[UICVM-Progressives] [Fwd: [Prairiegreens] Free lecture - Medea Benjamin - Feb. 22, Allen Hall]

[Daniel S. Lewart]

UICVM Progressives,

Medea Benjamin is an excellent speaker and y'all should go if you can.

Cheers,
Dan

P.S. Please let me know if you would like to be removed from this list
      or, better yet, if someone else should be added.

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Subject: [Prairiegreens] Free lecture - Medea Benjamin - Feb. 22, Allen Hall
Date: 	Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:09:06 -0600
From: 	Walling, Jennifer <jwalling at law.uiuc.edu>
To: 	'prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net' <prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net>
CC: 	'prairiegreens-news at lists.chambana.net'
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Medea Benjamin
Founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange

Green candidate for US Senate in California in 2000

Will be speaking about
*"War and Grassroots Activism"
Tuesday, February 22
7:30pm
Main Lounge of Allen Hall
*1005 W. Gregory, Urbana
(parking available in the garage across the street, not the lot in front)

(Free signed Medea Benjamin item to anyone who brings proof that they
voted in the Feb 22 primary elections.)

About Medea Benjamin:
Medea Benjamin is Founding Director of Global Exchange. For over twenty
years, Medea has supported human rights and social justice struggles
around the world. Medea is a leading activist in the peace movement and
helped bring together the groups forming the coalition United for Peace
and Justice (see _http://www.unitedforpeace.org/_ ). She is also the
co-founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace, a women's group that has been
organizing creative actions against the war and occupation of Iraq.
CODEPINK is pushing for a reorientation of budget priorities in the US
to focus on heath care, education and housing, not war. Code Pink now
has over 100 chapters throughout the United States (see
_http://www.codepink4peace.org/_ ).

Medea has traveled several times to Iraq and helped establish the
Occupation Watch International Center in Baghdad. The center monitors
the military occupation forces and foreign corporations, hosts
international delegations, and keeps the international community updated
about the occupation forces' activities through its website,
_http://www.occupationwatch.org_ <http://www.occupationwatch.org/> .

She is author of eight books, including "Bridging the Global Gap, The
Peace Corps and More," and the award-winning book "Don't Be Afraid,
Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart."

Medea received a Masters degree in Public Health from Columbia
University and a Masters degree in Economics from the New School for
Social Research. She worked for ten years as an economist and
nutritionist in Latin America and Africa for the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization, the World Health Organization, the Swedish
International Development Agency, and the Institute for Food and
Development Policy.

Co-sponsored by: Campus Greens, Feminist Majority, United Students
Against Sweatshops, Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort, Prairie Greens

paid for by SORF