Worthwhile upcoming events

Here are a bevy of goings-on with the Oconee County Democratic Committee and associated groups. Please help out if you can.

Woven brightly,

Daniel J. Matthews, Jr.

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To: oconee@yahoogroups.com
From: ppriest@charter.net
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:31:16 -0400
Subject: [oconee] Worthwhile upcoming events

Hello!

Here are some things I hope you'll read more about to see if you'd like
to come -- or help!

Here's a guide to what's below.

Oh, and contact Carl McGrath if you'd like to help the local Obama
teams, who deserve a HUGE round of applause for the work they're doing
registering voters and making persuasion calls. <CarlMcGrath@yahoo.com>

1. Yard sale items needed

2. Discussion of Obama's autobiography
[And find out what we're reading next!]

3. Important speaker at UGA you will want to hear

4. Reminder about field tour

Thanks for reading!

Pat Priest

1. WE NEED YOUR STUFF for our yard sale we're holding -- soon! --
OCTOBER 18th, the day of the Fall Festival in Oconee. We have the sale
at the wonderful Rita Bennett's house, which is right on the edge of
Rocket Field, where thousands of people pass by each year. Last year we
raised $1200, and we gave half of that to the Sexual Assault Center.
Contact Rita Bennett if you have items to donate or can help staff for a
few hours. Rita Bennett <bonanzagirl@hotmail.com> or 706 207 8535

2. Join us for the second part of the McCain v. Obama Book Challenge!

We'll discuss Obama's "The Audacity of Hope" Thursday, October 16th, at
Five Points Deli on Epps Bridge Parkway at 6 PM in a discussion
moderated by Dr. Sarah Bell, adjunct professor of
English at Gainesville State College in Oconee and former chair of the
Oconee Republican Party.

Come early to order dinner or coffee before the discussion gets
underway. The conversations about the books and
ideas of both men are sponsored by the Oconee County Democrats' book
group, which meets the Third Thursday of each month to discuss politics
and history. In November, they will be discussing "The Great Gatsby."

A discussion of Obama's book will take place in Athens, too, on October
19th, a Sunday, at 7 PM at Ciné at 234 W. Hancock Ave. The moderator in
Clarke County is Sasha Baker, a social studies Teacher of Excellence at
Clarke Middle School.

3 October 21st at 4 the important writer James Kunstler will be
speaking at the University Chapel. He's been trying to sound the alarm
about peak oil and sprawl for a long time. (I'll paste in a little more
about him below.) He'll discuss his latest book, "The Long Emergency."
He will draw a packed house! Get there early!

4. And remember that on October 23rd you can tour the financially
imperiled federal ag facility and its surrounding field sites -- at
5:30. Contact me for more information about this opportunity to traipse
around the fields off Hog Mountain Road and near the center to see what
scientists are working on there.

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James Howard Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, "Because
I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape
of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked
cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment
where most Americans live and work."
Home From Nowhere was a continuation of that discussion with an
emphasis on the remedies. A portion of it appeared as the cover story in
the September 1996 Atlantic Monthly.
His next book in the series, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban
Condition, published by Simon & Schuster / Free Press, is a look a
wide-ranging look at cities here and abroad, an inquiry into what makes
them great (or miserable), and in particular what America is going to do
with its mutilated cities.
His latest book, The Long Emergency, published by the Atlantic
Monthly Press in 2005, is about the challenges posed by the coming
permanent global oil crisis, climate change, and other "converging
catastrophes of the 21st Century."

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