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April 7, 14, 21, 28. Vigil for peace, every Wednesday, 7:00-8:00 p.m. (in any and all weather) at the intersection of Germantown Avenue and Bethlehem Pike in Chestnut Hill. More information from 215-843-4256 and nwgreens@yahoo.com.

April 10. "Gas drilling in Marcellus Shale" with Jay Sweeney of Wyoming County's Greens, 8:00 p.m., $30/person (includes diner) at the Singapore Vegetarian Restaurant, 1006 Race Street, Chinatown, Philadelphia.

April 11. Legacy of Vietnam with Sophie Quinn-Judge, David McReynolds and Peter Lems. Pot-luck supper at 4:30 p.m., program at 5:30 p.m., University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut Street, University City, Philadelphia. More information from Brandywine Peace Community, brandywine@juno.com and 610-544-1818.

April 14. Progressive Democrats of America, Philadelphia Chapter, monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m., Friends Center, 15th and Cherry Streets, Center City, Philadelphia. More information from pdaphilly@gmail.com and 215-694-7803.

April 17. Vigil at Army Experience Center, www.shutdowntheaec.net, 11:30 a.m. at Franklin Mills Mall, Knights and Woodhaven Roads in northeast Philadelphia. Endorsed by Northwest Greens.

April 18. Jose Zapatero Peace Event. 26 peace organizations will vigil from 2:00 until 4:00 p.m. near Senator Arlen Specter's home on West Schoolhouse Lane (at Vaux Street) in Germantown. They want Specter to cut off funding for the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq and to bring the troops home now. On this date in 2004, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero withdrew all Spanish troops participating in the occupation of Iraq. For more information, please contact nwgreens@yahoo.com and 215-843-4256.

April 21. "Nuclear Disarmament in the Obama Era" with Joseph Gerson, pot-luck supper and discussion, 6:00 p.m., Rufus Jones Room, Friends Center, 15th and Cherry Streets, Center City, Philadelphia. More information from 610-554-1818 and nptwalk2010@gmail.com.

April 22. Honor the Earth: Abolish Nuclear Weapons, rain or shine, noon, Independence Mall, Sixth and Market Streets, Old Philadelphia.

More information from Brandywine Peace Community, nptwalk2010@gmail.com and 610-544-1818.

May 5, 12, 19, 26. Vigil for peace, every Wednesday, 7:00-8:00 p.m. (in any and all weather) at the intersection of Germantown Avenue and Bethlehem Pike in Chestnut Hill. More information from 215-843-4256 and nwgreens@yahoo.com.

May 1. Mount Airy Day, www.mtairyday.org/, 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., 6400 Germantown Avenue, Mount Airy, Philadelphia. More information from mtairyday@aol.com.

May 6. Northwest Greens monthly meeting, 7:00 pm, in the Weavers Way Meeting Room, 555 Carpenter Lane in West Mount Airy. More information from 215-843-4256 and nwgreens@yahoo.com.

May 15. Vigil at Army Experience Center, www.shutdowntheaec.net, 11:30 a.m. at Franklin Mills Mall, Knights and Woodhaven Roads in northeast Philadelphia. Endorsed by Northwest Greens. More information from cfpabuxmont1@aol.com.

May 16. Abu Ghraib Peace Event, 26 peace organizations will vigil from 2:00 until 4:00 p.m. near the home of Senator Arlen Specter on West Schoolhouse Lane (at Vaux Street) in Germantown. They want Specter to cut off funding for the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq and to bring the troops home now. On this date in 2005, Army Specialist Sabrina Harman was convicted at Fort Hood, TX, for her role in the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. No soldier above the rank of sergeant has been convicted of such crimes, and no soldier has yet been convicted of the torture of Iraqi prisoners. More information from 215-843-4256 and nwgreens@yahoo.com.

May 22. Annual pot-luck luncheon, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) with "Peace and Justice Dove Award" to Philadelphia ACORN, noon, $5/person, Aulenbach House, 29 West Tulpehocken Street in Germantown. More information from stellesheller@yahoo.com and 215-848-3544.

