Hi Everyone-

On March 15 the People's Coalition will host an all day event commemorating 5 years of war in Iraq.  Santa Barbara Permaculture Network will be participating throughout the day, with the theme of Peace through Sustainability & Permaculture.

We will join the Peace March part of the day with creative signage that speaks about wars impact specifically on the environment.  We would like to invite other environmental groups or individuals to join us to march in a cluster with thoughts on this topic.   Signs we have created so far say things like "War=Eco-cide", "There is no Sustainablity in a War Torn Nation".   We invite you to get creative!  Come with good ideas of a more sustainable world that doesn't require resources from far away places to create an abundant society.  Let your signs express these ideas, hopefully in a joyful, imaginative way.

Grow Food Party Crew joins us from Ventura/Oxnard, with their ideas of creating abundance in the neighborhood, by planting edible gardens in front yards of Suburbia: 

"Imagine the feeling of abundance everywhere you go. Walking through your neighborhood or down city streets, the land has a feeling of being cared for and it's obvious – each area is uniquely beautiful and provides food, medicine, fuel and so many other yields year round. People actually interacting – sharing resources and stories about daily life – taking care of each other. Our community has real wealth and power and we are all creating it in our own special way. The Grow Food Party Crew is a collective of people manifesting this vision. We are literally a crew of party people traveling from neighborhood to neighborhood transforming the land through celebration – music, food, dance, play, laughter and hard work.  In the course of a single day we create organic veggie gardens, food forests, water catchment systems, and earthen or natural structures. At night we continue to party down hard - on site or all around town. After all our fun is had, a community resource is created forever!"

 
The day and march begins at Vera Cruz Park.  Please look for our Santa Barbara Permaculture Network signs and join us with your creative signs linking sustainability and the environment in a world where War isn't needed. 

See below for the days complete schedule and events, including Workshops beginning at 2:30 at the downtown Public Library, Faulkner Gallery, where Santa Barbara Permaculture Network and Grow Party Food Crew will make a presentation. 

Imagine another world is possible-

Hope to see you there-
Margie Bushman
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network

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“Five Years Too Many”  March 15, 2008


10-Noon  Day begins at Vera Cruz Park, on Cota Street across from the Farmer’s Market.  Music, open mike,  and a pre-march rally at 11:30 with speakers and entertainment.

NOON, Peace March up State Street to the Courthouse Sunken Gardens, to form a giant human peace symbol.

2:30-6pm, workshops at Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu Street

Also featured will be a live broadcast from the Winter Soldier Hearings in Washington D.C. This is history in the making with eyewitness accounts from soldiers in Iraq ordered to violate conscience and the rules of war. 

At Stearns Wharf, there will be the Arlington West Candlelight vigil from Saturday night through Sunday. On Saturday March 15, Santa Barbara says, it’s “Five Years Too Many!”

This event is sponsored by The People’s Coalition.   www.thepeoplescoalition.org

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Event Supporters: Veterans for Peace, PUEBLO,  Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Democratic Service Club, Health Care for All, Santa Barbara Operation Democracy Council, Sierra Club Santa Barbara, Bush & Cheney Impeachment Town Hall Meet Up, Democratic Party of Santa Barbara, Students Against War, Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, Art for Social Action, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Progressive Democrats of Santa Barbara, People to People TV, the Humanist Society of Santa Barbara,  Code Pink Santa Barbara,  Hope Dance Magazine, RAWA.


Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571
sbpcnet@silcom.com
 www.sbpermaculture.org

May no bomb fall on your head
or on your child's head or on your enemy's head
or on his child's head
or on the snail
in his garden.

"We are like trees, we must create new leaves, in new directions, in order to grow." - Anonymous