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Some upcoming events of interest to AWARE and others -<br>
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<b>4/11 Fri noon</b> <a
href="http://universityymca.org/friday_forum/">University YMCA
Friday Forum</a><br>
<b>"Cooperatives - Creating a Community of Wealth"</b><br>
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Jacqueline Hannah, General Manager of Common Ground Food Cooperative
will paint a picture of what the the cooperative business model is,
the different ways it is being used all over the world today, and
its unique ability to create community wealth. ...<br>
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<b>4/12 Sat 2-4PM </b> Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W Oregon,
Urbana<br>
<b>panel: "How Can We Help Low Wage Workers?"</b><b><br>
<font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"> </font></b><font
face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Featuring</font><b><font
face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"> </font></b>Ricky Baldwin, SEIU
Local 73; Belden Fields, Emeritus Professor of Political Science,
University of Illinois, Pat Simpson, Emeritus Professor of
Industrial Relations, Loyola University Chicago.<br>
<span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">For
generations, Americans shared a tacit understanding that if you
worked hard, a livable income and basic securities would be yours.
That promise has been broken. Today, more than 30 million men and
women in this country work in jobs that pay poverty wages and
provide few if any benefits. ... </span><span
style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><font
face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">In this panel, several aspects
of the low-wage issue will be addressed: 1) myths about low-wage
workers; 2) problems with measuring income adequacy and the
history of a local living wage campaign; 3) current social
justice efforts on behalf of low-wage workers, including “Fight
for $15”.</font></span><br>
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<b>4/15 Tue 7PM</b> room 1090 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St,
Urbana<br>
<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New
Roman',serif"> Join SJP UIUC as we welcome political
analyst,
activist and author, Josh Ruebner, as he discusses his book,<br>
<i> <b>Shattered Hopes: Obama’s Failure to Broker
Israeli-Palestinian Peace</b></i><b>.<br>
</b>The book
analyzes the Obama administration’s failed strategy to resolve the
Israeli-Palestinian
conflict and its unwillingness to challenge the Israel lobby.<br>
Ruebner is the National Advocacy Director of the US
Campaign to End the
Israeli Occupation ( <a href="http://endtheoccupation.org/">endtheoccupation.org</a>
). </span><br>
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<b>4/18 Fri noon</b> <a
href="http://universityymca.org/friday_forum/">YMCA Friday Forum</a><br>
<strong>Consumer Futures in the Healthcare Marketplace</strong><strong></strong><br>
Daniel Yunker, CEO, Land of Lincoln Health
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The Affordable Care Act created two dozen health insurance
co-ops, launched with about $1.9 million in federal loan funding —
before budget reductions sank plans for more co-ops in other states
— with the hope that consumer-operated and -oriented plans would
stir up competition and lower insurance rates for everyone.
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Land of Lincoln Health is the first and only health insurance co-op
in Illinois. ...<br>
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<b>4/21 Mon 4-6PM</b> Douglass Annex, 804 N. 5th St, Champaign (in
Douglass Park)<br>
<b>Oral History of Champaign-Urbana Days</b> (film and
discussion)<br>
Learn about the history of the community and do your part to
build a more inclusive local history!! Attend this free screening of
oral histories by community elders sharing their memories of the
history of Champaign-Urbana Day/s. After the screening join in a
community discussion about how and why to add more voices to the
Oral History of Champaign-Urbana Days before, during and after this
year's festival (August 8 & 9, 2014).<br>
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The video features Cecil Bridgewater, Erma Bridgewater, Nate
Dixon, Bruce Nesbitt, Hattie Paulk, Gerald 'Candy' Foster, and more.
...<br>
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<b>4/22 Tue 5:30PM</b> Escobar's Restaurant, 6 E Columbia Ave,
Champaign<br>
<b>Sierra Club Earth Day Forum</b><b> / Happy Hour</b><br>
featuring speakers on the U-C Energy Star Challenge;
Bulldog Coal Mine; Clinton landfill/Mahomet aquifer; and IL rules
for fracking and coal ash<br>
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<b>4/22 Tue 7PM </b> Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway,
Urbana<br>
<b>Robert McChesney </b>will speak. All welcome.<br>
<span data-measureme="1"><span class="null">Robert
McChesney is professor of media at University of Illinois and
founding member of Free Press (freepress.net), a media analysis
and advocacy group. His recent books include Dollarocracy (with
John Nichols), and Digital Disconnect, both of which cover the
issue of money and media and the variety of ways corporate power
has undue influence in the media landscape.<br>
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<b>5/13 Wed</b> around 6pm Hilton Garden Inn, 1501 S Neil St,
Champaign<br>
<b>USEPA public hearing</b> on whether to assign Sole
Source Aquifer protection to the Mahomet Aquifer.<br>
Let's hold a demonstration to show that yes, we want
them to protect it as our only feasible source of drinking
water!<br>
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