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San Joaquin County's Alternative Newspaper PRICELESS connections Volume XXIV, Number 4 Published by the Peace & Justice Network since 1986 May 2006 SAVE THE Sunday, April 30, 11 am–5 pm ¡Bucho! to headline DATES Earth Day Fest 2006: Earth Day April 21–23 Living with the Earth High School Join us on April 30 for Earth tal groups, you will find many new Art Show ...........20 Day (see schedule page 11). faces hosting booths this year. Start the day with A hybrid bus a bike ride, shop from RTD and April 30 for some earth- other energy ef- Earth Day ..... 1&10 friendly gifts, taste ficient vehicles, some delightful new solar items, vegetarian food, how to keep our May 4 and get ready for planet alive and great entertain- healthy, and much ment—all for the Mother's Day more...all in all a Bucho will perform on the United States for the past four earth. Stockton’s fun way to learn. Earth Day stage in Victory yearsTheir tight neo-soul sound 18th annual Earth Craft Fair .........20 The Eday bike Park at 3:30 (see performance provides an urban blend of Day is a free and ride starts and schedule page 11). Presented funk, r&b and hip-hop. festive family ends at the north by ASUOP, Bucho bridges the Bucho has garnered a tro- Tuesdays movies at event you won’t side of Victory gap between old school soul and want to miss. phy case full of accolades Park (starting horn bands of the past with the and awards, most recently the P&J center ..18 Set in beautiful Victory Park, time 11:30). Music kicks off just youth twist of Hip-Hop energy. the SAMMIE (Sacramento this Earth Day Festival will be big- before noon. UOP students will A strong musical collective Area Music Award) Hall of ger and better than ever (see pages walk from campus starting at that originated in Sacramento, Fame. They were chosen by Sac 10-11). In addition to numerous IN THIS 1:30 pm. The musical sounds of Bucho has rocked crowds Magazine as Sacramento's most projects to make our community Sammy-award winning Bucho throughout the Western intellectual dance band. ISSUE more livable by local environmen- finish the day at 3:30. Iran war: Join the campaign to restore the Delta unthinkable! .......3 Approximately 40 residents and communities, boaters, anglers, diverse group of people who live Source: The PCL Insider: News From activists in Stockton came together teachers, and community political in the Delta have come together in The Capitol, 4/4/06 www.pcl.org Chernobyl: for a community meeting to kick figures. Their campaign will likely a campaign to protect and restore off a broad coalition-led campaign be based upon successful models their natural heritage," explained 20 years later ....4 to restore the California Delta, such as the League to Save Lake PCL's Matt Vander Sluis. an ailing 738,000 acre area east Tahoe, Mono Lake Committee ACTION: To find out how to of the San Francisco Bay Area. and the Save the American River get involved in please contact Immigration action Participants at the Thursday meet- Association, bringing attention to Matt Vander Sluis (916) 313- ing included environmentalists, the need for a healthy Delta."We're 4515 [email protected]. Get .........................5 members of the agricultural com- excited to see this effort take your www.RestoreTheDelta.org munity, representatives of faith shape. It's the first time such a bumper sticker today! Blogs: some smart voices .................6 Peace & Justice Network Nonprofit Org. of San Joaquin County U.S. Postage P.O. Box 4123 Health is the issue PAID Stockton, CA 95204 Permit No. 488 .................... 8&9 209/467-4455 Stockton, CA Forests in peril .. 12 From the editor Editor: Bruce Giudici, 786-3109; The more you look, the more you see [email protected] Associate Editors: War & peace: John Morearty Bruce Giudici controlling where jobs are be- air: global warming. Here again Bruce Politics: Gary Barrington ing created to maximize profits the choice is simple and difficult. Environment: vacant It is a time of convergence. We Giudici (which are at record levels, by We must simply adopt a global Layout: Laurie Litman find before us the stark choice of Proofreader: Debbie Cousyn the way). ceiling on uses of resources—in latest news on Mars is that it has two paths —as clear as mountain Ad Rep: Beth Luna, 931-4543 this case, fossil fuels—or else no atmosphere —so I guess we're Doris air after a spring rain. The choice And now for the difficult part: Distribution Coordinator: to put more money above the within 100 years we will flood stuck here for awhile. Haskell, 477-5166 is simple and difficult: simple, The Woodshed, the global coasts where most of