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Saturday, March 1: Area leaders and retired military personnel have organized a 'Rally for the Troops' ceremony to be held at 1 p.m. on the steps of the Albemarle County office building. The rally will show support for the soldiers dispatched to the Persian Gulf, as well as the government's pressure to force Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to disarm. Saturday, March 1: 'Manalapan' CD release for Brady Earnhart at the Prism at 8 p.m. with Paul Curreri, Jan Smith and others. Tickets $10/$12.  Sunday, March 2: Texas Independence Day! Sunday, March 2: Five local women have reserved the Live Arts Space in Charlottesville for a staged reading of the anti-war comedy, Lysistrata. Lysistrata events are being planned in over 600 cities. Among the stated purposes of the event, the production aims to provide 'a humorous entree into a healthy community dialogue: What can we do on a local level to stop 'deiplomacy by violence' in our world?' Donations will be taken to benefit peace groups and human rights organizations. The reading begins at 8 p.m, with pre-show music beginning at 7:30 p.m. (Ron Hasson, The Observer, February 26, 2003)  Monday, March 3: Ducktapeclub 'Stuck at Prom' contest begins; Ends June 13, 2003. Monday, March 3: It was on this date in 1836 that Mexican forces, under the command of Gen. Santa Ana, overran the Alamo at San Antonio in the most significant battle of Texas' bid for independence, killing the last of the 187 defenders who had held out in the fortified mission for 13 days. Famed frontiersman Davy Crockett was among those who died for the Texas cause that day. It was not a lost cause, though, as Texas forces, rallying behind the war cry "Remember the Alamo," with Gen. Sam Houston at the helm, defeated the Mexicans and captured Santa Ana on April 21 at the battle of San Jacinto. The Mexican leader signed a peace treaty recognizing Texas' independence. A portion of the Alamo still stands as a shrine. Monday, March 3: "U.S.-Polish Relations at the Beginning of the 21st Century" with Dariuz Wisniewski at 11 a.m. at the Miller Center Monday, March 3: On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 12:00 pm in front of the Charlottesville Circuit Court: Vanessa Hicks will announce her intention to seek the Democratic nomination for the Clerk of Circuit Court. Tuesday, March 4: On this day, 1917 Republican Jeanette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the House of Representatives. 1933 Frances Perkins became the first woman to serve in the Cabinet when she took over as secretary of labor. Tuesday, March 4: Mardi Gras Wednesday, March 5: "Misunderestimating Bush: How the President Confounds the Elites" with David Von Drehle at 11 a.m. at the Miller Center Wednesday, March 5: National Moratorium to Stop the War on Iraq / The Next Phase of Conscience and Resistance To Stop the War before it Starts No School, No Work, No Business as Usual Whoever you are. Wherever you are. What's that line you haven't crossed yet to show your determination to stop this war? The line may be different for everyone. But whatever it is, prepare to cross it on March 5, in large and small acts of courage, singly and together, to stop the war on Iraq! One day in March the Air Force and Navy will launch between 300 and 400 cruise missiles at targets in Iraq -- more than the number that were launched during the entire 40 days of the first Gulf War ... so that you get a simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, not taking days or weeks but in minutes." (CBS News, Jan. 27, 2003) If you had known about Hiroshima in advance, what would you have done to stop it? Today's war-makers are telling us what they plan to do, including the possible use of nuclear weapons. This war will visit unspeakable terror and suffering on the people of Iraq, in the name of "liberating" them. It will put people all over the planet at risk, in the name of protecting them. It will, no doubt, be accompanied by even more severe repression within the U.S. against immigrants and against resisters. And it will mark another terrible step - the most horrific one yet - into a future of severe repression. Despite huge outpourings of protest around the world, including here in the U.S., the war-makers refuse to listen. We must build on everything that's been done to date and intensify our work to stop them. We must act on our conscience and resist as if the future depends on it -- because it does. We must inspire, organize and expand political resistance throughout society - where we live and where we work, where we go to and where we raise our children, where we play and where we pray. Students have called for March 5 as a day to walk out of class. We are calling on all groups and all people to expand the day to one of society-wide resistance -- a day to act together to manifest opposition to this shameful, unjust and racist war and our determination to stop it. On March 5 ... You could call in sick. You could close your business. Professors could cancel classes. Students could plan citywide high school walkouts and other campus actions, joining with student strikes being organized across the country. City councils and county boards that have passed resolutions against the war could mark the day with town hall meetings, teach-ins or other ways. Unions that have passed anti-war resolutions could call job actions. You could stand for peace at the nearest post office or government building. You could begin a campaign of bold letters