Dr. Genevieve Reid, who traveled to Pakistan with Greg Mortensen\’s Central Asia Institute to train women in basic health care and midwifery will share her experiences at the Livingston Public Library. Dr. Reid is anl Ob-Gyn practicing in Livingston.

Location: Livingston public Library, corner of 3rd and Callender
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Title: Montana Women For general membership meeting
Location: Livingston Public Library
Description: Everyone is welcome to attend. We will be planning and organizing the projects that were suggested at the planning meeting in January.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2010-02-11
End Time: 21:00

A wonderful group of MWF members met in Livingston on Jan 14 for the first general meeting and potluck of the year. We had all the posters from past events hung up around the room to remind us of all this organization has accomplished in the past.  We also [...] Continue Reading…

An excellent article last week  in Counterpunch, the online magazine, by Bruce Patterson examines the official treatment of returning veterans and what it says about our country’s political approach to war.  The article is called “Welcome Home, Hold Your Tongue.”  Some exerpts from the article are below.  For the [...] Continue Reading…

Did you ever wonder how health care insurance in America became linked with employment?  The answer is that during World War II, when wages were frozen by the government, employers objected that they would not be able to recruit or retain employees.  To offset that problem, the government offered [...] Continue Reading…

Here is a good idea forwarded to us by email:

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress.  Many citizens had no idea that Congress members could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they didn’t pay into Social Security, that they [...] Continue Reading…

During the last few weeks of December and the beginning of January, most media sources publish lists of “best” “worst” or “most important” people, events, or issues of the past year.  After looking through many of them for inspiration in the cause of building the kind of world I’d [...] Continue Reading…

Location: 802 W. Geyser, Livingston, Mt (corner of 8th and Geyser)
Description: Looking Ahead to 2010. This will be a planning meeting so please come with ideas for issues and actions you would like to see us involved in during the year (or two) ahead. Also, if you [...] Continue Reading…

The House of Representatives passed the Local Community Radio Act Wednesday!

It’s been a long time coming. In 10 years of trying, we’ve never come this close to making better local radio a reality. The bill could not have come this far without your letters, phone calls, e-mails and stories.

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Our government has focused much effort and treasure at bailing out and shoring up the financial institutions that led the world into crisis and recession.  The following excerpts from an article in The Nation by William Greider suggest that it might be more effective in terms of ending the [...] Continue Reading…