CPJ Events & News!

Happy Halloween!

Check out what the Community is doing this week.

MONDAY
Welcome Table at the United Methodist Church form 5 to 7:30 PM.

A few of us will hopefully visit the Funk Wizard Production "Musical Monster Mayhem" in Sioux Falls and table for the Prairie Fire. For more info on the show email: fnkwzrd@yahoo.com. Tickets are on sale now for Monday and Tuesday at the Washington Pavillion. If you want to make the trip to table email: revontule@gmail.com.

The Honor Association's "Monday Night Thing" is a tour of the underground tunnel systems at USD. Meet at 7:45 PM in Old Main 120 (the Honors Lounge) tonite and check it out.

TUESDAY
November 31, the Community will be tabling at the booth in the Coyote Student Center from 10 AM to 2 PM. We will be promoting and selling the brand new issue of the Prairie Fire! Come visit, and we'll need help with tabling, so if you can volunteer please let us know. Also, just stop by and chill with us. Other ways to get your hands on it: If you live in Vermillion, we'll deliver a copy for donation. Email us at cpj@usd.edu with your addy. Or send a donation to PO Box 601, Vermillion, SD 57069, and we'll send you a copy.

The Students for Sensible Drug Policy will be meeting in the U.Brew, Coyote Student Center, USD, at 3 PM. Come and help us as we educate the public on the disastrous effects of harsh drug policies in the United States. For more info email: ssdpusd@hotmail.com and check out the blog at http://www.ssdp.blogspot.com.

WEDNESDAY
This week's Essential Cinema will be "Dark Days," a documentary depicting New York City's homeless underground-literally. Thousands of people have been found under the city, living in tunnels and old subway stations. Check it out: 6 PM Wednesday in the U. Brew, Coyote Student Center.

THURSDAY
At 7 PM the Community for Peace and Justice will be meeting in Hoy B, Coyote Student Center, USD. Come and check out all the awesome projects we're working on-a coffeehouse, a bus running on dumpster grease, self-published magazines, and kicking military recruiters out of schools! This week's meeting might go a little longer than usual, as we tackle some tough issues regarding the CPJ's present and future. For more info email: cpj@usd.edu.

A LOOK AHEAD
November 18-21: School of the Americas trip. We're trying to get the Veggie Bus done by then! If you can help with mechanical knowledge, finding parts, or with financial contributions, the time has never been more urgent!

We're continuing to look for a space to host the Underground. If anyone has ideas or space, please let us know. We're currently working with the Entrepenurial Team of the Business School to make the idea happen.

Peace and Love,

Community for Peace and Justice
cpj@usd.edu
PO Box 601, Vermillion, SD 57069

If you have something you'd like to add to these regular Monday emails, or wish to contact the Community for Peace and Justice for any reason, please email: cpj@usd.edu.

CONTACTS
General CPJ= cpj@usd.edu
Veggie Bus= fueledbyveggies@gmail.com
Prairie Fire= prairiefirezine@gmail.com
Progressive Vermillion= progverm@gmail.com
Students for Sensible Drug Policy= ssdpusd@hotmail.com
South Dakota Peace and Justice Center= sdpjc@dailypost.com

ON THE WEB
CPJ: www.vcpj.blogspot.com
SDRADICALS: www.sdradicals.mahost.org
Students for Sensible Drug Policy: www.ssdp.blogspot.com
South Dakota Peace and Justice Center: www.sdpjc.org
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER: www.sdradicals.blogspot.com

Zombie Attack on Sioux Falls!

Happy Halloween!

Something only the CPJ cats could get roped into...

Today (Friday Oct 28) we're dressing up as monsters and zombies and
terrorizing downtown Sioux Falls! Seriously, at 3 PM we're meeting at
the Funk Wizard peeps' house at 324 Elm, dressing up and getting made
up as Halloween monsters, heading to and jumping on a reserved bus at
the Coffee Cup on the interstate, and then walking down 41st Street
and downtown Sioux Falls. We'll be handing out fliers for the upcoming
Funk Wizard show "Musical Monster Mayhem," blocking traffic for a
cause! (the cops and town have already been notified, and we're hoping
for press!)

Sound like fun? Come join us! We'll be returning around 8 pm, so we're
only asking for about five hours of time. Costumes are provided, and
for your efforts you get a free ticket to next Tuesday's show at the
Washington Pavillion! To sweeten the deal even more, Funk Wizard is
letting us table for the Prairie Fire at the show, and if profits are
made, making a donation to the Veggie Bus conversion!

You can't miss out. When will you ever get another chance to join a
zombie invasion of South Dakota's largest city?

3 PM at 324 Elm (corner of Elm and Dartmouth)-BE THERE!

Community for Peace and Justice
cpj@usd.edu
PO Box 601, Vermillion, SD 57069

PS: The Rapid City Journal on Wednesday's demo marking the 2,000 troop
deaths in Iraq is here

Rocky Mountain Resister!

*Forward Far and Wide*

Rocky Mountain Resister Looking For Submissions for Issue #2

Winter is fast approaching and that means we need to get cracking on the second issue of the Resister. This issue's theme is class. We kept it broad on purpose. If you have any stories, op-eds, events, how-tos with a class analysis or even one that doesn't, send them our way!

We're interested particularly in perspectives from the Rocky Mountain region itself. It you live in CO, WY or beyond send things our way! We also have a Notes of Resistance section set aside for groups' updates on
what they are working on.

The submission deadline is December 15th. To submit your work and for additional information contact the collective at theresister@riseup.net or via snail mail at

Rocky Mountain Resister
PO Box 2137
Laramie, WY 82073

for a free and equal world,
the resister collective
www.rockymountainresister.org

P.S. Copies of issue one are still available

Demo Yesterday & CPJ Tonite!

