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Mark the Cab Driver wants you to join the global fight to dismantle the police states!
Click on the image above to learn what you can do!

Florida Arbor Day
Thursday, January 16, 2014

PictureYoungsters remove the burlap from the root ball of a tree under the patient guidance of an arborist.
Mark the Cab Driver says:
"
Get your hands dirty; plant a tree."


If you will be near Gainesville, Florida, U. S. A. on Arbor Day, you would be welcome to participate in the free, City Of Gainesville Arbor Day Celebration.

Thursday, January 16, 2014
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Depot Park
201 SE Depot Avenue
Depot Building


  • help plant sixty-eight trees
  • enjoy live music
  • take a tour of the new park
  • get free trees to plant on your property
  • enjoy light refreshments

For additional information, contact Earline Luhrman at:  352-393-8188:

Please RSVP to Ella Bernhardt-Brooks at: 352-393-8181 or brooksel@cityofgainesville.org


If you do not life near Gainesville, find a volunteer tree planting opportunity at:

Volunteer Center
http://www.ArborDayNow.org/volunteer.cfm
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The Chocolate Cab Christmas season home page was very popular this year.  If you would still like to view it, go to the "Christmas season 2013 home" section.
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Mark the Cab Driver says:
"Do something for others in your community today."
  (used 2014)
or
"Come together to serve your neighbors and your community on Martin Luther King Day."

Learn about the Martin Luther King Day Of Service and how you could become involved at:
http://www.MLKDay.gov

If you will be in Gainesville, Florida, U. S. A. today, attend and participate in Martin Luther King Day observances.

10:30 a.m.  News Conference
                             Martin Luther King, Junior Memorial Garden
                             northwest corner of the Gainesville City Hall Campus
                             200 E University Av
11:00 a.m.  Hall Of Fame Enshrinement Program
                             Martin Luther King, Junior Memorial Garden
                             northwest corner of the Gainesville City Hall Campus
                             200 E University Av
12:00 p.m.  Commemoration Program
                             Bo Diddley Downtown Plaza
                             101 East University Av
  1:00 p.m.   Commemorative March
                              from   Bo Diddley Downtown Plaza
                                           101 East University Av
                              to         Martin Luther King Multi-purpose Center
                                           1028 NE 14th St
                                           Walk or ride your bike in the march!

 2:00 p.m.  Gospel Music Program
                            Martin Luther King Multi-purpose Center
                            1028 NE 14th St


Learn about the full range of events and activities that will occur in the Gainesville area at:

Martin Luther King Commission Of Florida
January 12-20, 2014
http://www.MLKFlorida.org/king-celebration
https://www.Facebook.com/MLKCOF

University Of Florida Martin Luther King Celebration
January 20 -31, 2014
http://www.Multicultural.ufl.edu/programs/mlk_celebration


The Three Gees
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Jule, Paul and Lina Gerlitz, the Three Gees
The Three Gees is a band of three youngsters in Berlin, Germany.  Lina, Jule and Paul Gerlitz are their names.  They sing harmonies and play instruments for mostly covers of positive pop songs from recent past decades.

Their father, Carsten Gerlitz, is a choir director and choir workshop leader who works with sacred music and secular music choirs.  For the
Three Gees, he writes arrangements, plays many instruments, records tracks and mixes all of the sound tracks to make the finished music videos.

With the help of their father in their in-home music studio and in many locations around the world, the Three Gees have recorded many music videos, which are available on their own YouTube channel.

The Three Gees
http://www.youtube.com/user/pipomaus/videos?view=0&flow=grid

Here are all four of their Christmas music videos:


A song bridging peoples

"Ebi," a famous and beloved male Iranian Muslim singer, and Liel Kolet, a famous female Israeli Jewish singer and international peace activist, combine their voices in this new music video of the song, "I Can Hear Christmas," an appeal for peace among all humankind during this Christian observance.


People-to-people connections and diplomacy efforts will overcome elite-to-elite and ideologue-to-ideologue arrogance,
competitions, jealousies, hates, fears, distrusts, hostilities, offenses, aggressions and violence.

Join the human family.  Reach to others of other cultures.

"Harmony through love, enlightenment, principle, respect, engagement, courage and justice!"       Mark the Cab Driver



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Give Thanks


Whether in a residence grand
Or in a hovel bland,

Whether at a major event
Or alone in a tent,
Whether among a great host
Or alone grilling toast,
Give thanks for all that you have.

Whether with loved ones near
Or with just their memories dear,
Give thanks for all that you have.


Love those who you have
While you still can;
you never know when
life will
end.


Pause
On this day
To say thanks in your way.

Thank the Creator and Sustainer
If you recognize such a power.
Thank that power
For your members and senses and faculties
Wondrous,
For shelter and raiment and sustenance
Fabulous,
For nature in beauty and majesty and complexity
Marvelous,
For the songs of the wind and the surf and the beasts
Melodious.

Both deep in your heart
And face to face do impart
Your thanks and your blessings to those
Who sow and who grow,
Who make and who bake,
Who repair and who care,
 Who protect and who inspect,
To provide your security, sufficiency and frivolity.

Be nourished and warmed
By memories formed
On Thanksgivings long, long ago
And take on this day
New memories away
To sustain you
And fill you
Tomorrow.


Mark the Cab Driver


(c) November 20, 2012, Mark the Cab Driver

Peace
through
love,
enlightenment,
principle,
respect,
engagement,
courage
and justice.

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Resolve in your heart
with attitudes, words and actions clean,
with effects of choices and lifestyle seen

true harmony to impart
through this world far and near

every day of the year.


Have a blessed holiday.

Mark the Cab Driver


(c) December 24, 2012, Mark the Cab Driver


Happy New Year!

With love in your heart,
May you much good impart

To people far and near
To yourself
And those you hold dear
Throughout the coming year
Unlimited by weakness,
Undistracted by nonsense

And uninhibited by fear.



Mark the Cab Driver


(c) December 30, 2012


Chocolate Cab notes with sorrow
the passing of
humanitarian and statesman,

Nelson
Rolihlahla Mandela

July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013
95 years old at death


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Chocolate Cab is thankful for the life and work
of that great and courageous man.

Let us live his legacy.

Mark the Cab Driver


Memorial Day 2013

Chocolate Cab honors those who have given their lives
for our country.

"Going Home," fallen soldier bagpipe tribute
click to play
Memorial Mile war memorial

If you are in Gainesville, Florida, be certain to visit the Memorial Mile tribute to all United States service members who have died in their service in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.  This is the eighth, Memorial Day weekend Memorial Mile tribute that members and supporters of the Gainesville Chapter of Veterans For Peace have presented to the public.

The tribute features 6,694 temporary grave markers--one for each service member who died in the fighting in those southwest Asian countries.  The display extends along the parkways on both sides of Northwest 8th Avenue between Northwest 22 Street and Northwest 34th Street.  The tribute will be on display until dusk on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, 2013.

Visitors may park in the Westside Park parking lot just north of the intersection of Northwest 8th Avenue and Northwest 34th Street.

Please stop to honor the fallen by remembering their sacrifices and renew your dedication to promoting harmonious coexistence among all peoples.

"Let us dedicate ourselves to the work of ending warfare
by courageously and relentlessly attacking the causes of it."


"Pursue harmony through enlightenment, respect, engagement, courage and justice."

Mark the Cab Driver

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