Posts Tagged ‘Oklahoma City’

The Oklahoman’s pity party

An open letter to the OKC Council & mayor:

Dear Oklahoma City Council members and Mayor Mick Cornett:
“Pity the members of the Oklahoma City Council.” Thus began an editorial, stunning in its contempt for democracy, published today in The Oklahoman, which decreed that the location of the Crosstown is a done deal, and it’s a waste of time

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Photos from Oklahoma City July 4 Tea Party

If you can’t see the slideshow, go to this page.

Vigil and peace walk for Okie War Resister Joshua Key

With apologies for the last minute nature of this event, you are invited to join us to support an Oklahoma man who is one of the Iraq war resisters in Canada who is facing deportation. Let’s show support for one of our own.
[And please pass this info on if you have time in the short time frame.]
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Local Twitterers for community service

This sounds like an interesting project:

During the January ice storm, Twitter served as a powerful reporting tool – crowdsourced news. What if we had used it to find people who needed help, then organized to help them? So, I’m proposing that Central Oklahoma Twitter-ers think about how we can make our own “service club.” We can’t save the

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Busy, busy, busy — light blogging alert

I had two meetings today, have two paying (!) jobs on my plate, one of them with a tight deadline, and Mom is feeling better and want to get back to car shopping. So don’t be surprised if I don’t post much for the next few days — if I do, it probably means I’m procrastinating.
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OKC peace community welcomes war resister Daniel Sandate

Join us to celebrate release of war resister Daniel Sandate on his release from Ft. Sill & welcome him to OKC, Thursday, Jan. 22 at 6 pm (after 5 pm press conference)

The Oklahoma Center for Conscience and Joy Mennonite Church would like to invite you to help us celebrate the release of war resister Daniel Sandate from military prison.

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Support fundraiser for Camille Landry

Can you help out a local activist whose home was completely lost to a fire two days before Christmas?
This note from local peace activist Moses and Sadie Mast explains.

Here’s a chance for you to help a local activist for peace and justice.
The evening of December 23, Camille Landry’s house burnt to the ground. There was no time

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OKC Events for Gaza

All sides should stop the violence and meet to work out a diplomatic and political compromise. But aggression, oppression, invasion, killing and wounding of civilians cannot be allowed and must be condemned.
Pray, if you pray. Contact your representatives, and especially President-Elect Obama. I’ll post analysis and action alerts later.

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Announcement: There will be a prayer vigil for peace

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Community discussion on health care reform

All around the country Monday night, Americans will be coming together to discuss the coming changes to our health care system, and how we want to influence the degree and outcome of those changes. Thanks to the work of those who worked on the Obama campaign here, those in and near Oklahoma City will be participating in the national… Read the rest