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 2005.

The September Project 2005 @ the UW Libraries:

UW Bothell
UW Seattle
UW Tacoma

Past September Project events @ UW Libraries:

2004

Pen & Ink Politics: Editorial cartoons and democratic elections

The Microforms & Newspapers staff looked through 75 newspapers published around the world for political cartoons about the democratic elections in Afghanistan, Ukraine, United States, Iraq, United Kingdom, and European Constitution Referendums in France, Spain, and the Netherlands. The newspapers we searched and the guidelines that we followed are listed below.

Newspapers

Canada Globe and Mail	Israel Ha'Aretz (Ha'aretz) Jerusalem Post	Singapore Straits Times
Czech Republic Lidove Noviny	Italy Corriere della Sera	South Africa Mail and Guardian
Denmark Berlingske Tidende	Japan Japan Times	Spain el Pais
Egypt al Ahal al Ahram aL Ahrar al Hayat Middle East Observer	Kenya Daily Nation	Syria Ba'ath Tishrin
France le Canard Enchaine Liberation le Monde	Lebanon al Liwa al Nahar	Turkey Radikal
Germany Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung	Nicaragua la Prensa	United Kingdom Guardian Independent Observer Times
India the Hindu Indian Express	Norway Aftenposten	United States Atlanta Journal-Constitution Catholic Worker Chicago Defender Eat the State Freedom Socialist Los Angeles Times Right Turn San Francisco Chronicle Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle Times Spokesman Review the Sun Tri-City Herald Washington Post
Indonesia Kompas Republica	Russia Argumenty I Fakty Izvestija St. Petersburg Times
Iran Ittila'at (Ettela'at)	Saudi Arabia al Riyadh

Guidelines for Selecting Cartoons

Look through the domestic and foreign newspapers listed on the back of this sheet. These newspapers should be familiar to you because they are included in your newspaper processing section. Although the elections were held on specific dates, they were in the news for weeks, months, sometimes years. We can’t possibly look through everything, so please focus on the time periods listed for each election.
Find cartoons that express a message about the elections listed below. Try to find cartoons that present all viewpoints, such as "conservative" "liberal" "pro" "con"
Some of the newspapers will be on microfilm. Some of the papers will be in print (located near the current newspaper display shelves, in the sub-basement, or in the ULMP processing area).
Make a photocopy of each cartoon. If on microfilm, use the bypass key. If in print, ask Barbara or Jessica about the staff photocopier.
Fill out and attach one Citation Form to EACH and EVERY cartoon.
As you work on this project, please leave the cartoons on your assigned shelf (located across from the lockers).

Events:

Afghanistan Presidential election held October 9, 2004 Newspapers published October 1, 2004 through November 30, 2004

Ukraine Presidential election held October 31, 2004 Newspapers published October 1, 2004 through January 31, 2005

United States Presidential election held November 2, 2004 Newspapers published October 1, 2004 through November 30, 2004

Washington State Governor election held November 2, 2004 Newspapers published October 1, 2004 through June 6, 2005 While we would like for you to look through all of the issues during this time period, if that seems to take too long you might focus on the two weeks surrounding these key dates:

Nov. 2: Election Day. Gregoire is up by 7,000 votes at the end of the night, with hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots yet to be counted.
Nov. 17: With all counties reporting, Rossi wins by 261 votes. State law triggers a machine recount.
Nov. 30: The secretary of state certifies the result of the machine recount, making Rossi the winner by 42 votes.
Dec. 23: Gregoire wins a final, hand recount by 129 votes, the smallest percentage margin of any governor's election in national history.
Jan. 7: Rossi announces he will challenge the election in Chelan County Superior Court.
Jan. 12: Gregoire is inaugurated.
May 23: The two-week election challenge trial begins.
June 6: Judge John Bridges rejects Rossi's case, dismissing his election challenge petition with prejudice.
June 6: Rossi abandons his election challenge.

Iraq Parliamentary election held January 30, 2005 Newspapers published January 1, 2005 through February 28, 2005

United Kingdom Parliamentary election held May 5, 2005 Newspapers published April 1, 2005 through May 31, 2005

European Constitution Referendum – Spain February 20, 2005; France May 29, 2005; Netherlands June 1, 2005 Spain, Newspapers published February 1, 2005 through February 28, 2005 France and Netherlands, Newspapers published May 1, 2005 through June 31, 2005