Greetings everyone!

Yesterday we held a demonstration outside the Clay County Courthouse,
marking the 2,000th U.S. soldier's death in Iraq. Already, the
official total is 2,005-and remember, these official numbers represent
"battlefield" deaths in Iraq, and are suspected of being far lower
than the actual number of Americans killed by the war (some estimates
are as high as 9,000, incorporating G.I. deaths in European hospitals
as well as "on the battlefield."

At least a dozen demonstrators lined the Courthouse lawn at 4 PM, with
signs that made our opposition to war clear. Pictures were taken that
we will try to get out as soon as possible.

Last nite's Essential Cinema went well. We watched Stephanie Black's
"Life & Debt," a beautiful expose of the economic raping of Jamaica by
the wealthier nations, through "debt-restructuring" and similar
programs. Jamaica used to be self-sufficient; now they are producing
exports, and forced to buy imports from other, wealthier, more
powerful countries. An IMF spokesman defends the agency thusly when
talking about the invasion of McDonald's in the country: "Why should
Jamaicans not have the freedom to buy what other people in the world
have the freedom to buy?" Freedom to buy!

Next week's Essential Cinema will be "Dark Days," a documentary
depicting New York City's homeless underground-literally. Thousands of
people have been found under the city, living in tunnels and old
subway stations. Check it out: 6 PM Wednesday in the U. Brew, Coyote
Student Center.

Tonite at 7 PM the Community for Peace and Justice will be meeting in
Hoy B, Coyote Student Center, USD. Come and check out all the awesome
projects we're working on-a coffeehouse, a bus running on dumpster
grease, self-published magazines, and kicking military recruiters out
of schools!

On Friday, we will be working with Funk Wizard Productions to promote
their new show, Musical Monster Mayhem. We're travelling to Sioux
Falls' downtown, where we will drum up support in a publicity stunt,
dressing up as monsters and handing out fliers. If you're interested
in helping, there is a free ticket in it for you, and if you come to
the meeting tonite you'll find out the deal is even sweeter :)

A look ahead:
On Tuesday November 1, we will be tabling to promote the Prairie Fire
issue #4. We'll be in the booth in the Coyote Student Center from 10
AM to 2 PM, so if you'd like to check out the issue, come visit. Other
ways to get your hands on it: If you live in Vermillion, we'll deliver
a copy for donation. Email us at cpj@usd.edu with your addy. Or send a
donation to PO Box 601, Vermillion, SD 57069, and we'll send you a
copy.

November 18-21: School of the Americas trip. We're trying to get the
Veggie Bus done by then! If you can help with mechanical knowledge,
finding parts, or with financial contributions, the time has never
been more urgent!

Peace and Love,

Community for Peace and Justice
cpj@usd.edu
PO Box 601, Vermillion, SD 57069

Mark 2000 US Dead

Friends,

It's sadly official. At least 2,000 American men and women have been directed to their deaths by the murderous regime of the George W. Bush administration.

The time has come for us to do everything we can to end this war. On Wednesday, October 26, Vermillion activists will gather at the Clay County Courthouse, 211 W. Main St., at 4 PM to demand immediate withdrawal of US troops.

Come prepared with banners, candles, signs, and prayers, as we unite with a majority of our fellow citizens for peace.

There will also be demonstrations in other towns in South Dakota.

Rapid City, 6:00 pm, Jimmy Carter statue, 6th & St.Joe. Bring candles, signs, friends.

Sioux Falls, 4:00-6:00 pm, Federal Courthouse, 400 S. Phillips Avenue, downtown.

Community for Peace and Justice
cpj@usd.edu
PO Box 601
Vermillion, SD 57069

2000 Dead-End the WAR!

Friends,

It's sadly official. At least 2,000 American men and women have been directed to their deaths by the murderous regime of the George W. Bush administration.

The time has come for us to do everything we can to end this war. On Wednesday, October 26, Vermillion activists will gather at the Clay County Courthouse, 211 W. Main St., at 4 PM to demand immediate withdrawal of US troops.

Come prepared with banners, candles, signs, and prayers, as we unite with a majority of our fellow citizens for peace.

Community for Peace and Justice
cpj@usd.edu
PO Box 601
Vermillion, SD 57069

Prairie Fire Tabling & More

Hello friends,

Last nite's show was awesome, and a great time was had by the few who showed up. Engaged, Sleepeater, Boogdish, Junker Diddle, and Aaron Gates played until 12:30 AM, and the music just got better as the nite went on. Hopefully more people in the future will support our burdgeoning Vermillion scene...

Tuesday
The Students for Sensible Drug Policy will be meeting in the U.Brew, Coyote Student Center, USD, at 3 PM. Come and help us as we educate the public on the disastrous effects of harsh drug policies in the United States. For more info email: ssdpusd@hotmail.com and check out the blog at http://www.ssdp.blogspot.com.

Wednesday
Essential Cinema will be showing "Life & Debt" in the U. Brew at 6 PM-don't miss it! This movie is an amazing explanation of the destructive effects of "free trade" policies on the third world. Come check it out and support Essential Cinema!

Thursday
The Community for Peace and Justice meets in the Hoy B room, CSC, USD at 7 PM. We'll be discussing the weekend trip to Rapid City for the SDPJC Annual Meeting, the ongoing Veggie Bus work and fundraising, the Prairie Fire #4, and other upcoming events. Join us! Email cpj@usd.edu for more info.

