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Upcoming events - including <b>*two*</b> related to the Dakota
Access Oil Pipeline, on Mon 9/12 (6:30 Urbana), and on Fri 9/16 (5pm
Champaign).<br>
<br>
The Friday 5pm Scott Park (Champaign) event is Native-led and
organized, in solidarity with the Standing Rock water protectors in
North Dakota, where thousands of Native people are assembled in
peaceful opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Hope you can
attend, and please let others know.<br>
<br>
Hope too: at 6:30pm Wednesday 9/14, please come watch Naomi Klein's
film "This Changes Everything", on climate change and citizen
action. Discussion to follow, including brief popup talks by
several groups you can get involved with.<br>
<br>
Though not strictly anti-war events, they lie at the intersection of
anticolonialism, the global geopolitics of energy, and the
importance of popular resistance.<br>
<br>
Summary:<br>
Mon 9/12, 6:30pm, Urbana City Council Chambers, 400 S. Vine St,
Urbana<br>
Urge Urbana City Council to <b>oppose </b><b>Dakota Access
Pipeline (#NoDAPL)</b><br>
Gather at City building at 6:30; Council meeting begins at 7.
Organized by Robert Naiman.<br>
<a
href="https://actionnetwork.org/events/nodapl-action-at-urbana-city-council-meeting?referrer=sierra-club">https://actionnetwork.org/events/nodapl-action-at-urbana-city-council-meeting?referrer=sierra-club</a><br>
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Wed 9/14, 6:30pm-9pm, Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon,
Urbana<br>
"This Changes Everything" film & discussion, with popup
talks by <b>groups you can get involved with</b><br>
Film by Naomi Klein, on climate change and citizen action<br>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/329641967375716/">https://www.facebook.com/events/329641967375716/</a><br>
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Fri 9/16, noon-1pm, University YMCA (Friday Forum), 1001 S. Wright
St., Champaign<br>
"Politics of Climate Change in Illinois", talk by Jen Walling,
IL Environmental Council<br>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1047884435309318/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1047884435309318/</a><br>
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Fri 9/16, 5-7pm, Scott Park, Champaign (between 2nd & 3rd Sts,
between Springfield and Healey)<br>
"<span class="_4n-j fsl">In Solidarity with Standing Rock, the
Earth, and all People, we will gather as Protectors in Peace at
Scott Park in Champaign, IL"</span><br>
Vigil/rally solidarity with the Standing Rock water protectors,
peacefully opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.<br>
Organized by local Native people. Everyone is welcome.<br>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1787572761459012/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1787572761459012/</a><br>
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</span>More details on the above --><br>
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</span>Mon 9/12, 6:30pm, Urbana City Council Chambers, 400 S. Vine
St, Urbana<br>
#NoDAPL -- Come urge the Urbana City Council to adopt a
resolution saying that they oppose the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline,
and calling on the Obama Administration to ask the Corps of
Engineers to revoke its construction permit. This pipeline,
running through the Dakotas, Iowa and into Illinois, would carry
over a half million barrels per day of North Dakota Bakken crude oil
- running through Native American lands, and putting major waterways
at risk. More below, or sign up to say you're coming:<br>
<a
href="https://actionnetwork.org/events/nodapl-action-at-urbana-city-council-meeting?referrer=sierra-club">https://actionnetwork.org/events/nodapl-action-at-urbana-city-council-meeting?referrer=sierra-club</a><br>
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<br>
Wed 9/14, 6:30pm-9pm, Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon,
Urbana<br>
<blockquote><span class="_4n-j fsl">Free and open to the public -
Refreshments will be served. Followed by discussion &
avenues for action.<br>
</span><span class="_4n-j fsl"><a
href="https://www.facebook.com/events/329641967375716/">https://www.facebook.com/events/329641967375716/</a>
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Inspired by Naomi Klein’s book, "This Changes Everything:
Capitalism vs. the Climate," this film presents seven powerful
portraits of communities on the front lines of the climate
crisis, and Klein contends that "we can seize the existential
crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system
into something radically better."<br>
<br>
Please join us to call attention to the most important
environmental issue of our time.<br>
<br>
A short trailer and more information about the film is here:<br>
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Thanks to our cosponsors! Channing-Murray Foundation, Students
for Environmental Concerns (SECS), Eco-Justice Collaborative,
Faith In Place, Social Action Committee/Green UUs of the
Unitarian-Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign, IL
Environmental Council, WATCH (We’re Against Toxic Chemicals),
Just Foreign Policy, AWARE, C-U Friends Meeting, University
YMCA, Wesley Methodist Church Green Team, Central IL Chapter of
Jobs with Justice, Prairie Rivers Network, Champaign County
Health Care Consumers.<br>
<br>
</span></blockquote>
<br>
Fri 9/16, 5-7pm, Scott Park, Champaign (between 2nd & 3rd Sts,
between Springfield and Healey)<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1787572761459012/">https://www.facebook.com/events/1787572761459012/</a><br>
<br>
<blockquote><span class="_4n-j fsl">In Solidarity with Standing
Rock, the Earth, and all People, we will gather as Protectors in
Peace at Scott Park in Champaign, IL on Friday, September 16th
from 5:00pm-7:00pm. <br>
<br>
This event is Native-organized. We ask our entire community to
join us, but honor our request for this to be a Native-led and
Indigenous-centered space. To that end, we’ll begin with a
schedule of Indigenous speakers, followed by an open mic for all
those joining us in solidarity. Community, please join us. In
our tradition, all our children are our children. Everyone
belongs here.<br>
<br>
OVERVIEW OF WHAT IS HAPPENING and OUR CALL TO ACTION:<br>
<br>
Thousands of Native Americans from over 100 tribes are camped<span
class="text_exposed_show"> on the banks of the Cannonball
River in North Dakota near the Standing Rock Sioux
(Dakota/Lakota) Reservation in a peaceful attempt to halt
construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, a 1200 mile
long pipeline running from the Bakken oil fields in North
Dakota to southern Illinois. The protesters tell us that the
pipeline is desecrating land sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux
and putting critical water supplies at risk of contamination.
Over Labor Day weekend, security guards for the pipeline’s
owners used attack dogs and pepper spray against protesters in
a manner reminiscent of civil rights protests in the 1960s. On
September 8, the governor of North Dakota called in the
National Guard to provide backup to local law enforcement
against the protesters. Mainstream media coverage of these
events has been extremely sparse to date, and most news is
being transmitted via social media.<br>
<br>
This situation lends clarity to a remarkable array of issues
we need to be able to think about, including caring for our
beautiful planet Earth and all of the people and other
creatures who share it. The events in North Dakota are an
extraordinary example both of capitalist institutions aligned
against pro-human, pro-environmental interests, and the 21st
century model of how genocide is aimed at Indigenous peoples.
This is not a time to stay silent or passive to determine what
we do. Come and join the movement instead!</span></span></blockquote>
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