[Peace] Peace related events for the week of November 7-14, 2010

[Karen Medina]

Below: Peace related events for the week, but first a few reminders:
* [If you know of more events, we'd be happy to know about them!]
* Reminder: Thanksgiving Basket Drive (up to November 17th, 2010) ---
see note much later

[It appears that there are very few events directly related to peace
this week, so I went farther afield to find activities that anti-war
people might find interesting, and I did find some. -karen medina]

Peace related events for the week of November 7-14, 2010

Food Safety and Biosecurity
Nov 8, 2010 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
163 Noyes Lab

Monday, November 8, 2010:
Faith and Food Justice meeting: an in-depth look at the current
Midwest American food system. Weekly readings will guide discussion on
how our food's ecology, distribution, economics, government policies,
and history relate to faith and justice.
Mondays (October 4 - November 29)
7pm
2nd floor Chapel of University YMCA
1001 South Wright Street Champaign, IL
Questions? Contact Ann Rasmus: ann at universityymca.org or (217)337-1514

The Regional Housing Task Force would like to share our findings of
the Comprehensive Housing Study with the public.
Please come to one of the Study Sessions or Open Houses. The community
is encouraged to participate in these opportunities.
City of Urbana
Study Session: Nov. 8th, 7:00 pm
Urbana City Council Chambers, 400 S. Vine St., Urbana

University-in-Prison: the Education Justice Project  - Rebecca
Ginsburg, Director, Education Justice Project (EJP)
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
12:00 - 1:30 pm (lunch available at the Y (Thai) Eatery
Latzer Hall, University YMCA
1001 South Wright Street Champaign, IL
The last session this semester of the "Know Your University" lecture series.
Rebecca Ginsburg follows up her Friday Forum Lecture given on the
Education Justice Project, a higher education prison program that
offers on-site classes to men incarcerated at a local state prison. In
addition to describing the Education Justice Project in greater
detail, Ginsburg will discuss the values of higher education more
generally, how they lend themselves to the healing and transformation
processes that can take place within prisons, to and the implications
of EJPA's work for the larger campus.

Native American College Experience presentation by Stephanie Waterman
Nov 9, 2010 | 6:00 pm
Asian American Cultural Center 2010 W. Nevada

Noontime Scholars Lecture Series - Soviet Children go to War:
Narrating WWII in Soviet Literature for the Young
Nov 9, 2010 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign

The Regional Housing Task Force would like to share our findings of
the Comprehensive Housing Study with the public.
Please come to one of the Study Sessions or Open Houses. The community
is encouraged to participate in these opportunities.
City of Champaign Study Session
Tuesday, Nov. 9th 7:30 pm
Illinois Terminal Building, 45 E. University Ave., Champaign

Biological Basis of Social and Political Behavior: Brown Bag Series
Nov 10, 2010 | 12:00 pm
612 Institute for Genomic Biology

"What's in a Tale? Slavery, Memory, and Intersections of Race, Class,
and Gender in Tanzania"
Nov 10, 2010 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
101 International Studies Bldg, 910 S. Fifth St., Champaign

Thursday, November 11
Veterans Day

Thursday, November 11
Ceremony at the Armory on campus to honor veterans: A joint-service
ceremony will be held to honor the Nation’s veterans at the Armory.
The Army, Air Force and Navy/Marine Corps ROTC Battalions are holding
the ceremony Nov. 11 at 7 a.m.
The ceremony is open to the public.
505 East Armory Avenue, Champaign, Illinois

Differences in Food Insecruity Between Adults and Children in Zimbabwe
Thursday, Nov 11, 2010 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
211 Illini Union

Lecture Series: Iberia and Latin American Social Policy Regimes:
Explaining the Different Trajectories
Thursday, Nov 11, 2010 | 12:00 pm
101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign

Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Lecture: "Counting Latinos: the Census, the
Issues and the Future"
Thursday, Nov 11, 2010 | 4:00 pm
100 Gregory Hall

Ocean of an Old Man
A Film by: RAJESH SHERA
In the devastating aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, an
elderly British schoolteacher comes to grips with his own loss as he
searches for missing students on the remote Indian islands of Andaman
and Nicobar.
Thursday, November 11, 2010:
5:30 PM
University YMCA | Latzer Hall
1001 South Wright Street Champaign, IL
Free and open to everyone!

