ACTION ALERT! ACTION ALERT! ACTION ALERT! ACTION ALERT! ACTION ALERT!
from CISPES/Mexico Solidarity Network/Campaign for Labor Rights.
Republicans Exploit Tragedy of Sept. 11th in Attempt to Pass Fast Track.
VOTE COMING IN NEXT FEW DAYS! Call Congress and Tell Them to Vote No!
October 3, 2001 In the wake of the tragic attacks of September 11th, Republicans in Congress and the Bush Administration are using the "war on terrorism" to pass Fast Track (Trade Promotion Authority) legislation to move ahead their free trade agenda. Massive pressure on the members of the House of Representatives is needed immediately to stop this crass manipulation of the tragedy of September 11th and defeat Fast Track legislation.
Act now to stop Congress from granting Bush Fast Track Authority.

Confirmation hearing for the Bush's choice for Drug Czar -- an ultra right-wing hardliner named John Walters who loves to blame Latin America for US inability to control our insatiable appetite for illicit drugs. If confirmed, he will most likely escalate our drug war in Latin America beyond General McCaffrey's wildest dreams. Please call you Senators today and let them know how you feel about this. Many thanks.
Coalition for Compassionate Leadership on Drug Policy
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Wednesday October 10, Responding to Violence: Vigil and Action. The United States began bombing Afghanistan and continues to do so.
We will meet at John M. Greene Hall (on Elm St.) at 11:30 am, Wednesday, October 10, and will congregate at 12:00 pm outside the law library/courthouse (at Main St. and King St.) for an informal speak-out on current events. * Join us at Neilson Library lawn (Smith College) on Wednesday, October 10, for any length of time, during our 24-hour vigil, especially for the opening words at 9:00 am, the musical performance at 4:00 pm, the faculty-led discussion at 8:00 pm, and the closing ceremony at 9:00 am Thursday.
In solidarity with the victims of the September 11th tragedy, and US military strikes, we are asking members of the Northampton and Smith College community to join us in disrupting our daily lives in order to stand in solidarity with those whose lives are being disrupted by war and terror. Together we will remember those who lost their lives, or their loved ones, and demonstrate our commitment to a peaceful response. What you can do . . . * March into town with Smith Students and other local community members . . . Please bring poems, songs, art, banners, prayers, and thoughts you would like to share . . . or just bring yourselves! smith college students for a peaceful response



Wednesday October 10 WHITE FOLKS EXPLORE RACISM Second and fourth Wednesdays, 6:30pm, Room 11, First Church, Main St (enter on Center St), Northampton. An open-dialogue group to create a safe environment in which to bring to light assumptions and emotional issues that whites hold in reference to people of color. Contact Frederick Carlisle, 634-5359, acewands@noho.com.



Wednesday October 10 MICHAEL T. KLARE (Director of Five College Peace and World Security Studies): "RESOURCE WARS: THE NEW LANDSCAPE OF GLOBAL CONFLICT" 7pm, Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College St (Routes 116 at 47), in the Village Commons, S. Hadley, 534-7307 or 800-540-7307; odysseybks@aol.com; http://www.odysseybks.com/. Central Asia's oil fields, the lush Nile Delta, the uranium and diamond mines of Africa, and the shipping lanes of the South China Sea -- Michael T. Klare argues that wars of the new millennium will be fought over not ideology but precious natural resources.

Wednesday October 10 VIDEO: "STAR WARS RETURNS" 7pm, Campus Center Theater, Amherst College. Written and narrated by Karl Grossman; followed by discussion of actions planned on the Amherst Town Common on October 13 on the International Day to Protest the Weaponization of Space. More info: Jonathan Mark, info@flybynews.com, http://www.flybynews.com/.

Thursday October 11, Critical Resistance Western Mass
6:45 pm, First Churches of Northampton, Downstairs -2nd Hand Rose entrance.
Critical Resistance Western Mass strives to resist the prison industrial complex through education, culture, and action. We work to include former prisoners, community members, youth, activist, professionals, artists, and people of faith in developing an analysis and a strategy of resistance.



