[Peace-discuss] upcoming events: "Birth of a Nation" w/panel tonight; "Palestine 101" Thu; SEIU rally Fri; ... 10/28 Harold Koh Not Welcome!

[Stuart Levy]

*Summary:
  7pm Sun 10/9 - "Birth of a Nation" film & discussion at Art Theater *
**  6pm Thu 10/13 - "Palestine 101: An Introduction to the Conflict"
*****  4:30pm Fri 10/14 - SEIU Rally for a Fair Contract (in
negotiations with U of Illinois)***
****  1pm-9pm Sat 10/15 - Fundraiser - "CU Stands with Standing Rock"
*********  7pm Thu 10/20 - singer Roy Zimmerman - "This Machine"
  11:30am Fri 10/28 - **********Harold Koh: Former Top Legal Advisor to
Hillary Clinton & Legal Architect of U.S. Crimes against Humanity - Not
Welcome!


****7pm Sun 10/9 *tonight* - "Birth of a Nation" *film at the Art Theater,
   with panel discussion to follow.  (The film is showing at many other
times too over the next couple of weeks, but this is the only panel.)

    Nate Parker's acclaimed film about Nat Turner's slave revolt
    addresses U.S. history and revolutionary violence, and raises
    several necessary specters of discussion - on & offscreen.

    More info: http://www.arttheater.coop/the-birth-of-a-nation/
    <http://www.arttheater.coop/the-birth-of-a-nation/>

    Post-show panel:
    Malaika Mckee-Culpepper (Department of African American Studies, UIUC)
    Charisse Burden-Stelly (Department of African American Studies, UIUC)
    Robert King (Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault and the Breakfast Club)
    Lou Turner (Department of African American Studies, UIUC)
    Moderated by Sundiata Cha-Jua (Department of African-American
    Studies, UIUC)

*
6pm Thu 10/13 - "Palestine 101: An Introduction to the Conflict"*
   Lincoln Hall room 1027,  702 S Wright St, Champaign

    Come learn more about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and hear from
    students activists organizing around the cause of Palestinian
    liberation! This event is open to all students at UIUC with any
    level of knowledge of the conflict.

    Speakers include:
    Dr. Kenneth Cuno (History): History of the Conflict
    Dr. Lila Sharif (AAS): Socio-cultural Effects of Apartheid and
    Settler-Colonialism
    Stephanie Skora (UIUC alumna and President of the UP Center of
    Champaign County): Pinkwashing and Jewish Solidarity with Palestine
    There will be a Q&A session and time for discussion after all three
    speakers.

    Hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine UIUC
    Co-Sponsors: Campus Union for Trans Equality an Support (CUTES),
    Native American and Indigenous Student Organization (NAISO), Black
    Students for Revolution (BSFR)

*4:30pm Fri 10/14 - SEIU Rally for a Fair Contract (in negotiations with
U of Illinois)*
    Oak & Kirby, Champaign

    Next picket: Friday October 14 at 4:30pm, corner of Oak and Kirby.
    Join us! The $5 billion-plus University still insists on offering no
    raises, only cuts! BSWs and FSWs, many of whom only make
    $17,000-30,000 a year, stand to lose thousands to health care
    increases alone, and management wants to raise parking fees, force
    employees to work more than 8 hours in a day without overtime, and
    more. This impacts our communities as workers and their families
    have less disposable income. Join our fight!

*1pm-9pm Sat 10/15 - Fundraiser - "CU Stands with Standing Rock"*
   Alto Vineyards, 4210 N. Duncan Rd, Champaign

    https://www.facebook.com/events/161627100954548/

    The two CU Stands with Standing Rock fundraising events will consist
    of a mix of local bands playing their music, interspersed with
    presentations from Native American speakers about the current
    situation with DAPL, Native American culture, heritage, and history.

