The Chris Powers Activist Calender

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1. No war in Iraq demonstration in Washington on Saturday,
 
October 26
 

 

 
2. Teachers Forum Meeting on Friday, Oct. 18 in Rochester
 

 

 
3. Meeting on the faith-based initiative on Saturday, Oct. 19 in Rochester
 

 

 
4. Choices for sustainable living meeting on Sunday, Oct. 20 in Rochester
 

 

 
5. National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation: Tuesday Oct. 22
 

 

 
6. Feminism and Islam talk at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester on Wednesday, Oct. 23
 

 

 
7. Class that offers tools for ongoing peer support for bringing about change, Oct. 23 OR Oct. 28
 

 

 
8. Rochester Food Not Bombs Halloween Benefit Concert: Saturday, Oct. 26
 

 

 
9. Potluck for Progressives on Monday, Oct. 28 in Rochester
 

 

 
10. Werner Fornos of the Population Institute to speak on women's rights, reproductive choice and the human impact of population on Thursday, Oct. 31
 

 

 
11. Elie Wiesel at the Univ. of Rochester on Wednesday, Oct. 30
 

 

 
12. Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector at the Univ. of Rochester on Thursday, Nov. 7
 

 

 
13. Close the School of the Assassins at Ft. Benning, GA on November 15-17
 

 

 
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Brockport Students Against War (BSAW) meets 3:45 on Fridays in the Women’s Center, basement of the Seymour College Union. Our meetings are open to students, alumni, faculty, staff, and community members.
 

 

 
Women’s Studies Organization (WSO) meets 4:45 on Tuesdays in the Women’s Center, basement of the Seymour College Union
 

 

 
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October 26 will witness a massive anti-war demonstration in Washington, DC centering on phase two of the “war on terrorism,” i.e., a second US-led war on Iraq.
 
We will right before midnight on Friday, Oct. 25 and will return well before dawn on Sunday, Oct. 27.
 
Cost is about $45, or $20 for students and low-income individuals.
 
If you can't make it to Washington, you can donate to Metro Justice so that they can offer reduced fares to people who would like to go but don't have the cash.
 
To get on a bus or van leaving from Rochester, contact Jesse Lenney at: 4141-4274 or by e-mail at: jesse_lenney@groundscore.org
 
Website of the October 26 organizers: http://www.internationalanswer.org/
 

 

 
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October 18, 2002
 
• Teachers Forum Meeting Announcement: Working Together Is Key to Building
 
Alternatives Thursday, October 18, 4pm-6pm, Rundel Public Library, Downtown
 
Rochester
 
http://www.geocities.com/teachersforum/event/021018-tf.mtg.htm
 

 

 
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PUBLIC MEETING ON THE "FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE"
 

 

 
Secular Humanists of the Rochester Area
 
P.O. Box 26576 ·Rochester, NY
 
14626
 
www.shora.org
 
Affiliated with the Alliance of Secular Humanist Societies
 

 

 
The public is invited to attend:
 

 

 
Ed Buckner, Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism,
 
speaker, debater, and secular humanist, will speak on
 

 

 
"Elimination of Faith-Based Discrimination"
 

 

 
Saturday, October 19th, 2002, at 7:30 PM
 
The Clara Barton Lounge at the First Universalist Church
 
150 S. Clinton Ave., Rochester, NY 14604
 

 

 
This meeting is free and open to the public.
 
Refreshments will be provided.
 
Call 585-227-0086 for information.
 

 

 
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Our CHOICES FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING first meeting is to be Sunday 10/20/02
 
at 3:45, in the same room at the FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH #110 and continuing
 
until December weekly. If you are still unsure, you might still attend a
 
meeting or two and see if it is for you. Hal Bauer bought his discussion
 
guide but will be absent on the 20th when Mary Gleason mentors us due to a
 
five day, family trip to Boston, MA getting him off the farm after harvest,
 
yippee! He will see you fellow students on the 27 th at 3:45 PM and weekly
 
there after.David Eisenberg, the CHOICES FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING
 
coordinator's home number is (585)288-7433, and work number is
 
(585)347-2006 x221. He usually works M-F, 8-5.
 

 

 
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National Day of Protest to Stop Police BRUTALITY, Repression,
 
and the Criminalization of a Generation: Tues. Oct.22, 2002
 
Called for by the October 22nd Coalition to
 
Stop Police BRUTALITY, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation
 

 

 
Will we do anything locally at noontime or at 5 PM at the Hall of Justice (sic)?
 

