[Peace] Fwd: AFST Upcoming Events

[Alfred Kagan]

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> From: Center for African Studies <ecorr at uiuc.edu>
> Date: October 4, 2005 10:53:50 AM CDT
> To: mmcrump at uiuc.edu
> Subject: AFST Upcoming Events
>
> 1. Teach-In:  Global Justice and Peace Teach-In, Today Oct. 4th
>  2. Noon Seminar & Film:    Dôlè,  Wednesday Oct 5th
>  3. Tournées French Film Festival: Moolaadé, [
> Friday
> 10/7, Sunday 10/9, Monday 10/10, Thursday 10/13]
>
> 4. Elaine Brown will be a Guest-in-Residence next week at Unit  
> One/Allen Hall 10/10-10/12.
> 5.  "Lost Boys of Sudan" Thursday, October 13th at 7pm, IDF
>
>
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> 1.
> Global Justice and Peace Teach-in
>
> 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 demonstrations.  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
>  
> The IMF and the World Bank are two of the most influential  
> international institutions – controlled by a few wealthy countries  
> including the U.S. – that lend money to most of the world’s  
> countries.  Using their lending power as leverage over client  
> countries, the World Bank and IMF impose policies that open up  
> countries’ markets, natural resources, and labor to exploitation by  
> multinational corporations.  In Iraq, the Coalition Provisional  
> Authority’s executive directives have begun to accomplish the same  
> goals, and the subsequent economic occupation of the country by the  
> World Bank and the IMF will no doubt complete serving up the resources  
> of Iraq to corporate interests.
>   
>  IMF/World Bank policies such as privatization of services, budget  
> caps on education and healthcare, the elimination of trade tariffs and  
> quotas, and the removal of food subsidies, all contribute to the  
> impoverishment of the majority of the world’s people, the decimation  
> of worker’s rights, loss of livelihoods and lives, and environmental  
> destruction.  Similar policies undertaken in the U.S. has similar  
> devastating effects on our communities. 
>   
>  The speakers will discuss the World Bank, the IMF, and the links  
> between economic and military violence both in the global South and  
> here in the U.S. They will talk about the current model of  
> globalization that puts corporate profits over human rights and lives,  
> how it affects their communities, and what they’re doing to resist it.
>   
>  Co-sponsors: 
>  Unit One, YMCA, Center on Democracy in a Multicultural Society,  
> Center for Global Studies, Center for African Studies, Center for East  
> Asian and Pacific Studies, Women and Gender in a Global Perspective,  
> Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
>   
> For more info contact Faranak Miraftab <faranak at uiuc.edu>
>
>
>   
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> 2.
>  The Center for African Studies Presents
> Noon Seminars & Films, Fall 2005
>
> October 5th
> International Studies Building, Room 101
>  Noon-1
>
> FILM: Dôlè --- feature film from Gabon,
>  California Newsreel 2001, 80min.,
>  A look at city life, rap, high school, delinquency & dysfunctional  
> families as experienced by African youth and in Gabon.
>
> *SOME FOOD WILL BE PROVIDED*
>
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> 3.
> Tournées French Film Festival: Moolaadé
>
> Moolaadé/Mooladé, (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal 2004), 134min.
> With: Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maïmouna Diarra, Salimata Traoré,
> Dominique Zeïda, Mah Compaoré, Aminata Dao
>
> Synopsis: In Mooladé, Ousmane Sembene continues to provoke his  
> audience and reiterates the strong feminist consciousness
> that marked his previous film, Faat Kiné. This time, he takes on the  
> explosive issue of female circumcision, a practice
> still common in Africa. Mooladé is a film about heroism in daily life  
> and, to use Sembene’s own words, about the
> ‘underground struggle’ of people which is often overlooked by their  
> governments and the rest of world.
> "To skip Moolaade would be to miss an opportunity to experience the  
> embracing, affirming, world-changing potential
> of humanist cinema at its finest." -A.O. Scott, New York Times
>
> Moolaadé showtimes: Friday 10/7, 7pm*;  Sunday 10/9, 1:30pm; 
> Monday 10/10, 9pm;
> Thursday 10/13, 4:15pm
> *Festival Welcome, Colleen Cook, Boardman’s Art Theatre & 
> Prof. Ibrahima Ndoye, Parkland College Department of English