Next Tuesday, November 31, the Community will be tabling at the booth in the Coyote Student Center from 10 AM to 2 PM. We will be promoting and selling the brand spanking new issue of the Prairie Fire! Come visit, and we'll need help with tabling, so if you can volunteer please let us know. Email cpj@usd.edu to help or get more info.

Funk Wizard Productions is asking for dozens of volunteers to dress up as monsters to promote their upcoming show, Musical Monster Mayhem! In return volunteers get free tickets to the show, a ride up to Sioux Falls, get to legally terrorize the city's downtown, and the Community can promote the new Prairie Fire #4 and Veggie Bus Projects by tabling at the show! If you are interested email fnkwzrd@yahoo.com before Friday October 28, as that is most likely the day we will be going up there! For more info on the show.

Also, our comrades in Amnesty International are tabling this week in the CSC to end human trafficking. Stop by to help them out and sign a letter-it takes less than a minute and makes quite a difference!

Alert, Aware, Involved!

Community for Peace and Justice

US Deaths: 1999...

From the South Dakota Peace and Justice Center:

Two more US soldiers in Iraq died overnight. Tuesday
morning the US Troop deaths stand at 1999. The day
after the total reaches 2000, people all over the country
will hit the streets to demand NOT ONE MORE DEATH!
NOT ONE MORE DOLLAR!

Rapid City, 6:00 pm, Jimmy Carter statue, 6th & St.Joe.
Bring candles, signs, friends

Sioux Falls, 4:00-6:00 pm, Federal Courthouse, 400 S.
Phillips Avenue, downtown

Vermillion, 4:00-6:00 pm, Clay County Courthouse, 211
W. Main. Bring signs, candles, voices

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Bring 'em Home! Before things get worse. (See #1
note on Syria) Iraqis most strenuously invite us to leave
(See #2 note on British Ministry of Defence poll)
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#1 The United States is indeed pursuing a hard-edged regime change strategy for Syria. It’s happening right before your eyes. With the ever-complacent U.S. media itself bogged down in Iraq, and with the supine U.S. Congress unwilling to challenge our foreign policy apparatus, Syria is under the gun. As in Iraq, the United States is aggressively pursuing a regime change there without the slightest notion of what might come next or who might replace President Bashar Assad. Might it be the fanatical Muslim Brotherhood, by far the most powerful single force in largely Sunni Syria? Might the country fragment into pieces, as Iraq is now doing? The Bush administration doesn’t know, just as they didn’t know what might happen to Iraq in 2003. But they are going ahead anyway http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051024/syria_the_next_iraq.php

#2October 23, 2005 -- The Telegraph (UK)
IRAQIS SUPPORT ATTACKS ON BRITISH TROOPS

Millions of Iraqis believe that suicide attacks against British troops are justified, a secret military poll commissioned by senior officers has revealed.

The poll, undertaken for the Ministry of Defence and seen by The Sunday Telegraph, shows that up to 65 per cent of Iraqi citizens support attacks and fewer than one per cent think Allied military involvement is helping to improve security in their country.

It demonstrates for the first time the true strength of anti-Western feeling in Iraq after more than two and a half years of bloody occupation.

The nationwide survey also suggests that the coalition has lost the battle to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, which Tony Blair and George W Bush believed was fundamental to creating a safe and secure country. . . .

The survey was conducted by an Iraqi university research team that, for security reasons, was not told the data it compiled would be used by coalition forces. It reveals:

- Forty-five per cent of Iraqis believe attacks against British and American troops are justified - rising to 65 per cent in the British-controlled Maysan province;

- 82 per cent are "strongly opposed" to the presence of coalition troops;

- less than one per cent of the population believes coalition forces are responsible for any improvement in security;

- 67 per cent of Iraqis feel less secure because of the occupation;

- 43 per cent of Iraqis believe conditions for peace and stability have worsened;

- 72 per cent do not have confidence in the multi-national forces.

The opinion poll, carried out in August, also debunks claims by both the US and British governments that the general well-being of the average Iraqi is improving in post-Saddam Iraq. . . .

Progressive Vermillion

Everyone should check out the new Progressive Vermillion blog at
http://www.progressivevermillion.blogspot.com!

2,000 Dead Candlelight Vigil

Hello Community Folk,

The 13 (!) Vermillion activists that traveled to Rapid City over the weekend had a great time. We sold all the Prairire Fire #4 copies, made almost $300.00, networked with tons of activists, tabled at a Hudson Falcons show, and made it to both days of the South Dakota Peace and Justice Center Annual Meeting.

An important and unfortunate milestone is approaching for the US occupation of Iraq: almost 2,000 American soldiers (officially) have been killed. On the day after the 2,000 has died, there will be demonstrations, candlelight vigils, and protests nationwide in hundreds of locations (more info: https://www.afsc.org/2000/).

In Vermillion, we will be meeting at the Clay County Courthouse from 4 to 6 PM, the day AFTER the 2,000 US soldier has been killed. At the moment, it appears that will be Tuesday or Wednesday. Please spread the word about this. Bring banners, loud voices, energy, and supplies for a candlelight vigil.

We shouldn't have to push hard for large numbers to show up here. The American people know-or should know-how wrong the invasion of Iraq was and how disastrous it continues to be. Let's stop the war now, before any more lives are lost!

