Just a reminder that the 19th annual EarthFest at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is this Sunday, 4/20, from 10am-5pm.

If you participate in Walk Or Bike For The Earth, or ride the RTA Clean-Air bus from Downtown, you get in free!

Literary Creativity and Invention has its first event on Tuesday April 1st from 7pm to app. 8:30pm. This event will be at the newly-renovated Lakewood Public Library, Main Branch, at 15425 Detroit Ave. The guest will be Erin O’Brien. She is an LHS graduate, author, bi-weekly columnist in The Free Times as Rainy Day Woman, and sister of the author John O’Brien.

Notacon is creativity: Participate in North America’s largest demoparty, Blockparty. Try your hand at powerpoint karaoke.
Notacon is technology: Rural technology, academic internet studies, personal privacy and computer security.
Notacon is music: Learn to create and use circuit bending instruments. Engage in experimental music performances.
Notacon is imagination: Move data using Anything but Ethernet.
Notacon is participation: Talk on Notacon Radio. Create a competition entry. Enjoy interactive art.

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If I’m late to the MTB interview, it’s because my bus route goes here:

Tomorrow, Tuesday, at 5 PM, please come downtown to help hold up the nearly mile-long string of names of the 4,000 US soldiers who’ve died in Iraq (plus 200 doves per page to represent the Iraqis killed) across the Detroit-Superior/Veteran’s Memorial Bridge. The idea is to reach commuters on their way home with a physical manifestation of the number of deaths caused by the Iraq war and occupation. Because the numbers are so high and the string is so long and Cleveland by the lake is so windy, we’ll need at least 100 people to help hold up this string.

Commemoration of the 4,000th US Military Death of the Iraq War…

…and 1,000,000 Iraqi deaths

Gather at the downtown side of Veterans’ Memorial Bridge, also known as the Detroit Superior Bridge

TUESDAY, March 25, 2008

5:00 p.m.

Sponsored by NOAC and Peace Action

4000 US troops have died in Iraq as of today. Over 1 million Iraqis have died from the war and occupation.

We will commemorate these tragedies by holding up (if we can recruit enough people) a string almost 1 mile in length of names of killed US soldiers in Iraq. Each name is on a sheet of paper with a border of 250 doves (to represent dead Iraqis). The sheets of paper are encased in a plastic protector. There will also be 4000 white lights.

The project is a mammoth undertaking requiring the help of at the very least one hundred people to pull it off.

Please do everything you can to make it to the Veteran’s Memorial Bridge TUESDAY at 5:00 PM.

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From Michael DeAloia:

Senator Sherrod Brown will hold a Town Hall meeting with representatives from local technology companies on Monday, March 24 at 2:00pm in the 2nd floor conference room of the Idea Center Building at 1375 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115.

FIT Technologies, one of the many companies who will join the meeting on Monday, moved to the Playhouse Square area of Downtown Cleveland two years ago. “There are clearly opportunities for collaboration within the tech district that is evolving here in at Playhouse Square,” stated Micki Tubbs, President of FIT Technologies. “Having Senator Brown convene a group of people to get ideas on how to assist in growing the tech sector in Cleveland will prove to be very beneficial.”

During the past four years over 35 technology-based companies have moved into the City of Cleveland – these companies now employ over 1,000 people. Topics for the meeting may include ways in which his office can stimulate growth, support collaborative efforts between business and education, and create job opportunities in the Cleveland market.

Members of the general public are welcome to attend the meeting.