[Peace-discuss] Upcoming events from AWARE 9/9/07 meeting

[Stuart Levy]

Brief summaries:

Mon 9/10 7pm AWARE Presents meeting
Mon 9/10 7pm James Loewen, Allen Hall -- "Lies My Teacher Told Me"

Tue 9/11 noon Arabic Calligraphy talk/demonstration (Asian house)
Tue 9/11 7pm James Loewen, Allen Hall -- "Writing History in Stone"

Wed 9/12 5pm How to put together an anti-torture workshop
	(Mennonite Peace&Justice cmte meeting)
Wed 9/12 7pm James Loewen, Allen Hall -- How Standardized Tests
	Lie About Your Abilities
Wed 9/12 7pm "Welcoming Everyone to the Table: Migrant Workers,
	Immigration, and the New Sanctuary Movement in U-C",
	Channing-Murray Foundation (6pm pot luck)

Fri 9/14 noon, Nick Burbules, "Citizenship Without Borders: Blogs, Political
   Activism, and New Public Spaces" (YMCA Friday Forum)

Sat 9/15 antiwar protest in Washington DC (ANSWER, IVAW, ...)
	re Petraeus/Crocker Iraq crock
Sat 9/15 2-4pm Main & Neil  local protest in solidarity with above

Mon-Fri 9/17-9/21 Campus Antiwar Network/IVAW/... Week of Action (details TBA)
  9/20 Thu 5pm Die-In on Green St.
  9/21 Fri International Peace Day -- Veterans' Poetry, ...

Mon Oct 8th  Interfaith Alliance  Fast Against Violence / dinner after sunset

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Mon 9/10 7pm AWARE Presents meeting, Kruse home
   Planning for: Kathy Kelly visit; presentation by 3 mothers
   whose sons have served/are serving in Iraq; Anthony DiMaggio; Anna Baltzer; ...


James Loewen visits Allen Hall/Unit One 9/9-9/12
   (UIUC campus, near where Gregory would meet Lincoln if it were cut through)
   Loewen gave an excellent talk Sunday evening on Sundown Towns --
   towns that forbid Blacks (or Jews, or Chinese, or ...) after dark.  See
      http://www.ucimc.org/node/1806
   Events yet to come, also in Allen Hall Lounge:

     Mon 9/10 7pm  "Lies My Teacher Told Me"
	Perhaps the best-selling book by a living sociologist,
	"Lies" puts back what high school American history textbooks leave out.
	(Loewen's books will also be for sale on Monday evening)

     Tue 9/11 7pm  "Writing History in Stone" -- 
	Historical markers, monuments, and museums that are afraid
	to tell the truth about the past.

     Wed 9/12 7pm  "How Standardized Tests Like the SAT, ACT, and GRE
			Lie About Your Abilities"


Tue 9/11 noon Arabic Calligraphy
	Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W. Nevada St.
   If you missed last weekend's open house at CIMIC,
   the man (Nasir?) who gave a beautiful demonstration
   of Arabic calligraphy and spoke about its traditions
   will present again at the Tuesday noon "Food for Thought" series
   at the UIUC Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W. Nevada.


Wed 9/12  5pm  How to put together an anti-torture workshop
	Mennonite Church, NW corner of Lincoln & Springfield, U.
   The Mennonite Peace & Justice committee (and anyone else
   who wishes to attend) will hear from Barbara Kessel --
   she has been collecting anti-torture materials and will
   speak on training people to run a workshop.


Wed 9/12  7pm  "Welcoming Everyone to the Table:  Migrant Workers,
   Immigration, and the New Sanctuary Movement in Urbana-Champaign"
	Channing-Murray Foundation, Mathews & Oregon, U.
   6pm pot luck in Channing-Murray basement -- bring a dish to share if you can
   7pm panel discussion, including

    * Matt Kuenning, attorney, and professor in UofI College of Law
    * Martina Miranda-Lugo and Martha Betenia, Migrant Summer School recruiters
    * Rev. Mike Mulberry, Minister, Community United Church of Christ
    * Aide Acosta, UIUC graduate student in anthropology 

   Come learn about and discuss issues surrounding immigration,
   immigration law, migrant work and workers in the area,
   and what the New Sanctuary Movement is all about.

   We'll also be collecting food & clothing items for
   local migrant workers.  Items needed include
   (in good condition and CLEAN): light coats (any size),
   children's clothing, linens & blankets, dry & canned foods
   (rice, beans, canned veg., peanut butter, bread, tortillas, coffee ...) 

Wed 9/12 7pm Champaign County Democrats


Sat 9/15 2-4pm  Main & Neil, Champaign -- antiwar protest
	re Petraeus/Crocker Iraq report 

Sat 9/15 Nationwide antiwar demonstration in Washington DC
     in response to Petraeus report -- sponsored by ANSWER, IVAW,
     and others

     Some from C-U are going; if you'd like to and don't have other arrangements,
     a bus from Iowa will pass through C-U (leaving Fri, returning Sun)
     and can take passengers.  If interested in the bus, contact either of:
	Tim Gauger  319-936-2307    timothy-gauger {at} uiowa.edu
	Susan Junis  319-541-1684   susan_junis {at} caucus4priorities.org
     Bus costs $100.  If you need help with the cost, or would like to
     help sponsor others to go, contact Karen Medina, kmedina {at} uiuc.edu.

Mon-Fri 9/17-9/21 "Week of Action", by Campus Anti-War Network,
				Iraq Vets Against the War, ...
    Details yet to be settled, but they'll include these:
  9/20 Thu 5pm Die-In on Green St.
  9/21 Fri International Peace Day -- Veterans' Poetry, ...
    and probably other events on Mon/Tue/Wed of that week.