[Peace] Upcoming events: City Council; CAN on SOA; immigration @
Channing-Murray; speak-out against abuse of police power;
My Name Is Rachel Corrie; Sir! No Sir!; When a Parent is in Prison; etc.
Stuart Levy
slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Mon Oct 19 23:31:49 CDT 2009
Some upcoming events over the next couple of weeks, first briefly:
10/20 Tue 7pm Champaign City Council Meeting
The Champaign City Council have said that they are
the body responsible for overseeing the police.
The police killing of an unarmed 15-year-old black youth
is not acceptable. Let's call on the Council to act.
10/20 Tue 7pm Campus Anti-War Network (CAN) weekly meeting
Talk about the School of the Americas.
10/21 Wed 7pm Channing-Murray Foundation
"The Least of These", documentary film --
immigrant children held in detention in former prisons,
how American rights and values apply to the least powerful of us...
10/22 Thu 4pm (IL Terminal), 5pm (Boys and Girls Club)
NO MORE STOLEN LIVES!
Rally and speak-out in protest of police action in killing
Kiwane Carrington and the pattern of abuse of power.
This march is in sympathy with the national Oct 22nd day
of protest against police brutality.
10/22 Thu 8pm "My Name is Rachel Corrie"
Play, at the Station Theater (also Wed - Sat this week).
Audience talk-back after Thursday's performance.
10/22 Thu 7pm University YMCA, Global Lens film series (Thursdays through 10/29)
"Those Three", Iranian film
10/23 Fri noon University YMCA Friday Forum talk
“U.S. Climate Change Policy in the Obama Era: A Progress Report”
Ron Burke, Union of Concerned Scientists
10/25 Sun 2pm IMC Family Room
"Sir! No Sir!", film on how resistance developed,
within the military, against fighting the Vietnam war
11/1 Sun 2-4pm IMC main floor
Opening of "When a Parent Is in Prison" exhibit,
exploring the situation of children who have a parent in prison
through their portraits and words. Photographs by Howard Zehr.
Exhibit runs Nov 1st through Nov 21st.
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Less briefly:
10/20 Tue 7:00pm Champaign City Council Meeting University & Neil St
Attend this Champaign City Council meeting
and let our elected officials know that we will
not forget what happened to Kiwane Carrington,
the 15-year-old unarmed black youth killed by police
on Oct. 9th as he was trying to enter the house where he
had been living.
Demand that the City Council create a Citizens Review Board
Demand the resignation of Police Chief RT Finney
Demand the City of Champaign hire more minorities
to hold leadership positions in the police department
Drop ALL charges for Jeshaun Manning-Carter!
[Public input time is near the end of the Council meeting, and
there's a fair amount of business scheduled before that.
If you can't attend at 7pm, it may well be worth coming later.]
10/20 Tue 7:00pm CAN meeting 111 Gregory Hall, UofI campus
(on Wright St, just N of the main library)
Campus Anti-War Network meeting:
Maura and Metro will talk about
the US' School of the Americas (SOA).
(Over Nov 20-22, some CAN members and others from C-U
plan to attend the annual SOA Watch vigil in Georgia.)
See also: http://soaw.org/
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10/21 Wed 7:00pm Channing-Murray Foundation 1209 W. Oregon, Urbana
"The Least of These"
Documentary film, with discussion to follow.
Detention of immigrant children in a former medium-security prison in Texas
leads to controversy when three activist attorneys discover troubling
conditions at the facility. This compelling documentary film explores the
role - and limits - of community activism, and considers how American
rights and values apply to the least powerful among us.
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10/22 Thu 4pm (IL Terminal), 5pm (Boys and Girls Club)
March and Speak Out at Boys and Girls Club Against Police Brutality
NO MORE STOLEN LIVES!
Meet 4pm Thursday, October 22, and march to the Boys and Girls Club.
5pm Speak Out at Boys and Girls Club.
On Friday October 9, 2009, Kiwane Carrington and Jeshaun Manning-Carter,
two unarmed 15-year-olds were accosted by Champaign officers - including
the Chief of Police - at the place where Kiwane stayed. Kiwane was shot
and killed. Jeshaun was arrested, at first for burglary (charges since
dropped), and then for felony aggravated resisting a peace officer,
and was taken to jail.
