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JAMES von BOECKMANN
STUDENTS RALLY IN SF
Students from around the country will be
participating in protests this weekend, speak-
ing out against the USA PATRIOT Act, the
war in Iraq, and other public policy agendas.
In San Francisco and in Washington, DC
on Saturday, Oct. 25, students from the
Campus Anti-war Network (CAN) will join
with other national student groups to speak
out. For the San Francisco protest, West Coast
CAN Representative and San Francisco State
University student Katrina Yeaw says, “This
will be a great opportunity for students from
all over the West Coast to meet up and march
together. We need to show the whole world
that there are loud and enthusiastic students
against the occupation in Iraq.”
The march begins at 11 am at the corner of
Fulton and Larkin streets at the edge of the
Civic Center in San Francisco.
Meanwhile, CAN is gearing up for its sec-
ond national conference, Nov. 1-2 at the
University of Illinois in Chicago. Members
hope to align with as many other peaceful or-
ganizations as possible to discuss change. For
more information, see www.antiwarnet-
work.org — Aria Seligmann
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Europeans are working the equivalent of
nine weeks less per year than Americans and
are taking six-week vacations. How did we
get ourselves into this insanity, and how do
we get out?
A community symposium “Overwork and
Time Poverty in America” is plannd from 7 to
9 pm Thursday, Oct. 23 at the UO Baker
Center, 325 E. 10th Ave. The event is spon-
sored by the UO Labor Education and
Research Center (LERC) and is a component
of the national Take Back Your Time Day ini-
tiative.
Associate professor Marcus Widenor of
LERC says the symposium is an opportunity
to hear scholars and activists from different
perspectives examine our relationship with
leisure time. It examines the options we face
in attempting to solve the problem through
public policy alternatives, through workplace
policies and in the individual choices we
make about using our time, he says.
“Workers in the U.S. are time-impover-
ished,” says local community activist Hope
Marston. “Many work 60-hour work weeks
out of fear they’ll be fired if they don’t, and
they’re exhausted, not refreshed after their
one to two week vacation. So, all the time you
might have spent volunteering in your com-
munity, or relaxing with your family van-
ishes. It’s time we take back our time!”
The symposium topics include “Time
Scarcity: Myth or Reality?” with Gaylene
Carpenter, UO Arts and Administration; “Are
Americans Really Overworked?” with UO
economist Bill Harbaugh; “Consequences of
Attorney at Law
Overwork” with Jean Stockard, UO Planning,
Public Policy & Management; “From the
Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A
Labor Perspective” with Barbara Kellogg of
SEIU 503; and “Your Leisure Assertive
Rights” with Forrest McDowell of the
Cortesia Institute.
For more information, visit www.time-
day.com
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