This week's calls to citizenship include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.)
- The Rochester Civil Liberties Coalition and the Brighton Town Board will sponsor a program on the impact of the Patriot Act at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 6, at the Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Avenue. Panelists will be ACLU attorneys.
- Planned Parenthood will hold a "Free EC Day" on Wednesday, December 6, giving away emergency contraceptive pills, one per person. A list of the regional clinics, addresses, and hours is available at 1-866-600-6886 or www.pprsr.org.
- The UR's Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education will host a program titled "Evaluating School Reform: What Values Should We Use, and How Should We Use Them?" at 7 p.m. Thursday, December 7, River Campus, Schlegel Hall, Room 207. Harry Brighouse, professor of philosophy and educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the speaker.
- Rochester Indymedia is presenting "Revolution, Resistance, and Repression: the People's Struggle for a Liberated Oaxaca," an information session with activists Ted Forsyth and Javier Maldonado, at 6 p.m. Friday, December 8, at St. Joseph's House of Hospitality, 402 South Avenue. The program will include a screening of the last footage taken by Brad Will, a New York City Indymedia journalist, before he was killed by paramilitary forces in Mexico.
- MCC's Holocaust Genocide Studies Project will show two films, "Hotel Rwanda" and "Lost Boys of Sudan," Monday, December 11, starting at 6 p.m. The screenings take place at the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Warshof Conference Room; parking is available in Lot M. The event is free and open to the public, but donations will be accepted for the Water for Sudan Effort, a project MCC students started in 2004 to raise funds for drilling fresh-water wells in southern Sudan.