September 2008

September 7 Sunday

Turn Indiana Blue Music Festival All day at Rhiele Plaza in Lafayette
The Turn Indiana Blue Music Festival will take place from 11:00 am to 8:30 pm. The festival is free and open to the public - no tickets required. It will feature 14 bands and several candidates for public office, on two stages - one at Riehle Plaza and one on the John Meyers Pedestrian Bridge. The festival will also include local food vendors, a family area with children's activities, a voter registration drive, and a blood drive by the Indiana Blood Center. The Turn Indiana Blue Music Festival is a grassroots, citizen-powered event funded and organized entirely by local community members. If you are interested in volunteering or getting involved, contact Joyce Wilkinson at joycelorelle@yahoo.com.

September 8 Monday

A special community forum entitled Will Your Vote Be Counted? How Do You Know? will take place on Monday, September 8^th, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in Morton Community Center, 222 N. Chauncey, W. Lafayette. Professor Gene Spafford, an internationally recognized expert on information security and privacy, cyber crime, and computing reliability, will talk about some of the challenges and difficulties involved in the design and deployment of computerized voting methods. Tippecanoe County employs one of the most questionable forms of voting equipment in use in the USA, according to Dr. Spafford. Come to the presentation and then draw your own conclusions. This forum is presented by PLACE (Purdue Liberal Arts Community Engagement), Greater Lafayette Chapter of American Civil Liberties Union-IN, and the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church.

September 8 Monday

YWCA network luncheon - Program on how to be a well-informed voter
     11:45am -1:00pm Contact YWCA at 742-0075 to make a reservation or get more information.

September 15 Monday

Forum with candidates for the state legislature presented by LWV & WALLA - Morton Community Center in West Lafayette at 7pm.

September
11-14

"American Studies and Imperial Designs: New Scholarship and Perspectives on the U.S. in the World"

Purdue University in West Lafayette

Schedule:

Thursday, September 11th at 7:30 p.m. "Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11 and the World Seven Years After." The session will feature a screening of the Media Education Foundation documentary Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & The Selling of American Empire, and an open floor discussion about the implications of 9/11 and its aftermath for current scholarship and activism amidst what David Harvey has called the "New Imperialism."

Friday September 12, 2008
The program will commence with panels and plenaries all day, culminating in Professor Amy Kaplan's keynote address at 7:30 p.m. All conference panels except keynote and plenary sessions will be roundtable style. Presenters are asked to keep their remarks or readings to 10-15 minutes. Moderated discussion will be essential to the conference and will be a part of every session.

Saturday September 13, 2008
The program will conclude Saturday night with a conference closing session entitled "Imperialism and the Future of Academia: What Is To Be Done?"

September 18-19

September 18 and 19, 2008 Purdue Memorial Mall 9am-6pm
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Eyes Wide Open-The Human Cost of War

Eyes Wide Open, the American Friends Service Committee’s widely-acclaimed exhibition on the human cost of the Iraq War, features a pair of boots honoring each U.S. military casualty, a field of shoes and a Wall of Remembrance to memorialize the Iraqis killed in the conflict, and a multimedia display exploring the history, cost and consequences of the war.

When this exhibit was unveiled by our Chicago office in January 2004, there were 504 pairs of boots symbolizing the lost lives of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. With each passing week, each stop in a new city, more pairs of boots are added to represent the newly fallen. Alongside the boots stands a wall of remembrance with the names of the more than 11,000 Iraqi civilians who have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion.

As the exhibit makes its appearances across the country, families and friends come to grieve for lost loved ones and strangers honor those who gave their lives to a cause far from home.

Although a majority of Americans now believe this war is a tragic misadventure, the human cost of the Iraq War grows every day. How many more boots will be standing at silent attention before this war ends, before Iraqis and American soldiers are out of harm's way?

This traveling exhibit is a memorial to those who have fallen and a witness to our belief that no war can justify its human cost

For more information see:

www.afsc.org/eyes/about-the-exhibit.htm.

September 17 Wednesday

Constitution Day: LWV Presentation of first ever "Making Democracy Work" award. Includes a presentation of recommendations from the governor's commission on restructuring of local government. Morton Community Center 7:00pm

September 20 Saturday

Committees of Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism (CCDS)

Midwest Regional Meeting Gary, Indiana

Topic: Progressives and the 2008 Election

October 2008

October 4 Saturday

Eugene Debs dinner in Terre Haute, Indiana
For more information:
debsmuseum@verizon.net

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 843
Terre Haute, IN. 47808
(812) 232-2163.

Award Recipient for 2008
The award recipient is Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America.

October 23 Thursday

Purdue Women Studies Conference
Panel on Women and the War in Iraq
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Lawson Computer Science Building Room 1142
Free and open to the public

Panel members

• Valentine M. Moghadam, Director Women's Studies and Professor Sociology
• Yifat Susskind, MADRE
• Lori Perdue, Code Pink

The panel includes representatives of two U.S.-based women's organizations to discuss their views on the war in Iraq and describe their activities in connection with the war, such as lobbying members of Congress, humanitarian work for Iraqi women and children, protest actions, and advocacy-oriented research.