Wednesday October 10 LGBT COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL Second Wednesdays, 7-8:30pm, Unitarian Society, Main St, Northampton, unless posted otherwise; check www.wmassalliance.org. Coordinating the WMass portion of statewide organizing on Domestic Partnership, Marriage, Media and Community Relations, Candidate Endorsements and more. Call LGBT Political Alliance of Western Massachusetts, 586-8876, info@wmassalliance.org.

Thursday October 11 THURSDAY (LABOR) NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: "NORMA RAE" 7-9:30pm, Northampton Fire Station Community Room, King St & Carlon Dr. Join us for videos and discussion highlighting current labor issues such as labor's response to globalization, organizing strategies, corporate tactics, the organization of work, the impact of racism on labor's strength. $15. Also: October 18, "Out at Work," October 25, "At the River I Stand," November 1, "The Killing Floor," November 8, "Battle for Seattle," November 15, TBA - you decide! Co-sponsored by the Hampshire Franklin Central Labor Council. Info: Dale Melcher, 545-6166, dmelcher@lrrc.umass.edu.

.Thursday October 11 SOCIAL JUSTICE & SAME SEX MARRIAGE: A UNITED RESPONSE TO THE RIGHT AGENDA
7-9:30pm, Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence (Great Hall), 220 Main St, Northampton. Reception to follow in the Social Hall. Guest Speakers: James Shaw, President, UAW (United Auto Workers) Local 2322, Frederick Clarkson, author of "Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy," Gary Buseck, Executive Director, GLAD (Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders), additional speakers to be confirmed. Presentations will address the role of labor unions in social justice struggles and the constitutional amendment being proposed by the Massachusetts Alliance for Marriage to define marriage as between one man and one woman and denying benefits to any relationship not conforming to this definition. An over-view of the groups and individuals behind the constitutional amendment will also be presented. Additional co-sponsors (to date): American Friends Service Committee; Everywoman's Center; National Writers Union, Western New England, Local 5; UAW CAP Council, Nat'l Ass'n of Letter Carriers Branch 46, Western Mass; Pride & Joy; Valley Women's Martial Arts Center. Info: 585-1293.

Thursday October 11 JYL LYNN FELDMAN: "NEVER A DULL MOMENT: TEACHING AND THE ART OF PERFORMANCE" 7pm, Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College St (Routes 116 at 47), in the Village Commons, S. Hadley, 534-7307 or 800-540-7307; odysseybks@aol.com; www.odysseybks.com.

Friday October 12 SPRINGFIELD AREA GREENS Second Fridays, 6pm, Goodwill Community Room, 473 Sumner Av, Springfield. Contact Judy, 782-8020, or Kirstin, 536-3505, csrb@mediaone.net.

Friday October 12 AREA PREMIER OF "OLIVER BUTTON IS A STAR"
7pm, Mahar Auditorium, UMass.
An hour-long film and program for all families that explores bullying, tolerance, and positive alternatives for expressing children's gender differences. Tickets: $3 for UMass students, $5 for Five-College students, $7 for general admission, and will be available at the door. Info: Felice Yeskel, Director, The Stonewall Center, 545-4824, fyeskel@stuaf.umass.edu.

Saturday October 13, Star Wars Won’t Protect Us! Another World Is Possible!
Rally on the Amherst Common On Western Massachusetts community will join an International Day of Action to Stop the Militarization of Space.
The local action begins at 1:30pm on the Amherst Common. Rain location: Stirn Auditorium, Amherst College.
The October 13 protests represent the largest grassroots global expression against the weaponization of space ever held. Protest events will occur in 19 nations and at 109 locations. This day of action, endorsed by 266 organizations worldwide, is being organized nationally by the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. An outline of the day follows:

11:00am: Traprock Peace Center invites all who are interested to join them in making huts, or spaces for conversation.
12:30pm: Kato-shonin and members of the Leverett Peace Pagoda invite community members to join them in short walk from the UMASS Campus pond to the Amherst Common.
1:30pm: Michael DiMartino and the World Beat Drum Ensemble open the afternoon event with rhythm and song.
2:00pm: a remarkable line-up of speakers will address the dangers of implementing the spaced-based weapons program, as well as the stark reality that “Star Wars” cannot protect us from the kind of violence that rocked our nation on September 11, 2001.

