Oklahoma Independent Media Center

The Executive Director should possess strong public relations and public speaking skills along with a cooperative interfaith mindset. The selected candidate will lead the organization; execute public programming and policy, strategic planning and fund development under the direction of the board of directors. The Executive Director must be committed to the achievement of the Interfaith Alliances vision, mission, and goals. The Executive Director has the authority to make day-to-day decisions for the organization and has significant management and oversight responsibility in all aspects of the organization.

This individual should have significant experience in interfaith community relations and be familiar with Tulsa’s community. Below is a job description:

People of Faith for Fair Wages, a project of the Peace with Justice Task Force of the Kansas/Oklahoma Conference United Church of Christ and Let Justice Roll, a national, nonpartisan coalition of more than 90 faith, community, labor and business organizations, will hold a free public education forum to explore what the faith community can do to resolve issues of paying fair wages and overcoming poverty, Tuesday, November 13, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. at Southern Hills Methodist Church, 6160 South Lewis Avenue, Tulsa.

National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author Jim Hightower will visit Tulsa at a Bill of Rights Celebration hosted by the ACLU of Oklahoma on Saturday, November 10, 2007. The event will be held in the Manchester-Geneva Room of the Doubletree Hotel, 616 W. Seventh Street in downtown Tulsa. Festivities will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m. A banquet will follow at 7:00 p.m.

Hightower broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more than 100 commercial and public stations, on the web, on Armed Forces Radio, Radio for Peace International, One World Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. Each month, he publishes a populist political newsletter, “The Hightower Lowdown,” which now has more than 125,000 subscribers and is the fastest growing political publication in America. The hard-hitting Lowdown has received both the Alternative Press Award and the Independent Press Association Award for best national newsletter.

I believe this is the ONLY bicycling event that is an official Oklahoma Centennial Event. Putting on a bicycling event like this is also something new for Tulsa County Parks and Tulsa City Parks and they are trying very hard to make this event special.

We need a good turn out to encourage them (and others by example) in focusing more on bicyclists and bicycling events.

More information about the Centennial Bike Trek and a link to the
registration form are below.

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October 20th, 2007 Tulsa, OK - all registrations postmarked by October 1st are guaranteed to receive t-shirt

Tulsa County Parks & Tulsa City Parks welcomes all to beautiful downtown Tulsa to celebrate Oklahoma's 100th year of Statehood!

Join us on the Osage Trail at OSU-Tulsa campus to experience Tulsa
hospitality at its best. The Centennial Bike Trek invites all to enjoy the most unique and beautiful areas of Tulsa.

All proceeds will benefit Tulsa City & County Parks effort to make

This summer Peace House Tulsa received sudden news that the owner of the property was renting to another tenant (a much needed grocery for the neighborhood). Thus began a frantic seach for new digs. Tireless Tulsa activist Joni LeViness took the reins and below is a report from her of the good news about the new home for Peace House Tulsa:

Church of the Restoration has agreed unanomously and with Great Enthusiasm, I hear, to allow PH~T to become their tenant at a price that falls within our means of pledges pledged and also allows PH to be a contributing tenant in some meaningful and wonderful ways. We have enough in pledges to carry wifi for the building.

We'll have our own office, our own entrance and use of the sanctuary to be coordinated with COR's wonderful Secretary Vanessa Thomas. Which means we'll STILL have State of the Union Movies, Volunteers willing and able... We'll Still have Tai Chi!

PreserveMidtown in association with The Coalition of Historic Neighborhoods of Tulsa is pleased to announce our first forum and panel discussion Taming the Teardown: A Moratorium to Save our Heritage

Tuesday October 16, 2007
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
All Souls Unitarian Church
2952 S. Peoria, Tulsa

Guest Presenters:
Amanda De Cort - Teardowns and the Economics Involved
Guy De Verges - Environmental Concerns
Steve Novick - Conservation Districts

Moderator:
Stephanie De Verges, MPA

Additional Panelists and Guests:
Michelle Cantrell - Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission
Cason Carter - City Councilor for District 9
Maria Barnes - City Councilor for District 4

“What is a Teardown?
How will it affect me and my property?
What can I do to help?
What can the city do?”

If you have ever asked any of these questions, please join us, listen, learn, express your views and sign our petition.

(Petition online at www.preservemidtown.com or at this event.)

Show your support for the fight against AIDS

The 2007 AIDS Walk Tulsa 15th annual AIDS Walk is 9am, October 6th, 2007 at Veteran's Park.

The Tulsa AIDS Walk is a project of the Community Service Council and donations are tax deductible. All funds raised at the Walk will go to support direct HIV/AIDS services in Tulsa and will receive matching funds from a National AIDS Fund challenge grant.

For information related to AIDS Walk or to donate please contact:

Tulsa Community AIDS Partnership
Attn: Janice Nicklas
16 East 16th Street
Suite 202
Tulsa, OK 74119
(918) 585-5551, Ext. 226

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Walk the Walk with Hanson
2:30 PM @ Cain’s Ballroom
Walk a mile to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS in Africa

Thursday, October 4, 2007
AIDS Walk Tulsa Pre-Party
Club 209
209 N. Boulder 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Music, Walk T-shirts & more…

Saturday, October 6, 2007
AIDS Walk Tulsa
Veteran’s Park 9 AM

This is Tulsa's chance to tell Congress its time to get the ball rolling on impeachment. The Tulsa Impeachment Committee will propose that the Tulsa City Council, along with many other cities, pass a resolution for impeachment.

Please join us if you think BushCo should be impeached!

Place: Francis Campbell City Council Room, 200 Civic Center, Plaza Level

Event: The Tulsa Impeachment Committee presents its case for impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney

Regards,
The IMPEACHOK1 ... The Tulsa Impeachment Committee Team.

http://www.impeachok1.org/SMF/index.php

Two activists infiltrated the Lions Club Town Hall meeting August 14, where the Hon. Sullivan was speaking publicly in Tulsa, after a very long period of insulation from his constituents.

We sat through his propagandistic claims for this industry or that (the ones providing major campaign contributions to Sullivan), and we listened to him make the "business as usual" partisan attacks, and then we were finally given the opportunity to ask him pointed questions on Iraq and the need for impeachment. Ours were the last two questions of the session, before it broke up.

There is only a 2-line mention in Wednesday's paper, about the impeachment discussion in public with the Representative for OK1:

"Two members of the audience tried to draw Sullivan into discussing possible impeachment of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, but the three-term Republican refused to respond."
by: RANDY KREHBIEL Tulsa World Staff Writer
8/15/2007

Frosty Troy to speak Friday, August 10, at 7:00 p.m. at Fellowship Congregation Church, 2900 S. Harvard in Tulsa. This event is free of charge.

Those of you who have heard him need no introduction, but for the others:

Forrest J. "Frosty" Troy, is an editor, radio and television commentator, critic, humorist and one of the most dynamic public
speakers in the country. He is recognized nationally for his upbeat keynotes and presentations on public education. In an era of weasel words and budget cuts, Frosty Troy is a blunt, dynamic defender of public education.

He and his wife, Helen, published The Oklahoma Observer for 30 years, and Frosty still writes for the publication.