Now WEEKLY antiwar prayer vigil

noon to 1pm every Sunday
corner of East Avenue and Goodman St.
rain or shine or snow or.....

"As the killing in Iraq increases, so does the opposition to this immoral war and occupation. And, so, too, will our vigils." - PA&E
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Peace Action & Education (PA&E) is a Task Force of Metro Justice
Call 585-442-3383 for further information.

loret's note - This is a difficult, yet recurring event to photograph. Many things we photograph are a real challenge, so this is also an opportunity to work with a situation and discover what the pictures are that can be seen and made there.
I'll award a prize to the best image made of this peace group before December 15th, when you can submit your photographs. The prize? A copy of Anthony Suau's book, "Fear This." of course!

Anthony Suau reviews student work

Prayer Service for Hotel Workers - outside hotel

Prayer Service for Crowne Plaza Workers
November 2nd, 2006, 4:30 PM - 5PM
In Front of the Crowne Plaza: 70 State St., Rochester, NY 14614

Come join Crowne Plaza Workers and UNITE HERE for a prayer service sponsored by The Isaiah Project, Rochester Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (C.L.U.E.), as we pray and unite in solidarity with these hotel workers. The service will be held directly in front of the Crowne Plaza on State Street. Parking is available in the Municipal Parking Garage and street meters. For more information please call Vanessa Mangan @ 469-4217.

Director of Immigration Project to speak

Tuesday, October 31, noon-1pm
Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County, Gleason Auditorium

WHAT: A talk on immigration with a review of the book Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazzario as the starting point. This is a gripping, visceral work of non-fiction about a teenage Honduran boy who journeys alone north to the U.S. to try to reunite with his mother. It is almost an epic adventure. If he overcomes the risks, what awaits him as an illegal immigrant in the U.S.? Is his story unique? Our reviewer shares his perspective on the book gained from twenty-five years practicing immigration law.

Free, Open to the public. You are welcome to bring your lunch or purchase one at the library.

WHO: Reviewer is Walter Ruehle, Director of the Immigration Project of the Legal Aid Society

Program is sponsored by The Friends of the Rochester Public Library. For more information, please call 428-8350 before 10:00 am Tuesday.

Seating limited to first 180 attendees.

Thruway, October 19

Interactive Tour - Rochester Non-Profit Organizations

Nov. 4th - (Sat.) 9am - 12:30pm
Browncroft Community Church
2530 Browncroft Blvd. (Atlantic Ave. turns into Browncroft & there is exit off 590 - it is about 1 mi. east of expressway)

Beginning w/breakfast at the church, then a tour of some facilities listed below. This is an excellent opportunity to find out what many organizations are doing in Rochester, to learn about social and community issues in the city and to make contacts for the future -- to photograph and/or to volunteer!

Project URGE, Inc. - Make a Difference Presentation & Tour:
Register by e-mailing: ProUrge@aol.com or phoning 223-8340 w/ name & phone # (please try to register by Monday the 10/30th)

Included in the tour are Foodlink, Nevaeh, Salvation Army, Rochester Family Mission, Recovery House of Rochester, Outreach Temple, Friends Helping Friends, Adopt-a-class School #17, Miracle Deliverance Faith Center, Grace Community Village, Mercy Residential,
Sanctuary House, Francis Center, Community Lutheran Ministry, Teen Challenge, Touching & Agreeing Faith Ministries & FHF Bike Repair

Others presenting, not in tour: Mom's in Touch, Crosswinds Downtown, Children Awaiting Parents & Comfort In Crisis

Contact:
Andrew Stankevich

Celebration of Life Breakfasts

2nd Tuesday of each month
(next one will be Nov. 14th) 9am
Community Transformation Center
507 Jay St.

Bishop David Singleton puts on a "Celebration of Life" breakfast the second Tuesday of every month at 9am. The Celebration of Life breakfast is a great free breakfast where faith & community leaders, business people, nonprofit representatives and others get together to eat breakfast and network.

The breakfasts are free (and tasty) and take place at the Community Transformation Center
just East of the Jay/Child intersection. Free will donations accepted.

Contact: Bishop David Singleton
262-6420
262-2216
arkofjesusmin@aol.com

Peace Vigil

Friday, Oct. 27th 7:30-8:30
Park Ave. and Culver Rd.

A peace group will be gathering in the parking lot at Immanuel Baptist Church, 815 Park Ave., to distribute signs and to organize the event. The vigil itself takes place at the intersection. An announcement has been posted to several email lists.

