Kenapocomoco
Newsnotes

This Month: 

• December Calendar
• Weekly Reminders
• New Stuff in and Around the PSO
• Upcoming Events
• Photos
• Opportunities for Action
• Websites of Interest
• Summer Opportunities
• News, Headlines, and Interesting Info

December 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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New Stuff In and Around the Peace Studies Office (PSO):

We've got a Free Shelf!!  That's right - an opportunity for you to get rid of crap you don't want but other people might, and a place for you to score free stuff that you might actually use.  Stop by and browse through the selection!

We also have newly organized video and magazine collections, thanks to our lovely assistants Amy and Marilyn.  These resources are for YOU!  Please make use of them for papers and projects, or just for free-time diversions.  Here are some highlights.

Movies:

• Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties

• Johnny Got His Gun

• Dead Man Walking

• Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti

• The Times of Harvey Milk

Magazines:

• The Catholic Worker

• In These Times

• Mother Jones

• Funny Times

• Nonviolent Activist

• Peace Magazine

• Sojourners Magazine

And while we're at it, how about a few books that were recently added to the Funderburg Library Collection:

• A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth / Roger S. Gottlieb

• The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy / David Barsamian and Arundhati Roy

• War Talk / Arundhati Roy

• Women Writing Resistance / ed. by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez

• Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian / Howard Zinn

• Queerly Classed / ed. by Susan Raffo

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Peace is a product of justice.  But justice is not enough.  Love is necessary -- the love that makes us feel that we are brothers and sisters is properly what makes for true peace.

--Oscar Romero

Upcoming Events:

Things to look forward to:

• Protest the Presidential Inauguration in Washington, DC  January 20
• The Vagina Monologues V-Day performance  February 26
• Exercising Democracy: A Midwest Peace Summit, in Indianapolis   March 18-20
• 2005 Annual Student Peace Conference "Crossing Boundaries in the Name of Peace" Notre Dame   April 1-2

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Photos:

School of the Americas Watch Protest:

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Opportunities for Action:

• Take Action On World AIDS Day  Worldwide, at least one of every three women – nearly one billion women – will be beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime, whether at the hands of family members, government security forces, or armed rebels. Urge President Bush to help stop violence against women and girls, address the needs of survivors of violence, and lift US restrictions on health care services worldwide.
  
  http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=11326

• Sign this petition to commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development by reaffirming our commitment to the mothers and children, and the promise embodied in the 1994 Cairo Programme of Action.

         http://www.amotherspromise.org/sign_petition.asp

• Refuse to Surrender Your Freedom  Today our most fundamental freedoms are in jeopardy. Only a bold, spirited movement of people like you who refuse to surrender your freedoms can protect our civil liberties.  On January 20th, George Bush will pledge to uphold the Constitution. Our goal is to recruit 100,000 new ACLU supporters by that day to proclaim "I REFUSE TO SURRENDER MY FREEDOM" by taking a simple pledge:
  
  http://www.aclu.org/refusetosurrender

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Websites of Interest:

• Buy Nothing Christmas

  This Christmas we'll be swamped with offers, ads and invitations to buy more stuff. But now there's a way to say enough and join a movement dedicated to reviving the original meaning of Christmas giving.

  http://www.buynothingchristmas.org/index.html

   

• Pictures from Falluja

  if journalists have the courage to take these pictures
  why doesn't our mainstream media have the backbone to print them?

  http://fallujapictures.blogspot.com/

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Summer Opportunities:

• Institute on Philanthropy and Voluntary Service

  ...a dynamic summer program for undergraduate students interested in volunteerism and careers in the nonprofit sector. This face-paced Institute offers a rigorous combination of professional experience, academic learning and service projects that will provide students with an unparalleled experience in the nation’s capital.

  www.dcinternships.org/ipvs

   

• Union Summer

  Union Summer is a five-week educational internship to participate in and develop skills useful for union organizing drives and other campaigns for workers' rights and social justice.  Heidi is a graduate of this program, and would be happy to share with you about her experiences during one of the best summers of her life.

  http://www.aflcio.org/aboutunions/unionsummer/

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News, Headlines, and Interesting Info:

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

• Aid that U.S. leaflets dropped on Fallujah in July threatened to freeze if insurgent attacks continued : $102,000,000
• Number of insurgent attacks in Fallujah in the week before and after the leafletting, respectively : 21, 36
• Number of the 5 Republicans investigating Rep. Tom DeLay on ethics charges who have taken donations from his PAC : 4
• Ratio of the minimum number of beheadings by the Saudi government last year to those by Saudi terrorists so far this year : 50:1
• Percentage of Mississippians who have failed their written driver’s-license test since it became computerized last year : 60
• Chance that a new light vehicle bought in the United States last year was a truck or SUV : 1 in 2
• Minimum number of U.S. children killed since 1998 as a result of heat stroke after being left locked in cars : 219
• Rank of last year among those in which the largest number of children died this way : 1
• Chance that a southern Sudanese woman will die in childbirth : 1 in 9
• Chance that a southern Sudanese girl will complete primary school : 1 in 100
• Projected lifespan in years of a Zimbabwean born in 1989 and one born in 2002, respectively : 60, 34
• Record number of skips achieved by a stone skipper : 40
• Factor by which the number of U.S. girls under 19 who got breast implants last year exceeded the number who did in 2002 : 3

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TERRORISM

Is the war of the 

Poor and war is the

Terrorism of the rich.

-- Peter Ustinov

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