<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Peace,<br></div><div><br></div>


















<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>On
October 12th, there will be a speaker talking about Norway's criminal justice
system (and their education system) as alternatives to the United States'
systems. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>I
thought you might be interested.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>Event:
“Norwegian Prisons: Lessons in Humanity / Rebekah Buchanan”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>Where:
IMC / 202 S. Broadway, Urbana<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>When:
Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 7pm<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>Cost:
free. This event will also be a fundraiser for the Champaign County Bailout
Coalition.<span>  </span><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>I
am attaching 2 things: 1) a flyer for the event 2) a description of the bailout
coalition<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>About
the speaker: Rebekah Buchanan is an Associate Professor of English an Director
of English Education at Western Illinois University. She was a 2018-2019
Fulbright Roving Scholar to Norway where she spent a year conducting workshops
on United States history, culture, and politics to students and teachers in
upper secondary schools (videregående skoles) throughout Norway. // Her
research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth
culture, specifically through zines and music. She has written extensively on
popular culture in the classroom, youth's out of school literacy practices,
music-based pedagogy, punk, including her book, Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl
Zines and Feminist Rhetorics (Peter Lang, 2018). She also is creating writing
programs for dissertators. Currently, she is working on projects around
teaching in Norway, Norwegian prison education, and reading and activism in the
Harry Potter series.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>October
12^th event<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>Other
events: <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>or
the Graduate School of Library and Information Science talk on Libraries in
Norway on Monday, October 14, 2019 at 11:30am.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span>    
<a href="https://ischool.illinois.edu/news-events/news/2019/10/buchanan-lecture-libraries-norway">https://ischool.illinois.edu/news-events/news/2019/10/buchanan-lecture-libraries-norway</a>
<span></span></span></p>

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<a href="https://ischool.illinois.edu/news-events/events/2019/10/14/prison-school-and-public-libraries-norway">https://ischool.illinois.edu/news-events/events/2019/10/14/prison-school-and-public-libraries-norway</a><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Excitedly,</p>

<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Karen Medina</span>



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