[Peace] AWARE Agenda, April 23, 2006

[David Green]

1. News of the Week (10 minutes)

2. Introductions (5 minutes)

3. New Ideas: (15 minutes)

Strategies to oppose attack on Iran

4. Working Groups: (30 minutes)

Finances

MAIN Event

Church Presence

Counter-recruitment

Racism Working Group

WEFT Group

5. Last Week's Events (15 minutes for 5 and 6)

Progressive Quad Day
Palestine Awareness Week
Jeffrey St. Clair

6. Upcoming Events

AWARE Presents Working Group Meeting, Monday, April
24,Kruse's home, 7.

Channing-Murray Foundation
April Social Justice Forum:


"Why is it time to Change our Drug Laws?  How UIUC and
C-U Drug Policies
Affect ALL of Us."
Tuesday, April 25th, 7:00 p.m. at the Channing-Murray
Foundation, 1209 W.
Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon & Mathews on campus).
 Free and open to
the public.


Panel discussion will cover racial disparities in
sentencing for drug
offenses, prison overcrowding & alternatives to
incarceration, needle
exchange & opiate maintenance, new treatment
modalities, local &
University policies regarding drugs & alcohol, and
other related topics.
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Panel members & topics:
Shaleen Aghi, "The War on Drugs: Caught in the
Crossfire"
Shaleen is an Illinois NORML (National Organization
for the Reform of
Marijuana Laws) Board Member, Co-Founder of Coalition
for Social Change,
and UIUC Law Student.
Andrea Brandon, "The Practice and Potential of Harm
Reduction in
Champaign, Illinois"
Andrea is an MD/PhD Candidate at UIUC; National
Secretary for Students
for Sensible Drug Policy, and Co-Founder of the
Coalition for Social
Change.
Tom Betz, "Your Health, Your Rights, and Your
University: Alcohol & Drug
Policy at the University of Illinois"
Tom is the Directing Attorney for Student Legal
Services at the
University of Illinois.

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Western/ Euro-american Subjugation, Incarceration &
Exploitation of Kidnapped & Colonized People
IMC Building
218 West Main Street 
Old Post Office, Urbana
Sunday, April 30, 2006
3:00—7:00 p.m.
Professor Eyamba Bokamba
UIUC, Center for African Studies
Will present the video documentary, 
White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
Featured artists include:
Aaron Ammons
Divine IZ Earth
Amira Davis
Open discussion afterwards 




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