Friday, July 7th, 7:30-9 pm, Keynote Address at Smiley Auditorium            (13th Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues) Bioneers Founder Kenny Ausubel and his partner Nina Simon "The Dreaming Revolution: Creating an Future Environment of Hope"  Question and Answer session to follow.           http://bioneers.org/whoweare/board.php   Tickets $10/person $5/FLC Student available at Maria's Bookshop, 960 Main Avenue.
	Saturday, July 8th, 6:30-10:00 pm, 'Slow Food' dinner & Movie at The Abbey Theater                  (128 E. College Drive) 7:00 pm: A gourmet, locally grown & prepared Slow Food dinner will be served                Food provided by Chimney Rock Farm, Mas Valley Mushroom Farms,                Napier Family Farms and Regional Agricultural Supply 8:00 pm: "Eat Drink Man Woman" nominated in 1994 for Academy Award as best foreign film .  Tickets $40 available at Maria's Bookshop, 960 Main Avenue.  Tickets will also be available Friday evening at the Smiley Auditorium Tickets must be purchased by 9pm on Friday.
	Sunday, July 9th, Noon-3:30 pm, Inspiring Films at The Abbey Theater                (128 E. College Drive) Noon: "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" 53-minutes               http://www.communitysolution.org/cuba.html  1:00 pm: Discussion of Cuban film led by Jim Dyer 2:00 pm: The Great Warming (US Version) 82-minutes

Click Here to see the full-sized poster and schedule for the July 10, 2005 Event.

On-Going Demos (2005)

Hesperus, CO   Yesterday, Sunday, July 11th, 2004, Oakhaven Permaculture center held its first annual fund-raiser "Swadeshi on the Green: A Festival of Local Self-Sufficiency." Over 350 people attended the festival in bright, sunny mid-July weather. People came not only from Durango, but also from Pagosa Springs, Bayfield, Cortez, Dolores, Mancos, and Aztec and Farmington, NM.

Listen to a 5-minute Good Dirt Radio show that was recorded during the 2004 Swadeshi Festival.  

Swadeshi in Southwest Colorado
by Tom Riesing

Oakhaven Permaculture Center, in South- western Colorado's LaPlata County, will host "Swadeshi on the Green: A Festival of Local Self-Sufficiency," Sunday, July 11th. Planned as an annual celebration of local culture and production, the event will feature food and music, but the real focus will be a series of workshops to help people learn how to keep bees; make beer, bread, cheese, candles and soap; convert from diesel to bio-diesel; find native herbs, install wind or solar power; and spin and weave wool. Carried into practice and into livelihoods, all these activities would eventually ... 
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'Swadeshi' emphasizes local food, commerce and community
Living Simply Nancy Jacques

    From noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oakhaven Permaculture Center, in cooperation with Fort Lewis College Environmental Center, Southwest Natural Builders Guild, Southwest Marketing Network and Colorado Organic Producers Association will be hosting “Swadeshi on the Green”, a festival of self-sufficiency. You’re invited!

"Swadeshi" means support of local relationships, of commerce and the land we depend on by how we create and consume. Gandhi used this principle to encourage India's communities to come out from under the British thumb by practicing self-sufficiency. His efforts, and Swadeshi principles, have. special relevance today in this complex, corporate age. Click here to read the rest of this article.

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Articles on Gandhi's Swadeshi:

J.C.Kumarappa: Ecological Seer
by A. Rangarajan, Resurgence No.225 July/August 2004

An appreciation of the life and work of J. C. Kumarappa: `Gandhi's economist'

KUMARAPPA WAS a man ahead of his time and a seer who mostly walked alone. Scarcely remembered in his own country today, his contribution to ethical economic thought is monumental. Simply put, Kumarappa was Gandhi's economist. He advocated the village as the centre of economic affairs, the revival of village industries and rural technology and agrarian reforms. The home-spun khadi and swadeshi or economic self-reliance were institutions greatly enriched by Kumarappa. Click here to read the rest of this article.

Gandhi and Development
by Ela Gandhi, Resurgence No. 214 September/October 2002

GANDHI'S TWENTY-ONE years of experience in South Africa transformed his views on life and human existence. He started to look at the world from a poverty-trapped peasant's perspective, rather than from a middle-class bourgeois perspective. Stories of atrocities committed against exploited workers by their masters shaped his thinking and brought him closer to the Earth. Click here to read the rest of this article.

The relevance of Gandhiji's Teaching for us today

Some of the key Concepts - Message for future generations
Lecture by Ela Gandhi, October 4, 2003

...Swadeshi: The term was coined in the 1908 period in India where the spinning wheel was already proving to be a valuable asset. Gandhiji was clear that village industries could start up in order to make villages sustainable but unless it received the backing of the rich it would collapse... Click here to read the rest of this article.

Click Here to see the full-sized poster and schedule from the Swadeshi 2004.

Oakhaven Permaculture Center, 4179 County Road 124, 
Hesperus, CO 81326    (970) 259-5445

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* The Oakhaven "Think, Grow, Eat & Buy Locally" is inspired by Gandhi's 'Swadeshi' or local self-sufficiency. He defined it as:    "Buy Local, be proud of local, support local, uphold and live local."