[Peace-discuss] Channing Murray Events

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  Solidarity Work in Guatemala: Inspiration and Challenge - Meridith Kruse
  October 10 - 12 noon
  Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon, U.

  Meridith has just returned from 6 months as a Human Rights Accompanier in Guatemala where she worked with witnesses bringing cases of genocide against former military leaders Lucas Garcia and Rios Montt.  During her time in Guatemala she was inspired and challenged by her attempt to "do solidarity work".  She will share stories of the witnesses involved in the genocide cases and reflect on her experiences.  There will be plenty of time for questions/comments/reflections.  Her trip was funded in part by local friends of Meridith, indivduuals from Channing-Murray Foundation and the UU Central America Network in Seattle, WA.  A potluck meal will follow her presentation.


Meridith will also be speaking on the same general topic at the University YMCA Friday Forum, 12 noon, Friday Oct. 15.  Free and open to the public.



  And finally, a six week video series on successful nonviolence movements.  First session is Thursday, Sept. 30.

  A Force More Powerful - Six Part Video Series on Nonviolent Struggle


  When:   Sept. 30, Oct 7, Oct 14, Oct 20, Oct 28, Nov 17


  Where:  Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon (SE corner of Mathews and Oregon),
          Urbana, (217) 344-1176


  The first segment portrays how over a 5-month period Afro-American college students successfully desegrate Nashville's downtown lunch counters, becoming a model for the entire civil rights movement.  A discussion will follow each half-hour video presentation.  Free and open to the public.  Sept. 30, 7 pm, Channing-Murray,1209 W. Oregon, U.

  A complete series schedule is as follows:
  A Force More Powerful is a six-part PBS documentary series on one of the 20th centuryís most important and least-known stories-how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule. Reviewing a century often called the most violent in human history, this series is the story of millions who chose to battle the forces of brutality with nonviolent forces-and won.  A discussion will follow each half-hour segment.  They will be on Thursday (and two Wednesday) evenings at 7 p.m.

  Thursday, September 30 @ 7pm
  Black college students successfully desegregate Nashvilleís downtown lunch counters in five months, becoming a model for the entire civil rights movement.
   

  Thursday, October 7 @ 7pm
  Through civil disobedience and boycotts, Gandhi and his followers successfully loosened their British oppressorsí grip on power and set India on the path to freedom.
   

  Thursday, October 14 @ 7pm
  In South Africa a campaign of nonviolent mass action awakened whites to black grievances and finally weakened support for the legal discrimination known as apartheid.
   

  Wednesday, October 20 @ 7pm
  Danish leaders adopted a strategy of ìresistance disguised as collaborationî and rescued all but a handful of Denmarkís seven thousand Jews from Nazi Germans.
   

  Thursday, October 28 @ 7pm
  Striking workers in Poland demanded independent unions and used their leverage to negotiate unprecedented rights in a communist party system.
   

  Thursday, November 4 @ 6pm
  Nonviolence Potluck
   

  Wednesday, November 17 @ 7pm
  Chilean workers initiated a wave of nonviolent protests against the military dictatorship of General Pinochet and defeated him in a government referendum.
   
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