BOOGDISH SHOW TONITE!
boogdish(myspace.com/boogdish) dave deans musical forklift, sleepeater, tex invades, engaged
8pm start. $5 dollars. lacotah hall in the csc. people should come out to this show. it is going to be freaking awesome. i promise. -hobo god

PRAIRIE FIRE #4 OUT!
We printed 50 copies of the Prairie Fire issue #4 to bring to Rapid City for the weekend-and had no trouble selling 'em all. So we're soon going to print a batch of a hundred or more and distribute them widely. Why are we so confident that we'll move hundreds more? Because its the best damned zine ever, that's why! Find out for yourself-there are several ways to get a copy:

1) We'll be tabling for the Prairie Fire in the CSC this week, hopefully. Or next week. Keep an eye out.
2) Send a few dollars to our address: PO Box 601, Vermillion, SD 57069. Make sure to provide a return address so we can mail you a bunch of posters and the zine.
3) Soon you'll be able to pick up copies at Ernie November's in Sioux Falls. Not yet but soon.
4) Email us with your address if you're in Vermillion and we'll deliver a copy.

UPCOMING CPJ EVENTS
Essential Cinema at 6 PM on Wednesday. We will be showing "Life and Debt," a stunning visual critique of how neoliberal economic policies are destroying the island of Jamaica. If you have ever wanted to know more about corporate globalization, this film presents a practical, comprehensive, and real-world example of its sources, practices, and atrocious effects. For more info: http://www.lifeanddebt.org/

Throughout the week, Amnesty International will be tabling in the CSC to bring awareness to the continued international crime of human trafficking. Stop by their table to support them, and if you can help with tabling please email: mtdunham@usd.edu.

On Thursday, the Community for Peace and Justice will meet at 7 PM in Hoy B in the CSC. Come meet the rowdiest bunch on campus and bring the ruckus to small town South Dakota!

VEGGIE BUS!
We're working hard on the Veggie Bus, now we need to get it done! In hopes of taking it to the School of the Americas Vigil on November 18, the time has come for us to start buying parts and beginning the fuel conversion. If you can help out with mechanical knoweldge or financial contributions, these are greatly appreciated. We've raised over $1,000 so far, but still need at least $500 for parts, registration, and insurance. Help us make this dream come true! Send financial contributions to CPJ, PO Box 601, Vermillion, SD 57069.

Keep in touch, and let's make the demonstration-coming any day now-rock! Let's make our voices heard!

Community for Peace and Justice
cpj@usd.edu
PO Box 601, Vermillion, SD 57069

CPJ Tonite!

hello all,

if anyone tried to make it to Dark Days last nite, well sorry. the board of regents took over a lot of the CSC and it messed with a lot of people's events. next week, Essential Cinema will be showing "Life and Debt," a documentary of the effects of neoliberal trade, the International Monetary Fund, and other destructive policies that have all but destroyed the island of Jamaica.

TONIGHT 7 PM, the rowdiest bunch on campus meets in the HOY B room of the CSC. We will be discussing the trip to Rapid City tomorrow to the South Dakota Peace and Justice Center Annual Meeting, and also just maybe might have the fourth issue of the Prairie Fire Magazine printed! Come check it out regardless, its always an amusing time and we have a lot of interesting things going on.

Most importantly, we'll be updated on the status of the Veggie Bus project, after fundraising over the past two weeks.

See you there!

Dark Days & Annual Meeting

Hi hi!

Tonight at 6 PM Essential Cinema will be presenting "Dark Days," the shocking, amazing story of thousands of "homeless" people living under the subways of New York City. Its a truly phenomenal documentary which will make you cry and laugh at the same time. Even if you've seen it before, watch it again- it gets better and better every time!

On Friday we are leaving for the South Dakota Peace and Justice Center Annual Meeting in Rapid City. We need to know how many people are going, who needs rides, and who can provide rides. So far Norma and Jerry Wilson have offered a ride, and Julie Day. We will probably need another car, however, and tho gas is expensive the SDPJC has offerred to help with a $50 "scholarship" for those who want to make it.

There are about 6 people in need of a ride. Does anyone have a car?

Thursday 7 PM Community for Peace and Justice in Hoy B!

Community News 10/17

Hello friends! Community news from the last week or so, followed by upcoming events and a look forward.

DIVERSITY WEEK TABLING
At last Thursday's meeting we discussed some the of the week's events, including tabling. We were in the Coyote Student Center for two days, distributed some Prairie Fire magazines and other literature. A few cats painted a nice banner for the CPJ to use whenever tabling. It's very colorful and eye-catching. Since it was Diversity Week on campus, starting with Native American Day on Monday, we had good friends on either side of us in the CSC: 10% Society, Amnesty International, and more.

On Wednesday the CPJ supported Amnesty International's showing of "Hotel Rwanda," a powerful film dramatizing the Hutu's genocide of Tutsis in the 90s. A student at USD and Ugandan survivor spoke on his personal experiences at the time.

STUDENTS FOR SENSIBLE DRUG POLICY
Students for Sensible Drug Policy held their first meeting to set a time and place for future gatherings. Regular meetings from now on will be at 3 pm at the U. Brew every Tuesday. Join us as educate the public about the horrors of the drug war and what would constitute a more humane policy on drug use and abuse. To find out more please email ssdpusd@hotmail.com.

VEGGIE BUS
Yesterday, Sunday October 16, we held a fundraiser for the Veggie Bus project at the Washington Street Arts Center. It went fairly well, with about twenty non-CPJ members showing up and over $200.00 raised. Some community folk are more informed and excited about the project. We still need to raise almost $1000.00 in the next month to finish the conversion from diesel to vegetable oil. There is also a lot of work to be done with designing a fuel tank for the bus. If you can help let us know. To get involved with the Veggie Bus email fueledbyveggies@gmail.com

PROGRESSIVE VERMILLION
Some member of the CPJ and other organizations are networking activists' efforts in our town under the banner of "Progressive Vermillion." So far PV consists of a blog (http://www.progressivevermillion.blogspot.com) and email list to help coordinate our work and increase cooperation, unity, and mutual aid amongst progressives. To get involved email peacenow@usd.edu.

