Kenapocomoco Newsnotes - December 2003

	Kenapocomoco Newsnotes
Vol. XVI Number 4		December 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.

"There is nothing except a tragic death wish to prevent us from reordering our priorities so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

December Calendar

1	9 PM - Kenapoc: Conversation with Jan West Schrock
3	10 PM - MSAS floor program for GW3
4	10 PM - Movie Night: Smoke Signals
8	9 PM - Kenapoc: How Would Things Be Different if a Woman was President?
10	International Human Rights Day
11	10 PM - Movie Night: Uncovered: The Whole Truth Behind the War on Iraq (in A219)
12	4 PM - MSAS Action in Fort Wayne
14	5:30 PM - Meal for Peace Studies majors/minors/interested
15	9 PM - Kenapoc: Study Break!!!
15-18	FINAL EXAMS

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:

February 21 Vagina Monologues performed on campus
March 11-14 Organizing for Peace Conference in La Verne, CA
April 25 Save Women's Lives: March for Freedom of Choice in Washington, DC

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Opportunities for Action:

White Ribbon Campaign: a worldwide effort of men working to end men's violence against women. See www.whiteribboncampaign.com for more information.
Until Wal-Mart changes its ways, I won't shop at Wal-Mart and I hope you won't either. Please join me in telling Wal-Mart we won't shop at its stores until it treats its employees better. Click here to sign the pledge: http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/petition.cfm?itemid=16041&ms=hom001

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Websites of Interest

The Union Mall

Shop in good conscience for union-made products from union vendors for apparel guaranteed not to have an "sweat" on it at:

http://nosweatshop.com

From the makers of The Meatrix

More unabashedly satirical advocacy animation at:

http://freerangegraphics.com/html/gallery/flash_movies.html

Project Censored

Censored 2004: The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2002-2003

http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2004/index.html

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News, Headlines, and Interesting Info

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

Last year in which a quarterly rise in U.S. military spending was greater than the one last spring: 1951
Total U.S. military spending the Bush Administration projects it will have spent by the end of 2008: $3,200,000,000,000
Total U.S. military spending between 1941 and 1948: $3,100,000,000,000
Percentage by which the Defense Department proposed cutting its budget this year by closing its Peacekeeping Institute: 0.001
Ratio of the institute’s budget to the estimated price of Jennifer Lopez’s engagement ring: 3:4
Number of Florida high school students who take physical-education courses online: 1,204
Percentage of the White House’s proposed Afghanistan spending in 2004 devoted to reconstruction: 3
Years it took the U.S. Geological Survey to conclude that Arctic refuge drilling would substantially reduce caribou: 12
Days after announcing this conclusion last July that the Geological Survey issued a memo discounting it: 7

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"The rays of the sun are many through refraction, but they have the same source. I cannot therefore detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous). "

"The means may be likened to a seed, the end to a tree; and there is just the same inviolable connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree."

Mohandas Gandhi

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