[Peace] Upcoming events from AWARE, 3/23/08

[Stuart Levy]

Upcoming events from AWARE meeting of 3/23/08


3/24 Mon 1:00pm  Urbana City Council chambers on Vine St.
    AWARE On The Air recording session
    (Note it's moved an hour earlier -- now at 1pm.)

    Please come & speak!   Linda W. notes that it's been
    getting better, and easier, each week.  Sections:
	- national anti-war news
	- local news
	- upcoming events, and things to be done
	- commentary ("an opportunity for anyone with an axe to grind")

    To be broadcast on Monday evening at 10pm.


3/25 Tue 9:00am  Courtroom E, County courthouse (Main & Vine, Urbana)
    Trial of Brian Chesley, attacked by police when
    walking with his cousins through Douglass Park, and now
    charged with resisting arrest and obstruction of justice.
    Your presence in the courtroom provides moral support for Chesley
    and lets the criminal justice system know they are being watched.
       http://www.ucimc.org/node/2698

    (As usual, it's important to be on time, and you'll need
     to leave cell phones etc. outside the courthouse.)


3/26 Wed 7pm  Gregory Hall room 215, UIUC
    "1968 Year of Revolt"

    Joel Geier, veteran-activist, leading member of
    Berkeley Free Speech Movement

    Tour marks 40th anniversary of 1968: year of the Vietnam Tet
    offensive, the May general strike in France,
    the student struggle in Mexico, Prague Spring, 
    Chicago Democratic Convention police riot,
    Martin Luther King's assassination...
    1968 offers lessons to a new generation of
    activists and radicals organizing for a better world.
    Sponsored by ISO.


3/27 Thu 7pm  Lyle Shields room, Brookens Center (Washington & Lierman, Urbana)
    County Board meeting.  Includes voting on $5000 for a pilot
    Construction Trades Task Force Summer School Program
    (to start students toward becoming plumbers, electricians, ...).
    CUCPJ and Habari Connection have been working toward this.
    

3/28 Fri 8pm  Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway, Urbana
    See satirist/musician Roy Zimmerman's solo show,
	"Faulty Intelligence"

    He comes highly recommended by the Prince Myshkins -- see
	http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/peace/2008-March/021159.html
    and, see this youtube clip ("Thanks for the Support"):
	http://youtube.com/watch?v=xlUyNmUABbc
    

3/29 Sat   noon  Douglass Branch Library (504 E. Grove, Champaign)
    Latest in a series of public meetings
    on the 5th & Hill St (Champaign) toxic site,
    informing and empowering the community.
    What's known about the site?  What options do we have?
    How to deal with Ameren, the IEPA, the City?


3/30 Sun  1:00pm  Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon, Urbana
    Cambodia's Genocide Tribunal and the Prevention of Genocide

    A 30 minute film titled Road to Closure will be followed
    by a talk by Bhavia Wagner of Eugene, Oregon, author of
    Soul Survivors:  Stories of Women and Children in Cambodia.
    Bhavia will discuss the current tribunal, the process of
    recovery from genocide, and how to prevent genocide. 
    http://www.friendshipwithcambodia.org/


4/1 Tue 7pm? Champaign Council Chambers, Neil & University
    Champaign Township Board/city council meeting.
    They'll vote on putting a binding poverty referendum on the
    November ballot: specifically a tax increase for
    City of Champaign Township.  If passed it would provide
    a modest rise in General Assistance, to something closer to
    the level recommended by the State of Illinois.


4/3 Thu 7-10pm  Allen Hall lounge (UIUC campus, 1005 W. Gregory Dr.)
    "Cafe Intifada"
    Poetry and spoken word event: People expressing themselves
    against oppression.  Among those speaking will be a
    busload of kids coming down from Chicago.
    Organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (UIUC).
    AWARE will co-sponsor.


4/3-4/5  Thu-Sat  UIUC
    "Rupture, Repression and Uprising:
     Raced and Gendered Violence Along the Color Line"
     Conference at UIUC, in various Illini Union rooms.
     Free and open to the public, but please register:

	http://www.aasrp.uiuc.edu/Conference08/

    Note especially
	Panel 5, "Black Power and Communities of Resistance,"
	   led by Kerry Pimblott (Fri 9am)
	Workshop, "How to Identify Sundown Towns",
	   James Loewen (Fri 12:30)
	Panel 10, "New Structures of Violence Today"
	   one panelist is Ken Salo,
	     "Mapping Environmental Racism in the North End of Champaign, IL"
    And many more -- panel 13 too, on the downstate IL criminal justice system,
    or panel 6, on racial violence in the US and the UK.
    It's well worth looking through the program!


4/4-4/6 Fri-Sun  Loyola University in Chicago
    Illinois Coalition for Peace & Justice annual conference
	http://www.ilcpj.org/

    (The statewide Clearwater coalition, including AWARE's Blackwater
     working group, aims to offer an ILCPJ proposal to coordinate
     *statewide* advisory referenda in support of a state bill
     limiting activities of private military contractors.)


4/5 Sat 2-4pm  Main & Neil, downtown Champaign
    Main Event -- monthly antiwar demonstration.
    We aim to have a flyer raising awareness of
    veterans' opposition to the war,
    and the Winter Soldier movement.


4/8 Tue -- in townships all across Illinois,
        including Champaign and Cunningham(Urbana)

    Annual township meeting night!
    Any resident can propose advisory referenda to
    appear on the November ballot.  Suggestions include:

        - Placing limitations on military contractors.
           There's a bill in the IL House now, HB 5700,
            to which Naomi Jakobsson became a cosponsor,
            If it fails this time, a successful advisory
            referendum could help for next year.

        - An anti-torture resolution.