Kenapocomoco Newsnotes - January 2004

	Kenapocomoco Newsnotes
Vol. XVI Number 5		January 2004

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.

"Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."

- George H.W. Bush (Bush senior) and Brent Scowcroft in their 1998 book, A World Transformed.

January Calendar

7	Classes begin
12	8 AM - Cuba-goers depart
19	7 PM - Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration in Petersime Chapel
27	Classes end
29	Cuba-goers return

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

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Weekly Reminders: (on hold during January)

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
March 26-28 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference
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

Go organic

If you're interested in learning more about the policies, products, and practitioners of organic farming, visit:

http://www.organicconsumers.org

Bush recall cartoon

Turn up your sound and enjoy!

http://flash.bushrecall.org?ms=rt1219

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News, Headlines, and Interesting Info

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

Chance that a civilian federal worker is employed by the Department of Homeland Security: 1 in 12
Chances that a participant in California’s September 24 gubernatorial debate grew up speaking English at home: 2 in 5
Percentage of U.S. Muslims who said in 2000 that they would vote for George Bush: 40
Percentage who say this today: 2
Estimated number of artificial Christmas trees displayed in U.S. homes each year for every real one: 2.6
Percentage change between 2001 and 2002 in G.I. Joe sales: +46
Percentage change since 1999 in the number of desertions from the U.S. Army: +36
Average number of U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq each day since the invasion began: 9.2
Average number killed: 1.6
Average number of Iraqi civilians killed by gunfire in Baghdad each day last August: 17
Percentage of Baghdad’s citizens asked to participate in a Gallup poll last September who agreed to do so: 98
Average percentage of Americans asked to participate in Gallup polls who do: 40

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"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
—Virginia Woolf

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