|
|
|
|||||
|
Tuesday, March 1: Pig Day Wednesday, March 2: Texas Independence Day Wednesday, March 2: Race and Law Seminar: A Public Response to Hate Speech Wednesday, 4:20 pm, Caplin Pavilion University of Virginia School of Law In response to significant student discourse on hate crimes at the University, Professor Kim Forde-Mazrui, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Law and Thurgood Marshall Research Professor, will teach his Race and Law Seminar to a University audience. Individuals from all schools of the University are encouraged to attend. Professor Forde-Mazrui will discuss three U.S. Supreme Court decisions and one law review article (download below). Sponsored by the Black Law Students Association and the Center for the Study of Race and Law. R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377 (1992). Attendees are encouraged to read the course materials before class. To download the cases and article, visit the website for the Center for the Study of Race and Law: http://www.law.virginia.edu/home2002/html/academics/race/events.htm Wednesday, March 2: CHARLOTTESVILLE The University Democrats (UDems) will host the forum, The Vocabulary of Values, which will address recent communication strategies of the Democratic and Republican parties and their effects, on Wednesday, March 2, 2005. The panelists participating include Paul Freedman, a professor in the Politics department at the University of Virginia (UVA) and ABC political analyst; Michele Claibourn, a professor in the Politics department at UVA; and Ellen Contini-Morava, the chair of the universitys Anthropology department. The event will begin at 6:00 p.m. at UVA in Clark, room 108, and is open to the public. With so much attention given to the Republicans ability to frame the debate in last years election, it will be interesting to hear these scholars analysis of why that happened and where it leaves us now, President David Wasserman noted. Democrats must take a proactive role in both considering and addressing these issues of political communication. The University Democrats at the University of Virginia is the universitys premier organization dedicated to the promotion of the principles, issues, and candidates of the Democratic Party. Wednesday, March 2: Democracy for America Meetup. 7 PM. New Albemarle County Office Building on 5th Street Extended. Agenda: 1. Framing the Social Security Debate 2. Local elections 2005. Open to the public. Thursday, March 3: 'Kids and Teachers: What Makes for Success in School' Dr. Robert Pianta What are the ingredients of a quality classroom? What aspects of teaching lead to increased student performance? Tensions regarding what to do about low-performing schools, how to improve the quality of teaching, and how to raise test scores through balanced and meaningful instructional experiences are critical parts of educators' work. These issues and questions will be the focus of this talk, which will draw upon the largest set of actual observations in pre-kindergarten to 5th grade classrooms across the United States. March 3, 2005 Thursday, March 3: Study Session by the Charlottesville School Board in the Charlottesville High School media center at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 3: ASAP Annual meeting, 7:30 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church Library, 190 Rugby Road. The Annual Meeting of Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population will begin with a brief annual report by President Jack Marshall, election of officers and Board Members, and introduction of the new ASAP Advisory Council. The high point of the meeting, though, will be a discussion about what growth-related events/activities/problems can we expect in the coming year in the Charlottesville-Albemarle area. This will be led by two highly experienced and respected local planners: Marcia Joseph, the At Large Member (and Vice President) of the Albemarle County Planning Commission, and Landscape Architect/Planner with her firm Joseph Associates; and Mary Joy Scala, a Neighborhood Planner for the City of Charlottesville, and Board member of Preservation Piedmont. All members of the community are welcome. For more information contact Jack Marshall at (434) 974-6390 or Andy Wright at (434) 244-0793. Saturday, March 5: The Charlottesville Democratic Committee Invites you to the Fifth Annual Political Pasta Supper Featuring: Saturday, March 5: Tikkun is a Hebrew word meaning to heal, repair and transform the world. The Charlottesville Tikkun Community invites you to an evening of intercultural fun, food, music and dancing on Saturday March 5th at 7 pm at the Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Universalist Church. Yael Samuel, the U.S. director of the 10,000 kites project will speak about an upcoming international action for peace in the Middle East - "Ten Thousand Kites". Find out about an upcoming local kite flying event to take place in April! Come and meet others who care about peace in the Middle East, hear how you can be involved. The Klezmer Band "The Vulgar Bulgars" and an Arab Music Group will be performing. Light refreshments and beverages will be provided. Requested Donation - $5.00 For more info call Sarah at 456-6028 or Lee at 293-9820 Saturday, March 12: Rivanna Trails work party. Meet at 8:55 am at the Melbourne Road trailhead, just downhill from the CHS playing fields. Further information: Garnett Mellen, 295-0309 or garnett@argon.org. Saturday, March 12: JMRL Friends of the Library Book Sale begins, with Children's Books and Music Materials featured this weekend. See March 27 for main sale. Gordon Ave Library ONLY. (434) 977-8467. Saturday, March 12: BOYCOTT TACO BELL EVENT - SOLIDARITY RALLY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm at Taco Bell on Emmet St., Charlottesville. Support Farmworkers! The Charlottesville Catholic Worker is planning a SOLIDARITY RALLY to support the boycott. On March 12 in Louisville, KY, the Immokalee Farm Workers will be holding a nation-wide protest at the headquarters of Taco Bell's owner: Yum Brands. For more information about the Taco Bell boycott and the Immokalee Farm Workers contact: Shelly Stern 295-1388 Sunday, March 13: Al Weed will speak at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Greenwood on Sunday, March 13 from 9:45-10:45 on "Religion and the Political Process." Monday, March 14: Nancy E. Soderberg speaks at the Miller Center at 5:30 p.m. Her topic is: The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might. Tuesday, March 15: Michael Greco speaks at the Miller Center at 11 a.m. His topic is: The Scripps Library at the Miller Center/The Digital Library of the Modern American Presidency. Wednesday, March 16: Tim Kaine begins an 8-day tour of Virginia to kick off his campaign as governor. Looks like you will need a ticket for events in Herndon, Norfolk and Richmond. Wednesday, March 16: The University Democrats (UDems) will host Delegate Mitch Van Yahres on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 at the University of Virginia. Delegate Van Yahres visit comes after his announcement on March 5, 2005 that he will retire at the conclusion of his current term in the Virginia General Assembly. He will speak to the group about his experience as a veteran politician, and UDems members will have the opportunity to converse with him about his legislative record. The event will begin at 6:00 p.m. at UVA in Clark, room 108, and is open to the public. Wednesday, March 16: Albemarle Democratic Committee Meeting. Leslie Byrne, Chap Petersen and Viola Baskerville will be speaking at the Albemarle County Office Building, 401 McIntire Road. Registration begins at 6 p.m., the meeting starts at 6:45 p.m., and their speaking tour will begin about 7:15 p.m. Room 235 (Totier Room) has been reserved for the press from 6 p.m. on. Wednesday, March 16 - Sunday, March 20, 2005: Virginia Festival of the Book Thursday, March 17: David Broder offers his Report from Washington - at the Miller Center at 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 18: 10:00 am -- Live on C-Span, "America Unbalanced: an historical, ecological, and international perspective." Moderated by Katherine McNamara, the panelists are: Geoffrey Stone (Harry Kalven Jr Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, and author of "Perilous Times, Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism"); --H.H. (Hank) Shugart (WW Corcoran Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, and author of "How the Earthquake Bird Got Its Name and Other Tales of Unbalanced Nature"); --Tom Miller (journalist and author of "Trading with the Enemy, A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba"). For those attending, the event will be at the City Hall Chambers (directions
available at the Book Festival Web site: http://www.vabook.org),
