCORECARDS
Links to 2016 electoral campaign events and volunteer opportunities in which progressives are involved.
30 YEARS AGO...
January 31, 1986 A 5.0 earthquake rattles Perry Nuclear Plant. Northeastern Ohio Quake, January 1986 (from Summer 1986 Ohio Geology)"The January 31st earthquake struck just before 11:47 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Although early media speculation had the epicenter located from Columbus to southern Canada, the U.S. Geological Survey quickly determined that the epicenter was east of Cleveland, and within a few hours the epicenter had been accurately located in southern Lake County just north of the Geauga-Lake County line. This Richter magnitude 4.96 (commonly rounded to 5.0) event was felt in parts of 11 states, the District of Columbia, and southern Ontario. Most of Ohio and western Pennsylvania experienced particularly strong vibrations that were noted by numerous individuals. The Division of Geological Survey received hundreds of telephone calls in the hours after the earthquake as did numerous federal, state, and local agencies...
"Perhaps the greatest concern--and controversy--was directed toward the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in northern Lake County. The plant was not operating at the time of the earthquake but was scheduled to load fuel rods on the next day. Officials at the Perry plant, which is located about 11 miles north of the epicenter, declared a precautionary site area emergency immediately after the earthquake but downgraded this to alert status within a short time. Accelerometers on site at the Perry plant recorded accelerations as high as 0.19 to 0.23 g; the plant is designed to withstand 0.15 g. These higher values, however, were at high frequencies and represented only momentary peak accelerations not capable of causing significant damages. Inspections of the Perry plant after the earthquake disclosed only minor cracks in concrete and small leaks in noncritical water pipes. Both conditions may have existed before the earthquake, according to newspaper reports.'
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, February 1988. Possible role of waste disposal wells discussed.
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