* Tuesday, January 15 Screening: _The Myth of the Liberal Media: the Propaganda Model of News_ (produced by the Media Education Foundation)
<<< Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish the myth of the "liberal media." Using systematic empirical research, they reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of "elite propaganda." >>>
Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: 264 MacQuigg Lab at the OSU, 105 West Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH Sponsored by the Student International Forum. Visit <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/macquigglab.html> for an OSU campus map. For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> or 614-668-6554; and Keith Kilty at <kilty.1 at osu.edu> or 614-292-7181.
* Thursday, January 17 Teach-in: "Palestine, Human Rights, & International Law" Speaker: John Quigley, professor of international law at the Ohio State University; & author of _Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice_ (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1990), _The Ruses for War: American Interventionism Since World War II_ (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Press, 1992), _Flight into the Maelstrom: Soviet Immigration to Israel and Middle East Peace_ (Reading and Berkshire, UK: Ithaca Press, 1997), & other publications Time: 5:00 p.m. Location: TBA Sponsored by the Student International Forum Co-Sponsored by ILSA, CAIR-Ohio, & the Progressive Peace Coalition For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> or 614-668-6554; and Keith Kilty at <kilty.1 at osu.edu> or 614-292-7181.
* Tuesday, January 22 Screening: _Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone?_ (Dir. Marty Rosenbluth, 1995)
<<< This award-winning video examines the issues of housing and residency rights in Jerusalem and how they affect the Palestinian population in the city. Since it annexed East Jerusalem in 1967, the Israeli government has pursued a deliberate policy to limit the Palestinian population in the city, while at the same time seeking to increase the Jewish population. This video explores the Israeli policies of land confiscation, construction of Jewish settlements, denial of building permits, and the separation of Palestinian families. While the future of the negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis is uncertain, it is clear that the issue of Jerusalem will be one of the most difficult questions to resolve. _Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone?_ provides crucial information to help understand the importance of Jerusalem to Palestinians. According to the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, "This forceful documentary explores the devastating effects of exclusive Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem from the Palestinian perspective...._Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone?_ introduces us to Jerusalemites we rarely hear from -- Palestinians who have suffered from what they see as the repressive measures of Israeli occupation." The Toronto Jewish Film Festival said, "Changing demographics, border closures and competing claims to the city are examined in dramatic eyewitness testimony and startling footage skillfully shot and edited...this is an immediate and unforgettable document." >>>
Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: 264 MacQuigg Lab at the OSU, 105 West Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH Sponsored by the Student International Forum. Visit <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/macquigglab.html> for an OSU campus map. For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> or 614-668-6554; and Keith Kilty at <kilty.1 at osu.edu> or 614-292-7181.
* Thursday, January 24 Teach-in: "Nuclear Power Plants = Ticking Time Bombs!" Speaker: Harvey Wasserman, senior advisor to Greenpeace USA & the Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS); author of _The Last Energy War: The Battle Over Utility Deregulation_ (NY: Seven Stories Press, 1999), _Harvey Wasserman's History of the United States_ (NY: Harper & Row, 1972); & other publications; & co-author (with Norman Solomon) of _Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation 1945-1982_ (NY: Delta Book, 1982) Time: 5:00 p.m. Location: 115 Stillman, Ohio State University, 1947 College Rd., Columbus, OH Sponsored by the Student International Forum For an OSU Campus map, visit <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/stillmanhall.html>. For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> or 614-668-6554; and Keith Kilty at <kilty.1 at osu.edu> or 614-292-7181.
* Thursday, January 31 Teach-in: "'The War on Drugs': Uncle Sam Wants YOU -- in the Dark" Speakers: Sarah Clark & Sean Luse, Students for Sensible Drug Policy Time: 5:00 p.m. Location: 115 Stillman, Ohio State University, 1947 College Rd., Columbus, OH Sponsored by the Student International Forum Co-sponsored by Students for Sensible Drug Policy For an OSU Campus map, visit <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/stillmanhall.html>. For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> or 614-668-6554; and Keith Kilty at <kilty.1 at osu.edu> or 614-292-7181.
* Tuesday, February 5 Screening: _People and the Land_ (Dir. Tom Hayes, 1997)
<<< _People and the Land_ takes viewers into the universe of the occupied people of Palestine, unreeling images of a new form of apartheid based on ethnicity. Challenging US foreign policy, this film examines the concrete realities of Israel's conduct in the West Bank and Gaza, the level of US support for that conduct through foreign aid, and the human cost of that aid in Palestine and the US. The result is a powerful and compelling portrayal of the situation that highlights the human rights violations against the Palestinian community. >>>
Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: 264 MacQuigg Lab at the OSU, 105 West Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH Sponsored by the Student International Forum. Visit <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/macquigglab.html> for an OSU campus map. For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> or 614-668-6554; and Keith Kilty at <kilty.1 at osu.edu> or 614-292-7181.
