The Gainesville Iguana November/December 2015 Vol. 29, Issue 11/12

From the publisher: Unfortunately, there is no magic wand There is no magic wand to make our electoral system work others who, with their direct influence on elected officials, help better. Technology and big money have led the way to hugely write the laws that benefit THEIR own interests. long campaigns, and sound bite battles of little or no substance. These high-rolling interests are Through clever and subtle refinement made possible by a NOT apathetic; they actively populace rendered apathetic toward acting and organizing in its employ armies of lobbyists, the best own interests, a tightly controlled two-party system has been minds they can buy in the public established, with the able assistance of powerful corporate relations (propaganda) industry, interests, which include the petroleum industry, the weapons spend huge amount of money, and industry, the media conglomerates, the banking industry and work to hold on to and gain an increasingly secure grasp on the reins of power in this nation. For the first time in a very long Joe Courter time, there is a candidate running as a major party candidate directly challenging this corrupt and unfair system. Oh yes, there were Jesse Jackson, and Dennis Kucinich in prior election cycles, but Bernie Sanders is out there this time, and with the small field of Democrats, getting a lot of time to put forth another vision, a vision which embraces a way of doing things that most of the rest of the developed world already does; valuing universal healthcare and low-cost higher education, reining in the ultra rich and corporate stock traders to pay their fair share. But this is not just about Bernie; this is about awakening an alienated populace to begin to recognize their latent power and Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders . Photo by Marc Nozell begin organizing for the long haul. Bernie’s job is to tell the through Creative Commons. https://flic.kr/p/wQLgsx. See SANDERS, p. 3

INSIDE ... GRACE Marketplace’s Café 131 officially opens From the Publisher...... 1 by Lexi Braun, Volunteer Coordinator end the 130-person meal limit at St. Fran- Editors’ Picks...... 3 Emotions were running high on Nov. 14 cis House, “Café 131” served its first meal Event Calendar...... 12–13 as the community gathered at GRACE made entirely on-site. Pat’s protest signs CMC Events ...... 18 Marketplace to help us cut the ribbon on now adorn the walls of our dining hall that Radio Programming ...... 19 a brand new kitchen facility many years in will serve about 400 meals each day. Directory...... 22-23 the making. Dedicated in honor of long- GRACE has been serving meals since time Gainesville activist Pat Fitzpatrick, best known for his fervor in the fight to See GRACE, p. 7 SANDERS, from p. 1 Restoration of Civil Rights Project in Florida Subscribe! truth. Ours is to build the movement. by Ben Silva, Gator Law ACLU Gov. Scott and the Executive Clemency for volunteers by the AFL-CIO. If you are Board meet only four times a year to Again, there is no magic wand. Some more perfect candidate is not on the horizon, and The Gainesville Iguana In 1988, Jessica Chiappone served time interested in volunteering please email consider the hundreds of thousands of we do not have the luxury of waiting for them. The system has been rigged to prevent is Gainesville's progressive in a New York state prison on non-violent [email protected]. applications, and the enormous backlog any third party from having a voice as it stands now, and for the foreseeable future. The drug charges. While she was incarcerated, events calendar & newsletter. means it can take years for ex-offenders The Restoration of Civil Rights Project is powerful interests have seen to that with increasing control over the debate process. Jessica’s civil rights were taken away, but to have their civil rights restored. Since a program operated by Professor Meshon upon her release they were automatically The door is open now, though, with the momentum being generated by the Sanders taking office, Gov. Scott has granted Rights Rawls as part of the University of Florida Individuals: $15 restored. Jessica was able to vote, hold campaign, to build a movement that lasts beyond the electoral cycle. In the past we Restoration to less than 1,000 ex-offenders. Virgil Hawkins Civil Clinics. The RCR (or more if you can) public office and serve on a jury in her had the union movement to sustain the pressure; that power has been whittled away. Project conducts a series of monthly Low/No income: What you can native New York. However, when she People like Jessica, who have served their But there is still power to be had. We are many, they are few. The key is a change in Groups: $20 moved to Florida, those rights were taken time and paid their debt to society, deserve workshops around Gainesville in which consciousness, a commitment to organize and fight back. law students help ex-offenders apply to Gainesville Iguana away again. As a result, Jessica was not a second chance. Studies show that ex- It is also a need for commitment to use the electoral system strategically. Locally, P.O. Box 14712 have their civil rights restored. The next allowed to take the Florida Bar Exam offenders who have their civil rights restored support better local candidates; that is where your vote has the most power. Work to Gainesville, FL 32604 upon graduating from Florida Coastal are nearly 99 percent less likely to commit workshop will be Thursday, Dec. 3, from get out the vote. Exert pressure to make voting easier. And in this coming presidential School of Law. This created a devastating another crime. People who are engaged in 5:30-7:00pm. at the Tower Road Branch Comments, suggestions, contributions primary, if you have chosen to register as an Independent, Green, or whatever, change (written or financial) are welcome. To financial hardship for her and her family. their community and can participate in the Library at 3020 SW 75th St. D that registration to Democrat so you can vote for Bernie. You can change back voting process are less likely to be arrested list your event or group, contact us at: Jessica is just one of the over 1.5 million afterward if you want, but be heard this time around. This same logic holds for the (352) 378-5655 again. It is easier for ex-offenders to get jobs Floridians who have lost their civil rights. August primaries for County Commission and other races; don’t silence your voice if their rights have been restored, which [email protected] Florida currently bans all convicted felons East Gainesville over your distaste for the Democrats. People died and were beaten for the right to vote. make our communities safer, more stable www.gainesvilleiguana.org from voting, holding public office and Maximize your voice by thinking strategically. places for everyone. Science Clubs facebook .com/gainesvilleiguana serving on juries for life. This ban applies by Nkwanda Jah There is a lot of distrust of Hillary Clinton out there. Recent polling has shown Bernie even if an ex-offender was not convicted in The time has come for this systematic doing better than her against a Republican. That is a very hopeful statistic, as weak The Iguana has been published monthly Florida. This draconian ban disenfranchises disenfranchisement to stop. In 2011, Cultural Arts Coalition (CAC) (perhaps pathetic is a better word) as the Repubs are this cycle. Getting a win in the or bimonthly by volunteers for more decided we were going to do some- 10 percent of the entire voting-age population Fortunately, there is a solution to this nomination process is key. Sanders has a solid track record of telling it like it is. A than 25 years . Circulation for this issue thing about the low FCAT scores in East is 4,500. in Florida, and disproportionately affects problem. Floridians for a Fair Democracy, large turnout can change Congress, and if he gets the nomination, there is more likely African Americans (23 percent of adult Gainesville—“No Participation, No Right a big turnout, which will help all down the ballot. Feel the Bern! Hillary sure has; a coalition of non-partisan advocacy and Publisher: African-Americans in Florida have had to Observation” his candidacy has made her change her positions on a number of issues. All this is an social justice organizations including Joe Courter their civil rights taken away). the ACLU of Florida, the Florida Rights We created 2 programs: Williams El- opportunity for public education and consciousness-raising among the people. Florida is one of only three states, including Restoration Coalition and Faith in ementary and Caring and Sharing School And if he loses the nomination? That’ll be a shame. And if he endorses Hillary? So Editors Emeritus: Iowa and Kentucky, which permanently Florida, are seeking to get a proposed After School Sciences Program. what; that won’t be a surprise. Whether Bernie wins or loses, we keep organizing. D Jenny Brown disenfranchises ex-offenders. This was constitutional amendment on the 2016 At the end of the school year, an article ap- Mark Piotrowski not always the case, and it does not have ballot. This amendment would guarantee peared in the Guardian Newspaper about a to be so in the future. Under current automatic restoration of civil rights student at Caring and Sharing scoring the Editorial Board: Florida law, the Governor has the power for all non-violent offenders once they highest possible score, a 5, on the FCAT Editors’ picks: the news that didn’t fit Pierce Butler Joe Courter to change the rules regarding whose rights have completed their sentences and all Science section. That student gave a lot of ‘The attacks will be spectacular’ conditions of release including probation Beth Grobman are taken away and how those rights can credit to our Science Program. by Chris Whipple, Politico Magazine and restitution. It would not apply to Jessica Newman be restored. Under Charlie Christ and This past school year (our third year) Car- An exclusive look at how the Bush administration ignored this warning from those convicted of felony sexual assault. previous Democratic governors, non- ing and Sharing had a majority of their 5th the CIA months before 9/11, along with others that were far more details than Production work & assistance: violent offenders had their rights restored A complete text of the amendment and grade students scoring 4s and 5s on their previously revealed. Joye Barnes automatically once they had completed a downloadable petition can be found at Science FCAT section. The principal gave http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/11/cia-directors-documentary-911- Jenny Brown their sentence and conditions of release www.floridansforafairdemocracy.com. a lot of credit to our Science Program that bush-213353?cmpid=sf#ixzz3rNcbd7hZ Jon Decarmine including probation and restitution. Over now serves their 4th and 5th graders. Nancy Lassiter 150,000 people got their rights to vote, In order to get on the 2016 ballot, The Age of Dispair: Reaping the Whirlwind of Western Support for Paul Ortiz hold public office and serve on a jury organizers must collect at least 685,000 We have grown from 2 sites to 9 sites Sheila Payne restored automatically. signatures. The ACLU of Florida, Faith where we are having science clubs. We Extremist Violence Jeremiah Tattersall in Florida and other groups have been have weekly Science Programs at Cone by Chris Floyd, CounterPunch However, after being elected in 2011, working hard collecting these signatures Park Library, Wilhelmina Johnson Cen- http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/13/the-age-of-despair-reaping-the- Distribution: Governor Rick Scott reinstituted a all year, but they still need your help. ter, Williams Elementary and Caring whirlwind-of-western-support-for-extremist-violence/ Joe Courter lifetime ban that previous Republican On Saturday, Nov. 21, students from and Sharing (2 Programs). We also have Marcus Dodd governors had endorsed. Ex-offenders programs at 2 Kids Count sites, Williams Sheldon Wolin and Inverted Totalitarianism Bill Gilbert can apply to have their rights restored, but Gator Law ACLU, the student chapter of the ACLU of Florida, and the Restoration Temple Church, and Mt. Carmel Church. by Chris Hedges Jack Price the process is complicated and onerous. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/sheldon_wolin_and_inverted_ Anita Sundaram Low-level offenders may apply for Rights of Civil Rights Project will be conducting None of this would have been possible without our volunteers. We also have totalitarianism_20151101 Restoration five years after completion of a petition drive during the tailgate Authors & photographers have sole sentence and all conditions of release, party for the UF v. FAU football game. two incredible Ambassadors, Dr. Jackson credit, responsibility for, and rights to The Universal Declaration of Human Rights while people convicted of more serious The petition drive, located around Ben Sasser and Dr. Owen Roberts. their work. from the United Nations crimes must wait seven years. The burden Hill Griffin Stadium and Plaza of the Our successes with the program are Cover drawing of iguana by Daryl is on the ex-offender to prove he or she Americas, will last from 9 am to noon. not just the wonderful scientists, but http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html Harrison . has turned their life around and deserves Volunteers can earn community service the knowledge they bring is totally Printed on recycled paper . to have these basic rights restored. hours, and free lunches will be provided See SCIENCE, p. 24

