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Newsnotes

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

- Emma Goldman

This Month: 

• October Calendar
• Weekly Reminders
• Westheimer Peace Symposium
• Upcoming Events
• Opportunities for Action
• Shameless Advertisement
• Websites
• News, Headlines, and Interesting Info

October 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): TBA

• Amnesty International: 9 PM @ The Peace House (across Wayne St. from Helman Hall)

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Westheimer Peace Symposium:

14th Annual Westheimer Peace Symposium

Wilmington College, Wilmington, OH

Constructing Peace: Voices of Hope
October 20, 2004

10:00 a.m. - Keynote Speaker, Sarah Chayes
1:00 p.m. - Afternoon Speaker, Alicia Partnoy
2:30 p.m. - Afternoon Speaker, Gene Stoltzfus
4:00 p.m. - Direct Dialog and Networking Sessions
7:30 p.m. - Evening Presentation, MUSE and Drums for Peace

http://www.wilmington.edu/manila/peace/current_wps.html
It's free!  Sign up in the peace studies office if you want to go.

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Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

--William L. Shirer

Upcoming Events:

Things to look forward to:

• Indiana Anarchist Meetup, Indianapolis    November 6-7
• Midwest United Students Against Sweatshops gathering    November 12-14
• School of Americas Watch Protest    November 19-21

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Opportunities for Action:

• Mao Hengfeng was forced to have an abortion, and dismissed from her job, when she became pregnant in violation of China's family planning policies 15 years ago. She has been protesting through official channels ever since, and has reportedly now been imprisoned and tortured because of her persistence.

         http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=11182

• During Nurses Week 2004, the first-ever federal safe staffing legislation was introduced in Congress. The Nurse Staffing Standards for Patient Safety and Quality Care Act of 2004 will establish minimum nurse-to-patient ratios for all hospitals. But national safe staffing legislation will pass only if lawmakers hear from you—and thousands of other nurses, doctors, and hospital workers.  Make your voice heard: Send a fax urging your Congressperson to support this legislation.
  
  http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/safestaffing2004?source=purpleocean_website

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Shameless Advertisement

1 Can of Soda: 25¢

1 Cup of Coffee: 25¢

1 Bottle of Juice: 50¢

1 Energy or Granola Bar: 25¢

Fellowship and Community in the Peace Studies Lounge: Priceless

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Websites of Interest

• Poverty USA

  A striking reality check.

  http://www.nccbuscc.org/cchd/povertyusa/tour2.htm

   

• Message from God

  A fascinating juxtaposition of the paths of the hurricanes in Florida and the results of the 2000 presidential election.

  http://www.bartcop.com/message-from-God.gif

• Protector or Predator

  Adbusters magazine takes an uncompromising look at the legacy of 163 US military interventions overseas from 1801 onwards.

  http://www.adbusters.org/jams/history/flash.html

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News, Headlines, and Interesting Info

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

• Percentage points by which the President's approval rating has fallen since September 2001 : 41
• Percentage points by which his father's rating fell between the end of the Gulf War and August 1992 : 60
• Year in which U.S. oil production peaked : 1971
• Year in which worldwide oil discoveries did : 1964
• Words the New York Times devoted last May to examining its own faulty reporting on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction : 3,082
• Words the Times devoted last year to "correcting the record" after an investigation of reporter Jayson Blair : 7,102
• Minimum amount that Wal-Mart has received in subsidies from state and local governments since 1980 : $625,000,000
• Percentage change since 1992 in the annual number of people murdered in the United States, per 100,000 : < 40  
• Percentage change since then in the number of people serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison : +83
• Chance that an African national leader who left office between 1960 and 2003 did so because he lost an election : 1 in 10
• Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way : 4:5
• State grant awarded a Missouri police department's Youth Outreach Unit two years ago to battle Goth culture : $273,000
• Amount the Unit returned to the state in April after no Goth-influenced youth could be found to aid : $132,000
• Amount spent in the interim to set up the program : $141,000  

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 When we vote in an election, we are declaring, by our actions, our support for the process of some people ruling others by coercive means.

-- Butler Shaffer

 [Peace Studies Website]