[Peace] some upcoming events

[Stuart Levy]

Some upcoming events of interest to AWARE people:

Quick summary:
  Tue 3/30 7pm  FAR dorms -- teach-in about the cases of
		Kiwane Carrington and Jeshaun Manning, and the
		police killing of minorities

  Wed 3/31 7pm  Channing-Murray -- "My Own Four Walls"
		film and discussion, on homelessness among young people

  Thu 4/1  7pm  Allen Hall -- Rich Whitney, Green candidate for IL Governor

  Thu 4/1  7:30pm  Levis Faculty Center 3rd floor --
		Juan Mendes, "Human Rights Trials and Truth Commissions:
		What The U.S. Can Learn from Latin America"

  Sat 4/3  2-4pm Main & Neil, downtown Champaign -- anti-war demonstration!

  Fri 4/9  7pm   U-C IMC -- ICJPE annual meeting -- http://icjpe.org
		 Alexander Cockburn keynote (and reception, with Ruthless Goats music)

  Sat 4/10 8:30-6:30 U-C IMC -- ICJPE annual meeting -- panels and discussions
		on transforming the land, transforming social relations,
		transforming empire.

  Sat 4/10 8pm  U-C IMC -- Satirist/musician Roy Zimmerman performs
		(http://royzimmerman.com/)

  Sun 4/11 probably 3-5pm at GSLIS room 126
	 Paul Street and Kathy Kelly to speak.  Working title:
	 "Empire's New Clothes and Voices in the Wilderness"

	


  *today* Tue 3/30,  7pm,  FAR Dorms, UofI campus (near Florida & Lincoln)
    Planners Network Urbana Champaign Chapter will be holding a teach in.
    Come find out about the current case again Jeshuan Manning and the killing
    of 15 year old Kiwane Carrington, champaign youth. A panel of community
    members, activist and students will explain the case and also let you know
    how you can take against this national trend of police killing of
    minorities.

    Planners Network will be hosting several events during the two weeks before
    Jeshaun's trial April 13th.  Please come out and be informed and get
    involved as we continue to take a stand against excessive use of force by
    police against minority citizens.

 Wed 3/31, 7pm, Channing-Murray Foundation
   Social Justice Forum:  "My Own Four Walls" - Film and Discussion in the chapel

   These courageous young people, with parents and without; staying in
   shelters, motels, abandoned buildings, doubled-up, living in vans,
   substandard trailers, or as "couch surfers" hopping from one fragile
   living arrangement to another have one important thing in common: They
   all have hopes and dreams just like children who have their own four 
   walls.  More than 30,636 of the children in Illinois experience
   homelessness each year.  What factors are contributing to this growing
   statistic and how can we ameliorate conditions in our own
   communities?  Free and open to the public.  Light refreshments served.


  Thu 4/1  7pm, UofI Allen Hall Main Lounge, 1005 W. Gregory, UofI campus

   Rich Whitney, the Green Party candidate for Illinois Governor,
   will be in Urbana on April 1st.  He will be talking about his plans
   to empower the economy, environment, and people of Illinois.
   In 2006, Whitney took an unprecedented 10% of the vote in the
   Illinois gubernatorial election, establishing the Green Party
   as a political party across the state and easing ballot access requirements.
   Whitney recently released a detailed plan to fix the deficit and bolster our economy.

	http://www.whitneyforgov.org/how-we-can-solve-the-budget-crisis

   The event will start with a lecture and discussion in the Allen Hall main
   lounge at 7pm and move to the Red Herring at 9pm for continued discussion
   and light refreshments.


   *also*
   Thu 4/1, 7:30pm,  3rd floor of Levis Faculty Center,
			    919 W. Illinois, UofI campus
	CAS/Millercomm lecture

     JUAN MENDEZ, Law Professor, American University

     "Human Rights Trials and Truth Commissions:
     What The U.S. Can Learn from Latin America"
 
      In the wake of a steady stream of revelations regarding
      the treatment of prisoners in US military custody, their
      representatives and the American public have been engaged in
      debates over the value, justice and dangers of investigating
      and/or prosecuting current and former US officials for torture and
      other human rights abuses.  Should the current US administration
      decide to undertake such investigations, it would be following
      in the footsteps of other nations of the Americas including
      Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru.  The lecture will shed light
      and lessons from these experiences.