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UPCOMING EVENTS!

MON-FRI EVERY WEEK
Every weekday a group of CPJ kids gets up and meets at 9 AM to coordinate the day's events and get started on various work projects. Please join us, get to know your local community activists and help us out with the multitude of projects we're working on! Email cpj@usd.edu for more info.

MON 17
U.Vox: Voices for Choice is holding a meeting from 5-6 pm in the Roosevelt Room of the CSC! We will be talking about up and coming issues and events and taking a questionnaire about what the campus and community should see from us this year! Meet new and fabulous pro-choice folk, discuss issues surrounding reproductive rights and freedoms, and "Make Your Voice Heard!" New members ALWAYS welcome! Email mhagseth@usd.edu with questions, comments, or concerns!

TUE 18
Students for Sensible Drug Policy will be meeting in the U. Brew at 3 PM. Come join us as we educate our community and promote humane drug policy!

Tiospaye U. meeting at 5:00PM, at the Native American Cultural Center. Don't forget, FREE PIZZA!

WED 19
In the U. Brew at 6 PM: Essential Cinema will be showing "Dark Days," a true life documentary about the thousands of "homeless" who live under New York City. Its an amazing film, definetely not one you want to miss! Shocking, hilarious, thought-provoking and tear-jerking all at once. DON'T MISS IT!

3-6pm CoffeeLoft.org will be making 660 cookies for the Yankton Banquet (sort of like the Welcome Table). We're meeting at the First United Methodist Church at 3pm and will be there until we're done. Stop by and help if you want, never too many cooks in our kitchen : )

9pm With Ears to Hear/Agape at CoffeeLoft.org. Some of you have been asking about the Agape group we had last year so we're combining too programs in one (thanks Jesse!). Agape means "unconditional love", last year the group handed out free hot chocolate, held multiple free babysitting events and passed out candy with kindness quotes. Each week we'll discuss and plan ways to share random acts of kindness with the campus and community and grow as an Agape community through listening and discussing music that speaks to us and encourages us along life's journey.

10pm Taize worship service at Danforth Chapel

THU 20
7 PM in Hoy B, CSC, it's the COMMUNITY FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE! Meet up with the rowdiest bunch on campus as we plot, scheme, and do all kinds of crazy stuff like make school buses run on dumpster grease and hand-write our own magazines!

9-11pm Movie on the Church Lawn, Big Eden. This might be the last week of the movie on the lawn (we'll move up to the loft or Farber) due to the weather. So bring a blanket and we'll provide the coffee, tea and hot chocolate. Big Eden is an amazing movie, sadly many people have not heard of it. Here are two links with information about the movie. http://www.bestprices.com/cgi-bin/vlink/754703761804IE.html

FRI 21
12:00 Noon: A carload or two will be leaving for the South Dakota Peace and Justice Center Annual Meeting* in Rapid City. If you are interested in going, please email us and let us know! cpj@usd.edu. We will have several rides. For more info on the annual meeting, please email Jean at sdpjc@dailypost.com.

SAT 22
CPJ members will still by in Rapid City at the South Dakota Peace and Justice Center Annual Meeting*. We will be tabling there, hopefully selling copies of the Prairie Fire #4, and fundraising for the Veggie Bus!

SUN 23
8pm New Orleans Work trip interest meeting at CoffeeLoft.org. Dean, a member of the SCC, is organzing a work trip over Thanksgiving to help Hurricane Katrina victims. The cost is only $100. Space is limited so contact Dean at (dorvis@usd.edu) for more information if you're interested. (CoffeeLoft.org will also be going on a trip to Baldwin Louisiana over spring break if you can't make Dean's trip).

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A LOOK AHEAD
*Oct 21-22: South Dakota Peace and Justice Center Annual Meeting!
*Nov 18-21: School of Americas Vigil in Georgia!

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*SEE POST BELOW "FORMER DEATH ROW INMATE..."

Former Death Row Inmate Speaks in Rapid

For timely release before October 21, 2005

Former Death Row inmate will speak in Rapid City,

extends special invitation to bikers
The public in general and motorcyclists in particular are invited to
hear Ray Krone speak in Rapid City, Friday, October 21, 7:15 PM, at
Mother Butler Center. Krone was unjustly condemned to Arizona's Death
Row in 1992 for a murder he did not commit.

Mr. Krone had a good family upbringing in Pennsylvania. He played
Little League baseball, was in Boy Scouts, faithfully attended Sunday
school, sang in his church choir, made good grades, served honorably
in the US Air Force, and went to work for the US Postal Service.
Mistakenly caught in a web of events that began December 28, 1991,
Krone found himself demoted from being regarded as an average
law-abiding citizen to being labeled a vicious, subhuman criminal, the
lowest of the low.

Krone lost ten years of his life to a desperate struggle to establish
his innocence. Finally DNA tests totally exonerated him, and he was
released in 2002. His harrowing experience has led him to declare
unequivocally, "The death penalty system is broken -- and it can't be
fixed."

Following Mr. Krone's presentation and discussion with the audience,
attendees who feel ready to do so will have an opportunity to sign the
Declaration of Life. The Declaration is a formal, witnessed affidavit
by which signers abjure use of the death penalty in case of their own
murder. Signers do not intend that murderers should not be held
seriously to account but only that the State should not kill in
retribution for the crime. Witnesses and notaries will be present to
serve the signers.

