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Monday, November 1: Free Films for a Free Press 7 P.M. at Vinegar Hill Theater. BUSH'S BRAIN is a searing examination of George W. Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, who many believe to be the driving force behind the current administration's policies and practices. Directed by Joseph Mealey & Michael Shoob. All screenings and panels in this series are free of charge, though seating is limited. We hope you see these films and remember to vote. OFFScreen began in the fall of 1998 as an independent student-run organization to train students in film programming, projection, print traffic, publicity, and office administration by exhibiting films throughout the school year that would not otherwise be seen in Charlottesville or at the University of Virginia. For more information about OFFScreen or the films, please visit our website at http://www.student.virginia.edu/~indie/ or e-mail offscreen@virginia.edu Tuesday, November 2: ELECTION DAY Tuesday, November 2: Democratic Victory Party at Gravity Lounge in Charlottesville Staff and supporters of Al Weed will join the candidate for an election night party in Charlottesville, at the Gravity Lounge on the Downtown Mall. Complimentary food and drinks will be served as everyone watches the election night returns. Al Weed will give his acceptance speech. When: Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 5:00 pm until past 11:00 pm Where: Gravity Lounge Contact: Lloyd Snook, Charlottesville City Democratic Chair Russ Linden, Campaign Coordinator for Charlottesville Democratic Committee Bill Baldwin, Manager of Gravity Lounge Attendance: Expected attendance of 100 to 150. Wednesday, November 3: 6:00 to 8:00 pm, The Next Layer. Campell Hall at the University of Virginia, The fourth in a series of workshops, Localizing Privilege: A Community Exercise. See Oct. 13 for details. Thursday, November 4: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Miller Center/Curry School of Education Conference, The Education Summit of 1989: A Re-evaluation. Panelists include Fmr Sec'ys of Education Lamar Alexander and Richard Riley, and Gov. Mark Warner. Free and open to the public. Information at http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu. Friday, November 5: 11:00 am, Miller Center Forum, Rethinking U.S.-Taiwan Relations. Speaker Dr. David Lee is the chief representative of Taiwan in the U.S. Free and open to the public. Information at http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu. Tuesday, November 9: Support Needed for New Planned Parenthood Clinic Planned Parenthood opponents are attempting to force the new Planned Parenthood medical and education center in Charlottesville to close. They have filed a legal appeal to revoke Planned Parenthood’s Certificate of Occupancy. They intend to organize hundreds of anti-choice advocates to attend a hearing of the Zoning Appeals Board at 1:00pm on Tuesday, November 9. ACTION ALERT: We need you and every pro-choice supporter you know to attend the hearing on November 9 at 1:00 pm at the Albemarle County office building at 401 McIntire Road. We cannot let our opponents bully the Zoning Appeals Board by filling the room with their activists. Let us know you will be there. Email Holly Hatcher, Director of Statewide Organizing, at holly.hatcher@ppfa.org. or call 434.296.1000 ext. 206.
Wednesday, November 10: 5:00 - 7:00 pm Opening reception for "Works in Clay" at the PVCC Gallery in the V. Earl Dickinson Building. Ted Thill and Cri-Kars-Marshall, potters; the show runs from November 3 through December 1. Thursday, November 11: 11:00 am, Miller Center Forum, Lincoln as War President. William Lee Miller is the Miller Center Scholar for Ethics and Institutions. A chapter from his book-in-progress, "President Lincoln: An Ethical Biography" is on the website. Free and open to the public. Information at http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu. Friday, November 12: 6:00 pm Virginia Organizing Project's Social Justice Bowl I - help VOP tackle injustice! Come enjoy a community soup and bread supper and take home your soup bowl, handcrafted by a local potter. Westminster Presbyterian Church on Rugby Road. Tickets are $25 and are available at The Nook, Quest Bookshop, and the VOP office at 703 Concord Avenue. Or reserve your ticket by calling 984-4655. Friday, November 12: 7:00 pm 'til Midnight. FOCUS Women's Resource Center Presents "HOCUS POCUS Goes Traveling" An Evening of International Pleasures & Treasures Awaits You… Alumni Hall; Dancing to the music of Houserockers; Worldly Flavors Catered by HotCakes; - cocktail Attire Wine & Beer Provided - Cash Bar Available. RSVP - $100 per person if received before October 27th, $125 after October 27th. Call 293-2222 ext. 30 to register or for further information. Sunday, November 14: The
Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice is sponsoring Charlie King
