[Peace-discuss] (updated) Upcoming events of interest to a bunch of us including AWARE and Occupy...
Stuart Levy
stuartnlevy at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 04:51:38 UTC 2013
Some upcoming events below - with a few more than the earlier
announcement. Unfortunately three of them happen concurrently on
Wednesday evening, but hope you can attend at least one.
First a calendar summary, details below.
*Pickets in support of SEIU workers,* Wed 2/27 morning and afternoon --
*7:15am Wed 2/27 * at *Ikenberry Commons*, 3rd and Gregory, Champaign
*4:15pm Wed 2/27* at *Alice Campbell Alumni Center*, Lincoln and
Oregon, Urbana
*4pm-6pm Wed 2/27 Women's Resources Center 4th Anniversary Reception*,
703 S. Wright St., 2nd floor
*7pm Wed 2/27 *film*"People and the Olive", First Mennonite
Church*, Springfield & Lincoln, Urbana
... A US group's ultra-marathon across Palestine and
their efforts to replant uprooted olive trees...
*6-8pm Wed 2/27 Planners' Network* in *"Race and Space Symposium"*,
Asian American House, 210 W Nevada St
*7:30pm Wed 2/27 *Keynote by *Dr. Myrlie Evers-Williams + concert,
Foellinger Great Hall, KCPA*
Talks by***activists**against the War on Drugs, Neill Franklin (LEAP)
and Clifford Thornton (Efficacy Now)
5:30-8:30pm Thu 2/28* at *Levis Faculty Center*, 919 Illinois St.,
Urbana
* 5:30-8:30pm Fri 3/1* at *Salem Baptist Church*, 500 E Park St.,
Champaign
*noon Fri 3/1 Rev Alexander Sharp*, University YMCA Friday Forum
How *Protestants for the Common Good are organizing to **reform drug
policy here in Illinois**. *
*2-4PM Sat 3/2 AWARE anti-war demonstration**,* Main and Neil,
downtown Champaign
*4pm Mon 3/4 "Urban and Housing Activism from Below"* panel
discussion, 313 Gregory Hall
*7:30pm Mon 3/4 film "Dear Mandela", University YMCA
*
*4pm Thu 3/7 "Thought Amidst Waste: Politics in Shack Settlements
in South Africa",* Spurlock Museum
lecture by visiting South African
scholar/journalist/activist Richard Pithouse -
and see other events this week 3/4-3/9
**7:30pm Fri 3/8 film "Dear Mandela", with discussion, University YMCA
** *noon 3/8 Soulforce, Dr. Cindi Love - University YMCA Friday Forum*
Dedicated to Relentless, Nonviolent Resistance to Oppression
Arising out of Fundamentalism
*10am Sat 3/9 discussion**of Dear Mandela*, Champaign Public Library room B
(please see the film on 3/4 or 3/8 above), including Skype
with community members or the director
*2pm Sat 3/9 panel "Community Knowledge" ***in Durban and S. Africa*,*
Champaign Public Library rooms A+B*
* environmental justice, immigrant issues, incarceration, etc.
*6pm Mon 3/11 - lecture on Ida B. Wells,* Levis Faculty Center
Lecture by historian Prof. Mia Bay, of Rutgers University, author of
"To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells".
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*Pickets in support of SEIU workers,* Wed 2/27 morning and afternoon --
*7:15am Wed 2/27 * at *Ikenberry Commons*, 3rd and Gregory, Champaign
*4:15pm Wed 2/27* at *Alice Campbell Alumni Center*, Lincoln and
Oregon, Urbana
SEIU workers on the U. of Illinois campus have been without a
contract since last summer. Negotiations are ongoing, including this
week. A strike has been authorized - but perhaps can be averted if the
University takes the negotiations seriously. Come out to show your
support for the hard working SEIU building service workers and food
service workers!
*4pm-6pm Wed 2/27 Women's Resources Center 4th Anniversary Reception*,
703 S. Wright St., 2nd floor
Celebrate four years of the Women's Resource Center's programming.
*7pm Wed 2/27 *film*"People and the Olive", First Mennonite Church*,
Springfield & Lincoln, Urbana
Screening of the documentary */People and The Olive/*.
The film follows a Michigan-based nonprofit's ultra-marathon across
Palestine and their efforts to replant uprooted olive trees. This
documentary focuses on cross-cultural connections and speaks out in
support of Fair Trade. Join us for this 70 minute film with some
discussion afterwards.
*6-8pm Wed 2/27 Planners' Network in "Race and Space Symposium"*, Asian
American House, 210 W Nevada St
Interdisciplinary symposium on segregated spaces in our
contemporary world including ghettos, slums and gated communities.
With Aaron Ammons, Francisco Baires, Stephanie Seawell. Contact: Scott
Humphrey, shmphry2 at illinois.edu.
*7:30pm Wed 2/27 *Keynote by *Dr. Myrlie Evers-Williams + concert,
Foellinger Great Hall, KCPA*
Culminating celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation
sesquicentennial.
Keynote speech by civil rights activist, and past president of the
NAACP, Dr. Myrlie Evers-Williams (Medger Evers had been her husband).
More about her at:
http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-Myrlie-Evers-Williams
... and performances by the U of I Black Choir, Women's Glee Club,
and U of I Wind Symphony.
At Foellinger Great Hall in Krannert Center, 500 S. Goodwin Ave,
Urbana. Free.
