Free screening of the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” @ Wylie Hall, Room 005

Join PLG for our Earth Day installment of movie night!

Who: The IU Progressive Librarian's Guild hosts a
What: Free screening of the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth"
When: Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Where: Wylie Hall, Room 005

Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's
scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that
could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving
extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond
anything we have ever experienced. 

With wit, smarts and hope, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH ultimately brings home Gore's
persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a
political issue - rather, it is the biggest moral challenges facing our global
civilization. 

Website for the film: http://www.climatecrisis.net/

This film has won 18 awards to date, including 2 Oscars: Best Documentary &
Best Original Song
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Hospital Staff Art Show v.2.0 @ hospital (1021 S. Walnut St.). 8-11p.

Hospital Staff Art Show v.2.0

Featuring work by the folks who make Hospital happen, including:

Mark Rice

Brad Wicklund

Aaron Deer

Andrea de la Rosa

j. shelley harrison

Riva Jewell-Vitale

Amy Karr

William Winchester Claytor

Friday April 6

8-11pm

1021 S. Walnut St.

All Ages

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free emergency contraception @ planned parenthood (near corner of college and 2nd). 10:30a-7p.

Planned Parenthood of Indiana will offer free emergency contraception pills to people from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Planned Parenthood’s Bloomington center at 421 S. College Ave.

Steve Carr, Planned Parenthood’s communications manager, said no appointments are necessary. People 18 or older can simply walk into the Bloomington center and get their pills.

“Anyone who is not yet 18 will need to get a prescription,” he said. “One of our nurse practitioners can write a prescription for the person at the center.”

Link to HT article on this event

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craft night for boxcar prom @ microcosm hq (nw corner of 3rd + rodgers). 4p.

hey y'all!  come help make prom decorations so we can make the  
bluebird look sweeeet!  this is the biggest fundraiser of the year for  
both boxcar and pages, so we really need your help!

details-
- 4pm on sunday (we'll go for hours, so show up whenever you can)
- sparky's house/microcosm headquarters (north-west corner of 3rd & rogers)
- bring any craft supplies you have (paint, markers, paper, cardboard,  
tape...)

we are also building a decorating committee for the day of the prom.   
decorating starts at noon on saturday the 7th.  if you're into it,  
please e-mail me or sign up at boxcar.  yeah!

abbey

bloomington event calendars

boxcarbooks.org, bloomingtonarts.info, http://events.publicbroadcasting.net/wfiu/events.eventsmain, http://www.visitbloomington.com/calendar/, and http://events.iu.edu/webevent.cgi?cmd=opencal&cal=cal3

maps, population growth, web art project

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Update 2010-10-17: It seems like a lot of people come to this post looking for a blank map of the United States.  I updated the link at the bottom of the page to point to a much better version from Wikimedia Commons.  Download a SVG/PNG blank map of the United States.

This map has been on my mind all week. It’s from a NYTimes article titled Census Reports Arizona County Still Has Biggest Growth (though the article isn’t just about AZ). It’s a map of relative population increases/decreases around the country. Looking at the map, I want to think in terms of cities or communities as winners or losers or to think about how different or disconnected cities across the country are from each other. But what if this initial perception continues to shape my attitudes, or my actions? What happens when this mentality moves from the individual to the cultural or plays out at a policy level? It seems pretty unimaginative or limiting. This made me think, is there a way of looking at the USA, taking into account factors other than population growth, or incomes, or all the usual metrics of cities and communities? Is there a way of thinking that would show New Orleans as a big green dot and Atlanta as a big red dot? Is there a representation of qualities of cities that would make both New Orleans and Atlanta have the same type of dot? Is the red/green dot dichotomy too limiting to begin with? Let’s make our own maps that maybe show the relative nature of the places we live, or know, or read about, or hear about from a different perspective, with different values or metrics, or with more imagination.

Here’s how:

  1. Download a copy of a blank map of the USA from here.
  2. Draw on the map with a program like photoshop or print it out and draw on it by hand.
  3. Your new map should be a representation of the relative nature of different places in the US using circles of different sizes and colors, but you can use additional graphics/symbols too.
  4. Email your map to map@terrorware.com (or email that address to make arrangements to send it via postal mail).
  5. I’ll post the maps to this site, we can talk about them, and maybe figure out something cool to do with all of them.