[Peace] schedule for Forgiveness Weekend

[danielle at illinoisnorml.org]

Forgiveness Weekend:  Double Jeopardy or a New Beginning?

All events occurring at Salem Baptist Church, 500 East Park Ave. in Champaign.


Friday, February 18, 2005

5pm  Meet, greet, and eat with conference participants

6pm  Aaron Ammons:  Personal Testimonies :  What challenges do felons face after
  prison?    What are the various forms of disenfranchisement?

7pm  Rev. James L. Bevel:  Non-violent Resistance in the 21st Century

8:30 pm  Group Discussion


Saturday, February 19

8:30am  Registration open - get speaker bios, info on political issues and
projects.

9am  Clifford Thornton: Race, Class, and the War on Drugs, Part One:  Who has
felonies and why? What's the role of mandatory minimum sentencing?  How and why
the War on Drugs has failed, why we should care, and what can we   do about it? 
Clifford Thornton, founder Efficacy, non-profit organization advocating drug
policy reform as a peaceful means to solving social problems.  Q & A

10:30am  Rep. Constance Howard: SB 3007 & How to Get Your Record Expunged and
Bryan Brickner (of Ideal Reform):  “The Politics of Forgiveness.”

Noon Lunch and Learn Information Fair and UI NORML/SSDP presents  Busted:  A
Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters

1pm  Defining Manhood-Mr. Ted Adkisson

2:00pm  Break

2:10 pm  Rev. James L. Bevel: ”The Faith Community:  The Watchmen for Social
Justice.”


Sunday, February 20

3pm  Keynote by Clifford Thornton:  Race, Class and the War on Drugs, Part Two


Free by Donation:  Schedule Subject to Change.





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