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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt">First: this evening is one of several
events this week with visiting South African journalist/scholar
Richard Pithouse</span></span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt"><b>.<br>
</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Among good reasons to be interested in the
struggle of poor people in South Africa for their own housing:
it's an effective grassroots people's movement. And, politically,
people who had grown up with the ANC as the party of liberation
from apartheid, to which all should be loyal, now find it as the
governing party which demolishes poor people's informal
settlements. (Compare it with the Democratic Party vs. social
movements in the US!)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt"><br>
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt">Wed March 6th, 6:00PM<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"><br>
</span>“Urban and Housing Activism From Below”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Gregory Hall<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span></span></b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt">Panel Discussion including<b
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normal"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span
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</span>Richard Pithouse, visiting Scholar, Rhodes University,
South Africa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span
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</span>Asef Bayat, Sociology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span
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</span>Ken Salo, Urban and Regional Planning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span
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</span>Tariq Ali, History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">See [**] for more events below, including
Pithouse's talk at 4pm Thursday, and "Dear Mandela" Friday
evening.<br>
<span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p>Other
upcoming events -- (including note the Saturday morning
attempt to speak with South African Abahlali housing movement
members which moved earlier, to 9am Sat):<br>
</o:p></span></p>
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<div class="moz-forward-container"><b>7:15AM, 12:15PM, 4:15PM Thu
3/7 UofI Board of Trustees Rally for Fairness - Picket in
support of U of I SEIU workers, Illini Union<br>
<br>
4pm Thu 3/7 "Thought Amidst Waste: Politics in Shack
Settlements in South Africa",</b> Spurlock Museum<br>
lecture by visiting South African
scholar/journalist/activist Richard Pithouse -<br>
and see other events this week 3/4-3/9<br>
<br>
<b> <b>7:30pm Fri 3/8 film "Dear Mandela", with discussion,
University YMCA<br>
<br>
</b></b> <b>noon 3/8 Soulforce, Dr. Cindi Love - University
YMCA Friday Forum</b><br>
Dedicated to Relentless, Nonviolent Resistance to
Oppression Arising out of Fundamentalism<br>
<br>
<b>9am (changed: had been later) Sat 3/9 discussion</b><b> of Dear
Mandela</b>, Champaign Public Library room B<br>
(please see the film on 3/4 or 3/8 above), including
Skype with community members or the director<br>
<br>
<b>2pm Sat 3/9 panel "Community Knowledge" </b><b><b>in Durban
and S. Africa</b>,</b> Champaign Public Library rooms A+B<b><br>
</b> environmental justice, immigrant issues,
incarceration, etc.<br>
<br>
<b>6pm Mon 3/11 - lecture on Ida B. Wells,</b> Levis Faculty
Center<br>
Lecture by historian Prof. Mia Bay, of Rutgers University,
author of<br>
"To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells". <br>
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<b><br>
Pickets in support of SEIU workers,</b> Thu 3/7 morning, midday,
and afternoon --<br>
<br>
<b>7:15AM, 12:15PM, 4:15PM Thu 3/7 "</b><b><b>UofI Board of
Trustees Rally for Fairness" - </b>Picket in support of U of
I SEIU workers, Illini Union</b><br>
Come greet the U of Illinois Board of Trustees, who are
meeting at the Illini Union this Thursday.<br>
<br>
SEIU workers on the U. of Illinois campus have been without a
contract since last summer. Negotiations are ongoing, including
this week. A strike has been authorized - but perhaps can be
averted if the University takes the negotiations seriously. Come
out to show your support for the hard working SEIU building
service workers and food service workers!<br>
<b><br>
noon 3/8 Soulforce, Dr. Cindi Love - University YMCA Friday
Forum</b><br>
Dedicated to Relentless, Nonviolent Resistance to
Oppression Arising out of Fundamentalism<br>
<blockquote>The talk will focus on the challenges faced by
marginalized communities, who are often subjected to the
violence of exclusion, and highlight the non-violent efforts
made by Soulforce to resist the oppression arising out of the
fundamentalist agenda. <br>
</blockquote>
<br>
[**]<br>
<br>
<b>4pm Thu 3/7 Richard Pithouse, "Thought Amidst Waste: Politics
in Shack Settlements in South Africa",</b> Spurlock Museum<br>
<blockquote>Richard Pithouse, a South African scholar, journalist
and activist with the Durban shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali
baseMjondolo, will lecture on the political history of shack
settlements in South Africa and contemporary shack dwellers’
struggles as they illuminate the prospects for emancipatory
politics among the poor. Free and open to all.<br>
</blockquote>
Other events related to Pithouse's visit during this week, 3/4 -
3/9:<br>
<br>
<b><b><br>
6pm Wed 3/6 "Urban and Housing Activism from Below",</b>
313 Gregory Hall (as mentioned above)<br>
</b>panel discussion including <b>Richard Pithouse </b>(visiting
from Rhodes University, S. Africa); Asef Bayat, UIUC Sociology;
Ken Salo, Urban and Regional Planning; Tariq Ali, History<br>
<b><br>
7:30pm Fri 3/8 film "Dear Mandela", with discussion, University
YMCA</b><br>
<br>
<b>9am (changed: had been 10am) Sat 3/9 discussion</b><b> of Dear
Mandela</b>, Champaign Public Library room B<br>
discussion of the film (<b>please see it on 3/4 or 3/8 at
the YMCA</b>),<br>
including planned Skype with Abhhlali members or the
film's director<br>
<br>
<b>2pm Sat 3/9 community panel on "Community Knowledge" </b><b><b>in
Durban and S. Africa</b>,</b> Champaign Public Library rooms
A+B<b><br>
</b> addressing environmental justice, immigrant
issues, incarceration, etc.<br>
<br>
<br>
<b>6pm Mon 3/11 - 2013 Ida B. Wells Lecture,</b> in Levis Faculty
Center<br>
Lecture by historian Prof. Mia Bay, of Rutgers University,
author of<br>
"To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells".
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<p>Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless
anti‐lynching crusader, women’s rights advocate, and
journalist. Wells’s refusal to accept any compromise on
racial inequality caused her to be labeled a “dangerous
radical” in her day but made her a model for later civil
rights activists as well as a powerful witness to the
troubled racial politics of her era. </p>
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The University YMCA Friday Forum, at noon every Friday during the
school year, has a theme this year of Faith in Action. See the
full list of speakers here:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.universityymca.org/friday_forum/">http://www.universityymca.org/friday_forum/</a><br>
including<br>
<br>
<br>
3/29 Rev. Dr. Eugene Barnes, Metanoia Centers - Working on
Economic Justice and Community Transformation from a Faith Base<br>
<br>
4/5 Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core and Member of President
Obama's Advisory Council - Author of <i>Acts of Faith </i>and <i>Sacred
Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America</i><br>
<br>
4/12 Rev. Dr. Clare Butterfield, Faith in Place, and Rev. Bob
Rasmus, St. Matthew Lutheran Church - Helping People of Faith
Understand Ecology and Economy as a Moral Issue<br>
<br>
4/19 Dr. Irfan Ahmad, Avicenna Community Health Center, and
Donna Camp, Wesley Evening Food Pantry - Local Faith-Based
Responses to Hunger and Healthcare<br>
<br>
4/26 Rabbi Rogerio Cukierman, Executive Director, UIUC
Hillel/Cohen Center - Praying with Our Legs: The Intersection of
Social Justice and Spirituality<br>
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