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Dec. 3 - Student Networking Conference - NY Youth Bloc Meeting to Stop the War - Next Tuesday, December 3, 4:30. At the CUNY Grad Center (try to bring a photo ID). 365 Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th Streets. Meeting downstairs, in the concourse, rooms C201/C202. (B/D/F/V to 34th St, N/R/Q/W to 28th, or 6 to 33rd). Youth Bloc is the New York City-wide coalition of high school students and youth for peace, justice and empowerment. The Bloc mobilized thousands of young people last spring for successful actions to stop the budget cuts to our schools, and co-sponsored last week's Not In Our Name anti-war walkout.
WAR COULD BE JUST WEEKS AWAY. Join young people from around the city to plan how to build the youth movement to stop it, how to stop the military recruiters' invasion of our schools, and how to put the money for bombs back where it belongs. We're in touch with resisters around the country, including student networks, unions, and people like Pvt Wilfredo Torres--a young soldier who's the first to go AWOL against this war. It's time to take our resistance to the next level.
(Note: The event may be listed at the security desk as the Hunter High School Youth Bloc meeting.
Send ideas or proposals you want on the agenda to the facilitators, Sanju at banglabhai@lycos.com or Margrit at calico4@msn.com.Dec. 4 - Student Networking Conference - San Diego - San Diego Area Anti-War Activist Networking Meeting and Anti-War Concert - UCSD Campus Concert 12 Noon to 2 PM at the Price Center; Meeting from end of concert to 5 PM, Berkeley Room, Price Center
Organized by the UCSD Campus Peace Coalition; All campus and community-based groups are invited to attend the concert and meet afterward to discuss organizing strategies for the San Diego area. To make the meeting as inclusive as possible the UCSD Campus Peace Coalition is requesting that groups and individuals who are interested in attending submit their ideas about specific agenda topics and ways in which they desire the meeting to be conducted. Please send suggestions to trn_red@hotmail.com.If you know of any groups or individuals that might be interested in this event, please let them know about it. In Solidarity, Tona Rodriguez, Outreach Committee, UCSD Campus Peace Coalition.Dec. 5 - Student Networking Conference - Meeting of the Minds -- Northern California students and anti-war student groups coming together to plan next coordinated MASS ACTION Walk-outs/Actions at Army recuiters and ROTC's/MASS Student-Youth Convergence. Bring Ideas and THINK BIG. THE POTENTIAL IS GREAT!
WHEN: Dec 5th at 6:30pm
WHERE: University of San Francisco (USF) See below for directions
Contact: Abby 415-422-8373 email: ajstepnitz@usfca.edu or Xochitl 510 847-6140 redxochi@yahoo.com Details and Directions.Dec. 5 - Not in Our Name general meeting - Thursday at The Seafarer's & Internatinoal House, 123 E. 15th Street, (between Irving Place and 3rd Ave.), 2nd floor, 6:30 - 8:30 pm. Use #4, 5, 6, N, R, Q, W, L trains to Union Square (14th Street) and walk east.
Dec. 7-8 - Student Networking Conference - Mid-West - The University of Minnesota Coalition Against War on Iraq (CAWI) is hosting a regional preliminary conference in order to establish an agenda for a much larger conference in February. Go HERE for details.
Dec. 7 - New York City - BED-STUY PEACE WALK & RALLY; Gather 12 noon at Restoration Plaza (1360 Fulton St., between Brooklyn & New York). 2-5 pm: Rally at AME Zion Baptist Church (54 McDonough Street, near Tompkins). More info: 718-907-0578
Dec. 8 - New York City - EMERGENCY PRAYER VIGIL FOR PEACE - Riverside Church (490 Riverside Avenue, between 122 & 125 Streets) in the Main Sanctuary, 5:30- 8:00 PM. Speakers include Rev. Herbert Daughtry, Iman Mahdi Bray, Rev Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III, Rev William Fauntroy. More info: 718-596-1991Dec. 10 - Student National Pledge of Resistance Actions. Here's a preliminary list of schools that are holding actions on Dec.10 (many more are being added to this list; thank you Daniel J. O'Neill-Ortiz of Boston Mobilization; please email Daniel at anacyclosis@hotmail.com.
