[Peace] Upcoming: 11/1 demonstration; 11/6 Restorative Justice; 11/6 IVAW film showing; 11/8+9 "Night Thoreau Spent in Jail"; 11/13 Winter Soldier event!

[Stuart Levy]

Several upcoming events over the next couple weeks:

 * Sat 11/1 2-4pm Mail & Neil, downtown Champaign
	AWARE monthly protest

 * Thu 11/6  4pm  Spurlock Museum
	Howard Zehr: "Restorative Justice: what it is,
		why it works, and what it can mean for us"

 * Thu 11/6  7pm  Independent Media Center -- film screening of
	"Winter Soldier II: Iraq and Afghanistan"

 * Sat 11/8 7pm
 * Sun 11/9 3:30pm, both in Channing-Murray Foundation
	Play, "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail"
	[Note *3:30pm* on Sunday -- I'd sent a wrong time in earlier notes.]

 * Wed 11/12 sometime, somewhere
	The Beehive Collective visits C-U

 * Thu 11/13 noon CAN antiwar rally, south side of Illini Union, UofI campus

 * Thu 11/13 11-5 AFSC Eyes Wide Open, on UofI Quad on grass by English Building
	Exhibit showing the Human Cost of the Iraq War

***Thu 11/13 6-9pm  Mumford Hall room 103 (Gregory & Goodwin, on UofI campus)
	"Winter Soldier - Champaign-Urbana", by Iraq Veterans Against the War
	Testimony by Iraqis and Veterans of the Global War on Terror

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   Sat Nov 1st, 2-4pm, Main & Neil, Champaign: 

	AWARE's monthly anti-war demonstration
	

   Thu Nov 6th  4pm  Spurlock Museum (600 S. Gregory, on UofI campus)
	Howard Zehr public lecture:
	     "Restorative Justice: what it is,
	 why it works, and what it can mean for us"

	Howard Zehr is Professor of Restorative Justice at Eastern
	Mennonite University.  His book, "Changing Lenses: A New Focus
	for Crime and Justice", has been a foundational work in the
	growing Restorative Justice movement.

	Prof. Zehr was also interviewed on WILL-AM's "Focus 580"
	on October 28th.  See  http://will.illinois.edu/focus580/
	or listen here:
	   http://will.uiuc.edu/media/focus081028b.mp3

   Thu Nov 6th, 7pm, Independent Media Center (Broadway & Elm, Urbana):

	Film showing of "Winter Soldier II: Iraq and Afghanistan" --
	a 90-minute documentary of testimony and interviews of soldiers,
	Iraqis, journalists, and others from Iraq Veterans Against the War's
	event held in Washington, DC in March, 2008 (see www.ivaw.org).

	This is in the runup to the *local* Winter Soldier Urbana-Champaign
	event on Nov. 13th, one week later (see below).  Don't miss that!


   Sat Nov 8th (7:00pm) and
   Sun Nov 9th (3:30pm!!), Channing-Murray Foundation, Oregon & Mathews, Urbana

	"The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" a play, with themes
	including civil disobedience -- Henry David Thoreau refused
	to pay the tax to feed a war he opposed -- and individuality.
	Directed by UofI student Matthew DeMarco.

	PLEASE NOTE that I'd posted INCORRECT TIMES in the past
	(don't rely on the Channing-Murray calendar!).   It really will be:
	   7:00pm on Sat Nov 8th (as before), and
	   3:30pm on Sun Nov 9th (different from before).

	With luck, DeMarco may be interviewed during Carl E. & Mindy M.'s
	"From Bard to Verse", WEFT-FM 90.1, from noon-1pm Saturday Nov. 8th.


   Wed Nov 12th, time and place not yet fixed
	The Beehive Collective will be in C-U (location TBA):
	    http://www.beehivecollective.org/
	They are visual and verbal artists, taking on complex problems --
	globalization, exploitation of Central American resources,
	"Free Trade" -- interviewing many people affected by the issues, and
	creating giant murals and posters to make them clear and compelling.
	They like bees.  And activist ants.  Their art is anti-copyrighted,
	available to all.  They're now on a fundraising tour, gathering support
	for their current project,
	      Mesoamérica Resiste Plan Puebla Panamá
	  http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/ppp.htm


   Thu Nov 13th  noon   South of Illini Union
	Campus Anti-war Network (CAN) rally

   Thu Nov 13th  11-5   UofI Quad, near English building
	AFSC "Eyes Wide Open - Boots on the Ground" exhibit
	   http://www.afsc.org/eyes/
	showing the human cost of the war in Iraq

and above all, the local "Winter Soldier  Champaign-Urbana" event:

   Thu Nov 13th, 6:00pm-9pm  Mumford Hall room 103
       1301 W. Gregory Drive (SW corner of Gregory & Goodwin, UofI campus)

	"Winter Soldier  Champaign-Urbana"
	  True Stories from the Men and Women
	  Who Fought the War on Terrorism

      with two panels:
	6:00-6:45 -- The Legacy of GI Resistance
	    Joe Allen, author of "Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost"
	    Joe Miller, UIUC lecturer, Vietnam Veterans Against the War
	    Richard Stacewicz, historian, author of "Winter Soldiers:
		An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War"

	7:00-8:30pm Testimony by Iraqis and Veterans of the Global War on Terror
	    Camilo Mejia, US Army, served in Iraq from April through October 2003;
		first soldier to be jailed for publicly refusing to return to Iraq
	    Patty McCann, IL Army National Guard, served in Iraq May 2003-2004
	    Jacob Crawford, US Navy, Central Illinois Iraq Veterans
		Against the War's Chapter President
	    Mike Mlekowski, US Marines, participated in the
		initial invasion of Iraq in 2003
	    Duane Linton, US Army, served in Iraq for ten months in 2007-8
	    Tanya R. Austin, US Army, former Arabic Linguist, Military Intelligence
	    Jason Wallace, Illinois Air National Guard, deployed to
		Kuwait in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005
	    Raad Ismail and Raed Jarrar will share the perspective of Iraqis
	    and more...