[Peace-discuss] 4 events Wednesday night, February 27, 2008

[Karen Medina]

Loads to do on Wednesday, February 27, 2008!

4 events to choose from! Choose well and go. 

All are on the UIUC campus. AWARE is co-sponsor of 2 (the anti-death penalty event and the separation of church and state event).

* An anti-death penalty event 
Who: Darby Tillis, spent nine years on death row in Illinois for a crime he did not commit and was the first exoneree from death row in the state.
Date: February 27, 2008
Time: 7pm 
Where: English building room 60
608 S. Wright Street (between the Henry Administration Building and Lincoln Hall on the east side of Wright St. just south of Daniel St.) See it on the campus map: http://tinyurl.com/3x7s8p
Urbana, IL 61801

* Separation of church and State
Who: Former Mayor of Champaign, Dannel McCollum, will be talking about his mother's  successful 1948 U. S. Supreme Court case contesting the teaching of religion in the Champaign Public Schools.  He will also discuss other separation of church & state cases as well as issues he sees facing church/state separation today. 
Date: February 27, 2008
Time: 7:30pm
Where: Channing-Murray Foundation
1209 W. Oregon St., Urbana

* William Brustein will be talking about the "new anti-Semitism" and we have been encouraged to "engage in a frank discussion of how the 'new anti-Semitism' serves to suppress crimes against the Palestinian people." 
Date: February 27, 2008
Time: 7pm
Where: lllini Union, Room 314
1401 West Green Street Urbana, Illinois

* Human Rights and Asian Americans 
Title of lecture: AIDS to Zen: Practicing Social Justice from the Nonprofit Sector
Speaker: John Manzon-Santos
Date: February 27, 2008
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: Levis Faculty Center. 
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana, Illinois

This is the inaugural Balgopal Lecture on Human Rights and Asian Americans (I used to work with Shyamala Balgopal).

NOTE: John Manzon-Santos will be David Inge's guest on "Focus 580," on WILL-AM 580, Thursday, February 28, 2008, 10:00-11:00 a.m.
John Manzon-Santos:
Since 1985, John Manzon-Santos has worked to promote social justice. In 2006 he established pearldiving, a consulting practice focusing on values-based strategy and sustainability for individuals and organizations. From 1991-2006, he was executive director of Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center (San Francisco Bay Area) and Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (New York City) - the two largest nonprofits in North America focusing on A&PI communities around sexual health and HIV. From 1989-91, he worked as a counselor and trainer at Project Reach, a multi-racial youth organizing center in Manhattan's Lower East Side. In New York City and State and the San Francisco Bay Area, John has held leadership positions with nonprofit boards and public advisory bodies advocating for immigrants and migrants, substance users, queer youth, the Deaf Community, and other diverse and intersecting communities. He is co-founder of Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York, the !
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ooklyn-based Audre Lorde Project, and the Asian & Pacific Islander Health Bay Area Health Council (Northern California). 
http://www.aasp.uiuc.edu/BalgopalLecture/