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Monday, April 1: April Fool's Day. April Fools' Day Coronation. Also, first magazine written and published by mental patients: The Illuminator, Philadelphia, 1843. Monday, April 1: At 7:00 P.M., Mark A. Holman, Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security, will speak at Jefferson Hall at the University of Virginia. Co-sponsored by the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society and the Virginia Center for Governmental Studies. Tuesday, April 2: Join a Public Vigil to Oppose the Death Penalty Vigil starts at noon, outside the Charlottesville City Circuit Court at 320 E. High Street in Charlottesville, Virginia Join in protesting the execution of Daniel Lee Zirkle, scheduled for 9 o'clock that evening and in calling for a state-wide Moratorium Now! Vigil sponsored by: Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, Charlottesville Friends Meeting (Quakers), Charlottesville/Albemarle Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Sowers of Justice, Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty For more information, visit www.vadp.org Daniel Lee Zirkle In September 2000, Daniel Lee Zirkle was sentenced to death for the murders of Christina Zirkle and Jessica Shifflett in August 1999. Zirkle was 31 years-old when the crime was committed. The murders occurred on August 2, 1999. Jessica Shifflett was babysitting Christina at their home in Mount Crawford. Zirkle stabbed to death 14 year-old Jessica (his step-daughter) and abducted four year-old Christina (his daughter). Zirkle then drove to Rockingham County. At an overlook in the George Washington National Forest, Zirkle slit Christina's throat then tried to take his own life. His motive in the murders was to get back at Barbara Shifflett, the girls' mother. Barbara Shifflett and Zirkle had lived together for six years. Just prior to the August murders the two had separated. Police had responded to several domestic violence calls from the residence. On the day of the murders, Barbara had gone to the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office to have a warrant sworn out against Zirkle. When Barbara returned home, she found Jessica dead. Sheriffs discovered Zirkle, with Christina's body, a short while later. On July 17, 2000, Daniel Lee Zirkle pleaded guilty to the murders. Zirkle was sentenced to death in Page County for the killing of his daughter and received a sentence of death in Rockingham County for the killing of Shifflett. Zirkle has been on death row since August 28, 2000 Wednesday, April 3: At 7:00 P.M., a panel will discuss "Crisis Coverage: The Evolving Role of the Media" in Gilmer Hall Room 130 at the University of Virginia. The panel consists of: Paul Freedman, University of Virginia Saturday, April 6: Birthday of James Dewey Watson in 1928 - codiscoverer of molecular structure of DNA. Saturday, April 6: Charlottesville Registrar Sherri Iachetta will present a demonstration of Charlottesville's new ADA compliant voting machines, which will be used in the upcoming city council election. Attend the meeting of the Quality Community Council from 10 to 12 p.m. at 327 W. Main Street, Suite 101, Charlottesville, Virginia to see what it is all about. Saturday, April 6: LIVING WAGE RALLY FOR UVA CONTRACT WORKERS SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 11:00am ROTUNDA, LAWN SIDE Did you know that hundreds of people who work at the University of Virginia are not paid a living wage? Thats because they work for companies that contract with the University of Virginia, but are not required to pay a living wage. The City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Charlottesville City Schools and the Albemarle County Schools have all taken steps to pay more workers a living wage. Its time for private companies that contract with the University of Virginia like Aramark, Morrisons, Pitney Bowes and ServiceMaster to do the same. Please attend a RALLY to let the University of Virginia Board of Visitors know that contracting with companies that are paying their workers less than a living wage is not acceptable!! In the meantime, please contact the members of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors to encourage them to support a living wage for all those associated with the University of Virginia: John P. Ackerly III Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. Charles M. Caravati, Jr. William G. Crutchfield, Jr. Charles L. Glazer William H. Goodwin, Jr. T. Keister Greer Elsie Goodwyn Holland Gordon F. Rainey, Jr. Timothy B. Robertson Terence P. Ross Thomas A. Saunders Elizabeth A. Twohy Benjamin P. A. Warthen Joseph E. Wolfe Sarah L. Wilson (student representative) Alexander G. Gilliam (secretary to the Board of Visitors) We believe that anybody working full-time should not have to live in poverty. For more information on living wage campaigns in Virginia, contact the Virginia Organizing Project at 434-984-4655. Tuesday, April 9: At 7:00 P.M., a panel will discuss "Political Leadership in Times of Crisis: A Historical Perspective" in the Rotunda Dome Room at the University of Virginia. The panel consists of: Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Thursday, April 11:You are invited to the 2002 Take Back the Night Rally & March on Thursday, April 11th! Rally begins at 6pm at the Downtown Amphitheater in Charlottesville, Virginia. Then march to the Rotunda at the University of Virginia at 