Speakers include: Frances Crowe, Ashley Smith (from the Vermont Socialist Organization), Jonathan Mark and Professor Jean Grossholtz. Local resident and activist Katie Flynn-Jambeck will then speak to us of resistance and the ideology behind her recent act of civil disobedience to delay a U.S. ballistic missile test on July 14, 2001.
Ms. Flynn-Jambeck and sixteen other Greenpeace protesters were arrested after swimming, diving and boating beneath the missile’s flight path. The protesters have been charged with conspiring to violate a safety zone and violating an order felony charges that carry possible prison terms of more than ten years.

3:30pm (approximately): Traprock Peace Center’s Sunny Miller will close the program with visions for the future another world is possible! During this section of the program community partners will be invited to offer announcements of upcoming events and actions. We will distribute fact sheets about Star Wars and current/pending legislative efforts. We will offer concrete next steps to get involved! The program will be punctuated by poetry and song. The Peace Pagoda will open and close the afternoon with chanting and prayer. Community organizations are encouraged to set up literature tables. Please join the Western Massachusetts community as we ask to Keep Space for Peace!
Call Traprock Peace Center (773.7427) or AFSC (584.8975) for further information


Saturday October 13 NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST WEAPONS IN SPACE
2-4pm, Amherst Town Common. Star Wars won't protect us. It will lead to intensified, uncontrollable worldwide violence. Hear the facts. Join a search for alternatives through peace and justice. This action has been endorsed by more than 250 global peoples' organizations in Germany, Australia, England, Sweden, Canada, Romania, Syria, Mexico, India, France, Korea, Austria, New Zealand. Join with people from Albuquerque to Ann Arbor, from Bangor to Boston, from Chicago to Cleveland, from Hartford to Huntsville, from Palo Alto, to Philadelphia to Phoenix to Pittsburgh to Portland, and the list goes on and on. For NO NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE! NO STAR WARS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT! KEEP SPACE FOR PEACE! Fund Human Needs NOT The Military! For more information: AFSC, 584-8975, afsc@crocker.com, or Frances, 586-4950, frances@hge.net. Check out http://www.space4peace.org/.

Saturday October 13 MASS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL CONVENTION 10am-4pm, Clark University, Worcester. Workshops on Clean Elections, Prescription Drug Access, Social Security & Medicare, Affordable Housing. Registration $10.00, includes lunch and transportation. New members are welcome (membership is $7/year, no age requirement). Join hundreds of members of all ages from across the state and help establish Mass. Senior Action's positions on critical issues. Contact Linda Stone, 533-9235, lrstone4@juno.com.

Saturday October 13, VIGIL: SYMPATHY & SOLIDARITY WITH ALL VICTIMS OF TERROR Every Saturday, 11am-Noon, County Courthouse, King and Main Streets, Northampton. Contact 584-8975 or 586-4950.

Sunday October 14 REGIONAL JUSTICE NOT WAR RALLY 3-5pm, Copley Square, Boston. Info: Boston Global Action Network, 617-524-8110, or WMGAC, 584-8975 or 734-4948, afsc@crocker.com or ASC@kindplanet.org.



Monday October 15, SHRC STAND-OUTS AT SPRINGFIELD CITY HALL 5:30pm, in front of City Hall before regular City Council meetings. To let Springfield elected officials know that needle exchange is an issue that voters care about. Also November 13, December 3 & 17. Info: Springfield Harm Reduction Coalition (formerly Alliance for Needle Exchange), sanecampaign@hotmail.com, http://www.springfieldhrc.org/.

Monday October 15 TERROR: DOES VENGEANCE ASSIST RECOVERY? A WIDOW'S PERSPECTIVE FROM THE 1979 GREENSBORO MASSACRE 7:30pm, Wright Hall Common Room, Smith College, Route 9, Northampton. Dr. Martha Nathan, whose husband was killed in the Massacre, reflects on the sometimes-conflicting strivings for justice, vengeance, truth, and recovery for victims of terror. Sponsored by the Northampton Human Rights Commission and Smith College Afro-American Studies and Anthropology Depts. Info: martygjf@mediaone.net.

