Monday, October 1, 2018

This & That ~ Oct 2018

Online version updated during month
CALENDAR
1920: Erie Lithograph & Printing Co.
Oct 3 - Diane Nash" A Voice for Civil Rights Gannon University,Yehl Ballroom 7pm  Erie PA Part of the Freedom: A History of US series at Gannon. Civil rights activist whose efforts included the first successful civil rights campaign to integrate lunch counters, the Freedom Riders, co-founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); and co-initiating the Alabama Voting Rights Project and working on the Selma Voting Rights Movement.  Bio
Oct 5 - Life Without Plastic Presentation TREC  301 Peninsula Drive Erie PA 6:30pm-8pm  An Evening Presentation & Book-Signing Event event with co-founder/author Jay Sinha seagrant.psu.edu
Oct 6 - NOW Annual Fundraising Auction Goodell Gardens, Rt 6N Edinboro PA 4pm - ?  Diana Ziemniak at 814-835-3392 were Betty Young at 814-734-5467. "Gather with other feminists for great food and drinks in excellent company. We'll provide the food, wine, beer, soffits, and a lot of laughs The Flapjacks, will provide musical entertainment for the first hour . It's $10 per person"
Oct 7 - Beginning Again: Understanding our Newest Americans  10:30am Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Erie, 7180 Perry Hwy, Erie. “MenajErie Studio owners Nick Taylor and Jessica Yochim will present their documentary, Rustbelt New Americans: A Film About the Refugee Experience. Based on a photo exhibition by international photojournalist Maitham Basha-Agha Potluck lunch after the service
Oct 7-13 - Ohio Nonviolence Week Various events, Youngstown OH 
Oct 8 - DiNicola - Kelly Debate  7pm, in the D'Angelo Performing Arts Center on the campus of Mercyhurst University, Erie PA.   The debate will be open to the public and broadcast live on JET 24 (Erie) beginning at 7pm.   It will also air on Youngstown Ohio's MyYTV, channel 33.2, live at 7pm.
Oct 9 - LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE in PA
Oct 9 -Kate Hennessy: ‘Dorothy Day, The World Will Be Saved by Beauty’   7:00pm Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center, Mercyhurst University
Oct 10 - Film: The Gospel According to AndrĂ©  7:30 p.m. in Mercyhurst’s Walker Recital Hall. It is free and open to the public.
Oct 10 - Ways to respond to Trump visit A listing of actions related to Trump's Erie visit at the Erie Insurance Arena. 
Oct 10 - Gender, Sexuality and Spirituality 101 Community United Church 1011 W 38th Erie PA Speaker: Breanna Mekuly has a masters of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School. She is currently working with Call To Action as a 20/30 Leader
Oct 12 The Partnership for Erie's Public Schools 5th Annual "I Believe" Gala 7 PM · Ambassador Center Erie PA
Oct 12 - Viaduct Hearing at Federal Courthouse 17 S Park Row Erie PA 3PM
Oct 12-20 - "A Doll's House" Willow Bay Theater, Jamestown NY. WInged Ox Players "A version of Henrik Ibsen's classic, by Zinnie Harris." Free admission. Note date change
Oct 13 - Wild & Scenic Film Festival Allegheny College Campus Center Meadville PA  "100% free open to Allegheny students and Meadville community members alike!"
Oct 15 -Lecture: Artificial Ethics? The Use Of AI and Autonomous Weapons by the Military  Shannon E. French, Inamori Professor in Ethics and director of the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University.   7 p.m. in Mercyhurst University, Walker Recital Hall, free and open to public.
Oct 16 - Lecture: Robert Glennon 7:30pm Ford Memorial Chapel Allegheny College Meadville PA Robert Glennon, one of the nation’s foremost scholars on water policy and law, will deliver a free address titled “Our Thirst for Energy in a Warming, Water-Stressed World”
