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Learn How to: Campaign for Red Rocks Canyon
You are invited to attend the January meeting of the Pikes Peak Green Party and hear a special presentation on the fight to save Red Rocks Canyon. Speaking will be Tom Faudree of the Red Rocks Canyon Foundation. Learn about the land, its history and why the April election will be important to its future. The PPGP monthly business meeting will follow the presentation. All registered Greens and friends are encouraged to attend and learn about this important local environmental issue.
When: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 22*
Where: Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Center, 29 S. Institute *
Mark your calendar for this new monthly meeting time: the fourth Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. *

The Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission, along with other organizations including the PPGP will sponsor a symposium on the effects of the USA Patriot Act on Saturday October 26 (the one-year anniversary of its signing into law) at the East Library Branch from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Afterwards, in solidarity with nationwide protests against the imminent attack on Iraq, seminar participants are invited to join the J & P and other peace activists in bannering and peaceful protest at the intersection of Vickers and Academy Blvd.

The PPGP will sponsor a lecture by Green Party candidates for governor and attorney general, Ron Forthofer and Sunny Maynard at 7 p.m. in the Gaylord room of the Worner Center on the Colorado College campus on Friday, October 25. The event is free and open to the public.

Saturday  SEPTEMBER 7,  2002    7:00 pm

AMERICA¹S MOST POPULAR POPULIST JIM HIGHTOWER
TO SPEAK AT COLORADO COLLEGE

For an evening of rip-roarin' Populist humor and agitation, come hear best-selling author and political commentator Jim Hightower speak on Don¹t Mourn, It¹s Time To Organize at Colorado College on Saturday September 7 at Packard Hall on the southeast corner of Cascade and Cache La Poudre Avenues in downtown Colorado Springs.

First Strike Theater, a project of the Pikes Peak Justice & Peace Commission, will kick off the event with some foot-tapping songs.

Hightower - whose radio commentaries air daily on 100 stations nationwide and whose columns appear in the Colorado Springs Independent - will address the reign of "King George the W.", increasing corporate control of our nation¹s water supplies, impact of Frankenfoods on our health, NAFTA, FastTrack "Globaloney, and the need for grassroots activists to take on corporate lobbyists looting the Treasury in the name of "Patriotism." He¹ll also outline his efforts to empower ordinary citizens to take back their government. Hightower, elected twice as State of Texas Agriculture Commissioner, has written numerous books, including Hard Times, Hard Tomatoes and If God Had Wanted Us to Vote, He would Have Given us Candidates.

The event promises to be entertaining, informative and inspiring.
Admission is free.

Saturday  SEPTEMBER 7,  2002    9:00 pm  to  11:00pm

JIM HIGHTOWER & JOHN WEISS TO LEAD BRAINSTORMING/NETWORKING SESSION @ WOOGLIN¹S DELI & CAFÉ

Following his presentation at Colorado College, Hightower and Independent Publisher John Weiss will facilitate a roundtable discussion/information exchange focusing on how our community can mobilize intelligent, much needed populist social change campaigns in the Pikes Peak region.

This event will take place from 9:PM to 10:45 PM at Wooglin's Deli & Café, 823 N. Tejon, two blocks from the site of Hightower¹s evening lecture.

Admission to this event is $20, $10 for low-income individuals.
Participants will receive:

• a year long subscription to the LowDown, Hightower¹s monthly newsletter
• your choice of a complimentary beer, coffee or a beer
• your choice to earmark $10 of your $20 admission fee to one of the following organizations:
1. The Trails, Open Space & Parks extension campaign
2. The Independence Community Fund 2002/2003 campaign
3. The Pikes Peak Justice & Peace Commission¹s relocation fund

Saturday  AUGUST 31,  2002     9:00 am  to  5:00 pm

The Pikes Peak Green Party's workshop on consensus building with trainer David Lillie will take place on August 31 from 9 am to 5 pm at the Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission at 29 S. Institute Street, Colorado Springs. The cost is $20. Anyone is welcome.

AUGUST 18,  2002

Annual Pride Fest march and activities will take place August 18 at Acacia park, Colorado Springs. The Pikes Peak Greens will have a table at the event and members are encouraged to march. Alison Maynard Green candidate for Colorado Attorney General , and possibly Ron Forthofer Green candidate for Colorado Governor, plan to attend.

AUGUST 8,  2002    7:00 pm

The Pikes Peak Green Party is sponsoring 
Health Care for All Colorado at the
Hillside Community Center
925 S. Institute, Colorado Springs

Speakers will be Dr.Howie Wolf a Physician, and Dick Meuser from the Committee to save Medicare. Ron Forthofer, the Green Party candidate for Governor will be there. Information about the Green party Will be presented.

What is HCAC? ( Health Care for All Colorado ) HCAC is an all-volunteer Colorado non-profit group working to: inform Coloradans about advantages of the single-payer system of paying for health care build a coalition of groups to draft an initiative that will provide comprehensive, affordable and high quality health care for all Coloradans · create a grassroots movement to place the initiative on the ballot in 2004. We came into existence because of the widespread problems in our current non-system of 'providing' health care. For example, under our current 'system', we find the following: · approximately 43 million Americans, including 700,000 Coloradans lack health insurance · the U. S. spends roughly twice as much per person as any other country in the world the U. S. ranks 37th in the world in health care ·the choice of doctors is restricted by the insurance companies · medical expenses are responsible for 40% of our bankruptcies. What is the single-payer system? Succinctly, the single-payer system provides health care without insurance companies. Single payer is a form of financing health care in which there is one agency (public or quasi-public) that pays the providers for the care they deliver. In other words, it provides private health care through public insurance. A key advantage is a tremendous reduction in administrative costs from approximately 15-20% to less than 3% of the health care budget. Providers are not employees of the government but they negotiate each year on pay schedules with the single-payer agency.