[OccupyCU] compiled list of upcoming May events from AWARE

Tue May 1 16:03:19 UTC 2012

Hey Karen, and All, 

Thanks for great list of May events.  I am afraid I may have made mistake about there being two JWJ Activist Trainings in May.  As far as I have been able to discern from communications from JWJ, they will only be holding one, day long training session in May.  That one wil be on May 26th at the Urbana Library, from 9:30am to 5:00pm.  Sorry about confusion, I must have misunderstood things at that last meeting. 

Sandra 

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From: "Karen Medina" <kmedina67 at gmail.com> 
To: "occupycu" <occupyCU at lists.chambana.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 9:14:27 AM 
Subject: [OccupyCU] compiled list of upcoming May events from AWARE 

[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? 

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