Ray Krone is brought to Rapid City by Interfaith Task Force Against
the Death Penalty, a sponsored project of South Dakota Peace & Justice
Center. The West River Catholic Diocese Pro-Life Commission is
cosponsoring the evening in observance of the October 21-23 National
Weekend of Faith in Action Against the Death Penalty, an annual
weekend when people of all religions are invited to deeply consider
the faith implications of the death penalty. An indigenous drum group
will perform in a prayerful spirit. Pastors for congregations of
several denominations will lead the Friday evening program. Mr. Krone
belongs to an Evangelical Lutheran congregation near his home in
Dover, Pennsylvania.

A donation is suggested to help defray the speaker's travel expense,
but none will be turned away for inability to pay. A reception with
refreshments will take place after the Declaration signing ceremony.
An avid motorcyclist, Mr. Krone especially invites other motorcycle
enthusiasts to attend. For more information, phone 605/881-5514 or
email sdpjc@dailypost.com

Veggie Bus Fundraiser Today!

Just a reminder to ya'll: today at 4 pm we'll be having a fundraiser potluck for the Veggie Bus project at the Washington St. Arts Center, at 202 Washington St. Please bring friends, food, ideas, and contributions! Spread the word!

SDPJC Annual Meeting

South Dakota Peace and Justice Center Annual Meeting

The best annual meeting ever is next Friday evening
and all day Saturday, October 21&22, at Mother
Butler Center in Rapid City. Bring your friends. All
are welcome and will be glad they came.

If you plan to be there but are not pre-registering,
reply here to help us estimate the lunch count.

Other Help Wanted (Reply email if interested)
Riders from East River to occupy carpool seats that don't want to travel I-90 empty to annual meeting.
Goodies or fruit for the Friday evening reception for Ray Krone. Reply if you can contribute.
One more notary for Friday evening
Volunteers to brew coffee Friday PM or Saturday AM
Volunteers to register participants Friday PM or Saturday AM
Overnight hospitality Friday for some of our program presenters
Ray Krone will tell us what he learned in his nearly
fatal experience on Arizona's Death Row--The death
penalty is broken, and it can't be fixed. Iraq War
Veteran Jimmy Massey will motivate you to
redouble effort against the war on Iraq and all war.
He was formerly a military recruiter; now he is a
vigorous recruitment intervenor and a CO.
You will find out why you need to get behind the
Save Our Vote Initiative, and it's not just an East
River issue. Learn about projects carried out by
P&J member activists: Eyes Wide Open! inter-
vention in military recruitment of youth; the
Innocence Project; a Prairieland Peace Park;
Community for Peace&Justice Veggie Bus, and more!

Mail your raffle ticket receipts by Saturday or bring
to the meeting.

A notary will be present to polish off your
Save Our Vote petitions. We will mail them in 4U.

Last call on nominations for annual awards --
1. Adrienne Kaufmann Peace With Justice award
(name one)
2. Doris Hodge Reconciliation award (name two,
one indigenous & one non-indigenous)
3. Lifetime Achievement award (name one)

CPJ Tonite!

Just a quick reminder-we're having a Community for Peace and Justice meeting TONITE (thursday) at 7 pm in Hoy B, in the CSC, USD. Bring a friend!

Veggie Bus Fundraiser

Please forward far and wide, and spread the word!

Help out Vermillion Peace and Justice activists with their Veggie Bus
project, so they can travel to the SOA vigil for free! There are two
fundraising events held on October 16th, at the Washington Street Arts
Center (202 Washington St.), Vermillion. Attached is a poster for
Sunday's fundraiser!

POTLUCK at 4 PM
The Community for Peace and Justice is hosting a fundraising potluck
benefit for converting a 32-foot bus to run on vegetable oil! Bus,
live music, great food and more! Speakers will include Morgan Kelly
who will talk about his experiences traveling with a Biofuels caravan
educational tour on a bus that has logged more than 50,000 vegetable
miles! And Tristan Irwin will diagram the process of converting our
own 1987 International bus to run on straight vegetable oil.

RUMMAGE SALE at 8 AM
This is a fundraising event in aid of the Veggie Bus project. Bring
items to donate for the sale. Hope to see you there!

SDPJC Annual Meeting

SD Peace & Justice Center is privileged to hold the 2005 annual
membership meeting Friday evening October 21 and all day October 22 in
Rapid City -- the only South Dakota town whose governing council has
had the care for freedom to pass a resolution of official concern
about the USA Patriot Act. [See notes on the Patriot Act at the end
of this email]

Each year at annual meeting three categories of award are given to
honor members whose lives and work help to make our world more
peaceful and just. From a list of nominees submitted by members
across the state, our executive board selects award recipients.
Reply to this email with your nominations for:

1. Adrienne Kaufmann Peace with Justice Award
Name one:

2. Doris Hodge Reconciliation Awards. TWO awards are given, one to an
indigenous person and one to a non-indigenous person -- for work
toward healing the relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous
in South Dakota.
Name two.

Indigneous:

Non-indigenous:

3. Lifetime Achievement Award.
Name one:

See YOU at Mother Butler Center, October 21 & 22
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Congress passed the Patriot Act 45 days after the 9/11
attacks with virtually no debate. Now, Congress has
time to bring the law in line with the Constitution. The
House bill -- HR 3199 -- is terrible news for civil
liberties. The Senate amendments to the House bill
while not perfect, are a substantial improvement. The
House and Senate versions will be the subject of a
conference committee to resolve differences some-
time after Congress returns from Oct 8-16 recess.

