| The September Project is a grassroots effort to hold public events on freedom, democracy, and citizenship in libraries on or around September 11. Libraries around the world will participate. View the map of particpants to see where events will take place in 2004.
The September Project 2004 @ the UW Libraries:
UW Bothell
UW Seattle
UW Tacoma
Past September Project events @ UW Libraries:
2004
2005
2006
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The September Project 2004 in Suzzallo/Allen Library
The University of Washington Libraries will participate in The September Project, an
international event that seeks to make September 11 a day of reflection and discussion. On September 11, 2004, people across the country and around the world will come together at public places to discuss democracy, citizenship, and patriotism.
464 sites in 50 states ultimately participated in The September Project. Look at the animated map that shows how this event swept across the nation! Beyond the United States, 13 venues in 7 countries joined.
The UW Libraries will host exhibits and activities throughout September and October in order to ensure that all UW students, faculty, and staff have an opportunity to participate. Bookmark this site and check back often because this list of activities continues to grow.
Odegaard Undergraduate Library (OUGL)
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What is citizenship? What is democracy?
Description: Visitors to the library are invited to write responses to the questions "What does democracy mean to you?" and "Is citizenship local, national, or international?" Responses (through prose, poetry, art work, or other written expressions) will be displayed in the library and posted to a virtual exhibit.
Location: First floor lobby, OUGL
Dates: August 9 - October 21, 2004
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Statements of Rights
Description:
The United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The United States Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta, and statements of rights from countries around the world will be available to encourage freedom of expression. See documents from Iran, Morocco, Saudi
Arabia, Tunisia, India, S. Korea, China, Japan, Vietnam, S. Africa,
Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, the Magna Carta and the European Convention on
Human Rights. We are working on those of a couple of countries from both
Central and South America. Also, Russia and either Australia or New
Zealand.
Location: First floor lobby, OUGL
Dates: August 9 - October 21, 2004
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Register To Vote
Description: Voter registration forms are available at the Information Desk. Pick one up, fill it out, and submit it to the elections office. For your convenience, you can leave the form and we will submit it to the election office for you.
See UW Vote! for more information.
Location: Information Desk, first floor, OUGL
Dates: August 2 - October 2, 2004
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Films examining democracy
Description: Watch films that study questions of democracy and civil liberties in time of war. Films include: Caught in the Crossfire: Arab Americans in Wartime; Watch What You Say: Free Speech in Times of National Crisis; Clear and Present Danger: The Evolution of Modern Terrorism; Free Speech for Sale; Justice for All: A Public Hearing, plus filmed interviews on the state of political opposition and dissent in the U.S., and two lectures filmed at the UW, Jihad, Terror, War & Justice and The Taliban & Global Terror.
Location: Room 220, OUGL
Dates: September 7 - October 20 (weekdays only), Noon each day
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Suzzallo & Allen Libraries
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The September Project, an introduction
Descripton: Learn more about The September Project including how it began with an assistant professor in the University of Washington's Department of Communication and has become an international event.
Location: Suzzallo Espresso, first floor, Suzzallo Library
Dates: September 7 - October 21, 2004
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Could you become an American Citizen?
Descripton: For those of us born in the United States citizenship is automatically
granted -- no requirements, no tests. But it is a different matter for
those seeking to become naturalized citizens. See if you can get a
passing grade on the civics exam and become an American citizen.
Location: Suzzallo Espresso, first floor, Suzzallo Library
Dates: September 7 - October 21, 2004
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Form Your Own Opinion On Fahrenheit 9/11: Read Government Documents
Descripton: This display focuses on official U.S. federal government documents, freely available in depository libraries or on the web, that support further research on three selected scenes/vignettes from the film Fahrenheit 9/11 including election results, redaction of name on released document, and secret service. [more]
Location: Suzzallo Espresso, first floor, Suzzallo Library
Dates: September 7 - October 21, 2004
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Civil Liberties & War: The Japanese American Experience
Descripton: What happens when war and concerns for national security triumph over
democracy and civil liberties? A look back to 1942 and the incarceration
of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans.
Location: Suzzallo Espresso, first floor, Suzzallo Library
Dates: September 7 - October 21, 2004
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America: Land of Religious Freedom?