Tuesday October 16 MASS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL FRANKLIN COUNTY CHAPTER Third Tuesdays, 9:30am, 2nd Congregational Church, Greenfield. Tackling vital issues, including single payer health care and prescription drug price relief, including how to get prescriptions filled in Canada. Contact Linda Stone, 533-9235, lrstone4@juno.com.

Tuesday October 16, Solidaridad Colombia.
7PM First Churches of Northampton. 129 Main Street (Entrance on Center St)
Solidaridad Colombia is a community of western Massachusetts residents dedicated to supporting peace efforts in Colombia and solidarity actions across the United States. We meet every other Tuesday.
To subscribe to the Solidaridad Colombia listserve, send a blank email to:
pazparacolombia-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
For more information / to get involved: American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) (413) 584-8975 afsc@crocker.com

Tuesday October 16 "MANUFACTURING CONSENT: NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MEDIA"
7pm, UMass Campus Center Room 168c. Explores the life and work of professor and author Noam Chomsksy. The nature of propaganda is examined in a probing analysis of mass media, and Chomsky encourages people to remove themselves from a "web of deceit" by undertaking a course of "intellectual self-defense." Appearing in the film are major journalists and critics, including Bill Moyers, William F. Buckley, Jr., Tom Wolfe, Peter Jennings, philosopher Michel Foucault, Nightline producer Jeff Greenfield, White House reporter Sarah McClendon, New York Times editorial writer Karl E. Meyer and revisionist author Robert Faurisson. An informal discussion will follow. Info: Neil Nugent, 253-0735, neil_nugent@hotmail.com, www.umass.edu/rso/rsu


TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, FLYWHEEL: 2 Holyoke St. (Rte. 141) Easthampton MA 01027 "Terror Hits Home: A Multi-Media, Multi-Artist Meditation on Terrorism and War." Door 7:30, curtain 8:00. A sometimes funny, sometimes wrenching series of perspectives on the September 11 attacks using video, theater, spoken word, music, puppetry, and performance art. Intended to provoke thought, feeling, and dialogue. 413-527-9800 www.flywheelarts.com Contact: Helen Harrison,413-527-5048 helenh@student.umass.edu

Tuesday October 16 FRANKLIN/HAMPSHIRE HEALTH CARE COALITION Third Tuesdays, 7:30pm, Cahill Housing Community Center, Fruit St, Northampton (parallel to Conz between Old South & Smith Sts). Organizing for the Mass. Health Care Trust Bill. Call the Markhams, 586-0345; Franklin/Hampshire Health Care Coalition, PO Box 3011, Amherst 01004, 586-0345. The Massachusetts Health Care Trust Bill (S.599 and H.2165) calls for a universal health care system, providing universal access, a comprehensive range of physical and mental health benefits, choice of provider, quality, unified financing and cost controls, accountable governance, and stability. A Massachusetts Health Care Trust Fund will be a "single-payer" of all health care costs, statewide. Contact MASS-CARE: 800-383-1973; masscare@aol.com; http://www.masscare.org/. Visit website for details of the Bill, action ideas. Connect to WMass activists, etc., through WMass Jobs With Justice 640 Page Boulevard, Springfield MA 01104 (413) 737-0640

Wednesday October 17 ALLIANCE FOR INJURED WORKERS Third Wednesdays, 4-6pm, AFL-CIO Hall, 640 Page Blvd, near corner of Osborne Ter, Springfield, across the street from the old Westinghouse. Contact Western MassCOSH, 731-0760, wmcosh@javanet.com.

Wednesday October 17 "MANUFACTURING CONSENT: NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MEDIA"
7pm, UMass Campus Center Room 168c. See October 16. An informal discussion will follow. Info: Neil Nugent, 253-0735,neil_nugent@hotmail.com, www.umass.edu/rso/rsu



Wednesday October 17 PIONEER VALLEY CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL Third Wednesdays, 7:30pm, AFL-CIO Hall, 640 Page Blvd, near corner of Osborne Ter, Springfield, across the street from the old Westinghouse. Community and labor activist guests are welcome, but call Irene Kimball, 732-7970, pv.aflcio@verizon.net.

