Wednesday, November 20, 11:00 AM
Not In Our Name National Day of Action
"We believe that as people living in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices done by our government, in
our name." In this spirit, the Not In Our Name Project is calling
for a National Day of Youth & Student Action against the juggernaut
of war and repression the US government has unleashed on the world.
On Wed, November 20th, thousands of us will take history into our
hands and do all we can to resist the unjust, immoral, and
illegitimate war that the U.S. government is planning to unleash on
the people of Iraq. In Columbus, OH, there will be a rally on the
oval of the Ohio State University from 11:00 AM. At 11:30 AM, we
will begin a march around campus calling on everyone to leave class
and join us in the march. Campus Map:
<http://www.osu.edu/map/oval.html>. Contact: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thursday, November 21, 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Screening: _Project Censored_ (Dir. Steve Keller)
For the first time on video, stories ignored by the mainstream news
media are reported and discussed by journalists and media scholars.
For the past 20 years, Project Censored has compiled an annual list
of the most significant news stories ignored or censored by the
established media. In this new video by Off the Couch Productions,
five of those stories are presented by narrator Martin Sheen: "U.S.
Arms Deals Flout the 'Arms Transfer Code of Conduct'"; "NASA Bets the
World: Cassini's Deadly Payload"; "Personal Care and Cosmetic
Products May Be Carcinogenic"; "Dark Alliance: The Contras, the CIA,
and Crack Cocaine"; and "Milking the Public: The Bovine Growth
Hormone Controversy." Commentary is offered by journalism scholars
Ben Bagdikian, Peter Phillips, Carl Jensen, and Erna Smith, as well
as Bruce Brugmann, publisher of the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Cf. <http://mediaed.org/videos/CommercialismPoliticsAndMedia/ProjectCensored>
Location: 300 Journalism Building, Ohio State University, 242 West
18th Ave., Columbus, OH
Campus Map: <http://www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/journalismbuilding.html>
Sponsors: Student International Forum & Social Welfare Action Alliance
Contact: Yoshie Furuhashi, 614-668-6554 or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Download the flyer at
<http://www.service.ohio-state.edu/students/sif/ProjectCensored.doc>.
Saturday, November 24
Strength In Unity!
Stop the Prison Industrial Complex
Event: Demonstration (download the flyer at
<http://www.service.ohio-state.edu/students/sif/StrengthInUnity.doc>)
Location: Madison Correctional Institution (London, Ohio)
Date and Time: November 24, 2002 / 11:00am to 2:00pm)
Join us in front of the prison November 24th to show our opposition
to the growing Prison Industrial Complex. We are protesting the
injustices that are inherent in the prison system, such as:
Brutality against prisoners;
Corruption and dereliction of duty of guards and staff;
Exploitation of prison labor as slave labor;
Visiting conditions and policies;
Inadequate Medical Treatment and the Hepatitis C Epidemic;
Inadequate Grievance Procedure;
This demonstration gives us the opportunity to reach two prisons with
one demonstration (the London Correctional Institution is directly
across the road), and we will be getting our message out to a small
rural town that has long benefited from the exploitation of
prisoners. Guest speakers will be announced and a sound system will
be available for those who wish to speak. Help us spread the word of
this demonstration. Bring your friends and families, and if you have
a friend or loved one in either of these prisons, let them know that
we will be out there on that date and time. Bring your signs, banner
and bullhorns. Dress warm, it will be a cold and windy! Coffee and
Hot Cocoa will be provided.
Sponsors of this demonstration: Prisoners Advocacy Network-Ohio,
CURE-Ohio, Community Organizing Center, Ohio Prison Reform Unity
Project, and Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP)
Driving Directions: From Columbus - Take I-71 South to I-70 West to
S.R. 56. Turn South (left) (turn right if you're coming from Dayton)
and drive three to four miles. The institution is on left side of the
road.
* For more information and transportation contact Dan or Ida at:
(614) 224-3466 (CURE-Ohio office), [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
* SSDP (Students for Sensible Drug Policy) is organizing a caravan
for a Strength in Unity rally Saturday, Nov. 24th at the Madison
Prison in London, Ohio. This event is being organized by the
Prisoners advocacy Network and will occur monthly at prisons around
the state. Want to join the caravan to London? Meet at 10 AM at the
Ohio Union, 1739 North High St. (near the corner of 12th Ave. and
High St.).
Sunday, November 25
The first Hempfest organizing meeting is next Sunday, Nov 25t, 6Pm in
the 3rd Floor Lounge of the Ohio Union.
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sunday, December 1
"Crisis in Chiapas, Mexico: Emergency Solidarity Aid Caravan to
Chiapas, Mexico"
6:30 PM - Potluck Supper
7:30 PM - Program
Location: Northwest Christian Church, 1340 Fishinger Rd., Columbus, OH
Sponsor: IFCO/Pastors for Peace
Contact: Bill Lewis, 459-0634 / Bill Barndt, 888-2196 (If you wish to
make donations of material supplies or write
checks to support the IFCO/Pastors for Peace solidarity aid caravan
to Chiapas, please contact Bill Lewis or Bill
Barndt. You may mail checks payable to IFCO/Pastors for Peace to
Bill Barndt, 308 Loveman Ave., Worthington,
OH 43085.)
