[Peace-discuss] AWARE Speaker's Bureau

[Linda Evans]

Apologies for posting this to the entire list, but I
don't want to miss anyone.  Below is the list of
current speakers for the AWARE Speaker's Bureau.  If
you would like to be a speaker, please email me with a
'bio'.  If you are on the list and have
additions/changes to your bio, please email me.  If
you no longer would like to be on the speakers list
and I have you listed, please email me.
(veganlinda at yahoo.com)

Most of the information I took directly from an AWARE
Teach-in Speaker's Bureau list from Feb. 2002.  I did
make some changes to information that was clearly
dated (changed The Octopus to The Paper, Belden
Fields' book was 'forthcoming' previously and now it
is in print, etc.).  

Thanks for taking a few minutes to look this over for
me.  We plan to send out this list to various
organizations (churches, etc.) in the C-U area to
proactively promote AWARE speakers.

Linda

Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort Speaker’s Bureau

Ricky Baldwin cut his organizing teeth in the
anti-apartheid movement in Mississippi, where he was
also active in anti-war, anti-death-penalty,
environmental and women's movements. Since 1990, he
has been an active union member, steward, organizer
and staff rep, a community organizer with ACORN and
mobilization coordinator for the Western New York
Council on Occupational Safety and Health. He is a
full-time father of twins and a freelance writer for Z
Magazine, Extra!, Labor Notes and other publications.
He has an MS in math and an MA in German from
U-Mississippi and a labor studies certificate from
Cornell.  Mr. Baldwin is available to  speak on How to
Talk to Your Neighbors About War and Occupation,
Liberation or Occupation, War and Economic Injustice,
etc.. 

Daniellle Chynoweth holds a Master’s Degree in
Political Science from the New School for Social
Research in New York.  She is a founder of the
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center and a member
of the Urbana City Council.  In recent years she has
been involved with the global justice movement
concerned with the roles of the WTO, the IMF, and the
World Bank.  She will speak and lead discussions on
global justice issues and the growing independent
media movement and its effects on democratizing
discourse.  As an elected official, she also speaks
about the structure and process of local government.

Carl G. Estabrook has degrees in history and the study
of religion (A.B., A.M., and Ph.D., all from Harvard
University).  He has taught at Brown, Notre Dame, and
the University of Rochester, as well as Harvard.  He
is currently Visiting Professor of Sociology at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his
wife recently retired as dean of the School of Library
and Information Science; he has also taught in the
departments of history and religious studies.  They
have five grown children, the youngest still in
college.  In addition to teaching intellectual
history, Mr. Estabrook writes political columns for a
local weekly, The Paper, and conducts two weekly radio
programs on community station WEFT (90.1 FM), one of
politics (“News from Neptune”, Saturday 10-11 AM) and
the other on poetry (“From Bard to Verse”, Saturday
noon-1 PM).  He has spoken and written on history,
politics, and US foreigh policy, particularly with
regard to the Middle East.

Belden Fields has been teaching, writing, and assuming
an activist role on human rights for many years.  He
is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the
University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign.  He is
also a co-editor for human rights for the
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center monthly
Newspaper The Public I. He recently published a book;
Rethinking Human Rights for the New Millennium.  His
attention currently is focused on the human rights
implications in this “War on Terrorism”.

David Green was a graduate student, post-doctoral
scholar, and teacher from 1980 to 1995 in the field of
History and Philosophy of Education.  During the past
six years, he has provided himself a serious education
regarding American foreign policy and our problematic
role in the world.  His interests have focused on the
history and current realities of the Israel-Palestine
conflict, which particularly concerns him as a Jew. 
Given the events of recent years in Iraq and now
Afghanistan, he has broadened his knowledge of the
Middle East, as a whole, and of the history of
American involvement in the larger region.  Mr. Green
is critical of American involvement in the Middle East
and of the role that Isreal plays as the US surrogate
in the region.  He enjoys opportunities to help people
explore their doubts and concerns about our leaders’
actions, in a manner that is intended to inform rather
than transform.

David Johnson is a lifelong resident of
Champaign-Urbana.  He is a former Vice-President /
Political Director of the AFL-CIO of Champaign County,
a 25 year member of Carpenters Union 44, a  founding
member of CDUI ( Carpenters for a  Democratic Union ),
 and a graduate of the University of Illinois ( B.A. 
Economics ). His father was president of Carpenters 
Union 44 during the 1970's and his grandmother was
arrested in C/U for Union activism during the 1930's.

Peter Miller completed Doctoral and Post-Doctoral work
in Physics.  Currently, he is on staff full-time for
the Illinois Education Association as an organizer of
education employees.  He has been active in the
progressive labor community since 1995.  He produces a
weekly radio program about labor issues on WEFT (90.1
FM) radio.  Shortly after September 11th, he led a
delegation to the office of Illinois Congressman
Timothy Johnson encouraging him to advocate for the
least violent response to the attacks, to uphold civil
liberties, and to address the root causes of the
attacks.  He has helped coordinate anti-war activities
in Champaign-Urbana, and can present an anti-war
perspective in a non-confrontational manner.  He
invites discussion inclusive of a wide spectrum of
views.  He has particular insight about the labor
movement’s response to the war.

Susan Parenti is a composer and an organizer of the
School for Designing a Society (409 N. Race, Urbana). 
Ms. Parenti would like to discuss with others the
following:

1.  How to start and maintain a school.  What does it
take, can YOU do it, too?
2.  What is the School for Designing a Society?
3.  The Politics of Care - is care in conflict with
our need for freedom?
4.  Performance in everyday life - what if we were to
think of ourselves as performers and our everyday
actions as performances?
5.  Social wealth versus money, how lack of money can
not carry weight in regards to projects.
6.  Language as a significant dynamic in interactions.

These are topics that are discussed and performed in
the School for Designing a Society.

Dr. Doug Rokke earned his M. S. And Ph.D. at the
University of Illinois.  Doug has served as one of the
US Army’s experts on Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical
(NBC) warfare and environmental compliance for over 20
years.  Dr. Rokke also serves or has served as an
advisor with the Centers of Disease Control,
Department of Defense, National Academy of Sciences,
Institute of Medicine, US Senate and House of
Representatives, US Department of Transportation, FAA,
General Accounting Office, Department of Veterans
Affairs, British Royal Society, British House of
Lords,and House of Commons, United Nations, and
Presidential Oversight Board.  He has been an advisor
for numerous television documentaries on effects of
nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare with CBS,
ABC, NBC, History Channel, A&E, PBS, BBC, CBC, and
German, French, Japanese, and Greek TV.  During the
last few years Dr. Rokke has taught undergraduate and
graduate courses in environmental engineering, nuclear
physics, and emergency management.  Recently Dr. Rokke
has been teaching science and mathematics in local
schools.  Doug has been selected for inclusion in the
2001 and 2002 editions of “Who’s Who in America”.  HE
believes that world peace is possible through
acknowledgment of the health and environmental effects
of science, technology, and military activities,
acceptance of responsibility, education, training, and cooperation.

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