All are welcomed.

Legitimate Spoofing: Michael's suggestions for this weekend, October 21-22

If you're not at the NPPA Flying Short Course this weekend, here are two events in the Rochester area you might check out. Both come with a thumbs-up from Loret:

Eighth Annual Men's Cook-Off

Saturday, October 21, 2006, 3:00 to 5:30 pm, Memorial AME Zion Church, 549 Clarissa Street (near Plymouth Avenue, Ford Street Bridge), 585-546-5997.
















Call ahead....there's a $20 admission charge normally.


Autumn Fanfare

Saturday, October 21, 2006, 5:30 pm: Webster Schroeder High School, 875 Ridge Road, Webster, 585-234-8684.


21st Annual New York State Field Band Competition, with bands from about a dozen high schools.














Doors open at 4:00 pm, admission $6.00.

Genesee Valley Hunt Steeplechase Races

Saturday, Oct. 14 10am - 4pm Nation's Farm (off Route 390 in Geneseo, Livingston County)
www.GeneseeValleyHunt.org
585-243-3949


Steeplechase horse races at the 78th running for the Genesee Valley Hunt Cup. Events also include:
shepherding demonstrations
dog agility courses
Jack Russell terrier races
Weiner Dog Race for dachshunds (their terminology, not mine)
shops and boutiques
horse-drawn hayrides
pony rides
children's activities

All proceeds benefit the Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong Medical Center. There is an admission fee of $10 on the day of the event ($8 in advance)
Think lovely fall day... horses and straw and squeak of leather saddles. And, um... weiner dogs?? (okay, a high of 49 degrees and a good chance of rain turning to wet snow. But, hey! You never know!!)

City at Peace -- a Youth Project

October 20, 2006
Hillside Children's Center
1337 East Main Street-South Bldg.
8:30 am - 4:00 pm

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
City at Peace: An Innovative Approach to Positive Youth Development and Community Change with Diverse Groups of Youth

AGENDA
8:30-9:00 a.m. Registration and continental breakfast
9:00-9:15 a.m. Introduction
9:15-10:00 a.m. Workshop presentation
10:00-10:15 a.m. Break
10:15-12:00 p.m. Workshop presentation
12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00-2:30 p.m. Interactive Workshop
2:30-2:45 p.m. Break
2:45-4:00 p.m. Group Discussions/Summary

Paul Griffin, Founder and President of City at Peace, will present a full day workshop in two parts examining the successful youth development program of City at Peace, a non-profit using the performing arts to empower diverse groups of teenagers to create safe, healthy, peaceful lives and communities. Examining its innovative approach to youth identity, youth development and diverse group process, the workshop will challenge assumptions about teenagers and focus on working with them to achieve their potential and create change in communities.

The morning session will focus on the history of the City at Peace program, its rationale and founding assumptions for working with diverse groups of youth, the steps for achieving cross-cultural competency in youth, a model for resolving inevitable conflicts, and the programmatic tools that create its impact.

The afternoon session will be an interactive workshop where participants will "attend" a City at Peace rehearsal. This session will take the participants through the first set of City at Peace activities, including First Agreements, Stereotypes, Power and Relationships, and Racism as
well as creative theatrical activity. Group discussions and creative work will also be undertaken as an example of the creative process.

WORKSHOP GOALS

1. Participants will gain an understanding of the City at Peace approach to youth development and group process in a diverse environment.
2. Participants will have the opportunity to think deeply about working with young people and experience some of the activities that have proven successful in positively developing teenagers and building stable, meaningful cross-cultural relationships between teens and with adults.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Youth Service Providers, Social Workers, Administrators, Community Leaders, Social Workers, Case Managers, Mental Health Professionals, Youth Advocates, Youth Service Workers & Managed Care Professionals

For complete information about this workshop, please contact:
Kathy Rivera
Monroe County Youth Bureau
111 Westfall Road, Suite 814
Rochester, NY 14620
Phone: 585-753-6457
Fax: 585-753-6465
E-mail: Krivera@monroecounty.gov

Workshop Registration Fee is $25.00, Non YSQC members $35.00
(If you'd like to photograph this event and to do research for future stories or projects, I would be happy to vouch for you in the interest of your having access without a fee - loret)

Reality Tour

Sunday, October 22nd
Departs from: Jewish Federation Parking Lot at 441 East Avenue
Time: Board the bus at 12:00. Tour ends by 3:00 p.m.

