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 <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> Download the flyer at <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/ProjectCensored.doc>!
Friday, November 22. 5:30 - 6:30 PM Women in Black vigil against violence, oppression, and exploitation Location: 15th Ave. and High St., Columbus, OH Contact: Connie Hammond, <chammon at columbus.rr.com>
Sunday, November 24, 5-6 PM Demonstrate against the War on Iraq! Location: 15th Ave. and High St., Columbus, OH Contact: Mark D. Stansbery, the Community Organizing Center, 614-252-9255
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/> 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/> 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
Wednesday, February 19, 2003 Commemorate Japanese Internment Time & Location: TBA 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 unequivocal 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_). Contact: Yoshie Furuhashi, 614-668-6554 or <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
March 4, 7:30 PM / March 5-8, 8 PM / March 8, 2 PM, 2003 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.
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/>