[Peace] AWARE 4/1/07 -- upcoming events

[Stuart Levy]

"Palestine Awareness Week" is April 2-6; events included below,
and details in the event flyer:
    http://www.psames.uiuc.edu/events/palestine%20awareness%20week%202007%20flyer.doc



Sun 4/1  11:00PM  CSPAN-2 (cable TV)
    Interview with Counterpunch editor Alexander Cockburn,
    spanning his career.  This is second broadcast; Carl Estabrook,
    who's seen the interview, recommends this program.
    [  http://www.booktv.org/feature/index.asp?segID=7879&schedID=482  ]


Mon 4/2  192 Lincoln Hall, UIUC
    "An Occupation, A Reality: Personal Experiences from Palestine"
    (panel, part of Palestine Awareness Week)


Tue 4/3  7:00-8:30PM  Urban League, 314 S. Neil St., Champaign
    Champaign Unit 4 School Board Candidates' Forum, sponsored by CARE-3
    [not mentioned at meeting, but relevant]


Tue 4/3  7PM   112 Chemistry Annex [on Mathews, E side of quad, N of DavenportHall]
    Film: "Jenin Jenin"
    (part of Palestine Awareness Week)


Wed 4/4  7:00PM  Urbana City Council chambers, 400 S. Vine, U.
    Urbana Historic Preservation Commission meeting,
    considering the fate of houses 502 and 504 W. Elm; UIUC Campus
    Property Mgmt proposes to tear these down and build in their place

Wed 4/4  7PM   114 Transportation Building, UIUC [on Mathews, N of Green St]
    "US, Israel and Palestine", talk by Jamal Nassar
    (part of Palestine Awareness Week)



Thu 4/5  7-10PM  Champaign City Council Chambers [University & Neil Sts.] 
    "The Face of Poverty" Champaign township meeting.
	Poverty is very real in Champaign, even though
	    invisible to many C. residents.
	Four poverty experts to speak, including from Heartland Alliance
	    http://www.heartlandalliance.org/
	and showing of 25-minute documentary "The Face of Poverty".
	Open discussion to follow.

	[Note this meeting is *distinct* from the official annual
	 Township meetings, to be held in Champaign and Urbana on April 10th.]



Thu 4/5  7PM  112 Chemistry Annex [on Mathews, E side of quad, N of DavenportHall]
    "Human Rights Lost", talk by Hatem Abudayyah
    (part of Palestine Awareness Week)


Fri 4/6  4:00PM  3rd floor of Levis Faculty Center, 919 W Illinois St
    "Rethinking the Cold War in the Middle East",
      talk by Rashid Khalidi (Prof. of Arab Studies, Columbia University)
	http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/regional/mei/khalidi.shtml
    CAS/Millercomm lecture



Sat 4/7  2-4PM  One Main (Main & Neil, downtown Champaign)
    AWARE monthly antiwar protest


Tue 4/10 Champaign and Cunningham (Urbana) Township Meetings
    Urbana:    6:00PM, Cunningham Township Office, 205 W. Green St, Urbana
    Champaign: 7:00PM, Champaign City Hall, at Neil & University

    Vote on advisory referenda!  Those approved will appear on the
    early-2008 ballot next year (along with the Presidential primary).
    AWARE is promoting two measures in both townships; see
	http://www.anti-war.net/pdfarch/ANNUAL_TOWN_MEETING2007.pdf


Thu 4/12 11:30am  Urbana City Council chambers, 400 S. Vine, U.
    League of Women Voters C. County meeting on LWV Court Watch program
    Steve Beckett and C. K. Gunsalus speaking


Tue 4/17  elections!
    Especially note: three Champaign City Council seats,
    and school board elections in Champaign and Urbana

    Countywide summary of all races (specimen ballot) on
	http://www.champaigncountyclerk.com/


Sun 4/22  Great Impasta Banquet Room, downtown Champaign
    ACLU Annual Meeting & Brunch
    Speaker: Gary Isaac (of Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw in Chicago),
      active in Guantanamo detainee litigation since 2003

    Register at  http://www.aclu-cu.org/


Thu 4/26  7PM  Lyle Shields room, Brookens Administrative Center, Urbana
		(Washington & Lierman -- use north/rear entrance)
    Champaign County Board - Zoning Board of Appeals cmte meets

    Hindu Temple siting application to be (further) considered


Sat 4/28 (not sure of time/place)  Socialist Forum
    Mike Mulberry to speak, as will someone from the
    Venezuelan consulate from Chicago, and others


Wed 5/2  11:06AM   WILL-AM (AM 580)
    Focus 580 interview with journalist Jonathan Cook,
    who writes about the Middle East, especially the
    Israeli/Palestinian conflict.  See his web site:
       http://www.jkcook.net/