Kenapocomoco Newsnotes - November 2003

	Kenapocomoco Newsnotes
Vol. XVI Number 3		November 2003

The people in the Peace Studies Office bring the Kenapocomoco Coalition Newsnotes to you monthly during the academic year.. The purpose is to inform students, faculty, staff, and other interested folks of scheduled events and activities within the department and pass along other information that appears relevant. The things written in the newsletter do not necessarily reflect the thoughts, opinions, and beliefs of everyone in the Peace Studies office or Kenapocomoco Coalition. If you have something you would like to add to the newsletter, please contact Heidi Gross, the Peace Studies intern, head cook, and editor of the Kenapocomoco Newsnotes. E-mail: hggross@manchester.edu or call x5343. Thanks.

"The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about."

Noam Chomsky

November Calendar

3	9 PM - Kenapoc: Discussing Convo
4	ELECTION DAY - Remember to Vote!
6	10 PM - Movie Night: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
7-8	Slumber Party at the Peace House
10	9 PM - Kenapoc: Was Jesus a Conservative or a Liberal?
12	5 PM - MSAS Meeting in the Oaks
16	5 PM - Amnesty/MSAS pizza, letter-writing, movie-watching party
17	9 PM - Kenapoc: Democratic Presidential Candidates -- video is available in peace studies office
18	8:30 PM - David Radcliff: Holy Ground
19	10 AM - Chapel, including commissioning for those traveling to SOA protest 5 PM - MSAS meeting in the Oaks
20	10 PM - Movie Night: Hidden in Plain Sight and sign-making for SOA protest
21-23	School of Americas Protest, Ft. Benning, Columbus, Georgia
24	8 PM - Power Hour: Women Only at the Intercultural Center 9 PM - Kenapoc: Reports from FTAA and SOA protests
26-30	Thanksgiving Break

Note: This Calendar will be updated throughout the month as new events and activities are announced.

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Weekly Reminders:

Kenapoc: Mondays at 9 PM @ Ken's House (702 East 9th Street)
United Sexualities: Wednesdays at 9 PM in the Chapel Lounge
Movie Nights: Usually Thursdays at 10 PM @ The Peace House (across Wayne St. from Helman Hall)
MSAS (Manchester Students Against Sweatshops): every other Wednesday at 5 PM in the Oaks

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Upcoming Events:

Things to look forward to:

December 10 International Human Rights Day

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Websites of Interest

Protesting the FTAA in Miami

These are pictures of a woman shot with rubber bullets

http://ftaaimc.org/en/2003/11/1997.shtml

Animated Political Cartoons

www.markfiore.com

Buy Nothing Day

On November 28, resist the commercialization of the holiday season and pretty much everything else.

http://adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd

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News, Headlines, and Interesting Info

Harper's Index from Harpers Magazine (October 2003):

Age at which a Missouri basketball prodigy was welcomed into "the Reebok family" last May : 3
Percentage of U.S. doctors who say they have not told patients about a treatment because their insurance didn't cover it : 31
Chances that a person executed as a witch in Iceland between 1625 and 1685 was a man : 9 in 10
Ratio of Liberia's GDP last year to the amount Americans spent on skis : 1:1
Chance on any given day that the only "vegetables" served in a U.S. public school are potatoes : 1 in 2
Number of states that require energy companies to derive a percentage of their output from alternative sources : 13
Year in which House Republicans thrice rejected an amendment to upgrade the U.S. electrical grid : 2001
Number of Virginia Republican Party officials fined this year for eavesdropping on Democratic Party conference calls : 3

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"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."

Jeanette Rankin

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