June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30. Vigil for peace, every Wednesday, 7:00-8:00 p.m. (in any and all weather) at the intersection of Germantown Avenue and Bethlehem Pike in Chestnut Hill. More information from

June 19. Vigil at Army Experience Center, www.shutdowntheaec.net, 11:30 a.m. at Franklin Mills Mall, Knights and Woodhaven Roads in northeast Philadelphia. Endorsed by Northwest Greens.

June 20. Muhammad Ali Peace Event, 26 peace organizations will vigil from 2:00 until 4:00 p.m. near the home of Senator Arlen Specter on West Schoolhouse Lane (at Vaux Street) in Germantown. They want Specter to cut off funding for the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq and to bring the troops home now. On this date in 1967, Muhammad Ali, Olympic Gold Medalist and World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, was convicted in Houston of violating Selective Service laws by refusing to be drafted for the U.S.

occupation of Vietnam. More information from 215-843-4256 and nwgreens@yahoo.com.

June 21 through 27. Helping Hands Week for Northwest Greens at Trolley Car Diner. Trolley Car will donate 15% of your bill to this non-partisan, neighborhood organization - IF YOU HAVE A COUPON. Download the coupon at (site available soon). More information from 215-843-4256 and nwgreens@yahoo.com.

July 7, 14, 21, 28. Vigil for peace, every Wednesday, 7:00-8:00 p.m. (in any and all weather) at the intersection of Germantown Avenue and Bethlehem Pike in Chestnut Hill. More information from 215-843-4256 and nwgreens@yahoo.com.

July 23-25. National Conference To Bring the Troops Home Now, www.nationalpeaceconference.org, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany, New York. More information from 516-227-6947 and unac2010@aol.com.

We will be making history on Saturday night, April 10 at 7 PM. We will be seeing and then talking about a very fine documentary of Howard Zinn's book: A People's History of the United States. See the episodes of US History that don't get much play in the textbooks. Hear a heated discussion of implications of such episodes. Popcorn and cider there for your refreshment. And it is all FREE! Green Street Friends Meeting • 45 W. School House Lane • Entrance around back

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*Easily accessible by public transportation (**www.septa.com**), see SEPTA bus #21*

*Peter Lems,* American Friends Service Committee Advocacy Program for Afghanistan and

– Monthly Vigil to Close the Army Experience Center at the Franklin Mills Mall

Become one of Committee of Seventy's Voter Protection Program volunteers and help us resolve problems at polling places and answer voters' questions on Election Day.

The Assignment: Volunteers are trained on election laws and work throughout the Philadelphia region on Election Day helping voters in the field or staffing the 866-OUR-VOTE voter protection hotline. Volunteers work a shift in the morning, afternoon or evening in a part of the city of their choosing.

I just emailed Lisa Jackson & thanked her for starting off my day with a much needed positive note.

The beginning of the end of mountaintop removal mining?

Thank Lisa Jackson for taking action against mountaintop removal mining.

Your message to Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator:

I want to thank you for taking bold action on mountaintop removal mining. After eight destructive years of Bush administration policies, it's well past time to use science rather than politics to guide U.S. environmental regulations.

Dear Friend,

Great news. The Environmental Protection Agency just announced the most significant administrative action ever taken against mountaintop removal coal mining.

During the Bush administration, the EPA ignored the science on mountaintop removal mining and simply rubber stamped destructive mining permits with little or no regard to the devastating effect of this form of coal extraction. The process leaves landscapes scarred, water contaminated, and communities in ruin.

Send Lisa Jackson a thank you for taking bold action on mountaintop removal coal mining. By clicking here, your "thank you" will automatically be sent.

Last week, President Obama's EPA announced new regulations — driven by science — to prevent the significant and irreversible damage mountaintop removal mining inflicts on our watersheds. Tough new water quality standards just released could spell the beginning of the end for this destructive practice.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has directed the regional EPA offices that issue permits to coal mining companies to benchmark the levels of mining runoff that would enter local streams when a new mine is proposed. If a mining operation would raise the levels beyond a permissible standard — more than five times above normal — the regional office must deny the permit.

These guidelines will effectively prohibit most mountaintop removal mining operations that blow the rocks and soil of the top of a mountain and then fill surrounding valleys and streams with the detritus.