Thursday October 18, Critical Resistance Western Mass
6:45 pm, First Churches of Northampton. Downstairs -2nd Hand Rose entrance.
Critical Resistance Western Mass strives to resist the prison industrial complex through education, culture, and action. We work to include former prisoners, community members, youth, activist, professionals, artists, and people of faith in developing an analysis and a strategy of resistance.

Thursday October 18 MASS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL HAMPSHIRE COUNTY CHAPTER Third Thursdays, 1:30pm, Hadley Senior Center, 46 Middle St, Hadley. Tackling vital issues, including single payer health care and prescription drug price relief, including how to get prescriptions filled in Canada. Contact Linda Stone, 533-9235, mailto:rstone4@juno.com.

Thursday October 18 MAURY KLEIN: "RAINBOW'S END: THE CRASH ON 1929" 7pm, Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College St (Routes 116 at 47), in the Village Commons, S. Hadley, 534-7307 or 800-540-7307;odysseybks@aol.com, http://www.odysseybks.com/.


Thursday October 18 "RAG-TAGS, SCUM, RIFF-RAFF, AND COMMIES: US INTERVENTION IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 1965-1966"
7pm, Food For Thought Books, 106 N Pleasant St, Amherst, 253-5432; In his new groundbreaking study, activist Eric Chester carefully reconstructs a thriller of historical sweep. The result is a stunning portrait of how President Lyndon Johnson used the CIA, the Pentagon, and the State Department to supress the rebellion in the Dominican Republic and, ultimately, orchestrate events surrounding the national election to insure an outcome favorable to US interests.
info@foodforthoughtbooks.com www.foodforthoughtbooks.com

Monday October 22, Valley Free Radio General Meeting (2nd Monday of every month).
7:00pm Northampton Center for the Arts. (3rd Floor In the gallery. Take a right past the people fencing!. Across Route 10 From Academy of Music.
Meeting to vote on approval of the space Media Education Foundation is offering VFR.


Monday October 22 FORGING IMAGES OF WOMEN IN TURKEY 4:30pm, Five College Women's Studies Research Center, 83 College St (Route 116), S Hadley. Alev Cinar, Five College Women's Studies Ford Associate, explores how images of women have been one of the key mediums through which secular modernity was institutionalized in Turkey. The secular state sought to distance itself from the Ottoman state's attempts to dress its subjects in accordance with Islamic values. Info: Five College Women's Studies Research Center, 50 College St, S Hadley 01075, 538-2527, fcwsrc@wscenter.hampshire.edu, http://wscenter.hampshire.edu/.

Tuesday October 23 HAMPSHIRE-FRANKLIN CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL Fourth Tuesdays, 7:30pm, Cahill Housing Community Center, Fruit St, Northampton (parallel to Conz between Old South & Smith Streets). Community and labor activist guests are welcome, but call Maureen Carney, 739-8550, mcarney@massaflcio.org.

Wednesday October 24 RETIREES RALLY 2 to 4pm, Teamsters Local 404, 115 Progress Av, off Cottage St in Springfield's industrial park. The Pioneer Valley AFL-CIO and the Springfield Chapter of Mass. Senior Action Council have invited Kathy Casavant, Secretary-Treasurer, Mass. AFL-CIO, and State Senator Linda Melconian to speak. Issues to be addressed: universal health care, low cost prescription drugs, protecting and expanding Social Security and Medicare, and affordable housing. Info: Linda Stone, 533-9235, lrstone4@juno.com.

Thursday October 11, Critical Resistance Western Mass
6:45 pm, First Churches of Northampton, Downstairs -2nd Hand Rose entrance.
Critical Resistance Western Mass strives to resist the prison industrial complex through education, culture, and action. We work to include former prisoners, community members, youth, activist, professionals, artists, and people of faith in developing an analysis and a strategy of resistance.



Thursday October 25, Critical Resistance Western Mass
6:45 pm, First Churches of Northampton. Downstairs -2nd Hand Rose entrance.
Critical Resistance Western Mass strives to resist the prison industrial complex through education, culture, and action. We work to include former prisoners, community members, youth, activist, professionals, artists, and people of faith in developing an analysis and a strategy of resistance.

