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Some upcoming events below - with a few more than the earlier
announcement. Unfortunately three of them happen concurrently on
Wednesday evening, but hope you can attend at least one.<br>
<br>
First a calendar summary, details below.<br>
<br>
<b>Pickets in support of SEIU workers,</b> Wed 2/27 morning and
afternoon --<br>
<b>7:15am Wed 2/27 </b> at <b>Ikenberry Commons</b>, 3rd and
Gregory, Champaign<br>
<b>4:15pm Wed 2/27</b> at <b>Alice Campbell Alumni Center</b>,
Lincoln and Oregon, Urbana<br>
<br>
<b>4pm-6pm Wed 2/27 Women's Resources Center 4th Anniversary
Reception</b>, 703 S. Wright St., 2nd floor<br>
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<b>7pm Wed 2/27 </b>film<b> "People and the Olive", First
Mennonite Church</b>, Springfield & Lincoln, Urbana<br>
... A US group's ultra-marathon across Palestine
and their efforts to replant uprooted olive trees...<br>
<br>
<b>6-8pm Wed 2/27 Planners' Network</b> in <b>"Race and Space
Symposium"</b>, Asian American House, 210 W Nevada St<br>
<br>
<b>7:30pm Wed 2/27 </b>Keynote by <b>Dr. Myrlie Evers-Williams
+ concert, Foellinger Great Hall, KCPA</b><br>
<br>
Talks by<b> </b><b>activists</b><b> against the War on Drugs,
Neill Franklin (LEAP) and Clifford Thornton (Efficacy Now)<br>
5:30-8:30pm Thu 2/28</b> at <b>Levis Faculty Center</b>,
919 Illinois St., Urbana<br>
<b> 5:30-8:30pm Fri 3/1</b> at <b>Salem Baptist Church</b>,
500 E Park St., Champaign<br>
<br>
<b>noon Fri 3/1 Rev Alexander Sharp</b>, University YMCA Friday
Forum<br>
How <b>Protestants for the Common Good are organizing to </b><b>reform
drug policy here in Illinois</b><b>. </b><br>
<br>
<b>2-4PM Sat 3/2 AWARE anti-war demonstration</b><b>,</b> Main
and Neil, downtown Champaign<br>
<br>
<b>4pm Mon 3/4 "Urban and Housing Activism from Below"</b>
panel discussion, 313 Gregory Hall<br>
<b>7:30pm Mon 3/4 film "Dear Mandela", University YMCA<br>
</b><br>
<b>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>10am 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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<br>
<b>Pickets in support of SEIU workers,</b> Wed 2/27 morning and
afternoon --<br>
<b>7:15am Wed 2/27 </b> at <b>Ikenberry Commons</b>, 3rd and
Gregory, Champaign<br>
<b>4:15pm Wed 2/27</b> at <b>Alice Campbell Alumni Center</b>,
Lincoln and Oregon, Urbana<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>
<br>
<b>4pm-6pm Wed 2/27 Women's Resources Center 4th Anniversary
Reception</b>, 703 S. Wright St., 2nd floor<br>
Celebrate four years of the Women's Resource Center's
programming.<br>
<br>
<b>7pm Wed 2/27 </b>film<b> "People and the Olive", First
Mennonite Church</b>, Springfield & Lincoln, Urbana<br>
Screening of the documentary <b><i>People and The Olive</i></b>.<br>
The film follows a Michigan-based nonprofit's ultra-marathon
across Palestine and their efforts to replant uprooted olive
trees. This documentary focuses on cross-cultural connections and
speaks out in support of Fair Trade. Join us for this 70 minute
film with some discussion afterwards.<br>
<br>
<b>6-8pm Wed 2/27 Planners' Network in "Race and Space Symposium"</b>,
Asian American House, 210 W Nevada St<br>
Interdisciplinary symposium on segregated spaces in our
contemporary world including ghettos, slums and gated
communities. With Aaron Ammons, Francisco Baires, Stephanie
Seawell. Contact: Scott Humphrey, shmphry2 at illinois.edu. <br>
<br>
<b>7:30pm Wed 2/27 </b>Keynote by <b>Dr. Myrlie Evers-Williams
+ concert, Foellinger Great Hall, KCPA</b><br>
Culminating celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation
sesquicentennial.<br>
Keynote speech by civil rights activist, and past president of
the NAACP, Dr. Myrlie Evers-Williams (Medger Evers had been her
husband). More about her at:<br>
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href="http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-Myrlie-Evers-Williams">http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-Myrlie-Evers-Williams<br>
</a><br>
... and performances by the U of I Black Choir, Women's Glee
Club, and U of I Wind Symphony.<br>
At Foellinger Great Hall in Krannert Center, 500 S. Goodwin
Ave, Urbana. Free.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Two events with <b>campaigners against the drug war</b>, brought
here by C-U Citizens for Peace and Justice and others --<br>
<br>
<b>Neill Franklin </b>of<b> Law Enforcement Against
