[Peace-discuss] Upcoming events - Sat 2-4pm Low Wage Workers panel; Tue 7pm Josh Ruebner; ...

[Stuart Levy]

Some upcoming events of interest to AWARE and others -

*4/11 Fri noon* University YMCA Friday Forum 
<http://universityymca.org/friday_forum/>
*"Cooperatives - Creating a Community of Wealth"*
Jacqueline Hannah, General Manager of Common Ground Food Cooperative 
will paint a picture of what the the cooperative business model is, the 
different ways it is being used all over the world today, and its unique 
ability to create community wealth. ...


*4/12 Sat 2-4PM *  Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W Oregon, Urbana
*panel: "How Can We Help Low Wage Workers?"**
*Featuring**Ricky Baldwin, SEIU Local 73; Belden Fields,  Emeritus 
Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois, Pat Simpson, 
Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, Loyola University Chicago.
For generations, Americans shared a tacit understanding that if you 
worked hard, a livable income and basic securities would be yours. That 
promise has been broken. Today, more than 30 million men and women in 
this country work in jobs that pay poverty wages and provide few if any 
benefits. ... In this panel, several aspects of the low-wage issue will 
be addressed: 1) myths about low-wage workers; 2) problems with 
measuring income adequacy and the history of a local living wage 
campaign; 3) current social justice efforts on behalf of low-wage 
workers, including "Fight for $15".


*4/15 Tue 7PM*    room 1090 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St, Urbana
         Join SJP UIUC as we welcome political analyst, activist and 
author, Josh Ruebner, as he discusses his book,
/*Shattered Hopes: Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace*/*.
*The book analyzes the Obama administration's failed strategy to resolve 
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its unwillingness to challenge the 
Israel lobby.
         Ruebner is the National Advocacy Director of the US Campaign to 
End the Israeli Occupation ( endtheoccupation.org 
<http://endtheoccupation.org/> ).


*4/18 Fri noon* YMCA Friday Forum <http://universityymca.org/friday_forum/>
*Consumer Futures in the Healthcare Marketplace***
         Daniel Yunker, CEO, Land of Lincoln Health
         The Affordable Care Act created two dozen health insurance 
co-ops, launched with about $1.9 million in federal loan funding --- 
before budget reductions sank plans for more co-ops in other states --- 
with the hope that consumer-operated and -oriented plans would stir up 
competition and lower insurance rates for everyone. Land of Lincoln 
Health is the first and only health insurance co-op in Illinois. ...


*4/21 Mon 4-6PM*   Douglass Annex, 804 N. 5th St, Champaign (in Douglass 
Park)
*Oral History of Champaign-Urbana Days*  (film and discussion)
         Learn about the history of the community and do your part to 
build a more inclusive local history!! Attend this free screening of 
oral histories by community elders sharing their memories of the history 
of Champaign-Urbana Day/s. After the screening join in a community 
discussion about how and why to add more voices to the Oral History of 
Champaign-Urbana Days before, during and after this year's festival 
(August 8 & 9, 2014).

         The video features Cecil Bridgewater, Erma Bridgewater, Nate 
Dixon, Bruce Nesbitt, Hattie Paulk, Gerald 'Candy' Foster, and more. ...


*4/22 Tue 5:30PM*   Escobar's Restaurant, 6 E Columbia Ave, Champaign
*Sierra Club Earth Day Forum**/ Happy Hour*
          featuring speakers on the U-C Energy Star Challenge; Bulldog 
Coal Mine; Clinton landfill/Mahomet aquifer; and IL rules for fracking 
and coal ash

*4/22 Tue 7PM * Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway, Urbana
*Robert McChesney *will speak.   All welcome.
Robert McChesney is professor of media at University of Illinois and 
founding member of Free Press (freepress.net), a media analysis and 
advocacy group.  His recent books include Dollarocracy (with John 
Nichols), and Digital Disconnect, both of which cover the issue of money 
and media and the variety of ways corporate power has undue influence in 
the media landscape.


*5/13 Wed* around 6pm   Hilton Garden Inn, 1501 S Neil St, Champaign
*USEPA public hearing* on whether to assign Sole Source Aquifer 
protection to the Mahomet Aquifer.
         Let's hold a demonstration to show that yes, we want them to 
protect it as our only feasible source of drinking water!




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