 

 
At least 140 people across the nation have been killed by law enforcement since September
 
11, 2001. There has been and
 
still is a national epidemic of police brutality and murder.
 
In New York and New Jersey alone, at least 33 people have
 
been killed by law enforcement since September 11th last
 
year. While some say that maybe we should sit down and shut
 
up until all this talk about "cops are heroes" blows over,
 
we ask: If we don't speak out, who will speak for the 140
 
killed, plus the over 2000 cases killed in the decade of the
 
90's, documented by the Stolen Lives Project?
 

 

 
After all the vigorous protests over the profiled execution
 
of Amadou Diallo and the profiled shooting of the four
 
basketball players on the NJ turnpike, all of a sudden
 
racial profiling is "legit" again! This time they're also
 
coming for Muslims, Arabs and South Asians. THIS IS
 
UNACCEPTABLE! NY and NJ have been a center for repression
 
against people from the Middle East and South Asia, the
 
location for many of the detention centers where hundreds
 
are being held most without charges - questioned and
 
tortured and kept from family and legal help. A center of
 
resistance to these outrages should be right here!
 

 

 
Read the Stolen Lives Project online at: http://stolenlives.org/
 

 

 
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Feminism and Islam:
 
On October 23 there is a lecture on Feminism and Islam at the Memorial Art Gallery. Dr. Riffat Hassan, professor of religious studies and humanities at the University of Louisville, is the speaker. The reception is at 5:30, and the lecture is at 6:30.
 
The talk is sold out, but the Women’s Center of SUNY Brockport has reserved 15 seats, most of which are still available. The bus with 15 seats available is leaving from the Women's Center of SUNY Brockport. There is a sign up sheet on the door of the Women’s Center.
 
Contact Kathryn King: KKing8@rochester.rr.com
 

 

 
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CLASS FOR ACTIVISTS
 
Dear Sister and Brother Activists,
 

 

 
I recently led a Downtown Community Forum program "Leading the Way in Hard
 
Times: What Does It Take?" During that program I spoke of the possibility of
 
creating a conscious community of social activists who can give each other a
 
profound level of support.
 

 

 
To that end, I will soon be teaching a class that offers tools for ongoing
 
peer support for bringing about change. I would be delighted to have you
 
join us. I believe that one way we can become more effective -- AND have an
 
inspiring, joyful experience -- is through the tools of re-evaluation
 
counseling (r.c). Re-evaluation counseling is a worldwide peer support
 
network. Activists from Argentina to Zimbabwe have used it to heal from
 
discouragement and hopelessness and to increase their ability to think
 
flexibly.
 

 

 
More than anything else, it is a mutual process of peers who learn to listen
 
with better attention and to heal from the emotional distress that keeps us
 
from being as powerful as we can be in making the world right. We will
 
include support for healing from the results of oppression, including
 
anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, sexism, male oppression, classism, and
 
young people's oppression.
 

 

 
Steven Jarose will be assisting me in a 12-week class including the theory
 
and practice of r.c., also known as "co-counseling." The two-hour class time
 
will be set when we learn who is interested and what times work best (see
 
below). We plan to begin the week of November 4. Class fee is on a sliding
 
scale and negotiable.
 

 

 
We would love to have you join us for a free informational session on:
 
Wednesday, October 23 from 5-6:30 pm
 
OR
 
Monday, October 28 from 4-5:30 pm.
 

 

 
Both opportunities will be at the Dugan Center, which is attached to St.
 
Mary's Church, diagonally across from GEVA. Parking will be available on the
 
street in front of the Dugan Center at that time. (There are "no parking"
 
signs, but as long as the Dugan Center sign is out, parking is permissible).
 

 

 
Please call me or email me to let me know whether you might be interested or
 
with any questions you might have. E-mail is jherman8@rochester.rr.com. My
 
number is 385-1155, but note that I will be out of town 10/15-10/21 and
 
10/24-10/27. I'll try to check phone messages every few days while I'm away.
 

 

 
Warmly,
 
Joyce
 

 

 
P.S. Whether or not you think you're interested in the class, please feel
 
free to come to one of the informational sessions. If you think you ARE
 
likely to take the class, please indicate which of the below times are at
 
all possible for you. Just delete the ones that you are sure won't work and
 
forward message to jherman8@rochester.rr.com Thanks!!!
 

