I'm now updating the Santa Cruz Bioneers information on its own website:
http://www.baymoon.com/~scbioneers
Please click to go there, and change any appropriate links or bookmarks - Thank you!

Bioneers is about finding CONNECTIONS between
PRACTICAL VISIONARIES working for SUSTAINABILITY,
DIVERSITY and JUSTICE on behalf of the
ENVIRONMENT and PEOPLE.

Here in the Santa Cruz area, we are bringing together our knowledge, our talents, our hearts and our vision to grow a better world. Whatever piece of the vision is yours, join us.

To be on our e-mail list, please visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scbioneers, and click the "Join this Group!" button on the right of the screen.

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Santa Cruz Bioneers

3rd Gathering

Sunday, January 18th, 2:00 PM

Santa Cruz Public Library
Central Branch, 2nd Floor (handicapped accessible)
Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA

For more information, call Judy at (831) 251-5939 or email Michelle at apegrrl@rattlebrain.com

Pulling Together, Grounding the Vision

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS All are welcome to join the discussion!

Announcements

For the January 18th meeting, you may wish to review the notes from December 7th, and come up with a list of a dozen or more organizations to add to the networking brainstorm.

In the meantime, please join the discussion on the Santa Cruz Bioneers WIKI.

There is a Monday evening small group meeting planned for January 12th. Email Michelle at apegrrl@rattlebrain.com or call Judy at (831) 251-5939 for more information, or to discuss starting another small weekly or bi-weekly conversation group.

Worried about the 2004 Presidential election? Concerned that paperless electronic voting machines might not record votes correctly? There is good reason for concern!!

Many computer scientists warn that existing test and certification procedures for electronic voting machines (EVM) are completely inadequate and that EVMs suffer from design weaknesses and security holes that make them vulnerable to software bugs, hardware malfunctions, deliberate tampering, and widespread fraud, thus posing serious risks to our democracy.

But with grassroots action, this situation can and is being turned around!

To learn more about the costs, benefits, and risks posed by EVMs, as well as what you can do to support pending crucial legislation in Congress to require all EVMs used in federal elections to produce a voter-verified paper ballot, please attend the strictly non-partisan kick-off meeting of the Verified Voting Election Reform Group on Saturday, January 10, 2004, from 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. at the Santa Cruz Central Library, 2nd floor meeting room, 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz. For more info., please visit: http://www.verifiedvoting.org and http://voting.idlecircuits.com If you have questions, send email to voting@idlecircuits or call 831-768-9608.

ONEDANCE: THE PEOPLE'S SUMMIT Activists, educators, filmmakers, librarians and the general public will gather at the First Congregational Church and other locations in Santa Cruz, California on January 12-14, 2004, Noon to Midnight, to educate and network regarding the pressing economic, environmental, social and political issues of our times.

Greetings Bioneers,

We had almost 40 people sign up to receive e-mails, and nearly 100 fliers were picked up. We're also trying to spread the word locally to people who missed the meeting last weekend but would like to join us. In addition, we're hoping to tie-in with the crowd who saw Michael Moore on Sunday, so if you have friends who were there and want to share their ideas and opinions from that experience, please invite them to join us! I understand that the two sold-out crowds at his talks had a similarly juicy experience, and it seems we could come together in common cause and see what we can co-create.

We're hoping for an energized turn-out on Sunday, November 2nd (2:00 p.m., on the 2nd floor of the central branch of the Santa Cruz Public Library on Church Street). Please bring any notes you have about what you saw, and any questions you'd like to ask other attendees about things you might have missed. Also, bring along any literature you picked up that you'd like to pass on to others. This is our chance to get to know other locals who share our interests, others who have been inspired by Bioneers and want to use that energy to build a local community.

We're hoping that we can get some regular meetings and discussions going, so think about if and when that can fit into your schedule, and what you'd like to discuss, develop or do.

See you then-
Michelle

P.S. The website "Common Dreams" has posted an article about Bioneers from the SF Chronicle at http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1020-04.htm if you'd like to see how the press responded to such an extraordinary gathering.

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Hi again Santa Cruz Bioneers-

I don't want to overwhelm your inboxes, but one of you (Mish) suggested these two events for this week that should interest a lot of people on the list. The first (starting this evening) is the EARTH VISION INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in Santa Cruz - see http://earthvisionfest.org/ for more info.

The second is "a conference scheduled to be held on the UCSC campus on touch screen voting machines, with some excellent people as headliners, including David Dill from Stanford… Clearly, there are umpteen environmental social justice issues to be worked on but it is my sense that none of them stand a chance unless we dump this administration in the next election. And, if the 2000 and 2002 elections are any indication, this administration will employ every method, legal and otherwise, to ensure their winning in 2004. Electronic balloting systems without a "voter verifiable physical audit trail" is tailor made for the possibility of "tampering". "

Michael Moore was on Democracy Now! this morning on KUSP, and I believe KUSP plans to air one of his Santa Cruz talks in a few weeks. If you missed it, you can get audio, video or transcript free from Democracy Now! over the web at http://www.democracynow.org

I realize that I did not BCC the list when I sent it out. I'm hoping everyone is okay with this, and that everyone will be respectful of the others on the list and keep correspondence to a reasonable minimum. This is one of the issues we should discuss on Nov 2nd. If anyone out there is or knows a sympathetic techie with a little spare time to help set up listservs, please let me know (I've never done it before, and I don't know what I need for it).

If you plan to go to either of these events, feel free to print out some announcements to pass around about our upcoming gathering for kindred spirits there. I'll put a printable version on my website -- http://www.rattlebrain.com/~apegrrl. I'll put more information on these two items and on our Nov 2nd meeting (and any subsequent info) on my website as well. Don't worry if you can't make Nov 2nd, I'm sure there's more to come.

-Michelle

please feel free to spread these memes, but be nice and give credit where credit is due - refer people back here to the apegrrl This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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