<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div class="gmail_signature">Dear Peace,</div><div class="gmail_signature"><br></div><div class="gmail_signature">I promised to put out some announcements for Channing-Murray. So I gathered a bunch of other social justice related stuff too. All local stuff happening in the next few weeks. Not the definitive list, but worthy of note. -karen medina</div><div class="gmail_signature"><br></div><div class="gmail_signature"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Some events -- possible Public Service Announcements</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Hispanic Heritage Month – September 15^th through October 15, 2015</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">See the events schedule on the website for the Casa Cultural Latina on the University of Illinois’ campus</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><a href="https://oiir.illinois.edu/la-casa-cultural-latina/la-casa-events/hispanic-heritage-month">https://oiir.illinois.edu/la-casa-cultural-latina/la-casa-events/hispanic-heritage-month</a><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Latin American Film Festival at the Art Theater Co-op</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Started Friday September 18^th and runs through Thursday September 24th</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Community Meeting to Protect the Mahomet Aquifer</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Saturday, September 19^th, 2015</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">10:30am -12:30pm</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St, Champaign Illinois</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">The 6^th Annual CU Pride Festival</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Saturday, September 19^th, 2015</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Noon (educational events)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Downtown Champaign</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Parade: 5pm</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><a href="http://www.unitingpride.org/#!cu-pridefest/c20jp">http://www.unitingpride.org/#!cu-pridefest/c20jp</a><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">The 26^th annual Tagore Festival Keynote Talk “Translating Tagore”</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Saturday, September 19^th, 2015</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">5:45pm to 6:45pm. There is a reception before the talk. / Channing Murray Foundation; 1209 West Oregon Street, Urbana, IL</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">And a cultural program immediately after (6:45) at the East Central Illinois Bengali Association.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Tibetan Monks visiting Champaign Urbana</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Sunday September 20^th (2015) through Monday September 21^st.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Performance, chanting in Sanskrit & dharma talk: Buddhism and Happiness</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">7:30pm, Sunday September 20^th.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Channing Murray Foundation Church, 1209 Oregon, Urbana IL (near the University of Illinois campus)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Children’s Tibetan Art Program</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">5pm, Monday September 21</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 Nevada, Urbana, IL</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Financial donations gratefully accepted.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">First film of the annual Social Justice Film Festival</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">“Freedom Riders: Threatened. Attacked. Jailed.”</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Monday, September 21^st, 2015</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">6:30pm</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Red Herring at the Channing Murray Foundation; 1209 W. Oregon St., Urbana Illinois.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">“Coal Ash: In Your Backyard” Informational Meeting</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Tuesday, September 22, 2015</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">5:30pm</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Facebook event announcement: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/707326632706770/">https://www.facebook.com/events/707326632706770/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">“Breaking Down Racism” is the YMCA’s Friday Forum Lecture series this Fall 2015 semester. The subtitle is “Uncovering the Reality of Racial Injustice in the U.S.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">[9/18’s lecture has already happened. (the title was “Black Mothers in the ‘Hidden America’”: Effects of Discriminatory and Unequal Housing]</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">* What It Means to Be White – is September 25th</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">* Border Crisis, Immigration Policy , and Rhetorics of Citizenship – is October 2nd</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">* Police Violence, Confederate Flags, and Sundown Towns – is October 9</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">* The History of African American School Achievement in the 20^th Century – is October 16.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Fridays at noon in Latzer Hall at the YMCA on campus / 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">* Also, as part of this… a film screening at the Art Theater Co-op, “The Whole Gritty City” – Tuesday October 20^th. 7:30pm.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">“The Long Journey Home” – looking at the challenges faced by Latino communities who live and work in Central Illinois</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Tuesday, September 29, 2015</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">7pm<span>           </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, Illinois</p></div></div>
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