Community Calendar 11-02-2009

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Happy happy Monday! This is Margaret with YOUR COMMUNITY CALENDAR for the second of November, 2009.


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This evening at 7, the Voz Workers’ Rights Education Center invites you to its party for Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) event! There will be Aztec Dance, an altar, and food such as Pan de Muerto and tasty chocolate. The event starts at 7pm and will be held at the Worker Center located at 240 NE Martin Luther King Blvd in Portland. If you would like to remember the passing of someone, you are encouraged to bring a picture or item by which you remember the person that has passed and place it at the altar during the event.
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(503) 233-6787
romeo@portlandvoz.org
www.portlandvoz.org

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Also this evening at 7, the Community Exchange Network of Portland invites you to a lecure by Thomas Greco, community and monetary economist and author of The End of Money and the Future of Civilization. At this evening's event, he will discuss creative solutions towards improving the local economy of Portland, Oregon and how to restore our “credit commons.” Doors open at 6pm and the lecture will start at 7:00 in the Eliot Chapel at First Unitarian Church, located at 1011 SW 12th Ave in downtown Portland.
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http://www.cendpdx.net
joinus@cenpdx.net
First Unitarian Church: (503) 228-6389


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Tomorrow evening, the Multnomah County Public Library will host the last installment of this year's *Zinesters Talking* series. Portland zinesters new and old as well as zine readers and local culture enthusiasts are encouraged to come reminisce, discuss and celebrate our culture! You can discuss the recent history and development of chapbooks, poetry and zines in Portland with Kevin Sampsell (co-author of Haiku Inferno; publisher, Future Tense Books; and small press champion, Powell's City of Books) and Leanne Grabel, poet (Lonesome and Very Quarrelsome Heroes, Short Poems by a Short Person), performer and teacher. The evening starts at 6:30 at the Central Library, at 801 SW 10th Avenue in Portland.
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503-988-5394
http://www.multcolib.org/books/zines/events.html

 

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Tomorrow, Tuesday November 3, is the deadline for submissions to the Protesters for Peace 2009 Photo, Video and Audio Contest for 2009's A World Beyond Capitalism Conference. Dozens of winners will be selected in over 35 categories. Photo, Video and Audio works submitted may be of any medium and of any theme. Over 35 categories are available and many winners will be selected.
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http://www.aworldbeyondcapitalism.org/pfp

 

 

 

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Portland Books to Prisoners mailing nights happen on Mondays & Tuesdays 5-8pm at 1112 NE Morton, between Dekum and Ainsworth.
If folks want to get involved, but can't make mailing nights, there are lots of other volunteer tasks that need to be done, and book donations are always welcome.
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1112 N Morton is just east of MLK Jr. Blvd, and west of NE 15th. To get there, take bus lines #75 or #8 to Dekum, and go south on Bellevue, Durham or 13th to Morton, which is a short street that connects all three.
PO Box 11222
Portland, OR 97211
pdxbookstoprisoners@riseup.net
pdxbookstoprisoners.org
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Food Not Bombs puts Portland's wasted food to good use by serving hot vegan meals to the community. Tomorrow, Tuesday, they will be serving at 5:30 PM at Colonel Summers Park, located at SE 17th and Taylor in Portland.
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http://www.foodnotbombs.net/oregon.html
pdxfnb [at] lists [dot] riseup [dot] net

 

 

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