page 2, Iguana, November/December 2015 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org November/December 2015, Iguana page 3 It’s time: Call for clemency for Leonard Peltier #ConcernedStudent1950 Jack Healy, Human Rights Action Center (representing 566 tribes), The Assembly of First Nations Chiefs of by Yvonne S . Marquez Legion of Black Collegians’ 2015 Homecoming Royalty Court Canada, the Oglala Sioux Tribe of Pine Ridge (South Dakota) and was harassed during their rehearsal by a drunk man yelling racial Not many blog posts start off with a listing of the deceased, but This article originally appeared at autostraddle.com. more then 500 other tribes in the U.S. and Canada, award-winning slurs at them, which led to a sit-in to protest the administration’s in Leonard Peltier’s clemency request to President Obama, he After months of student protests over racist incidents and a slew inaction regarding the incident. There was a slew of other events will say the following: Native American film director Chris Eyre and many Native actors of other issues that deeply impact women and minority students, in October, including a swastika drawn in human feces found and musicians are part of his support groups. Human Rights Action “After 40 years in prison, it is with sadness that I write the names everything came to a head this week at the University of in a residence hall, which led the group The Concerned Student Center, the UN Commission on Human Rights and Amnesty Missouri as student and faculty demonstrators were successful 1950 — a nod to the year when black students were first admitted of some of my dearest friends and strongest supporters who have International have all called for clemency. in forcing the president of the university, Tim Wolfe, to resign passed on: My friend, Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii who was to the university — to issue a list of demands including a call Names like Marlon Brando, Harry Belafonte and Steve Allen and the school’s chancellor, R. Bowen Loftin, to step down to for Wolfe’s removal, the hiring of more professors of color and my great champion is one. My dear friend, writer Peter Matthiessen take a smaller role. along with Bill and Rose Styron, and Kurt Vonnegut were some seem from a long-ago era. Only Mr. Belafonte survives to this diversity training. day. As a longtime singer, actor, artist and human rights activist, of the writers who cared about me and stayed in contact with me. There isn’t just one incident that fueled students’ and staff’s Belafonte received a special lifetime Humanitarian Oscar at this On November 2nd, graduate student Jonathan Butler, who was Marlon Brando and Steve Allen were my friends. Looking back dissatisfaction with Wolfe’s administration but a culmination already protesting the cuts to graduate student healthcare, wrote year’s Academy Awards. He has supported the efforts to secure so many members of my family and so many friends and many of of events throughout the semester. The university’s newspaper, a letter saying he was on a hunger strike until Wolfe was removed the freedom of Leonard Peltier from the beginning and calls it The Maneater, outlines the events in this handy timeline. my lawyers have gone on. I miss them all.” from office. one of the most important issues of his time. It began in August when the university cut health insurance Today on YouTube we are releasing a second request for citizens “Since Mr. Wolfe joined the UM system as president in For more info on Leonard Peltier visit: http://www. for graduate teaching and research assistants. The graduate to join the long list of Nobel laureates, civil and human rights 2012, there have been a slew of racist, sexist, homophobic, whoisleonardpeltier.info/home/clemency/ students created a list of demands, demonstrated by walking etc., incidents that have dynamically disrupted the learning leaders, religious and political leaders and scholars calling out and protesting over the changes and began to unionize. In experience for marginalized/underrepresented students at the for clemency for Leonard Peltier. Bonnie Raitt and Robbie Contact President Obama and urge him to grant clemency to early September, student body president Payton Head, who is University of Missouri…(S)tudents are not able to achieve their Robertson are featured in the new edition of our PSA. youtube.com/watch?v=UrJ3HJZ0Ieg> President Barack H. Obama that were yelled at him near campus and the microaggressions they face… In each of these scenarios, Mr. Wolfe had ample and racism he’s dealt with while attending MU. Later in the Is it not time for you to join this effort? Clemency is a request any The White House opportunity to create policies and reform that could shift the citizen can make of our government, and all our voices need to be 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW month, the university cut ties with Planned Parenthood, culture of Mizzou in a positive direction but in each scenario heard. We just want Leonard to go to his home on the northern plains Washington, DC 20500 which stripped services from the campus. Also in that month, he failed to do so.” students organized the first “racism lives here” rally where they and be able to spend what remains of his life with his family and be Phone Numbers: Butler garnered support from students who demonstrated and spoke out against Loftin, who took six days to respond to the able to rest and be at ease with his people of the Turtle Mountain Comments – 202-456-1111 camped out on campus, and from faculty who spoke up and discrimination described in Head’s post. A followup “racism Band of Chippewa, his relatives in Indian country, and with us. Switchboard – 202-456-1414 lives here” rally called for “administration to take a serious encouraged students to not attend regular classes but to attend a Pope Francis recently said that “long prison sentences are death Fax – 202-456-2461 stance on racism present on campus.” In early October, the “teach-in.” Undoubtedly the most influential support came from black Missouri football players, who refused to practice or play sentences.” We believe Peltier is innocent, but we are not arguing E-Mail: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions- any games until Wolfe was removed from office. The university that anymore. What happened on that bitter day in 1975 was and-comments. Lauren Poe for Mayor could have lost about $1 million if they had forfeited their part of an ongoing conflict, and we may never know what really game this Saturday. Wolfe resigned yesterday and Loftin will step happened. Forty years is long enough, in any case. Another life You can also email Leonard Peltier directly and voice your Lauren Poe is a progressive down from his position at the end of the year to take a smaller has been taken for all practical purposes. support for and solidarity with him at the address below: candidate running for Gainesville role on campus. The Board of Curators unveiled new initiatives Today, with the passage of four decades, Peltier’s supporters have Leonard Peltier Mayor. A husband, father of two, to address racial issues including hiring a diversity, inclusion #89637-132 dedicated public servant, and included the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South and equity officer for the entire University of Missouri system, USP Coleman I lifelong educator — Lauren has creating a task force to create plans for improving diversity and Africa, Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand and Pete Seeger. The late been a resident of Gainesville Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa spoke and wrote for him. Civil P.O. Box 1033 inclusion, and requiring diversity and inclusion training for all Coleman, FL 33521 D his entire life, he graduated from faculty, staff members and incoming students. rights giants Coretta Scott King, Congressman John Lewis and many our public schools and attended members of the Congressional Black Caucus stood up for him in very All these “diversity trainings” and throwing the word “inclusion” the University of Florida. meaningful ways that included helping him get some badly needed around is perhaps a a step in the right direction but it will take a medical care. The late, wrongly convicted boxer Ruben “Hurricane” We can count on Lauren lot more effort from all sides of the university system to address to fight for our shared values. Lauren is committed to racism on campus. As evidenced by this one semester, so many Carter spoke strongly for Peltier’s release and shared his own story of expanding economic opportunity for all of our citizens, incidents make it unsafe and unwelcoming for students of color years behind bars without the benefit of a fair trial. investing in our children and neighborhoods, and to learn at the University of Missouri. It is deeply ingrained in Sixty members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed an implementing a comprehensive transportation system that their university culture, and it will take every ounce of energy of amicus brief calling for a new trial. The UN High Commissioner meets everybody’s needs. everyone at the university system to make it at least an ok space for Human Rights called for his release, as did 55 members of We need a mayor with integrity and an inclusive spirit who will for students of color to step on campus. Canada’s Parliament. bring progressive leadership back to our city. Gainesville can’t What’s most interesting and empowering about these student afford another 3 years of Tea Party leadership. Nobel laureates including Rigaberta Menchu Tum of Guatamala, demonstrations was that it was inspired by the Black Lives Mairaid Maguire and Betty Williams of Northern Ireland, Jose Ramos Matter movement happening in nearby St. Louis and Ferguson, When Lauren filed for office he pledged not accept any Horta and others have come to his aid. Yet he still wastes away in a Missouri. And just like the Black Lives Matter movement, the corporate or PAC contributions, so we’re counting on super-max prison 2,000 miles from his home on the northern plains. our friends and neighbors to make an investment in this #ConcernedStudent1950 group was led and organized by queer campaign. Own a piece of this campaign and join the team at black women, according to Butler. He gave a shoutout to them on On human rights day of last year, Leonard’s supporters called for poeformayor.com Twitter and talked to the The Washington Post about it. his release. Kris Kristofferson, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Carlos Santana, Harry Belafonte, Robbie Political advertisement paid for and approved by Lauren Poe for Mayor. “…The Black Lives Matter movement, in terms of what that Robertson, Pam Anderson, UK’s Peter Gabriel, Michael Moore, Wes See CONCERNED, p. 14 Studie, Irene Bedard, the National Congress of American Indians

