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APR / MAY 2015 Volume XXXIII, No.2 20 Pages Published by the Peace & Justice Network pjnsjc.org Priceless & Free 27TH ANNUAL Earth Day Happenings Earth Day Festival is truly a celebration of fun and educational opportunities for the entire family. From live STOCKTON EARTH DAY music and dance to fun ways to go green. Plan now to enjoy the festival. FESTIVAL 2015 EARTH DAY ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE Time Main Stage Sunday April 26th 11:00 am- 11:55 am Hardly Deadly (jam and rock) 10am to 4pm 12:00 pm - 12:25 pm Los Dazante Del Puerto (Folklorico dance troupe) Stockton's Earth Day Festival has a long history of helping people recognize the importance of caring for 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet our earth and natural resources. Through educational 1:35 pm - 1:50 pm Teacher Scholarships programs and other activities, the all-volunteer Earth /Announcements Day Festival committee has helped share this vision 1:50 pm - 2:40 pm Simple Creation (Pop/Raggae) with thousands of people each year. The festival has grown over the years but it remains true to its mission of 2:45 pm- 3:10 pm Kara Mogow African Drum education, conservation and recycling. We are grateful and Dance Group for the volunteers, sponsors, schools and community 3:10 pm - 4:00 pm Washboard Monkeys organizations that help make this a remarkable annual (bluegrass) event. Festival filled with fun and free activities! 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Organic Drum Circle "BEE AWARE..." is the theme of this year's annual Earth Day Festival on Sunday, April 2t6th, from 10 am FOOD DONATION FOR STOCKTON EMERGENCY FOOD BANK to 4 pm at Victory Park, behind Haggin Museum in Please bring canned or boxed food to donate to Stockton Stockton. This is the premiere environmental event in Emergency Food Bank. all of San Joaquin County, and as always, the focus of the day long festival is to educate you about taking care GENTLY-USED CLOTHING DRIVE of our natural resources – the earth, air and water. With On the day of the event, please be sure to donate any global warming, conservation and other environmental gently-used clothing to the the Gospel Center Rescue Mission issues taking a spotlight in the world these days, we vendor booth. expect a crowd hungry and eager to learn how to take care of their environment. It is a fun day for families, YOGA AT THE PARK and best of all, admission is free. Calling all yoga instructors, students of all levels, whether PAID Postage Postage The Festival will have dozens of informative, you’re a beginner or have practiced yoga for many years. Join Stockton, CA Stockton, Permit No. 488 Permit No. interactive booths, displays and exhibits, plus there will instructor Jodee Nosanow Eatmon for a yoga session to begin Nonprofit Org. U.S. U.S. Org. Nonprofit be plenty of great food and exotic crafts. Local area the Earth Day Festival. Bring a yoga mat or towel, water, schools will be teaching you how to take better care and wear comfortable clothing Let’s join together with the of our earth with a variety of hands-on activities, and intention of healing our bodies as the first step to healing the environmental organizations will educate you about planet. Yoga instructors, please call JoDee at 688 - 6040. the important issues that impact you and how you can make a difference. Community agencies will help you FAMILY FUN BIKE RIDE live a healthier, more positive life, and green businesses A fun activity each year is the Family Fun Bike Ride. The will assist you in making changes to your home and bike ride registration is free and begins at 10:30am. The 1.5 workplace. Over 100 vendors will border the oak trees mile family ride starts at 11am from Victory Park and travels and cross the grass field at Victory Park, making this throughout the neighborhood and along the waterways. A Earth Day Festival the biggest ever. Close to 10,000 snack and drink will be provided for registrants. Prizes for people attend this event annually. decorated bikes will be awarded. Stockton's Volunteers In Join the hundreds of cyclists who will bike around Police (VIP) will be leading the ride/parade. Plan now to the neighborhood as part of the Family Fun Bike Ride gather your family and friends and join this fun activity. Call and Parade. Costumed children, adults and bikes are Annette DePauli at (209) 329-5443 for more information. encouraged, so wear your wildest environmental look. Or participate as a drummer in the Drum Circle that PASSPORT EARTH traditionally closes the Festival on a percussive high Young people are clearly concerned about the health of note. Make it your annual renewal of your commitment our planet, often becoming leaders in recycling, restoration to make a global difference. See you there. and conservation efforts both as classroom projects and in their own homes. The Earth Day Festival is engaging young Contact us: people in learning more about ways to help the environment. 