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

Wed Feb 27 13:59:29 CST 2008

We've moved from room 60 to room 160! Still in the English Building!

A BROKEN SYSTEM … CRYING OUT FOR JUSTICE
**Forward Widely**
When:     Wednesday February 27th at 7PM
Where:    English Building Room 160
What:     The Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Featuring: 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, and Marlene Martin National Organizer for the Campaign to
End the Death Penalty
Our nation is the only industrialized country that still uses the
death penalty. It incarcerates more of its population than any other
in the world. In some states, more money is spent on prisons than
higher education. One out of three Black men can expect to go to
prison in their lifetime.
The system is broken. Something is wrong. What can we do?
The first step to action is awareness. Hear these witnesses to
injustice and many others tell their stories—and together let's fight
for justice
.
Five Reasons to Oppose the Death Penalty
1. The death penalty is racist.
2. The death penalty punishes the poor.
3. The death penalty condemns the innocent to die.
4. The death penalty is not a deterent to violent crime.
5. The death penalty is "cruel and unusual punishment."
Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:34:13 -0600 (CST)
>From: <mbooth at uiuc.edu>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace] 4 events Wednesday night, February 27, 2008  
>To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net, kmedina at uiuc.edu
>Cc: peace at lists.chambana.net, peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>
>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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>>>
>>
>>
>>Al Kagan
>>African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
>>University of Illinois Library
>>1408 W. Gregory Drive
>>Urbana, IL 61801
>>
>>tel. 217-333-6519
>>fax 217-333-2214
>>akagan at uiuc.edu
>>
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