8pm. Program: * Jan Smith Band Sunday, April 14: Senator Russ Feingold speaks at 4 p.m. at the University of Virginia Law School in Caplin Auditorium, with a reception afterwards. Feingold, who was elected to the United States Senate in 1992, is considering running for president in 2004 as a progressive Democrat. As co-author of the McCain-Feingold bill, he has been one of the leading voices on the issue of campaign finance reform. The bill, which was recently signed into law by President Bush, offers the most sweeping reform of the campaign finance system in nearly 30 years. In addition, Feingold was the only senator to vote against the Anti-Terrorism Bill in the aftermath of September 11, citing excessive immigration powers and possible discrimination toward Arabs, Muslims, or South Asians. The event is co-sponsored by the University of Virginia Center for Governmental Studies and by the Student Legal Forum. It is open to the public.  Feingold will be introduced by Larry J. Sabato, director of the UVa Center for Governmental Studies. Sabato and Feingold attended Oxford as Rhodes Scholars and traveled Europe together in the late ‘70s. Wednesday, April 17: The Vinegar Hill Film Festival at 9 p.m. in Charlottesville will feature The Green Hour by Nicole Kassell, The Horsedealer's Daughter by Mary Norman and other film shorts. Wednesday, April 17: Mary Lee Settle will be speaking at 7 pm at the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library in Charlottesville, Virginia in a special event sponsored by The Women's Center. Mary Lee Settle won the National Book Award (1978) for Blood Tie, and has gone on to receive many additional honors and awards. For more information, contact Alisha Martorella at 982-2259. Wednesday, April 17: David Horowitz will be speaking at 8 p.m. in Room 130, Gilmer Hall at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. His talk is sponsored by the College Republicans and his topic will be "How the policies of the Liberal Left led to a breakdown in national security." More more information, contact Lee Galloway at 244-7939. Wednesday, April 17-Thursday 18: Representatives of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Julia and Francisca, will speak at UVA Anti-Oppression Day at noon at Newcomb Hall on the Emmet Street side. On April 18 from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m., local activists and supporters are encouraged to join the Coalition workers at the Taco Bell on Emmett Street at a rally to draw attention to the Coalition campaign to End Sweatshops in the Fields. Work for social justice and watch a large tomato dance.  Coalition workers are mostly Mexican, Haitian and Guatemalan. They pick tomatoes in the fields around Immokalee, Florida for 40 cents for a 32 lb. bucket. This is the same rate tomato pickers were getting in the 1960's. $7500 /year (and no benefits) is not a living wage. Most Immokalee tomatoes are purchased by Taco Bell. Coalition workers are urging a boycott of Taco Bell in hopes that Taco Bell will bring pressure on the growers to pay more to the tomato pickers. Please join the Coalition workers on Thursday, April 18 1-2. For more information call 296-2494 or email noirize@hotmail.com. Thursday, April 18: At 7 p.m., the Vinegar Hill Film Festival in Charlottesville will feature film shorts (for all ages over 13) Buy Nothing Day [with Alex Davis and Rachel Williamson] by Paola Christy and Alexandria Searls, Snow Day by Bremen Donovan, Urgasong by Jessica Woodworth, and other film shorts. At 9 p.m. the Virginia Film Festival will feature The Green Hour by Nicole Kassell, The Horsedealer's Daughter by Mary Norman and other film shorts. Friday, April 19: The National Federation of Community Broadcasters is holding a free-speech forum at 4 p.m. in Old Cabell Hall at the University of Virginia and it is open to the public. Panelists include: Bob O'Neil, director of the Thomas Jefferson Center; U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Roanoke; Stephen Rohde, outgoing president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California; Makani Themba-Nixon, executive director of the Praxis Project and opponent of the War on Terrorism; and Laura Flanders, host of Working Assets Radio. Julie Drizin, producer of Nationa Public Radio's 'Justice Talking,' will moderate the panel (In the Region, The Daily Progress, April 14, 2002) Friday, April 19 - Sunday, April 21:The Community Art Fund - Save Our World President, Adrienne Weinberger Calling all artists and art lovers! Please donate and/or buy art to help raise funds for at risk youths in Charlottesville and Albemarle region to attend college. All funds raised by the sale of donated artwork will go to Project Discovery of the Monticello Area Community Action Agency. All funds raised will go to scholarship money for tuition and books. The Community Art Fund event will take place April 19-21 (Fri-Sun). There will be three churches participating: St. Mark Lutheran Church, Congregation Beth Israel, and St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church. Each church will have an art exhibition and sale on the week-end. Artists can register and donate art on the previous Tues. and Wed. (April 16 and 17) at any one of the participating churches. Registration times will be 11-1 and 5-7. All artists will be credited in the ad booklet, which the Community Art Fund and Project Discovery will publish. Artists can leave their business cards at the exhibition.
