Amherst College http://www.amherst.edu/about_amh/visit/map/
Hampshire http://www.hampshire.edu/campus/map.shtml
Mount Holyoke http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cic/map/
Smith http://www.smith.edu/map/collegemap.html
UMass http://www.umass.edu/umhome/maps/

Every Sunday, 6-8:30 pm, First Churches, Northampton - (see details) Sunday Evening Roundtables for Nonviolence; (childcare available upon request - call 584-9392 by prior Friday noon) (see details) Kelly Gallagher 584-9392/585-0536

Monday December 17 COAL IN OUR STOCKINGS, HOW FEDERAL POLICIES BENEFIT THE RICH
5:30pm (soup at 5pm), location TBA. Nancy Folbre, UMass Economics Professor and Judy Atkins, President, United Electrical Workers (UE) District 2, discuss the new wave of federal policies that will be a windfall for the super rich.
Info: Traprock, 773-7427, traprock@crocker.com.

Tuesday December 18 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 December 18 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; www.masscare.org. Visit website for details of the Bill, action ideas.

Wednesday December 19 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 December 19 PIONEER VALLEY CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL Third Wednesdays, 7:30pm, location changed (from AFL-CIO Hall, 640 Page Blvd, near corner of Osborne Ter, Springfield, across the street from the old Westinghouse) to IBEW 7, 185 Industry Av, Springfield for Holiday Party. Community and labor activist guests are welcome, but call Irene Kimball, 732-7970, pvaflcio@hge.net.

Thursday December 20 MASS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL HAMPSHIRE COUNTY CHAPTER Third Thursdays, 1:30pm, Hadley Senior Center. MSAC tackles 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.

Thursday 12/20, 6:30 meeting of the Western Massachusetts Global Action Coalition (WMGAC), AFSC (584.8975) or Arise (734.4948)

January 5 & 6 COMMUNITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Woolman Hill Conference Center, Deerfield. Based on the work of M. Scott Peck and the Foundation for Community Encouragement (FCE), which encourages people, in a fragmented world, to discover new ways of being together. Living, learning, and teaching principles of community, we serve as a catalyst for individuals, groups, and organizations to: communicate with authenticity, deal with difficult issues, welcome and affirm diversity, bridge differences with integrity, relate with love and respect. FCE's approach encourages tolerance of ambiguity, the experience of discovery and the tension between holding on and letting go. In our work to empower others we remember our reliance upon a spirit within and beyond ourselves. Details, including cost, registration, at http://users.crocker.com/~afsc/calendar/events/JAN5.HTM.

Monday January 21 17th ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE & WORK OF REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR **Save the Date** Featuring incredible speakers, poets, artists, activists, storytellers, musicians and more! Details coming.

January 31-February 4 PROTEST WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ANNUAL MEETING New York City. Demonstrations in planning. The World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org), based in Geneva, Switzerland, is an independent organization "committed to improving the state of the world. Funded by the contributions of 1,000 of the world's foremost corporations, the Forum acts in the spirit of entrepreneurship in the global public interest to further economic growth and social progress. The Forum serves its members and society by creating partnerships between and among business, political, intellectual and other leaders of society to define, discuss and advance key issues on the global agenda." Information will be posted as soon as it becomes available at http://nyc.indymedia.org. Here is a nifty flier: http://www.geocities.com/zapatistablock/wef.pdf. Web sites dealing with past mobilizations against the WEF contain a wealth of information: Anti-WTO Coordination, http://www.reitschule.ch/reitschule/anti-wto; Protest at World Economic Forum, http://www.cyberjedi.org.uk/davos.htm; S11, http://www.s11.org/s14; Switzerland Indymedia, http://ch.indymedia.org/index.php3?lang=en; WEF European Economic Summit 2001, http://www.antiwef.org/ These sites contain useful analysis of the WEF: http://www.otherdavos.net/; http://www.geocities.com/pwdyson/wef_orgs.htm.