[Peace-discuss] AWARE Upcoming events from 1/13/2008 meeting

[Robert Naiman]

correction on Kinzer: he will be talking mainly about US policy towards Iran.

On Jan 14, 2008 2:58 AM, Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Mon 1/14  2:00PM  Courtroom "A", Champaign County Courthouse
>    Patrick Thompson's hearing -- pre-trial motions to be heard.
>
> Mon 1/14  6:00PM  Urbana Civic Center
>    Alfred Ivy, running for State's Attorney
>    as a Dem., opposite Julia Rietz in the Feb 5 primary,
>    holds the second of a series of public forums,
>    held every Monday night from now until the primaries.
>    Hear what he'd like to do, and come bring your questions
>    about the criminal justice system.
>
> Wed 1/16  10:30AM  (not sure where -- anyone know?)
>    Champaign County Health Care Consumers
>    ( http://www.healthcareconsumers.org/ )
>    press conference on their suit -- the only one in the US
>    to be successful so far -- to revoke the tax-exempt status
>    of Carle and Christie clinics, for their inadequate provision
>    of health care to low-income people.  (See hearing below.)
>
> Thu 1/17 9:00AM Courtroom "F", Champaign County Courthouse
>    Hearing on IL Atty General's lawsuit against Carle & Christie Clinics.
>
>
> Sat 1/19  noon   Douglass Park Branch Library
>    5th & Hill (toxic site) Neighborhood Rights Campaign,
>      sponsored by C-U Citizens for Peace & Justice,
>         Champaign County Health Care Consumers,
>         Prairie Greens.
>      Goal is to get Ameren, the owner of the 5th & Hill
>      toxic site -- an old coal-gassification plant --
>      to provide information about the site and
>      to clean it up responsibly.
>
> Wed 1/23  7:30PM  Channing-Murray Foundation
>    "TRANSFORM: A Community-Wide Panel on Health Care"
>    Panel discussion, including
>      Jeff Trask (C. County Christian Health Center),
>      Judith Orzamabal (interpreter at Center on Immigrants in the System),
>      a doctor from Danville,
>      Rob Scott from School for Designing a Society
>    Sponsored by Uni High Activism Club and Channing-Murray Foundation.
>    Refreshments will be served.
>
>
> Thu 1/24  7:00PM  Brookens Administrative Center, near Washington&Lierman, Urbana
>    County Board meeting.  They'll vote on allotting $6+ million for Clock Tower
>    Restoration.  If you think there are better ways to spend that money,
>    please show up and say so!  For example, Books to Prisoners has been
>    supplying the County jails with books as a volunteer effort; why doesn't
>    the County do so?
>
>    The Press Will Be There.
>
> Sat 2/2  2-4PM Ground Hog Day One Main Demonstration
>    Three days before the primaries.
>    One suggested theme is, How should an anti-war voter vote?
>
>
> Sun 2/17, 3:00PM, location TBA
>    Author Stephen Kinzer will visit C-U, speaking about his new book,
>       Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
>
>
> Wed 2/20  time and place (?) TBA
>     New Sanctuary Movement -- Immigration Open House.
>     Some immigration lawyers from Granite City, IL,
>     who've been working with people's cases there,
>     in C-U, and in Chicago, will be here.  Come hear
>     stories to turn the political abstractions of immigration
>     into human terms.  More details to follow.
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Robert Naiman
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