[Peace] upcoming events / September October 2010

[Karen Medina]

upcoming events for the week of September 12, 2010 and beyond

Joe Weber's birthday
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Joe is an AWARE member and was a WWII pilot (he finished pilot
training just after the nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan. He flew
people in to see the damage after the bombs). He is a long-time peace
activist. We wish him a very happy birthday.

AWARE's table at the Farmer's Market
Saturdays thru November 2010; 8am-noon
Come by for bumper stickers, tee-shirts, and buttons. Conversation too!

Saturdays, CU Citizens for Peace and Justice meetings
4pm at the IMC

Talk: The Role of Non-Violence in Palestinian-Israeli Relations: A
Conversation with Rajmohan Gandhi
Sunday, September 19, 2010
2:30 pm
Location: Champaign Public Library, Robeson Pavilion A and B
Presented by the UC Peace Initiative
Co-Sponsored by: Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Every Sunday
AWARE meeting 5pm; McKinley Foundation

Mondays: Meetings of the CU immigrant justice
7pm
Champaign Public Library meeting room on the second floor.
Contact person: Celeste Larkin (celeste.larkin at gmail.com)
[Independently of immigration concerns, there will be protests against
Jimmy John's here and around the country to let their workers
unionize!]
RE: immigration issues, the founder and CEO of Jimmy John's is a
strong financial backer of the anti-immigration politicians in
Arizona, even though he lives in Champaign, Illinois.

Three events for the International Day of Peace, Tuesday September 21, 2010
1) Haikus for Peace event
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
6:30pm
at the Church of the Brethren
1210 N. Neil St, Champaign, Illinois (just North of Bradley Avenue)
(event is sponsored by the Mennonites and the Church of the Brethren)

2) Candlelight Vigil for the International Day of Peace
Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 7pm
Location: near the Alma Mater on campus (Green St. and Wright St.)

3) Urbana-Champaign Peace Initiative, the planning group for the
program "A Conversation with Rajmohan Gandhi"  (Sept 19), is inviting
all interested to a
meeting : to recognize Peace Day by brain-storming future public
educational sessions for peace.
5-6pm
September 21, 2010
at the Mennonite Church, 902 West Springfield Avenue, Urbana Illinois

AWARE Films will be showing "Rethink Afghanistan"
Sunday, September 26, 2010; 2pm-4pm
Champaign Public Library Meeting Room B; 200 W. Green Street,
Champaign, Illinois

Books to Prisoners
Book sale, October 1-3.

March on Washington, DC
October 2, 2010
Organized by United for Peace and Justice
Theme: "One Nation Working Together"
Together, we are marching for:
* Jobs and sustainable economic recovery
* Cuts in military spending to fund community needs
* An end to the US war and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan
* Peace abroad and renewable energy at home

Saturday, October 2nd
Main Event (monthly peace demonstration)

Oct. 8 Friday symposium on Kiwane Carrington case 7pm Asian American
House, Nevada St.

October 9, Saturday, Unity March (in Champaign): Sowing the Seeds of Empowerment
noon,
The march begins at 906 W. Vine, Champaign Illinois (the house where
Kiwane Carrington was shot) and ends at the Community Garden (Randolph
and Beardsley), up Bradley Ave.

Midwest Regional Action (in downtown Chicago)
Saturday, October 16, 2010
A teach-in and large antiwar demonstration right in Obama's home town,
during the runup to elections.
'The "peace president" has dramatically escalated the Afghanistan
invasion ― at nine years, America's longest war.  He's spread war
into Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.  He's supported a brutal coup in
Honduras, is building threatening new U.S. military bases in Colombia,
and ignores Israel's war crimes against the Palestinians and those
seeking to aid them.'
Interested in planning the event?  Contact: Andy Thayer,  CCAWR {at} aol.com.
If you are interested in going from Champaign-Urbana, you can contact
Karen Medina, kmedina67 at gmail dot com.