[Peace] Champaign Town Hall on Face of Poverty

[Stuart Levy]

(forwarded from Ken Salo's note to C-U Citizens for Peace and Justice)

> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:50:55 -0500
> From: Ken Salo <kensalo at uiuc.edu>
> Subject: [CUCPJ Announce] Champaign Town Hall on Face of Poverty
> To: Announce Courtwatch <announce at lists.communitycourtwatch.org>
> 
> 
>      Come support us!
>      If you've ever been remotely interested in the humanity of
>      others...
>      If you've been searching for a way to get more educated...
>      Even if you are just curious about what it's like...
>      You should attend the Face of Poverty Town Hall Community
>      meeting/Forum on Thurs, April 5th from 7-9PM.
>      It will be held at:
>      City of Champaign Council Chambers
>      102 N. Neil Street
>      Champaign, IL, 61820
>      -or-
>      catch it broadcasted live on Channel 5
>      The Face of Poverty will be another opportunity to further the
>      dialogue on poverty and engage a wider audience. Victims of poverty
>      will tell their stories in a documentary shown at the meeting.
>      (This is the documentary I have been toiling over for the last
>      month.) There will be a speakers on the issues of poverty, focusing
>      primarily on the rising need of those in Champaign-Urbana.
> 
>      Heartland Alliance, a service-based human rights organization
>      dedicated to eradicate poverty in Illinois, will join our effort.
>      They will give an overview of the poverty in Illinois and present
>      the poverty report released in February.
> 
>      Poverty is part of a vicious cycle of marginalization, social
>      exclusion, and discrimination. Despite the persistent efforts of
>      people living in poverty to change their situation, breaking out of
>      this cycle is extraordinarily difficult.
>      The City of Champaign Township is committed to the effort to
>      eradicate extreme poverty and is resolute "to create an
>      environment--at the local and state levels alike--which is
>      conducive to development and to the elimination of poverty."
>      Peace and love,
>      Eileen Hays
>      Senior in Urban and Regional Planning
>      Busey-Evans Hall Resident Advisor
>      City of Champaign Township Intern
>      University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
> 
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