37th, 38th & 39th Annual Commemorations: KSU, May 4, 2007, 2008 & 2009.

2009, 2008, 2007 ANNUAL ANNOUNCEMENTS/SPEAKERS:

Join us at Kent State University, May 4, 2009, for the 39th annual commemoration of the May 4, 1970 tragedy. At noon, outdoors on the KSU Commons, join the modern KSU students of the May 4 Task Force and their invited guest participants/speakers, including:

May 4 eyewitness Mary Ann Vecchio; Pulitzer-prize winner photographer John Filo; Laurel Krause, sister of Allison Krause; 1969 Ann Arbor White Panther leader Pun Plamundon; May 4 casualty Alan Canfora; 1970 eyewitness Steve Drucker; May 4 eyewitness Chic Canfora & other speakers & musicians.

May 3 evening events:
7pm: Kiva, Student Center, POETRY readings.
11pm: CANDLIGHT MARCH departs KSU Commons.
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL all night long: sign up with M4TF students to reserve your 30-minute vigil spot.

For more information, contact the May 4 Task Force students: http://dept.kent.edu/may4/

See also, regarding the 2009 May 4 Symposium sponsored by the KSU administration: http://www.kent.edu/About/History/May4/Democracy/index2.cfm

Finally, KSU is planning a new May 4 Site Visitor's Center in Taylor Hall:
http://www.kent.edu/may4/

JOIN US. All events are free & open to the public. *In case of rain, May 4 Commemoration will be held in the KSU Student Center Ballroom.

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May 3-4, 2008: JOIN US in Kent
38th annual Commemoration -- all events free and open to public -- sponsored by May 4 Task Force students at KSU: http://dept.kent.edu/may4/

May 3: 7pm, Kiva Auditorium of the KSU Student Center, RON KOVIC will introduce his film, BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY. Kovic will also answer audience questions after the film. A brief poetry reading session will occur to start the program.

May 3: 11pm-midnight: Annual candlelight march across the KSU campus. March culminates at Prentice Hall Parking Lot where our martyrs died in 1970. All-night vigil from midnight to noon. Contact May 4 Task Force students to sign-up for your 30-minute vigil reservation: http://dept.kent.edu/may4/

May 4: 11am-noon: pre-Commemoration music by Tropidelic Band.
May 4: Noon-2pm: 38th annual commemoration event sponsored by the dedicated KSU students of the May 4 Task Force.
Speakers include: Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector, expert on Iraq/Iran crisis; Ron Kovic, anti-war activist Vietnam Veteran and author; the family of revolutionary hero & attorney William Kunstler; 1970 KSU wounded students Dean Kahler and Joe Lewis, Jr.; other speakers to be announced. LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT OF KENT AND JACKSON STATE!

NOTE: the annual anti-Iraq War march from KSU to downtown Kent will follow the commemoration.

May 4: 6pm: The Kent Stage, East Main Street, downtown Kent: music event with several live bands and more.

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MAY 4 TASK FORCE
"Truth: The First Casualty of War"

May 2 - 4, 2007
Kent State University

NOTE: Mary Ann Vecchio will be the guest of the Kent May 4 Center in Kent, Ohio, during May 1-5, 2007. She will offer a KSU comment on May 4 at the noon commemoration.

May 2: 3:45-5 p.m. Guided Campus Tours with Thomas Hensley and May 4th State Historical Marker Commemoration, Kiva, KSU Student Center.

INVITATION: Our dear friend, Dr. Tom Grace, our esteemed May 4, 1970 casualty, comrade and historian, will deliver an oration upon the dedication of the Ohio state historical marker at the Kent State University campus on the afternoon of May 2, 2007. You are invited! Join us.

May 2 - 3

The 8th Annual Kent State University administration-sponsored "Symposium on Democracy" ...more info on symposium: http://www.kent.edu/About/History/May4/Democracy/2007events.cfm

May 3

May 3: 5;30pm-6;30pm, "Meet and Greet" wounded survivors of May 4, 1970, Kent State shooting incident. Robby Stamps, Dean Kahler, Tom Grace, Joe Lewis, Jim Russell , Alan Canfora and perhaps others will make a united statement against the Bush/Cheney war in Iraq. Public welcome. May 4 Room in KSU library.

TOM HAYDEN keynote speech, May 3, 2007, at 7:30-9pm in the Kiva auditorium, KSU Student Center. Tom Hayden founded Students for a Democratic Society, SDS, in 1962. See his great anti-war web site: http://www.tomhayden.com/ *** Come early. Packed house, certainly.

Annual Candlelight March*:
Gather at 10:45pm near the Victory Bell on The Commons. Map of route.

May 4

Annual Candlelight Vigil*: Midnight - 12:24 pm - Prentice Hall Parking Lot.

Annual May 4 Commemoration -- noon-2pm, KSU Commons, outdoors -- theme: "TRUTH, THE FIRST CASUALTY OF WAR" -- featuring anti-war activists Cindy Sheehan and Tom Hayden, as well as our US Congress Representative Tim Ryan. Also, Mary Ann Vecchio, Rosemary Palmer (son "Augie" was killed in Iraq), Joe Lewis and Jim Russell, wounded at KSU on May 4, 1970, will speak, as well as Gene Young, a Jackson State 1970 massacre eyewitness.

*If rainy weather, Commemoration in the KSU Student Center Ballroom.

*** annual anti-war march from KSU into downtown Kent will most likely follow M4TF noon-2pm commemoration. details to be announced.

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

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JOIN US in beautiful Kent, Ohio -- May 2-4, 2007, for annual commemoration events sponsored by students of the May 4 Task Force as well as the KSU administration/faculty “Symposium on Democracy”.

KSU students of the May 4 Task Force have sponsored annual commemorations since 1976 when KSU administrators abandoned their annual events.

For M4TF updates, see the M4TF web site: http://dept.kent.edu/may4/

Details announced soon...

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The 8th annual KSU Symposium on Democracy is May 2-4, 2007. For details, see: http://www.kent.edu/About/History/May4/Democracy/index.cfm

For details re: their Student Essay competition with cash prizes, DEADLINE APRIL 6, 2007: http://www.kent.edu/About/History/May4/Democracy/contest.cfm

Classes at Kent State are canceled from noon - 2 pm to allow more students to attend these events.

* May 4 Task Force programs are funded with Undergraduate Student Fees.