Loyola College PA, Wesley Theological DC, St. John's College MD, Notre Dame IN, Penn State PA, University of Florida FL, Holy Hill Theological Pax Christi USA Young Adults Forum, Ramapo College NJ, Boston College MA, Boston University MA, Harvard University MA, Holy Cross MA, Iowa State University IA, Yale CT, New York University NY, Bard College NY, StonyBrook-SUNY NY, Univ. of New Hampshire NH, College of St. Joseph VT, Portland State University OR, UC Berkeley CA, Hampshire College MA, Wesleyan College CT, Augustana College SD, St. Louis University MO, Fordham University NY, Emerson College MA, Northeastern MA, UMass Boston MA, Brandeis MA, Tufts MA, Georgetown DC, Swathmore PA, Haverford PA, MontClaire State NJ, Unversity of MD, Balmore County MD, BU School of Public Health MA, Columbia NY, Hunter College NY, University of MD, Grinnell IA, Goshen College IN, Indiana University IN, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary IN, Commonwealth Univ of VA, Eastern Mennonite Univ VA, U. of Richmond, VA, Marshall Univ, WV, Concord Univ, WV, University of Spartenburg, SC, Winthrop Univ, SC, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, UIC, IL.
Dec. 10 - Springfield - Western Massachusetts groups plan the following action in Springfield, MA: Rally at 11:30 at Court Square -leafleting -food brought to donate to food shelter; Move to Kerry’s office at 1:00; Gather at ARISE office for the afternoon; Reconvene at Court Square for leafleting at supper hour 4:00 – 5:30; Brings flashlights/ candles for vigil. Dress warmly Groups represented, in no particular order: Western Mass Stop War Coalition, ARISE, Northampton Committee to Lift the Sanctions and End the Bombing, Peace Pagoda, AFSC/WesternMass, Mt Toby Group, Western Mass Interfaith Coalition, Tom Mooney/Western Mass Local of the Socialist Party, Veterans for Peace, Peace Development Fund, No Blood for Oil, Stop the War/Franklin County, Traprock Peace Center, and individual community members.
Help gather aid, from now to Dec. 10: In preparation, Traprock invites you to help bring a collection basket to a favorite market, general store, school or office so that many more mainstream neighbors will consider what they can do to help. Please donate one small item: vitamins, children's tylenol, band-aids, cold + cough medicines, antibiotic ointment, sterile gauze, adult pain relief, simple art supplies, and small sturdy toys for Iraqi children & families. We have arranged to bring 30 pounds of donated items to a Massachusetts resident, soon to visit Iraqi hospitals. Collection sites now include Green Fields Market, (NO GLASS, please.)
Dec. 10 - Springfield - Western Massachusetts groups plan the following action in Springfield, MA: Rally at 11:30 at Court Square -leafleting -food brought to donate to food shelter; Move to Kerry’s office at 1:00; Gather at ARISE office for the afternoon; Reconvene at Court Square for leafleting at supper hour 4:00 – 5:30; Brings flashlights/ candles for vigil. Dress warmly Groups represented, in no particular order: Western Mass Stop War Coalition, ARISE, Northampton Committee to Lift the Sanctions and End the Bombing, Peace Pagoda, AFSC/WesternMass, Mt Toby Group, Western Mass Interfaith Coalition, Tom Mooney/Western Mass Local of the Socialist Party, Veterans for Peace, Peace Development Fund, No Blood for Oil, Stop the War/Franklin County, Traprock Peace Center, and individual community members. See and distribute FLYER.