page 4, Iguana, November/December 2015 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org November/December 2015, Iguana page 5 GRACE, from p. 1 Thanks for helping us make Gainesville a better place to AQUIFERious: Enter the Springs exhibition live…for everyone! We are honored and excited to be a May 2014 with no equipment or kitchen staff. Thanks to part of this community. D continues at Thomas Center Galleries the help of numerous community groups, most meals have been prepared off-site and brought to GRACE at meal AQUIFERious: Enter the Springs, on display until January times. On nights we’ve had no scheduled groups, our Ad- 6 at the Thomas Center Galleries, offers visitors a chance vocates threw something together using only donated food to experience amazing art and learn about protecting North heated up in a couple of crock-pots or on a barbecue grill. Florida’s springs. Volunteer groups will now be able to prepare meals in a The exhibition, curated by Margaret Ross Tolbert, is based on her beautiful kitchen with the help of GRACE residents. award-winning book of the same title. A multi-media art experience Therefore, the addition of a kitchen is a game-changer for in the truest sense, the exhibition juxtaposes Tolbert’s dramatic, GRACE and all of the guests that will now be able to eat, help large-scale springs paintings and eloquent poetry with contribut- cook, and eventually learn valuable skills there one day. With ing artists’ and scientists’ photographs, videos, cartography and the kitchen and staff comes the possibility of developing cater- writings. Featured is the underwater photography by Jill Heinerth, ing and boxed lunch programs to generate income for the facility Mark Long and Tom Morris, and springs maps by Eric Hutcheson, and to provide job training for residents. Georgia Shemitz and Jhwum-Ki-ak. These aren’t the only exciting changes happening at Among the most remarkable natural wonders of the Sunshine GRACE, however. Our once prison-drab buildings have State is the seldom-seen, underground Floridan aquifer system, each been painted bright colors to make the campus feel a 100,000 square mile life force that reaches into neighboring Joy in the Sun and Spring by Mark Long. Original in color is more welcoming and less institutional. states and feeds more than 1,000 freshwater springs throughout MUCH better.. We have broken ground on a huge garden project, which will pro- vide fresh, nutritious food for the kitchen program and a way to give back for the residents who already contribute 60 percent of Florida. AQUIFERious: Enter the Springs is intended to give the The dining area is named Cafe 131 in honor of Pat Fitzpat- the volunteer hours on campus. We’ve recently hired an additional audience a greater understanding and appreciation of Florida’s rick’s push to end the homeless meal limit in the city—previ- case manager, which allows us to double the capacity of our shelter subterranean water system, while celebrating its extraordinary ously 130 people were served, but the 131st was turned away. program and increase the number of people we’re able to move beauty and that of the fragile springs that arise from the system’s Photo courtesy of W McCombie Photography and Video. depths. into housing. And that program is working! Seventy percent of shelter residents who actively engage with case management leave To accompany the exhibition, Thomas Center Galleries also GRACE with housing, and 60 percent leave with new income. presents programs and opportunities for discussion about the springs, and how they serve as a rich platform to connect art Additionally, we shelter 55 people per night on the pavilion, and pro- and science. vide supportive services to almost 200 residents of nearby Dignity Upcoming companion events include: Village. These are all homeless men and women who would other- Immersed: An Evening of Springs Films wise be in the woods, in unsafe situations, or scattered downtown. Thursday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. (Galleries open at 6 p.m.) These improvements are just the beginning. Over the next Noted directors take the stage to screen segments from their two years, we’re working toward becoming a triage center for films including: Jill Heinerth’s “We are Water,” Bill Belleville people without housing, a place where people can come for and Bob Giguere’s new “Hidden Secrets of Florida Springs,” help with physical and mental health services, job training, “Eric Flagg’s Ichetucknee Springs,” Lesley Gamble’s other- meals, showers, and other supports. worldly films, the creators of the Sirena film shorts and others. We have a number of ways anyone can plug into the good work Wet Talks: Springs Lovers’ Show and Tell we’re doing. Our top priority is finding more groups to purchase Tuesday, Jan. 5 at 7 p.m. (Galleries open at 6 p.m.) and prepare meals in the new kitchen. We need blankets, socks, new Adding their voice to AQUIFERious, enthusiasts will be given underwear, and work boots. One of the best ways to support us is to three minutes to share their springs passion, efforts or expertise visit gracemarketplace.org and set up a recurring donation. 377-5828 in photography, poetry, writing, or simply the spoken word. To participate, call 352-393-8185, bring a flash drive and/or sign up On Dec. 12, we will be holding our first “No-Show Gala,” where Open: Mon-Fri 7 am-10 pm, Sat- at the event to take your turn at the podium. for a choose-your-own ticket price, you get to stay home and watch us use the proceeds we would spend on throwing a year- Sun 9 am-10 pm The Thomas Center Galleries are located at 302 NE Sixth Ave., end event for more important things like case management, ad- Gainesville, FL 32601. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday diction counseling, housing assistance, and other much-needed from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday from 1-4 p.m. The galleries are services. In January, we’ll celebrate our 100,000th meal, and we’ll DRIVE THRU & CALL-INS closed for observed holidays. For additional gallery information, launch our boxed lunch catering program in the Spring of 2016. please contact Russell Etling, cultural affairs manager, at 352- 393-8532 or visit www.gvlculturalaffairs.org. D We believe that by providing all our community’s resources in the same location, we can end homelessness for hundreds of people Two locations: living in our community each year. We’ve served more than 1,700 407 NW 12th St. people since May 2014, and for each of those individuals, life is and better today than it would have been without GRACE. To stay up to date on the good work we’re doing and to become 5011 NW 34th St. a part of it, please visit our website at www.gracemarketplace. D org or “like” us on Facebook.

page 6, Iguana, November/December 2015 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org November/December 2015, Iguana page 7 Law and the Library: Adoptions and Voting Rights Two craft fairs Dec. 6 by Nickie Kortus, Alachua County Library District sealed/expunged. If civil rights are restored an applicant The Alachua County Library District is partnering with the will have the right to vote, sit on a jury and hold public of- Power District Flea & Craft Market Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association to present Law in fice. See more details on this event on p. 2. by Michelle Koehlmoos the Library: Adoptions on Monday, December 7, 6 to 7 p.m. During these free presentations experienced attorneys and The P. Arts building (Power District Arts) houses various at Headquarters Library, 401 E. University Avenue. Cynthia professionals share their knowledge on a variety of perti- people and projects, including Sequential Artists Workshop, Green Building Cooperative (GBC), artist studios and a Swanson, a board certified adoption law attorney, will dis- nent legal issues. Legal resources are also available to the cuss different types of adoptions. She will cover step-parent formative artist collective, performance space and a recording public in the John A.H. Murphree Law Library, located studio as well as other independent and D.I.Y. projects. Cynthia and relative adoptions, adoptions of newborns, in- at Headquarters Library. Resources include the Florida terstate adoptions and intervening in a Florida Department It is in the former Poole Roofing building at Depot Avenue Bar Journal (2009 to present), Florida Cases, Florida Law and SE 2nd St., across from the Rosa Parks Bus station. of Children and Families case to adopt a child who is the Weekly, the Florida Statutes plus the Nolo’s small business 4th of December subject of a dependency matter. She will talk about the re- essentials series and online WestLawNext (only available at After a hiatus from public gatherings at the building, we re-invite the community to join us at our very first Power quirements of home studies, notifications and consents, and Headquarters) and Gale Legal Forms eSources. help available to birth mothers in private adoptions. This District Flea and Craft Market on Sunday, Dec. 6. Holiday Art Walk presentation is free and open to the public. Registration is For additional information, please visit www.aclib.us/law We will open our gates from 9am to 4pm. for the first in Downtown Gainesville’s not required. or contact Nickie Kortus, [email protected], or (352) 334- of many monthly markets. Tables are $10 each to set up 3909 or Jan Bendik, Esq., at [email protected] or (352) (sliding scale donations are accepted, however). Proceeds Art District The Law in the Library series also includes: 372-0519. go right back into the building so that we can work to provide an accessible creative space for our community. GALLERY TOUR BEGINS AT 7 PM Restoration of Civil Rights Workshop on December 3, at If a person with a disability needs an accommodation in or- All are invited to sell anything from handmade crafts to Tower Road Branch, 3020 S.W. 75 Street. Attorneys from der to participate in this event he or she is entitled, at no cost junk that you need to purge; food trucks are also welcome Josiah T. Walls Bar Association and law students from the to him or her, to the provision of certain assistance. Please to join. This is sort of free form, and vendors may show University of Florida Levin College of Law will provide contact the Alachua County Library District at 352-334- up the day of to set up a booth. one-on-one assistance to persons who have been convicted 3910 at least three (3) days prior to the event. TTY users Art installations are welcome in the gallery space -- of a felony and are interested in applying to have their civil please call 711 (Florida Relay Service). D if you’re interested, contact Michelle Koehlmoos to rights restored and people interested in having their records organize this in a separate meeting if needed. Though we have plenty of space, it is limited, so first-come first- serve is the method in which we accept participants, The Repurpose Project unless previously discussed. Contact Michelle Koehlmoos at [email protected] or Winter Festival and Green Gift Fair 925-222-1671 with inquiries regarding this event.

