[OccupyCU] incomplete list of peace and justice upcoming events (week of November 4, 2012)

[Karen Medina]

incomplete list of peace and justice upcoming events (week of November 4, 2012)
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"Into the West" Film Series
Sunday, November 4 @ 4pm
Location: Native American House
Episode II "Manifest Destiny"

[addressing the white male power system]
Talk: A Tale of Two Wives, A Tale of Two Lives - the Intersection of
Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation and Relationships - R. Shirene
Thomas, MSEd
Monday, November 5 @ 12pm
Location: Women's Resource Center (703 S. Wright St., 2nd Flr)

"Into the West" Film Series
Monday, November 5 @ 4pm
Location: Native American House
Episode III "Dreams of Schemes"

OccupyCU meeting (GA)
Monday, November 5 @ 7pm
IMC / 202 South Broadway, Urbana | room: School for Designing A
Society room (aka: Grandpa Wahlfeldt Family Room)

Vote! if you did not already do early voting.
2012 Election
Ballot for Champaign County:
http://www.champaigncountyclerk.com/elections/docs/2012/G2012FULL.pdf
Other information:
http://www.champaigncountyclerk.com/elections/registration_status.html

[improving cultural understanding]
Talk: Giving Life to Death: Lolita Lebron's Politics of Rican
Existence - Sandra Ruiz, Latina/Latino Studies Post-Doc
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Noon (12pm)
Location: Asian American Cultural Center


[improving cultural understanding]
Talk: Journey to Native Lands: A Conversation with Runner-Up
(2012-2013) Miss Indian World - Joanne Morales, United Confediration
of Taino People, Youth Program Coordinator
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Noon (12pm)
Location: Native American House (BNAACC)

NEXT GLOBAL LENS FILM SCREENING:
7pm | Wednesday, November 7, 2012 | University YMCA | Latzer Hall
Film: TOLL BOOTH (Gise Memuru) | Director: Tolga Karaçelik | 2010 | 96 minutes
Language: Turkish, with subtitles in English
Synopsis of the film: A taciturn tollbooth attendant shuffles between
a suffocating home life with his ailing father and the monotony of the
box where he works. Desperate to resist his father's attempt to marry
him off while determined to prove his worth by fixing his family's
broken-down car, he drives himself toward a nervous breakdown. After a
reassignment to a desolate country road, he begins a flirtatious
relationship with a woman who drives by each day. But is this
salvation for the aging bachelor, or the further unraveling of his
mind? An expert cast and keen art direction contribute to this wry,
heartbreaking ode to lost dreams in a sleepwalking world.

Taino Cultural Performance by Joanne Morales (Taino)
Wednesday, November 7 @ 7:30pm
Location: Illini Union Courtyard Cafe
Co-sponsored by: NASO, NAH, Inclusive Illinois, Illini Union Courtyard
Cafe, La Casa Cultural Latina

SEIU picket
Thursday, November 8, 2012
7am until 8am
Where: University of Illinois Athletic and Recreation Center (ARC) /
201 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, Illinois
Why is the union picketing? "UIUC is balancing its raises for top
administrators on the backs of the lowest paid workers on campus,
trying to snatch Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, and much more!"

GEO Rally
Thursday, November 8 at 12:00pm at Undergraduate Library / 1408 W.
Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL

[increasing cultural understanding]
Panel discussion: I Don't have to CHOOSE: Balancing My Identitites -
Panel Discussion with Multiracial Students
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Noon (12pm-1pm)
Location: La Casa Cultural Latina

Making Do, Making Home: Gender and Borders in Chinese and Mexican Los
Angeles During the Early Twentieth Century
Thursday, November 8, 2012 @ 4pm
Location: 1060 Lincoln Hall

[on the issue of better health care]
Statewide Strategy Call | Thursday, November 8, 2012 | 4pm
Register online: http://www.cbhconline.org/hcjc/strategy-ccall
[Campaign for Better Health Care | offices in Champaign and Chicago]
Agenda:
1)  Impact of Tuesday's Election
2)  Gov. Quinn Sent a declaration letter to HHS (pdf) stating that
Illinois will move forward with a state insurance exchange in 2015.
One hundred organizations signed the letter to Quinn pushing for this
decison.
3)  Update on Legislative Meetings: Seven have occurred already, with
dozens more being scheduled.
Legislator Meeting List:  Please click here to let us know which
legislators you organizations can meet with and when you'll be
scheduling those meetings.  With the House Dems moving forward, we
need to make sure your Representatives support the principles we've
discussed for governing a State Insurance Exchange.
4)  Update on the November 1st Democratic Implementation Task Force
meeting on the Insurance Exchange
5)  Health Care Justice Advocacy Day - Wednesday, November 28th in
Springfield, with Call Actions being planned to coordinate with the
event.


