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Saturday, September 1 - Sunday, September 2: Continuation of Albemarle County Fair. Sunday, September 9: Carver Precinct democrats are having a GOTV, encourage new voter registration door-to-door campaign in Charlottesville, Virginia. Any Carver folk or other democrats who would like to help, meet at my house 1438 Westwood Road at 1 pm. Call me (Donna Goings) at 295-0441 to volunteer. We hope to have a covered dish picnic following our campaign. Please put this on your calendar. Thanks! Donna G Friday, September 7 - Sunday, September 16: FOCUS FLEA MARKET SALE DATES Presale: Friday, September 7, 4-8 pm* Regular Sale: Saturday September 8, 10 am-6 pm Friday September 14, 4-8 pm Please call FOCUS at 293-2222 for more information. Tuesday, September 11: The United States Attacked! Hijacked Jets Destroy World Trade Center and Hit Pentagon. Wednesday, September 12: From 1:30 -- 3:00, Mark Warner's wife Lisa Collis will be representing the campaign at the Senior Statesmen of VA candidates' forum at the Charlottesville Senior's Center at 1180 Pepsi Place. CANCELLED Wednesday, September 12: There will be a meeting of the Charlottesville Committee of the Democratic Party at 7 p.m. in the City General District Court at 606 East Market Street. For more information, please contact Lloyd Snook at cvllelaw@ntelos.net or Rus Perry at rperry@mcdonough.com Wednesday, September 12: WVTF Public Radio and UVA's Center for Governmental Studies will be hosting a political symposium on Wednesday, September 12 at 7:30 p.m. at UVA's Zehmer Hll in Charlottesville. Admission is free and will include NPR's White House correspondent Don Gonyear, UVA's Center for Governmental Studies Larry Sabato, Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership Bill Wood and Washington Post political correspondent Charles Babington. It will be moderated by Daily Progress political reporter and WVTF evening edition host Bob Gibson. POSTPONED Thursday, September 13: Beginning on September 13, 2001, a caravan of migrant workers, college students and activists will embark on a ten-city, cross-country bus tour to raise awareness about the National Taco Bell Boycott and the sweatshop conditions faced by migrant farmworkers in America’s fields.
 The tour will culminate with demonstrations in Los Angeles, California on September 23 and at Taco Bell corporate headquarters in Irvine, CA on September 24. The tour comes on the heels of five months of protests at Taco Bell restaurants across the country, with nearly 100 actions in states including Alabama, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Friday, September 14: National Day of Prayer and Remembrance
LIGHT A CANDLE: Friday night at 7:00 p.m., step out your door, stop your car, or step
out of your establishment and light a candle. We will show the world that
Saturday, September 15: The next Democratic breakfast will be held at 9:30 a.m. at Jefferson Board for the Aging. Long time Democrat and Charlottesville native Francis Fife has brought together a panel including himself, Jim Peterson [Region X], and Art Kiser and John Redick [Charlottesville and Albemarle Foundation] to discuss "The Drug Scene in Charlottesville and Albemarle."  The public is invited. For more information, please contact George Loper at george@loper.org or 971-8082. Monday, September 17: A "public puppet build" will be taking place at the UVA ampitheatre (at the south end of the lawn near old Cabell Hall). Everyone is invited to come work on gigantic puppets and props, and meet and speak to various fair trade activists from 1:00-6:00pm. Please bring materials if you've got 'em. People who wish to sign up for bus(es) to D.C. on Sept.30 can stop by or email Bokar at bbt3s@virginia.edu, suggested price is $10. Monday, September 17: The City Council will hold a hearing on a living wage ordinance (that would require any contract using public funds to include a provision that all workers under that contract would be paid a living wage) at 7:30 p.m. Please make plans to attend this important public hearing. In the meantime, please contact the City Councilors to voice your support for this living wage ordinance: Mayor Blake Caravati 295-7832 caravati@cstone.net Monday, September 17: NAACP Debate between Mark Warner and Mark Earley at George Mason University. CANCELLED Wednesday, September 19: From 4:00 - 6:00 PM, there will be a Rally at Alumni Hall at the University of Virginia for Mark Warner. Admission is free. Wednesday, September 19: From 6 to 8 p.m., there will be a fund raiser/rally for Mark Warner for Governor at Panorama Farm in Albemarle County. Cost is $50. For more information, please contact Susan Payne susan@payneross.com or 977-7607. Wednesday, September 19: From 8:00 -- 10:00 PM , there will be a Fundraiser for Mark Warner ($10,000 per couple) at Albemarle Hall. Wednesday, September 19: C.A.G.E. (Citizens Against Global Exploitation) will give a lecture/symposium on Corporate Globalization and its discontents, timed to correspond to the upcoming IMF/World Bank meetings. As of now, the time is 7:00pm in the back room of Cafe Royale (on the corner), but that location may change to accomodate more attendees. Speakers will include local environmental/ labor activists, as well as new Charlottesville citizens from around the world. CANCELLED Thursday, September 20 - Saturday, September 22: On this weekend, all area bookstores (bookstores which sell new, used and rare books) are supporting the Virginia Festival of the Book. The weekend is aptly called "Fall Foreword" as it is a preface to the spring festival on March 20-24, 2002. Friday, September 21: Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce debate between Mark Warner and Mark Earley. Friday, September 21: Shenandoah Shakespeare's Blackfriars Playhouse - the world's only re-creation of Shakespeare's indoor theatre - opens. Friday, September 21: At 9 PM on Charlottesville/Richmond PBS (Adelphia 7, WHTJ 41, WCVE 23) my television documentary "VirginiaFights: World War II" will air. It features a number of local Charlottesville/Albemarle people, including Jim & Bunny Murray (who met and were married while both were Navy officers during the War). This program provides a close look at how the War changed Virginians and Virginia.... Tuesday, September 25: The League of Women Voters Luncheon from 12 - 2 p.m. at the Water Street Terrace at the Charlottesville Ice Park will feature voter registrars from Charlottesville and Albemarle County who will be ready to discuss newly drawn lines for redistricting. Order lunch [$8 a person] and/or drink [$1 a person] by September 21 by e-mailing lwv@avenue.org or by calling 970-1717. Wednesday, September 26 - Sunday, September 30: The World Bank and International Monetary Fund hold their annual joint meeting in Washington, D.C.
