[Peace] Wheels of Justice in Urbana-Champaign

[David Green]

WHEELS OF JUSTICE IN URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Nonviolent education and action against war and
occupation in Iraq and Palestine for justice and
universal human rights

www.justicewheels.org

“Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land” (not an
official WOJ event)
A 90 minute DVD from the Media Education Foundation;
Post-film discussion led by Professor Robert
McChesney, UIUC
McKinley Foundation, 5th and Daniel, Main Lounge, 
Tuesday, April 26th, 7 p.m.

“School of the Americas: Terrorist Training Camp in
our Own Back Yard”
Video: “Guns and Greed”
Ed Kinane speaks from experience on the role of the
SOA in maintaining poverty and oppression in Latin
America. 
Channing-Murray Foundation, Oregon and Matthews, Red
Herring Café
Wednesday, April 27th, 6 p.m.
(Afterwards, all are cordially invited to El Centro
Benefit Dance, 8 p.m., upstairs)

Mazin Qumsiyeh on Focus 580 with David Inge
WILL-AM 580
Thursday, April 28th ,10 a.m.

“Palestinian Right of Return”
Mazin Qumsiyeh
Room  407  Illini Union, 1401 West Green Street,
Urbana
Thursday, April 28th , 3 p.m.

“Witness to occupation, witness for peace: Deep Inside
Iraq and Palestine”
Mazin Qumsiyeh and Ed Kinane
University YMCA, Wright and Chalmers, Latzer Hall
Thursday, April 28th ,7:30 p.m.

Student Activism
Urbana High School
Friday, April 29th , Morning classes

“Non-Violent Witness and Resistance”
Ed Kinane and Cal Carpenter
CIMIC (Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic Center)
Lincoln and Springfield
Friday, April 29th, 8 p.m.

Look for the Bus in Downtown Champaign
Saturday, April 30th


Mazin Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian American and an
Associate Professor of Genetics Yale University School
of Medicine. He is author of the widely acclaimed book
Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the
Israeli-Palestinian Struggle. He is founder and
president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation. He
is a cofounder of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to
Return Coalition. 

Ed Kinane’s veteran activism led him to hot spots as
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Haiti, and Guatemala to serve
in the Peace Brigades International. In the 1990’s
Kinane became very involved in the movement to close
the School of the Americas or SOA in Fort Benning,
Georgia. Ed spent 5 months in Iraq just prior to,
during and after the bombardment of Baghdad in 2003.
Currently Ed helps edit the Syracuse Peace Council's
"Peace Newsletter."
  
Cal Carpenter has been in and out of the West Bank a
number of times over the last couple of years as a
member of Christian Peacemaker Teams in Hebron and At
Tuwani, engaging in high-risk nonviolent witness and
intervention. Much of his time is spent as a
nonviolent presence to deter settler violence against
native Palestinians.

Bill Hill served 6 months in federal prison for
blocking the doors to the federal building in protest
of the 1991Gulf War. Hill goes wherever his conscience
demands to work on behalf of the poor, be it Casa
Maria Catholic Worker community in Tucson, Chiapas,
Mexico, Cuba, or Central America. 

Events sponsored by: the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort,
University YMCA, McKinley Foundation, First Mennonite
Church Peace and Justice Initiative, Channing-Murray
Foundation, Muslim Students Association, Program in
South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, El Centro Por
Los Trabajadores, Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic
Center, Illinois Disciples Foundation, Coordinated
Effort for the Reporting of Rights Violations