Sunday, October 6 War Without End? Not In Our Name! Demonstrate against Bush's Endless War! Time: 5-6 PM Location: 15th Ave. and High St., Columbus, OH Contact: 614-252-9255
Monday: October 7 Meet Julia Alvarez Time: 1:30-3 PM Location: Ohio Union Main Lounge, Second Floor, 1739 North High St., Columbus, OH A Special Invitation to the Columbus-Ohio Community to join us in welcoming to the OSU campus Julia Alvarez, the author of _How the García Girls Lost Their Accents_, _In the Time of the Butterflies_, _In the Name of Salomé_, _¡Yo!_ The author will be available to sign books. Books will be available for purchase at the event. Organized by Office of Hispanic Student Services, Women's Student Services, The Multicultural Center, and Latino/a Studies. For more information contact: Graciella Rennella <Rennella.1 at osu.edu>.
Thursday, October 10 Oppose the War on Iraq (Workshop) Speakers: Connie Hammond, National Network to End the War Against Iraq; and Keith Kilty, Professor of Social Work, Ohio State University Come and develop strategies, tactics, talking points, etc. to help the anti-war movement grow! Time: 7:30 - 9:30 PM 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>
Monday, October 14 Indigenous Peoples' Observance Time: 10 AM Location: Battelle Memorial Riverfront Park, Marconi Blvd. and West Broad St. (2 blocks west of the State House), Columbus, OH Contact: Mark Welsh or Carol Killian at 613-443-6120 (NAICCO); or Mark D. Stansbery, the Community Organizing Center, 614-252-9255.
Wednesday, October 16 Kevin Danaher, veteran human rights Activist and co-founder of Global Exchange, will discuss long term responses to terrorism and grassroots ways to respond to global economic forces. Danaher not only provides a detailed analysis of what is wrong, but he also gives inspiring examples of what we can do to make things right. Kevin Danaher Bio: <http://www.globalexchange.org/education/speakers/KevinDanaher.html> A short video will precede Danaher's talk. Time: 7:00 - 9:30 PM Location: EA160, 209 W Eighteenth Building (the Math Annex), Ohio State University, 209 W. 18th, Columbus, OH Campus Map: <http://www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/209w18th.html> Contact: Evan Davis, <evan at iwaynet.net>
Thursday, October 17 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> Time: 7:30 - 9:30 PM 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>
Saturday, October 19 Citizens' Grassroots Congress Harvey Wasserman, the internationally celebrated environmentalist, will speak about the proposed plan to dump 77,000 tons of radioactive waste at Yucca Mountain. If Yucca Mountain opens in 2010, as scheduled, all that waste must travel American highways or railroads to get there -- some 100,000 shipments over three decades through thousands of American communities. The potential for a serious accident or terrorist hijacking has opponents to the transport plan calling it "Mobile Chernobyl." Find out if nuclear waste will be transported through your neighborhood and what you can do about it. Time: 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM Location: Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 3100 East Broad St. (on the COTA bus line), Columbus, OH Contact: Rick Wilhelm <rwilhelm2 at msn.com> or Connie Hammond <chammon at columbus.rr.com>.
Thursday, October 24 Palestine Truth Tour 2002 Featuring: * New Video From Palestine by Big Noise Films (the producer of Showdown in Seattle, Black and Gold, Zapatista, 9.11) featuring Mustafa Barghouthi, Hanan Ashrawi, and recent footage from Jenin, Hebron, and more. * Reports from International Solidarity Movement activists who recently returned from Freedom Summer in Palestine, and activists from Palestine solidarity and other movements. Time: 7:30 - 9:30 PM 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>
Thursday, October 31 Screening: _The Gaza Strip_ (Dir. James Longley, 2001) ***** Like most news reports and television images coming out of the Middle East these days, _Gaza Strip_, an unsparing new documentary by James Longley, offers little reason for optimism. The film, which opens today at the Anthology Film Archives in the East Village, was shot in the winter and spring of 2001, and it provides a grim, upsetting glimpse at the lives of some of the 1.2 million Palestinians who live in the crowded cities and refugee camps of Gaza. Mr. Longley makes powerful use of the techniques of cinéma vérité. The absence of voice-over narration and talking-head interviews gives his portrait of daily life under duress a riveting immediacy. Much of "Gaza Strip" follows Mohammed Hejazi, a 13-year-old newspaper vendor. This youth, who left school after the second grade, spends much of his spare time with other boys throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers, even though his best friend was killed by the gunfire that is the inevitable response, and his father, who had spent time in an Israeli prison, once tied his son up to keep him at home. Mohammed presents a mixture of hardened cynicism and childish innocence that is both heartbreaking and unnerving. He is equally contemptuous of Ariel Sharon, whose election as prime minister takes place early in the film, of Mr. Sharon's predecessor Ehud Barak and of Yasir Arafat, and he fluctuates between weary sorrow and militaristic bravado. ("We want weapons. We don't want food.")...There are moments in "Gaza Strip" that disclose a wrenching human reality deeper and more basic than any politics. At one point Mohammed muses on death and the afterlife. His words cut against much of what we have heard lately about the Muslim view of martyrdom and paradise. He imagines receiving a stern interrogation from God - "Why did you throw those rocks?" "Why did you steal?" - after which he will be sent to heaven or hell, he doesn't know which. After some thought, he decides that he would be happiest in the solitude of purgatory. Such is the aspiration of a boy in Gaza. (A.O. Scott, New York Times 1/8/02) ***** Cf. <http://www.littleredbutton.com/gaza/> Time: 7:30 - 9:30 PM 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> -- 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/>