    Sat 4/3  2:00-4:00pm  Main and Neil, downtown Champaign
      AWARE's monthly anti-war demonstration!

      We'll have a flyer with info about the following weekend's events --
      the ICJPE conference on April 9th and 10th, and Paul Street's and Kathy Kelly's
      event on the 11th.


    *next week*
    Fri 4/9  7:00pm  U-C IMC, 202 S. Broadway, downtown Urbana

       Alexander Cockburn, writer for The Nation and Counterpunch,
       is keynote speaker for this year's meeting of the
       Illinois Coalition for Justice, Peace and the Environment (ICJPE)
	   http://icjpe.org
       $10 ($5 low income)

       Reception to follow, and music from the Ruthless Goats
       (band led by Jim Eyman of the IWW)


    Sat 4/10 8:30am - 6:30pm  U-C IMC, 202 S. Broadway, downtown Urbana

       Annual meeting of IL Coalition for Justice, Peace and the Environment       
	"Connecting and Communicating"

	$30 ($15 low income).  Public welcome.  Pre-register by April 7th!
		http://icjpe.org/conference

       Schedule:
	 8:30am Organizational business meeting

	10:00am - 12:20pm
	   Panel, followed by discussions, then breakout sessions with individual panelists

	   "Transforming the Land".  Speakers:

		Gary Cziko, founder of Transition Champaign County,
			and member of Urbana's Sustainability Commission
		Ken Dunn, president and founder of Chicago's Resource Center,
			dedicated to moving society in an equitable and sustainable direction
		Terra Brockman, member of a farming family in Central Illinois,
			speaks, writes and advocates for sustainable agriculture
		Karen Hudson, expert on the consequences of concentrated
			animal feeding operations and anti factory farming activist.  

	
        12:30pm - 1:30pm
	    lunch (from Jerusalem Restaurant)

	    and short workshops/discussions, including one on
	    using viral media for activism

        1:30pm - 3:50pm panel, then discussions, then breakout groups on:

	    "Transforming Social Relations".  Speakers:

		Paul Street, independent radical-democratic policy researcher,
		   journalist, historian, author, writing on the interrelated
		   evils of racism, capitalism, and militarism-imperialism,

		Jamie Kalven, writer and human rights activist, has reported
		   widely on public housing and police abuse issues in Chicago
		Cristobal Cavazos,  Latino and immigrant rights activist
		   active in Dupage County, a county west of Chicago
		Mike Griffin, member of the Carpenters Union and veteran
		   of the Staley lockout, long engaged in the struggle to
		   build international solidarity and advance coalitions
		[possibly someone speaking for CUCPJ and GEO too]


	4:00 - 6:20pm panel/discussions/breakout groups for ...

	    "Transforming Empire".   Speakers:

		Kathy Kelly, noted peace activist and co-coordinator of Voices
		     for Creative Non-violence
		Aaron Hughes, Midwest organizer for the Iraq Veterans Against the War
		Doug Rokke, former Depleted Uranium Project director for the US Army,
		     physicist and an expert on DU.
		Representative[s] from the Zenko Peace movement in Japan,
		Rev. Geri Solomon, peace activist, community organizer for
		     Aurora Peace and Justice.

	6:30pm summary and farewell!


    Sat 4/10  8-10pm  U-C IMC   Satirist/musician Roy Zimmerman performance
	$15 (or $12 for those attending ICJPE)

       The Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center announces a concert
       featuring Roy Zimmerman singing songs about Ignorance War and Greed.
       What's funny about war, poverty, ignorance, bigotry, neo-conservatism,
       homophobia, greed, lust and fear? Ask Roy Zimmerman. He's been writing
       satirical songs for twenty years.

       Tom Lehrer himself says, "I congratulate Roy Zimmerman on
       reintroducing literacy to comedy songs. And the rhymes actually rhyme,
       they don't just "rhyme.'"  [...]

	http://www.royzimmerman.com/



    Sun 4/11  (probably 3-5pm, probably room 126 of
		Grad. School for Library and Information Science,
		5th and Daniel, Champaign.
		Come up the stairs to the east-side building door)

	Paul Street (http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/paulstreet)
	and Kathy Kelly (http://vcnv.org/speaker-bio/kathy-kelly)
	will stay over from the previous day's conference and speak with us.
	Working title: "The Empire's New Clothes and Voices in the Wilderness"

	Co-sponsored by AWARE and C-U Citizens for Peace and Justice.


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