Update: here’s the link to the new facebook group.
Since school is starting up next week, this will probably be the last week I send out event listings on this “Activists in St. Louis for Summer ’08” group. However, I’m going to create a new, more permanent group that continues to send out weekly event listings, so look for an invitation for the other group soon. I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback for the weekly events, and I hope the new group can continue to keep people informed of some of the great stuff going on around town.
Before getting to the exciting events this week, I have a few requests. First, please email KDHX at nico@kdhx.org and ask them to restore Democracy Now to its full hour on the radio. Democracy Now covers a lot of stories that the traditional media is either too corrupt or too ignorant to report on, and it would be a real shame to lose this source of information in St. Louis. Second, it looks the the Student Activist Training will be on September 20, so if you’re part of a student group and are interested in participating, please let me know. And finally, a group of people will be driving up to St. Paul, Minnesota for the big protest outside the RNC on September 1st. Please send me a message if you’re interested in going up there (we’ll be back by late Monday night).
This weeks events:
Monday, August 18: If you thought you were cool because you could drink liberally or enjoy a green drink, you will be thrilled to find out that you can now do both at the same time! This month, Drinking LIberally and Green Drinks are combining forces to double the metaphysical significance and networking potential of consuming alcoholic beverages. The event goes from 6:30 to 9 PM at the Schlafly Bottleworks and you can RSVP here.
Tuesday, August 19: Join the St. Louis Moveon.org council for a Clean Energy Rally at Kiener Plaza at noon. We know energy is going to be an important issue in the upcoming elections, so this is a great chance to speak out in favor of sustainable solutions. You can find the event details at the moveon page.
Also Tuesday, The St. Louis Amnesty International reading group will be meeting at the Hartford Coffee Shop to discuss the book Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo, by Murat Kurnaz, at 7 PM.
Wednesday, August 20: I can’t find anything in particular for Wednesday night, so maybe it’d be a good night to go biking! You can find a couple of biking options at the Trailnet site.
Thursday, August 21: The Community Arts and Media Project is having a book and zine sale to make space for a new etching printer. According to their message, there will be “Books of all colors, varieties, textures, and smells!” You can find the event details and more clues to this enigmatic statement at this link.
Friday, August 22: People with a lot more bread than myself can check out the “Clean Air Affair”, a fundraiser for the American Lung Association featuring local and organically grown foods. It’s $60 for general admission. If you have some solid disposable income, you can find out more here.
Saturday, August 23: One of St. Louis’s great annual events, the Festival of Nations, is this weekend in Tower Grove Park, starting at 10 AM. The event always has great food, music, and shopping. RSVP here
And dont’ forget to keep an eye out for that invitation in a couple days!
Have a fun and meaningful week, & enjoy the rest of the summer,
Adam
so I hope you keep doing it in some form or another.
I’ll be at the Green Drinks event tonight if anyone else is going.
I’ll also be missing the weekly activist calendar updates. This was as awesome service you’ve been doing.
What are you plans for the replacement calendar? Facebook group? Blog with RSS feed?
Actually, the weekly events should be showing up at Showmeprogress.com just like they have been. I basically just have to change the facebook group because the current group has the word “summer” in it. Unfortunately, facebook let’s you change absolutely everything about a group except the title. So my plan is to make a new facebook group, invite people all over again, and then follow the same format I have been over the summer.
Sorry for the confusion; I mostly just paste the messages sent out on facebook directly to the diary, so the idea that this is the “last message” mostly relates to the facebook group.