MADRE:
Defending Human Rights for Women and Children Around the World

**Check out the Davis Putter Scholarship Fund**
The Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund provides grants to students actively working for peace and justice.
http://www.davisputter.org/

Jan 21 - Feb 21
Borgia Gallery, Mary Dooley College Center, Elms College, 291 Springfield St., Chicopee
A Friendly Bond, A Joyful Connection: A child-to-child art exchange between children in Iraq and in the USA

Sunday, February 15th, 5:30pm
Global Vigil for Peace!
Dusk, Sunset, Nightfall
International Candlelight Peace Vigils
Nearest one: South Hadley, Village Commons
These Candlelight Peace Vigils will take place on the first anniversary of the historic day when more than 10 million people demonstrated world-wide against the Bush administration's plans for the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
http://www.endthewar.org/feb15.htm
also see: http://www.internationalanswer.org/campaigns/f15/

Wednesday, February 18th, 7:30pm
Broadside Books, 247 Main Street Northampton, John C. Bonifaz will be reading from and signing copies of his book, Warrior King: The Case For Impeaching George W. Bush.

Thursday or Friday, February 19th or 20th (official date TBA)
Smith College Campus Center
“ One Act! Poems for Peace”
Student writers and artists will have a chance to come together as a community and speak out against the War on Terrorism, the US occupation of Iraq, and the Bush regime.
This event will be an open mic and we hope that you will come to speak your mind, share your ideas, and listen seriously to the voices of others. Students who are interested in participating in the Feb reading can just show up and read. Also, if people are interested in submitting poems to include in a chapbook that will be sold to raise money for Arise for Social Justice in Springfield, they can email them to me at jcarter@email.smith.edu

Friday 7pm, February 20th through Sunday afternoon, February 22nd
Conference at CUNY
Life After Bush: Youth Activism & the Fight for Our Future
http://www.ydsusa.org/confs/nyc_0204.html

Saturday 8:45am-10:30pm, February 21st
Free conference at Hampshire College
ASK for Social Justice! Student Leadership Conference
http://www.hampshire.edu/cms/index.php?id=2940

Wednesday, February 25, Location TBA
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED Full of drama and emotion, this award winning ocumentary presents the faces and voices of both supporters and detractors of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the role of the media in manipulating and distorting information as the 2002 coup unfolded, the dismantling of the democratically elected government and subsequent reversal with the restoration of President Chavez back to power within a few days.

Friday, March 5th
The People’s Poetry Theatre offers a one-night-only staging of their performance poetry montage in Northampton. Their show will celebrate International Women’s Day and explore empire while offering plenty of social, political and religious commentary in the process. Make no mistake: this is no poetry READING. This internationally toured assemblage of musicians and orators prides itself on delivering poems without accompanying scripts and enlivens their words by calling upon the talents they’ve honed through many years of studying and working on stage. Their performance embodies slam, sonnet and soliloquy and nods its head to Ginsberg, Angelou, Shakespeare and Saul Williams.

Saturday, March 6th , 10am
Teach-in on War and Occupation
A coalition of progressive student and community organizations will host a “Teach-in on War and Occupation” at the UMass. The teach-in will begin in the Herter Hall auditorium, room 227, at 10 a.m. on the UMass campus. Events will include plenary presentations, workshops, and a variety of cultural activities. Featured speakers include Sut Jhally, UMass Professor of Communications and head of the Media Education Foundation; Rania Masri, director of the Economic and Environmental Justice Program at the Institute for Southern
Studies and national board member of United for Peace and Justice; Bill Fletcher, director of the Transafrica Forum and long-time labor activist; and Peta Lindsay, an 18 year old Howard University student and a national organizer with International ANSWER.

Howard Zinn and The Trial of the Catonsville 9
5pm: Howard Zinn speaks
7:30: A staged reading of the Daniel Berrigan play, The Trial of the
Catonsville 9
Athol-Orange Community TV, 163 South Main Street, Athol

Saturday, March 20th
The World Still Says No to War
It is the one-year anniversary of the U.S. bombing and invasion of Iraq.
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=2136

Saturday-Tuesday, March 27th-30th
SOA Watch Spring Mobilization and Lobby Day
Come to Washington, DC and tell Congress to "Shut Down the
SOA! No More Murder in Our Name and with Our Tax Money!"

Saturday, April 17th, 9am-9pm
Understanding Whiteness, Recognizing Privilege: A conference towards racial justice
Mount Holyoke College
An all day conference examining white privilege; includes speakers and workshops.
Website coming soon.
Questions: contact Kyra at kznorsig@mtholyoke.edu

Friday-Sunday, April 16-18
Salem State College, Salem Massachusetts
Contact: (603) 498-6185 or email peacecollege@forusa.org
The Peace College is an intergenerational conference - a weekend of learning, teaching, arts, and networking. Participants will participate in workshops, eat meals together, and attend evening social events and theatrical performances. Together, people of all races, ages, sexes,
and cultures will learn and teach each other. We would like you and/or your student organization to participate in the Peace College. Each organization and individual on this list has been handpicked because of a commitment to social activism.