This site features information about events sponsored by the Milwaukee Campaign to Ban Landmines and other organizations related to the landmine issue. For information about any of the programs listed below send an e-mail to lbohn@csd.uwm.edu or call 414-332-5629.

FEBRUARY

• February 26-27, 2000
  Schedule a Landmine Awareness Sunday at your place of worship.

• February 29, 2000
  Great Decisions, "Indonesia"
  UWM Golda Meir Library
  7:30-9:00 PM

MARCH

• March 1, 2000
  MCBL Press Conference at Milwaukee City Hall and Kick-Off to Fundraising Drive

• March 6-10, 2000
  Visual display celebrating International Women's Day will include information about the landmine issue (UWM Union Concourse)

• March 8, 2000
  Film Screening:
  Two Films focusing on Women in the Midst of Conflict
  UWM Union Fireside Lounge
  7:00-9:00 PM
  • Regret to Inform
    On January 1, 1968, Barbara Sonneborn's husband, Jeff Gurvitz, left to fight in the Vietnam War. Eight weeks later, February 29, 1968, he crawled out of a foxhole during a mortar attack to rescue his radio operator and was killed. Sonneborn learned of her husband's death on her 24th birthday. "We regret to inform you..." read the official notice.
  • Killing Fields: The Deadly Legacy of Landmines
    Over one hundred million landmines are scattered around the world, killing and maiming hundreds each month (one person every 22 minutes). Most of the victims are innocent civilians trying to reclaim farmland in the aftermath of conflict. Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams, Senator Patrick Leahy, and Stephen Goose of Human Rights Watch talke about the horrors of landmines in developing countries.

• March 21, 2000
  Interfaith Luncheon, "A World Without Landmines"
  First Unitarian Church (Ogden and Astor)
  12:00-1:30 PM

• March 23-24, 2000
  Wisconsin Model United Nations Conference
  UWM Union

• April 28-29, 2000
  Human Rights Conference:

  Between the Global and the Local: Making Human Rights Claims in the 21st Century
  UWM Hefter Conference Center

JUNE

Justice Walk Focusing on the Landmine Issue (Culmination of fundraising drive)