The Repurpose Project is excited to announce its annual Win- GLAM Craft Show HOURS: Tues–Sat: 10am-6pm, Closed: Sun & Mon ter Festival & Green Gift Fair which will be held on Dec. 4, The GLAM craft show will also be held Sunday, from 5-9pm. Join us for a festive evening of hot apple cider, Dec. 6 in the old GRU warehouse, 625 SE 5th Ave., a 1920 NE 23rd Ave, Gainesville local artisans with handmade crafts, photos with Green Sus- few block from P.Arts, on the same day as the Power tainable Santa, live music on outdoor stage, kids crafts, Satch- District Flea and Craft Market. els Pizza, vegetarian chili, local Swamphead beer and holiday The GLAM Craft Show offers a fresh holiday shopping cheer. Visit our Green Gift Fair Crafter’s Village of local art- experience in Gainesville on the first Sunday in December ists featuring handmade and repurposed gifts and browse our every year. With the growing interest in buying local, shop for reclaimed guilt-free gift shopping. GLAM provides a way for socially minded shoppers to Live music on the outdoor stage by: purchase unique gifts that were handcrafted within their Endless Pools-Surf rock jams community and to connect with the people who made As Is-Local all-woman rock n’ roll trio them. Hours are from 10am to 4pm. Lakitas de Gainesville-Local Chilean/Indian PVC panflute & Previous events featured up to 70 local vendors selling drum ensemble handmade jewelry and accessories, men’s and women’s & more to be announced! silk-screened T-shirts, funky home decor, hand-spun yarns, baby bibs, fitness hoops and amigurumi. All ages, family friendly event. $3-5 suggested donation. For more information or to join the mailing list, There will be a Repurpose Gift Wrapping station featuring email [email protected] or sign up on the traditional and not so traditional gift wrapping solutions(bring GLAM Facebook page. your gifts to wrap or just wrap the treasures you find here)! GLAM is a production of Sew Make Do LLC, a There will also be crafting stations to create your own unique Gainesville-based small business that strives to bring repurposed gifts for loved ones! creative opportunities to our local community. D

page 8, Iguana, November/December 2015 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org November/December 2015, Iguana page 9 meat. There are endless moving scenes as are and actively want to help us and em- lenged if they take more when others have Something or nothing: Helping refugees on Samos people come down to help and even though brace us with much love and enthusiasm, little. The groups on many occasions have by Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones in the world. There there was absolutely Frontier (MSF) are now here and creating a most only stay on the island for less than 2 when we ourselves feel we have been made sure that that they can all move off days it can still be enough time for some able to give them so little. Samos together by collecting for the fares This article originally appeared on the nothing whereas here on Samos we know significant team which might make a differ- that there are resources and facilities which ence. But as for the rest of the big humani- firm friendships to be forged. In the limited time available we strive to of the minority who have no money. For blog Samos Chronicles . Read more at the refugees their solidarities are going to samoschronicles.wordpress.com. could make a difference. But they refuse to tarian NGOs; nothing. Many on Samos have Practical pressing needs set the context for help in ways that build and strengthen their allow this. Why? It is almost impossible to one question for you: Where are you? all this effort. Organising food, making and solidarity. We always try to get the refugees be their greatest strength during the onward There has been so little time to stop and journeys and beyond. After all although explain and certainly impossible to excuse. Volunteers and Activists distributing sandwiches with the refugees involved as they are not passive victims and think. Since May this year the daily arrival involved, getting to the beaches, finding not the least once they have been processed they are running from war, their common These are acts of cruelty; not to do some- of refugees coming to Samos across the In contrast to authority the humanitarian re- the right sized shoes and clothes for wet by the port police there is a lot of hanging destinations of Germany or Sweden are thing that would help when you have the sea from Turkey has transformed the daily sponses of volunteers and activists have been people; transporting them to the ports or around and many of the refugees want to be hardly paradises. There are difficult times means to do it. A big surprise is that ‘power’ lives of many here. extraordinary in trying to meet some of the the medical centre/hospital; getting them involved and doing something to help one ahead where their solidarities are going to does not seem to mind being unmasked for basic needs of the refugees who briefly pass to a wi fi café and giving basic information another. For many, the benefits of solidar- be very important to their well-being. The scale of this flow of humanity is hard the horror it brings to so many; it does not through Samos. Dictated by daily fluctua- are what dominate the days. ity have been proved during the journey and to grasp. Everything seems to change. You seem to mind that its claims to be built on Only occasionally do we see volunteers be- tions in arrivals they have fed, clothed, res- especially in the sea crossing to Samos. look differently at the sea and sky now principles and values such as freedom of There can be moments of misunderstand- having as if they were the story. Some leap at worrying about the waves and the wind. cued, comforted and supported thousands of the chance to be interviewed by any passing movement, solidarity, peace, prosperity refugees. They are the front line. ings and sometimes language barriers. The For the Syrians in particular, the exodus Above all you are endlessly alert, for al- and human dignity are stripped bare and re- refugees have absolutely no idea who we has many implications and consequences. media, or take ‘selfies’ as they hand out some though you know there are going to be vealed as empty words. It makes you think! This effort has been almost entirely driven are when we turn up on the beaches and It is a great leveller where people often bottles of water and then broadcast it on their arrivals you never know when, where or from the bottom up. Individuals, small at the ports. So it is not entirely surprising from wide backgrounds who had little Facebook pages. But they are the exception. in what circumstances. If you can, you go From our observations, whenever the groups of friends, tourists and visitors, when some – and a surprisingly small num- contact with one another in Syria are now There have been some visiting activists who down to the landings. This is a very criti- agents of the system have to inter-act with rather than organisations have been at the ber – think we are paid Aid workers and literally in the same boat facing danger arrive wearing T shirts identifying them- cal time for the refugees. You can’t hang the refugees directly it is more often than forefront in giving immediate practical aid demand specific services on the expectation together. Whereas the civil war and chaos selves as something or other and that seems around. Especially now when the weather not dehumanising. There is often a lot of to the refugees. Over the summer a mo- that we are being paid to do this. (So we of Syria deepened divisions, the exodus odd simply because it is so unusual. Modesty and sea at night is much colder than during shouting (usually in English and /or Greek mentum developed as more people under- have had some bizarre moments when we on the other hand brings them together in and low profile would best characterise most the summer months. But also because now which means nothing to most of the wait- stood that the best way to help was to go to have had to explain to a young man why we new ways and with new challenges. It is of the volunteers we see in action. we are seeing many more babies, young ing refugees); demanding that they form the ports and see what was needed. Food, cannot provide the jacket with desired label interesting to see how many of the ‘boat We now have a Facebook page where children, pregnant women, older and dis- lines or sit and wait in certain places. They clothes, shoes, baby stuff, toys all came to or why we don’t offer a menu from which groups’ stick together and plan to move we post smaller pieces and updates. This abled people amongst the refugees. They are treated like the goats on the island. This be supplied on a daily basis by an ad hoc to choose their supper.) as one on through Europe and up towards can be found at https://www.facebook. are vulnerable and find the sea journey and is not the way to treat anyone let alone collection of volunteers, who as time has But these are not common. It is amazing Germany or Sweden. com/Samos-Refugees-Πρόσφυγες-στη- all that it entails waiting in the forests and those who have fled their homes and coun- passed have come to know one another how quickly they grasp who and what we Sharing is emphasised and people are chal- Σαμο-876937855721695 D shores of Turkey very difficult. tries and just made a perilous sea crossing. and work in co-operation. The reason we think and act as we do has Over the months we have seen a number The realities confronting us are what one very simple explanation. We are hu- of police change their behaviour and be- drives our actions; the needs of the refu- man. How is it possible to be human and come much more understanding and gen- gees in the port are obvious, and we have do nothing? Every day we see people who tle. But there are still many who humili- no need for some sort of co-ordinating have suffered and are still suffering. Peo- ate the refugees and make life difficult for committee. Also there are no limits to what ple who are forced to face danger in order volunteers and activists. We continue to is needed. So we must do what we can and to find safety. It is beyond wrong. experience police harassment when giving what we are happy/good at. All of us have lifts to refugees. And this is hardly surpris- lives away from the port so it is not easy From the ‘system’ nothing has been provided ing for the front line behaviours of some for the welfare of the refugees arriving on to commit to a rota or timetable. These are police reflect and represent one powerful Samos. NOTHING! The only exception has huge challenges for many of the volunteers dimension in the system’s response to the been the rescue efforts of the coastguards, as it is so difficult to stop in the face of so refugees; namely they are not like us so we Frontex and now some volunteer rescue craft much need. Yet it is incredible how much don’t have to treat them as we would our from Scandinavia. For the past months they time is given and how many give food in own families and friends. have saved many lives. But other than the particular, on a daily basis. So whilst there police who register and process the arriving So whilst we have no expectations of the maybe some loose ends it has worked and refugees we have seen nobody. system, of authority at whatever level, its endured for some months now. extreme abandonment of people running We don’t have much time for the institu- And we have got better. Clothing stores for their lives and washing up on the shores tions and parliaments of the powerful. have been created alongside collections; of the EU provokes anger and dismay. They are not known for their humanity and there is now a former shop in Agios Kon- WORSHIP WITH FRIENDS What does this say about the place where concern for the poor, anywhere or at any stantinos which is kept in constant readi- we live and the world we live in. The very Gainesville Quakers warmly invite you to attend our time. Samos provides a classic case study. ness with the supplies needed for the early system which is so deeply implicated in morning boat arrivals; a relationship has weekly meeting for worship held in our beautiful Even on impoverished Samos there are meetinghouse nestled among majestic oaks. resources which could make a difference. the causes of the refugee crisis turns its been created with a local restaurant that can An unprogrammed meeting of Friends, we follow There is the army which could so eas- back when the victims wash up on their supply a hot meal; endless relationships shores. It is a crime that refugees are dying with shops and pharmacies that discount the tradition of gathering in silence to ily patrol the shores and pick up and care wait upon the Light. for the arrivals; there are empty buildings every week making the sea crossing from for the refugees have been established and which with little work could be made into Turkey. It can be stopped immediately by we fund raise. And we have improved our 11a.m., Sundays refugee shelters and so on. As one experi- providing access to ferries and opening a ways of helping. 702 NW 38th St., Gainesville safe land passage in the north of Greece. enced aid worker told us, it is worse than We no longer see cans of beer being left 352-372-1070 working in some of the poorest countries The mega NGOs are no better. Medicin Sans at the port and rarely food containing pork

