news@michigandaily.com NEWS The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 19, 2004 - 3 Speaker urges collaborative movements Anti-war march to be held tomorrow On Saturday the Ann Arbor Area Committee for Peace, together with Anti-War Action! and Veterans for Peace, will hold a march and rally titled "The World STILL Says No To War." The event will send the message that the war in Iraq has been a tragic mistake. Participants will reflect upon the loss of life of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians. The day's events will begin at 11:30 a.m., when demonstrators will form marches at four Ann Arbor locations: People's Food Co-op at 216 N. Fourth Ave, at the front steps of the Michigan Union, South Main Market at 609 S. Main St. and Wildwood Families at Linwood Avenue and Arbana Drive, on the west side of Ann Arbor. The marchers will meet at the Federal Building at noon and proceed to the Diag for a rally Israel conference at League features many speakers The University's 3rd Annual Academ- ic Conference on Israel will be Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. at the Michi- gan League. This year's theme is "Israel: The Successes, The Setbacks, The Road Ahead." The conference is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is strongly encouraged at www israelcon- ference.com. Some of the speakers include Israeli Supreme Court Justice Dalia Dorner, Lt. Colonel Amos Guira of the Israeli Defence Forces School of Military Law and University of Michi- gan political science prof. Zvi Gitelman. Dance Marathon raises money for charity this weekend Dance Marathon is this weekend from 10 a.m. tomorrow to 4 p.m. on Sunday at the Indoor Track and Field Building. Dancers will stay on their feet for 30 hours to raise money in support of William Beaumont Hospi- tal in Royal Oak and C. S. Mott Chil- dren's Hospital in Ann Arbor. Students are encouraged to be dancers and moralers at the marathon. There will be a variety of activities, including a line dance, sports and arts and crafts. Legislators come to Union to talk about environment U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow and state Sen. Liz Brater, both Democrats, will speak Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the Uni- versity Club in the Michigan Union. They will be speaking about women, politics and the environment. This event will recognize two prominent female political leaders and highlight the critical connection between politics and the environment. Journalists discuss politics, environment Environmental journalists from around the nation will hold a panel dis- cussion today at 4:15 p.m. in Room 1040 of the Dana Building. The pan- elists, members of the National Board of the Society of Environmental Jour- nalists, will answer questions about politics and the environment. Event showcases social role of museums, sites A symposium titled "Activating the Past" will explore museums as gathering places today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Rackham Amphithe- ater. The event brings together the leading forces in an international movement to change the role of his- toric sites in civic life. Presenters include representatives from the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, St. Augustine's Church, the Japanese American National Museum and the Perm Gulag Museum. A public reception will be held from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. in Rackham's fourth floor reception hall. Tibetan expert speaks at University Geshe Michael Roach, the first American to ever complete the rigor- ous 20-year geshe program of advanced Buddhist studies at a Tibetan monastery, will be speaking today at 2 p.m. in Room 1636 of the School of Social Work Building. As part of the South Asia Guest f 'Lecture Series, he will be aiviniz a By Lucille Vaughan Daily Staff Reporter Dan Clawson took last night to pose a question to student activists, asking, "How do we turn the world around?" Clawson, a sociology professor and co-presi- dent of the faculty union at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, encouraged activists to unite in correcting injustices from the past last night. Clawson, who spoke to about 40 students in the School of Social Work, called for unions and the labor movement to combine their efforts with social movements involving race and gender to facilitate greater social justice and corporate accountability. "I'm not saying everyone in the labor movement has gotten over their racism, sexism and national- ism," he said. "I'm saying it has come a long way." Clawson said that a great opportunity was missed when these two groups did not collabo- rate earlier. "I would argue that the central tragedy for the left in the past 50 years is that the social move- ments of the 1960s did not connect with the labor movement," he said. Yet Clawson claimed labor organizations are steadily creating partnerships with a wider range of groups to promote equality in the workforce. "In order to mount an effective campaign, unions are being forced to form alliances with student groups and communities," he said. Clawson also criticized the current state