 

 
Monday 12-2 2-4, 5-7, 7-9
 
Tues 12-2
 

 

 
Wed 12-2, 2-4, 5-7, 7-9
 

 

 
Thurs 12-2, 2-4,
 

 

 
Fri 12-2, 2-4
 

 

 
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Rochester Food Not Bombs Halloween Benefit Concert: Oct. 26
 
Contact: Moto Productions // John Twentyfive
 
Phone #: 242-9622 Email: motogroup@hotmail.com
 

 

 
Moto Productions will be coordinating the October 26th all ages, drug and
 
alcohol free Rochester Food Not Bombs Benefit Concert at St. Joseph's
 
House of Hospitality at 402 South Ave. Doors open at 5pm with a $6
 
suggested donation. The Disaster, The Funeral, Robot Has Werewolf Hand,
 
Hold True and All Hell will be performing. This is a Halloween Show, so
 
come wearing a costume and get $1 off the door price. There will be prizes
 
for the best costume, so come, have fun and support a great cause!
 

 

 
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YOU ARE INVITED!
 
The monthly Potluck for Progressives.
 
Monday, October 28, 5:30 PM
 
Downtown United Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh.
 
Hon. Bill Benet, County Legislator, will talk about
 
The County budget cuts in perspective: What's going on? What options do we have?
 
Bring a dish to pass and your own place setting. We'll eat together, share concerns and events, have brief updates and announcements - and leave by 7 PM.
 

 

 
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WERNER FORNOS, THE POPULATION INSTITUTE, international tireless leader and spokesperson for women's rights, reproductive choice and the human impact of population, will again be speaking at the FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH on October 30th, Wednesday, starting at 7 PM with the introduction by our
 
Carol Love of Planned Parenthood beginning at 7:30 PM.
 
Please make a special effort to attend and make it necessary to move to the WORSHIP HALL because of more than a hundred crowding into GILBERT HALL. Remember, we have no advertising budget, just your good friends, ideas and word of mouth. Mr. Fornos will be on WXXI's BOB SMITH SHOW from 1-2 PM that afternoon on 1370 AM Radio for one hour. He is speaking at the Alfred
 
University student Union the night before at 7 PM, and giving a GRAND
 
ROUNDS lecture to OB/GYN professionals at the University of Rochester the
 
morning after on October 31st at 7:30 AM thanks to yours truly connecting
 
the dots. Please promote this. For more information Werner Fornos and the
 
Population Institute, check www.populationinstitute.org
 

 

 
From Hank Stone: Hank.Stone@usa.xerox.com
 

 

 
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Wed., Oct. 30, 8 p.m., Elie Wiesel , winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will speak on "Reconciliation. Is it Possible? Is it Desirable?" at University of Rochester’s Strong Auditorium (sponsored by Hillel of Rochester Area Colleges and Outside Speakers Committee). Tickets are $5 for graduate students, available in advance at the Common Market and at the door if still available.
 

 

 
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Ritter is the author of Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem Once and For All and a new documentary film, In Shifting Sands, which investigates the role of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) in disarming Iraq.
 
Thurs., Nov. 7, 5 p.m., Scott Ritter will speak at the University of Rochester’s Hoyt Hall.
 
Ritter served on the UN weapons inspection team, authored Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem Once and For All, and has a new documentary film on disarming Iraq.
 
The talk is free and open to the public.
 
For SUNY Brockport students, faculty, staff, and alumni there will be a shuttle van or bus to the talk leaving at 4 PM from in front of Rakov Admissions Bldg. The shuttle is free. Go to the Brockport Student Government Box Office in the Seymour College Union from: 10am - 6pm on Monday through Friday or on Saturdays from 12pm - 4pm. Or call the BSG Box Office at: (585) 395-2487
 

 

 
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THE NOVEMBER 15-17, 2002
 
CLOSE THE SCHOOL OF THE
 
AMERICAS (SOA/WHISC)
 
SOA WATCH
 
(202) 234 3440, www.soaw.org
 
To travel with Rochester area people to help close down the School of Assassins at Fort Benning, GA, contact Jesse Lenney at: 414-4274 or at: jesse_lenney@groundscore.org
 

 

 
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