Then come to Greenfield: (and for those who can't get to Springfield): Eve Brown Waite and Sunny Miller invite you to the Greenfield Public Library for a children's hour at 3:30. We'll make simple greeting cards to send with our aid package for Iraq, hear a story about rescue work, sing and have a snack. At 4:30 come to the Post office to see if they'll take our box of aid for Iraq. (Probably not.) After brief comments, sing songs for peace with us outside the post office. At 5;00 or 5:15 adults and teens are invited to the Library for a film and discussion. See "Invisible War, Depleted Uranium and the Politics of Radiation." We can loan this video for viewing in any public, not-for profit setting.
See "Children of the Gulf War" photos and text by Takashi Morizumi. (Email: leeps@mindspring.com) Photos of Iraqi children and families can be carried on a clothesline as you walk from the post office to your meeting place, and displayed in advance in preparation for Human Rights Day. Taking aid to Iraq is illegal but arrests have not been made. This civil disobedience could become huge in the coming weeks. See Voices in the Wilderness - http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/, for example.
Hadley, MA - For those who can't get to Springfield, Hampshire College is hosting a No Blood for Oil informational action at the Shell Staion near the intersection of Route 9 and the Bay Road/Route 47 from 12 to 2 pm. There will be sign holding, leafletting, awareness raising fun. The organizers of this event are not advocating any blockage of consumer access to gas, rather a focus on education.
Dec. 10 - Boston - Boston Mobilization is organizing for the National Day of Action as part of its No War, No Way! Campaign. It calls on students to plan actions on their campuses. Visit its website at http://www.nowarnoway.org for resources. Call 617-782-2313 or email at organizeboston@yahoo.com for more information. Further details will be posted here as well. See their announcement (pdf file.)
Dec. 10 - New York City - Demonstration begins at 10am at Dag Hammerskjold Plaza (47th Street and 1st Ave) and will include a non-violent civil disobedience at the US Mission to the United Nations. For more information about this please contact Rev. Peter Laarman at plaarman@judson.org.
Dec. 11 - New York City - Forum at New School, 1 pm on Wednesday at 66W 12th Street between 5th and 6th Ave. At 12 pm, same location, die-in, street theater and demos precede 1 pm enent. Forum concerns Bob Kerrey's (New School President) involvement with Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. Students concerned that his active role in pursuing war goes against pacifist tradition of school. Students and administration sparring over whether forum is open to public. Students want it open and encorage people to come; warning - you may be turned away from forum. All are invited to street events starting at noon! See student announement and account of sit-in at Kerrey's office that prompted forum.
Dec. 14 - Anti-War Protest planned in New York City. Uptown Youth for Peace and Justice. Rally begins at 12 noon at 157th St. and Broadway. March at 1 pm to 125th St. and Adam Clayton Powell Bovd for a Rally @ 2:30 at the Harlem Stgate Office Building. "Calling on all members of Uptown communities. Call churches, students, youth, and working people from around the city. Protest the poverty draft: targeting Black and Latino youth for military service is a crime. Protest the looting of schools, hospitals, housing and social programs to fund this unjust war. Protest the continued murder of innocent people around the world. Yes to Schools & Jobs. No to War in Iraq." For more information, contact Karim at 347-203-6157 or luchando@blackplanet.com.
Endorsed by: Black Radical Congress, La Fuerza de La Revolucion, Movimiento Pro PSD, Northern Manhattan Neighbors for Peace and Justice, West Harlem Coalition, Unidos Contra La Guerra, Harlem Washington Heights CP USA, Cuba Solidarity New York, 1199 for Peace and Justice, Youth Bloc, Casa de las Americas, Harlem Tenants Council, Vieques Support Campaign, Harlem Anti-War Coalition, West Harlem Coalition, Uptown Club YCL USA, Riverside Edgecombe Neighborhood Association, Congreso Nacional Dominicano, Alianza Dominicana, The Brecht Forum, Freedom Road Socialist Organization- NY/NJ District, Critical Resistance, Dominican Women's Center, New York Coalition for Peace and Justice, Stand Up New York, New Yorkers Say No to War, CCNY Student Liberation Action Movement, War Resister's League, West Side Peace Action, NY Not In Our Name, Chelsea Peace Action, US Peace Council and Traprock Peace Center.