Sunday October 28 CONFERENCE FOR LOCAL CLIMATE PROTECTION ACTIVISTS Tufts University. Details coming. Contact Massachusetts Climate Action Network, http://www.massclimateaction.org/, Marc Breslow, 781-643-5911 or Michael Charney, 617-492-6614.



Sunday October 28 NATIONAL PRIORITIES PROJECT 8th ANNUAL WESTERN MASS FALL PARTY 5-8pm, Center for the Arts, 17 New South St (at Route 9), Northampton. The National Priorities Project was founded in 1983 as a non-profit research and education organization that provides citizens, community groups, and elected groups with the information they need to help shape federal spending priorities. Over the years they have worked with the labor movement on living wage campaigns in all 50 states and researched and written reports on the physical deterioration of our nation's public schools. This year, NPP awards the Frances Crowe award for "dogged pursuit of economic justice" to Jon Weissman, President of National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 46 and co-founder of Western Mass Jobs with Justice. $30 per person; checks can be mailed to NPP, 17 New South St, Northampton 01060, or call Phil Korman, 584-9556.

Saturday November 3 GREEN SWING THING 7:30-8:30pm Beginner's Swing Dance Lesson; 8:30-11:30 Swing Dance with DJ Steve Siegel; East Street Dance Studios, Hadley. A swing-dance-party fundraiser for local Green Party organizations. Sliding scale $0-$100 - recommended: $10; $5 for students/low income. YOU MUST CARRY IN A CLEAN PAIR OF SHOES TO CHANGE INTO, to preserve the dance floor. Contact Neil Nugent,mailto:neil_nugent@hotmail.com, WMass Greens, 253-0851, http://www.westernmassgreens.org/.



Sunday November 4 BRUNCH FUNDRAISER FOR FRANKLIN-HAMPSHIRE HEALTH CARE COALITION Green Street Cafe, Northampton. Details coming. Info: M. Sidwell, 582-6761, A. Markham, 586-0345.



Sunday November 4 BRUNCH FUNDRAISER FOR FRANKLIN-HAMPSHIRE HEALTH CARE COALITION Green Street Cafe, Northampton. Details coming. Info: M. Sidwell, 582-6761, A. Markham, 586-0345.
November NATIONWIDE DOCK STRIKE? Date TBA. Being planned for the day that the Charleston 5 dock workers go on trial, now likely in November. The Charleston 5, four African-American and one white, are members of the International Longshoremen Association (ILA) who face years in prison on felony charges for defending themselves against state troopers who attacked their demonstration in January 2000. They are now living under house arrest and are not allowed to speak in public. The ILA was demanding an end to the use of the non-union stevedoring outfit, Winyah, from unloading Nordana ships. (After the attack on the Charleston 5, dockworkers in Spain and across Europe refused to unload Noradana ships. This forced Nordana to again use union labor in the port of Charleston.) The police attack came after the ILA had recently led a 50,000-strong protest against the Confederate flag in Columbia SC - the largest protest against racism since the civil rights movement. This union fights for everyone - it represents the best of the labor movement. That is why the government and corporations are intent on destroying it, especially the globalization forces that rely on the world's ports. Info: Workers Democracy: Jay Arena, 504-314-6218, jarena@tulane.edu, Jeannette Gabriel, 609-406-7857, jgabriel55@hotmail.com, David Christian, 404-524-2147, dckomatlcom.net@mindspring.com.

WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER wmimc@yahoo.com
Please forward widely...
First Meeting: Sunday, November 4 @12 noon. Location TBA.

