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September 16 - 21 2002 Two Weeks chock full of inspiring & ass kicking events created for your radical pleasure by a coalition of Ann Arbor Student, Community and Labor groups culminating in a mass mobiliza- tion at the Washington DC protests against the IMF and World Bank. Please see http://www.umich.edu/~aamgj/ for linked and updated info on the events. Monday, Sept. 16 7-10 pm @ Wedge Room in West Quad Hosted by Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee 12 - 2 pm @ The DIAG (ADC), Muslim Students Association (MSA), and Students Ann Arbor Mobilization for Global Justice (AAMGJ) Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) Showing of “Another World is Possible” and “This is 7 pm - Viewing of BBC documentary on the massacre, What Democracy Looks Like”. Two films that help dispell “The Accused” the mass media myth about alternatives to corporate 8:15 pm - Speaker to lecture on Israeli war on Lebanon, globalization on what Seattle REALLY meant. and massacre. Humanitarian worker who was present at the time will give a short reflection of the site at ground 4-6 pm @ Michigan Union - Pond Room zero, and the utter destruction and devastation. Socially Konsious Info Theatre Troupe (SKITT ) - Guerilla 8:45 pm Viewing of award-winning Mai Masri film, & Forum Theatre “Frontiers of Dreams and Fears” Theatre of the Oppressed workshop: Learn theatre 9:45 pm - Reflection on tragedy, the status of techniques used at various demonstrations and practice Palestinian refugees today, and the bond that bridges up for the WB/IMF protests at the end of the month! all humanity together. Tuesday, Sept. 17 Wednesday, Sept. 18 5-6:30p @ 2105A in the Michigan Union 3-5 pm @ 126 East Quad ICPJ Latin America Task Force Radical Cheerleaders of Detroit School of Americas (SOA) & Globalization: How the Radical Cheerleading workshop - learn radical cheers US Trains the Latin American Enforcers of Corporate from demonstrations all over US & Canada on the WTO, Globalization. Film clips about the SOA, sweatshops, WB & IMF. debt, etc. and have time for discussion. Call 663-1870 for more info. 5-6:00 pm @ Memorial Christian Church 730 Tappan St. (corner of Hill & Tappan) 6-8pm @ Michigan League Vandenberg Rm. floor 2 Program on Corporations Law & Democracy - POCLAD 50 Years is Enough & Jubilee USA Dinner/Potluck: Thirteen activists who have spent the End Corporate Rule: last several years researching corporate, labor and legal Global Struggles Against the IMF & World Bank histories, rethinking our past organizing strategies and A Teach-In Tour on the Impact of -- and the Resistance talking with people about democracy movements. We to -- the IMF, World Bank, & Corporate Domination work in the tradition of people’s struggles to replace illegitimate and tyrannical institutions with democratic ones that disperse, rather than concentrate, wealth and Thursday Sept. 19 power. Dinner will be served in between the above and 4-6 pm @ EMU Campus: Halle Library Rm# 300 below events. Women’s Int’l League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Ian Robinson & Jackie Cabasso: The Connection between 7-9 pm @ Memorial Christian Church 730 Tappan St. Globalization and Militarization - lecture illustrating the (corner of Hill & Tappan) necessary connection between corporate globalization, Ann Arbor Mobilization for Global Justice (AAMGJ) the military and paramilitary that corporations use to Creating Solidarity: Panel discussion about Linking protect their interests. The Dirty Dozen Students, Labor and Community. Speakers from Labor Notes, Jobs With Justice, POCLAD, Students Organized 6:15-8:15 pm @ EMU campus King Hall - Multicultural for Labor & Economic Equality, United Students Against Lounge Sweatshops, Graduate Employees Union. Ann Arbor Ad Hoc Committee for Peace and American Friends Service Committee Working for Peace: WAR is not inevitable. 761-8283 for more info. [continued on back].... September 16 - 21 2002 Two Weeks chock full of inspiring & ass kicking events created for your radical pleasure by a coalition of Ann Arbor Student, Community and Labor groups culminating in a mass mobiliza- tion at the Washington DC protests against the IMF and World Bank. Please see http://www.umich.edu/~aamgj/ for linked and updated info on the events. 6:45 pm @ Barth Hall, 4800 Woodward at Warren, Detroit 5:30 pm @ State St. & N. University (lots of free, lighted parking) AA Critical Mass Michigan Coalition for Human Rights & Jubilee USA - Sister Bikes as Politics: a workshop by AA Critical Mass. Susan Rakoczy I.H.M. speaking about “The Human Face of AIDS: Women and Children of South Africa” 7:30 pm @ Michigan Union - Anderson D Ann Arbor Mobilization for Global Justice (AAMGJ) 2 pm @ Michigan Union Kuenzel Room Art and social revolution & DIY Art Show by Holly Wren Association for India’s Development (AID) and Jessica Raye. Learn Do it Yourself (DIY) methods Neoliberalization: A case from the Third World. Sangeeta and participate in puppet making for the IMF/WB Kamat speaking on the effects of neoliberal policies on demonstrations. Indian society. Saturday, Sept. 21 5 pm @ Michigan Union 2105 A ACTION!!! Association for India’s Development (AID) Global Struggles and Local Activism: 12 noon @ Jerusalem Garden A presentation by the Ann Arbor chapter of the Megiddo Peace Project Association for India’s Development on its work in India AA Human Chain for Peace @ Jerusalem Garden: Join and its relevance to the local community. AA Peace activists in creating a human chain around the Federal Building. 7 pm @ The International Institute Rm# 1636 Association for India’s Development (AID) 12noon meet @ Michigan Union Anderson Rm. D Globalized India: Organic Consumers Association (OCA) This panel discussion will center around the social, economic, Direct Action @ Starbucks on Main St. For the past and political impact of globalization in India today. Panelists 18 months, thousands of activists in the US, Canada, include Sangeeta Kamat, Rohini Somanathan, and Irfan New Zealand, Israel and England have protested and Nooruddin. leafleted outside of 800 Starbucks cafes and demanded that the company remove GE ingredients from their 10-6 pm @ U of M School of Public Health on Observatory food and dairy products and brew and seriously Doctors Without Borders promote fair trade coffee in all of their cafes. Starbucks “Access to Essential Medicines EXPO”: An interactive is definitely feeling the pressure and the company has exhibit housed in a 48-foot tractor-trailer. already agreed to some our demands! With continued Using photographs and multimedia, the exhibit highlights pressure, we can ensure they will offer safe food for the need for more research and development into their customers and a living wage to poverty stricken treatments for diseases that affect the world’s poor. coffee growers. Friday, Sept. 20 2-4pm @ Michigan Union Anderson Rm. D National Organization for Women (NOW)-Workshop on 12-1:30p @ Michigan Union Anderson Rm. D Wal-Mart campaign w/ Beverly Fish & Mike Stout. UofM Student Greens Judy Gorman - History of Women and Music: Reclaiming 8 pm @ Hathaway’s Hidewawy (next to The Fleetwood our voices lecture. on Ashley & Liberty) UofM Student Greens 3-5 pm @ Guild House (802 Monroe St., next to Dominic’s) Concert with the Rebel Grrls (Neutral Zone) and Judy Peoples Progressive Network (PPN) & Voices in the Gormand. Wilderness (VITW) “The Cost of War.” U-M psychology professor Bill Thomson, who has traveled several times to Iraq and Palestine, will speak on the devastating impact of US policy on Iraq. Kathy Kelly will be speaking from VITW..