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If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

- Emma Goldman

This Month: 

• May Calendar
• Weekly Reminders
• Mother's Day
• DC Photos
• Summer Opportunities
• Opportunities for Action
• Websites
• News, Headlines, and Interesting Info

May Calendar

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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Happy Mother's Day:

Here is the original, pre-Hallmark, Mother's Day

Proclamation, penned in Boston by Julia Ward Howe in 1870:

Arise, then, women of this day!

Arise all women who have hearts,

Whether your baptism be that of water or of tears

Say firmly:

"We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,

Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage,

For caresses and applause.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn

All that we have been able to teach them of 

charity, mercy and patience.

"We women of one country

Will be too tender of those of another country

To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with 

Our own. It says, "Disarm, Disarm!"

The sword of murder is not the balance of justice!

Blood does not wipe out dishonor

Nor violence indicate possession.

As men have of ten forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war.

Let women now leave all that may be left of home

For a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.

Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means

Whereby the great human family can live in peace,

Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,

But of God.

In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask

That a general congress of women without limit of nationality

May be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient

And at the earliest period consistent with its objects

To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,

The amicable settlement of international questions.

The great and general interests of peace.

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Maggie's Pictures from the March for Women's Lives in Washington, DC

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Summer Opportunities:

• RADFEST 2004

  MIDWEST SOCIAL FORUM

  Lake Geneva Campus

  of Aurora University

  Williams Bay, WI

  June 4-6, 2004

  RadFest is an annual weekend conference for progressive activists and academics.  The central goal of the conference is

  to provide an opportunity for progressive activists, organizers, and intellectuals to come together to discuss issues, strengthen 

  networks, and devise strategies for progressive social, economic and political change. 

          http://www.havenscenter.org

• On Tuesday, June 22, Bread for the World will hold our annual Lobby Day. The morning starts out with a briefing on important legislation as well as on effective ways to communicate our message. Participants will then visit their representatives’ and senators’ offices to speak out for poor and hungry people around the world in urging Congress to keep the promise on hunger and health.

  https://mmm08.rapidsite.net/breado/whoweare/30thanniversary/register.php

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Opportunities for Action:

• Fourteen students at State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase College were arrested during a peaceful protest in support of 80 food service workers on their campus after the vendor, Chartwells, refused to sign an agreement to respect its employees’ freedom to choose a union without intimidation. Meanwhile, workers continue to face an anti-worker campaign from Chartwells, including mandatory group meetings and anti-union videos.  Please take a moment to send a letter to ask SUNY Purchase President Thomas Schwarz to drop all charges against the students and tell Chartwells CEO Steve Sweeney to immediately sign the agreement to respect his employees’ freedom to choose a union.

          http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/SUNYPurchase/step1.tcl

• Urge your representatives to get tough on corporate tax cheats by closing the "Bermuda Triangle loophole" by supporting the Corporate Patriot Enforcement Act (HR 737) and increasing the funding and authority of the IRS to get tough with corporate tax cheats through a substantial increase in audits and other enforcement measures.

  http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=16757

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Websites of Interest

• CAFTA - The Trojan Calf

  Click here for an animated cartoon about the dangers of the Central American Free Trade Agreement:

  http://www.quixote.org/calf

   

• A More Honest State of the Union Address

  What if Bush actually told the truth in his State of the Union Address?  It might look something like this.

  http://www.ebaumsworld.com/presaddress2.shtml

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News, Headlines, and Interesting Info

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

• Number of articles in major U.S. newspapers that have called any White House statement on Iraq a lie : 0
• Average amount a Bush Cabinet member will save this year due to cuts in capital-gains and dividend taxes : $42,000
• Median U.S. household income in 2002 : $42,409
• Percentage discount that Lesotho's prostitutes offered truckers in 2002 who used a condom : 50
• Number of people in France who are injured each year opening oysters : 2,000
• Percentage of Afghans who have registered to vote : 3
• Ratio of the number of Afghan men who have registered to the number of women who have done so : 10:3
• Estimated number of years that guards at the top U.S. nuclear storehouse have cheated during anti-terrorism drills : 20
• Number of states in which felons who have completed their sentence are not allowed to vote : 11
• Median income of black U.S. families as a percentage of white families' in 1968 and 2002, respectively : 60, 58
• Number of cents a U.S. woman earned for every dollar that a U.S. man did in 1983 and 2000, respectively : 80.4, 79.7
• Percentage of U.S. elementary schools that eliminated recess between 1977 and 1997 : 40
• Maximum fine in Baltimore for dancing or not standing during the singing of the national anthem : $100

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"Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love."

-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara

 [Peace Studies Website]