10:00-11:30 am, with a book signing to follow. Saturday, March 19: Author and Historian Donovan Webster will address the Albemarle/Charlottesville Democratic breakfast at JABA on Hillsdale Drive at 9:30 a.m. The breakfast is open to the public. Webster is recently returned from Iraq, where he found that the abuses of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay did not end with the public disclosures and disclaimers. Donovan Webster is a former senior editor for Outside magazine, and has written for such publications as Smithsonian, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic and Wired. He is also the author of several books of military history. Saturday, March 19: Katherine McNamara will be moderating a panel at 10 a.m. in Charlottesville City Council chambers on "America Unbalanced: Historical, Ecological, and International Perspectives." It will feature Geoffrey Stone, the Harry Kalven Jr Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago, and author of "Perilous Times, Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism"; H.H. (Hank) Shugart, the W.W. Corcoran Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, and author of "How the Earthquake Bird Got Its Name and Other Tales of Unbalanced Nature"; Tom Miller, journalist and author of "Trading with the Enemy, A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba." Saturday, March 19: Global Day of Protest on the 2nd Anniversary of the War at 12:00 Noon: Demonstration on the corner of Emmet St. (Rt. 29 business) and University Ave. (Rt. 250) 1:00 PM : MARCH to the Rotunda, University Ave side. Rally at the steps in front of the Rotunda Signs will be available. If you bring your own sign, please use one of these slogans - END THE WAR * BRING THE TROOPS HOME * REBUILD OUR COMMUNITIES Local Sponsor - The Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice www.charlottesvillepeace.org tel. - (434) 961-6278 National Sponsor - www.unitedforpeace.org Saturday, March 19: Amigos for Colombia will sponsor a special colloquium on issues in contemporary Colombia, Looking Forward: Understanding the Conflict in Columbia. The event will be hosted at the Miller Center and will run from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Headlining the event will be Mark Schneider, who will discuss paramilitary demobilization and the United States policy in Columbia. Questions about the conference may be directed to Julie Viviana Roa at jvr5d@virginia.edu. Saturday, March 19: Stuart Eizenstat, former White House Domestic Policy Adviser and Ambassador to the European Union, will speak at the 2005 Virginia Festival of the Book about his negotiation of final restitution payments for Jewish and non-Jewish victims of World War II. Eizenstat is the author of "Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II." His talk, sponsored by Fairness.com LLC of Charlottesville, will take place at 2 PM on Saturday, March 19th at the Central Branch of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (201 E. Market St. in the McIntire Room). It is free and open to the public. Saturday, March 19: The Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice and The Charlottesville Friends Meeting are sponsoring a summit about increased military recruitment, the selective service, and conscientious objection from 2:00 to 4:30 pm at Murray High School at 1200 Forest Street. The summit will include a keynote address by Bob Hoffman of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice as well as workshops on how to exercise your legal rights now under the Selective Service System and conscientious objection. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Further information CCPJ (434) 961-6278 or Friends (434) 971-8859. Sunday, March 20: WHITHER THE NATION? A Panel Discussion featuring Gene Nichol, Sheldon Hackney, and Paul Gaston at 1:30 p.m. in the McIntire Room, Central Library: 201 E. Market Street. Gene Nichol, a native of Texas, is Burton Craige Professor and Dean of the Law School of the University of North Carolina. He is the co-author of Federal Courts and of numerous articles on constitutional and civil rights. He has been a candidate for the United States Senate, is a political columnist and advisor, a contributor to The Nation and other magazines, and was a philosophy major and football player as an undergraduate. An Alabama native, Sheldon Hackney is the author of From Populism to Progressivism in Alabama and The Politics of Presidential Appointment: A Memoir of the Culture War. A former president of Tulane University and the University of Pennsylvania, he was Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities during the Clinton Administration. He is now the Boies Professor and Chairman of the University of Pennsylvania History Department. He and his son were the Arkansas state tennis doubles father-son champions. Paul Gaston, also an Alabama native, is the author of The New South Creed: a Study in Southern Mythmaking, two books on the Fairhope single tax colony in which he grew up, and numerous articles on southern and