This week at the GHC and beyond

Hi beautifuls,

We missed seeing your lovely faces last week, but we were busy in the planning stages for some upcoming events at the Green House Collective (GHC) and beyond. As part of a new email format, we will be including a calendar of events happening in the community and at the GHC. SO, if you know of some upcoming events, please send us an email so we can add it to the calendar and post it to our blog (www.thegreenhousecollective.blogspot.com) But don't worry, Thursday movie nights/workshops/vegan potlucks. . . are here to stay. Anyway, below is a list of events added to the calendar thus far:

Week of September 1st-7th (This week)

Wednesday Sept. 3rd:

School of the Americas Watch Oregon (SOAW OR) montly meeting at the Green House
Collective, 7pm. This meeting is open to the public and everyone is more than welcome to join us. If you are unable to attend the meeting, please feel free to talk to SOAW OR volunteer, Ryan, from the GHC for more information.

Thursday Sept. 4th (MOVIE NIGHT!)

What: "Bringing Down a Dictator" movie screening and vegan potluck starts at 5:30 now, with food being served at 6, movie starting promptly at 7
Where: GHC @ 4407 SE Tibbetts St, conveniently off Clinton bike superhighway, bus lines #4, 9, 75, and 14. Also, we now have a bike rack out back, so why not bike?

We will be showing the movie "Bringing Down a Dictator." Yes, it is true, we have shown this before, but the Peace Conference is next week, and this AMAZING film about an inspirational peace movement. Next Thursday, September 11th, the GHC will be going on a field trip to the Peace Conference at PSU and we strongly encourage all who are able to attend. For more info on the Peace Conference visit http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/. Anyway, below is information about the film:

"Bringing Down A Dictator documents the spectacular defeat of Slobodan Milosevic in October, 2000, not by force of arms, as many had predicted, but by an ingenious nonviolent strategy of honest elections and massive civil disobedience.

Milosevic was strengthened by patriotic fervor when NATO bombed Yugoslavia in early 1999, but a few months later, a student movement named Otpor! (“Resistance” in Serbian) launched a surprising offensive. Audaciously demanding the removal of Milosevic, they recruited where discontent was strongest, in the Serbian heartland.

Their weapons were rock concerts and ridicule, the internet and email, spray-painted slogans and a willingness to be arrested. Otpor students became the shock troops in an army of human rights, pro-democracy, anti-war, women’s groups, and opposition political parties. Their slogan: "He’s Finished!"

Trained in nonviolent action and partially financed by the US and western Europe, they forged a unified political opposition, fought to stop vote fraud, and systematically undermined police and army loyalty. When Milosevic refused to accept defeat at the polls, the opposition called a general strike. As normal life ground to a halt, Serbs by the hundreds of thousands poured into the capital on October 5 to seize the Federal Parliament in a dramatic triumph for democracy."

Friday-Sunday Sept. 5th-7th:

Muddy Boot Organic Festival is happening this weekend off SE Division and 18th. There will be lots of local music, local organic food/wine/beer, and fabulous workshops on sustainability and community development. Admission is $5 but we guarantee a great time. For more info visit http://www.muddyboot.org/index.php

WOW! Lots of info and beautiful things going on this week. We hope to see you all at one of the lovely things happening around town this week and beyond.

Much love,. light, and blessings,

The Green House Collective

"while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." Eugene V Debs