[Scpg] From Starhawk--Earth Activist Training ALSO Booksigning and Talk with Author Starhawk Dec 8 Wed 7pm in SB

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

Dec 8 Wed 7pm
Booksigning and Talk with Author Starhawk
and her new book: Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature.
Location: Santa Barbara Central Library (downtown), Faulkner Gallery, 
Donation $5 40 E, Anapamu St
Earth Spirit, Earth Action update on Starhawk book tour, www.starhawk.org.
A talk for people new to the ideas of blending earth-based spirituality 
with political action on behalf of the planet and its peoples.
Contact Student Sustainability Coalition @ SBCC "Leif Skogberg" 
leif_forest at hotmail.com, or Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, 
lakinroe at silcom.com

REQUEST FROM STARHAWK

Hello friends,

Once again I m writing to ask for your help. As I ve been traveling around 
the country this last month, I see so many people in anguish and despair 
about the current situation, wondering what to do and even how to survive 
the next four years.  More than ever, we need hope practical hope grounded 
in knowledge of the alternatives to our current, destructive system and in 
the skills and tools for building that new world.  The Earth Activist 
Trainings that I teach together with Penny Livingston-Stark and Erik Ohlsen 
provide those tools along with the insights and strategic skills of 
organizing and activism.  We have another training coming up in January and 
we have activists, youth, and some amazing older people clamoring to take 
it.  But yes, we need money.  Many of you have given generously in the 
past, and I m grateful and reluctant to ask you again.  But the reality is 
that while we ve raised over $7000 so far in funds, we have requests for 
three times that amount.

EAT combines a permaculture design certificate course in the basics of 
ecological design for gardens, farms, cities, organizations and movements, 
with training in organizing, media skills, action planning and strategy, 
all grounded in earth based spirituality.  EAT graduates are doing 
inspiring work in many areas from transforming urban intersections into 
gathering places to bringing permacuture into nonviolent direct action to 
planting community gardens and seeding new opportunities for inner city 
youth.  Many are already full-time activists when they take the 
program.  Some are rooted in communities who need the knowledge and vision 
they bring back from the course.  Others are going through their own 
personal transitions, looking to find new ways to use the experience they 
ve gathered in building a new world.

So if you re one of the fortunate souls who has a bit extra, if you re 
looking for some way to put your money into growth-producing programs 
instead of weaponry and war, if you want to put some good green energy into 
a place where it will do some good, consider a donation to help fund 
scholarships and programs.  $1100 will fund a full scholarship, but every 
little bit helps.

Here s two ways to do it:
By credit card, online:
Go to www.earthactivisttraining.org/ 
<http://www.earthactivisttraining.org/> and click on the DONATE button at 
the top of the page.

For tax deductible donations, write a check to our fiscal sponser:
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, earmark it EAT, and send it to:
Earth Activist Training
P.O. Box 291
Cazadero, CA 95421

And yes, we still have some room in our upcoming training, January 16-30, 
in western Sonoma County.  For information contact Mer, EAT coordinator, at 
mer at starhawk.org or leave a voice message at 707-583-2300 ext. 119. Or 
check out www.earthactivisttraining.org/ 
<http://www.earthactivisttraining.org/> .

Thanks so much!  May your generosity flow back to you three times over,
Starhawk
www.starhawk.org/ <http://www.starhawk.org/>
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Starhawk is a lifelong activist in peace and global justice movements, a 
leader in the feminist and earth-based spirituality movements, author or 
coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, 
Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising, and her latest, The Earth 
Path.

Starhawk's website is www.starhawk.org, and more of her writings and 
information on her schedule and activities can be found there.