to legislators, the president and his secretaries. You could establish "no war zones" with signs and banners at strategic intersections (as they are doing in Atlanta). You could hang banners from major overpasses (as they are doing in Chicago). You could bring your protest to a military facility, with acts of civil disobedience "supporting" the soldiers by attempting to stop the U.S. military machine from sending them off to war. Houses of worship could call for special services that day; could call their congregations to protest at military recruiting offices or elsewhere; could open their doors to conscientious objectors. You could engage in nonviolent direct action at appropriate locations. Afternoon or evening convergences could bring together everyone who has acted earlier in the day to voice opposition in the streets and at community gatherings. The possibilities are endless, collective and individual Lay something important in your life on the line along with hundreds of thousands of others on the same day TO STOP THIS WAR ON IRAQ For more information and to add your name as a sponsor, contact the Moratorium Committee at moratorium2003@yahoo.com. Rev. Dr. George Regas, Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace icujp@pacbell.net, phone 626-683-9004; Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children's Alliance, www.mecaforpeace.org; Rev. Peter Laarman, religiousforum@hotmail.com, ph 212-477-0351; Not in Our Name Project, info@notinourname.net, ph 212-969-8058 (Visit www.notinourname.net for Moratorium information and updates); Southern Christian Leadership Foundation, SCLfoundation@earthlink.net, ph 404-659-7253; International A.N.S.W.E.R., ph 212-633-6646, www.internationalANSWER.org; United for Peace and Justice, www.unitedforpeace.org Thursday, March 6: Regular ASAP Monthly Meeting – 7:30 pm, Westminster Presbyterian Church Library [makeup of postponed Feb. 6 session]. David Benish, Chief of Planning & Community Development for Albemarle County, will talk with us about "Albemarle's Official Population Growth Strategy: Design, Management, or Accommodation?" Our purpose is to better understand (a) the premises underlying the way the Albemarle County Planning Department deals with growth, and (b) the degree to which these premises reflect unambiguous legal guidelines from the state and/or policy statements from county supervisors. This evening also serves as ASAP’s Annual Meeting of Members, as specified in our by-laws, for receiving an Annual Report, electing directors and officers for the coming year (see list of nominees, below), and acting on other matters as may come before the meeting. For more information call 974-6390. Thursday, March 6 - Saturday, March 22: Lattehouse V: feet, fads, fetishes & fears. Lattehouse is the hottest ticket in town for showcasing the artistic talent of teens, featuring original monologues, sketches, poetry, music, and dance that rocks like no other ... Held in the LaB space of Live Arts (609 E Market St, Charlottesville, Virginia): Wed, Fri & Sat shows at 8 p.m.; Thursday Earlybird Nights at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday Matinee, March 16 at 2 p.m. - $5.00. Pay-What-You-Can Night, Wednesday, March 12. Audience Discussion, Thursday March 13 & 16 - $7.00. No advanced ticket sales. Tickets at the door one hour before showtime. Special LATTE Benefit show, Saturday, March 15 at 7 p.m. Reserved seating/Info 434-977-4177 x 100. Friday, March 7: Paul C. Garrett, Clerk of the Charlottesville Circuit Court, will announce his intention to seek the Democrat Party nomination as its candidate for re-election to the position on March 7, 2003 at 12:00 p.m. on the front steps of the Charlottesville Circuit Court, 315 East High Street. Your presence at the announcement would be appreciated. Friday, March 7: Alexandria Searls is having an opening on Friday, March 7th, at McGuffey Art Center of her exhibition, "inventories: photographs and photograms." The exhibition will be on the top floor of McGuffey, and the opening will be from 5:30-7:30 pm. "inventories" features photographs involving the containment and cataloging of ideas, land, people, and animals. The work includes studies of Native American mounds and the mountains near them. The photograms, a series called "Of Food and Bombs," explores the relationship of those two forms of stockpiles, especially in relationship to the use of food drops in Afghanistan in 2001. The exhibition will run through March. For more information, please contact the artist at 434-295-4302, or at alexsearls@earthlink.net Friday, March 7: On Friday, March 7, at 7 PM, Jame Saunders and Renae Shackelford, authors of the book Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, VA, will give a talk entitled "Remembering Vinegar Hill and Its Troubling Legacy" at Trinity Episcopal Church on Preston Avenue. The event is sponsored by The Project on Lived Theology at the University and the Quality Community Council. Saturday, March 8: Wash. D.C. March on International Women's Day, by Code Pink 4 Peace Date & Time : Saturday, March 8; Rally at 11:00 AM; March at 1:00
PM; 8:00 AM for bus boarding Mark your calendars and BUY BUS TICKETS to Washington DC March 8, to Stand Up for Peace and Justice on International Women's Day! Join thousands of women and men from all walks of life for this VERY WELL-TIMED women-led peace convergence organized by "Code Pink 4 Peace". Speakers will include-- along with Charlottesville's very own Barbara Ehrenreich-- Alice Walker, Vandana Shiva, Amy Goodman, Janeane Garofalo, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Granny D, Rania Masri, Hyun Kyung, Jody Williams, Cheri Honkala, Maxine Hong Kingston, Susan Griffin, Terry Tempest Williams, Starhawk, Medea Benjamin… and many more! 11am Rally: Gather at Malcolm X Park located at 16th St. between W Streets
