[OccupyCU] compiled list of upcoming May events from AWARE

[Karen Medina]

[compiled list of upcoming May events from AWARE - karen medina]
=== May 2012 ===
Roy Zimmerman, "Live from the Starving Ear", satirical songs
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
7:00pm until 8:30pm
Main Lounge of Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory drive, Urbana, Illinois
Roy Zimmerman has made a "campaign promise" to perform his wickedly
inventive satirical songs in all fifty states before the Republican
Convention. “Live From the Starving Ear” is a 90-minute juggernaut of
funny songs and comic commentary on presidential politics, the Occupy
Movement, the Tea Party, abstinence, Creationism, and same sex
marriage.
* His songs have been heard on HBO and Showtime. He has recorded for
Warner/Reprise Records. He’s been profiled on NPR’s “All Things
Considered,” and he's a featured blogger for the Huffington Post.
Roy’s YouTube videos have garnered over seven million views and tens
of thousands of comments, many of them coherent.
* The Los Angeles Times says, “Zimmerman displays a lacerating wit and
keen awareness of society’s foibles that bring to mind a latter-day
Tom Lehrer.”
* Tom Lehrer himself says, "I congratulate Roy Zimmerman on
reintroducing literacy to comedy songs."
* Joni Mitchell says, "Roy's lyrics move beyond poetry and achieve perfection."

Immigration Forum
Thursday, May 3
7pm-8:30pm
Champaign Public Library

Saturday, May 5, 2012
Opening day of AWARE's table at Urbana's Market at the Square (aka
Farmer's Market)
Every Saturday morning, 8am to noon

Saturday, May 5, 2012
2pm-4pm
Monthly peace demonstration
corner of Neil Street and Main Street in Champaign

Saturday, May 5th
East Central Illinois Jobs With Justice (the Mother Jones Chapter)
Direct Action Training day 1 of 2
Day long training
Dates/Time: May 26, 2012 9:30 am to 5 pm
Location:  Urbana Free Library; Lewis Auditorium in basement
Cost = $30, breakfast and lunch provided
To register: email dlj725 at hughes.net or call 217-721-0583
* Presenters :
* David Johnson , Carpenters for a Democratic Union, IWW,, Jobs with
Justice; Illinois World Labor Hour, Labor’s World View TV
* Pat Simpson, Jobs with Justice; Emerita Professor, Industrial
Relations, Loyola University; adjunct instructor, Labor Education
Program, University of Illinois; Illinois World Labor Hour
* Dave P., longtime prekarious-worker, troublemaker and Wobbly, with
deep roots in anti-globalization and social justice struggles.
* Paul Gallager, is a former prosecutor turned peace and justice
activist. He has been a member of the St. Jude Catholic Worker
community in Champaign, IL for the past 15 years. During that time he
has engaged in various forms of non-violent civil disobedience and
peace and justice organizing locally and throughout the country.


Educational forum on the Champaign County Jail proposal (by CU
Citizens for Peace and Justice)
Friday, May 11, 2012
6pm
Urbana City Council Chambers / 400 S. Vine St., Urbana, Illinois
On May 11 CUCPJ is sponsoring a community meeting so that the citizens
of Champaign County can get information on the County Board's plans to
take on more than 20 million dollars in debt for building an extension
to the Satellite Jail in east Urbana. Come out and get all of the
information on the project, and make your voice heard!
* If you think there are better ways to use taxpayers’ money, come and
make your voice be heard.
Speakers:
· Carol Ammons, County Board member who opposes the jail proposal
· Members of Decarcerate Monroe County, a group that stopped a similar
proposal in Bloomington, Indiana
· Community members
 official link for the May 11 community meeting on the plans to expand
the satellite jail in east Urbana:
https://www.facebook.com/events/346044992122228/


For the NATO protest in Chicago.
A bus will be going from Champaign May 20 - leaving early and coming back late.

May 18 - 19, 2012; G8 at Camp David
May 20 - 21
The G8 meeting has been moved to Camp David instead of Chicago (May 18 - 19)
The gathering of NATO allies and the International Security Assistance
Force (ISAF) will go on in Chicago as planned in mid-May.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-g8-summit-to-be-held-at-camp-david-not-chicago-20120305,0,2787373.story
The G8 summit will take place on May 18 and 19, addressing a range of
economic, political and security issues.  The president will then host
the NATO allies and partners on May 20 and 21 in Chicago, where they
will discuss the war in Afghanistan and their planned withdrawal.

May 26
Jobs With Justice activist training day 2 of 2

=== June 2012 ===
Socialism 2012 Conference
Begins Thursday, June 28 at 6:00pm
through Sunday July 1
Location: Crowne Plaza Chicago Ohare Hotel & Conf Center
Join us for more than 100 presentations on such topics as:
Where Is the Egyptian Revolution Going? • The Future of the Occupy
Movement • Marxism and Imperialism • The Overpopulation Myth • The
Communist Manifesto • The New War On Women • What is the Real Marxist
Tradition?