Tuesday, December 10
Human Rights Day:
Iraq Pledge of Resistance Call for Nationally Coordinated Days of Action
<http://www.peacepledge.org/>
Time & Location: TBA
Contact: The Community Organizing Center, 614-252-9255
January 15 - 20, 2003
Honor the Memories of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Iraq Pledge of Resistance Call for Nationally Coordinated Days of Action
<http://www.peacepledge.org/>
Time & Location: TBA
Contact: The Community Organizing Center, 614-252-9255
January 18 - 19, 2003
Mass Demonstration / People's Grassroots Congress, Washington D.C.
<http://www.internationalanswer.org/>
Contact: The Community Organizing Center, 614-252-9255
January 24 - 25, 2003
Afghan Women
Roy Bowen Theatre
Bina Sharif, New York-based Pakistani playwright and actor, will
perform her celebrated and provocative Afghan Women, a powerful
examination of the life of a Muslim woman. Her residency will
include a workshop on her creative process and classroom visits. On
Friday, January 24, Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Pakistani theater scholar,
will respond to the work in an AfterWords Post Performance Discussion
with Bina Sharif.
Co-sponsors: OSU-WID (Women in Development) and the Dept. of
Comparative Studies
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Commemorate Japanese Internment
Executive Order 9066, signed by President Roosevelt on February 19,
1942, was the instrument that allowed military commanders to
designate areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded."
Under this order all Japanese and Americans of Japanese ancestry were
removed from Western coastal regions to guarded camps in the
interior. Former Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark, who represented
the Department of Justice in the "relocation," writes: "The truth is
-- as this deplorable experience proves -- that constitutions and
laws are not sufficient of themselves....Despite the uneqivocal
language of the Constitution of the United States that the writ of
habeas corpus shall not be suspended, and despite the Fifth
Amendment's command that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty
or property without due process of law, both of these constitutional
safeguards were denied by military action under Executive Order
9066..." (Tom C. Clark, "Epilogue," Maisie & Richard Conrat,
_Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans_).
Time & Location: TBA
Contact: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
March 4, 7:30 PM / March 5-8, 8 PM / March 8, 2 PM
Sueno
by Maria Angeles Romero
K-nowhere to run, no-w-here to Hide
by Kenderick Hardy
Location: Mount Hall Studio Theatre, 1050 Carmack Road
* Sueno is a multimedia play focusing on several Baroque poetic works
by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. The play evokes realities in a
fictional world that border on a continuous sliding between the
concrete, the hallucinatory, and the virtual, and will use video and
slide projections.
* K-nowhere to run, no-w-here to Hide combines spoken word poetry,
traditional text, song, dance, and high-impact movement to explore a
wide range of themes, including black masculinity, racial profiling,
cultural identity, love, conscience, and humanity. It is set in a
club called the Spotlight in a small Alabama town.
April 9, 2003
Remember Deir Yassin
Time & Location: TBA
May 14, 2003
Remember Al-Nakba
Time & Location: TBA
Ongoing....
November 17, 2002 - March 8, 2003
Come Join the Women's Peace Vigil at the White House
Join prominent women and women's organizations across the country for
this historic peace vigil and rolling fast in front of the White
House in Washington DC starting Sunday, November 17, 2002 in
Lafayette Park, continuing through March 8, International Women's
Day, and culminating in a massive women's peace march. The vigil and
fast is an urgent call to stop a war on Iraq--a war for oil that will
kill thousands of innocent Iraqis, needlessly endanger the lives of
US servicepeople, escalate a cycle of violence, devastate the
environment and drain our financial resources. It is an urgent call
to say that our safety and well-being as a nation is not served by
war, but by focusing on non-violent resolution of conflicts, and
using our nation's vast wealth, energy and skills for life-giving
programs such as schools, health care and decent housing for the
world's poor. With this vigil , we will create a space in Washington
D.C. for building community, for reflection and sharing. It will also
be a base from which to engage in creative actions and education for
peace. Each week our actions will draw attention to the real costs of
war--civilian casualties, who will be sent to fight, escalating
poverty as the Pentagon budgets soar, the proliferation of violence
in our society, the environmental devastation. Please get involved!
Here is what you can do:
* Join the vigil in Washington for as much time as you can--a day, a
week, a month. You can fast or not fast, as you wish. While this
action is initiated by women, men are also welcome!
* Women's groups/organizations are encouraged to take a four-day
shift (Sunday to Wednesday or Thursday to Sunday). Bring at least
three people, whether fasters or supporters, and help
plan/participate in peace activities for those four days.
* Initiate a solidarity vigil/fast in your own community.
* Organize in your community to get women to come to DC Women's Peace
March on International Women's Day, March 8, 2003.
Women in Black Vigil against war, exploitation, & all forms of
oppression: every Friday, 5:30-6 30 PM, at the corner of 15th Ave. &
High St.
On the Day When the US Begins Its War on Iraq...
Go to the Federal Building (200 North High St., at the corner of
Spring & High, Columbus, OH) at 9 PM and demonstrate against the
invasion. (If the invasion begins after 9 p.m., do the above the day
after the beginning of the invasion.) For more info, contact Mark D.
Stansbery at 252-9255.
--
Yoshie
* Calendar of Events in Columbus:
<http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>
* Anti-War Activist Resources: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html>
* Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/>
* Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osu.edu/students/CJP/>