Convergence Day for protests of the IMF/World Bank in D.C. [While actions/marchs will happen throughout the week, the main "call to action" days are September 29, and most importantly September 30 (Saturday and Sunday). There has been an explosion of interest in the upcoming D.C. demonstration. Current plans are for a Virginia Living Wage contingent to march in a "feeder march" (a march that starts in a seperate location and joins the Sunday mass march). Various feeder marches (environment, justice, drop the debt, afl-cio, anti-animal cruelty) are converging on the World Bank september 30th. Our friends in Richmond (Food not Bombs) have arranged 4 charters, Cville very likely have 2 charters, and Blackburg, Alexandria, and Williamsburg are all participating in the Living Wage march.
"Organizers of the Mobilization for Global Justice, one of the main activist coalitions planning to protest the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, have canceled their call for street demonstrations, according to an e-mail sent to protesters yesterday morning. ....... Other groups also have called off their plans, including the AFL-CIO labor federation, which stopped its nationwide organizing Friday to focus on the relief effort for victims of the terrorist attack and their families. The International Action Center has changed its plans to surround the White House on Sept. 29, and is now gearing up for an antiwar, anti-racism event instead" (Metro in Brief, The Washington Post, September 17, 2001). Friday, September 28: At the end of two weeks of the Taco Bell Truth Tour, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will participate in the Mobilization for Global Justice in Washington, DC. The Taco Bell Bell protest will take place at 2:00 p.m. on September 28. See calendar for details.
The organizers, including Virginia Germino's daughter Laura Germino, her husband Greg Asbed, and many of the migrant farmworkers and their supporters, would be delighted to welcome participants from Charlottesville. Friday, September 28: The Omni Four "living wage" protesters that chained themselves to the elevator have a trial coming up at 9:30am at the Charlottesville District Court (by the police station). They ask all supporters of the living wage campaign to attend in solidarity. Saturday, September 29: The International Action Center initially planned a march from the White House to the IMF and World Bank headquarters to demand an end to harmful economic policies. But the group switched targets and tactics and will now speak out against the U.S. war effort and recent violence against Arab Americans. "The National Park Service has asked demonstrators to move a Saturday rally from Lafayette Square to the Washington Monument grounds because of security concerns after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, officials said. Stan Lock, a Park Service liaison to the White House, said in a statement that officials would not issue permits for Lafayette Square, the White House sidewalk and the Ellipse for the next 30 days. The decision was made on the recommendation of the Secret Service. ...... Organizer Brian Becker said demonstrators will not use the monument grounds and instead will gather at Freedom Plaza, at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, before marching to the Capitol [for the International ANSWER march]. He added that protesters and their attorneys will take legal action to challenge the officials' decision" (Metro, The Washington Post, September 26, 2001). Members of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence will assemble at 9 a.m. at a park at C Street and Louisiana Avenue NW, near Union Station (The Washington Post, September 28, 2001). Saturday, September 29: Attend the 5th Annual Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival <www.avenue.org/voices/Festival.html>, from 11am-4pm at Lee Park in downtown Charlottesville. This free outdoor family festival will feature food, recipes, cookbooks, games, music, arts & crafts, and information from a wide variety of businesses and organizations on adopting a healthier and more environmentally-friendly lifestyle. Last year's Festival drew over 4,000 visitors and 70+ vendors to downtown Charlottesville, making it the third largest event of its kind in the nation. For more info., e-mail CvilleVegFest@aol.com or call 979-7000. Sunday, September 30: Participants will gather at 11 a.m. at Malcolm X Park at 16th and Euclid streets NW for a march through Dupont Circle and Adams Morgan. The event is organized by the Washington Peace Center and the D.C. office of the American Friends Service Committee (The Washington Post, September 28, 2001). Sunday, September 30: Meet Donald McEachin, Democratic candidate for Attorney General of Virginia from 4 to 6 pm at the home of Cornelia Johnson, 1100 Hilltop Road, Charlottesville, Virginia. Heavy hors d'oeuvres and beverages will be served. $25 per person requested. For more information, please call Cornelia at (h) 434-293-2510 or (w)
434-970-3777.
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