and Euclid, NW. THE CHARLOTTESVILLE BUSES will leave from U.Hall (the basketball arena on Massie Rd.) at 8 a.m. and return around 8 p.m. Tickets are on a sliding scale but suggested amounts are $20 for adults, $10 for students/kids. Riding the buses will be part of the experience! (Bring musical instruments, along with the usual sensible supplies for the day.) I am organizing the buses on behalf of the C'ville Ctr for Peace and Justice and other participating city and university groups. To have this happen, you must send your payments to me AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, and anyway before Wed. March 5. Please mail or hand-carry your busfare to me, Helena Cobban, at 206 Alderman Rd., C'ville 22903. Checks payable to "CCPJ". Mark your checks "Mar. 8 bus" and make clear what kinds of tickets you need ("2 adults, 3 kids", or whatever). Also provide an email if possible, or at least a tel #, so I can confirm. More info on this event, and others, on www.unitedforpeace.org . Send the payments soon! See you there! ~Helena. Monday, March 10: The Locust Avenue Bridge over Route 250 in Charlottesville, Virginia will be closed for repairs, lasting up to 5 months. Monday, March 10: "Washington Overview" With Robert Novak at 11:00 AM at the Miller Center Robert D. Novak is a commentator for CNN, where he appears on and serves as co-executive producer of the political roundtable, The Capital Gang, and regularly co-hosts Crossfire. He appears occasionally on Meet the Press and also helms CNN's The Novak Zone, a weekly interview feature in which he interviews top newsmakers, world leaders, and people of interest. Monday, March 10: At noon Delegate Mitch Van Yahres will hold a press conference to announce his decision whether or not to stand for re-election. The event will be held on the downtown mall in front of his office at 223 W. Main Street. The media and public are invited to attend. Monday, March 10: The Albemarle County Democrats are meeting on March 10th at 7:30 P.M. at Jackson Burley Middle School at 910 Rose Hill Drive. This is a meeting of the County Committee, but all County Democrats are invited and encouraged to come. Creigh Deeds and Mitch Van Yahres and other Elected County Democrats have been invited to speak, and it will also be an opportunity for those who wish to get more involved to do so. Tuesday, March 11: Agenda for Action, a student presentation on race will take place at 7 p.m. in Gilmer Hall, Room 130. Wednesday, March 12: "Covering the Medically Uninsured: Issues and Answers" at 11:00 AM at the Miller Center This forum has been arranged to coincide with a national week devoted to covering the uninsured, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with support from many prestigious organizations including the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association. The program will feature a panel consisting of the following individuals: Carolyn Engelhard, MPA, health policy analyst, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center; Mark R. Cruise, CAE, executive director, Virginia Association of Free Clinics; Jon Nafziger, vice president, Thomas Jefferson Area United Way (tentative); Scott Syverud, M.D., associate professor, Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia. Wednesday, March 12: In response to the attack on Daisy Lundy, there will be a March Against Racism on Wednesday, March 12th at the Law School beginning at 6:30 pm. The march will go from the Law School to the Rotunda where there will be a vigil and a speak out. Ms. Lundy will be one of the speakers. Speeches start at 8 p.m. For more information phone Mr. Le, (434)409-6185. Wednesday, March 12: In partnership with the Virginia Department of Transportation, City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation, the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission is conducting a design exercise to identify practical improvements to the Hydraulic/250 Bypass intersection of the US-29 corridor. This exercise will identify feasible alternatives for improving many of the corridor's intersections. The goal of this exercise and future studies is to develop a context-sensitive, multi-modal transportation improvements plan to complement existing and anticipated development along the Rt. 29 corridor. To kick off the exercise, staff from local and state agencies will be taking part in a week-long workshop. During this week, the focus will be on design, feasibility, modeling, economics, and public input. We are asking you to come and let us know what concerns you have for these intersections and give feedback on what elements you think should be addressed in the design analysis. Please join us at this hands-on workshop. US-29/Hydraulic Triangle Study Public Workshop. Wednesday, March 12th,