& Karen Brandow in Concert on November 14th at Westminster Charlie King and Karen Brandow are musical storytellers and political satirists. Their repertoire covers a century and a half and four continents.They sing and write passionately about the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. Charlie King has been at the heart of American folk music for over 40 years. His songs have been recorded and sung by other performers such as Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Ronnie Gilbert, John McCutcheon, Arlo Guthrie, Peggy Seeger and Chad Mitchell. Monday, November 15: The Charlottesville City Council to Vote on Gay Resolutions on November 15, 2004, 7pm, City Council Chambers, City Hall, Downtown Mall. Many of you have wondered - if Charlottesville can pass a resolution condemning the US' war on Iraq, why won't it condemn the state of Virginia for passing the most anti-gay law in the country, Virginia's Affirmation of Marriage Act (HB751)? Well, you may get your wish. The Charlottesville City Council will take up a vote during their meeting on November 15th 2004 on two resolutions: one resolution condemning HB 751, and then another resolution supporting Civil Unions. If this passes, Charlottesville’s City Council would be the first to pass a resolution against HB 751 in the state. Tuesday, November 16: PTO meeting at Buford at 7 pm on Tuesday, 11/16 in the cafeteria with special guests Community Liaison Linda Bowen, and Board members Peggy Van Yahres and Didi Smith -- all are invited to attend! Tuesday, November 16: The Poverty Diet Experience seeks to educate communities about the struggles of being poor. Participants, planning meals for around $2.55 per day to reflect an experience of living on Food Stamps, will be discovering that being poor is much harder than it seems. The Poverty Diet Experience, sponsored by the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, is an opportunity to live the life of poverty for three days. Participants are invited to download supporting materials and curriculum on the Center’s Web site, www.virginiainterfaithcenter.org. Additionally, hundreds of people are expected to gather at regional Poverty Dinners to discuss the experience over a simple bean and rice supper. “We want to gather people around an experience. Being poor is a full time job, but many of us don’t believe it because we have not felt it. If people experience life on $2.55 a day they will be changed,” says the Rev. C. Douglas Smith, Executive Director of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy. “Having experienced the simulation, I am saddened by how little someone on food stamps can eat.” Charlottesville Area 1465 Incarnation Dr., Charlottesville, VA 22901 In Virginia, the average person spends about $160 on food each month - $5.33 per day. The average food stamp benefit is $77.47 per month - $2.55 per day. The goal of the poverty diet is to only spend this amount on food and beverages for three days. Participants are also encouraged to only shop where food stamps are accepted and to adhere to other food stamp rules. Media Contact – Rev. C. Douglas Smith – 804-370-6689 About the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy Established in 1982, VICPP is the only statewide, interfaith partnership focused on faith-based citizenship and advocacy in Virginia, and only the second doing such unique work in the USA. The partnership includes Christian groups, faith based organizations including Jewish federations and Islamic Centers, the Virginia Council of Churches, Church World Service/CROP, a growing number of congregations and about 1100 individuals. More information on the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy can be found at its Web site www.virginiainterfaithcenter.org. Wednesday, November 17: Poet THOMAS LYNCH will read at 12:30 pm as part of the Medical Center Hour at the Jordan Conference Center. Thomas Lynch is the author of three collections of poetry: Skating with Heather Grace, Grimalkin & Other Poems, and Still Life in Milford. His collection of essays, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade, won The Heartland Prize for non-fiction, The American Book Award, and was a Finalist for the National Book Award. It has been translated into seven languages. A second collection of essays, Bodies in Motion and at Rest, won The Great Lakes Book Award. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Paris Review, Harper's, Esquire, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Irish Times, and The Times of London. His commentaries have been recorded and broadcasted by BBC Radio, RTE in Ireland and NPR. He is the recipient of grants and awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Michigan Council for the Arts, The Michigan Library Association, The Writers Voice Project, The National Book Foundation, The Arvon Foundation in Great Britain and The Irish Arts Council. He has read and lectured at universities and literary centers throughout Europe, The United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and across the United States. He is a regular presenter to professional conferences of funeral directors, hospice and medical ethics professionals, clergy, educators and businss leaders. He is an Adjunct Professor in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has appeared on C-SPAN, MSNBC, The Today Show, and the PBS-Bill Moyers Series, On Our Own Terms. He lives in Milford, Michigan where, for the past twenty-five years, he has been the funeral director, and in West Clare, where he keeps an ancestral cottage. For more information, write mdf4e@virginia.edu Wednesday, November 17: 5:30 pm, Miller Center Forum, The Deceptive Allure of Intelligence Reform. Fred Hitz, former inspector general of the CIA and fcounsel to the DCI, is now teaching at UVa. Free and open to the public. Information at http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu. Friday, November 19: Immigration: What’s Best for America? Charlottesville, VA -- The Charlottesville-Albemarle League of Women Voters hosts a Town Hall Meeting at 12:00 noon on Friday, November 19th, at the Doubletree Hotel (990 Hilton Head Road, next to Sam’s Club). Co-sponsored by the Charlottesville Committee on Foreign Relations, the town hall meeting will address the topic of Immigration: What’s Best for America. Lunch is available for $15. Guest speakers will be UVa Distinguished International Law Professor David Martin, who has served as General Counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and is currently assisting the Department of State with a study of the U.S. overseas refuge admissions program, and Dr. Steven Camarota, Director of Research at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C. Among other questions, the speakers will address the issue of the effect immigrants on the United States educational system and the Social Security system. The public is encouraged to attend and to bring their questions for the guest speakers. If you would like to join us for lunch as well as the discussion (which begins at 12:30) please make your reservation by Monday, November 15th by calling 434-970-1707 or emailing lwv@avenue.org, or send your $15 check to the League of Women Voters, 1936 Arlington Blvd, #116, Charlottesville, VA 22903. Saturday, November 20: Charlottesville Albemarle Democratic Breakfast 9:30 am at JABA, 674 Hillsdale Drive (behind Fashion Square Mall). The topic will be Issues in Education in our area. We'll have Dede Smith and Diantha McKeel, chairs respectively of the School Boards of Charlottesville and Albemarle. A light breakfast is offered and the public is warmly invited. Saturday, November 20: The Charlottesville Chapter of the ACLU and the Virginia ACLU are sponsoring a showing of the documentary "Unconstitutional: The War on Civil Liberties" at the UVA law school on Saturday, November 20. Robert O'Neil will be leading a post-film discussion. The event time is 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and the film runs for one hour. It's all free and open to the public. Saturday, November 20: 6:00 to 8:00 pm, Cultural Sharing. Campell Hall at the University of Virginia, The final session in a series of workshops, Localizing Privilege: A Community Exercise. See Oct. 13 for details. Tuesday, November 23: The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities presents: Andrew B. Lewis "(Not) Talkin' 'bout My Generation: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement" 4 p.m. The youth leaders of the civil rights movement, in their early twenties at the time of the first sit-ins in 1960, are now in their mid-sixties. They lived the history of that period and dominated its retelling in the forty years since. But the era dominated by the participant memoir is drawing to a close. How will the next generation of scholars tell about the Movement? How will they make it resonate with young people? Professor Lewis' book-in-progress, Standing in a Strong Sun: Consumer Society, Youth Culture, and the Civil Rights Movement, offers a tentative exploration of this problem. During his seminar, Dr. Lewis will discuss the early history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and present some possibilities for rethinking the narrative of the post-World War II civil rights struggle. VFH Fellows seminars are held in the downstairs conference room at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 145 Ednam Drive, Charlottesville, Virginia. All presentations begin at 4 p.m. and are followed by refreshments and an informal time for discussion and questions. Directions to the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities: From the North, South, and East: take I-64 or Route 29 to 250 West. Take 250 West to the Boar's Head Inn. Turn left at the Boar's Head Inn sign. Make your first left, before the Inn. Come to the top of the small hill. The VFH is on the left. From the West: Take I-64 East to 29 North. Take 250 West. Follow directions above. Next Month Wednesday, December 1: The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression invites you to see Albemarle County as you have never seen it before. ALBEMARLE: A Story of Landscape and American Identity: A slide and oral presentation of the beautiful new book by its authors Avery Chenoweth and Robert Llewellyn. Wednesday, December 1, 7:30 p.m., Lane Auditorium, Albemarle County Office Building. Free but reservations required. Thursday, December 2: Monthly ASAP meeting, 7:30 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church Library, 190 Rugby Road. Topic: Capping local population growth: We already HAVE a legal limit! But is it what we want? The meeting will focus on Albemarle County’s and Charlottesville’s existing (though implicit) caps on growth: zoning regulations that limit growth at build-out. Please see the November issue of the ASAP Update newsletter for more information about the meeting. All members of the community are welcome. Friday, December 3: At 11 a.m. at the Miller Center, Howard Hart, former officer in the CIA's Directorate of Operations will present a frank and critical exploration of the CIA's ability to collect human intelligence and succesfully mount espionage operations. Tuesday, December 7: The every-two-years reorganization meeting of the Charlottesville Democratic Party will take place on Tuesday, December 7, at 7:00 PM in the Buford Middle School cafeteria. This is the meeting at which Charlottesville Democrats elect our precinct
and City Committees, Please come to this meeting -- with all of the work that we need to do before November, 2005, it is essential that we choose City Committee members who will do what needs to be done. Wednesday, December 8: At 10 a.m. at the Miller Center, Kathleen A. Cox, president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will discuss Public Service Media in the 21st Century. Tuesday, December 14: At
11 a.m. at the Miller Center, Barbara A. Perry of the Center for Civic Renewal
and the Virginia Law-Related Education Center at Sweet Briar College will
will discuss her latest book, Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the
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