Something is fundamentally wrong with police procedure where a
mistaken assumption about burglary leads to guns drawn,
ransacking of a home, and killing of a young person --
with the Chief of Police present!
This march is in sympathy with the national day of protest against
police brutality, and locally is a multi-racial call: No More Stolen Lives!
The Speak Out at the Boys and Girls Club, 5pm, will be a safe space
for people to record their experiences with the police.
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Donations to the families, for burial and other expenses, are being accepted at:
Heartland Bank (specifically for burial expenses)
Busey Bank (for assistance to the family)
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10/22 Thu 8pm (also each night Wed-Sat, with talkback afterward on Thursday)
The Station Theatre, 223 N. Broadway, Urbana
http://www.stationtheatre.com 384-4000
"My Name is Rachel Corrie"
A one-woman play based on the diaries of Rachel Corrie,
who with other International Solidarity Movement workers
had been putting her life on the line for human rights,
standing up to Israeli bulldozers demolishing Palestinian homes,
when she was killed by a bulldozer in 2003.
On Thursday, Oct. 22nd, there will be time for a talk-back period
following the play. Other performances are at 8pm Wednesday through
Saturday, Oct 24th.
The Station Theatre taken some risk in bringing this play to C-U,
as there's been strong opposition here and elsewhere to hearing this
story told, to the point that some theater companies have abandoned
attempts to show the play. Thanks to them for performing it here!
10/22 Thu 7pm University YMCA Latzer Hall, 1001 S. Wright St, UofI campus
University YMCA Global Lens film series (Thursdays through Oct 29th)
http://universityymca.org/globallens2009/
"Those Three", film from Iran, 2007, by Nagji Nemati
Just one day from completing their military training, three conscripts
desert their camp and escape into the frozen wilderness of Northern
Iran. Travel through this mountainous, snowbound region is dangerous,
but "those three" opt for the independence it promises and must now
forge their way through an uncertain landscape, with only friendship to
see them through. In this austere and mesmerizing debut feature,
director Naghi Nemati's attention to the minutiae of human
relationships is a quiet and deliberate meditation on the value of
responsibility, connection and sacrifice.
10/23 Fri noon University YMCA, Latzer Hall, 1001 S. Wright, UofI campus
Friday Forum talk
“U.S. Climate Change Policy in the Obama Era: A Progress Report”
Ron Burke, Union of Concerned Scientists
Ron Burke reviews the status of climate legislation in Congress,
including what current proposals would do and both the positive
and negative aspects of current bills being discussed.
Analysis will address the need to pass a bill immediately,
the options Obama might seek if current proposals do not pass,
and prospects for a new international treaty.
10/25 Sun 2-4pm Family Room, Independent Media Center (IMC), 202 S. Broadway
Showing by AWARE Films of David Zeiger's documentary film,
"Sir! No Sir!"
It tells the long suppressed story of the GI movement to end
the war in Vietnam. This is the story of one of the most vibrant
and widespread upheavals of the 1960’s - one that had a profound
impact on American society yet has been virtually obliterated
from the collective memory of that time.
Resistance to senseless war within the ranks of the military
became a powerful force in Vietnam War time, and it is
powerful today -- look at Iraq Veterans Against the War and
the Winter Soldier movement.
(We'll be in the cozy Family Room, in the basement of the IMC.
Look for the steps leading downward from Elm Street,
on the north side of the building.)
Discussion and refreshments afterward.
11/1 Sun 2-4pm Independent Media Center (main floor),
202 S. Broadway, downtown Urbana
Exhibit opening,
"When a Parent Is in Prison"
"When a Parent is in Prison" explores the situation of children
who have a parent in prison through their portraits and words.
The young people who are featured here are among the 2,400,000
children who have a mother or father in prison.
"These children have committed no crime,
but the price they are forced to pay is steep.
They forfeit, too, much of what matters to them:
their homes, their safety, their public status and
private self-image, their primary source of comfort
and affection. Their lives are profoundly affected . . ."
―Nell Bernstein, All Alone in the World
A documentary project of Mennonite Central Committee U.S.
and Eastern Mennonite University's Center for
Justice and Peacebuilding. Photography by Howard Zehr, Professor of
Restorative Justice at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding,
Eastern Mennonite University.
Exhibit runs from November 1 - 21, 2009
Opening: Sunday, November 1, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Contact: Conrad Wetzel <wetzel-rlc at live.com>, 217-352-8603
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