> & Critical Studies
>
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>
> 4.
> Elaine Brown will be a Guest-in-Residence at Unit One/Allen Hall  
> 10/10-10/12.
> She will be speaking every night of her residency. All events are open  
> to the public and take place in the Main Lounge of Allen Hall, 1005 W.  
> Gregory, Urbana.
>
>  Elaine Brown became, in 1974, the first and only woman to lead the  
> Black Panther Party. In her autobiographical memoir, A Taste of Power:  
> A Black Woman's Story, Brown recounts her life from the ghettos of  
> North Philadelphia to her leadership in one of the most important and  
> militant civil rights groups in U. S. history. Today, as an activist,  
> writer, and popular lecturer, Brown promotes the vision of an  
> inclusive and egalitarian society, focusing on resolving problems of  
> race, gender oppression,
>  and class disparity in the United States. Brown's latest book is New  
> Age Racism and the Condemnation of "Little B." Elaine Brown is  
> currently running for Mayor of Brunswick, Georgia and, if elected,  
> will become the first black and the first woman mayor of that city.
>
>  Monday, October 10
>  8:00pm - New Age Racism
>
>  Tuesday, October 11
>  7:00pm - The Left in America and the Significance of Elections
>  9:00pm - Communism and Capitalism
>
>  Wednesday, October 12
>  7:00pm - Ongoing Racism in America as Reflected in New Orleans
>  9:00pm - Black Women and Feminism in America
>
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>
> 5.
> The Illinois Disciples Foundation (IDF),
> 610 E. Springfield Ave., Champaign, IL  61820
> Presents the Annual Human Rights Film Series
>  The events are free and open to the public.
>  
>  Thursday, October 13th at 7pm,
>  the documentary "Lost Boys of Sudan"
> (www.lostboysfilm.com <http://www.lostboysfilm.com/>)
>
>
>  Lost Boys of Sudan is a feature-length documentary that follows two  
> Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America.  
> Orphaned as
>   young boys in one of Africa's cruelest civil wars, Peter Dut and  
> Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach a  
> refugee camp in
>   Kenya along with thousands of other children. From there,  
> remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last from  
> physical danger and
>   hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves confronted with  
> the abundance and alienation of contemporary American suburbia.
>   
>   Lost Boys of Sudan won an Independent Spirit Award and screened  
> theatrically in 70 cities across the U.S. to strong audience and  
> critical praise. The
>   film was broadcast nationally on the PBS series POV in the fall of  
> 2004.
>   
>   Across the country we collaborated with refugee and human rights  
> organizations to use the film¹s theatrical opening nights as  
> fundraising and
>   awareness building events. Screenings of the film have raised a half  
> million dollars in direct educational support for the Sudanese youth  
> across the
>   country. Lost Boys of Sudan screened on Capitol Hill with the  
> Congressional Refugee and Human Rights Caucuses as well as with the  
> State Department¹s
>   Refugee and Migration Bureau. The film is in use as an educational  
> tool by Amnesty International and the United Nations.  Lost Boys of  
> Sudan is
>   currently traveling to select cities in the U.S. as part of an  
> outreach campaign to build community support for the Lost Boys group,  
> refugees and
>   the crisis in Darfur, Sudan.
>
> At each film shown in the series, the IDF has a local campus or  
> community member facilitate a 30-minute discussion after the showing.  
> They are wondering if there is someone at the Center for African  
> Studies who is familiar with the recent history of Sudan and would be  
> interested in facilitating the discussion. IDF staff would be at the  
> film showing running it, but the facilitator is really helpful because  
> they are someone who has more expertise in the issue addressed in that  
> night's film.
> Please contact Jen Tayabji -- Executive Director, IDF if you are  
> interested at: tayabji at shout.net
>
>
>
> The Center for African Studies, UIUC
> to be removed from this list email ecorr at uiuc.edu


Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801

tel. 217-333-6519
fax 217-333-2214
akagan at uiuc.edu
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