Dec. 15 - North Carolina Student Antiwar Planning Meeting - Sunday, December 15, 12:00 Noon - 3:00 PM
Curry Building, UNC-Greensboro; Hosted by the Campus Antiwar Coalition at UNCG; Website: http://GreensboroAntiwar.org/event.htm
Email: network@greensboroantiwar.org. See Announcement.Jan. 10 (evening) and all day 11 and 12 - The Boston Area Liberation Medic (BALM) Squad is planning a street medic training for January, and we want to know who might be interested in attending! The training will be about 2 days long, and will occur over a weekend in January. We hope to hold the
training January 10-12, in anticipation of the anti-war demonstrations in DC on January 18-19, but are waiting for confirmation from our trainer. We will provide training in basic first aid, chemical weapons decontamination, emotional support and street medic logistics. YOU DO NOT NEED ANY PRIOR HEALTH CARE TRAINING OR EXPERIENCE TO BECOME A STREET MEDIC. The training is free, but we ask for a $20-40 donation to cover materials and travel for our trainers. We can help with housing for anyone coming from out of town.
Email us at bostonmedics@riseup.net for more information, or call 857 928-2777.Jan. 15-20 - Washington DC and Locally - Local Pledge of Resistance Actions; Washington, D.C.: National Demonstration and Peace Conferences. See Calendar at http://www.endthewar.org.
Jan. 17 - National Student Peace 'Sister' Conferences in DC (George Washington University) and San Francisco (San Francisco State University). Delegates selected by university/school coalitions will participate in conferences. See San Francisco Student Conference. and Washington, DC Student Conference. Concerning the DC conference, see also Students Against War in Iraq at George Washington University.
Jan. 18 - Mass Demonstrations in DC and SF. Jeremy Corbyn, MP (London - Islington North) a featured speaker. He will share views from the powerful anti-war movement in the UK. Mr. Corbyn is a primary organizer and member of the coordinating committee of the Stop the War Coalition in the UK. The protest is dedicated in part to the memory of Phillip Berrigan. Elizabeth McAlisteer, his wife, will speak. Other speakers and messages include Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney; Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Auxiliary Bishop, Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit; Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general; Mike Farrell, actor; Elizabeth McAlister, Jonah House; Mahdi Bray, Executive Director, Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation; Brenda Stokely, President, District Council 1707 AFSCME andCo-Convener, New York City Labor Against the War; Damu Smith, Black Voices for Peace; Michael Letwin, Co-Convener, New York City Labor Against the War; Bill Fletcher, Co-Chair, United for Peace, TransAfrica; Peta Lindsay, A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth and Student Coordinator, Howard University student; Rev. Graylan Hagler, Senior Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church; Bayan Free Palestine Alliance; Macrina Cardenas, Mexico Solidarity Network; Yoomi Jeong, Korea Truth Commission; Nicaragua Network; Partnership for Civil Justice; Muslim Students Association of the U.S. & Canada; IFCO/Pastors for Peace; International Action Center; Rev. John Dear; Blasé Bonpane, Director, Office of the Americas; Rev. Herbert Daughtry, national pastor, House of the Lord Church, Brooklyn; Not in Our Name Project; Ron Kovic, Vietnam Veteran and author of "Born on the Fourth of July"; Michael Tarif Warren, attorney; Mumia Abu-Jamal; Representative of women's struggle to defend reproductive rights on the 30th anniversary of Roe v Wade. Musical and cultural performances include: Chumbawamba, Prime Meridian, and Patti Smith.
