The Draft starts Feb 19th at the University of Minnesota !!!!!

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The military is running out of troops.

The 1st day of the Draft starts Feb 19th at the University of Minnesota
At the Coffman Union, U of M. 10am.

The 2nd day, Feb 20th, will be at Augsburg College, at East Commons.


You will be given a card. www.pwh-mn.org/vetletters.php

Will your birthday number be selected? What will you do?

free coffee and breakfast, and free lunch

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While you wait. Listen to various speakers.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Sponsored by Center for Arts and Medicine, U of M

"AMERICAN FUNDAMENTALS: HISTORY, LAW, SCIENCE AND RELIGION"

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
9:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
University of Minnesota, Coffman Union

All events in the Great Hall.

THE LOTTERY - 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
"What's your birthdate? What's your Lottery number?"
Should you drop out of school, today? Quit your job?
Find out when you must report for your Draft physical.
Learn, "What happened to you in the war?" True stories
written by war veterans.
You're in the "virtual draft," right now. With a click of a mouse you'll be drafted. How will you feel and respond?

Performed by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre

VetSpeak PANELS - 10:30 - 11:30
Veterans respond to revival of the draft and use of the lottery.
Moderator: Don Olson, founder, "Students Against Selective Service."
12:30 - "Faith on the battlefield."
3:00 - "Difficult questions: Is freedom, free? Does war achieve peace? What "America" are you willing to die for?"

RELIGION - 11:00-12:20
Sponsored by UM Interfaith Campus Coalition
“War and Peace: how does God call me to serve?"
Conversation between Rabbi Amy Eilberg, Prof. Adil Ozdemir, an Islamic scholar and Frank Kroncke, theologian.

VetSpeak -12:30-1:00
12:30 - "Faith on the battelfield."

HISTORY - 1:30-2:50
"National Identity Crisis: on Starship Earth, is America God's Chosen Nation?" Prof. David Noble, American Studies department
Moderator: Don Olson, KFAI

VetSpeak - 3:00-3:30
3:00 - "Difficult questions: Is freedom, free? Does war achieve peace? What "America" are you willing to die for?"

LAW - 5:00 -6:20 p.m.
"Constitutional Crisis: dangers of an Imperial President's disregard for the law."
Elizabeth de la Vega, former federal prosecutor, US Assistant Attorney, Minnesota & Northern District of California
Moderator: Bill Tilton, attorney

SCIENCE - 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
“National moral crisis: Has America become a torture state?”
Steve Miles, MD, UM Center for Bioethics.
Moderator: Professor Alan Hooper, professor of Biology, UM

*****************************************************************************************************On Feb 20th

“Women and War”
Christensen Center, East Commons, Augsburg College
Wednesday February 20, 2008
Sponsor: Anne Pederson Women’s Resource Center

9:00 a.m. Col. (ret.) Ann Wright, “Women and Military Leadership”

Ann Wright, a high-ranking State Department official who resigned in protest
of the Iraq war. Prior to her service in the State Department she had
attained the rank of Colonel during a 29 year career in the US Army.

10:00 am the Draft Lottery starts (see a & b)

10:30 a.m. VetSpeak Panel – lead by Ann Wright
Veterans discuss the volunteer army, the draft & role of women.

11 a.m. Elizabeth de la Vega, “Who will speak for the victims?”
Former federal prosecutor in MN & CA.
Author, “United States vs. George Bush, et. al.”

12:00 noon Chante Wolf – “Women Warriors: Is this Equality?”
Chante Wolf (Veterans for Peace) served in the US Air Force (1980-1992)
and Operation Desert Shield. She joined Veterans for Peace in 1998 to
speak about women in the military, in combat, and war itself.

2:00 p.m. Mary Beaudoin (WAMM: Women Against Military Madness)
“The hidden cost of war: civilians and the environment.”

4:00 p.m. Panel Discussion
“Why women’s voices are unique: Passing the torch”
Moderator: State Representative Karen Clark, activist in the Feminist and anti-war movements of the Vietnam era.
Mary Beaudoin represents the perspective of WAMM, founded in 1984.
Augsburg Student Feminist Network will join the conversation.

***** 5.30 p.m. Col. (ret.) Ann Wright – “My personal journey”
Ann Wright is one of several high-ranking State Department officials who resigned in protest of the Iraq war. during a 29 year career in the US Army. *****


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Is this true? If the Draft were scheduled to be activated today.
If you called your family to sit down together before the TV to watch them run the Draft Lottery. Watch them spin the two cages, one with birthdates, the other with numbers 1-366. And if you heard them call out your birthday as "Number 110!" - and so knew that you were going to be "called up" quite soon to the Induction Center for your physical. If all this were to happen today, what would your first response be? Are you prepared, right now, to respond?

[jeff30997]

1. This would be a good thing...

For Canadian immigration.

[annm4peace]

2. not as easy as it used to be

maybe we will head to Mexico ?

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3. U of M students just don't care

A group of Vietnam Veterans, Guys arrested for breaking in and burning draft cards, Guys who refused to go Vietnam, and some others who included a Vietnam and Iraqi Veteran put together an event at the U of M today.

They invited the students, and offered them free breakfast, free lunch.

It was at the Great Hall in the Coffman Union.

Colored posters where made and put around campus, Professor where told, There wasn't extra money for 1000.00 radio ads, or tv spots. The local paper wouldn't cover it.

The Veterans and those who refused to serve just wanted the students to see what it was like to have a Draft and think about if a Draft was called this year.. what would they do?

And if they could, come here some Veterans tell their story.

Only 5 U of M students showed up. They just don't care Will they care when the draft actually does happen? Will I care, as I see them board the buses? I'm not sure.

Tomorrow the Draft starts at 10am at Augsburg. Will these students be any different ?

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