ACLU brief summary of Senate improvements
http://action.aclu.org/reformthepatriotact/

Meatier Congressional Research Service summary of Senate improvements
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR03199:@@@D&summ2=m&

Need motivation to stay active about the Patriot Act?
Check these two chilling articles by Paul Craig Roberts
"The Police State Is Closer Than You Think"
http://antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=7556
"American Has Fallen . . . . "
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts122.html

It's not too late for action. Last week (10/4/05)
leading business organizations endorsed the Senate
version of the Patriot Act reauthorization. These
included the US Chamber of Commerce, the National
Association of Manufacturers, the National Association
of Realtors, the Association of Corporate Counsel,
the Financial Services Roundtable and Business Civil
Liberties, Inc. http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=19213&c=206

No one from the SD congressional delegation will
be in the conference, but we can ask them to register
concerns with the conferees. Ask your business friends
to do the same.

P&J EVENTS + Headed Where?

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SD Peace and Justice Center EVENTS
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Sunday, October 9
SIOUX FALLS 3-4 pm ~ Sunday Sioux Falls chapter peace vigil at the
federal courthouse, 400 S Phillips Avenue, downtown. Bring your signs
and your friends.
Encourage on another. Encourage passing traffic. Encourage the slow
trend toward sanity in national opinion about war on Iraq.

Monday, October 10
Native Amerian Day
RAPID CITY 3-5 pm ~ Chiapas Media Project presentation at Rapid City
Public Library, Hoyt Room. Videos made by indigenous people in
Mexico, recording their struggle to preserve autonomy, culture, human
rights and dignity against the domination system and the structural
injustice of NAFTA. Free to the public.
Media Project videos and textiles from Zapatista women's cooperatives
will be offered for sale. Hosted in Lakota Territory by Owe Aku,
Bring Back the Way, a grassroots Lakota organization on the Pine Ridge
Reservation.

YANKTON ~ Community observance of Native American Day with powwow at
Yankton Middle School. Free supper at 5 pm. Grand entry at 6pm.
Transportation to and from Yankton Middle School leaving USD. (Reply
to inquire time & place)

Tuesday, October 11
KILI Radio 9-10 am ~ Chiapas Media Project live on Bring Back the Way Hour.

Kyle, Pine Ridge Reservation 1-3 pm ~ Chiapas Media Project, Oglala
Lakota College, Piya Wiconi. All are welcome.

Wednesday, October 12
Vermillion 9 am - 4pm ~ Tipi Village between Coyote Student Center
and Education School. Local indigenous elders are inviting you for a
visit. There will also be song and dance exhibitions. Sponsored by
Tiospaye U. and Institute of American Studies.

6:30 pm ~ Showing of Hotel Rwanda, followed by presentation by and
discussion with Patrick Wani, who personally survived the ordeal
portrayed in the movie. Farber Hall. Sponsored by Amnesty Int'l.

Thursday, October 13
Clear Lake 7 pm ~ Former US Senator Jim Abourezk will headline a SAVE
OUR VOTE rally, 4-H Center at the Fairgrounds, free to the public.
Former SD Rep Bob Weber, Bill DuBois of I-29ers for Quality of Life,
and Julie Jansen of Clean Water Action will also appear. Free to all.
Directions to 4-H Center: Turn east at north edge of town on 181st
Street.

People should come from miles around to hear how powerful interests
are trying to override the will of the majority in several SD locales
-- with more and worse to come. The SAVE OUR VOTE Initiative is the
only way we are going to preserve our right to local
self-determination that is being challenged by powerful and moneyed
interests. So, if you don't want
family-scale livestock farms driven out by animal factories with acres
of manure lagoons, and continuing threat to water, public health, and
local social structure
nude juice bars down the road
biker bars and rowdy entertainment within howling distance of
indigenous sacred sites
Better get cracking. Get signatures on the SAVE OUR VOTE petition!
Need more petitions? Request by reply email

<a href="http://sdpjc.org">SDPJC</a>

All Our Blogs

Hey folks, we've been working hard to get a real nice internet presence going. Some of you might have already read "Tokala Resistance", a blog of my writings. We have now changed some things and have a half-dozen other blogs going. Too much? It's not as pointless as it sounds!

First off, why blog? Because for some reason, blogs are the hottest thing on the internet, and its way easier to make one and maintain it than it is to fool around with a big website. Also, many services and news networks are creating blogging tools, such as http://southdakota123.com. This website is updated many times daily with the latest blog entries from the entire SD political spectrum-including Tokala Resistance. Because TR is on their site, thousands of journalists, politicans, teachers, and policy people have been checking out our crazy thoughts, for better or worse!

If you want to help out with any of the blogs, what we need most of all is someone to simply write information for them. email me for help and id be glad to teach how to do it. Here are the new blogs we have created for our network:

HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER http://www.sdradicals.blogspot.com
blog purpose: to provide an online publisher for us to post our thoughts on current events. it is quite popular worldwide (we have readers in the department of defense, argentina, iraq, italy, nypd, palestine, all over sd) and is indexed on http://southdakota123.com.

COMMUNITY FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE http://vcpj.blogspot.com
blog purpose: to post upcoming events, news, etc from the CPJ. it will be nice because all of our posts are archived so they can help us write a history in the future.

PROGRESSIVE VERMILLION http://progressivevermillion.blogspot.com
blog purpose: be a broader events/news calendar for all vermillion groups, such as %10 Society, Tiospaye, Coffeeloft.org, Amnesty. it would have been nice if everyone would just use the cpj's blog but i think this will work better.

STUDENTS FOR SENSIBLE DRUG POLICY http://sdpd.blogspot.com
blog purpose: events and news for the spin-off SSDP group.

PRAIRIE FIRE ZINE http://prairiefireburning.blogspot.com/
blog purpose: archive and online place to find all past pf articles and news.


LET US KNOW IF YOU NEED A BLOG FOR YOUR CPJ PROJECT!!! WE CAN SET IT UP EASILY!

