[Peace] 5 Days Until the IDF Annual Fall Dinner!

[Jen Tayabji]

5 DAYS UNTIL THE IDF ANNUAL FALL DINNER

You are cordially invited to...

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The IDF Annual
Fall Dinner

Feat. James Thindwa

Saturday, Nov. 4
Doors open at 5pm
1st Floor, IDF

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On Saturday, November 4th, the Illinois Disciples Foundation (IDF) will be
hosting its annual Fall Dinner. The IDF is a pioneering campus ministry with
the mission of peace with social justice. Since its inception in 1905 the
IDF and its programs have been at the forefront of many peace with justice
struggles including the civil rights movement, the struggle against the
Vietnam War, the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment, the Sanctuary
movement, the struggle to eliminate U of I's racist mascot, "Chief
Illiniwek," and current anti-war work around the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.

James Thindwa will deliver the keynote address, entitled, "Intersecting
Workers Rights, Living Wages and Undocumented Immigration." His address will
locate immigration in the context of global economic policies that favor
corporate profits at the expense of worker and community interests. Thindwa
is calling on Congress to ease the path to legalization, strengthen the
rights of all workers to organize, and to enact a national living wage.
Finally, Thindwa will discuss how the construction of border walls violates
the spirit of triumph, openness and freedom Americans celebrate, especially
in this post-Cold War, post-Berlin Wall period and is not the answer to
solving immigration concerns.

Thindwa has been the Executive Director of Chicago Jobs with Justice since
2002. In his more than twenty-two years of organizing, he has: worked on
health care reform to stop the privatization of Medicare and Medicaid,
participated in anti-apartheid movements, organized for utility rate reform,
fought in opposition to nuclear energy, worked for environmental advocacy,
and much more.

On November 4th, the doors at the Fall Dinner will open at 5pm and the
keynote speaker will commence at 6:45pm. A dinner will be served prior to
the speaker. More details on the menu will be coming soon, but the meal will
include both meat and vegetarian options. It will be held in Wisegarver
Lounge, located on the first floor of the Illinois Disciples Foundation. The
event is wheelchair accessible. The IDF is located at the northwest corner
of Springfield and Wright streets in Champaign. Limited free parking is
available.

The menu will include grilled chicken, penne pasta with marinara sauce and
green salad catered by Foudini's, as well as food donated from Jerusalem
Restaurant, which will include falafel, hummus, rice, Lebanese salad and
lentil soup. The menu is all-vegan except for chicken entree.

Dinner tickets are $20 each, but no one will be turned away for lack of
funds. Raffle tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5. The tickets are on sale in
the IDF office, at the door, and online. Last year's raffle prizes included
t-shirts from local organizations, gift certificates to various restaurants,
jewelry, and original art work from Old Vic's Art Gallery as the grand
prize. You do not need to be present to win a raffle prize!

AND this year tickets can be purchased online via PayPal at
http://www.prairienet.org/idf/store/store.html#dinner.

All of the proceeds raised at this event will go to further the IDF's peace
with justice mission.

This event is being cosponsored by: Activist Forum, Campus Greens, Central
Illinois Jobs with Justice, Champaign County Health Care Consumers,
Champaign County NOW, Channing-Murray Foundation, Coalition Against Coke
Contracts, Prairie Greens, Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative (PRC),
and Vietnam Veterans Against the War (CU Chapter).

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Illinois Disciples Foundation (IDF)
610 E. Springfield Ave.
Champaign, IL  61820
Office Hours: Mon - Fri from 12-5pm
(217) 352-8721 | idf at prairienet.org
www.prairienet.org/idf