[Peace] Calendar from AWARE on the Air, on Karl Marx' birthday

[C. G. Estabrook]

[The following is from this week's presentation of "AWARE on the Air," Tuesdays
at 10PM on cable channel 6, and on the website <anti-war.net>.  This week's
program also included Ron Szoke on "Whom Would Jesus Torture?," David Harley on 
a local police killing, and yr. obdt. servt. answering his correspondence. The 
calendar is prepared from Randall Cotton's minutes of AWARE's weekly meeting.]


    Members & friends of the “Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort”
    of Champaign-Urbana, a local peace group, present

    AWARE ON THE AIR FOR TUESDAY 5 MAY 2009

    *Cinco de Mayo: the Mexican resistance defeats an
    invading French army at the Battle of Puebla in 1862
    (perhaps reminding us that invading armies have no rights)*

     AWARE meets every Sunday 5-6:30PM in the basement of the old
     post office in Urbana.  Visitors and new members are welcome.

Upcoming Events Calendar
**********************
May 9 (Saturday) 8AM-noon, Lincoln Square Farmer's Market. AWARE will have our 
usual booth throughout the season – anti-war materials and information.

**RESCHEDULED** May 9 (Saturday) 2-4PM Main St & Neil St, Champaign “The Main 
Event” - AWARE's monthly street demonstration in downtown Champaign. Usually the 
first Saturday of each month, but pushed back a week this month due to conflict 
with the Central Illinois Social Forum.  Largely focuses on opposing U.S. 
occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, but is open for anyone to join us either 
using one of our signs or one of their own. We try to have a topical flyer to 
distribute to motorists and passers-by each month.

May 10 (Sunday) 2PM Champaign Public Library “The Take” - a free showing of a 
documentary film by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein.  In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty 
unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping 
mats, and refuse to leave.  All they want is to re-start the silent machines. 
But this simple act – The Take – has the power to turn the globalization debate 
on its head.  Armed only with slingshots and an abiding faith in shop-floor 
democracy, the workers face off against the bosses, bankers, and whole system 
that sees their beloved factories as nothing more than scrap metal for sale. 
Refreshments and discussion after the film.  Sponsored by AWARE Films.

May 12 (Tuesday)  6-7:30PM Free Community Veterans Clinic at Urbana-Champaign 
Friends Meetinghouse, 1904 E Main St, Urbana As an outcome of AWARE's panel on 
PTSD in 2008, this free acupuncture clinic was started in February 2009 and is 
held the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month. Credentialed professionals insert 
acupuncture needles into both ears while recipients remain seated for 20-40 
minutes. Much research has shown the effectiveness of this treatment for stress 
reduction. This free clinic is open to U.S. military veterans, current members 
of the Armed Forces, or their immediate support network. Sponsored by 
Acupuncturists Without Borders, www.acuwithoutborders.org .

Recent Events
************
Apr 24-27 (Friday-Monday), Stockton Unitarian Universalist Church, Stockton, IL. 
Midwest Catholic Workers Resistance Retreat and Conference. Focus is Blackwater. 
Civil Disobedience at Blackwater's Jo Daviess County, IL site being organized by 
Catholic Workers and Clearwater. Speakers included both Jeremy Scahill and Kathy 
Kelly.

Palestine Awareness Week April 27 - April 30 on the U of I campus included an 
Apr 29 (Wednesday) lecture, "A Historical Look on the Palestinian-Israeli 
Conflict." Speaker: Professor Farhad Malekafzali.  Sponsor: Students for Justice 
in Palestine, CSAMES, CAIR-UIUC

Apr 30 (Thursday) AWARE Presents: “Obama's First Hundred Days: A Critical 
Assessment From the Left ” by Paul Street, author of "Barack Obama and the 
Future of American Politics" (see <www.zmag.org/zspace/paulstreet>). Broadcast 
live and recorded for future broadcast on UPTV, cable channel 6.  Street's 
entire talk is at <www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21315>.  A commentary by Carl 
Estabrook, David Johnson, and Wayne Johnson was cablecast on “News from 
Neptune,” Friday at 7PM on cable channel 6 and is available at 
<www.newsfromneptune.com>.

May 2 (Saturday) Independent Media Center. “Central Illinois Social Forum.”

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