Environment

Japan is trying to reopen commercial whaling and we need all hands on deck to stop them.

Come Join the Free State- Save Redbud Woods
help defend Ithaca's urban green space
spend a week, a day, or an afternoon,
Ithaca, NY- university ave, uphill from the cemetary

For the third time in one week, residents of the Coal River Valley of West Virginia and supporters from across the country met at Massey Energy's coal processing plant behind Marsh Fork Elemntary School to demand that it be shut down and cleaned up. Sixteen of the 150 participants in the Moountain Justice Summer campaign were arrested as they attempted to deliver a list of demands to the site's supervisor. Earlier in the day two campaign participants delivered the demands directly to Massey's head offices in Richmond Virginia.

Friends Helping Friends has convinced the Advanced
Auto Parts on Lyell Avenue to let us plant a vegetable garden at Lyell Avenue and Hague Street... immediately south of the Lyell Avenue Advanced Auto Parts.

The City of Rochester will till the lot and provide us the seeds to start planting! But we need your help... bring tools to start working the ground and removing rocks, etc... shovels, hoes, etc...

Be there this Saturday at 10am (till 4pm). Bring
tools and your energy! If you don't have tools, that's ok... we have tools for you to use.

Friends Helping Friends
(585) 254-5490

Bahti' Yah Israel (garden coordinator)
(585) 458-4131

The June monthly meeting of the Green Party of Monroe County will feature Tim Judson from the Citizens Awareness Network (CAN). Tim will be discussing how President Bush's new nuclear energy plan will prevent New York State from bringing green alternative energy solutions to Upstate New York.

Critical Mass / Rochester

Friday, MAY 27: CRITICAL MASS RIDES

The Route:

4:30pm at the CLOCKTOWER at University of Rochester (outside of Wilson Commons).

5:00pm at the Liberty Pole, downtown

"Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists' right to the road. The idea started in San Francisco in September 1992 and quickly spread to cities all over the world. Critical Mass has no leaders, and no central organization licenses rides.

Stop This Nuclear Fallout!

The Green Party of Monroe County's Guest Speaker for their May 9th monthly meeting will be Evan Lowenstein of Green Village Consulting. He will be leading a discussion on urban sprawl. The address is 179 Atlantic Avenue and the talk begins at 7pm.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anheuser-Busch Cos., the nation's No. 1 buyer of rice as well as its largest brewer, says it won't buy rice from Missouri if genetically-modified medicinal crops are allowed to be grown in the state.

Join us to challenge the corporate crime, poisons for profit, and flagrant lies of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (www.bio.org), at the time of their annual international convention, with a creative uprising for truth, life and justice!