Volunteers are needed to leaflet and gather nomination signatures. To download flyers or learn more about the effort to gain 10,000 nomination signatures, click here: Signature Collection page.

For signature sheets or logistics information, call volunteer coordinator Patrick Keaney at 857-829-1882, or email volunteer@bonifaz.com (subject line "UMASS").

STUDENT UNION/LIBRARY LAWN, 8PM, TUESDAY, APRIL 18

Noted anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan will be in the Pioneer Valley on Tuesday, April 18th to speak in conjunction with the first-ever Tent State University on the campus of the University of Massachusetts--Amherst.

Cindy Sheehan is an internationally known mom and peace & social justice advocate whose son, Army Specialist Casey A. Sheehan, was killed in action in Sadr City, Baghdad, on April 4, 2004. Cindy Sheehan is founder of Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization of Americans who have had loved ones killed in wars.

Cindy's speech, which will in part address the ongoing war in Iraq and the connection between military spending and the lack of funding for public higher education, will be held at the main Tent State University tent on the Student Union Lawn at UMass and will begin at 8:00 pm. All are welcome and encouraged to attend this free event.

Immediately preceding Cindy at 7:30 pm will be a speech by Preston Smith, the co-chair of the Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute's Free Higher Education Campaign, who will talk about the current economic realities of public higher education and how we can work towards creating a system that is completely open and accessible to everyone.