7pm-9pm. Senior Center (Corner of Greenbrier & Hillsdale) If you need special accommodations, please call at least 3 days before the meeting. Hearing impaired may call Virginia Relay at 711 Friday, March 14: "Toll-Gates and Barbicans of Empire: The United States, Great Britain, and the Persian Gulf Region in the 20th Century" at 11:00 AM at the Miller Center With W. Taylor Fain, an assistant professor at the Miller Center of Public Affairs working with the Presidential Recordings Program. A former U.S. Department of State historian and editor of the Foreign Relations of the United States series, Professor Fain's work has appeared in the journals Diplomacy and Statecraft and Middle Eastern Studies. Saturday, March 15: "ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: THE CONTINUING CRISIS" WITH LOCAL WRITER HELENA COBBAN ON CABLE CHANNEL 13 Saturday March 15, 7:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. Details: Helena Cobban is a writer, researcher and senior global affairs fellow with the University of Virginia's Institute for Practical Ethics and will be featured as a "U.Va. Newsmaker". She maintains a "Blog" (Web log) for daily political and personal commentary on issues of Peace and Justice at http://www.justworldnews.org as well as being a regular columnist for the Christian Science Monitor. Saturday, March 15: The Albemarle/Charlottesville Democratic Breakfast will be held at JABA at 9:30 a.m. and will feature Del Mitch Van Yahres and Sen. Creigh Deeds, who will deliver a legislative round-up. Saturday, March 15: Ideas of March: Join Charlottesville Democrats at Buford School Cafeteria from 1 pm to 5 pm to generate ideas/issues, talk about strengths/weaknesses and strategize for a strong future. Bring your friends. AGENDA Saturday, March 15 - Sunday, March 16 : Friends of the Library Book Sale Children's books, Music books, records, tapes, CDs, plus Academic and Professional books. Gordon Ave. Library 9am-8pm all days. 977-8467 or www.avenue.org/friends for more information. Saturday, March 15: Next Major Ch'ville Peace Demonstration Date & Time : Saturday, March 15, 1:00 PM Details : This event is scheduled to occur the day after a U.N. Security Council Meeting and will be modelled after the Feb. 15 demonstration (only with good weather). It is currently co-sponsored by the CCPJ, the U.Va. Anti-war Coalition and Charlottesville Food Not Bombs. We are hoping for quite a large turnout so spread the word and mark your calendars. If you would like to be involved in the planning of this event, please join us; ideas and suggestions are welcome. Let's make this another meaningful, community event and keep the momentum going with our local peace movement. Help Wanted : We need people to help distribute fliers. Please contact Sue Chase (above) to volunteer. Saturday, March 15: Ides of March Dance Party with the Naked Puritans to benefit Second Street Gallery. 9 p.m. - 2 a.m. in the Grand Furniture Building, 420 East Main Street on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville. Call second street 977-7284. email ssg@cstone.net / Reserve early, space limited. Sunday, March 16: President Madison Birthday Celebration Montpelier, the lifelong home of James Madison - Father of the Constitution, chief sponsor of the Bill of Rights, and fourth President of the United States - will celebrate President Madison's 252nd birthday on Sunday, March 16. Admission to Montpelier on the President's birthday is free throughout the day. The Montpelier mansion will be open on March 16 from 9:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. At 1:00 p.m., Montpelier will host a special Madison birthday ceremony at the Madison family cemetery. The United States Marine Corps will present a wreath on behalf of the President of the United States; a number of other organizations also will be presenting wreaths honoring President Madison. As part of the ceremony, Professor Robert M. O'Neil, Founding Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, will present remarks about James Madison. Professor O'Neil served for five years as the President of the University of Virginia and continues as a member of the University's law faculty. Following the ceremony, a reception will be held on the back lawn of the mansion, with refreshments, "Conversations with Mr. Madison", and a musical presentation by the United States Marine Corps Band. Contact: Randy Huwa, 540-672-2728 ext. 110, huwa@montpelier.org Sunday, March 16: MEETING
TO DISCUSS PRESENTING RESOLUTION TO CITY COUNCIL RESISTING Sunday, March 16 at 5:30 p.m. For more information e-mail Surya, life@spiritandbody.com Web Resources: The Bill of Rights Defense Committee (coordinating the resistance effort) Read the Patriot Act Sunday, March 16: At 7 p.m. at 2nd and Main St. on the Downtown Mall, there will be a candlelight vigil. Details: Please join the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice for the global candlelight vigil, which begins in New Zealand and spirals around the world, arriving in Charlottesville at 7:00pm Sunday, March 16th. Bring candles and matches, a prayer for peace to read to all, or a song to sing. For more information, visit the Web site http://www.globalvigil.org. Monday, March 17: Saint Patrick's Day According to Hannah Kate Kinnersley of the Wall Street Journal (March 11, 2003), Erin's far-flung exiles can find the nearest parade in a special section of TheWildGeese.com homepage: for serious fans of Irelands' contribution to world culture. She says, "Don't miss the article on that well-known dermatologist, revolutionary and 1/16th-Irishman, Che Guevara." See also, Facts and Figures for Saint Patrick's Day. Monday, March 17: PRE-EMPTIVE MOURNING FOR THE CASUALTIES OF WAR Monday, March 17 through Friday March 21 Details: Demonstrations are good but do not seem to be stopping the juggernaut of this aggression. We must add personal sacrifice to our commitment to stopping this madness. We must see that this self-sacrifice is echoed in the national