Kenapocomoco Newsnotes - September 2004

Yes I know my enemies! They're the teachers who taught me to fight me! Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite! All of which are American dreams...

This Month:

September Calendar

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

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Weekly Reminders:

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Welcome Back!

Welcome back to Manchester for another exciting year of Kenapocs, protests, and good food! We hope you all had great summers - please stop by the peace studies office (PSO) to say hi. And make sure you ask Ken about his new grandson!!

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The first duty of a lecturer -- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

Horror's index: The cost of the Iraq war

987: Number of coalition forces killed between March 19, 2003, and July 5, 2004
693: Number killed after President Bush declared the end of official combat operations on May 1, 2003
9,436: Minimum estimate of the number of Iraq civilians killed as a result of the U.S. invasion and occupation
40,000: Estimated number of Iraqis injured
14: Average number of violent deaths per month in Iraq in 2002
357: Average number of violent deaths per month in Iraq in 2003
30: Percentage of Iraqis unemployed before the war
60: Percentage of Iraqis unemployed in the summer of 2003
$151,000,000,000: Amount spent on the war through the end of this year, pending Congressional approval
$3,415: Monetary cost of war per U.S. household, on average
54: Percentage of Americans polled who felt that "the situation in Iraq was not worth going to war over" (Annenberg Election Survey)
52: Percentage of soldiers who reported low morale, according to a March 2004 army survey
28.2: Percentage of soldiers in Iraq who screened positive for traumatic stress, anxiety, or depression
34: Number of detainee deaths as a result of interrogation methods currently under investigation by the U.S. military
20,000: Number of private contractors performing traditionally military jobs in Iraq
1: Percentage of Iraqi workers involved in reconstruction projects
$160,000,000: Amount spent by major contractor Halliburton on meals that were never served to troops
82,000,000,000: Number of U.S. children who could have received health care coverage with the funds allocated to the war by the Bush administration

Sources: Foreign Policy in Focus, The Wall Street Journal.

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Education as the practice of freedom -- as opposed to education as the practice of domination -- denies that the individual is abstract, isolated, independent, and unattached to the world; it also denies that the world exists as a reality apart from people.


5	6-8 PM - Organic cookie-baking party at the Peace House
6	9 PM - Kenapocomoco Coalition: What did you do this summer?
7	7-9 PM - Organic salad-making party at the Peace House
8	5-7 PM - Organic Picnic on the Mall - sign up in the Peace Studies Office
9	10 PM - Movie Night - The Full Monty
11	7 PM - Kim Phuc presentation in Indianapolis
12	12 PM - AIDS walk in Fort Wayne
13	9 PM - Kenapocomoco Coalition: Andrew Duffy
16	10 PM - Movie Night - The Red Violin
20	7:30 PM - Kenapocomoco Coalition: You Can't Stay Neutral on a Moving Train in WINGER Conference Room
22	Camp Mack Day - ride your bike up with Ken!!
23	10 PM - Movie Night - Outfoxed
27	9 PM - Kenapocomoco Coalition:
29	7 PM - Howard Zinn
30	10 PM - Movie Night - Bloody Sunday