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

[mbooth at uiuc.edu]

Nor our Turkish Studies Symposium tomorrow, Thursday, on Islam, Democracy and Secularism in Turkey. Details at uiuc.csames.edu

best
Marilyn

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:10:31 -0600
>From: Alfred Kagan <akagan at uiuc.edu>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace] 4 events Wednesday night, February 27, 2008  
>To: kmedina at uiuc.edu, peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>Cc: peace at lists.chambana.net, peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>
>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 !
>>  Br!
>> 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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