[Peace] Today (Sunday) / Kathy Kelly and Paul Street / A Day of Social Justice and Resistance at GSLIS

[Karen Medina]

Kathy Kelly and Paul Street
Both are excellent speakers!

3-5pm Sunday April 11, 2010
GSLIS (501 E. Daniel, Champaign), room 126

The People Speak (the movie)
5pm

You will regret it if you have to miss this!

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 A Day of Resistance and Social Justice at GSLIS

Sunday, April 11, 3-7 PM

Graduate School of Library and Information Science

501 E. Daniel St., R. 126

SCHEDULE:

3-5 PM: PUTTING THE MIRROR TO U.S. EMPIRE

*Paul Street--Left-wing journalist, author, historian and commentator.
His books include Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis: A Living
Black Chicago History,  Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in
the Post–Civil Rights America, and Barack Obama and the Future of
American Politics.His commentary has been published in In These Times;
Dissent; Capital City Times; Z Magazine; Black Commentator; Black
Agenda Report; ZNet; AlterNet; Tom’s Dispatch. For a bio, visit
http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/paulstreet

*Kathy Kelly--Co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence, a
campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare. For a bio, visit
http://vcnv.org/speaker-bio/kathy-kelly

5-6:30 PM: A SPECIAL SCREENING of Howard Zinn's THE PEOPLE SPEAK

This documentary feature film produced by Matt Damon, Josh Brolin,
Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove, and Howard Zinn, brings out the radical
traditions that have forged U.S. history.

 Narrated by the late, acclaimed historian Howard Zinn, and based on
his best selling books, A People's HIstory of the United States and,
with Anthony Arnove, Voices of A People's History, THE PEOPLE SPEAK
(http://www.thepeoplespeak.com), uses dramatic musical performances of
the letters, diaries and speeches of everyday Americans who fought for
equality and justice from the bottom up.

This film, which includes 20 minutes of never-before aired footage, is
co-directed by Moore, Arnove and Zinn and features dramatic and
musical performances by Allison Moorer, Benjamin Bratt, Bob Dylan,
Bruce Springsteen, Chris Robinson, Christina Kirk, Danny Glover,
Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, David Strathairn, Don Cheadle, Eddie Vedder,
Harris Yulin, Jasmine Guy, John Legend, Josh Brolin, Kathleen
Chalfant, Kerry Washington, Lupe Fiasco, Marisa Tomei, Martín Espada,
Matt Damon, Michael Ealy, Mike O'Malley, Morgan Freeman, P!nk,
Q'orianka Kilcher, Reg E. Cathey, Rich Robinson, Rosario Dawson,
Sandra Oh, Sean Penn, Staceyann Chin, and Viggo Mortensen.

The Los Angeles Times called THE PEOPLE SPEAK "striking,
exhilarating...the performances are thrilling" and The Boston Globe
said: "The documentary...works beautifully. Each passionate reading
flows out of the previous one."

Screenings of THE PEOPLE SPEAK will be taking place across the country
in April. For information on other screenings, please visit
www.socialistworker.org

Sponsors include Anti-War and Anti-Racism Effort (AWARE), GSLIS-GEO
and the International Socialist Organization (list in formation).

For more information, contact leightonlc at gmail.com orkmedina67 at gmail.com

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karen medina
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"In this universe, we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and
the ability to ask questions." (Mary Oliver, American poet)
A third gift is the ability to laugh. (Jenifer, a friend)

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