------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 18:07:11 -0500 From: Bill Capowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [BRC-ALL] CCO's CALENDAR OF PROGRESSIVE EVENTS for WINTER/SPRING 2000 CCO's CALENDAR OF PROGRESSIVE (CAMPUS & MORE) ACTIVIST EVENTS for WINTER & SPRING 2000 Note #1: see http://www.cco.org for calendar updates and for much more student activist information! Note #2: Please contact CCO with corrections and updates. Thanks. Note #3: We hope that you find this calendar useful. It takes days of work by interns and staff to put together and distribute. CCO is a small non-profit dedicated to building the student movement which is as strong as our members' support! Please make a contribution to CCO and receive a year of Infusion: the National Magazine for Progressive Campus Activists. ***************JANUARY 2000**************************** 21-23 Globalization Teach-in Kingston (Canada) by Operation 2000 Sarah Dopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] 416-466-6703 22-23 National Conference on Civil Disobedience in DC @ American U http://www.infoshop.org/nccd 202 258-5983 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22 A Workers' Bill of Rights for Union Democracy & Power! Bay Area Workers Democracy Network (BAWDN) 3:00PM Donation Requested $3-$5 No One Turned Away For Lack Of Money. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Sweeny & the AFL-CIO: Way Forward or Dead End for the Labor Movement? 2 pm Lucy Parsons Center, Boston 29 Campaign on Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL) in Boston meeting at Curious Liquids (near State House, and near the Commons) 617-899-8403 http://omega.ccumb.edu/~coca **************FEBRUARY*************** 2 STRIKE 2000/ACCESS 2000 activities begin in Canada. Contact: Canadian Federation of Students 613 232-7394 http://www.cfs-fcee.org 3-5 East Coast Asian Student Union (ECASU) Conference edu http://www.yale.edu/ecasu2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] al280@columbia 4-5 (Anti-) School of the America strategy session in DC www.soaw.org 202-234-3440 4-5 Freedom Conference: Freeing Political Prisoners @ Vassar (Poughkeepsie, NY) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4-6 IPPN (Indep. Progressive Politics Netwrk) steering cmtee mtng in Tucson. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5-6 Int'l. Tribunal on Afrika and Afrikans @ Compton College in LA Contact Jahahara 510 834-1158 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Goals including cancelling "debt" of Afrikan countries, supporting the right to self- determination, pursuing reparations, fighting the WTO and the bad Africa trade bills... 5-6 UNC School of Law's 4th Annual Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity - Hate Crimes. Contact Dana: 919-969-9733 or email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 5-7 2000 SPAN (Student Peace Action Network) Student Activist Summit. Washington, DC. For info, call 202/862-9740x3051 or email All student activists welcome. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5 Dialogue on Hate Crimes: Transforming attitudes & realities @ UNC Chapel Hill Registration Free for students. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 919 969-9733 11-13 United Council's (Wisconsin) Women's Leadership Conference at UW-La Crosse. "Intersections of Identity: Crossing the boundaries of racism, heterosexism & sexism within a feminist framework." 608-263-3422 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11-14 Open World Conference (OWC) of Workers in Defense of Trade Union Independence & Democratic Rights. Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mya Shone 415-641-8616 in San Francisco 19 Emergency Nat'l Conf. to save Mumia Abu-Jamal @ the Synod of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (NYC) 19-20 Solidarity Youth Activist Conference in Columbus, Ohio 313 841-0160 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.labornet.org/solidarity 23 Annual national student & youth day for Mumia 23-26 Multiculturalism in the New Millennium. sponsored by UJIMA Philadelphia Convention Center www.temple.edu/mctri and http://www.libertynet.org/~first 25-27 Youth & Young Adults Against Violence/for Peace Jim Vogt 606/291-6197 [EMAIL PROTECTED] St. Louis 28 Stop the Legal Lynching: Mass Nonviolent Civil Disobedience (& Legal Demonstration) for Mumia Abu-Jamal in DC at the US Supreme Court 212 330-8029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb-Apr LesBiGayTrans and Allies Sober Spring Break [EMAIL PROTECTED] 601-344-1411 *****************MARCH******************** 3-4 Labor Teach in at the U of Tennessee "Labor Rights as Human Rights at Home and Abroad-A Labor Teachin" Richard Trumka, Bill Fletcher and Elaine Bernard. Admission is free. 865-524-1212 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3-5 Filipino American Women's Network Conf: "Owning our Future: The Role of the Filipino Woman in the 21st Century http://www.FAWN2000.org San Mateo, California (20 miles south of San Francisco) National Filipino American Youth Association [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4-12 & 11-19 Joint USAS/Witness for Peace delegations to Nicaragua 6-7 Ending Women's Poverty. Washington, DC. contact Rachel Pollin 703-645-7380. 9-12 COOL National Conference on Student Community Service: "Sit In, Speak Up, Take A Stand: Uniting Activism w/Advocacy" hosted by Saint Anselm Coll. in NH. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.COOL2SERVE.org 11-12 Working Women Conference 2000 AFL-CIO in Chicago, IL. Contact: 202-637-5064, www.aflcio.org/women/ 11-14 US Student Association's Legislative Conference: Crystal City National Airport Hilton Hotel 202 347-8772 13-18 Brown U's Democracy Teach-Ins 19 EMERGENCY NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO SAVE MUMIA ABU JAMAL at the Synod Hall of the Cathedral of St. John The Divine, NY, NY 23-25 National Association for Ethnic Studies (NAES) 28th Annual Nat'l Conf, Northeastern U www.ethnicstudies.org 23-25 6th Annual Symposium on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Issues @ U of Rhode Island. Theme: "Spirituality, Campus and Community." 