Send a quick thank note to Lisa Jackson. By clicking here, your "thank you" will automatically be sent.

Lisa Jackson's actions follow on the heels of an announcement that the EPA would block an existing permit for a massive mountaintop removal mining proposed by Arch Coal in West Virginia. The agency invoked the Clean Water Act in vetoing the project, the first time ever that the EPA has used this authority to reverse a permit that had already been issued.

Big Coal has proven that it will stop at nothing to continue exploiting the earth and the residents of coal country. With so many politicians — Democrat and Republican alike — in the industry's pocket, it's been impossible to get Congress to pass sensible environmental laws. That's where the EPA comes in.

When Congress fails to act, the EPA can invoke scientific studies and use its authority under the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act to take bold action on the most pressing environmental issues of the day. Last week it was mountaintop removal mining. And soon EPA will be using the same tactics to regulate CO2.

The EPA and Lisa Jackson deserve our thanks. Your "thank you" will automatically be sent by clicking here.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson needs to hear from us that we applaud her efforts to use every weapon at her disposal to protect our environment. Give her your thanks and let her know we support using bold action to confront the most pressing environmental threats of our day — from mountaintop removal mining to greenhouse gas emissions.

Thank you for all of your work and dedication. Your pressure works.

Michael Kieschnick, CEO, CREDO Action from Working Assets

P.S. My first job out of graduate school was with the EPA. Then, as now, the good people at the EPA got hammered for following the science by polluters, their lobbyists, and the members of Congress they bought. When the EPA does the right thing, it is good to thank them.

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Subject: Ask Congress to Stand United with the Administration in Opposing Settlements!

National Museum of Women in the Arts [mailto:womenarts@womenarts.pmailus.com]

This spring, the National Museum of Women in the Arts will unveil the first phase of a bold public art project. Sculptures by renowned women artists will be exhibited in changing installations on New York Avenue - at NMWA's front door. The first phase of the New York Avenue Sculpture Project features four monumental sculptures by French-born artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930 - 2002).

Pomp and Power features a series of 25 engravings by French artist Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella (1641-1676) entitled The Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts is pleased to present some of the leading women artists who claim Turkey as their homeland, and whose video art, photography, and painting declare their identity.

Hailing Sara Daneshpour's 2007 performance with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Washington Post wrote that, "She created a transfixing poetry." A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, she has captured the attention of music lovers at venues in her native Washington, D.C., as well as Carnegie Hall and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Daneshpour garnered second prize at the 2007 William Kapell International Piano Competition. General $15, Members, Seniors, and Students $10. Reservations required: please email reservations@nmwa.org or call 202-783-7370.

In Or, Aphra Behn is getting out of the spy trade and into show biz--if she can write her play without interruption. While war rages and Aphra and her friends celebrate free love, the 1660s start to look a lot like the 1960s. Directed by Shirley Serotsky.

Commended for her technical perfection and dramatic performances, as well as her “highly personal interpretation…and dreamy self-assurance” (Frankfurter Allgemeine), Russian-born pianist Sofja Gülbadamova is ascending to new heights. She was the first-prize winner at both the 2008 International Piano Competition in Aix-en-Provence, France, and the 2008 International Francis Poulenc Piano Competition. General $15, Members, Seniors, and Students $10. Reservations recommended. Please email reservations@nmwa.org or call 202-783-7370.

Learn about intaglio printmaking techniques and create your own unique prints. Participants will also view the engravings in Pomp & Power: Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella's "Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua." Free for ages 13-18. Reservations required: please email reservations@nmwa.org or call 202-783-7370.

Join us for brunch at the Museum Cafe on the first Sunday of every month! Eggs any style, omelets, French toast, and waffles cooked to order; fine pastries, fruit, juices, coffees, and tea. FREE admission to the museum. Docent-led tours are available: 12:30, 1:30, and 3:30. For reservations call 202-628-1068. $25.

Join NMWA staff as they offer short gallery talks that explore a variety of topics related to the artworks, artists, and themes featured at the museum. Free with museum admission. Meet at the Information Desk at noon. No reservations required.

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