[Peace-discuss] many upcoming events - Weisbrot; Migrants; IVAW 10 years in Afghanistan speak-out; Beehive/Cost of Coal; Unity March; Health care forum; Giving Voice to Iraqi Refugees
Barbara kessel
barkes at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 08:36:45 CDT 2011
Anything going on outdoors on the 6th that you have heard of? Barbara
On Monday, October 3, 2011, Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.illinois.edu> wrote:
> Summary of upcoming events, with details below:
>
> Mon 10/3 8pm Levis Faculty Center, 3rd floor
> Mark Weisbrot: "The Ignorant Elite: Neoliberalism and Its Consequences"
>
> Tue 10/4 3:30pm-5pm Levis Faculty Center, first floor Reading Room
> Mark Weisbrot: "Latin American Policy under Obama:
> Politics, Economics, and Geopolitics"
>
> Wed 10/5 6:30-8pm Champaign Public Library room "C"
> Norma Price, who works with Samaritans in southern Arizona:
> "Hear What It Means to Cross the Border - Migrants and their
experiences"
>
> Thu 10/6 --- Wherever you are
> Make a clamor for peace -- demonstrate, lobby Congress, do something!
>
> Thu 10/6 7pm U-C Independent Media Center, downtown Urbana
> Beehive Collective -- "Mountaintop Removal: The True Cost of Coal"
> Hear from this visiting group of activist artists!
> http://beehivecollective.org/
>
> Fri 10/7 Noon U of I Quad (south side of Illini Union, facing the Quad)
> Iraq Veterans Against the War will be hosting a speak-out on the quad
on the
> 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan. Speak out
> against the occupations, against militarism, and for peace and social
justice.
>
> Fri 10/7 6-8pm U-C Independent Media Center, Broadway & Elm, downtown
Urbana
> Opening reception for "Unity in the Community: Sowing Seeds of
Empowerment",
> photo exhibit running 10/7-10/21 -- photos remembering Kiwane
Carrington
> and Unity March VII, by Patricia Rosario.
>
> Sat 10/8 11:30am rally at WEFT (113 N. Market St, Champaign),
> noon rally outside, and march to Chase Bank (University &
Randolph)
>
> NATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION UNITY MARCH
> Rally for decent jobs, Medicare for all, strengthen social security,
> labor rights, protecting and expanding public education,
> ending the wars, ending discrimination against felony convicts,
> make wealthy people and corporations pay their taxes, and
> demand that the bailed-out banks give back our money!
>
> Wed 10/12 5:30-7:30pm Champaign Library rooms A and B
> Health Care Community Forum, by CBHC, CCHCC, NAACP and others
> Panel on the new Illinois health insurance marketplace
>
> Fri 10/14 7pm UofI music bldg auditorium (1114 W Nevada, U)
> "No Place Called Home" - one-woman play giving voice to Iraqi refugees
> By Kim Schultz, part of a delegation of US artists who visited Iraqi
refugee camps.
>
>
>
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>
>
> Mon 10/3 8pm UofI Levis Faculty Center, 3rd floor, 919 W. Illinois St,
U.
> Mark Weisbrot (of Center for Economic and Policy Research, cepr.net)
speaks:
> "The Ignorant Elite: Neoliberalism and Its Consequences"
>
>
> Tue 10/4 3:30pm Levis Faculty Center Reading Room (first floor)
> Mark Weisbrot (of cepr.net) speaks again:
> "Latin American Policy under Obama: Politics, Economics, and
Geopolitics"
>
> Weisbrot was interviewed on Robert McChesney's "Media Matters" WILL-AM
> radio program last weekend, Oct 2nd (and many times in the past);
> find it in the archives at
> http://will.illinois.edu/mediamatters/
>
> Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy
Research,
> in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the
University of
> Michigan. He has written numerous research papers on economic policy,
> especially on Latin America and international economic policy. He is
also
> co-author, with Dean Baker, of "Social Security: The Phony Crisis."
> He writes a regular column on economic and policy issues, distributed
to
> over 550 papers by McClatchy; writes a weekly column for The Guardian
(UK);
> appears regularly on radio and television. He is also president of
Just Foreign Policy.
>
>
> Wed 10/5 6:30-8pm Champaign Public Library room "C"
>
> Hear What It Means to Cross the Border
> Migrants and their experiences
>
> What are the real stories of immigration and our southern border?
> Norma Price is a retired physician and co-author of the book,
> With The Virgin - Stories From The Migrant Trail.
> Dr. Price works with Samaritans in southern Arizona.
> In this work she has learned about the border
> and its people - on the ground and face to face.
>
> She will share their stories on Wednesday, Oct. 5, from 6:30 to 8 pm in
the
> Robeson Pavilon Room C, Champaign Public Library. Her presentation is
free
> and open to the public.
>
> Wed 10/5 7:00-9:00pm basement room of IMC
> Reading group for Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow" meets.
Reading Chapter 2 this week.
> If you'd like to join, please let James Kilgore, jjincu {at} gmail dot
com, know.
>
>
> Thu 10/6 --- Wherever you are
> Make a clamor for peace. Friday will be the 10th anniversary of
> the US invasion of Afghanistan (see the IVAW event at noon on Friday).
> Some people are going to join demonstrations in Washington, DC,
> on the 6th date, or in Chicago (or Champaign!) on the 8th.
> But there are other good things to do too -- see Robert Naiman's
article:
>
http://www.truth-out.org/october-6-lets-make-national-clamor-peace/1317305972
>
>
> Thu 10/6 7pm U-C Independent Media Center, Broadway & Elm, Urbana
>
> Beehive Collective -- "Mountaintop Removal: The True Cost of Coal"
> http://beehivecollective.org/
>
> A high energy, interactive, graphic-based picture-lecture that speaks
to
> the overwhelming and complex picture of globalization, militarization,
and
> resource extraction, as well as the small-scale changes and actions we
can
> undertake to build another world!