Oct 19 - Mary Louise White Lecture: Sharon Flake, “The Power of Literature to Give Voice to Young Adults.” McEwan 209, SUNY Fredonia 4pm, YA author ("The Skin I'm In," "Pinned") Free and open to public.
Oct 20 - Breakfast with Wendell Potter  Hosted by Purvis Cindy 10 AM – 1 PM at 21 la rue dix, 21 W. 10th St. in Erie  $20 per person Reserve by 10/13 cindypurvis60@gmail.com 814-460-3568 Please make check to Health Care 4 All PA Education Fund, mail to 101 W. 34 St., Erie, PA 16508 Bio
Oct 22 - Nuns on the Bus "On the Road to Mar-a-Lago"  2pm Perry Square Erie PA "Driving across the country from California to Mar-a-Lago! We’ll be exposing the lies and telling the truth about the harmful effects of the 2017 tax law at every stop along the way." See our route and RSVP for events : www.nunsonthebus.org/events
Oct 22 - Ramblin' Jack Elliott  Shawbucks, Jamestown NY Hosted by Rolling Hills Radio
Oct 23 - Rebecca Walker:  "Stuck at the Intersection: Can Feminism Survive the Traffic?" (Mercyhurst University, Mary D-Angelo Performing Arts Center, 501 E 38th St, Erie, PA) "  Rebecca Walker explores the possibility of a transformational Feminism that honors ideological difference without abandoning solidarity. ." Free and open to public, but tickets required.  (814) 824-2000.
Oct 24 - BFP Silent Peace Walk at Greyhound Terminal 7:00 - 7:30 PM Intermodal Center 208 E Bayfront Pkwy Erie PA. "The US Border Patrol often boards Greyhound buses, questioning passengers and requesting documentation. As we will silently walk beginning and ending at the Intermodal Center, aware of the fear and uncertainty that New Americans and people of color especially experience as they travel."
Oct 24 - Defend Our Water: Day of Action in Pittsburgh Point State Park, Pittsburgh  Native Water Ceremony 10am, Rally outside Shale Gas Conference at noon, "Denying Access" film screening 5pm   
Oct 30 - Environment Erie's Upcycled Halloween "Create an extraordinary Halloween costume
Oct 28 from ordinary, everyday things."
Nov 2 - Temple Anshe Hesed to Solidarity Shabbat service. 6:15pm Note new location: 5401 Old Zuck Road, Erie PA (814) 454-2426. "All North American Jewish denominations will mark this coming Shabbat as "Solidarity Shabbat" in their congregations. Join us at a synagogue near you, as we come together to mourn the tragic events of last Shabbat, stand in solidarity with the Pittsburgh Jewish community, and begin the process of healing." #SolidarityShabbat  "  Background  Security provided.
Nov 2 - Viaduct Ritual 5:30pm McBride Viaduct, Erie PA 
Nov 7 - "First Reformed" / Film Grain: Dinner and Movie  Hosted by Film Society of NWPA 5:30pm Bourbon Barrel 1213 State, Erie. 
Nov 12-13 - Native People of the Americas Colloquium 2018 University of Dayton, Dayton OH 
Nov 13 - Elise Jordan and Howard Dean  Junker Center Penn State Behrend. Their debate, which is co-sponsored by the Jefferson Educational Society, will be moderated by Steve Scully, an Erie native and C-SPAN senior executive producer." Part of the Global Summit. 
Nov 14 - Lit Youngstown Book Discussion with Crossings author Jon Kerstetter 6-7PM Cultivate Cafe, Youngstown. “Crossings is an intimate and compelling look at how a Native American served his country as a combat medic and overcame the generational odds against success in his personal, professional and spiritual life.” —San Antonio Express-News 
Dec 6 - Randy Rainbow Live  Carnegie Library Music Hall of Homestead, Pittsburgh PA

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Published monthly providing info of interest to members of the Erie area progressive community. Focus is local/regional. Not affiliated with any organization All calendar events are nonviolent. Event submissions should have “T&T” or TNT in subject line, send to moonkat2014@gmail.com

Source: Albert Taylor 


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