Chris Powers Activist Calender Update

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1. Speaker on Peace Walk concerning nuclear weapons, waste, and Native
 
American sovereignty, plus video on nuclear weapons and power in space: SUNY
 
Brockport on Wednesday, October 30
 

 
2. Rochester Indy Media website
 

 
3. Scott Ritter, ex-lead weapons inspector to Iraq to speak at the Univ. of
 
Rochester: Thursday, November 7
 

 
4. School of Americas (Western Hemisphere Institute for Security
 
Cooperation) vigil and protest at Ft. Benning, Georgia from November 15-17
 

 
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Jeff McKenzie, a SUNY Brockport student activist who walked 900 miles
 
against nuclear weapons, unsafe nuclear waste disposal, and for Native
 
American sovereignty to speak at SUNY College at Brockport.
 
The hour-long video "Keep Space for Peace" by Bruce Gagnon of the Global
 
Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space will be shown after Jeff
 
McKenzie recounts his experiences on the ten-week peace walk with, sponsored
 
by the Shundahai Network: http://www.shundahai.org
 
Location: Briggs Hall’s lounge
 
Time: Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 7:00 PM
 
Contact: Chris Powers at: cpow0626@brockport.edu
 
The video consists of a heavily illustrated talk that concentrates on
 
showing the documents from the Space Command and aerospace corporations that
 
reveal their extensive plans for the nuclearization and weaponization of
 
space.
 
The video also shares the growing resistance to Star Wars around the
 
world as groups move to block plans for "missile defense" and all the rest
 
of the dangerous schemes for weapons and nuclear power in space.
 
Bruce Gagnon is the Coordinator of the Global Network and has been
 
working on space issues for the past 15 years.
 
Here is the link to maps to get you to Brockport:
 
http://www.brockport.edu/about/maps/
 
See below for printed directions to campus from all directions.
 
Click on this link to get a printable campus map:
 
http://www.brockport.edu/about/maps/images/campus.pdf
 
If you arrive after 6:30pm you do not need a parking pass.
 
Directions to SUNY Brockport
 

 
From points east:
 
· From NYS Thruway Exit 45 (Victor) take I-490 through Rochester and west to
 
exit 8 for Route 531.
 
· Take 531 to the end at Washington Street. Follow signs to Brockport (six
 
miles) by taking Route 31 west.
 
· Follow signs to the College. Enter the campus at Commencement Drive.
 

 
From points west:
 
· From NYS thruway Exit 47 (LeRoy) take Route 19 north to Brockport (about
 
13 miles).
 
· Follow signs to the College. Enter the campus at Commencement Drive.
 

 
From points south:
 
· From Interstate 390 north, take I-490 west.
 
· Follow directions from points east, above. Exit 8 is one mile west of
 
I-390.
 

 
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Check out the Rochester Indy Media website at:
 
http://www.rochester.indymedia.org
 

 
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Scott Ritter, the author of Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem Once and For
 
All is also featured in a new documentary film “In Shifting Sands” which
 
investigates the role of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) in
 
disarming Iraq, will speak at the University of Rochester
 
Date: Thursday, November 7
 
Time: 5 p.m.
 
Location: University of Rochester's Hoyt Hall.
 

 
The talk is free and open to the public.
 

 
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Information regarding the Massive Convergence at Fort Benning, Georgia
 
from November 15-17 to Shut Down the School of the Americas -
 

 
CROSS THE LINE - Action Speaks Louder Than Words!
 

 
Now - more than ever - it is important that people are putting their
 
bodies on the line to speak out against oppressive US foreign policy as it
 
is represented by the School of the Americas/WHISC. Nonviolent direct action
 
has always been a cornerstone of the movement to close the SOA. Thousands
 
have risked prison by crossing the line onto Ft. Benning, carrying forward
 
the memories of those who have died at the hands of SOA graduates. This
 
courageous witness has propelled the movement forward and inspired thousands
 
more to join the struggle.
 
Each year the army tries new strategies to suppress the power of this
 
witness. Time and time again, this movement has shown that the voice of
 
truth cannot be silenced, not by the threat of prosecution, not by the
 
construction of a barbed-wire fence across the entrance to the base. As we
 
prepare to gather once again at the gates of Ft. Benning, SOA Watch calls on
 
individuals and communities across the country to discern carefully and
 
continue the tradition of crossing the line. The scenario will allow for
 
individuals and affinity groups to cross the line with the solemn funeral
 
procession or as part of an autonomous affinity group action.
 

 
A detailed risk assessment will be provided to aid in discerning your
 
level of involvement. It is not necessary to be part of an existing affinity
 
group to join in the action. At the direct action coordinating meetings
 
there will be opportunities for individuals to join groups and for affinity
 
groups to plug into the overall scenario.
 

 
LEGISLATIVE ACTION:
 

 
As you organize in your communities and prepare busloads of folks to
 
come to the November vigil at Ft. Benning, make lobbying an essential
 
component. Always have a suggested action at events. Use the postcards that
 
are available in the current SOA Watch newsletter or on the SOA Watch web
 
site.
 
Copy the postcard text onto cardstock and ask your co-workers,
 
classmates, fellow parishioners, etc. to sign it!
 

 
Also- it's not too late to invite your Member of Congress to speak on
 
the stage. To download a sample letter inviting them to speak at the Close
 
the SOA! vigil click here http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=447 .
 

 
Finally, when you arrive in Ft. Benning this year, we will be using the
 
vigil as the kick-off for our legislative efforts of the 108th Congress. We
 
want ALL Members of Congress, especially the new ones, to receive "Greetings
 
from Ft. Benning" postcards from their constituents. Look for the SOA Watch
 
resource tables and listen for announcements to find out how you can sign a
 
postcard on the spot and have it sent right to your Member of Congress. Your
 
presence in Ft. Benning is impressive to Congress, it lets them know how
 
important the issue is to you and to all of us!
 

 
SOA Watch
 
PO Box 4566
 
Washington, DC 20017
 
phone: (202) 234 3440
 
email: info@soaw.org
 
web: www.soaw.org
 

 
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