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.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), panohio3 at aol.com, Baillady51 at aol.com * 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: rassarah at yahoo.com
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: <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
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/>