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CONCERNED, from p. 4 has been going on on campus has been morphed from. So, it is part of the Rwanda Sustainable Families holds annual fundraiser means and the symbolism of reaffirming Black Lives Matter movement, but not black existence, black humanity, and by Nancy Lasseter you would be greeted by shouts of “Good morning teacher!” necessarily in the cookie cutter way.” so in that realm with what we’re doing On Friday, Dec. 4, the all volunteer-staffed non-profit followed by endless songs about how they brush their teeth with our education sessions, what we’re Yvonne S . Marquez is a senior editor at Rwanda Sustainable Families (RSF) will host its 6th holiday before they come to school and so on. The children just don’t doing with our rallies, what we’re doing Autostraddle and a Latina lesbian living fundraiser. Featured will be the sale of items made by the want to stop singing, for their hope for a future is alive and in their hearts. They enjoy hands on lessons in farming and nutrition on campus is definitely bringing about in Dallas, Texas. She’s originally from RSF — founded artisan cooperative in Rubavu, Rwanda, a from their keyhole gardens. They learn about raising livestock this awareness that we deserve to exist in silent auction of holiday gift baskets, and a raffle of Rwandan a weird/wonderful place called the Rio from their care of the schools hen house. The gardens and hen these spaces on campus and we deserve Grande Valley, a region along the Texas- quilts. Green gift cards will be available that will gift a to have our lives valued. And so in that house provide them with much-needed additional nutrition. Mexico border. She studied magazine hen or year of school or kitchen garden to loved ones who sense, it’s a part of the Black Lives “RSF wants to give a helping hand that we neglected to offer during journalism in Austin and worked for a would prefer to receive a gift that benefits the less fortunate. Matter movement. the genocide of 1994, when 800,000 people were slaughtered in local gay & lesbian magazine for a hot The evening’s events, held at the Wooly from 7–10pm, will include a performance at 8:15 by the UF Drum and Dance 90 days,” says Nancy Lasseter, RSF’s director and co-founder. But in another sense, this is really second. She’s a true INFJ, Sagittarius unique to campus just because of the ensemble Agbedidi and music at 7 by the Boilin’ Oil duo. and Ravenclaw, so basically she’s quiet “We have the resources and opportunity to help Rwandans example that we got from some of those to get their lives back, to be healthy, to be fulfilled and to and thinks a lot. In her spare time, she This year’s fundraiser marks the beginning of the 6th year who were organizing in Ferguson. There that RSF has had a strong presence in Rubavu, Rwanda. Their lead productive lives. On the advice of our Rwandan staff, are three queer black women, who tries to read as many books by women of we started a preschool that targets the forgotten children of color as she can, hangs out with a bunch mission entails investing in communities and empowering lives, used their knowledge from Ferguson specifically the lives of the most impoverished villagers of Rwanda. Mucyo charges them with belief in themselves, in of socialists and social justice organizers, organizing in creating an organization Rwanda. RSF supports an artisan cooperative called Komera, their community of friends and in their future in their country. called MU for Mike Brown. And from and likes drinking local beer . Connect (which translates to “Strong”) and has a thriving preschool called We invest in helping the children and their families by funding that, that’s really where a lot of what D with her on Tumblr or on Twitter. Mucyo (“Light”) that educates the disenfranchised children of projects that provide education, jobs and clean water. In return, Rubavu who are typically too hungry and weak to go to school. we anticipate that these opportunities will continue to multiply as they rise out of poverty, take over projects we seeded and RSF feeds 125 children daily at Mucyo preschool. There are 90 become more active citizens of their country. It takes a global children aged 4-7 years who happily eat porridge each school village working together to reshape a country that was once morning. Their siblings, in primary school, stop by Mucyo in the shattered. I personally have witnessed the restoration of trust morning for breakfast before they go off to school. Each child between neighbors as well as a renewed love of life itself, and is provided shoes, uniform, and school supplies, which replace we are grateful to be part of this transformation.” the torn, dirty rags that once caused them to be shunned. In their Nancy Lasseter will present a slideshow on the beauty of uniforms, they all are on a level playing field. Rwandan people, their “land of a thousand hills” and the work And speaking of playing, their teachers use playful rhyme and of RSF at 7:30 pm. For more information, visit rsfafrica.org and song for most lessons. If you were to stop in for a visit to Mucyo, visit our RSF facebook Annual Fundraiser event page. D

A destination game store and parlor. 4205 NW 16th Blvd Gainesville FL 32605 352-378-PLAY (7529) Find us online at gainesvilletabletop.com and Facebook page 14, Iguana, November/December 2015 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org November/December 2015, Iguana page 15 tial candidates as well as lawmakers in all with the five managers who came to the levels of government. front of the store, but they insisted that they Fight for $15 in Gainesville, Florida This is a movement that has caught fire were not interested in hearing anything we by Paul Ortiz and Sheila Payne across the country. Cities and counties had to say. Meanwhile, Rev. Dr. Maureen Alachua County Labor Coalition throughout the United States have passed Killoran, from the Unitarian Universalist The Fight for $15 Movement took a major new living wage ordinances in response to Fellowship, talked about the dignity of all step forward on Nov. 10 in Gainesville. a rising tide of protests, union organizing labor and said a prayer for workers in an More than 100 people gathered to join a campaigns, and direct action. industry marked by low wages and abuses. national solidarity action with workers in San Antonio, Texas recently approved This was one day in the life of a deeply the fast food and service sectors who are raising minimum wages for municipal demanding “$15 & Union Rights.” workers to $13 per hour, while New York rooted social movement in Gainesville and the United States. We were excited at the Grassroots Gathering at the corner of the University Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Wage Board of Florida, spirited groups of living wage has set a new wage floor of $15 per hour great turnout and the powerful solidarity of activists chanted: “Hold the Burgers, by the end of 2018 in New York City. the day. However, we know that we have a support Hold the Fries, Make our Wages Our action culminated with a spirited march long road yet to travel. Please contact the Supersize!” and “We Work, We Sweat, to the McDonald’s on 13th Avenue. The Alachua County Labor Coalition to get keeps it Put $15 dollars in our Check.” Gainesville Police Department was waiting involved in the struggle for living wages Members of Alachua County Labor for us. We attempted to engage in a dialogue and economic justice! D going Coalition, National Women’s Liberation, Gainesville Veterans For Peace, and the More than 100 people gathered on Nov. 10 to join a national solidarity action with Please support the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of workers in the fast food and service sectors who are demanding $15 and Union Gainesville waved placards, banners, and Rights . Photo by Justin Dunnavant . CMC in whatever way passed out “15 Reasons to Support $15” you can: volunteering, to people who stopped to talk. James Ingle, speaking on behalf of the are steadily dismantling tenure and job International Brotherhood of Electrical security for the nation’s most highly memberships, The action featured speakers from a Workers, talked about how labor solidarity educated workers. Dan Harmeling, a donations, ideas, broad array of organizations including means more than just supporting unions — longtime adjunct lecturer at Santa Fe churches, student groups, unions, local it means supporting all workers, whether College emphasized that his fellow and attendance at politicians who support $15/hour, and or not they are in a union, because “an instructors lack access to health care civil rights organizations. our events. injury to one is an injury to all.” coverage and sick days — at the nation’s Each speaker emphasized that we are Rev. Kevin Thorpe, representing the number one ranked community college! living in a new era of politics where living ACTION Network, pointed to the This is why so many college faculty are www.civicmediacenter.org wages and economic justice must be at the University of Florida and reminded his organizing unions and engaging in old- coordinators@ center of our struggles and voting choices. listeners that UF receives hundreds of fashioned labor activism. Income inequality in Florida is at an all- civicmediacenter.org millions in federal grants per year from Local politicians and political candidates time high, and we are no longer going to the taxpayers. It is university staff labor 352-373-0010 accept a situation where a few people at were well represented at the rally. Each that makes these grants possible, and yet of these representatives and candidates 433 S. Main St., Gainesville the top — the 1 percent — live off of the Gainesville remains a city of a few rich sweat and labor of the rest of society. voiced strong support for a living wage 32601 people and many living in poverty. of $15 an hour for workers in Gainesville Speaker after speaker dismantled stereo- and Alachua County. This is a testament North Central Florida types about the impact of improving wag- to the power of the local movement, Central Labor Council es in today’s economy. spearheaded by the Alachua County holiday spaghetti dinner Raising wages will boost local consumer Labor Coalition (ACLC) which has purchasing power. This will benefit small been working for months with county The North Central Florida Central proprietors who will in turn be able to hire commissioners to raise wages for the Labor Council will hold its annual more workers to serve customers in retail, county’s lowest-paid workers. holiday spaghetti dinner on Monday, restaurants and other businesses. The Living Wage task force is now December 14 at 6:30pm at the Alachua The speeches were punctuated by sponta- meeting with city commissioners and County Senior Center, located at neous chants and shouts of support from those running for office for city and 5701 NW 34th St, Gainesville, FL people passing by in cars and bicycles. county seats to ask them where they stand 32653. This yearly event is a great on the issue of a living wage. opportunity to meet other labor rights’ Educators, including college professors activists in the North Central Florida and graduate instructors emphasized The ACLC has made it clear that a true liv- area and learn how to get involved in that getting an education is no longer ing wage, not a kind of just over the pover- current campaigns. sufficient for achieving economic se- ty line-wage, is a non-negotiable demand curity in the United States. There are — a new political litmus test for politicians This year our guest of honor and main growing legions of STEM PhD’s work- — in a county plagued by the worst rates speaker will be Congressman Alan ing for poverty wages as adjunct lectur- of economic inequality in Florida. Grayson. Please feel free to invite your ers in the United States. friends, family, and colleagues. D The national Fight for $15 event was de- Subscribe $30/year Aggressive university administrators signed to demand action from Presiden-