Buses will be leaving the area on SATURDAY, JANUARY 18 - 1AM from NORTHAMPTON (parking lot behind Thorne's Market) & 1:45AM from SPRINGIELD (main campus parking lot of Springfield Technical Community College on Armory Square) Please reserve seating ASAP. We currently have 2 buses. One is nearly full. Price per ticket is $40. Please make checks or money orders payable to Western Mass. ANSWER and mail them to WMass ANSWER Coalition, PO Box 2733, Springfield, MA 01101. Please be sure to include your name, mailing address and phone number with your check (if this info isn't listed) so we can call to verify receipt of payment and mail ticket(s) to you ASAP. Please try to have all checks in the mail by next Tuesday.
Buses for the January 18th demonstration in DC will leave Western Massachusetts around 11pm on Friday, Jan. 17 and return around midnight on the 18th. Reservations are required . some scholarships are available.
1) For buses leaving from the Pioneer Valley contact Nick Camerota wmassiac@hotmail.com or call 413.538.8537
2) For buses leaving from Pittsfield, Berkshire Community College contact Barb Prentice barbp@bcn.net or call 413.443.9402
3) For buses leaving from Great Barrington or Hudson, NY call 518.392.4131 or 413.644.9876 or send check for $35 to Columbia Co./Berkshire Co. Peace Exchange P.O. Box 353, Chatham, NY 12037 to reserve a seat.Jan. 19 - Grassroots Peace Congresss in Washington, DC - See http://www.internationalanswer.org
Spring 2003 - Listing of courses on peace and world security at Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and UMASS-Amherst. (PDF file) (DOC file).
Feb. 8-9 - W.A.R.P.con (War Ain't Right People Conference/Concert); Keynote Speaker: BOOTS RILEY of THE COUP; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Coffman Student Union, Mississippi Room (3rd floor).
SATURDAY: - workshops and teach-ins, 9am - 4:30 - Hip Hop Show featuring The Coup, David Cross, Atmosphere, and others. Doors open at 4:30, show starts at 5:30. All ages. Tickets come with conference registration (see below)
SUNDAY: - Regional anti-war organizing, 8am - 1pm. - Forming the "Twin Cities Campus Anti-War Network," 2pm - 4pm.
Students from all over the Mid-West will be gathering in Minneapolis in order to discuss proposals for joint actions and regional coordination and hear reports from across the midwest. We'll develop plans for the new national "Campus Anti-War Network," which will have its founding conference two weeks later.
Student and community activists will put on a wonderful variety of simualtaneous workshops and teach-ins all day Saturday to share ideas, organizing successes, and understanding about different sides of the war crisis. These are crucial moments in history. The consequences of Bush's proposed war and occupation of Iraq will be horrendous and global. It must be stopped. The anti-war movement is growing fast, and already our weight is felt by those in power across the the globe, including the White House. But we must further our organization and broaden our appeal if we hope to beat back the ruthless ambitions of Bush and company. Join us for a weekend of networking, education, and action planning.
REGISTRATION AND TICKETS
Register online at www.wiscpunk.org/warpcon. Only advance registration gets you concert tickets (until we sell out), but you're welcome to attend the conference without pre-registration. $5 requested donation at the door.
HOUSING
If you're traveling from out of town and need a place to stay, it can be arranged if you let us know ahead of time.
CONTACT INFO
Call 612.623.0609 or e-mail uofmcawi@yahoo.com, or visit: www.geocities.com/uofmcawi OR http://www.wiscpunk.org/warpconFeb. 15 - New York City - Student Event: Scott Ritter, Def Poetry Jam and others!
As a complement to the national march being organized in New York City by United for Peace and Justice, there will also be a student/youth event at 8:00 pm at Columbia University on the night of the 15th. It will be held in the Barnard Hall Gymnasium located at 117th & Broadway. The Campus Antiwar Network and United for Peace and Justice have endorsed the event, and it is being hosted by the Columbia University Antiwar Coalition.
