Kenapocomoco Newsnotes

	Kenapocomoco Newsnotes
Vol. XVI Number 7		March 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 must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society.... What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed."

- Martin Luther King Jr. to his staff in 1967, quoted in To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sacred Mission to Save America, by Stuart Burns

March Calendar


1	9 PM - Kenapocomoco Coalition: Are We in Danger of Becoming a Police State?
3	5 PM - Manchester Students Against Sweatshops meeting in the Oaks
4	10 PM - Movie Night: Norma Rae
6	9 AM - 3 PM - Applesauce-making Party at Joyfield Farm
7	6 PM - FoR potluck and showing movie Uncovered: The Whole Truth Behind the War on Iraq
8	4-5 PM - International Women's Day panel in Helman Great Room
8	8-9 PM - Kenapocomoco Coalition: Containment: Life After Three Mile Island in Wampler
9	5 PM - Informal meal and discussion with Andrew Miller of Peace Brigades International
11	10 PM - Movie Night: Do the Right Thing
11-14	Organizing for Peace Conference, La Verne, California
15	9 PM - Kenapocomoco Coalition: Discussing The Vagina Monologues and Domestic Violence
17	5 PM - Manchester Students Against Sweatshops meeting in the Oaks
18	10 PM - Movie Night: Bulworth
20	The World Still Says No to War protests in Fort Wayne, Chicago, and other cities
20-28	SPRING BREAK!!!!!!
26-28	Student Peace Conference at the University of Notre Dame
29	9 PM - Kenapocomoco Coalition

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:

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:

Under a proposal by President Bush, more than 8 million workers might not be paid extra for the overtime hours they work. The Bush administration is pushing to finalize these changes before March 1—including a change that would take away overtime pay from veterans. Please show your support for overtime pay by signing this petition and spreading the word to your friends, family and co-workers.
http://www.saveovertimepay.org/

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Websites of Interest

What the Bible says and doesn't say about homosexuality

Download the booklet by Rev. Mel White at this site:

http://www.soulforce.org/main/whatthebiblesays.shtml
Better Business

Explore the intersection of business and human rights. Search among more than 1,000 companies, 160 countries, and 150 topics at:

http://www.business-humanrights.org

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News, Headlines, and Interesting Info

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

Ratio of 2004 Bush campaign donations from Merrill Lynch employees to those from Bechtel employees : 60:1
Percentage of Chinese exports to the U.S. accounted for by merchandise sold at Wal-Mart : 10
Number of factory jobs that China has lost since 1995 : 25,000,000
Estimated percentage of the 2.9 million U.S. jobs lost since March 2001 that have not reappeared abroad : 83
Percentage of Japanese and Italian men, respectively, who rate their kisses a 9 or a 10 : 14, 72
Percentage of Mexicans who had a "bad" or "very bad" opinion of the United States in 2000 and 2003, respectively : 22, 58
Rank of the U.S. health-care system among the most efficient in the world, according to the World Health Organization : 37
Percentage change between 2001 and 2002 in Saudi Arabia's PR spending in the United States : +1,700
Ratio of suicide bomb attacks carried out by Palestinians to those carried out by Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers since 1987 : 3:4
Calories of fuel energy used by U.S. farms in 1940 per calorie of food produced : 0.4
Calories of fuel energy used in 1974 per calorie of food produced : 1
Number of times a Hummer H2 could be driven around the world on the excess calories Americans consume each year : 244
Percentage increase since 1999 in U.S. households in which there was hunger due to poverty during the year : 22
Percentage by which health-care spending by an obese American exceeds that by an American of normal weight : 36

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"A country which has dangled the sword of nuclear holocaust over the world for half a century and claims that someone else invented terrorism is a country out of touch with reality."
—John K. Stoner

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