Two events with *campaigners against the drug war*, brought here by C-U
Citizens for Peace and Justice and others --
*Neill Franklin *of*Law Enforcement Against Prohibition(LEAP) *and*
Clifford Thornton *of*Efficacy Now*
*5:30-8:30pm Thu 2/28* at *Levis Faculty Center*, 919 Illinois St., Urbana
and
*5:30-8:30pm Fri 3/1* at *Salem Baptist Church*, 500 E Park St.,
Champaign
Structure, for at least the Thu 2/28 event --
film presentation on the War on Drugs
lecture - the War on Drugs and the Black American Community
Muslim American Society 3rd annual Social Services Award Ceremony
Sponsored by Muslim American Society, C-U Citizens for Peace and
Justice, Citizens with Convictions, Muslim Student Association-UIUC,
Salem Baptist Church, ACLU, Breakfast Club, Urbana Human Relations
Commission, UC Friends Meeting, U of I Department of African American
Studies
More on the speakers at
http://www.leap.cc/
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, of which Neill Franklin is
executive director
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is an international 501(c) 3
nonprofit organization of criminal justice professionals who bear
personal witness to the wasteful futility and harms of our current
drug policies. Our experience on the front lines of the "war on
drugs" has led us to call for a repeal of prohibition and its
replacement with a tight system of legalized regulation, which will
effectively cripple the violent cartels and street dealers who
control the current illegal market.
and
http://www.efficacy-online.org
Efficacy Now, co-founded by Clifford Thornton
... A call is building for all drug sales to come under government
control to eliminate the market for drug dealers and to end the vast
culture of criminality surrounding illegal drugs. Even Walter
Cronkite is in the fray, saying in 2006, "...nothing will change
until someone has the courage to stand up and say ... the war on
drugs has failed." Efficacy and other like-minded organizations
are at the beginning of that new courage, a courage to create a
dramatic shift on how we take responsibility for illicit drugs.
There is much in this site that reveals how drug prohibition, a.k.a.
"War on drugs," is not effective and even destructive of our
society. It damages race relations. It packs our prisons. It breeds
police corruption and abuse. It drains funds best used for urban
renewal and educational programs. ...
also note next Friday's YMCA Friday Forum is on the drug war as well --
*noon Fri 3/1 Rev Alexander Sharp*, University YMCA Friday Forum
How *Protestants for the Common Good are organizing to **reform drug
policy here in Illinois**. *
University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign
[more about the Friday Forum series below]
*2-4PM Sat 3/2 AWARE anti-war demonstration**, Main and Neil, downtown
Champaign*
As ever, AWARE will demonstrate against the wars and talk about
them with passersby
at the corner of Main and Neil. Please come join us if you
have a chance.
*noon 3/8 Soulforce, Dr. Cindi Love - University YMCA Friday Forum*
Dedicated to Relentless, Nonviolent Resistance to Oppression
Arising out of Fundamentalism
The talk will focus on the challenges faced by marginalized
communities, who are often subjected to the violence of exclusion,
and highlight the non-violent efforts made by Soulforce to resist
the oppression arising out of the fundamentalist agenda.
*4pm Thu 3/7 Richard Pithouse, "Thought Amidst Waste: Politics in Shack
Settlements in South Africa",* Spurlock Museum
Richard Pithouse, a South African scholar, journalist and activist
with the Durban shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, will
lecture on the political history of shack settlements in South
Africa and contemporary shack dwellers' struggles as they illuminate
the prospects for emancipatory politics among the poor. Free and
open to all.
Other events related to Pithouse's visit during that week, 3/4 - 3/9:
*4pm Mon 3/4 "Urban and Housing Activism from Below",* 313 Gregory Hall
panel discussion including Richard Pithouse (Rhodes University, S.
Africa); Asef Bayat, UIUC Sociology; Ken Salo, Urban and Regional
Planning; Tariq Ali, History
*7:30pm Mon 3/4 film "Dear Mandela", University YMCA*
*7:30pm Fri 3/8 film "Dear Mandela", with discussion, University YMCA*
*10am Sat 3/9 discussion**of Dear Mandela*, Champaign Public Library room B
discussion of the film (*please see it on 3/4 or 3/8 at the
YMCA*),
including planned Skype with Abhlali members or the film's
director
*2pm Sat 3/9 community panel on "Community Knowledge" ***in Durban and
S. Africa*,* Champaign Public Library rooms A+B*
* addressing environmental justice, immigrant issues,
incarceration, etc.
*6pm Mon 3/11 - 2013 Ida B. Wells Lecture,* in Levis Faculty Center
Lecture by historian Prof. Mia Bay, of Rutgers University, author of
"To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells".
Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless anti-lynching
crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal
to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be
labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day but made her a model for
later civil rights activists as well as a powerful witness to the
troubled racial politics of her era.
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The University YMCA Friday Forum, at noon every Friday during the school
year, has a theme this year of Faith in Action. See the full list of
speakers here:
http://www.universityymca.org/friday_forum/
including
3/29 Rev. Dr. Eugene Barnes, Metanoia Centers - Working on Economic
Justice and Community Transformation from a Faith Base
4/5 Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core and Member of President
Obama's Advisory Council - Author of /Acts of Faith /and /Sacred Ground:
Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America/
4/12 Rev. Dr. Clare Butterfield, Faith in Place, and Rev. Bob
Rasmus, St. Matthew Lutheran Church - Helping People of Faith Understand
Ecology and Economy as a Moral Issue
4/19 Dr. Irfan Ahmad, Avicenna Community Health Center, and Donna
Camp, Wesley Evening Food Pantry - Local Faith-Based Responses to Hunger
and Healthcare
4/26 Rabbi Rogerio Cukierman, Executive Director, UIUC Hillel/Cohen
Center - Praying with Our Legs: The Intersection of Social Justice and
Spirituality
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