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

[Alfred Kagan]

And don't forget the African Film Festival all this week.

Al


On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Karen Medina wrote:

> 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/
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Al Kagan
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University of Illinois Library
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