401-874-5162 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24-26 SEAC Southeast: BONFIRE(Building Our Networks From Inter-Regional Energy) Location: TBA www.seac.org/southeast/ 24-26 SEAC Mid-Atlantic regional Conference in Lancaster, PA www.seac.org/region13/ 25-26 Illionois Student Environmental Network (ISEN) Annual Conf in Monticelo, IL 217 184-0830 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30-Apr 12 Bridging Borders. U of TX, Austin. Individual Violence, Social Conflict, International Peace & Justice 410-337-6278 [EMAIL PROTECTED] COPRED & PSA 31-Apr 2 Solidarity Conference/PSU State College, PA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: 814-867-4761 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] 814-861-1620 31-2 Rocking the Boat: Building New Coalitions for the New Century: the 2000 Socialist Scholars Conference @ Borough of Manhattan Community College www.socialistscholar.org (212) 817-7868, or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] 31-2 Mid-Atlantic Feminist Conf @ James Madison U in Harrisonburg, VA. radically inclined [EMAIL PROTECTED] kristin 540-438-1369 ******************APRIL******************* 1-4 Latin America and the Caribbean Awaken!!! XII Latin-America and Caribbean Students Congress Havana City, Cuba [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2-3 SOA Watch Mobilization (2nd) and Lobby (3rd). Contact SOA Watch www.soaw.org 4 Possible joint Day of Action by a coalition of student and labor groups. 7-8 Anti-sweatshop conference at New York University (also being discussed as possible founding conf. for the WRC) 8-9 ORGANIZE! An Activist-Academic Conf on Social Movements & Organizing @ Columbia U (NYC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9 Jublilee 2000 is planning a protest calling for cancellation of the debt of the poorest countries. They plan to follow up with lobbying on the 10th 13-15 Unions and the Global Economy: Labor Education at the Crossroads, UCLEA/AFL-CIO Education Conference 14-16 The Fight Back: Student Labor and the struggle against the corporate agenda, by the Young Democratic Socialists and the U of Deleware Student Labor Action Coalition (SLAC). Contact Daraka at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-727-8610 x24 We will take bus on Sunday to protest IMF meetings. The Center for Campus Organizing is co-sponsoring. 14-16 "We, the future..." National Convention in Penn., for Young Leaders. Laying out political, economic, & cultural goals for people ages 18-35. Sponsored by Foundation for Individual Responsibility and Social Trust (FIRST) www.libertynet.org/~first 20-24 The 12th Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24-May 5 Women's International Labor Conference & Economic Justice delegation to Cuba. Some scholarships available for young women & women of color. Contact Jan Strout 609 448-3819 28-29 The Color of Violence: Violence Against Women of Color at UC Santa Cruz, Speakers include: Angela Davis , Haunani Kay Trask and Kimberle Crenshaw Contact: Andrea Smith 831-460-1856 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28-30 Politics of Peace Movements: From Non-violence to Social. Justice Bellingham, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29-May 2 From Community-Campus Partnerships to Capitol Hill: A Policy Agenda for Health in the 21st Century, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph.html ************MAY****************** 1-7 PeaCentury 2000: A Peoples' Human Rights Conf. in Edmonton, Alberta [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ualberta.ca/~hudema/people.htm 5-7 CA Wilderness Conference 2000, Sacramento, CA. Contact Liz Fierro 530-758-0380 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6 Nationwide Action on Military Budget. 1pm EST/10am PST. to host event, call Richard Laybourn before Sept 1 at 612-835-8305. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info. 19-20 UCSC's Native American Studies Research Cluster Presents SOVEREIGNTY 2000: LOCATIONS OF CONTESTATION AND POSSIBILITY @ University of California, Santa Cruz contact: Joanne Marie Barker (831) 429-8208 [home]; (831) 459-3733 [fax]; or at [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.ucsc.edu/people/jmbarker/index.htm 20 Youth Pride March & Rally; Boston, MA. Sponsored by the Governor's Commission on Gay & Lesbian Youth & the MA Dept of Education. For info: 617-727-3600x312. ****************SUMMER******************* June 2-6 Summer Training Academies - Political Skills to Protect the Environment Washington, DC. www.envirocitizen.org June 4-30 Global Peace Services USA presents Peace Power: Training Peacemakers for the 21st Century, 4 week-long workshops in active nonviolence (D.C). www.globalpeaceservices.org June 12-14 "Challenges for Engineers and Scientists in the 21st Century" @ Uppsala, Sweden Organized by Student INES. Contact Student Pugwash Sweden, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and http://www.student.tdb.uu.se/~pugwash/ines2000 June 14-18 Summer Training Academies - Political Skills to Protect Environment Chicago, IL. www.envirocitizen.org June 24 Release 2000: The Fight for Freedom, a worldwide rave/club benefit to raise funds for political prisoners. http://www.release2000.com 805 596-5777 June 24-28 Summer Training Academies - Political Skills to Protect Environment Los Angeles, CA. www.envirocitizen.org June 25-July 15 The Century Institute Summer Program, 3 week fellowship introducing undergrads to the progressive tradition in Public Policy. At Williams College in Mass. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.centuryinstitute.org July 1-August 9 People's Campaign for Nonviolence sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Contact: 914-358-4601 July 6-9 International Conference on War Tax Resistance. Mary 800-269-7464 July 30 March and protest against the Republicant National Convention in Philly. Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network. July 30-Aug 5 The Millennium Connection (Institute of Cultural Affairs). Denver, CO sustainable culture integrating movements. Elaine Stovey email [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Jim Wiegel email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sept. 21-24 Rethinking Marxism Conference @ U Mass Amherst http://www.nd.edu/~remarx/Marxism2000/ - -30- Dear Friends, Please change your records! 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