page 16, Iguana, November/December 2015 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org November/December 2015, Iguana page 17 Protest! Support! Give Florida black bears room to roam Call your State Elected Officials and Support Speak Up Wekiva and their legal by Sarah Hinds demand their oversight of Florida’s FWC, action against the state: which has so blatantly proved its inability www.speakupwekiva.com I spent Saturday morning, Oct. 24, in the Ocala to manage this hunt and has ignored both National Forest. My drive from Gainesville was full science and public opinion. Support the following organizations that of thick fog and beautiful landscapes. Arriving at my volunteer post — Check Station 21 for the Florida http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/…/ are all collaborating to make the Florida Bear Hunt — a pileated woodpecker greeted me. Repre…/myrepresentative.aspx Wildlife Corridor a reality: Florida Wild- life Corridor, Florida Forever, The Nature I was not there to protest, but to quietly observe, Log your complaint with the director of the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Conservancy, 1000 Friends of Florida, photograph and watchdog the proceedings of the FDEP Office of Greenways and Trails, day. Those were my instructions from Speak Up Commission who mismanaged this hunt, and with Governor Rick Scott’s office Conservation Trust for Florida, Defend- GROWRADIO.org Wekiva, the organization that worked tirelessly to ers of Wildlife, National Wildlife Refuge try and stop the hunt. I introduced myself to a kind who oversees this agency: programming schedule Association, and Florida Wildlife Federa- young biologist from the Florida Fish and Wildlife • Nick Wiley, FWC Director: 850-487- tion Grow Radio is a listener-supported, Conservation Commission (FWC) and was soon 3796 Gainesville-based Internet radio sta- joined by another volunteer. • Sarah Barrett, FWC Bear Management Watch a screening of The Forgotten Coast- tion that provides community members During my shift from 8am to noon, 17 beautiful Director: 850-487-3796 Following in the footsteps of a wander- an opportunity to create and manage bears were checked in to the station. One was an ing Florida black bear, three friends leave engaging, educational, informative, Or by email: almost blind Grandfather Bear weighing in at 433 pounds. Two count is due in 2016, but the hunt may make the population civilization and become immersed in a locally-generated programming to pro- [email protected] were cubs who barely made the 100-pound weight limit. One estimates inaccurate). These 3,200 live in isolated pods: Ocala, vast and unexplored wildlife corridor mote fine, musical and visual arts and [email protected] was a lactating mother. Even when dead, they gave off a regal Apalachicola, Big Cypress and Osceola. Bears in each region stretching from the Everglades to the Flori- humanities for the enrichment of the energy that felt ancient. rarely interact due to development. If you do the math, you • Gov Rick Scott: 850-717-9337 da-Alabama border. The rugged thousand- Gainesville community. or by email: Hunters tossed and dragged their “harvest” out of trucks and trailers realize each of these populations barely has enough members to mile journey by foot, paddle, and bike Grow Radio is changing its format, http://www.flgov.com/contact-gov-scott/ to an on-looking crowd of locals who were there for Saturday promote genetic diversity, which is why these majestic creatures traverses Florida’s Forgotten Coast—a moving from live-streaming, free- email-the-governor/ morning entertainment. Many had brought the kids to watch. were listed as threatened from 1974–2012. wilderness that has the potential to change form programming to a podcast- Sign the petition at: the way we see the natural world. Hunters joked that the bears didn’t even run. The Florida black bear has lower genetic diversity than any only format. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/…/ other black bear subspecies in the world. The following schedule is subject Here’s the thing friends — I’m not against hunting or ethical protect-florida-black-bear… Spread the Word and get involved to pre- conservation practices. But that’s not what happened in the Three hundred and four bears were killed on October 24 through vent another hunt in 2016! D to change, and not all programs woods that day. First, the argument that the bears needed to be 25, including 36 mothers. This count from the FWC excludes are broadcast each week. Check thinned due to lack of food/resources? poached and wounded bears and orphaned cubs. The FWC never growradio.org for updates. intended this hunt to address the nuisance bear population, but to No go. These bears looked great. Shiny coats and well fed. cull the already low population by over 10 percent (according to Sun 5 pm Joe and Craig Show Second, bears are overpopulated and becoming a nuisance? That the FWC hunting proposal released last June). 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page 18, Iguana, November/December 2015 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org November/December 2015, Iguana page 19 infiltrated, leading people down different to settlements, against the land theft, the they to do? They’re showing them, these are History and the people who make it: Dezeray Lyn, Part 2 paths, creating internal strife and division. If uprootings of their trees, the imprisoning our families. You’re stealing our families. we work together, learn about each other’s of their family members and the Transcript edited by Pierce Butler. have good news for you: we killed Raed, It’s very likely that their children will end proud Palestinian, very supportive of cultures and struggles, like Palestinians did members of their villages. A portion of and showed him a photo of his body and up in the Israeli Detention Facility, and in This is the 31st in a series of transcript the struggle, he’s part Syrian too. He when Ferguson was being tear gassed: hey, the demonstration is young Palestinians. them posing with him. They cut out parts of interrogation, or administrative detention, or excerpts from the Samuel Proctor Oral was arrested because of a friend of his, this is what you do, this is how you can stay Throwing stones at their occupiers. And his eyes and the pictures were graphic and they’ll be jailed. Their families are incredibly History Program collection at the involved in the armed resistance. safe, mutual aid, solidarity, and support the rest of it mainly is the Israeli military really upsetting. He said, I didn’t cry when important, just like they are to us here, but University of Florida, continuing last They hung him from the ceiling until the would help, and caring and empathy would firing on everyone. I saw the photos, I smiled. And I asked him, their backs are against the wall. They’re not month’s story . skin under his arms were ripping. They shot be the first step in that. why? He said, because I was proud. There’s people that have really young him, they tortured him, they threatened him bringing their children to violence, these Dezeray Lyn was interviewed by Jessica I was there two months. I was incredibly children on their shoulders who are with rape, they destroyed his home when He cried when he got back to his cell. They soldiers are invading their villages. Taylor [T] and Lara Alqasem [A] in 2009. distraught coming back. I was distraught marching and they have flags and signs, they raided it, they hit his mother. likely killed his father at a checkpoint in I didn’t experience one of the worst type on Nakba Day when I wasn’t there, and just asserting that we’re here. T: In your talk at the Civic Media Jordan. Stories like that, about people When he was being transferred, they these demonstrations were happening all of violence happening there, the settler Center, you focused a lot on children. that are very kind, and I’m hearing about During the creation of the Israeli state, the drove him around for a couple of hours over the West Bank. Lately, I just feel like, violence: unpredictable, scary, ultra- L: Palestinian children are not even seen how they were brutalized and beaten and saying was, the old will die and the young beating him. They kept throwing water do you have any idea what’s happening violent settlers. There’s oceans of things as children. They’re just thrown into this locked down in a chair, for days and days will forget. That’s not happening, They on him. And hitting him with a metal elsewhere? In a way I feel like it ruined left to find out, and personal stories, terrifying, human rights-violating and — stories like that were very upsetting don’t forget. They’re constantly fighting inhumanities, tragedies, quietly playing stick and he was hooded, so he didn’t me. I just feel lost, and not like myself. I’m for their land. It’s scary. It goes on for crushing prison system. and really stuck with me. out every day there that I’m gonna try pushing to go back there in September, several hours where you’re throwing hard to bring back more of next time. I was at a demonstration and a young T: The Dream Defenders in Florida because I don’t feel right being here and stones, they’re shooting, everybody runs, Palestinian was approaching. Everybody have a connection to the Palestinian being comfortable or safe while people they chase you into different areas. See http://ufdc.ufl.edu/l/AA00035192/0 kind of froze, he was approaching a liberation. Can you comment on the aren’t comfortable and safe elsewhere. for the full You see a lot of people getting shot, 0001?search=dezeray+=lyn border police Jeep — the border police global connections? transcript of this interview. are notoriously violent and scary, even A: Can you talk a little more about the getting hurt. It’s teargas and rubber- L: There’s no way to ignore the more so than the soldiers. He put his Friday protests? coated steel bullets and live ammunition The Samuel Proctor Oral History intersectionality of these struggles. So hands up and started approaching the L: Every Friday in the West Bank there’s and skunk trucks — this disgusting water Program believes that listening carefully with the movement here, like Black Jeep, and turned around to show them demonstrations in villages like Kufr that’s sprayed on everyone. That happens to first-person narratives can change the Lives Matter or Dream Defenders, and he didn’t have a weapon and everybody Qaddum, Ni’lin, Bil’in, Nabi Salih, and every single Friday in these different way we understand history, from scholarly the brutalization of black and brown was watching like, what is he doing? You a military prison, Ofer. People come places. And every single Friday people questions to public policy . SPOHP needs communities, there are strong specific would not want to approach any military out for hours and hours. Every Friday are hurt. They don’t discriminate when the public’s help to sustain and build ties, because the Israeli military is training person there. He got right up close to the people gather: villagers, human rights they shoot on the crowd at all. upon its research, teaching, and service police departments here in the U.S. Jeep