Gowing Up With Heroes...The Navajo Code Talkers of World War II: A
Daughter's Journey
Nov 11, 2010 | 6:00 pm
Reading Room- Levis Faculty Center 919 W. Illinois Street

SPEAK CAFE'
Thursday, November 11
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Race, Roots and Resistance; Revisiting the Black Power Movement is
always the overall theme.
The hottest open mic and poetry set in Central Illinois is free and
open to the public!
Krannert Art Museum
500 E. Peabody
Champaign, IL

Nov 11, 2010
7pm
Illini Union One Book, One Campus Public Lecture
"Zeitoun" By Dave Eggers
Abdulrahman Zeitoun is a Syrian-born entrepreneur who runs a busy
painting company in New Orleans. He is a devout Muslim, married to a
native of Baton Rouge who had converted to Islam before meeting
Zeitoun. As Hurricane Katrina barrels toward New Orleans, his wife
Kathy takes the children out of town, while Abdulrahman stays to keep
an eye on their house and several rental properties they own. In the
first couple of days, his decision to stay behind seems a good one,
and even after the levees break and the streets and houses fill with
water, he is able to help several people who have stayed behind but
now need to be rescued. As the National Guard enter the city, armed
with machine guns and surveillance helicopters, things begin to go
very wrong for Abdulrahman. He is taken into custody and put into a
temporary jail—a cage, in fact—hastily erected behind the
Greyhound station. There he is subject to strip searches, and he
witnesses beatings and other mistreatment of fellow prisoners, and is
denied the right to phone his wife and let her know where he is.
Zeitoun's ordeal is the main subject of this harrowing nonfiction
book, while Eggers enriches the shocking tale of injustice with a
richly layered account of Zeitoun's early life on the coast of Syria,
his large and loving family, his relationships with his friends,
employees, and neighbors.

November 12 - 14 is Dad's weekend on campus
game November 13th

National Gaming Day at Your Library
Saturday, November 12 (but 13th)
from 11am to 4pm
Undergraduate Library, 1402 West Gregory Drive, Urbana
http://illinois.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=7&eventId=187204&ACTION=VIEW_EVENT

AWARE table at the indoor Farmer's Market
Saturday, November 13, 2010
7:30am-1pm

Social Action Coffeehouse @ UU
Saturday, November 13
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign
309 W. Green Street
Urbana, IL
The Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of
Urbana-Champaign is hosting another Social Action Coffeehouse, an open
mic event that welcomes poetry, dance, spoken word, music, and
performance related to social justice and empowerment.

Whiteness, Misery, and Management in the U.S.
November 17, 2010
Speaker	     David Roediger
The Levis Faculty Center - 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
Free
Sponsor: Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society
This history of race, immigration, and management in the U.S. takes
critical race studies into areas of history, including history of
engineering, where it has little presence. From settlement and slavery
forward, the fostering of racial competition has marked labor
management practices. These have undergirded the phenomenal success of
U.S. transnational mine engineering; and, coexisted with rational
scientific management in shaping and in meatpacking and other
industries in Illinois and beyond, continuing to shape industrial
management.

Lecture Series: How Latin Americans Conceptualize Democracy:
Structural Form, Substantive Content and Political Significance
Nov 18, 2010 | 12:00 pm
101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign

Saturday, November 20, 2010
UIUC Thanksgiving Vacation begins

Thanksgiving Day
Nov 25, 2010 | All Day

December
Potluck and Roundtable
6pm
317 S. Randolph St., Champaign, Illinois.
St. Jude Catholic Worker House will be hosting a potluck and roundtable.
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Thanksgiving Basket Drive (up to November 17th, 2010) by The Office of
Volunteer Programs in the Illini Union
Would you like to make a difference for a family in need during this
holiday season?  The Office of Volunteer Programs in the Illini Union
is collecting Thanksgiving Care Baskets from October 22nd- November
17th.  We are working closely with several community non-profits to
respond to a growing need this Thanksgiving, and are asking students,
staff, and community members to participate in this charitable
program.  Grab your friends, family, roommates, coworkers, dorm floor,
RSO, or Greek house and make a difference in a family's holiday
season!  Please contact OVP at (217) 333-7424 or email us at ovp at
illinois.edu for more information on how you can help out!