Current confirmed speakers include among others former weapons inspector Scott Ritter, Dalia Hashad of the ACLU, Michael Letwin of New York Labor Against the War, Amy Goodman from WBAI/Democracy Now, and Anthony Arnove, editor of Iraq Under Siege. Confirmed performers include Welfare Poets and also spoken word artists from Def Poetry Jam. In addition to speakers and music we will also have refreshments and tables for groups to share information. The location is Barnard Hall at 3001 Broadway Avenue, at 117th street.
There will be a $5 suggested donation, the proceeds of which will be used to provide transportation for tri-state-area students to a national student anti-war conference in Chicago on February 22-23. Housing will be available for people who will need to stay in the city overnight; for further information on requesting housing, or if you are able to provide it, please email the housing committee at studenthousing0215@yahoo.com.
Due to space limitations, those who wish to insure admittance are strongly advised to email Sarah Jane Schmidt at studenttickets0215@yahoo.com to reserve seats. We request that local antiwar organizers handle that and then send her one email with a list of names instead of hundreds of individual emails! Also anyone who can be at Columbia early (around 5pm) to volunteer would be much appreciated. If you wish to volunteer, contact studentvolunteers0215@yahoo.com. In addition, any groups that have banners are invited to bring them to be hung around the outside of the event as a show of solidarity.
This event should provide a great way for students/youth to make connections and share ideas, and we hope that as well as being a fun night that it will also provide a boost to the movement.
Daniel Harlow
Publicity/Outreach
Columbia University Antiwar CoalitionFeb. 16 - ATTN ALL ANTI-WAR STUDENTS: LET'S MARCH TOGETHER ON F16 IN SF!
Student and Youth pre-march SPEAK OUT and Contingent
Where: Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street (corner of First Street)
When: Speak Out begins at 11am
How: Get off at Embarcadero BART (Mission Street is 1 block South of Market St)
Who: All Bay Area students! Campus Anti-War Network, Bay Area United Against War, International ANSWER Student and Youth, Not In Our Name Youth and Student Project, United for Peace and Justice Youth and Students and YOUR SCHOOL!
Why: Show Bush that Students are ORGANIZED and ANTI-WAR!
On February 16 in San Francisco, hundreds of thousdands of people will take part in a march against Bush's war on Iraq along with Danny Glover, Alice Walker and some soon to be announced kickin music and cultural acts. The protest is part of a global weekend of rallies in New York, San Diego, LA,
Sacramento, Santa Cruz, San Jose as well as Paris, London, Cairo, Manila, Rome, Athens, Ramallah, Bangkok and Berlin that will all happen on February 15. Up to 10 MILLION people will take to the streets together on this day in what will be the largest and most international anti-war protest IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD! We MUST make Bush listen to the majority for peace.
In San Francisco on January 18, tens of thousands of students and youth marched along with 200,000 othe people to protest the war. But since our campuses were mostly not back in session yet, we didn't all march together in a contingent to show Bush that the large majority of student oppose this war.
On February 15 in New York thousands will march in a giant student and youth block and on February 16 in SF we're going to make our voices heard and the student wing of the anti-war movement visible for all to see with a...
Student Speak-Out and Contingent
College and High Schools students are meeting up a few blocks from the beginning of the march at so we can have an open mic speak-out to hear how we're all organizing to stop the war and then assemble so we can enter the march as a student block with banners and signs identifying all our schools and anti-war groups. If you or your school would like to participate and get
on the list to speak, please email the Campus Anti-War Network at Feb16Students@aol.com or call 510-333-4604.March 5 - National Student Strike - One Day National Student Strike - called by National Youth and Student Peace Coalition.
See Seven Area Schools Press Release (Amherst College , Amherst Regional High School, Greenfield Community College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College , Smith College, University of Massachusetts). Books Not Bombs! Stop The War Against Iraq! The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC) calls upon students on campuses across the United States to join a one-day student strike on March 5th, 2003. For national information, see www.nyspc.net and http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=662Go to Student Activism
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