[Peace-discuss] Upcoming events -- 9/4 County Board considers jail RFP; 9/5 Restorative Justice; 9/6 demo for Bradley Manning; 9/9 Al Nakba Palestinian survivor/A Hope for Peace; 9/12 Can Technology Serve Social Justice?; 9/18 Henry Louis Gates "Blacks in Latin America";

[Stuart Levy]

Tuesday *9/4, 6:00pm   Brookens Center* County Board chambers, 1776 E. 
Washington, Urbana

        "The County Board will likely be deciding which firm will be 
doing the *needs assessment concerning the county jail issue*. This is a 
crucial decision, so we encourage as many people as possible to attend. 
Public participation begins at 6 followed by the meeting at 7. That will 
be at Brookens, 1776 E. Washington, Urbana. Hope to see you there."


Tuesday *9/4, 7pm* (overlapping the above County Board meeting)
*"Capitalism isn't working - Build the Socialist alternative"**
**       room 1028 Lincoln Hall,* UIUC campus (Wright and Armory)

      "Capitalism doesn't work in the interests of the majority of us -- 
we need something radically different. We believe it is possible to win 
a world where human need and not corporate greed is at the center of our 
society."
      Sponsored by ISO UIUC (International Socialist Org.)


   Wednesday *9/5, 9:30-10:30am* *teleconference on **Restorative 
Justice* (sign up in advance), with Michelle Alexander
      The Peace Alliance is organizing a series of discussions on 
Restorative Justice.   The first of them will be this Wednesday morning, 
and involving Michelle Alexander -- author of "The New Jim Crow".  
Others are scheduled later this week and next, with speakers including 
Mikhail Lyubansky of UIUC (9/13), and Carl Stauffer of Eastern Mennonite 
University (9/19).

    You can sign up for the Wednesday morning event with Michelle 
Alexander at
http://dopeace.us/events/restorative-justice-telecouncil-series-michelle-alexander-author-

     A list of Restorative Justice events is at:
http://dopeace.us/events/event/listByLocation?location=Telecouncil

      They're sponsored by The Peace Alliance.


   Thursday *9/6, 5:00PM, Urbana Veterans' Memorial* (Main & Broadway, 
near the county courthouse)
*Demonstration in support of Bradley Manning*, accused whistleblower.   
This is part of nationally coordinated demonstrations (see e.g. Alliance 
for Global Justice or WarIsACrime.net) on that date -- the eve of 
Obama's acceptance speech.

   Sunday *9/9**, 3pm, Champaign Public Library*
*An "Al Nakba" survivor's story: A Hope for Peace*

      Presentation and discussion by a Palestinian grandmother, Mrs. 
Fatima Sehweil, who experienced "Al Nakba", The Catastrophe, in 1948.

      Come hear her personal survival story as well as a discussion
      by her daughter and granddaughter, Nida and Lena Elmuti.
      Sponsored by the U-C Peace Initiative.


Wednesday *9/12  5:30pm  Champaign Public Library*
*"Can Technology Serve Social Justice?"* lecture by Virginia Eubanks, 
SUNY Albany

       In this talk, Dr. Eubanks will reflect on fifteen years of 
efforts with three grassroots organizations--Our Knowledge, Our Power: 
Surviving Welfare, the Popular Technology Workshops, and Women at the 
YWCA Making Social Movement-- to make technology serve the needs of 
oppressed and exploited people in the United States.
      Contact:  Sharon Irish, slirish at illinois.edu


Tuesday *9/18  7pm   room 114 David Kinley Hall*, UIUC (across Gregory 
St from Main UofI Library)
*"Blacks in Latin America" *
     Lecture by *Henry Louis Gates*, Harvard University


Friday *9/21    6pm   Public forum on alternatives to incarceration*
This is part of the campaign against the plan to spend $20 million on 
new jail cells. There are alternatives. There are better ways to spend 
tax money.  This will be a panel, including:

  * Rev. Zernial Bogan of Black Chamber of Commerce,
  * Diana Zell of National Alliance on Mental Illness,
  * Diane Lenik of ACLU, a rep from the Immiegration Forum and
  * James Kilgore of Citizens with Convictions.

Sponsored by C-U Citizens for Peace and Justice.
For more info on the campaign visit: cucpj.org
<http://cucpj.org/>

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