Calendar
May 2004
Saturday
12:30-4:30 p.m.
Purdue International Center, 523 Russell Street in West Lafayette
Wednesday
7:00 p.m.
Democratic Headquarter (414 Main Street in Lafayette)
Wednesday
7:00 p.m.
Tippecanoe County Public Library (606 South Street in Lafayette)
Sunday
7:30 p.m.
Wesley Foundation (435 West State Street, at corner of Sheetz Street) (Click for a map.)
We will be watching "The Jesus Factor," a PBS Frontline documentary that chronicles how George W. Bush became a born-again Christian, and the impact that this has had on American politics and the future for peace and democracy.
Saturday
9:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
HotHouse 33 E. Balboa, Chicago, IL
Registering Youth & Students
Lightening Up Activism: Performing Arts
Reaching Out to the Underrepresented
How to Support a Candidate
Working with the Media
...and many more
Sponsored by Chicagoans Against War & Injustice and In These Times. Admission by Donation (Suggested $10). For more information: pjvoter2004@yahoo.com or 312-822-0505.
Thursday
6:00 p.m.
Wesley Foundation at Purdue (435 West State Street, at corner of Sheetz Street)
Map for Wesley - Click for a map.
Click here to download a flyer (.doc file).
From Humanitarian Disaster to Quagmire: The Failure of the War on Terror
Ballantine Hall, Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
Some of the confirmed speakers include:
* Dilip Hiro (author, "Secrets & Lies: Operation Iraqi Freedom and After and Iraq: In the Eye of the Storm?)
* Bert Sacks (nine humanitarian and fact-finding missions to Iraq since 1997, first citizen to be fined [$10,000] by the U.S. government for breaking the sanctions by traveling to Iraq carrying medicines, founder of Citizens' Committee for Responsible Journalism)
* Charles Sheehan-Miles (Nuclear Policy Research Institute, Gulf War I veteran)
* Gloria Escalona (East Bay Coalition to Stop the Sanctions on Iraq, Iraq Coordinating Committee)
* Sunny Miller (co-director of Traprock Peace Center) * Larry Everest (author, "Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda")
* Diane Henshel (Indiana University professor and scientific advisor, Jefferson Proving Ground Restoration Advisory Board)
* Charlie Jackson (Texans for Peace, currently in Iraq)
* Anthony Arnove (editor, "Iraq Under Seige")
* Dr. Nazif Shahrani (Afghan scholar and Indiana University professor)
* Ramzi Kysia (Voices In The Wilderness, Education for Peace in Iraq Center)
* Voices In The Wilderness' "Wheels of Justice" Tour speakers
Musical entertainment and inspiration by:
* Dave Lippman (musician/comedian: "singing CIA agent, George Shrub")
* Stephan Smith (singer/songwriter's albums include "The Bell" & "New World Worder")
For more information on the 2004 Conference, costs, and to register to attend, visit: http://www.endthewar.org/conference.htm.
Sponsored by The National Grassroots Peace Network (National Network to End the War Against Iraq). Co-hosted by Bloomington Peace Action Coalition and Indiana University's Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program.