[Peace-discuss] AWARE etc. events - including today, 6pm: Urban and Housing Activism (in S. Africa); 3/7 Board of Trustees Rally for Fairness; etc.

[Stuart Levy]

First: this evening is one of several events this week with visiting 
South African journalist/scholar Richard Pithouse*.
*

Among good reasons to be interested in the struggle of poor people in 
South Africa for their own housing: it's an effective grassroots 
people's movement.  And, politically, people who had grown up with the 
ANC as the party of liberation from apartheid, to which all should be 
loyal, now find it as the governing party which demolishes poor people's 
informal settlements.   (Compare it with the Democratic Party vs. social 
movements in the US!)*
*

*Wed March 6th, 6:00PM
"Urban and Housing Activism From Below"*

*307 Gregory Hall
*

**Panel Discussion including**

Richard Pithouse, visiting Scholar, Rhodes University, South Africa

Asef Bayat, Sociology

Ken Salo, Urban and Regional Planning

Tariq Ali, History

See [**] for more events below, including Pithouse's talk at 4pm 
Thursday, and "Dear Mandela" Friday evening.

Other upcoming events -- (including note the Saturday morning attempt to 
speak with South African Abahlali housing movement members which moved 
earlier, to 9am Sat):


*7:15AM, 12:15PM, 4:15PM  Thu 3/7  UofI Board of Trustees Rally for 
Fairness - Picket in support of U of I SEIU workers, Illini Union

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

*9am (changed: had been later) 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,* Thu 3/7 morning, midday, and 
afternoon --

*7:15AM, 12:15PM, 4:15PM  Thu 3/7  "***UofI Board of Trustees Rally for 
Fairness" - *Picket in support of U of I SEIU workers, Illini Union*
     Come greet the U of Illinois Board of Trustees, who are meeting at 
the Illini Union this Thursday.

     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!
*
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 this week, 3/4 - 3/9:

**
6pm  Wed 3/6   "Urban and Housing Activism from Below",* 313 Gregory 
Hall (as mentioned above)
*panel discussion including *Richard Pithouse *(visiting from Rhodes 
University, S. Africa); Asef Bayat, UIUC Sociology; Ken Salo, Urban and 
Regional Planning; Tariq Ali, History
*
7:30pm Fri 3/8 film "Dear Mandela", with discussion, University YMCA*

*9am (changed: had been 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 Abhhlali 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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