If you can't make the early SEIU picket, join the SEIU Picket II
Thursday, November 8, 2012, 4:30pm - 5:30pm at UIUC Physical Plant on
Kirby, corner of Oak St., Champaign

Art Exhibit [addressing the white male power system]
As You Are: A Body Image Empowerment Exhibit
November 8, 2012 to December 5, 2012
Location: Women's Resource Center (703 S. Wright St., 2nd Floor)
This exhibition aims to visually represent social constructs of the
"ideal" human form and the impact those constructions have on our
culture, society, and self-preceptions.
Deadline for submission: November 5, 2012

[increasing cultural understanding]
Talk: Racism vs. Discrimination, Discerning Differences in Bias -
Professor Chris Benson, College of Media
Friday, November 9, 2012
Noon (12pm-1pm)
Location: Native American House

"Voice Recital" By Keshena Watson (Maya, Mexican, Oglala Lakota,
Muscogee, Creek)
Saturday, November 10 @ 2pm
Location: Smith Hall

--- Saturday, November 10th event ---
An anti-war poetry reading to commemorate Veterans' Day.
Featured guest: Tim Bagwell, a Conscientious Objector from Vietnam
Veterans Against the War
Date: Saturday, November 10
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Place: The downstairs Family Room (School for Designing a Society space)
          Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway (Urbana post
office building)
          Enter by the stairs leading down on the Elm St. side.

We are delighted to have as our featured guest Tim Bagwell, long-time
activist with Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Bloomington,
Indiana, conscientious objector, and a well-known poet who has read
his work throughout the Midwest.
Read his poems at http://bagwellantiwarpoet.wordpress.com
or watch a video of Bagwell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW9wqH6sN5s

Tim will be joined by local artist Aaron Ammons, author of two poetry
anthologies and convener of the local Speak Cafe, a monthly event
celebrating Black Power with hip-hop, song, poetry and other spoken
word art forms.

Please come out, enjoy the poetry and re-commit to ending war.

Light snacks will be served.

For more information, contact Scott Kimball of IVAW
scttkmbll at gmail.com or Stuart Levy of AWARE stuartnlevy at gmail.com

It's especially appropriate that this will be held in the Grandpa
Wahlfeldt Family Room, named for the late Robert Wahlfeldt, a veteran
who became a fierce and outspoken opponent of war.   Thanks to the
School for Designing a Society for inviting us to this space.

Thanks *especially* to James Kilgore, who knows Tim Bagwell, alerted
people to his visit here, and is generally making the whole event
happen.   I'm looking forward to it!
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[Just so you know about this event
CU Contingent to the Midwest Marxism Conference
Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
Leaving Saturday, November 10, 2012]

[Just so you know about this event
Ban Fracking Meeting
First United Methodist Church in Normal, Illinois
Saturday, November 10
10am]

[Just so you know about this event
Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky, Juan Cole to speak at 33rd Annual
Conference for Peace
Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey
Sunday, November 11, 2012]



--- Wednesday, November 14 ----

It is time for reflection on South Africa. On August 16 South African
Police shot and killed 34 mineworkers at the Lonmin mine near
Marikana. This scale of violence against citizens and workers is
unprecedented in post-apartheid South Africa. How did this happen?
What are the implications for this country once called the Rainbow
Nation and its model of reconciliation?  The Center for African
Studies invites you to a public discussion of these events:

[A public discussion of the recent events in South Africa where 34
mineworkers were killed]
Date: Wednesday, November 14
Time: 5-7 p.m.
Place: 225 Temple Buell Hall

Presenters: Ken Salo, Department of Urban Planning and James Kilgore,
Center for African Studies.
Terri Barnes of the History Department will moderate.
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There's No Health without Mental Health: Raising Mental Health Awareness
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 @ 7pm
Location: Wilson Chapel Room at the YMCA
Sponsored by the Counseling Center Paraprofessional Program