[Peace] events: "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" 9/6 6pm @CPL; "The New Jim Crow" reading group begins 9/7 7pm in IMC; etc.

[Stuart Levy]

Upcoming events which may interest people here:

  Sat 9/3 2-4pm  monthly demonstration
  Mon 9/5 10am  Labor Day parade starts in Lincoln Square
  Tue 9/6 6:00-8:30PM  CPL - "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" film showing
  Wed 9/7 7pm - IMC - Reading group for The New Jim Crow (and biweekly thereafter)
  Thu 9/15 5pm - Main&Broadway, U. - Demonstrate in support of Palestinian rights
  Wed 9/21 TBA - International Day of Peace
  Sat 10/8 - TBA - annual Unity March

Sat, Sep 3, 2-4pm,  Main & Neil Sts, downtown Champaign
   Main Event - AWARE's monthly anti-war demonstration.
   We'll have signs, or bring your own.  Please come stand with us
   against war and imperialism!


Mon, Sep 5, 9:30am, Labor Day parade, starting in Lincoln Square parking lot
   Many groups, including Central IL Jobs with Justice and
   the UofI Graduate Employees Organization, are marching in the
   Labor Day parade.

   Parade starts in the Lincoln Square parking lot (gather around 9:30, leave 10am),
   ends in Prairie Park.    Come and march in support of labor,
   whether or not you're a member of those or other orgs. or not.
   (I believe the GEO and JwJ are groups #31 and #32 or close to that.)


Tue, Sep 6, 6:00-8:30pm, Champaign Public Library

   Showing of the film, "Pray the Devil Back to Hell"

    "Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the extraordinary story of a small band
    of Liberian women who came together in the midst of a bloody civil
    war, took on the violent warlords and corrupt Charles Taylor regime,
    and won a long-awaited peace for their shattered country in 2003.

    As the rebel noose tightened upon Monrovia, and peace talks faced
    collapse, the women of Liberia – Christian and Muslims united -
    formed a thin but unshakable white line between the opposing forces,
    and successfully demanded an end to the fighting– armed only with
    white T-shirts and the courage of their convictions."

   (from the film's web site,
	http://praythedevilbacktohell.com/ )

   Not sure who's organizing this showing, but heard mention on WILL-AM.
   Does anyone know more??


Wed Sep 7, 7:00pm, IMC "community room" (hidden in IMC basement)

  First (biweekly) meeting of a reading group for Michelle Alexander's excellent book,
  "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness".

  James Kilgore <jjincu at gmail.com> is organizing the group:

    This is the most widely read book in recent times on issues related
    to prison, race and incarceration.  Alexander tracks the history of
    the rise in incarceration in the U.S. and in particular highlights the
    horrendous impact of this policy on African-Americans.  The group will
    meet once every two weeks, beginning [September 7th 7pm].  The
    date and time will be determined by the group's availability, though
    it will be on a weekday evening. If you are interested or have some
    ideas about how to promote this reading group, please let me know..

  (The room is tricky to find.  It's in the basement of the IMC
   at Broadway and Elm, downtown Urbana.   If you take the winding stairs
   down from main floor, then go a few feet left, walk through the artists'
   space (couches etc.) to a space with several doorways, and make
   a quick 180-degree left turn, you'll be facing the Community Room door.

   Or, if you enter from the Elm St. side (short stairway leading down
   from street), follow the painted stripes on the floor, turning right
   into the hallway opposite Books to Prisoners' office.  At the end of
   that hallway, the artists' space is on your right.   Walk through that,
   then turn sharply left as above.)


Thu Sep 15, 5:00pm, Champaign County Veterans' Memorial, Main & Broadway, U.
   (Sep. 15th is the International Day of Democracy, adopted by the UN.)
   Demonstration in support of Palestinian rights, and coinciding with
   the Palestinian push at the UN for recognition of a state of Palestine.
   Organized locally by Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy (justforeignpolicy.org).
   and part of demonstrations by the September 15 organization
   (september15.org).

   See also the September 15 facebook page,
	https://www.facebook.com/pages/September15/
   and the FB page for the local event:
	https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=249984081691511

Wed Sep 21st - Intenational Day of Peace
   Commemoration of the Day of Peace.   Details not yet planned.
   In past years we have held an evening vigil.

Sat Oct 8th - Unity March
   Annual march for unity in the community, coordinated by C-U Citizens
   for Peace and Justice