Garrison Keillor Tonite & CPJ Meeting

Garrison Keillor describes the Republican Party:

"...the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk."

TONITE!
Garrison Keillor speaks at the Dome at 7 PM.

THE CPJ IS MEETING IN THE CSC AT 6 PM FOR A QUICK DISCUSSION AND THEN WE'RE ALL HEADING TO HEAR KEILLOR'S TALK!

Join us & happy d-days!

Upcoming Community Events

Here are some upcoming Vermillion Community for Peace and Justice – friendly events.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4
*11:30-1pm Souper Tuesday at the Lutheran Center (on Cherry St. across from the North Complex). Once a month the Lutheran center will be having Souper Tuesday, they serve soup and sandwiches, free will donation collected.
*7 pm South Dakota Peace and Justice Center meeting at the Emmaus House in Yankton.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5
*7 pm Essential Cinema! Movie this week: “In Plane Site,” presenting an alternative view of the terrorism of 9/11. Begins at 7 pm, showing at the U. Brew, CSC, USD.
*9 pm With Ears to Hear at CoffeeLoft.org
*10 pm Taize at Danforth Chapel

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6
*7 pm Community for Peace and Justice in Hoy B, CSC, USD

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7
*Project Radio, the Vermillion Literary Project's radio show, gets off the ground and hits the air this Friday, Oct. 7. The show will air every Friday, from noon to 2 p.m. central on KAOR, 91.1 F.M. While the listening area is limited to Vermillion, you can also catch the show on the web at http://www.usd.edu/kaor/ (click on the Listen Live link); note--this may not work for all browsers. Hosts will alternate. This week's host will be Sarah Kniffen with a Homecoming/D-Days mixed bag of literary stuff. If you're in the Vermillion area at the time, be sure you're tuned in Fridays from noon to 2 p.m. central for the best in literary listening!

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8
*D-Days parade there is a Unity group that will be marching in the parade to represent diversity at USD. If you'd like to join us e-mail coffloft@usd.edu for more info.
*D-Days All you can eat Pancake Breakfast! The United Methodist Church will be serving a pancake breakfast (pancakes, eggs, sausage, juice and coffee) from 8am-1pm at the church (16 N. Dakota St). Cost is $5 for adults and $3 for children 10 and under.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9
*Starting next Sunday, October 2nd, the Luther Center will be introducing something new. The Peer Ministers will be serving FREE FOOD and there will be games available beginning at 8PM every Sunday Night. Grab a friend and come on over for some FREE HAMBURGERS next Sunday Night. Also back by popular demand, Souper Tuesday will be held the first Tuesday of every month from 11-1 beginning October 4th. Just a reminder, the Luther Center is located at 723 E. Cherry St. right across the street from the North Complex.
MONDAY OCTOBER 10
*Native American Day Pow-wow at Yankton Middle School. Free Supper at 5pm / Grand Entry at 6pm.
Transportation will be provided from USD to Yankton Middle School for all those interested in going. Keep watching for more information.
*International Students Club Ice Cream Social

TUESDAY OCT 11
*National Coming Out Day. T-shirt sale all day at CSC
*“Talk About It” Open Discussion Forum. 7-9pm Farber Hall. Students from 10% Society will share their coming out stories and then answer questions from the audience. 10% Society
*“Dakota Exile” Movie and Guest Speaker. 8-9pm Frankenfeld A CSC. Learn how South Dakota and Mankato are connected through history as a result of the Dakota Conflict. --- Tiospaye U.

WEDNESDAY, OCT 12
*Tipi Village Between CSC and Ed School. Tipi raising at 9am / Take down at 4pm. Check out the tipi’s and visit with local elders. There will also be song and dance exhibitions. - Tiospaye U. & Institute of American Indian Studies
*Day of Action for Darfur. Hotel Rwanda showing and speaker Patrick Wani. 6:30pm Farber Hall. Watch Hotel Rwanda and hear first hand from survivor Patrick Wani at the discussion afterwards. Amnesty International

THURSDAY OCT 13
*Yom Kippur 101. 8pm Washington Rm. CSC. Learn about Yom Kippur and why it is so important to everyone. Tiospaye U.
*Movie on the Church Lawn - John Q. 8pm at First United Methodist Church on the corner of Dakota and Main. Bring a blanket and some hot cocoa and enjoy the show on the side of the church. Coffeeloft.org


KEEP IN MIND FOR FUTURE!
Diversity Days will be Tuesday October 11th - Friday October 14th. Different groups are putting on special programs for this but others are just going to advertise programs that they already do.

TO-DO LIST FOR CPJ MEMBERS/A LOOK FORWARD
*Work on Veggie Bus!
*Prairie Fire #4
*Fundraising needed for Veggie Bus
*Welcome new members into the group
*Oct 4-9: D-Daze (won't get anything done)
*Oct 11: Vermillion Area Arts Council Board Meeting
*Oct 11-14: Diversity Days-we're invited to help out!
*Oct 21-22: South Dakota Peace and Justice Center Annual Meeting!
*Nov 18-21: School of Americas Vigil in Georgia!

STUDENTS FOR SENSIBLE DRUG POLICY!
If you are interested in getting this group going please email: ssdpusd@hotmail.com with ideas and inspiration!

MESSAGE FROM AMBER TO CPJ MUSICIANS
Hello, I am working with a local theater company on a halloween musical in vermillion and I need string players (violin, viola, cello, bass). If anyone thinks they may be up for it please email me, anepodal@usd.edu, or moenep@gmail.com

The music is mid level playing ability and we will be practicing often in evenings. Please email me with questions. Thank you for your time!

Amber Nepodal