2015 Earth Day Festival, PO Box Collect signatures at booths throughout the Earth Day 4123, Stockton, CA 95204 Festival, look for answers to questions about protecting our planet and enter a raffle for a backpack stuffed with goodies [email protected]. at the Passport Earth booth. On the web: http://www.livegreensanjoaquin.co SAVE THE DATES CONTENTS TRICKLE UP P8 APRIL 26 EARTH DAY FESTIVAL DELTA HABITAT DANGER P3 TRAIN BOMBS HERE? P10 APRIL 26 EARTH DAY CELEBRATION, ANGELS CAMP P18 YOUR TAX MONEY P4 A BETTER TRADE DEAL P16 MAY 3 84th ANNUAL STRAWBERRY BREAKFAST P19 STOP WAR – AGAIN P7 DISCLOSE THE MONEY P20 Peace & Justice Network & Justice Peace County of San Joaquin 4123 Box P.O. CA 95204 Stockton, 209/467—4455 2 CONNECTIONS, APR / MAY 2015 Persistence needed CONNECTIONS Editors Editor: Bruce Giudici, 786- Iran will come to completion dramatic and vocal. started it believed Stockton 3109; [email protected] Letter in the coming months. In all In whatever area you needed an environmental Layout: Luis Gonzalez, of these processes, citizens choose to take part, be educational event. So, we [email protected] have a potential voice to aware of your individual gathered a small group of Proofreader: Debbie Cousyn BRUCE GIUDICI logjam of profit-driven inertia effect positive change. For importance in the process of strangers with a single interest Ad Rep: Vacant and apathy. 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The we can contact public You'll need to decide to All that was needed was a Distributors: Suzy Arnett, with factual information and many police shootings in officials to make our voice do something different, good idea, a few good people Harold Bell, Antoinette Celle, visionary leadership, good Ferguson, Cleveland and heard. On larger issues - something interesting and and persistence. Keep up the Caly Chhin, Clarence Edwards, things can happen. And beyond (including Stockton) like the impending trade worthwhile. When I think good work whatever you do - Daniel Fong, Catherine in times of crisis (drought, have started a questioning agreement and national tax of the first Stockton Earth and Happy Earth Day. Hourcade, Christie Kelley, police violence,war), positive process that will continue. Tenaya Ledeux, Catherine policy, a larger movement of Day Festival we celebrated Mathis, John Minnehan, actions can break through the And nuclear arms talks with peoples may need to be more in Oak Park in 1989, we who Heather Ryan, Deane and Marcia Savage, Richard Slezak, Julie Vaughn, Patrick The people's budget to un-rig failed economic Wall, Jim Walsh Deadline: 7th of each month (except Aug & Dec) system Circulation: 8,000 CONNECTIONS is a monthly publication of the Peace & Justice Network of San Joaquin County. The views expressed in CONNECTIONS are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the Network. News, articles, letters and calendar items should be sent to the Peace & Justice Network, P.O. Box 4123, Stockton, CA 95204. The editor reserves the right of final decision on copy. Call (209) 467—4455 for more information. PJN is on the internet: http://www.pjnsjc.org "The People's Budget reverses the past few years • the income of investors at the same rates as the Peace & Justice income of workers. It terminates deferral, which Network of extraordinarily sharp cuts to federal spending, allows multinationals to avoid taxes on money they report as earned abroad." Board of Directors which have held us back from a full recovery," Overall, the provisions included in the CPC Chair: Richard Blackston budget contrast sharply with the austerity policies Vice-Chair: DEIRDRE FULTON Christie Kelley increasing the minimum wage embraced by the right-wing. "The People's Budget reverses the past few years of extraordinarily sharp Treasurer: Deane Savage Secretary: Cathy Mathis Offering a sustainable alternative to • reversing harmful cuts to safety net programs cuts to federal spending, which have held us back Members—at—large: regressive federal budget proposals put forth this (and then bolstering those same supports) from a full recovery," said Thomas Hungerford, Margie Brown, Daniel Fong, week by the Republican majorities on Capitol an economist who analyzed the proposal for the • implementing new tax brackets for those Tenaya Ledeux, Paula Leveck, Hill, the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Economic Policy Institute.