[Peace] Re: [Peace-discuss] AWARE Agenda, October 2nd

[Ricky Baldwin]

Sorry, but I've managed to misplace my notebook
containing the minutes of the last meeting.  But I am
sure we have a couple of things to follow up on, such
as a funding decision.  So if folks could try to
remember anything we need to revisit...

And I'm really sorry.  Hopefully my notebook will turn
up before tomorrow.

Ricky

--- David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 1. News of the Week (10 minutes)
> 
> 2. Introductions (5 minutes)
> 
> 3. New Ideas: (15 minutes)
> 
> 4. Working Groups: (30 minutes)
> 
> Finances
> 
> Farmers Market
> 
> Main Event
> 
> Counter-Recruitment
> 
> AWARE Presents
> 
> 5. Last Week's Events (15 minutes for 5 and 6)
> 
> 6. Upcoming Events
> 
> THE EXONERATED will be performed at Parkland College
> 
> Culled from interviews, letters, transcripts, case
> files, and the public record, THE EXONERATED, a play
> written by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, and
> directed
> by Randi Jennifer Collins Hard, tells the moving
> stories of six wrongfully convicted survivors of
> death
> row in their own words. This hard-hitting play moves
> between first-person monologues and scenes set in
> courtrooms and prision. The six interwoven stories
> paint a picture of a criminal justice system gone
> horribly wrong and of six brave souls who persevered
> to survive it.
> 
> Preview Performance Wednesday, September 28 at 8
> p.m.
> September 30 and October 1, 6, 7, 8 at 8 p.m.
> October 9 at 3 p.m.
> Thursday, October 6 all tickets half price
> * Special post-performance discussion with Delbert
> Tibbs and Rachael Dietkus on September 30.
> 
> *******
> 
> The  Channing-Murray Foundation presents:
> 
> Social Justice Programs	Fall 2005
> 
> Wednesday, October 5th	7:00 p.m.
> 
> Panel Discussion:  Choosing Oppression?
> Why American Women are Accepting Islam
> Co-Sponsored by Muslim Women’s Outreach
> 
> Speakers: Debra Anderson, Crissy Hodges, Tamala
> Anderson, and Patsy 
> Howell
> 
> Moderator: Hebah Ahmed
> 
>    A recent poll in the US has found that 100,000
> people per year in 
> America alone are converting to Islam. For every 1
> male convert to 
> Islam, 4 females convert to Islam. Why?  Are these
> women choosing to be 
> oppressed?  Are they giving up their "American
> Liberation" to become 
> second-class citizens?  Come hear why these women
> have
> made this life 
> changing decision and what reactions they have
> received from friends, 
> family, and other Americans.   Challenge your own
> understanding about 
> what the media presents and come hear for yourself.
> 
> 1209 W. Oregon Street, Urbana 		
> 
> ******
> 
> Activists from South Africa and the US Speak at
> Allen
> Hall Speakers will address World Bank, IMF,
> Globalization, Iraq War Last week, during the annual
> meetings of the World Bank/International Monetary
> Fund
> (IMF), thousands of people gathered in Washington DC
> for massive global justice and anti-war
> emonstrations.
>  Protesters highlighted the connections between the
> military violence in Iraq - and elsewhere - and the
> economic violence perpetrated by the IMF and World
> Bank, a connection made even clearer >> with the
> appointment of Paul Wolfowitz, a key architect of
> the
> Iraq war, to the presidency of the World Bank.  To
> further highlight these connections, UIUC is hosting
> the 50 Years  Is Enough Network and United for Peace
> and Justice Speaker’s Tour in Champaign.
> 
> Speakers include:
> Nompumelelo Magwaza – Youth organizer and poet
> (South
> Africa)
> George Martin – Peace activist (Wisconsin, USA)
> What: Global Justice and Peace Teach-in
> When: Tuesday October 4th, 7:00 PM
> Where: Allen Hall-- main Lounge
> 
> ******
> 
> 2nd Annual UNITY MARCH, October 8
> Focus: Alternatives to Jail Expansion, Formation of
> a
> Citizens Review of Police Practices, Investigation
> of
> Former Police Officer For Alleged Rape
>  
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE		
>  
> A multi-racial, economically diverse coalition of
> citizens, social service and social change
> organizations will descend upon the mall of the
> Champaign County Courthouse for the second annual
> “Unity March,” Saturday, October 8 at 10am.  
>  
> “One of our goals is to prevent the expansion of our
> jails and to redirect county money into prevention,”
> said Carol Ammons, co-founder of CU Citizens for
> Peace
> and Justice, a grassroots organization that has
> helped
> lead successful campaigns to stop Tasers from coming
> to Champaign police and obtained a fair phone rate
> plan for jail inmates. “Right now the plan is to
> build
> a new $20 million jail when only about $180,000 of
> county money goes to prevention programs. We think
> this is the wrong priority.”
>  
> The march will also address the need for a citizens
> review of police practices in both Champaign and
> Urbana and will push for criminal charges against
> former Urbana police officer, Kurt Hjort, for
> allegedly raping a store clerk while on duty.  The
> officer has not been charged with a crime but has
> resigned while an investigation is pending.  Mr.
> Hjort
> was the best man in state’s attorney Julia Rietz’s
> August wedding.
>  
> The march will begin at 10am in two different
> locations and will join together at the court house.
> 
> Residents who live north of University Avenue will
> meet at the Crystal Lake Boat House in Crystal Lake
> Park. Residents south of University Ave. will meet
> at
> the south patio of the Illini Union.  
>  
> “The unity march will bring people from the campus
> and
> community and the north and south ends together,” Ms
> Ammons said.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 	
> 		
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