economy. Join in a week of "pre-emptive mourning," from March 17th through March 21st, by staying home to mourn the coming dead, and otherwise refuse to contribute to the flow of revenue to the aggression. The casualties of any war are fathers, sons, brothers, sisters. daughters, and mothers. They are all our kin. Let us go about our lives for this one week as we would if someone close to us had been killed - before they really are. By staying home from work and not collecting pay during the week of March 17th through March 21st, we do not send witholding tax to the government. Do not make major purchases or any non-essential purchases during the week of March 17th through March 21st. Minimize shopping for food. Do not eat in restaurants. Do not buy gasoline during that week. Make an extra effort to conserve fuel. Wear all black clothing. If you can not take all the steps in this action, please make the sacrifices you can make, and urge your peers to do the same. Spread the word! If the millions people who have attended peace rallies in the last few months are willing to take this step, the action will be felt in Washington, D.C.! Monday, March 17: The Voice of America has asked Helena Cobban to do a live call-in show Monday (March 17) from noon to 1 p.m., Washington DC time (5 p.m.- 6 p.m. GMT). They say they'll do a live simulcast on the web, too-- details from www.voanews.com/talk . The show is called Talk to America, and the topic is "The UN and the War." Helena Cobban says, "Don't you just love democracy? Evidently the folks at VOA know that I'm critical of the Bush administration's present policy, but still they solicit my views. I value this atmosphere of democracy-- which has seemed to be somewhat under threat here over recent months-- very, very deeply. That's why I'm glad to be on the show. If you get a chance to call in -- here are the details: Telephone: +1-202-619-3111 (they say you should call collect); Fax: +1-202-260-8572 ; E-Mail: talk@voanews.com . Monday, March 17: Does Race Matter? A Social Psychological Perspective A "Teach In" and Dialogue with a participatory demonstration with Prof. Brian Nosek, Prof. Stacey Sinclair and Prof. Tim Wilson, Department of Psychology. 7:00 p.m. in Wilson Auditorium (Rm. 402) at the University of Virginia. Tuesday, March 18: In 1922 on this day, Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced in India to six years' imprisonment for civil disobedience. (He was released after serving two years). In 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his Voskhod II capsule, secured by a tether. Tuesday, March 18: "The Crisis in the Roman Catholic Church" at 11:00 AM at the Miller Center Gustav Niebuhr was formerly a national columnist, writing articles for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Today he is a visiting fellow and scholar in residence at the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. He is the grandson of the late Yale theologian H. Richard Niebuhr. Tuesday, March 18: The Charlottesville Democratic City Committee will meet on Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at the Charlottesville General District Court, 606 East Market Street, beginning promptly at 7:00 PM and ending no later than 8:30 PM. At this meeting we will discuss, among other topics: Method of selection of Circuit Court Clerk (contested race) Tuesday, March 18: Come see Mo Rocca, correspondent for The Daily Show and Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at Old Cabell Hall, 8:00pm Details: CHARLOTTESVILLE---Nationally renowned political humorists Lewis Black, Will Durst, and Mo Rocca headline the National Symposium on Political Humor, sponsored by the Center for Politics and the University Programs Council at the University of Virginia. “Humor, whether it be editorial cartoons or late-night monologues, can often be a barometer of public opinion regarding political topics,” said Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “In these difficult times, we hope this symposium will offer people a light-hearted escape as well as a worthwhile examination of an important social institution.” The National Symposium on Political Humor is the fourth installment in the National Symposium Series. Previous topics have included character in politics, the presidential selection process, and wartime politics. More information about the National Symposium Series (including participant bios) can be found on the Center for Politics website, www.centerforpolitics.org. All events are free and open to the public, and will be held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. All events are co-sponsored by the University Programs Council at the University of Virginia. Media inquiries should be directed to Joshua Scott (jscott@virginia.edu, 434-243-3540). Wednesday, March 19 - Sunday, March 23: The ninth annual Virginia Festival of the Book, produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, is scheduled for Wednesday, March 19-Sunday, March 23. The Festival offers readings and panel discussions on many topics--fiction, poetry, science, science fiction, history, mystery, current affairs, business and career interests and programs for teachers, parents and children of many ages. Thanks to generous contributions of businesses and individuals, the Virginia Festival of the Book programs remains, as always, free and open to the public. (Only the two luncheons, business breakfast and a gala reception have charges, to cover the cost of the food!) The website is: www.vabook.org To contact the festival: vabook@virginia.edu or 924-6890, 924-7548. The advance program is available at bookstores while copies last (but the website has much more information). The entire program will included as a tabloid section of the Sunday, March 16 issue of the Daily Progress. In addition, there are "targeted flyers" which list programs