civil rights history. A former president of the Southern Regional Council, he is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia. His undistinguished basketball career ended after his freshman year in college. All three speakers were contributors to Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent, with a foreword by Jimmy Carter. Bloomsbury Magazine declared it to be the best work of non fiction to come out of the South in 2004. Copies will be available for purchase. Tuesday, March 22 - Friday, March 25: 9:00 to 10:00 am each day. Legal Aid Java for Justice is a series of free, casual, get-to-know-us-better gatherings. Bring a friend and learn about our work with children, families, seniors, immigrants and others while you enjoy fruit, bagels and coffee in our library. Please come to any that interest you. Here is the schedule:
We want to tell you about our work. If you can join us, a reply is not required but would be appreciated so that we can be sure to have enough refreshments. RSVP to Elizabeth Arledge: elizabeth@justice4all.org • 977-0553, ext. 101. Wednesday, March 23: Margaret Pugh O'Mara speaks at the Miller Center at 5:30 p.m. Her topic is: Cities of Knowledge/Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley. Wednesday, March 23: Tim Kaine is scheduled to stop in Charlottesville, Staunton, Harrisonburg and Winchester. [Reports are that he will be speaking at The Nook in Charlottesville at 9 a.m.] Friday, March 25: Josiah Bunting III speaks at the Miller Center at 11 a.m. His topic is: Ulysses S. Grant.. Saturday, March 26: JMRL Friends of the Library Book Sale. Gordon Ave Library ONLY. (434) 977-8467. Saturday, March 26: 11:00 am City Easter Egg Hunt at the CHS Athletic Fields. Arrive early and bring a bsket or a bag. Rain or shine. Saturday, March 26: In honor of March being Women's History Month Virginia Young Democrats Women's Caucus presents We Vote, Dammit: Democratic Women in Action Reception Fundraiser Come celebrate the past achievements of Democratic women! Find out how to become involved as a young woman in Virginia politics! Meet other Young Democrat women in your area and the state! When: Saturday, March 26th, 2004 4:30pm to 6:30pm Followed by a performance by Gaye Adegbalola. Adegbalola was a civil rights activist in her youth in Virginia during the sixties, she is now a successful blues singer who is the founder of Saffire: The Uppity Blues Women. Performance begins at 7pm at the Gravity Lounge. Monday, March 28: Jim Angle speaks at the Miller Center at 11 a.m. His topic is: Covering the White House for Fox News. Tuesday, March 29: In Washington DC, as part of the ongoing (March 26 - May 31) DC Celebrates Whitman festival-- poetry reading featuring Mark DeFoe, Grace Cavalieri, Sarah Browning and Hilary Tham on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 at 7:30 pm. These four acclaimed authors will read from Whitman and their own work. Admission is free. The reading takes place at Grace Church, 1041 Wisconsin Avenue, in the Georgetown neighborhood. Information at www.washingtonart.com/whitman/walt.html Wednesday, March 30: Jack F. Matlock, Jr. speaks at the Miller Center at 5:30 p.m. His topic is: Reagan and Gorbachev/How the Cold War Ended. Wednesday, March 30: Al Weed will speak to the UVA Young Dems at 6 PM in Clark Hall onWednesday, March 30. He will be discussing the increasingly important role of his new "campaign" Public Policy Virginia and "think tanks" in general in American politics. Thursday, March 31: The University Democrats (UDems) will host their annual Bachelor Auction on Thursday, March 31, 2005 to benefit the Shelter for Help in Emergency. University members will bid to take student leaders on a date to enjoy one of the gift certificates donated by local restaurants and other businesses to support the shelter. The auction will be emceed by the University's improvisation group, The Whethermen, and will feature Noah Sullivan, the past Student Council president, Jequeatta Upton, the newly elected Student Council president, and members of the Hullabahoos, one of the Universitys most popular a capella groups. The event will be held at O'Neills restaurant on the Corner and will begin at 7:00 p.m. President David Wasserman commented, "The Shelter for Help in Emergency provides such important services for victims of domestic abuse and their families. Its great to get to raise some substantial funds for this fantastic organization." The University Democrats at the University of Virginia is the university's
premier organization dedicated to the promotion of the principles, issues,
and candidates of the Democratic Party.
|
