CALENDAR & NEWS ~ July 2021

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EARTH

PennFuture, Conservation Voters of PA and Sierra Club release joint statement on budget (6/27/2021) "With this FY 22 budget, the Commonwealth had a rare opportunity to invest in our future, but the best our elected officials could muster is a status quo budget that intentionally prevented billions of dollars in federal stimulus funds from being used to improve the lives of Pennsylvanians."

 

STAGE 
Singer-songwriter Joe Scutella performing at PACA, July 2 at 9pm PACA 1505 State Erie PA w/ special guests Erin Futterer and Ros Falzone. 

Blood at the Root Chautauqua Theatre, Chautaqua Institution thru July 18 

Chicks Creek  July 17 from 2-8pm. "A Day of Women Who Rock" Skibinski Picnic Grove 5571 Henderson Rd Erie PA $18/BYOB/21+ Presented by Lisa19 and Elbaum Tanner RocknrollScene

“Union & Protest Songs: Their History and How to Use Them Today”  Virtual, presented by Director of the Pittsburgh Labor Choir, Dr. Edwin Everhart Virtual July15 at 7:30pm 

Lewis Black performs at Chautauqua July 26

Amythyst Kiah performs at Chautauqua Aug 2

Greenwood: An American Dream Destroyed Karamu House On-demand thru July 11

 

LGBTQ+

LGBTQErie is a new group "working to advance equality, diversity, education, and social justice for LGBT people and BIPOC Communities." On July 3 they will be hosting Queer in July with Central Outreach Erie. 3-6pm 3104 State. (814) 619-4009  info@lgbtqerie.com

Not Over the Rainbow Yet (gizmo59, Daily Kos 6/6/2021) Local blogger's take on a Penncrest school board member's hateful remarks about a handful of LGBTQ-positive books in a diversity display at Maplewood Junior/Senior High School. Meadville Tribune gives an update on the 6/16 board meeting, where approximately 175 people turned out. 

JUSTICE

Rally Against White Supremacy and Hate On or off Facebook, host: Jamestown Justice Coalition 11am Background

Racial justice scholar: Erie's inclusion push largely about 'common human decency' (Kevin Flowers Erie Times 6/10/2021) Feature on Camille Busette,  senior fellow  Brookings Institution,  and the director of its Race, Prosperity and Inclusion initiative. who will lead a year-long initiative in Erie which aims to identify and correct policies that perpetuate racial injustice and inequity in the city.

NY Cannabis Law Is National Blueprint For Pot Expungement (Law360 6/18/2021) "Key to its objectives, the law establishes an automatic process to expunge hundreds of thousands of cannabis-related convictions, the vast majority of them of people of color, for both past and current offenses." 

 

INDIGENOUS

Podcaster John Kane (Cattaraugus Seneca Nation) recently featured an episode called The Legacy of Residential Schools  Guest Keith Burich (at 16:00) is a WNY historian and author of  The Thomas Indian School and the Irredeemable Children of New York, about the residential school near Irving NY. Buffalo NBC affiliate WGRZ did a report in 2016 called  The Thomas Indian School: A Forgotten Tragedy.  2009 documentary  Unseen Tears, produced by Native American Community Services lets survivors of Thomas Indian School and Mohawk Institute tell their stories. It also highlights the efforts to heal the wounds and break the cycle of intergenerational trauma stemming from those experiences. 

ELECTIONS
Progressives Push On to November (Ben Speggen, Erie Reader 6/7/2021) Detailed primaries report on the Erie city and county races.

Crawford County final election results (Meadville Tribune 6/8/2021) 

India Walton, Buffalo's Black Socialist Mayor to Be, Is About to Make History (In These Times 6/23/2021) 

With new amendment strategy, Pa. GOP could target voter ID, mail-in ballots (Penn Capital-Star 6/20/2021)

Voter Registration Update: Pa. Dems bounce back from 2020 lull | Analysis (Penn Capital-Star 6/27/2021) 

Dennis Kucinich on His New Book, “The Division of Light and Power”  (Scheerpost 6/2/2021) Interview with former Cleveland  mayor  who fought, and beat, a utility monopoly in an epic battle which involved corporate espionage, sabotage, bank co-conspirators, extortion, political corruption, organized crime, assassination attempts, congressional investigations, and media cover-ups. 

MÉLANGE

Erie's Juneteenth Celebration was successful and next year's event is already booked and being planned. 

To commemorate Juneteenth, Erie Arts & Culture teamed up with Erie's Black Wall Street to present a list of black-owned businesses in our community.

Erie Arts & Culture has also published an updated  directory of small businesses owned by former refugees in Erie.  

Hill District Flea  2600 Peach, Erie. Music, food trucks fashion, etc. Last Sundays. July 25 Aug 29 Sept 26 10am-4pm

Erie Downtown Farmer's Market Every Sunday \10 am - 2 pm in Perry Square, till Oct. 17. Hosts: The Urban Oasis Market and Erie Downtown Partnership. Little Italy Farmers Market every Monday 3-6pm at 331 W. 18th.  Host: Sisters of St Joseph Neighborhood Network. (the sisters also offer free meal--take-out only--on Mondays at 4:30pm at St Paul's RC Church 16th & Walnut; closed 7/5). LEAF Open Market is held every other Saturday 10am-2pm at Frontier Park. 

Zero Waste Picnic  August 21 Asbury Woods Nature Center 4105 Asbury Rd., Erie PA. All ages.

EMTA is offering free rides July 5 - August 29 In an effort to help people returning to work and to try to build service back to pre-pandemic levels, the bus company is offering free rides to all. 

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In non-pandemic times, this is a calendar of events for people who believe "a better world is possible." Published monthly.  Focus is local/regional. Not affiliated with any organization All upcoming event listings are nonviolent. Event submissions send to moonkat2014@gmail.com
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Photo: Little Italy Farmers Market/Deb Spilko