The vision of an independent media center for western Mass. is that of a collective of media makers collaborating to make radio, video, and publish the literature of the struggles in which we are engaged, and in alliance with the burgeoning activist community in New England.
We seek to make media that resists racism, sexism, the war of the rich on the poor, and the destruction of nature, and advocates for:
· Taking on the responsibility for making our own media and ensuring media coverage of activist events.
· Providing media resources to the activist community.
· Documenting activism in Western Mass, and using media production as a tool/weapon/witness for activist groups.
· Educating the public through independent media distribution.
By joining the community of IMC's at http://www.indymedia.org/, we can plug into a global activist network and at the same time provide a local forum for activists to publish their writing, photos, and video.
We invite all interested groups and individuals to come to our first organizing meeting. We hope to form a collaboration of western Mass media makers and activist groups, to produce our own work and to distribute it back to the activist community.
\ For more info on Indymedia process, see: http://process.indymedia.org/want_imc.php3

Monday November 5 SAVE THE MOUNTAIN (MT HOLYOKE & MT TOM) First Mondays, 7-8:30 (or 9) pm, PVPA West Annex, Rte 9, Hadley, the brick building behind and to the right of the Gibbs station, just off West St. Contact Shel Horowitz, shel@frugalfun.com, 584-3490.

Thursday November 8 PRIDE AT WORK Second Thursdays,
6:30pm, UAW Local 2322 Conference Room, (second floor - use the glass doors to the left of the Registry of Motor Vehicles), Pot Pourri Mall, 243 King St, Northampton. Plenty of parking front and rear. Pride at Work is a LGBT labor organization affiliated with the AFL-CIO. Contact Ron P., 269-4787 or 877-252-9736, or David J. at 493-8020.

Friday November 9 AMY RICHARDS & JENNIFER BAUMGARDEN: "MANIFESTA: YOUNG WOMEN, FEMINISM, AND THE FUTURE" 4pm, New York Room, Mary Whooley Hall, Mt Holyoke College, S Hadley. Sponsored by the Weissman Center for Leadership. Info: Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College St (Routes 116 at 47), in the Village Commons, S. Hadley, 534-7307 or 800-540-7307; odysseybks@aol.com; http://www.odysseybks.com/.

Saturday November 10 4th ANNUAL DR. BENJAMIN GILL MEMORIAL AWARD DINNER Radisson (formerly Howard Johnson), Memorial Drive, Cambridge. Details coming, from MASS-CARE and the Universal Health Care Education Fund, 43 Winter St, Boston 02108, MASSCARE@aol.com.

Monday November 12 WHAT DO WE WANT? TOWARDS A DEBATE ON THE ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE 4:30pm, Five College Women's Studies Research Center, 83 College St (Route 116), S Hadley. Talk by Martha Loutfi, former Editor-in-chief, International Labor Review, Geneva, Switzerland. Info: Five College Women's Studies Research Center, 50 College St, S Hadley 01075, 538-2527, fcwsrc@wscenter.hampshire.edu, http://wscenter.hampshire.edu/.

Tuesday November 13 ARE THE SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS DOING ENOUGH TO HELP OUR CHILDREN SUCCEED?
6-9pm, High School of Commerce, Springfield. The National Education Association, the National Urban League, and the national organization Public Agenda are working with the Springfield Education Association (SEA), the Urban League of Springfield, and the Puerto Rican Cultural Center to set up a Community Conversation on the topic "Helping All Students Succeed in a Diverse Society." Attendees will be divided into groups of 15 people - public school parents, teachers, students, community members, and business members. Each group will be led by a facilitator and recorder. The facilitator and recorder will be trained by Public Agenda. Each group will watch the same video prompt to start the conversation. A light supper will be served. Volunteers are needed to serve as participants, facilitators, recorders, and to help setup and run the event. Please contact the SEA, 782-8300.

November 15-18 SOLIDARITY SCHOOL: "ORGANIZING TODAY: THE NECESSITY TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX" Details coming. This year's school will focus on historical and current examples of innivative organizing that build power for working people. Info: Mass. Jobs With Justice, 617-524-8778, bostonjwj@mindspring.com, http://www.massjwj.org/.

Thursday November 15 FLEXIBLE WELFARE: LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS AND THE REGULATION OF POOR WOMEN'S LIVES
7:30pm, Five College Women's Studies Research Center, 83 College St (Route 116), S Hadley. Talk by Meghan Cope State Univ of New York at Buffalo. Info: Five College Women's Studies Research Center, 50 College St, S Hadley 01075, 538-2527, fcwsrc@wscenter.hampshire.edu, http://wscenter.hampshire.edu/.