    Donate (in person, or) at:  https://www.gofundme.com/cuswsr

    (The second such fundraiser will be Nov 12th 1pm-10pm at the IMC.
    <https://www.facebook.com/events/195344260876359/>)


*7pm Thu 10/20 - singer Roy Zimmerman - "This Machine"*
   Allen Hall, 1005 W Gregory Dr, Urbana

    "This Machine" is ninety minutes of Roy Zimmerman's hilarious,
    rhyme-intensive original songs. The title is a reference to Woody
    Guthrie and Pete Seeger to be sure, but also an acknowledgement that
    songwriting does good work in the world. “Sometimes I think satire
    is the most hopeful and heartfelt form of expression,” says Roy,
    “because in calling out the world's absurdities and laughing in
    their face, I'm affirming the real possibility for change.”

    [I (Stuart) think he's like a modern-day Phil Ochs, but with better
    music.   Come hear him if you can.]

***11:30am-1pm Fri 10/28 - protest former State Dept lawyer Harold Koh*
  U of I College of Law, 504 E Pennsylvania Ave, Champaign

    Harold Koh: Former Top Legal Advisor to Hillary Clinton & Legal
    Architect of U.S. Crimes against Humanity - Not Welcome!
    Protest Koh’s speech at the University of Illinois Law School!
    When: 11:30 am, Friday, Oct. 28
    Where: North Courtyard, Law Building Complex, 504 E. Pennsylvania
    Ave, Champaign, IL 61820

    We live in a time of state-sanctioned murder of Black, brown, and
    poor people within the U.S. and beyond. Since Obama’s election in
    2008, extra-judicial killings have often been perpetrated and
    justified by former liberal critics of past President Bush’s open
    practices of torture, war, and occupation. Top lawyers have played a
    crucial role in this process. One of the most prominent has been
    Harold Koh, currently a professor of international law and former
    Yale Law School dean who served as Hillary Clinton’s top legal
    advisor while she was Secretary of State (2009 to 2013). In that
    capacity, Koh has planned, promoted, and justified heinous crimes
    that have cost thousands of lives and devastated whole regions and
    countries. Anyone with a conscience should protest his appearance as
    an honored guest at the University of Illinois Law School on October
    28.

    Here are just a few examples of the many crimes for which he must be
    held to account:

    Koh helped to conceive, execute, and publicly defend President
    Obama’s drone assassination program. He participated, based on
    questionable CIA intelligence, in deciding who ought to live and who
    ought to die, all without charges, trial, an opportunity to defend
    themselves or to surrender. The victims include thousands of
    innocent people in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and other countries,
    and at least two U.S. citizens, Anwar al-Awlaki, and a few weeks
    later, his 16-year-old son, again without any due process.

    He testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that
    Obama’s devastating 2011 bombardment of Libya was not a “hostile
    action" since there was “limited exposure for US troops," so no
    Congressional approval was needed. His boss, Hillary Clinton, was an
    outspoken advocate of the savage NATO bombing. Obama sent Koh to
    testify after lawyers from the Justice and Defense Departments
    refused to take the Administration’s line, which was both illegal
    and immoral. Thousands died in that bombardment, the country’s
    infrastructure was destroyed, and an open field has been created for
    reactionary jihadists.

    Koh was part of the State Dept. team that claimed “it was not clear”
    whether the coup d’etat in Honduras (2009) was really a coup, so the
    sanctions that would be required against the coup regime were not
    applied. A cable from the US Embassy in Honduras to the State Dept.
    that was revealed by Wikileaks exposed his lies. Instead of
    sanctions, the U.S. worked with the coup government to drive the
    elected president out of the country and establish a regime more to
    US liking.

    Koh participated in the shocking failure of the US State Dept to
    investigate the Israeli commando murder (2010) on the Mavi Marmara
    of passengers attempting to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza,
    including Furkan Dogan, a US citizen. Instead, the US chose to rely
    on Israel’s investigation of its own murder, not unlike US police
    investigating their murders.

    The list could go on. We urge you to join World Can’t Wait Chicago,
    AWARE, Neighbors for Peace, Central Illinois Prairie Greens, World
    Labor Hour, and more (list in formation, contact
    chicago at worldcantwait.org to add your name) at 11:30 am on October
    28, North Courtyard, Law Building Complex, 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.,
    Champaign, Il 61820


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