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Sergio Lub www.favors.org/profile/24 * UPCOMING EVENTS 2011 Apr 1st - Fri at 6:00 PM PAUL FITZGERALD & ELIZABETH GOULD - Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire Presentation by the first American journalists in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion and who continued working there for 3 decades � What they have learned, what are the possibilities and what we can do to influence the outcome Location: MDPC Mt. Diablo Peace Center, 55 Eckley Lane, Walnut Creek, CA 94596 - (925) 933-7850 - www.mtdpc.org tinyurl.com/CrossingZero 2011 Apr 4th - Mon at 5:00 PM ELIZABETH GOULD & PAUL FITZGERALD - Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire Presentation by the first American journalists in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion and who continued working there for 3 decades – What they have learned, what are the possibilities and what we can do to influence the outcome Location: San Francisco State University - 1600 Holloway Avenue . San Francisco . CA 94132 . Tel (415) 338-1111 - Lecture Room HSS 306, on the corner of Holloway Ave. and 19th Ave. tinyurl.com/CrossingZero 2011 Apr 6th - Wed at 6:00 PM JIM ROUGH: Dynamic Facilitation. Skills for Collective Wisdom Potluck dinner followed by a workshop from the creator of the Dynamic Facilitation seminars. DF opens exciting doors of possibility for collective wisdom, spiritual evolution, true democracy, and for solving impossible problems. Location: Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) - 101 San Antonio Rd. - Petaluma, CA 94955 [email protected] www.tobe.net 2011 Apr 27th - Wed at 6:00 PM GEORGIA KELLY: Mondragon Cooperatives and the refreshing alternative of workers' owned businesses. Potluck dinner and a presentation by the president of the Praxis Peace Institute and host of the educational visits to Mondragon Cooperatives in Spain. Location: NeXus at United Earth Networks at the Craneway Center - 1414 Harbour Way South, Suite 1010, Richmond, CA 94804 www.praxispeace.org * * * PAST EVENTS RECORDINGS Chronological list of videos freely available online: 2011-03-11 - Kevin Blackwell - Communicating with wise spirits www.ustream.tv/recorded/13263881 2011-03-08 - Marcin Jakubowski - Open Source Ecology www.ustream.tv/recorded/13190637 Q&A: www.ustream.tv/recorded/13191323 2011-02-10 - Georgie Weston - Challenge Day for teen students www.ustream.tv/recorded/12606159 2010-12-07 – Arq. Robert Swatt - West Coast Green Architecture www.ustream.tv/recorded/11314978 2010-11-19 - Steve Bassett - Disclosure and Exopolitics Sound: www.ustream.tv/recorded/10967854 Documentary: nhne-pulse.org/ufo-documentary-the-day-before-disclosure 2010-11-16 - Richard Miles - Appreciating childhood wisdom. www.ustream.tv/recorded/10906168 2010-10-08 - Graham Hancock - Egyptian Worldview and Entangled - Parallel Realms and the Mysteries of the Vine of the Dead. Presentation: www.ustream.tv/recorded/10083095 Conversation: www.ustream.tv/recorded/10085941 2010-09-15 - Kathia and Alexander Laszlo - Evolutionary Leadership for Sustainability. www.ustream.tv/recorded/9601495 www.ustream.tv/recorded/9602406 2010-08-20 - Dr. Robert Bowman - Regaining America back from Corporations. www.ustream.tv/recorded/9052806 2010-08-11 - David Blume - Locally produced Alcohol for fuel self-sufficiency. www.ustream.tv/recorded/8871461 2010-07-22 - Carolyn North - Standing Stones and our Ancestors' Mindset www.ustream.tv/recorded/8449707 2010-04-28 - Gunter Pauli - The Blue Economy, 100 innovations - 10 years - 100 million jobs. A challenge to give up doomsday thinking. www.ustream.tv/recorded/6520308 2010-04-08 - Peter Russell - Towards a Science of Being www.ustream.tv/recorded/6057370 2010-03-30th - Peter Meisen - Developing the World Resources Simulation Center www.ustream.tv/recorded/5843235 2010-02-25 – Scott McKeown - Transition Town Movement www.ustream.tv/recorded/5013745 2010-01-21 - Richard Lukens - Craneway.com - Attracting conscious raising events www.ustream.tv/recorded/4139973 2009-12-15 - Jamie Janover - The Unified Field Theory of Nassim Haramein Part 1 of 2: www.ustream.tv/recorded/3147411 Part 2 of 2: www.ustream.tv/recorded/3149981 2009-12-10 - Don Hotson - Quantum Connections - Diracs Equation and the Sea of Negative Energy www.ustream.tv/recorded/2899121 * * * EVENT COST & IN-KIND PAYMENTS Our Dinner/Lectures offer 3 payment options: FREE, $20 or $40. - FREE when you bring a large dish to share AND login at Favors.org giving 20 Thankyous (see below) as you RSVP to an event, - $20 per person if you do only one of the above (the dish OR the 20Ts), or - $40 if you show up with no dish and gave no Thankyous. 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