Distribution Site: because we all know what must line into salaries, less must flow Every news story points to 630 N. Grant, 462-8834 our populations live. We must be done, and difficult, because to the bottom line: more profits these sustainable solutions: yet Distributors: Rosemary Atkinson, must be shared with the workers. adopt simpler eating habits, so Reid Cerney, Fred & Christy Dillemuth, to succeed we must make sacri- we postpone the inevitable. The Eric Parfrey, Art Raab, John Whittock, that our agriculture can supply fices. The rich will have to sacrifice magic of the marketplace won't and many others their dividends and capital gains calories to hungry people most save us here—the markets are Community Calendar: vacant Simply put, we as a global (known as unearned income, for efficiently—meaning eating less driven by lowest dollar cost. Deadline: 7th of each month (except people must share more and treat Aug & Dec) some reason)—for the sake of meat and more grains, conserv- Income distribution and envi- the earth with more respect. In a Circulation: 10,000 international peace and common ing farmlands and wild habitats. ronmental values are ignored. It world where millions upon mil- decency. And is this so difficult We must know the life cycle of is time for us to save our peoples onneCtions lions make less than $1 a day, we C is a monthly after all? When an American the products we buy—meaning and our world. So—take part publication of the Peace & must embrace a global minimum making over $10 million re- we must reduce, reuse and re- in a labor demonstration in in- Justice Network of San Joaquin wage and a global ceiling on County. The views expressed ceives a $500,000 Bush tax cut cycle everything. ternational solidarity for all us in ConneCtions are those of the wealth and income. Check out the this year, that money could The difficult part is that we workers. Come to the Earth Days authors and are not necessarily recent street demonstrations. The endorsed by the Network. News, otherwise be spent on saving the have to change some ingrained in your communites—Angels articles, letters and calendar debate over immigrant rights, lives of 100,000 children with habits most of us hold almost re- Camp April 23, Stockton April items should be sent to the after all, is an argument over Peace & Justice Network, P.O. a $5 immunization. Tax money ligiously. Giving fuel efficiency 30 and anywhere else and learn international wage levels—if Box 4123, Stockton, CA 95204. spent, economy stimulated, end primacy, driving less, eating less some new habits. And protest The editor reserves the right of undocumented workers earned of story. Moving the funds into meat, recycling, buying items the wars, in which we workers final decision on copy. Call (209) more in their native lands, there 467-4455 for more information. increased salaries would likewise with less packaging, conserving die and are maimed, so that the PJN is on the internet: http://www. would be no immigrant "prob- pjnsjc.org stimulate the economy. water—in other words, leaving rich are able to maintain control lem." Workers are fighting over the world in better shape for the over our world. This has gotten the crumbs dropping from the As Earth Day approaches, an- next generation to carry on. The out of hand. Get mad, get smart, table of the super-rich who are other communal problem fills the get active. Feedback they use, in constant pain tests, I used both sides and I carried it In my opinion, it is better to where they deprive the dogs of high. The other side of the sigN invite workers to join our fight ^ Support humane product pain relief while they test the read “obreras unidas jamas seran regardless race or nationality. If Peace & Justice Network pathology of pain and drug ad- vencido” (“the workers united you are only inviting “La raza” testing Board of Directors diction. If you are pro-life check will never be defeated”). to unite, you are cutting your Co-Chairs: Laurie Litman/Christie Kelley Would you knowingly give out www.lifeissues.org Find The people around me were numbers and your chances of Vice-Chairperson: Gary Barrington your money to a charity or com- out about March of Dimes, and reading the signs and making the winning battles at the borderline Treasurer: Bruce Giudici pany that would purposely: Break their contradiction about “saving chants loudly—however, there or in the fight for better education Secretary: Bill McLaury Programs Coordinator: Linda dogs backs, sew kittens eyes shut, babies”. Try giving to proven was unity and conflict about the or healthcare. If you are inviting Whittock poison rabbit's eyes/skin? How caring and un-contradictory hu- signs.