and picked up a rock and threw it at activists, journalists, medics. They’re I cringed when I saw children at missions: even small donations can make the windshield. The soldiers arrested him. There’s an NYPD office inside Israel. marching against the occupation, against demonstrations. Especially the ones on the a big difference in SPOHP’s ability to Someone told me he had a fight with his The U.S. is buying weapons from them. the blocking of their roads, against the parents’ shoulders, and they’re marching gather, preserve, and promote history for family earlier. He could’ve been shot, Israel’s the biggest [small] arms dealer in stealing of their water and diverting it towards the Israeli soldiers. But what else are future generations . D now he’s spending eighteen months, I the world, so they’re responsible for these believe, in Israeli prison. global miseries. A lot of the weapons that I got to see a lot of how socially and they’re selling, they advertise that they know what was going on. But when he psychologically this occupation was were tested on real-live Palestinians. Old Joe in Limbo realized that it was blood, he completely playing out. The Palestinian children, by Joe Courter freaked out. It wasn’t water, it was just Palestinians and oppressed black and when they’re released from prison, they’re Poor old Joe, the Confederate statue. Due to a “you lead, no you him bleeding from these wounds. brown communities are reaching out and not how they were when they went in. assisting each other. This is the last thing lead” dance, the decision to move or not move the 111-year-old They don’t respect their fathers anymore, He told me about his time in prison, that these global superpowers want, for monument remains up in the air. or their mothers. It changes them. how this soldier Yousef was this people to unite and to recognize there is Would that it could be just lifted up in the air and plopped down I had this weird feeling that I was like a constant player. He antagonized him, he no division in suffering. When I went to somewhere else but the world (and physics) doesn’t work that way. threatened him, he beat him. the ISM, I met someone who had a Black disaster tourist, and I didn’t like it, especially After much righteous agitation, and a large rally, and a lot in refugee camps. I felt really, really One day, when he was finally being Lives Matter shirt on. There was a tweet telling people in Ferguson how to deal of citizen input, the idea came forward from the County uncomfortable, and I could really sense my brought to court after three months in Commission to have people donate to the Matheson Museum privilege. I’m gonna tour through for a few Hawara, the soldier came in and said, oh with tear gas, and he said, I did that tweet. And he’s a Palestinian. in the name of moving the statue. However, no lead was taken hours and talk with them. It took on a life I have something for you. When he went on fundraising, some who reportedly asked about donating to of its own. Some were trying to attempt in the courtroom, there was like black How do we fight when we have very clear the Matheson were informed by the Matheson to wait until they interviews but then were so emotional, they glass, and behind it they had his mother boundaries? We don’t want to create pain made their decision. couldn’t do it. But they were grateful to not and father. He just broke down crying and or violence or misery with anyone. You’re And then the Matheson did decide ... to punt back to the County be suffering in a vacuum, and to know that said, they thought they would break me by fighting against people that absolutely Commission, and refund the $1,200 or so back to the donors. people wanted to know. having my father handcuffed behind this have no boundaries. They’ll do anything. There are people that I still am in touch glass, watching me. And then they hit him. They’ll kill for money. They’ll jail: they They pointed out that the new county manager, Lee Niblock, with through Facebook and email that I When they did catch and kill Raed, they won’t think twice about the fact that had worked on a similar project in Marion County a few years care very deeply for that make it really posed with his body. That’s common. you’re in prison for life for political or ago, maybe he could spearhead the project. Financial and legal hard for me on Fridays to worry about That’s coming out with the Break the acts of conscience. concerns were cited in the Matheson’s refusal to lead. So there it stands, literally. them at demonstrations. Silence group, about posing and desecrating As long as we avoid what they’re trying to There was the man in Nablus. He’s Palestinian’s bodies that they’ve killed. do, which is creating division, and keep an The following appeared in the Gainesville Sun on this topic as well. security at the Nablus mall. He’s a very They visited him in prison and said, we eye on the fact that a lot of revolutions are http://www.gainesville.com/article/2015151109799. D

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NW 13th St. #333, 352-234-6595 National Committee to Preserve Social Security Gainesville Food Not Bombs Local chapter Call 352-378-5655 or email [email protected] with updates and additions Home Van A mobile soup kitchen going to and Medicare Local advocates work to promote/ Sierra Club meets the first Thursday of every of loose-knit group of collectives worldwide homeless areas twice a week with food and other preserve these threatened programs for senior month at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist who prepare and share free, vegan/vegetarian, necessities, delivering about 400 meals per week; citizens. We have literature, speakers, T-shirts. Email: Fellowship of Gainesville-4225 NW 34th St. Notice to readers: If there is inaccurate The Coalition of Hispanics Integrating healthy, home-cooked meals made from local operated by Citizens for Social Justice. barupa@ [email protected]. See national Web site to 352-528-3751, www.ssjsierra.org information in this list, please let us know. If Spanish Speakers through Advocacy and surplus with all who are hungry. Meals at 3 atlantic.net or 352-372-4825. join: http://www.ncpssm.org/. you are connected to an organization listed Service (CHISPAS) Student-run group at UF. p.m. Sundays at Bo Diddly Community Plaza. Sister City Program of Gainesville links here, please check and update so others can www.chispasuf.org Prep starts at 11 am. Get in touch if you’d Humanist Society of Gainesville meets 7 National Lawyers Guild Lawyers, law Gainesville with sister cities in Russia, Israel be accurately informed about your contact like to help. [email protected]. www. pm on the 3rd Wednesday of most months students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers and Palestine, Iraq, and Haiti. Meets the first information. Thank you. Code Pink: Women for Peace Women-led facebook.com/#!/groups/143660782367621/ at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, using the law to advance social justice and Tuesday of every month at 7:30 p.m. at the grassroots peace and social justice movement 4225 NW 34th St to discuss and promote support progressive social movements. Mennonite Meeting House, 1236 NW 18th Art Lab is for artists who continually expand utilizing creative protest, non-violent direct action Gainesville Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant secular, humanist, atheist & agnostic social [email protected] or www.nlg.org Avenue (across from Gainesville HS). http:// skills and knowledge. Comprised of makers from and community involvement. CodePink4Peace. Justice (IAIJ) meets biweekly at the Mennonite influences-www.gainesvillehumanists.org or www.gnvsistercities.org. a range of mediums (e.g. forged iron, spun wool, org, [email protected]. Meeting House, 1236 NW 18th Ave. to discuss facebook.com/humanistsocietyofgainesville; NCF AWIS is an advocacy organization Stand By Our Plan graphic design). Technique workshops, artist relevant immigration issues and ways to [email protected]. championing the interest of women in science, is committed to informing The Community Weatherization Coalition is talks/critiques, professional practices meetings, bring political education to the community technology, engineering, and mathematics the public about the critical differences between a grassroots community coalition whose mission critical thinking discussions. GainesvilleArtLab@ through workshops, presentations, advocacy, Humanists on Campus UF organization pro- (STEM) across all disciplines and employment the Comprehensive Plan and Plum Creek’s is to improve home weatherization and energy ef- gmail.com. http://GainesvilleArtLab.org action. [email protected] or www. vides a community for freethinking, secular sectors. Meetings are usually the first Monday proposal. We do not support Plum Creek’s ficiency for low-income households through edu- gainesvilleiaij.blogspot.com humanists. Goals include promoting values of of the month (except holidays) from 5:30 -7:30 Plan. Alachua County’s Comprehensive Plan Alachua Conservation Trust, Inc. Protecting cation, volunteer work projects and community- humanism, discussing issues humanists face pm Millhopper Branch, Alachua County Public is the best blueprint for future growth in the North Central Florida’s natural, scenic, building. The CWC welcomes new volunteers to Gainesville Loves Mountains partners with Ap- internationally. We strive to participate in com- Library. All meetings open to the public. Email unincorporated areas of our county; it protects historic & recreational resources for over 25 get involved in a variety of ways, from performing palachian allies to end mountaintop removal coal munity service and bring a fun, dynamic group [email protected] or go to www.ncfawis.org our valuable wetlands. standbyourplan@gmail. years. ACT is the 2013 national Land Trust audits, to PR/Graphics and more. Contact: 352- mining and build a prosperous economy/sustain- to the university! Preferred contact info: email for more information. com; http://standbyourplan.org/. Excellence award recipient. 352-373-1078. 450-4965 or [email protected] able future for the region and its people. We pursue [email protected], alternative: Occupy Gainesville is about engaging local Student/Farmworker Alliance A network AlachuaConservationTrust.org Conservation Trust for Florida, Inc. Non- policies to strengthen our local economy through [email protected], phone- 561-374-3537. people in grassroots, participatory democracy, of youth organizing with farmworkers to profit land trust working to protect Florida’s rural energy efficiency, clean energy. gainesvilleloves- Alachua County Green Party Part of a [email protected], 352-610-1090, http:// Industrial Workers of the World Local diversity and dialogue; we stand in solidarity eliminate sweatshop conditions and modern- landscapes, wildlife corridors and natural areas. with the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the day slavery in the fields. On Facebook, search worldwide movement built out of four interrelated 352-466-1178, Conserveflorida.org gainesvillelovesmountains.wordpress.com/. union organizing all workers. Meetings are at social pillars that support its politics: the peace, the Civic Media Center the first Sunday of the rest of the people peacefully occupying public “Gainesville Student/Farmworker Alliance.” civil rights, environmental and labor movements. Democratic Party of Alachua County Meetings Gainesville NOW www.gainesvillenow.org. space across this county and the rest of the world. month at 4:30 pm. [email protected]. UF Pride Student Union Group of gay, lesbian, alachuagreens.weebly.com, alachuagreens@gmail. held the second Wednesday each month at 7 [email protected] NOW meeting info www.occupygainesville.org and https://www. www. gainesvilleiww.org bi and straight students & non-students, faculty com, 352-222-3449. p.m. in the 2nd floor auditorium of the County contact Lisa at 352-450-1912. facebook.com/occupygainesville. Administration Building at SE 1st St. and Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Justice and staff. www.grove.ufl.edu/~pride. Alachua County Labor Coalition meets University Ave. Office is at 901 NW 8th Ave., Gainesville Socialists is a bi-weekly reading and Our Santa Fe River and Ichetucknee organizes faith communities to work together UF Radical Student Alliance is a progressive monthly and organizes to support local labor 352-373-1730, alachuadems.org. discussion group. Meetings are open to all who Alliance are two of a number of grassroots for immigrant justice. Meets 2nd Mondays at grassroots organization that strives to combat and advance the national campaign for universal, consider themselves socialists, are interested in environmentalist groups campaigning to protect Edible Plant Project Local collective to create 6 pm at La Casita, 1504 W. University Ave. social justice issues on campus, with our core single-payer health care. Memberships are $20/ socialism, or are otherwise curious. Meetings are and restore the rivers and springs. See: http:// a revolution through edible and food-producing (across from Library) GainesvilleIAIJ@gmail. values being transparency, democratic process, year. Contact: http://laborcoalition.org/, info@ held at the CMC every other Tuesday at 8 pm, com; 352-377-6577 www.oursantaferiver.org/ and http://www. plants. 