[Peace-discuss] Upcoming events from AWARE, 3/23/08
Stuart Levy
slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Mon Mar 24 04:17:05 CDT 2008
Upcoming events from AWARE meeting of 3/23/08
3/24 Mon 1:00pm Urbana City Council chambers on Vine St.
AWARE On The Air recording session
(Note it's moved an hour earlier -- now at 1pm.)
Please come & speak! Linda W. notes that it's been
getting better, and easier, each week. Sections:
- national anti-war news
- local news
- upcoming events, and things to be done
- commentary ("an opportunity for anyone with an axe to grind")
To be broadcast on Monday evening at 10pm.
3/25 Tue 9:00am Courtroom E, County courthouse (Main & Vine, Urbana)
Trial of Brian Chesley, attacked by police when
walking with his cousins through Douglass Park, and now
charged with resisting arrest and obstruction of justice.
Your presence in the courtroom provides moral support for Chesley
and lets the criminal justice system know they are being watched.
http://www.ucimc.org/node/2698
(As usual, it's important to be on time, and you'll need
to leave cell phones etc. outside the courthouse.)
3/26 Wed 7pm Gregory Hall room 215, UIUC
"1968 Year of Revolt"
Joel Geier, veteran-activist, leading member of
Berkeley Free Speech Movement
Tour marks 40th anniversary of 1968: year of the Vietnam Tet
offensive, the May general strike in France,
the student struggle in Mexico, Prague Spring,
Chicago Democratic Convention police riot,
Martin Luther King's assassination...
1968 offers lessons to a new generation of
activists and radicals organizing for a better world.
Sponsored by ISO.
3/27 Thu 7pm Lyle Shields room, Brookens Center (Washington & Lierman, Urbana)
County Board meeting. Includes voting on $5000 for a pilot
Construction Trades Task Force Summer School Program
(to start students toward becoming plumbers, electricians, ...).
CUCPJ and Habari Connection have been working toward this.
3/28 Fri 8pm Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway, Urbana
See satirist/musician Roy Zimmerman's solo show,
"Faulty Intelligence"
He comes highly recommended by the Prince Myshkins -- see
http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/peace/2008-March/021159.html
and, see this youtube clip ("Thanks for the Support"):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xlUyNmUABbc
3/29 Sat noon Douglass Branch Library (504 E. Grove, Champaign)
Latest in a series of public meetings
on the 5th & Hill St (Champaign) toxic site,
informing and empowering the community.
What's known about the site? What options do we have?
How to deal with Ameren, the IEPA, the City?
3/30 Sun 1:00pm Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon, Urbana
Cambodia's Genocide Tribunal and the Prevention of Genocide
A 30 minute film titled Road to Closure will be followed
by a talk by Bhavia Wagner of Eugene, Oregon, author of
Soul Survivors: Stories of Women and Children in Cambodia.
Bhavia will discuss the current tribunal, the process of
recovery from genocide, and how to prevent genocide.
http://www.friendshipwithcambodia.org/
4/1 Tue 7pm? Champaign Council Chambers, Neil & University
Champaign Township Board/city council meeting.
They'll vote on putting a binding poverty referendum on the
November ballot: specifically a tax increase for
City of Champaign Township. If passed it would provide
a modest rise in General Assistance, to something closer to
the level recommended by the State of Illinois.
4/3 Thu 7-10pm Allen Hall lounge (UIUC campus, 1005 W. Gregory Dr.)
"Cafe Intifada"
Poetry and spoken word event: People expressing themselves
against oppression. Among those speaking will be a
busload of kids coming down from Chicago.
Organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (UIUC).
AWARE will co-sponsor.
4/3-4/5 Thu-Sat UIUC
"Rupture, Repression and Uprising:
Raced and Gendered Violence Along the Color Line"
Conference at UIUC, in various Illini Union rooms.
Free and open to the public, but please register:
http://www.aasrp.uiuc.edu/Conference08/
Note especially
Panel 5, "Black Power and Communities of Resistance,"
led by Kerry Pimblott (Fri 9am)
Workshop, "How to Identify Sundown Towns",
James Loewen (Fri 12:30)
Panel 10, "New Structures of Violence Today"
one panelist is Ken Salo,
"Mapping Environmental Racism in the North End of Champaign, IL"
And many more -- panel 13 too, on the downstate IL criminal justice system,
or panel 6, on racial violence in the US and the UK.
It's well worth looking through the program!
4/4-4/6 Fri-Sun Loyola University in Chicago
Illinois Coalition for Peace & Justice annual conference
http://www.ilcpj.org/
(The statewide Clearwater coalition, including AWARE's Blackwater
working group, aims to offer an ILCPJ proposal to coordinate
*statewide* advisory referenda in support of a state bill
limiting activities of private military contractors.)
4/5 Sat 2-4pm Main & Neil, downtown Champaign
Main Event -- monthly antiwar demonstration.
We aim to have a flyer raising awareness of
veterans' opposition to the war,
and the Winter Soldier movement.
4/8 Tue -- in townships all across Illinois,
including Champaign and Cunningham(Urbana)
Annual township meeting night!
Any resident can propose advisory referenda to
appear on the November ballot. Suggestions include:
- Placing limitations on military contractors.
There's a bill in the IL House now, HB 5700,
to which Naomi Jakobsson became a cosponsor,
If it fails this time, a successful advisory
referendum could help for next year.
- An anti-torture resolution.
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