Daytime Events

Evening Events

Sunday, 1/5

Monday, 1/6

Public Informational Meeting - 5:30 pm, Lewiston Multipurpose Center . 145 Birch St., Lewiston. Sponsored by the Many and One Coalition. Open to the public.

We'll be updating people on the latest info, answering questions, working out last minute logistics, and trying to put people to work helping out with all the last minute tasks.

Campus Informational Meeting - 7:30 pm Chase Hall - space limitations require us to limit this event to members of the Bates community. The purpose of this meeting is to:

• a) give members of the Bates community accurate information as to what has happened over break
• b) acquaint members of the Bates community with multiple ways they can respond and be involved
• c) connect members of the Bates community who are interested in involvement with one another

Tuesday, 1/7

12:00pm - "Not in Our Town" - 
Muskie Archives  - How Billings Montana fought the Hatemongers and Won

12:30pm - 1:00 pm Somalis in Lewiston - Muskie Archives - A film about Lewiston's newest immigrants

Donations for United Somali Women of Maine and Daryeelka (a Somali
agency to assist women and children) will be received

Public Safety Training

5:30-8pm. Lewiston Multipurpose Center . 145 Birch St. Child care and transportation provided. Call Fatuma at 795-4065 or Kate at 946-4478 .

Open to all members of the Lewiston/Auburn Community

Come learn how to respond to:

• Violence in the streets
• Harassment
• Hate and racism

Wednesday, 1/8

Somalis or Somalians - a lecture by Professor Elizabeth Eames of the Department of Anthropology, 12:05-12:55, Pettigrew 204

When Hate Comes to Your Community - 6-9pm. Teach-in at the in Muskie Archives sponsored by the Bates College MultiCultural Center

Thursday, 1/9

 All Campus Meeting -  Chase Lounge: 7:00 pm: a student directed forum to discuss the issues January 11th raises for the Bates community.

Friday, 1/10

4:15 p.m. - Teach-in at the in Muskie Archives, The Ideology of Hate Past and Present. Participants include Stephen Hochstadt, Steven Wessler, U.S.M., and Kelvin Datcher from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Bates Community International Dinner - Commons - 5:00 - 7:00 pm - space limitations require us to limit this event to members of the Bates community [donations will benefit community organizations]

Friday Night Service of Worship   - 6:30 p.m. Jan. 10 in the Temple Shalom Synagogue-Center, 94 Bradman St., Auburn. ed by lay leaders of the synagogue, the 60-minute service will be followed by a talk, titled "Bigotry and Wounded Masculinity," by Howard Solomon, professor of history and of gay and Jewish studies at Tufts University and scholar-in-residence at the Lesbian and Gay Archives at the University of Southern Maine's Jean Byers Sampson Center on Diversity.  

Refreshments will follow. For more information, call the synagogue at 207-786-4201.

Candlelight Vigil - step outside and light a candle from 8:00-8:30. All over the state people just like you will brave the cold and dark to stand together for our community.

 Outfront Annual Drag Show - Olin Concert Hall, 9:00 [donations will benefit Outright/Lewiston-Auburn]

American History X - 11:00pm - Olin 104 [donations will benefit the Trinity Jubilee Center which provides social services to folks in downtown Lewiston]

Saturday, 1/11

Alternative Events:

Merrill Gymnasium Bates College, 1-3 pm

DANCE! - Gray Cage - 10:00 - 2:00 pm. Sponsored by the Men's and Women's Ice Hockey Teams. space limitations require us to limit this event to Bates students and their guests. [Donations will benefit community organizations]

Sunday, January 12

Community Brunch - Lewiston Y, 12:00 noon. A chance to discuss the events of the 11th. All are welcome, free of charge.

Wednesday, 1/15

The Interactive Nature of Gender and Racial Discrimination: A Social Dominance and Evolutionary Perspective. PGill G52, 4:15 pm (Keck Classroom). The Psychology Club sponsors a talk by Professor Jim Sidanius  of UCLA. Open to the general public at no charge.

Ali Khalif Galaydh - 7:30pm, Muskie Archives. The prime minister of Somalia in 2000 and 2001, will speak on the past and future of Somalia [open to the public at no charge].