On Saturday night, April 20, from 7 to 11 pm, there will be a wine and cheese party sponsored by the Consortium for the Advancement for the Arts at the Downtown Gallery (215 4th St. NE), to thank the donors (who have free admission); others are welcome to attend for $15, which will also go to Project Discovery. This will be a fun event for a good cause. Please contact Adrienne Weinberger of Studio 95 at 297-0694, email: studio95@guanotronic.com or Debra Abbott of Project Discovery at 295-3171. Saturday, April 20: The Albemarle/Charlottesville Democratic Breakfast will meet at Jefferson Area Board for the Aging on Hillsdale Drive at 9:30 a.m. Delegate Mitch Van Yahres and Senator Creigh Deeds will present a "Legislative Wrap-Up" of the Virginia General Assembly Session. The event is open to the public. Saturday, April 20: An Issues Forum, sponsored by Senator John Edwards of Roanoke and Democrats for Virginia's Future, will be held at 10:30 a.m. at the Hardware Store Rest, 2nd floor, 316 East Main Street, Charlottesville, Virginia The forum will used to kick start what will become an ongoing issues group. Structured as a think tank for exploring ideas to provide a voice that Democrats can use to take back the leadership on the issues facing Virginia. They will organize the people, who attend the April 20th forum and the other forums that will follow, into issue groups, by the issues they feel strongly about. These issue groups will then be charged with defining the issues, researching for new and innovative answers, and reporting their findings. For more info call David Midkiff @ (757) 547-9507. Saturday, April 20: Birthday of Philippe Pinel in 1745 - the French physician, who first called insanity a disease rather than a result of possession by demons. Saturday, April 20: As we enter the seventh month of the War on Terrorism, the Bush administration is getting ready to launch a major offensive in Iraq. US military action in countries from Indonesia to Somalia to Columbia also appears to be in the works. It's time to demonstrate that September 11th is not a mandate for war without end. Please join the American Friends Service Committee, Peace Action, and thousands of people in Washington, DC on April 20th for a nonviolent march to stop the War On Terrorism. For more information, go to: http://www.unitedwemarch.org Or, you can contact the organizers by phone or email: Phone: 202.265.7997 For people who need transportation to the April 20th march on Washington, there will be a chartered bus leaving from Charlottesville for anyone who is interested. Below is the pertinent information. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns (hemi@virginia.edu, 243-4302). To ride the Charlottesville bus to the demonstration in D.C. April 20th you need a reservation and ticket. Call 296-2494 to do this. Cost is $10 students; Adults $15-20 sliding scale. Tickets will be on sale at the Beans & Rice Dinner and presentation on Plan Colombia on April 11 at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church (dinner 6:30 p.m.; presentation 7:30 p.m.) Bus leaves University Hall parking lot at 8 a.m. Bus returns from D.C. at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 22: Earth Day. Monday, April 22: Are you aware that the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority is proposing to cut back drastically on what the recycling center on McIntire Road will accept (no more glass or plastic, for example)? In the Progress the Sunday before last (4/7) there was an announcement with details of the proposal, which is to be discussed at their Board of Director's (sic) hearing on April 22 at 2:30. There is also to be a reduction in hours of operation (7:30am to 3:00pm Mon.-Tues., Thurs.-Sat.), as well as a $1 per vehicle fee if this plan is approved. Monday, April 22: Charlottesville City Council Candidate Forum on the Environment: Student Environmental Action Holds University and Community Panel Discussion WHAT: Student Environmental Action is holding a moderated discussion as a means for City Council candidates to voice their opinions on important local and regional environmental issues. WHO: City Council Candidates and Student Environmental WHEN: Monday, April 22, 2002 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM WHERE: University of Virginia, Clark Hall, room 147 WHY: City Council elections are on May 7. Voting students and community members need to know the City Council candidates' environmental stances. This forum is an opportunity for both students and community members to increase involvement in civic processes. It will promote environmental consciousness and educate voters. If you have any questions about this event, including directions to Clark Hall or parking/transportation considerations, please contact me, Toby Reiter, by email or by phone at 295-2050 between 9:00 - 6:00 or 297-1692 after 6:00. Wednesday, April 24: The Citizen for Jefferson School (CFJS) will be hosting a public forum for the candidates on the ballot for the May 2002, Charlottesville City Council Election. The forum will be on Wednesday, April 24th from 7-9pm at the Jefferson School Auditorium. All four candidates have agreed to participate. The forum will be composed of two parts. The first hour will involve the candidates responding to questions prepared by CFJS and distributed to candidates in advance. These questions will be framed around the topic: "Creating a healthy economy while honoring our past and healing old wounds." The second hour will be an open forum with questions from the audience on topics of their choosing. All interested citizens are encouraged to attend. Citizens for Jefferson School is a local citizens group that cares about Jefferson School and values broad public participation in matters of public concern. CFJS is sponsoring this public forum to create an opportunity for the citizens of Charlottesville to address the candidates with questions and concerns about topics related to the re-development of Jefferson School, and other issues of their choosing. Citizens for Jefferson School will not be endorsing any candidates. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT DAVID SAUNIER, dsaunier@cstone.net, or 293-2103 Thursday, April 25: Guillotine first used in France in 1792. Friday, April 26: A conversation with Dan Balz, national political correspondent for the Washington Post, and with Bob Woodward, assistant managing editor for investigating news at the Washington Post will be held at the Miller Center at 11 a.m. Their series on the ten days following September 11 will be the focus of their discussion. Tuesday, April 30: The Old
Washington Week in Review Gang (Paul Duke, Haynes Johnson, Jack Nelson and
Hedrick Smith) will be "Reviewing the Dangerous new World: International
and Domestic" at 11 a.m. at the Miller Center.
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