Prohibition(LEAP) </b>and<b><br>
Clifford Thornton </b>of<b> Efficacy Now</b><br>
<br>
<b>5:30-8:30pm Thu 2/28</b> at <b>Levis Faculty Center</b>,
919 Illinois St., Urbana<br>
and<br>
<b>5:30-8:30pm Fri 3/1</b> at <b>Salem Baptist Church</b>,
500 E Park St., Champaign<br>
<br>
Structure, for at least the Thu 2/28 event --<br>
film presentation on the War on Drugs<br>
lecture - the War on Drugs and the Black American Community<br>
Muslim American Society 3rd annual Social Services Award
Ceremony<br>
<br>
Sponsored by Muslim American Society, C-U Citizens for Peace
and Justice, Citizens with Convictions, Muslim Student
Association-UIUC, Salem Baptist Church, ACLU, Breakfast Club,
Urbana Human Relations Commission, UC Friends Meeting, U of I
Department of African American Studies<br>
<br>
More on the speakers at<br>
<a href="http://www.leap.cc/">http://www.leap.cc/</a><br>
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, of which Neill Franklin
is executive director<br>
<blockquote>Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is an
international 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization of criminal
justice professionals who bear personal witness to the wasteful
futility and harms of our current drug policies. Our experience
on the front lines of the “war on drugs” has led us to call for
a repeal of prohibition and its replacement with a tight system
of legalized regulation, which will effectively cripple the
violent cartels and street dealers who control the current
illegal market.<br>
</blockquote>
and<br>
<a href="http://www.efficacy-online.org">http://www.efficacy-online.org</a><br>
Efficacy Now, co-founded by Clifford Thornton<br>
<blockquote>... A call is building for all drug sales to come
under government control to eliminate the market for drug
dealers and to end the vast culture of criminality surrounding
illegal drugs. Even Walter Cronkite is in the fray, saying in
2006, "...nothing will change until someone has the courage to
stand up and say ... the war on drugs has failed." Efficacy
and other like-minded organizations are at the beginning of that
new courage, a courage to create a dramatic shift on how we take
responsibility for illicit drugs.<br>
<br>
There is much in this site that reveals how drug prohibition,
a.k.a. "War on drugs," is not effective and even destructive of
our society. It damages race relations. It packs our prisons.
It breeds police corruption and abuse. It drains funds best used
for urban renewal and educational programs. ...<br>
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<br>
also note next Friday's YMCA Friday Forum is on the drug war as
well --<br>
<br>
<b>noon Fri 3/1 Rev Alexander Sharp</b>, University YMCA Friday
Forum<br>
How <b>Protestants for the Common Good are organizing to </b><b>reform
drug policy here in Illinois</b><b>. </b><br>
University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign<br>
[more about the Friday Forum series below]<br>
<br>
<b>2-4PM Sat 3/2 AWARE anti-war demonstration</b><b>, Main and
Neil, downtown Champaign</b><br>
As ever, AWARE will demonstrate against the wars and talk
about them with passersby<br>
at the corner of Main and Neil. Please come join us if
you have a chance.<br>
<br>
<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>
<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>
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<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>
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Other events related to Pithouse's visit during that week, 3/4 -
3/9:<br>
<br>
<b>4pm Mon 3/4 "Urban and Housing Activism from Below",</b> 313
Gregory Hall<br>
panel discussion including Richard Pithouse (Rhodes
University, S. Africa); Asef Bayat, UIUC Sociology; Ken Salo,
Urban and Regional Planning; Tariq Ali, History<br>
<b>7:30pm Mon 3/4 film "Dear Mandela", University YMCA</b><br>
<b>7:30pm Fri 3/8 film "Dear Mandela", with discussion, University
YMCA</b><br>
<br>
<b>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 Abhlali 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.
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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>
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including<br>
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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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