561-236-2262 www.EdiblePlantProject.org. [email protected] ichetuckneealliance.org/ the value of each member’s input, and the laborcoalition.org, 352-375-2832, PO Box ability of any member to assume a leadership 12051, Gainesville, FL 32604 Families Against Mandatory Minimums Work International Socialist Organization PFLAG (Parents and Families of Lesbians role. Meetings are at 6:30pm Wednesdays on to reform Florida's sentencing laws and restore Gainesville Women’s Liberation The first Organization committed to building a left and Gays) meets the 3rd Tuesday of each campus, [email protected]. American Civil Liberties Union Currently no fairness to Florida's criminal justice system. PO women’s liberation group in the South, formed in alternative to a world of war, racism and 1968; now part of National Women’s Liberation; month at the Fellowship Hall of the United local chapter. For info on forming a new chapter, Box 142933, Gainesville, FL 32614, gnewburn@ poverty. Meetings are every Thurs at the UF United Faculty of Florida Union a feminist group for women who want to fight back Church of Gainesville (1624 NW 5th Ave.) at or ACLU info, contact Jax office 904-353-7600 famm.org. 352-682-2542 classroom building at 105 NW 16th St. at 7 pm. represents faculty at Univeristy of Florida. against male supremacy and win more freedom for 7 pm with a programmed portion and informal or [email protected] [email protected]. 352-392-0274,[email protected], The Fine Print Independent, critically thinking women. The inequalities between women and men meeting with opportunity to talk and peruse www.UFF-UF.org. Amnesty International UF campus chapter outlet for political, social and arts coverage are political problems requiring a collective solution. Kindred Sisters Lesbian/feminist magazine. PO their resource library. pflaggainesville.org. through local, in-depth reporting for Gainesville’s Confidential Helpline 352-340-3770 or email of worldwide human rights movement; www. Founded 1968. Join us: www.womensliberation.org, Box 141674, Gainesville, FL 32614. www.kindred- United Nations Association, Gainesville students. www.thefineprintuf.org. [email protected]. facebook.com/ufamnesty or UFAmnesty@ P.O. Box 14017, Gainesville, 32604, 347-560-4695, sisters.org, [email protected]. Florida Chapter Purpose is to heighten citizen gmail.com. Florida School of Traditional Midwifery A [email protected]. Planned Parenthood Clinic Full-service health awareness and knowledge of global problems clearinghouse for information, activities and Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program and the UN efforts to deal with those issues. Avian Research and Conservation Institute Gainesville Zen Center & Hostel center for reproductive and sexual health care educational programs. 352-338-0766 www. A Zen needs volunteers to join its advocates who www.afn.org/~una-usa/. (ARCI) Non-profit research organization Buddhist community offering rooms to rent on protect elders’ rights in nursing homes, assisted needs. Offering pregnancy testing and options midwiferyschool.org counseling for $10 from 10am-noon and 2-5pm. working to stimulate conservation action to save a daily basis. 404 SE 2nd St., 352-336-3613, living facilities, family care homes. Training United Way Information and Referral Florida Defenders of the Environment works to Located at 914 NW 13th St. 352-377-0881. threatened species of birds in the southeastern [email protected]. and certification provided. 888-831-0404 or Human-staffed computer database for resources protect freshwater resources, conserve public lands, U.S., www.arcinst.org. http://ombudsman.myflorida.com. and organizations in Alachua County. 352-332- and provide quality environmentaleducation since Pride Community Center of North Central Graduate Assistants United Union represents 4636 or simply 211. Citizens Climate Lobby (Gainesville Chapter) 1969, 352-475-1119, Fladefenders.org UF grad assistants by fighting for improved MindFreedom North Florida Human rights Florida Resources for the gay/lesbian community, open M-F, 3-7, Sat. noon-4. provides education/activist opportunities to working conditions, community involvement group for psychiatric survivors and mental Veterans for Peace Anti-war organization Gainesville Area AIDS Project provides Located at 3131 NW 13th St., Suite 62. 352- bring about a stable climate. Meetings are on the and academic freedom. 352-575-0366, officers@ health consumers. 352-328-2511. that raises awareness of the detriments of toiletries, household cleaners, hot meals, frozen 377-8915, www.GainesvillePride.org. Wednesday after the first Saturday of each month at food at no cost to people living with HIV/AIDS. ufgau.org, www.ufgau.org militarism and war as well as seeking peace- 12:30, at Vine Bread & Pasta place at 627 N. Main Move to Amend, Gainesville is an organization www.gaaponline.org, [email protected], Protect Gainesville Citizens Group whose ful and effective alternatives. Meets first St. 352-672-4327, www.citizensclimatelobby.org, Grow Radio Non-profit provides opportunities for dedicated to amending the US Constitution to 352-373-4227, Open Tuesdays 10-1 and last mission is to provide Gainesville residents with Wednesday of every month at 7 pm. 352- [email protected] community members to create and manage engaging, establish that money is not speech, and that Friday of month 5-7. accurate and comprehensible information about 375-2563, www.afn.org/~vetpeace/. educational, locally-generated programming to only human beings have constitutional rights. the Cabot/Koppers Superfund site. 352-354- Civic Media Center Alternative reading room Gainesville Citizens for Alternatives to promote fine, musical/visual arts and humanities for movetoamend.org/fl-gainesville WGOT 94.7 LP-FM Community low- 2432, www.protectgainesville.org. and library of the non-corporate press, and a Death Penalty works to abolish the death enrichment of the community. www.growradio.org. power station operating as part of the resource and space for organizing. 352-373- penalty. Join vigils when Florida has an ex- PO Box 13891, Gainesville, 32604, 352-219-0145 National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding Civic Media Center. [email protected], 0010, www.civicmediacenter.org. ecution. Meets first Tuesday every month at (v), 352-872-5085 (studio hotline) Support, education and advocacy for families provides innovative ways to resolve conflict www.wgot.org.

page 22, Iguana, November/December 2015 Gainesville, Florida www.GainesvilleIguana.org November/December 2015, Iguana page 23 SCIENCE, from p. 2 Support the interactive. These elementary-age children are learning physics, chemistry and biology through observation and participation. They are all having fun while they learn. Civic Media Center! We have more than 60 Science individuals and organi- zations volunteering. The response to our request for The CMC had a crazy but good month of October. Having the founding community Science Partners has been very positive. anniversary on Oct. 18 every year locks it into doing something special, and this year was an outdoor dinner celebration at the First Magnitude The Science volunteers have said that it has been a very Brewing Company. Between great raffle items and a great dinner pre- positive experience sharing their area of the sciences with pared by CMC volunteers and Board members, it was an event that went the children in an atmosphere where fun is expected. well and can serve as a bigger and better event model for the future. We work with the Alachua County Public Schools Sci- ence curriculum, so hopefully what they are studying The other major highlight was the CMC being once again a very popular in the classroom is being demonstrated in our program. acoustic venue for The Fest on Halloween weekend. In a cooperative arrangement with the Citizens Co-op, the CMC and Co-op were able Our volunteers are physicists, chemists, biologists, ge- ologists, horticulturists, entomologists, bee keepers, as- to serve food and drink to the hundreds of folks who came through the tronomers, zoologists and the Association of Women in doors. Thanks to all the volunteers who helped out, and it was great to Science. Our volunteers are from the Harn Museum, hear from attendees and musicians who heaped praise on the CMC. The the Planetarium, the Cade Museum, the Sierra Club and CMC being here in Gainesville over twenty years can lead locals to take Lubee Bat Conservancy. it for granted. It is grassroots support that can keep it going, much as it has over the decades, yes, decades! On Dec 8, Dr. Roberts and the CAC Board of Directors will host a Holiday Social to thank all of our volunteers from this Please think about throwing some support to the CMC in this next month program and also the 5th Ave Arts Festival, Environmental or two. Without major events as above recounted, it is always a struggle Ambassadors and our Environmental Youth Summit. at the very end of the year. The new coordinators are moving into an Please call 352-372-0216 if you want to volunteer in our attempt to branch out publicity and fundraising to new social media plat- exciting programs. You can also visit our website www. forms. Technology has changed so much, but the need for the CMC is culturalartscoalition.org for more info on CAC. D still there, and reminding past supporters that they are still counted on even as it reaches out through other methods is a continuous situation. Unfortunately, fundraising is still hampered by the temporary suspension The of it 501(c)3, so all the more your generosity is counted on. Paypal on the website is still there on the website, Gainesville and checks are of course welcome at 433 S. Main St. Gainesville, FL 32601. D Iguana Established 1986 This Changes Everything The Gainesville Iguana Showing in Gainesville is Gainesville's progressive December 3, 7:30pm events calendar and newsletter Regal Royal Park Subscribe! Stadium 16 Individuals: $15 (or more if you can) $12 general admission Low/No income: what you can Groups: $20 Join us for a screening of Naomi Klein’s groundbreaking documentary “This Gainesville Iguana, P.O. Box 14712, Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Gainesville, FL 32604 Climate”. Based on her worldwide best- Comments, suggestions, contributions (written or selling book of the same name, This financial) are welcome. Changes Everything gives a powerful To list your event or group, contact us at: tour of the growing global climate jus- (352) 378-5655 tice movement. [email protected] This event is jointly presented by Progressive Gators and Alachua County www.gainesvilleiguana.org Wants Bernie Sanders. Representatives from both groups will be available facebook .com/gainesvilleiguana before and after the screening to answer questions and give more information about local efforts to address climate causes and solutions.. Current and past issues (since 1996) are online (complete issues available as PDFs) Advance tickets at by Nov 26th. D at www.gainesvilleiguana.org

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