by interests. These flyers can be emailed to you and then downloaded and
printed. These topical flyers include: If you would like to have one or more of these flyers, please email vabook@virginia.edu. It is too late to recommend books for inclusion in this March's festival. If you are an author, or want to recommend a book, please email vabook@virginia.edu in April! Thursday, March 20: MEET THE AUTHORS! The Sorensen Institute and Virginia Festival of the Book Present: Ray D. Strother & Peter Roussel on March 20th at 10 a.m. at Starbucks on University Avenue. The authors will speak about their new books and their careers as political consultants. Falling Up: How a Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting, a memoir by Ray Strother, president of Strother, Duffy. Ruffled Flourishes, a novel by Peter Roussel, who served in the Reagan & Ford White Houses. Ray Strother trained James Carville and other well-known consultants early in their careers. He is one of the very first career political consultants in the U.S. Please email or call Amy at aspitler@virginia.edu or (434) 982-5234 to RSVP or for more information. Thursday, March 20: "Founding Fathers" at 10:00 AM at the Miller Center With Stephen Knott & William Lee Miller; Stephen Knott is assistant professor and research fellow at the Miller Center and oversees the Ronald Reagan Oral History Program. He is the author of Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth and Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency. William Lee Miller is scholar of ethics and institutions at the Miller Center and author of the award-winning Lincoln's Virtues, published in February 2002. He is also the author of Arguing About Slavery (1996), which won the D. B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on Congress. This forum is a part of the 2003 Virginia Festival of the Book. Thursday, March 20: This Thursday, March 20, at 3:00pm in Newcomb 168 the Southern History Seminar will host David Blight, Professor of History at Yale and author of "Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory," the 2002 winner of the Bancroft and Lincoln prizes. Mr. Blight will be giving a talk on memory and the Civil War, concentrating on the issue of the Lost Cause and its enduring place in American memory. All are invited. Friday, March 21: Vernal Equinox Friday, March 21: "A Faltering World War on Terrorism" at 11:00 AM, at the Miller Center John Hall is senior Washington correspondent for Media General News Service. He has been a reporter since 1959 and a Washington correspondent since 1965. His syndicated column has won widespread recognition, and he is compared with Walter Lippmann for his comprehensive approach to world problems. Friday, March 21: ART EXHIBIT: "THE ART OF WAR" Reception: Friday March 21, 5-9 p.m. Exhibition: Friday March 21 through Friday March 28, open 10 a.m.-9 p.m. daily except Sunday At the Main Street Market, located at 416 W. Main Street, just east of the Amtrak station. Ample FREE parking is adjacent to the building. Details: Student and community artists come together to share visual perspectives on the current conflict with Iraq in a variety of media. This freedom of expression project is a forum for the arts community of Charlottesville to voice their constitutional rights through creative and constructive means, and for the public to engage different viewpoints and take part in the discourse. The exhibit reviews power, violence, patriotism, faith, activism, freedom and more. For more information, contact Suzanne Platt: (434) 297-1615, splatt@virginia.edu. Friday, March 21: At 7pm, the V. Earl Dickinson Theater at PVCC hosts a VaBook! headline event, "Sitting in for Emmett Till." Local civil rights activists join Christopher Metress, editor of "The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative" for an evening's conversation about the historical significance and current relevance of the murder that many consider the spark that set off the civil rights movement. Friday, March 21: At 11:00pm NO SHAME THEATRE will have a special themed event hosted by Live Arts (609 East Market Street; website http://www.noshame.org/war/index.htm) No Shame Theatre is a venue for short original performance pieces each
Friday Night in the Live Arts Lab Space, however NO SHAME GOES TO WAR is
a special performance which will showcase only pieces dealing with the impending
