[OccupyCU] Friday GA @ CPL rm B; Wednesday 7pm "Arab Spring" talk from Stephen Zunes

[Stuart Levy]

Friday's GA will be back on Champaign Library's main floor -- room "B" 
this time (6-9pm 2/17).
And I think Theresa is booking us for the following week.

There's an interesting guest-in-residence this week at Allen Hall on the 
UofI campus - Stephen Zunes, who's written about peace and war and about 
resistance movements in the Middle East and elsewhere.

He's very supportive of nonviolent popular resistance. Violent uprisings 
take aim at the strongest parts of the well-armed state, he said last 
night, while comparing nonviolent ones to aikido. And, historically, 
violent uprisings are more likely to replace one dictatorial regime with 
another, while nonviolent ones are more likely to lead to democratic 
rule, though he didn't claim there weren't exceptions.

Anyway, Zunes is giving several talks this week - 7pm every day, and others.
Wednesday's might be especially interesting for us:

Wed Feb 15 7pm Allen Hall South Rec room (in the basement)
"The Arab Spring and the Power of Nonviolent Action"

Allen Hall is at 1005 W. Gregory Drive, toward the SE side of the UofI 
campus, just east of a parking structure at Gregory and Dorner streets. 
Buses 12/120 Teal and 13/130 Silver stop there, and others pass close by.

Other events with Zunes this week:

Monday, February 13
7pm – The Iraq War and its Legacy (south rec room)

Tuesday, February 14
7pm – The United States and the Israel-Palestinian Peace Process (south 
rec room, basement)
9pm - Philosophallen + Zunes discuss war, violence and nonviolence 
(guest apartment)
(Guest apt. is somewhere on the main floor -- just ask)

Wednesday, February 15
7pm – The Arab Spring and the Power of Nonviolent Action (south rec 
room, basement)
9:30pm - SociAL LEns + Zunes discuss US foreign policy and the elections 
(guest apartment)

Thursday, February 16
7pm – How to Deal with Iran (south rec room, basement)