Kenapocomoco Newsnotes

	Kenapocomoco Newsnotes
Vol. XVI Number 8		April 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 believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.

- Saul Alinsky

April Calendar


1	10 PM - Movie Night: Tough Guise
2-3	Plowshares Gathering, Goshen College
5	9 PM - Kenapocomoco Coalition: How Does One Greet a Congressperson?
10	Work Day, Potluck, and Christian Peacemaker Teams (Northern IN) Meeting at Joyfield Farm
12	9 PM Kenapocomoco Coalition:
15	10 PM - Movie Night: The Power of One
16	Symposium on the Fair Trade and Global Justice Movement, Chicago
17	1-5 PM Peace Week Concert on the Mall
17	9 PM - Drag Show
19	9 PM - Kenapocomoco: David Radcliff
22	10 PM - Movie Night American History X
25	March for Women's Lives, Washington DC (see Heidi if you want to go)
25	International Fair, PERC
26	9 PM - Kenapocomoco Coalition
29	10 PM - Movie Night:

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: Thursdays at 10 PM @ The Peace House (across Wayne St. from Helman Hall)
MSAS (Manchester Students Against Sweatshops): every other Tuesday at 5 PM in the Oaks

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Upcoming Events:

Things to look forward to:

May 23 GRADUATION!!!

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Opportunities for Action:

One in every three women is abused during her lifetime...How many women do you know? Together we can change this. Join our campaign. Commit yourself, say... I will stand up, speak out, and demand action from my family, friends, community, and government to Stop Violence Against Women. It's in our hands!

http://web.amnesty.org/actforwomen/actnow-redirect-eng

New bipartisan legislation (H.R. 3619 and S. 1925) introduced in Congress will help fix the broken process through which workers form unions. Please take a moment right now to send a fax to your senators and representative. Urge them to sign on as a sponsor of this important pro-worker legislation.
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/sponsorefca

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Websites of Interest

Cost of War

Based on estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, this site features a sobering running total of your tax dollars at work in Iraq:

http://costofwar.com/
Military Families Speak Out

Military Families Speak Out is an organization of people who are opposed to war in Iraq and who have relatives or loved ones in the military. We were formed in November of 2002 and have contacts with military families throughout the United States, and in other countries around the world.

http://www.mfso.org
Bring Them Home Now
BRING THEM HOME NOW! is a campaign of military families, veterans, active duty personnel, reservists and others opposed to the ongoing war in Iraq and galvanized to action by George W. Bush's inane and reckless challenge to armed Iraqis resisting occupation to "Bring 'em on."

http://www.bringthemhomenow.org

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News, Headlines, and Interesting Info

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

Years of insurance that the money lost annually to health-care fraud and overbilling could buy every uninsured U.S. child : 3
Percentage of Americans living below the poverty level who voted in the 2000 presidential election : 38
Percentage of Americans living at twice the poverty level who voted : 68
Number of U.S. soldiers whose retirement or leave has been postponed by the Army to maintain troop strength : 3,500
Minimum number of nuclear weapons in the oceans as a result of U.S. and Soviet accidents : 50
Estimated cost to replace Lawrence Livermore weapons laboratory's locks after master keys were lost last year : $1,700,000
Estimated percentage of British food-poisoning infections caused by bottled water : 12
Days after Italian magistrates began investigating food conglomerate Parmalat last December that its former CEO was jailed : 8
Months after the Justice Department began investigating Enron in 2001 that an Enron executive was jailed : 21
Days after a columnist outed an undercover CIA officer last year that the Justice Department began investigating it : 74
Days after Paul O'Neill criticized the President on TV in January that the former treasury secretary came under investigation : 1
Maximum prison sentence in months for causing the death of a U.S. worker by willfully violating federal safety regulations : 6
Maximum prison sentence in months for harassing a wild burro on federal lands : 12
Number of the 4 million Bosnians made refugees since 1991 who are still waiting to go home : 400,000

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"They can't show the carrier footage with him in front of 'Mission Accomplished' -- it just looked stupid. Now I think they can't do 9/11. The only thing they're going to be able to do is ads of him clearing brush." --Al Franken on President Bush's television ads, during Franken's premiere broadcast on Air America Radio

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