Pieces must be original, less than 5 minutes and they can't break any laws. We take the first 15 to show up at the door at 10:30 and the show begins at 11:00pm. This peformance will also differ from the usual No Shames in that there have been pieces submitted to us from No Shame Theatre branches all over the country. This will give added opportunities for people to participate as actors and musicians even if they are not writers. In particular we're looking for a pianist and some singers. Admission is free, but donations are strongly encouraged to help the theatre offset costs. For more information please contact Todd Ristau at noshametheatre@aol.com or telephone Live Arts at 434-977-4177. Saturday, March 22 - Sunday, March 30: Friends of the Library Book Sale Main Sale with all categories. Gordon Ave. Library 9am-8pm all days. 977-8467 or www.avenue.org/friends for more information. Saturday, March 22: 'Patriotism' and the Right of Free Speech During Wartime: What does the past predict for the right of free speech during the war on terror? Sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Center for Protection of Free Expression, featuring: Henry J. Abraham, James Hart Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs Emeritus at UVa; Katherine McNamara, Editor and Publisher of Archipelago; Robert M. O'Neil, Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for Free Expression; and Barbara A. Perry, Carter Glass Professor of Government at Sweet Briar College. From 4 to 5 p.m. in City Council Chambers, 605 E. Main Street, Charlottesville, Virginia. For more information, call 434-295-4784. This program is part of the Virginia Festival of the Book. Sunday, March 23: Keswick-Farmington Hunt Club Point-to-Point at Montpelier, Orange, Virginia. Pony, flat track, and steeplechase races. Mule jumping competition. Gates open at 10:00 a.m., post time 12:00 noon. Fee. For information: 434-980-9926 Monday, March 24: "Dangerous Weapons, Dangerous Solutions: The Bush Administration's Search for National Security" at 11:00 AM at the Miller Center Michael Krepon is the founding president of the Henry L. Stimson Center, where he served as president and CEO from 1989 to 2000. He continues to direct the Stimson Center's programming on South Asia and nuclear arms control, focusing on nuclear risk reduction and the Kashmir dispute. He will discuss his recent book, Cooperative Threat Reduction, Missile Defense, and the Nuclear Future. Monday, March 24: The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies presents A Woodson Public Policy Forum: "The War on Iraq" with Professors William B. Quandt, Jim Childress, Robert Fatton, Helen Cobban, Michael Smith and others 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM The Woodson Institute has convened this roundtable in order to think and talk through the complex issues arising from the war on Iraq. This conversation is part of Woodson Public Policy Forum at the Carter G. Woodson Institute. The Forum brings together faculty members from across the University to contemplate and comment on critical public policy issues. Tuesday, March 25: Gloria Steinem was born on this day in 1934. Tuesday, March 25: The Charlottesville-Albemarle League of Women Voters holds its March General meeting on Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 12 noon in OMansky Hall at Congregation Beth Israel, 301 E. Jefferson Street. The topic will be Tomorrows Community Water: Who Pays? Guest speakers will be Larry Tropea, Executive Director of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority; Rich Collins, Director of UVAs Institute of Environmental Negotiation and UVA Professor of Architecture and Planning; Randy Parker, Chair, Albemarle County Service Authority; Judith Mueller, Director of Public Works, City of Charlottesville; and Cheryl Gomez, Director of Utilities Department, UVA Facilities Management. The public is encouraged to attend this timely discussion of the communitys future water supplies and the fiscal issues involved. A lunch is available for $8; please order by Friday, March 21st, by calling the League office at 970-1707 or e-mailing lwv@avenue.org. Wednesday, March 26: Speaker: VA Secretary of Natural Resources W. Tayloe Murphy Jr. 04:20 PM, Caplin Pavilion at the University of Virginia Law School. Secretary Murphy '60, an instrumental leader behind the General Assembly's passage of both the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act and the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Act, will speak on environmental politics in Virginia, and the influence of the current administration. Secretary Murphy is held in high respect for his efforts on behalf of the environment and, by his colleagues on the Committee on Corporations, Insurance and Banking, for his thoughtful and conscientious approach to the meetings of industry and the environment. Wednesday, March 26: EDITORIAL CARTOONIST, WRITER TED RALL COMING TO CH'VILLE: MAKING CASE AGAINST WAR WITH IRAQ Wednesday, March 26, 7 p.m.at the Albemarle County Office Building Auditorium Book Signing in the Auditorium lobby, 5-6:30 p.m. Details: Free Admission; suggested donation $5. A question and answer period will follow the presentation. Co-sponsored by C-ville Weekly and the CCPJ For more information call (434) 961-6278 or visit Ted Ralls Web site http://www.rall.com/. Thursday, March 27: David Halperin, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy 04:00 PM, WB126 at the University of Virginia Law School. Mr. Halperin will discuss the origins of the American Constitution Society and its mission to redirect contemporary legal discourse. A wine and cheese reception to celebrate Mr. Halperin's visit will follow in Student Lounge #1. Sponsored by the U.Va. Chapter of the American Constitution Society for Law & Policy. Friday, March 28: "The Korean Peninsula: Where Do We Go from Here?" at 11:00 AM at the Miller Center Don Oberdorfer is journalist-in-residence and adjunct professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. His career as a journalist spanned 38 years, including 25 with the Washington Post, the last 17 of those as the newspaper's diplomatic correspondent. As the Post's correspondent from Northeast Asia (1972-1975), he was responsible for Japan and Korea, and he has visited both North and South Korea several times since. Oberdorfer is the author of four books, including The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History, first published in 1997 and revised in December 2001. Friday, March 28: Come see Herblock Political Cartoons Exhibit with Harry Katz, Library of Congress at the University of Virginia Art Museum at 4:30pm [Part of the national Symposium Series on Political Humor, sponsored by the Center for Politics and the University Programs Council at the University of Virginia.  