>
> Our insatiable demand for cheap power has lead to the most extreme,
> devastating form of coal mining yet, Mountaintop Removal (MTR). The
TRUE
> COST OF COAL graphic uses MTR in Appalachia as a lens through which to
> understand the historical and contemporary story of ENGERY, RESOURCE
> EXTRACTION and of AMERICAN EMPIRE accelerating throughout the world.
We
> will expose the DECEPTIONS of CLEAN COAL technologies and bring to
light
> the ensuing CLIMATE CHAOS facing the world today.
>
> With a gigantic portable teeming with intricate images of plants and
> animals from the most bio-diverse temperate forest on the planet, the
Bees
> will share (and seek) stories of how coal mining and Mountaintop
Removal
> affect communities and ecosystems throughout Appalachia and beyond.
>
> The TRUE COST OF COAL will challenge all of us who
> casually flip on a light switch to examine our own connection
> about what we can do to stop it from within our own communities.
>
>
>
> Fri 10/7 Noon U of I Quad (south side of Illini Union, facing the Quad)
>
> Iraq Veterans Against the War will be hosting a speak-out on the quad
on the
> 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.
>
> Join us in speaking out against the occupations, against militarism,
> and for peace and social justice.
>
> This October 7th marks the ten-year anniversary of the continued
occupation
> of Afghanistan. This decade of war has devastated and traumatized the
people
> of Afghanistan, while also having dire consequences here at home, yet
we are
> seeing an escalation in the so-called global war on terror. The end of
the
> occupation of Afghanistan is nowhere in sight, and the occupation of
Iraq
> persists, despite promises of withdrawal. Drone attacks and raids are
> carried out daily across the Afghan border into Pakistan, violating
> their sovereignty. Our government continues to spend one trillion
dollars a
> year to fund worldwide military operations in the midst of a budget
crisis,
> maintaining 800 military bases around the globe. Service members
continue to
> suffer from war and conflict even after discharge, as they are faced
with
> untreated physical and mental injuries, unemployment, substance abuse,
and
> homelessness. Meanwhile, rates of trauma amongst occupied populations
are
> unknown, with some estimating that they are near universal.
>
>
> Fri 10/7 6-8pm U-C Independent Media Center, Broadway & Elm, downtown
Urbana
>
> Opening reception for "Unity in the Community: Sowing Seeds of
Empowerment", 10/7-10/21
>
> An art exhibit of photographs remembering Kiwane Carrington
> and the Unity March VII by Patricia T. Rosario.
> The show will run from October 7 - 21.
> Opening reception on Friday, October 7, 6 - 8 p.m.
> Light refreshments will be served.
>
> Contact: Patricia Rosario, rosario1 {at} illinois.edu
>
>
> Sat 10/8 8am-noon Urbana Farmer's Market (Lincoln Square parking lot)
> Come talk with AWARE at the Farmer's Market. For the rest of the
season,
> we and all the community groups will be back in the main Market area,
> along the north edge, as in previous years.
>
> Sat 10/8 11:30am rally at WEFT (113 N. Market St, Champaign),
> noon rally outside, and march to Chase Bank
>
> NATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION UNITY MARCH
>
> SATURDAY OCT. 8TH, 11:30 AM (if you're there at 11:30,
> come into WEFT studios and join the Labor Hour broadcast)
>
> RALLY AND MARCH STARTS AT WEFT RADIO STATION ( 113 N. MARKET ST. )
> AND ENDS AT CHASE BANK (University and Randolph)
>
> Rally and march for ...
> GOOD PAYING JOBS ****
> EXPANSION OF MEDICARE FOR ALL ****
> PROTECT AND STRENGTHEN SOCIAL SECURITY ****
> PROTECT AND EXPAND THE RIGHT TO FORM UNIONS ****
> END THE WARS AND BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW ****
> END DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE WITH FELONIES ****
> PROTECT AND EXPAND FREE PUBLIC EDUCATION ****
> MAKE THE RICH AND THE CORPORATIONS PAY THEIR TAXES ****
> DEMAND THAT THE BAIL-OUT BANKS GIVE BACK OUR MONEY ! ****
>
>
> Wed 10/12 5:30-7:30pm Champaign Library rooms A and B
>
> Health Care Community Forum
>
> "Join CBHC (Campaign for Better Health Care), NAACP,
> CCHCC, CCBCC, Smile Healthy, Avicenna and other groups
> to find out how the health care law affects you.
> Expert panelists will discuss & answer questions about
> establishing the new Illinois health insurance marketplace
> and ways to take action to ensure the marketplace benefits you!"
> [Note: some announcements mention "Tue Oct 12th", but it appears
> that this is actually happening Wed Oct 12th.]
>
>
> Fri 10/14 7pm UofI music building auditorium, 1114 W Nevada, U.
>
> No Place Called Home
> a play giving voice to Iraqi refugees
>
> written and performed by Kim Schultz
> Friday, Oct 14, 7pm
> UofI music building auditorium
>
> Kim Schultz is the playwright and actress of No Place Called Home,
> a one-woman play based on the vignettes of Iraqi refugees living
> in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
>
> In 2009, Schultz was part of a delegation of American artists
> who visited Iraqi refugee camps. The delegation met with hundreds
> of refugees at community centers and in their homes.
>
> Upon their return, the artists began creating a series of artistic
> pieces designed to humanize the crisis and give voice to the millions
> of refugees whose plight has yet to enter broad public consciousness.
>
> No Place Called Home is a result of this effort.
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