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Tuesday <b>9/4, 6:00pm Brookens Center</b> County Board chambers,
1776 E. Washington, Urbana<br>
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"The County Board will likely be deciding which firm will be
doing the <b>needs assessment concerning the county jail issue</b>.
This is a crucial decision, so we encourage as many people as
possible to attend. Public participation begins at 6 followed by the
meeting at 7. That will be at Brookens, 1776 E. Washington, Urbana.
Hope to see you there."<br>
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Tuesday <b>9/4, 7pm</b> (overlapping the above County Board
meeting)<br>
<b>"Capitalism isn't working - Build the Socialist
alternative"</b><b><br>
</b><b> room 1028 Lincoln Hall,</b> UIUC campus (Wright and
Armory)<br>
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"Capitalism doesn't work in the interests of the majority of us
-- we need something radically different. We believe it is possible
to win a world where human need and not corporate greed is at the
center of our society."<br>
Sponsored by ISO UIUC (International Socialist Org.)<br>
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Wednesday <b>9/5, 9:30-10:30am</b> <b>teleconference on </b><b>Restorative
Justice</b> (sign up in advance), with Michelle Alexander<br>
The Peace Alliance is organizing a series of discussions on
Restorative Justice. The first of them will be this Wednesday
morning, and involving Michelle Alexander -- author of "The New Jim
Crow". Others are scheduled later this week and next, with speakers
including Mikhail Lyubansky of UIUC (9/13), and Carl Stauffer of
Eastern Mennonite University (9/19).<br>
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You can sign up for the Wednesday morning event with Michelle
Alexander at<br>
<a
href="http://dopeace.us/events/restorative-justice-telecouncil-series-michelle-alexander-author-">http://dopeace.us/events/restorative-justice-telecouncil-series-michelle-alexander-author-</a><br>
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A list of Restorative Justice events is at:<br>
<a
href="http://dopeace.us/events/event/listByLocation?location=Telecouncil">http://dopeace.us/events/event/listByLocation?location=Telecouncil</a><br>
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They're sponsored by The Peace Alliance.<br>
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Thursday <b>9/6, 5:00PM, Urbana Veterans' Memorial</b> (Main
& Broadway, near the county courthouse)<br>
<b>Demonstration in support of Bradley Manning</b>, accused
whistleblower. This is part of nationally coordinated
demonstrations (see e.g. Alliance for Global Justice or
WarIsACrime.net) on that date -- the eve of Obama's acceptance
speech.<br>
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Sunday <b>9/9</b><b>, 3pm, Champaign Public Library</b><br>
<b>An "Al Nakba" survivor's story: A Hope for Peace</b><br>
<br>
Presentation and discussion by a Palestinian grandmother, Mrs.
Fatima Sehweil, who experienced "Al Nakba", The Catastrophe, in
1948.<br>
<br>
Come hear her personal survival story as well as a discussion<br>
by her daughter and granddaughter, Nida and Lena Elmuti.<br>
Sponsored by the U-C Peace Initiative.<br>
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Wednesday <b>9/12 5:30pm Champaign Public Library</b><br>
<b>"Can Technology Serve Social Justice?"</b> lecture by Virginia
Eubanks, SUNY Albany<br>
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In this talk, Dr. Eubanks will reflect on fifteen years of
efforts with three grassroots organizations–Our Knowledge, Our
Power: Surviving Welfare, the Popular Technology Workshops, and
Women at the YWCA Making Social Movement– to make technology serve
the needs of oppressed and exploited people in the United States.<br>
Contact: Sharon Irish, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:slirish@illinois.edu">slirish@illinois.edu</a><br>
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Tuesday <b>9/18 7pm room 114 David Kinley Hall</b>, UIUC (across
Gregory St from Main UofI Library)<br>
<b>"Blacks in Latin America" </b><br>
Lecture by <b>Henry Louis Gates</b>, Harvard University<br>
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Friday <b>9/21 6pm Public forum on alternatives to
incarceration</b><br>
This is part of the campaign against the plan to spend $20 million
on
new jail cells. There are alternatives. There are better ways to
spend
tax money. This will be a panel, including:<br>
<ul>
<li>Rev. Zernial Bogan of Black Chamber of Commerce,</li>
<li>Diana Zell of National Alliance on Mental Illness,</li>
<li>Diane Lenik of ACLU, a rep from the Immiegration Forum and</li>
<li>James Kilgore of Citizens with Convictions.<br>
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</li>
</ul>
Sponsored by C-U Citizens for Peace and Justice.<br>
For more info on the campaign visit: <a href="http://cucpj.org/">cucpj.org<br>
</a><br>
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