Harry Katz currently serves as Head Curator in the Prints and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress, where he has worked since 1991. He has experience with and knowledge of a broad range of visual materials – including fine art and documentary photographs, historical and fine prints and drawings, architectural renderings, posters, cartoons, caricatures, and illustrator’s drawings. A specialist in American graphic art, Katz is co-author several books, including Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States and Herblock’s History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium (2000). Katz has curated eighteen exhibitions at the Library of Congress and been involved with such major acquisitions as the Marian S. Carson Collection of Americana and the Herb Block Foundation Collection. Recently, he led the Library’s unparalleled initiative to collect works representing the documentary and artistic response to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001.  *Exhibit runs from March 15-May 4. Saturday, March 29 - Sunday, April 13: The Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCAs Spring 2003 Rummage Extravaganza is receiving tax-deductible donations starting Saturday, March 29, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily through Sunday, April 13, at the former Moores Lumber Building on Pantops. Accepting Cars & Trucks * Antiques * Collectibles * Art * Furniture * Clothing * Books Computers * Housewares * Linens *Office * TV/Audio * Garden Sporting Goods * Toys (No Magazines, Encyclopedias, Tires, Paints, Mattresses, Flammables, broken computers) Saturday, March 29: MACAA's 16th Annual Men Who Cook! at the Monticello Events & Conference Center, 201 Monticello Avenue, Charlottesville. $60 per person; food, a silent auction and dancing to Wanda and the White Boys. For information call Jeff Sobel at 295-3171. Saturday, March 29: University of Virginia Women's Health and Wellness Festival. Omni Hotel, Charlottesville. Events throughout the day. More information: (434) 923-9203. Saturday, March 29 - Sunday, March 30: BE A CITIZEN WEAPONS INSPECTOR OF THE Y-12 BOMB PLANT Schedule: * Saturday, March 29: Nonviolence training in Knoxville, TN (lunch * Sunday, March 30: March through Oak Ridge and action at the Y-12 plant Details: There is overwhelming evidence that The United States possesses weapons of mass destruction and that the Bush regime is intent on using them. In an attempt to curb this dangerous threat to global security, a citizen inspection team will descend upon a key part of the U.S. Military Industrial Complex, the Y-12 "National Security Complex" in Oak Ridge, TN, on March 30, 2003. The Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge, TN is the last remaining full-scale operating nuclear weapons production plant in the United States. Starting with the materials for the Little Boy Bomb that destroyed Hiroshima and continuing today, Y-12 has manufactured parts for every weapon in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Y-12 is responsible for the "canned subassembly--" which makes a bomb thermonuclear. Today Y-12 remanufactures nuclear weapons to extend their "shelf life" for another 100 years. Currently, Y-12 is upgrading W87 warheads for the MX missel. During the actions on Sunday some people may choose to risk arrest in specific acts of nonviolent civil disobedience - you may participate in all parts of the march and rally without fear of arrest. However, it is strongly urged that anyone considering risking arrest fully understands the consequences of their actions. The civil disobedience scenario will be discussed in full at Saturday's workshop. Thus, for those thinking about or wanting to participate in civil disobedience it is HIGHLY recommended that you attend the nonviolence training. For more information, driving directions, etc. check out visit http://www.stopthebombs.org, email orepa@stopthebombs.org or phone the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA) at (865) 483-8202. Sunday, March 30: The MEMORIAL PLANNING SOCIETY OF THE PIEDMONT presents a panel discussion "CREMATION-All you need to know" Sunday, March 30, 2003 - 2:00 to 4:00 PM at Charlottesville's Northside Library - Albemarle Square. Panelists: Rabbi Joseph Blair - Member of Congregation Beth Israel; Father Brian Mulcahy - Dominican Order, Pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Church; William K. Fields - Manager, Hill & Wood Funeral Home. For information call (434) 923-7679. The public is invited. The Memorial Planning Society of the Piedmont is a non-profit organization of volunteers that helps people plan in advance for simple, dignified and economical funeral arrangements. Affiliated with the Funeral Consumers Alliance <www.funerals.org> Monday, March 31 through Saturday, April
5: Free screenings of Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore's
Academy Award winning documentary film. Through Friday, April 4th at 8:00pm;
Saturday, April 5 at 10. At the UVa Cinematheque in Newcomb Hall.
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