The Reality Tour will take you on a bus tour of poor neighborhoods in Rochester, as well as locations that represent some of our community’s real priorities. Learn about the daily problems faced by the poor, and the true impact of welfare reform and County budget cuts on the poor as well as the entire community!! Join us to discuss ideas of what we really need to do to end poverty in this community.

Student and low-income rate: $10 All others: Sliding scale donation of $10-$20.

AN IMPORTANT NOTE - IF YOU SINCERELY WISH TO PARTICIPATE IN AND PHOTOGRAPH THIS EVENT, I (loret) WILL PAY FOR YOUR SEAT. House of Mercy is most worthy of support as is your learning more about social issues in the city. My only request is that you pay for your seat when you reserve it (do this as soon as you can) and I will reimburse you when you show me a single photograph from the tour. If you're having financial difficulty at this time, let me know and I can make arrangements but you must agree to attend if a reservation is made on your behalf!

Checks should be made out to House of Mercy. Mail check to: Pauline Allen, 9 Beach Street, Brockport, NY 14420. Include your contact info in case you are on the waiting list. SEATING IS LIMITED!!!

Call 395-5509 for more information or e-mail swaa@swaarochester.org

DAY OF TOUR PHONE NUMBERS (if you’re lost, late, not coming, etc.) 732-7428 - 738-9900 or 314-8426

Wear sneakers or comfortable shoes. Prepare for rain or shine. Eating lunch before tour is suggested.

Sponsored by: Social Welfare Action Alliance, EMPOWER Welfare Rights, House of Mercy, Rochester Poor Peoples Coalition, Poor People United, Federation of Social Workers, Genesee Valley Division of the National Association of Social Workers, Rochester Chapter of the National Organization for Women, and SUNY Brockport Social Work Department

Presentation and Caravan Tour of Rochester Service Organizations

November 4th - 9:00AM to 12:30PM
Browncroft Community Church
2530 Browncroft Blvd., Rochester, NY 14625

Project URGE invites the community to learn more about Rochester’s committed service organizations by hitching a ride directly to the action. Starting at Browncroft Community Church on Saturday, November 4th from 9:00AM to 12:30PM, participants will get a chance
to hear presentations and meet with those who serve the under-resourced, abused, disabled and at-risk.

Pre-registration is required. Foodlink, Friends Helping Friends, Rochester Teen Challenge, the Salvation Army, Rochester Family Mission, Community Lutheran Ministry and Catholic Family Center will be among the broad spectrum of organizations represented.

Participants will then be able to choose which organizations they would like to see up close.
Vans will be on hand to caravan individuals directly to the 3-4 service locations of their choosing for a guided tour.

"The trip will provide an in-depth view of the good work being done daily, as well as expose some of the profound needs in the Rochester community. Come discover specific ways and places to mend the brokenness in our city. Project URGE, Inc. is a local faith-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization that connects and unites churches, organizations and individuals to break down the barriers of poverty, race and despair."

For more information contact Garry Manuel: 223-8340 or
e-mail, ProUrge@aol.com.

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Project URGE, Inc.
31 W. Church St.
Fairport, NY 14450
p. 585.223.8340
e. prourge@aol.com
www.projecturge.org

Voter Mobilization effort in Rochester

Push Back Saturdays in October (14th, 21st, 28th) 9:30am- 2pm
Call Metro Justice at 325-2560 to sign up

These three saturdays could be seen as events to cover but also could be seen as a small (or, if followed through election, as a larger) story of a grass-roots group attempting to get out the vote.

If you'd like to know more about Metro Justice, go to: http://metrojustice.org/

If you'd like to interview Jon Greenbaum or ask him for info/access, let him know you're my student....

from Jon Greenbaum:
"Most Americans don't vote- yet most Americans actually do support our progressive values.

"Unfortunately, that means that we get stuck with politicians that don't represent us. Politicians who vote for privatizing Social Security, keeping our troops in Iraq and handing over the Medicare prescription drug program to big pharma and the insurance industry. Politicians who vote to undermine Americans' right to be represented by a union. Politicians who vote for ending the estate tax and habeas corpus.

"Push Back is identifying those voters who don't usually vote but are committed to our progressive values of valuing the worth and dignity of all our community members, an economy that works for ALL of us and government that is run on behalf of everybody, not just the privileged few. We are talking to those voters who reject Bush's war in Iraq and the corruption on K Street.

