[Peace-discuss] AWARE Agenda, October 2nd

[David Green]

1. News of the Week (10 minutes)

2. Introductions (5 minutes)

3. New Ideas: (15 minutes)

4. Working Groups: (30 minutes)

Finances

Farmers Market

Main Event

Counter-Recruitment

AWARE Presents

5. Last Week's Events (15 minutes for 5 and 6)

6. Upcoming Events

THE EXONERATED will be performed at Parkland College

Culled from interviews, letters, transcripts, case
files, and the public record, THE EXONERATED, a play
written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, and directed
by Randi Jennifer Collins Hard, tells the moving
stories of six wrongfully convicted survivors of death
row in their own words. This hard-hitting play moves
between first-person monologues and scenes set in
courtrooms and prision. The six interwoven stories
paint a picture of a criminal justice system gone
horribly wrong and of six brave souls who persevered
to survive it.

Preview Performance Wednesday, September 28 at 8 p.m.
September 30 and October 1, 6, 7, 8 at 8 p.m.
October 9 at 3 p.m.
Thursday, October 6 all tickets half price
* Special post-performance discussion with Delbert
Tibbs and Rachael Dietkus on September 30.

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The  Channing-Murray Foundation presents:

Social Justice Programs	Fall 2005

Wednesday, October 5th	7:00 p.m.

Panel Discussion:  Choosing Oppression?
Why American Women are Accepting Islam
Co-Sponsored by Muslim Women’s Outreach

Speakers: Debra Anderson, Crissy Hodges, Tamala
Anderson, and Patsy 
Howell

Moderator: Hebah Ahmed

   A recent poll in the US has found that 100,000
people per year in 
America alone are converting to Islam. For every 1
male convert to 
Islam, 4 females convert to Islam. Why?  Are these
women choosing to be 
oppressed?  Are they giving up their "American
Liberation" to become 
second-class citizens?  Come hear why these women have
made this life 
changing decision and what reactions they have
received from friends, 
family, and other Americans.   Challenge your own
understanding about 
what the media presents and come hear for yourself.

1209 W. Oregon Street, Urbana 		

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Activists from South Africa and the US Speak at Allen
Hall Speakers will address World Bank, IMF,
Globalization, Iraq War Last week, during the annual
meetings of the World Bank/International Monetary Fund
(IMF), thousands of people gathered in Washington DC
for massive global justice and anti-war emonstrations.
 Protesters highlighted the connections between the
military violence in Iraq - and elsewhere - and the
economic violence perpetrated by the IMF and World
Bank, a connection made even clearer >> with the
appointment of Paul Wolfowitz, a key architect of the
Iraq war, to the presidency of the World Bank.  To
further highlight these connections, UIUC is hosting
the 50 Years  Is Enough Network and United for Peace
and Justice Speaker’s Tour in Champaign.

Speakers include:
Nompumelelo Magwaza – Youth organizer and poet (South
Africa)
George Martin – Peace activist (Wisconsin, USA)
What: Global Justice and Peace Teach-in
When: Tuesday October 4th, 7:00 PM
Where: Allen Hall-- main Lounge

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2nd Annual UNITY MARCH, October 8
Focus: Alternatives to Jail Expansion, Formation of a
Citizens Review of Police Practices, Investigation of
Former Police Officer For Alleged Rape
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE		
 
A multi-racial, economically diverse coalition of
citizens, social service and social change
organizations will descend upon the mall of the
Champaign County Courthouse for the second annual
“Unity March,” Saturday, October 8 at 10am.  
 
“One of our goals is to prevent the expansion of our
jails and to redirect county money into prevention,”
said Carol Ammons, co-founder of CU Citizens for Peace
and Justice, a grassroots organization that has helped
lead successful campaigns to stop Tasers from coming
to Champaign police and obtained a fair phone rate
plan for jail inmates. “Right now the plan is to build
a new $20 million jail when only about $180,000 of
county money goes to prevention programs. We think
this is the wrong priority.”
 
The march will also address the need for a citizens
review of police practices in both Champaign and
Urbana and will push for criminal charges against
former Urbana police officer, Kurt Hjort, for
allegedly raping a store clerk while on duty.  The
officer has not been charged with a crime but has
resigned while an investigation is pending.  Mr. Hjort
was the best man in state’s attorney Julia Rietz’s
August wedding.
 
The march will begin at 10am in two different
locations and will join together at the court house. 
Residents who live north of University Avenue will
meet at the Crystal Lake Boat House in Crystal Lake
Park. Residents south of University Ave. will meet at
the south patio of the Illini Union.  
 
“The unity march will bring people from the campus and
community and the north and south ends together,” Ms
Ammons said.





	
		
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