Kenapocomoco Newsnotes - February 2004

	Kenapocomoco Newsnotes
Vol. XVI Number 6		February 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.

" We were young, self-righteous, reckless, hypocritical, brave, silly, headstrong, and scared half to death. And...we were right."

- Abbie Hoffman

February Calendar

4	Classes begin
5	10 PM - Movie Night: Roger and Me
7	10 AM - 5 PM - Procott PlayShop, Victory Noll, Huntington
9	9-10 PM - Kenapocomoco Coalition: Sharing our Jan-term Experiences
12	10 PM - Movie Night: King of Hearts
15	2:30-3 PM - Anti-War vigil in downtown North Manchester
16	9-10 PM - Kenapocomoco Coalition: Was the Iraq War Based on Lies?
18	5 PM - Manchester Students Against Sweatshops meeting in the Oaks
21	8 PM - The Vagina Monologues
22	5 PM - Letter-writing, pizza, movie party: This is What Democracy Looks Like
23	9-10 PM - Kenapocomoco Coalition: Capitalism: Good or Evil?
26	10 PM - Movie Night: The Education of Little Tree

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:

March 11-14 Organizing for Peace Conference in La Verne, CA
March 26-28 Notre Dame Student Peace Conference
April 3-4 Plowshares Student Gathering
April 15-20 PEACE WEEK!
April 25 Save Women's Lives: March for Freedom of Choice in Washington, DC

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Opportunities for Action:

Join Amnesty International activists from around the world and other organizations in an international STOP CHILD EXECUTIONS! campaign aimed at ending the use of the death penalty against child offenders worldwide. There is an overwhelming international legal and moral consensus against executing child offenders. International law prohibits the use of the death penalty for crimes committed by people younger than 18, yet some countries continue to execute child offenders or sentence them to death. The sentencing to death and execution of a person for a crime committed while he or she was a child denies the possibility of rehabilitation and is contrary to contemporary standards of justice and humane treatment.
Amnesty International believes that the death penalty violates the right to life and is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.

To participate, TAKE THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS:

- - > Sign a petition urging the US to comply with its obligation under international law not to use the death penalty against people under 18 at the time of the crime.

http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/ctt.asp?u=241875&l=7949

- - > Sign a petition to stop child executions in Pakistan

http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/ctt.asp?u=241875&l=7950

- - > Help save the life of Nanon Williams, a juvenile offender on death row in Texas

http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/ctt.asp?u=241875&l=7951

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Websites of Interest

Wealth perspective

The Global Rich List shows you where you rank on the world's economic ladder with sobering specificity. (Example: You are in the top 7.22% richest people in the world. There are 5,566,727,941 people poorer than you.) Surprise - it also recommends a donation to a worthy charity.:

http://www.globalrichlist.com
Just the facts

A nonpartisan, nonprofit information source for voters that monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases:

http://www.factcheck.org

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News, Headlines, and Interesting Info

Harper's Index from Harpers Magazine (January 2004):

Number of press conferences at which President Bush has referred to a question as a "trick" : 11
Ratio of the U.S. spending on Iraq approved last November to total AIDS spending in developing countries last year : 18:1
Percentage of new HIV infections worldwide accounted for by people under the age of 25 : 58
Percentage of Americans who say they would prefer a universal health-care system to the current one : 62
Estimated number of Americans who refuse to pay some or all of their federal income taxes to protest military spending : 2,000
Number of political candidates murdered during Colombia's regional election campaigns last year : 26
Chance that an American believes a "major" third political party is needed : 2 in 5
Number of cast members of the movie Predator who have run for governor : 3
Number who have won : 2
Inches by which the Eiffel Tower shrinks in winter : 6

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"Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible. We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence."
—Mohandas Gandhi

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