"And then we will call, call and then call again to turn these folks out to vote.

"Because in tight races, small numbers of voters make a difference.

"Please join us on one or more of the following Saturdays. We gather at the Metro Justice office at 9:30 for an orientation, coffee and role plays and then head out with maps and lists.

"We're done by 2pm"

friday morning 8:30

Tuesday meeting

Save the Chickens (seriously)

Sunday, 8 October 11:30 am
Wegmans Canandaigua, 345 Eastern Blvd.,
Canandaigua, NY

While this is information about a single event, this group has done a great deal of work to put pressure on a large and respected grocery chain to change its relationship with what most of us would call chicken factories (not uncommon in our country)

Tell Danny Wegman to Cut Out Cruel Cages!

"Join Compassionate Consumers Sunday as we bring the cruelty behind Wegmans-brand eggs to the home town of the company’s CEO. This will be our first demonstration at the Wegmans store in Canandaigua, where Danny Wegman lives. If you want to join us and need a ride from Rochester please call: 585-410-0773

In May public opinion in Rochester turned against Wegmans Food Markets as the company viciously attacked Adam Durand, an investigator who uncovered the inhumane conditions within Wegmans’ company-owned egg farm--the largest in New York State. Adam’s trial led to coverage from The New York Times, the Associated Press, ABC “Primetime”, and news outlets across New York State. As Adam’s appeal nears we should make it our goal to let the public again know that Wegmans deserves a new Number 1 ranking among grocery chains--this one for animal cruelty! "

Please visit www.WegmansCruelty.com to find out more or email CompassionateConsumers@yahoo.com

Celebration FOR the turkeys

Mark your calendars...
Sunday, Nov. 19th Farm Sanctuary, Watkins Glen NY, will hold its 2006 Celebration FOR the Turkeys on Sunday, November 19th, 2006. Always fun and festive, our annual Celebrations FOR the Turkeys include shelter time with friendly farm animals, special guest speakers, a Vegan holiday feast, our famous Feeding of the Turkeys Ceremony, and more. Reservations are required.

New York Shelter . Watkins Glen, NY
The New York Celebration costs $5 per family and features a potluck-style Vegan feast. Guests should plan to bring a Vegan dish to feed eight people.
AVOID RUFFLED FEATHERS: REGISTER TODAY!
By phone: 607-583-2225 ext. 221
Online: http://www.AdoptATurkey.org
Reservations are required by November 10, 2006.

We regret that we may be unable to accommodate reservations received after the deadline. Ticket(s) and directions will be mailed to all confirmed registrants.

Farm Sanctuary is the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization. Since incorporating in 1986, we have worked to expose and stop cruel practices of the “food animal” industry through research and investigations, legal and legislative actions, public awareness projects, youth education, and direct rescue and refuge efforts. Our shelters in Watkins Glen, NY and Orland, CA provide lifelong care for hundreds of rescued animals, who have become ambassadors for farm animals everywhere by educating visitors about the realities of factory farming. For more information about Farm Sanctuary or our programs, please visit http://www.farmsanctuary.org or call 607-583-2225. To become a Farm Sanctuary member or to make a donation today using our secure online form, http://www.farmsanctuary.org/join/donate2.htm. For updates on previous action alerts, http://www.farmsanctuary.org/actionalerts/update.htm.

Please forward and distribute widely! Thank you
Farm Sanctuary, P.O. Box 150 Watkins Glen, NY 14891

"In every glass of milk is a little hunk of veal". ~Bruce Friedrich~

Rochester Stand Up and Be Counted

October 5th, this Thursday, at noon
WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK - ROCHESTER, NY

Warships headed to Iran in time for our elections! Iranians will die to put Bush supporters in Congress! Some Experts say attack will set off World War III

STAND UP AND BE COUNTED FOR LIFE
NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST
STOP THE WAR IN IRAN
DRIVE THE BUSH REGIME OUT OF OFFICE
JOIN OVER 130 OTHER CITIES PROTESTING

Washington Square Park is opposite Geva Theater on Clinton Ave (Parking in ramp garages and lots. Rain gathering in one of churches on square 0r organize your own event)

The World Can't Wait is an umbrella group. The Rochester event is endorsed by: Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace, Rochester Against War, Peace, Action & Education Task Force of Metro Justice, The Raging Grannies and The Keemer-Riordon Chapter of Veterans for Peace.

For more information call Donna at 585 582 1304
Or see: http://www.worldcantwait.org/