* Thursday, February 7 Teach-in: "Plan Columbia . . . Plan of Death" Speaker: Mary Hershberger, professor of history at Capital University; author of _Traveling to Vietnam: American Peace Activists and the War_ (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998), "Mobilizing Women, Anticipating Abolition: The Struggle against Indian Removal in the 1830s" _Journal of American History 86.1_ (June 1999) [winner of the Organization of American Historians Binkley-Stephenson Award in 2000], & other publications; and activist for the SOA Watch/Witness for Peace
<<< The teach-in with Mary Hershberger includes the showing of a 40-minute video "Colombia -- The Next Vietnam?" by Anne Barstow and Tom Driver of the Witness for Peace. The video demonstrates that US involvement in Colombia is not mainly about drugs but about oil; not about counternarcotics but about counterinsurgency; and not about coca but but about US military expansion. It documents life in a village built by refugees fleeing from the US-sponsored poison spraying of farms; environmental damage of the spraying; the murderous attacks on Colombia's labor movement; and interviews with mayors, legislators, human rights workers, the military, campesinos, pastors, women's groups, and US embassy personnel. >>>
Time: 5:00 p.m. Location: 115 Stillman, Ohio State University, 1947 College Rd., Columbus, OH Sponsored by the Student International Forum For an OSU Campus map, visit <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/stillmanhall.html>. For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> or 614-668-6554; and Keith Kilty at <kilty.1 at osu.edu> or 614-292-7181.
* Thursday, February 14 Teach-in: "Frantz Fanon, Pan-African Vision, & Anti-Imperialist Politics" Speaker: Ikechukwu Okafor-Newsum, professor of African-American and African Studies at the Ohio State University; & author of _Class, Language and Education: Class Struggle and Sociolinguistics in an African Situation_ (1990); co-author of _The Use of English_ (with Adebisi Afolayan, 1983) and United States Foreign Policy Towards Southern Africa: Andrew Young and Beyond (with Olayiwola Abegunrin, 1987); principal editor of _Working Papers: The Black Woman, Challenges and Prospects for the Future_ (with Carlene Herb Young et al, 1991); visual artist Time: 5:00 p.m. Location: 115 Stillman, Ohio State University, 1947 College Rd., Columbus, OH Sponsored by the Student International Forum For an OSU Campus map, visit <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/stillmanhall.html>. For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> or 614-668-6554; and Keith Kilty at <kilty.1 at osu.edu> or 614-292-7181.
* Tuesday, February 19 Screening: _Children of the Camps_ (Dir. Stephen Holsapple & Prod./Project Dir. Satsuki Ina, Ph.D., 1999)
<<< More than 120,000 Japanese Americans were interned behind barbed wire during World War II . . . over half were children. The documentary _Children of the Camps_ documentary captures the experiences of six Americans of Japanese ancestry who were confined as children to internment camps by the U.S. government during World War II. The film vividly portrays their personal journey to heal the deep wounds they suffered from this experience. "I remember the soldiers marching us to the Army tank and I looked at their rifles and I was just terrified because I could see this long knife at the end . . . I thought I was imagining it as an adult much later . . . I thought it couldn't have been bayonets because we were just little kids." -- from _Children of the Camps_ >>>
Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: 264 MacQuigg Lab at the OSU, 105 West Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH Sponsored by the Student International Forum. Visit <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/macquigglab.html> for an OSU campus map. For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> or 614-668-6554; and Keith Kilty at <kilty.1 at osu.edu> or 614-292-7181.
* Tuesday, March 3 Screening: _The Battle of Algiers_ (Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1965)
<<< _The Battle of Algiers_ examines the anti-colonial struggle of FLN guerrillas against the French army as seen through the eyes of a young revolutionary known as Ali La Pointe. At the beginning of the film Ali La Pointe is a small-time con artist, lacking direction or any political conscience. Thrown into prison for striking a pied noir Frenchman, he witnesses the execution of an FLN revolutionary. As the condemned man is dragged toward the guillotine, he chants, "Long Live Algeria!" and the other prisoners join in. After his term in prison, Ali La Pointe enlists in the FLN cause of national independence. Confronted by armed attacks against French military and civilian targets, the French -- under the direction of Colonel Mathieu, an expert in counter-insurgency methods -- round up many "suspects" and, through torture, succeeds in discovering the network of cells in the FLN command. Overwhelmed by superior forces, the FLN gradually disintegrates until only Ali La Pointe and a handful of others remain. Ali La Pointe is ambushed in a hiding place in the Casbah, and upon refusing to surrender, he is murdered with plastic explosives planted by the French army. Two years pass in relative quiet, but at last the will for self determination explodes through mass riots in the streets of Algiers that ultimately lead to Algeria winning its independence. >>>
Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: 264 MacQuigg Lab at the OSU, 105 West Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH Sponsored by the Student International Forum. Visit <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/macquigglab.html> for an OSU campus map. For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> or 614-668-6554; and Keith Kilty at <kilty.1 at osu.edu> or 614-292-7181.
* Thursday, March 14 Teach-in: "Surviving Terror: Remembering Argentina's Dirty War" Speaker: Graciela Rennella Time: 5:00 p.m. Location: 115 Stillman, Ohio State University, 1947 College Rd., Columbus, OH Sponsored by the Student International Forum For an OSU Campus map, visit <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/stillmanhall.html>. For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> or 614-668-6554; and Keith Kilty at <kilty.1 at osu.edu> or 614-292-7181.
May 13-17 Lectures, Movies, & Art Exhibitions for Justice in Palestine Time & Location: TBA Sponsored by the OSU Committee for Justice in Palestine
August 6 Hiroshima & Nagasaki Commemoration Time & Location TBA Sponsored by the Community Organizing Center & Columbus Campaign for Arms Control
Stay tuned for more info! -- Yoshie
* Calendar of Anti-War 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/>