Descripton: This poster will describe the unique way in which
America has sought to preserve religious freedom through separation of
church and state. It will also describe some tensions and controversies
that have arisen as the ideal of religious freedom is put into practice in
a diverse society.
Location: Suzzallo Espresso, first floor, Suzzallo Library
Dates: September 7 - October 21, 2004
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Reading 9/11 Through Children's Books
Descripton: Children's literature provides a unique lens to view current events by
providing a distillation of culture-bound perspectives, ideas and
interpretations. How has September 11, terrorism, the Middle East, and
the Iraq War been depicted in children's books? Explore the current world
crisis via children's eyes in this display of American and international
children's books.
Location: exhibit case, first floor, Allen Library
Dates: September 7 - October 15, 2004
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Pen & Ink Politics: Editorial Cartoons and the War on Terrorism
Description: With a few brushstrokes and words, editorial cartoonists attempt the
impossible: capture all that is right and so wrong with our world. And
certainly, the attacks of 9/11 and the global response to the war on
terrorism are subjects of tremendous graphic potential. As politics,
societies, cultures and religions collide, these artists distill
and challenge us with arresting images.
Our staff has searched hundreds of newspapers---both foreign and
U.S.---and selected a collection of political
cartoons which reflect a wide variety of global perspectives of September
11, 2001 and of several significant events that followed.
Location: Microforms & Newspapers, ground floor, Suzzallo Library
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smaller collection of cartoons has been made available to the King County
Library System for use in branch libraries.
Dates: September 10 - October 31, 2004
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Create + Communicate: Art for Understanding
Description: An exhibition of artists' books offers persuasive commentary
on war, peace, terrorism, patriotism, and their consequences. Writing,
illustration, printing, and design are utilized for individual expression
in our contemporary context. Books on exhibit are from the Libraries' Book
Arts Collection.
Location: exhibit cases, Allen Library North Lobby
Location: exhibit cases, Allen Library North Lobby.
Dates: September 10 - October 21, 2004
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Register To Vote
Description: Voter registration forms are available at the Information Desk. Pick one up, fill it out, and submit it to the elections office. For your convenience, you can leave the form and we will submit it to the election office for you.
See UW Vote! for more information.
Location: Information Desk, ground floor, Allen Library North.
Dates: Indefinitely
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UW Bothell Library
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Human Rights in an Age of Terror
Description: UWB Professor Bruce Kochis will lead a discussion about human rights in a
post-September 11 world.
Location: UW Bothell, room UW2 005 Library
Dates: Saturday, September 11, 2004, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
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Conducting Human Rights Policy
Description: Jim Thyden, retired Foreign Service Officer and former head of the Office
of Human Rights in the U.S. State Department will continue the
discussion.
Location: UW Bothell, room UW2 005 Library
Dates: Saturday, September 11, 2004, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
More events scheduled through October
Visit http://www.uwb.edu/library/theseptemberproject/ for more information.
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UW Tacoma Library
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Libricide: Terrorism and the Destruction of Libraries
Description: To destroy a library is to deny a people's claim to civilization. Regimes have used libricide, "book slaughter" as an effective instrument of terror in the ideological wars of the 20th Century.
Location: UW Tacoma Library
Dates: September 11 - November 1, 2004
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Pen & Ink Politics: Editorial Cartoons
Description: Building on drawings selected by Microforms & Newspapers, this collection presents an array of cartoons responding to the 9/11 attacks and the War on Terror.
Location: UW Tacoma Library
Dates: September 11 - November 1, 2004
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In the Tideflats, Anything but a Dungeon
Description: In April, 2004, the Northwest Detention Center opened to the steadily growing population of undocumented immigrants. Learn more about the history and role of this new facility in the Tacoma Tideflats.
Location: UW Tacoma Library
Dates: September 11 - November 1, 2004
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Views of 9/11 on the Street
Description: How has life changed since 9/11? Photographs and quotes from people on the street record how 9/11 has influenced them.
Location: UW Tacoma Library
Dates: September 11 - November 1, 2004
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A Day Like any other Day
Description: A collection of photographs document one person’s experience of a day like any other day, yet not like any other: 9/11/04.
Location: UW Tacoma Library
Dates: September 11 - November 1, 2004
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For more information about The September Project, visit www.theseptemberproject.org
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