[Peace] many, many events - at Allen Hall

[Laura Haber]

More events than you can shake a stick at. All at Allen Hall! Please forward widely:

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THIS DIVIDED STATE
a documentary film by steven greenstreet
Champaign-Urbana premiere - One night only!
with Q & A with the director

FREE ADMISSION!

Thursday, April 14th
7:00pm
Allen Hall Main Lounge
1005 W. Gregory, Urbana
(parking available in the parking garage across the street)

www.thisdividedstate.com

A raw and riveting examination of the heated "red versus blue" rift in the nation, This Divided State begins in September 2004 with the presidential election fast approaching and the State of Utah ready to declare itself "Bush Country" once again. However, this conservative calm was jolted when Utah Valley State College announced that liberal filmmaker Michael Moore would speak on their campus two weeks before the election. Within 24 hours of the announcement, a media frenzy descended upon the school as angry community members and religious leaders shouted protests, pointed fingers, and quoted Mormon scripture. Some even claimed Moore's arrival would bring the Apocalypse. And so began a heated war of protest, lawsuits, and death threats. Would conservative activists prevent Michael Moore from coming? Would liberal Utahans win out their fight for freedom of speech? The answer lies somewhere within This Divided State. 

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"The Real Stories Behind Globalization and Migration in Latin America" 
a talk by Kari Lydersen

Monday, April 18
7:00pm
South Rec Room of Allen Hall
1005 W. Gregory, Urbana (parking available in the garage across the street)

>From the misty highlands of Chiapas to the dry dusty border regions lined with maquiladoras to the farmlands and barrios of the US, Kari Lydersen's book "Out of the Sea and Into the Fire: Latin American-US Immigration in the Global Age" shows the "human faces" behind global economic policies and US immigration policy. Lydersen has reported extensively in Latin America and also writes for The Washington Post out of the midwest bureau and freelances for other publications including In These Times, Punk Planet and The New Standard News.

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Knowhutimean?! A 2-man show w/ Idris Goodwin and Kevin Coval

Monday April 18
8:00pm
Allen Hall Main Lounge 
1005 W. Gregory, Urbana (parking available in the garage across the street)

Knowhatimean?! is a 75 minute collection of songs, short scenes, poems and monolouges written and performed by hip hop playwright Idris Goodwin and HBO Def Poet Kevin Coval. Backed by the turntable wizardry of Dj Itch 13, Coval and Goodwin speak on hip hop's influence through out their experiences as disillusioned suburbanites, educators and artists. Using wicked humor and brutal honesty Goodwin and Coval pay tribute to and occasionaly poke fun at the music and culture that continues to shape them. Knowhatimean?! premiered in August 2003 @ Freestreet Theater and also ran in The Rhinoceros Theater Festival that same year in Chicago. 

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Unit One/Allen Hall will present 
singing C.I.A. agent George Shrub and satirical sharp-shooter Dave Lippman 

Tuesday, April 19
7:00pm
Main Lounge of Allen Hall
1005 W. Gregory, Urbana (free parking in the garage across the street)

Admission free! 

Veteran satirical songster Dave Lippman, fired up about weapons of mass distraction, SUVs, and wars to defend SUVs, takes to the road for his second millennium of gut-busting political comedy tours. Get ready for high-end pop parodies and some very wise cracks from the world’s only known singing CIA agent, George Shrub, in this Counter-Intelligence Cabaret. Lippman’s most recent CD is "Shrub and Lippman Live in Manhattan." A relatively serious illustrated song cycle on Palestine and Israel rounds out the show.

visit http://davelippman.com for audio and video samples of the show. 

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Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony 
Wednesday, April 20 
8:00pm 
South Rec Room of Allen Hall
1005 W. Gregory, Urbana
(parking available in the garage across the street)

About Amandla!:

"Song is what keeps us alive."

-- Lindiwe Zulu (Freedom Fighter)

The power of song to communicate, motivate, console, unite and, ultimately, beget change: that ideal, gloriously realized, lies at the heart of director Lee Hirsch's inspiring feature film documentary Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony. Winner of the Audience Award and Freedom of Expression Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, Amandla! tells the story of black South African freedom music and reveals the central role it played in the long battle against apartheid. The first film to specifically consider the music that sustained and galvanized black South Africans for more than 40 years, Amandla!'s focus is on the struggle's spiritual dimension, as articulated and embodied in song. It is unlike any other film yet made on the subject of apartheid, and an electrically expressive portrait of South African life then and now.

"It leaves you stirred and uplifted not only by its music but by the determination and courage of the people who sang and danced it on the way to a freer life." 

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

"A beautiful movie about the power of music, about the power of being right." 

--Jeff Stark, Salon.com

"The sound of liberation, set to the beat of human destiny." Peter Howell, Toronto Star

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Robyn Ochs, Feminist, Bisexual, Activist, Author, and Professor will be staying at Allen Hall April 21-24. 

"Creating a Both/And Identity in an Either/Or World."
7 pm Thursday April 21
South Rec Room Allen Hall 

"Becoming an Activist" Workshop 
1 pm -2:30 pm Saturday April 23 
405 Illini Union

"Burnout Prevention for Activists" Workshop
3-4:30pm Saturday April 23
405 Illini Union


Robyn Ochs is a long-time activist, and the editor of the Bisexual Resource Guide and the new anthology Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World. She has taught courses on topics including GLBT history & politics in the United States, the politics of sexual orientation, and the experiences of those of us who transgress the binary categories of gay/straight, masculine/feminine, black/white and/or male/female. Her writings have been published in numerous bisexual, women's studies, multicultural, and GLBT anthologies. She lives in Massachusetts, and on May 17th, 2004—on the first day it was legal—she married Peg Preble, her long-time partner. She is a professional speaker and workshop leader. More about Robyn at www.robynochs.com.

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The Take by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis (2004) 87 min 
Champaign-Urbana premiere!

Monday, April 25
7:00pm
Main Lounge of Allen Hall
1005 W. Gregory, Urbana

Free and open to the public

(parking available in the garage across the street)

Filmed in Argentina over the course of eight months, The Take documents the beginnings of a new social movement that took place under the radar of the world's media. The recent economic crisis that shattered Argentina caused widespread dislocation and pushed more than half the population into extreme poverty. However, at two hundred factories, schools, supermarkets, and health clinics, something remarkable happened: rather than allowing their workplaces to be closed down, they turned these bankrupt businesses into productive, democratically-run cooperatives. The Take tells this story of working people forging genuine alternatives to the brutal economic realities of the Washington Consensus--a story whose implications are universal, and more important than ever.


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Laura Haber
Program Coordinator of Unit One
University of Illinois
68 Allen Hall (MC 050)
1005 W. Gregory
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-2317
lhaber at admin.housing.uiuc.edu


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