[Peace-discuss] upcoming events upcoming...

[C. G. Estabrook]

I'll append what I've got.

Send me additions within the hour, & I'll get them in.


Stuart Levy wrote:
> Hey Carl and all,
> 
> I'm working on a set of upcoming events for AOTA -- should be out in a bit.
> ...

Anti-War Anti-Racism Calendar, April 2010
Recent and upcoming events on the local scene,
taken from last Sunday's AWARE meeting

"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past."

*Currently, across the country, "The Peaceable Assembly Campaign."  The 
organization Voices for Creative Nonviolence has initiated a nationwide campaign 
to seek an end to the U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan -- and an end 
to U.S. support of the continued occupation of the Palestinian territories. 
Beginning in September, 2009, and continuing for ten months, we will engage in 
both legal and extralegal lobbying efforts (nonviolent civil disobedience/civil 
resistance) urging Representatives and Senators to stop authorizing and funding 
wars and occupations.  For more information and resources see 
<www.peaceableassemblycampaign.org>, email <pac at vcnv.org>, or call 773-878-3815.

*March 13-31, Washington DC.  Peace of the Action.  Camp OUT NOW on the lawn of 
the Washington Monument  <http://peaceoftheaction.org>.

*Mar 31 (Wednesday) 7pm at the Channing-Murray Foundation (1209 West Oregon, 
Urbana) "My Own Four Walls," a free showing of this documentary film with 
discussion and refreshments to follow. "Courageous young people, with parents 
and without, stay in shelters, motels, abandoned buildings, doubled-up, living 
in vans, substandard trailers, or as 'couch surfers' hopping from one fragile 
living arrangement to another have one important thing in common. Thousands of 
Illinois's children experience homelessness each year." Sponsored by The 
Channing-Murray Foundation, The Wesley Foundation, & The Social Action Committee 
of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign

*Apr 1 (Thursday)  7-9pm Rich Whitney, Green party candidate for Illinois 
Governor, Allen Hall on UIUC campus, 1005 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana (See his 
respnse to Gov. Quinn's promotion of the war in his Stae fo the State speech.)

*Apr 3 (Saturday) 2-4pm "The Main Event" -- AWARE's monthly street demonstration 
on the first Saturday of the month at Neil and Main Streets (hence the name) in 
downtown Champaign.  Repeated every month since the invasion of Afghanistan. 
March begins the eighth year of the US occupation of Iraq; The US has occupied 
Afghanistan for more than eight years; and US client Israel has occupied 
Palestine, contrary to UN resolutions, for more than 40 years. And all this 
international crime is part of the American colonial domination of the Middle 
East, what the US military calls the Long War.

*Apr 8 (Thursday) The Buddha's birthday, celebrated in Japan

*Apr 9-10 (Friday-Saturday) Annual meeting of ICJPE, the Illinois Coalition for 
Justice, Peace and the Environment, at U-C IMC.  Friday evening keynote by 
Alexander Cockburn; panels all day Saturday on environmental, peace, and social 
justice topics, with panelists including Kathy Kelly, Paul Street, Aaron Hughes, 
Kerry Pimblott, Terra Brockman, Gary Cziko, Jamie Kalven, representative(s) of 
the Japanese Zenko Peace movement, and many others.

*Apr 11 (Sunday) 3pm - Kathy Kelly and Paul Street on "Opposing Obama's Wars," 
presented by AWARE at the Graduate School of Library and information Science, 
5th & Daniel Streets in Champaign.

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AWARE IS HAPPY to provide anti-war speakers and discussion leaders for local 
events.  See our website at <anti-war.net> or write <cge at shout.net>.

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