SPARC
Student Political Awareness and Responsibility Coalition
Regional
Calendar of Left and Progressive Events in Northwestern
Vermont
(Last
revised 3.10.00)
This calendar is maintained by the
SPARC to help people find out what is happening in our area. It can
also serve as a way of groups avoiding conflicts when planning
events. Please submit announcements to sparc@zoo.uvm.edu
- Non-violence/Civil
Disobedience Training for the Boston Rally
on Saturday, March 11th at Cook Commons in the Billings Student
Center at UVM in Burlington from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM.
It will include training in non-violent civil disobediance and
legal issues.
- "Globalization after Seattle: The
View from Haiti" Camille Chalmers, veteran leader of
Haiti's pro-democracy movement, Chief of Staff to former President
Jean Bertrand Aristide, leader of PAPDA, a coalition of Haitian
union and peasant organizations. Wednesday, March 22, 7 p.m.
Farrell Room, St. Edmunds Hall, St Michael's College (In
French, with English translation)
- Biodevastation
Conference in Boston
on March 24-25.
- Biodevastation 2000
Rally in
Boston on March 26. For more
information contact: nerage@sover.net
- Youth Enviromental
Summit (YES 2000) organized by and
for high school students all day Monday, March 27th in Fairlee,
Vermont. Professional presenters will cover a range of
environmental-related subjects. For more info, contact Nancy
Notterman at recycle@sover.net or Arthur Hynes at
ahynes@together.net
- Non-violence/Civil
Disobedience Training for Washington, D.C., demonstration against
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) on Saturday, April 1st at
Cook Commons in the Billings Student Center at UVM in Burlington
from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. It will include training in
non-violent civil disobediance, legal issues, police scenarios,
etc. Please come, if you plan to go to D.C.
- FAST 2000 to close the
School of the Americas--a
nationwide protest beginning April 6th. See School
of the Americans Watch fast page
for more details.
- Anti-IMF and World Bank
Demonstration in Washington, D.C.
on Sunday, April 16th. See: www.a16.org
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