of corporate ethics in America. "Things look really gruesome in the labor movement," he said. "Cor- porations are not accountable to anyone as it stands now." The event was part three in the "Corporate Crime and Justice Speaker Series" sponsored by Solidarity, Justice for Bhopal, Amnesty International and Stu- dents Organizing for Labor and Economic Equality. SOLE recently petitioned the University for greater wage disclosure in all factories that produce school apparel. The University Advisory Council on Labor Standards and Human Rights discussed the propos- al at a meeting last week. RC junior Lauren Heidtke said Clawson's address left her feeling more empowered as a socially involved college student. "I thought that it was really interesting that stu- dents were included as a relevant source of power," she said. "I feel, as a student activist, this gives us more legitimacy." Rackham student Pete Soppelsa approved Clawson's message of uniting the labor move- ment with social movements such as feminism. "As a general union policy, equal work gets equal pay," he said. "These links are slowly form- ing. We should push it to the logical extreme." LSA sophomore Becky Tarlau said labor organizations are continually threatened by com- panies such as Cintas Corporation, which manu- factures apparel for the University. "Union membership is decreasing because people are afraid they will lose their jobs if they join a union," she said. "It's dangerous for work- ers to talk to union organizers because then they'll get fired for no reason." Wade Gates, a spokesman for Cintas, said there are no barriers to union entry in the company. "Our position on unions is that it is up to the individual as to whether they want to belong to a union or not," he said. "Where it is the choice of the individual to have union representation, we negotiate fairly and honestly with them." Gates added that out of 27,000 Cintas employ- ees in the United States and Canada, about 700 of them have chosen to be in a union. Ronald Wagner, who was scheduled to speak at the event about his experiences as a Cintas employee, never arrived. Gates said in his initial search he could find no record of Wagner as a Cintas employee. RC sophomore Claire Beyers, a member of SOLE, said her group hoped to raise awareness of corporate injustice in the University community. "Our whole mission is to bring social and eco- nomic justice," she said. "Tonight is an educa- tional event. We want the University to contract with companies with high ethics." Beach parly Justice Scalia will hear case involving Cheney WASHINGTON (AP) - In typically combative style, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dis- missed a request yesterday that he stay out of a case involving his friend, Vice President Dick Cheney, saying a duck hunting trip they took was acceptable socializing that wouldn't cloud his judgment. "If it is reasonable to think that a Supreme Court justice can be bought so cheap, the nation is in deeper trouble than I had imagined," Scalia wrote in response to the Sierra Club's request that he disqualify himself. The environmental organization is pursuing a lawsuit that seeks to compel the Bush administra- tion to release information about closed-door meetings of Cheney's energy task force, which crafted the administration's energy policy. At issue in the case are allegations that energy industry executives and lobbyists were in on the Cheney meetings while environmentalists were shut out. Cheney is a former energy executive. In his 21-page statement, Scalia revealed details for the first time of his trip with Cheney to Louisiana, where the justice hunts each winter. He said he was the go-between to invite Cheney to hunt with a Scalia friend, Wallace Car- line, who owns an oil rig services firm. Scalia and Cheney are friends from their days working in the Ford administration, the justice noted, and the trip plans were made before the energy case went before the court. Scalia and Cheney flew together on a govern- ment jet, accompanied by one of Scalia's sons and a son-in-law. The justice said that he still bought a round-trip airline ticket and "none of us saved a cent by flying on the vice president's plane." The court agreed in December to hear the ener- gy task force case, and three weeks later Scalia and Cheney flew to Carline's hunting camp. The trip spurred calls from some Democratic lawmakers and dozens of newspapers for Scalia to recuse himself. The Sierra Club spoke of "the continuing damage this affair is doing to the pres- tige and credibility of this court." Supreme Court justices, unlike judges on other courts, decide for themselves if they have con- flicts, and their decisions are final. There was no obligation for Scalia to explain his decision, but he did in a 21-page memorandum. The conservative Reagan administration appointee said that despite "embarrassing criti- cism and adverse publicity" he saw no reason to step aside because of the 48-hour excursion with the vice president. "My recusal is required if ... my impartiality might reasonably be questioned," Scalia said. 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