[Peace] events: Asian Racialized Sports Nicknames / Documentary film: Land of Opportunity / Film: "We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân" / The Taino, The Native Americans who Discovered Columbus / Unpacking Environmental Racism / Veterans to stage protest at Ti

[Karen Medina]

Upcoming community events related to Anti-war, anti-racism issues:

Brief summary of this week's events:
* Monday, Nov 7, 2011 / noon / Asian Racialized Sports Nicknames /
@vWomen’s Resource Center / 703 S. Wright St, 2nd Floor

* Monday, November 7, 7:00 pm / Documentary film: Land of Opportunity
/ Room 2 Education Building; 1310 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL

* Tuesday, November 8, 2011 / 6pm / Film: "We Still Live Here: Âs
Nutayuneân" / Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St., Robeson
Rooms A & B

* Tuesday, November 8 / 7pm / Bobby Gonzalez "The Taino, The Native
Americans who Discovered Columbus"  / @ La Casa Cultural Latina
1203 W. Nevada St. / Urbana, Illinois

* Wednesday, November 9 / noon / Sustainability: Unpacking
Environmental Racism —speaker: Selene González from Little Village
Environmental Justice Organization / @ the Bruce D. Nesbitt African
American Cultural Center / 708 S. Matthews / Urbana, Illinois

* Thursday, November 10th, 2011 / 11am-5:30pm /Farm stand on the Quad
on Thursdays

* Thursday, November 10, 2011 / 5:30pm / Veterans to stage protest at
Tim Johnson's office this Thursday on the Eve of Veterans' Day /
WHERE: Tim Johnson's office, 2004 Fox Drive in Champaign

* Thursday, November 10 / 5pm / ACTIVISM AND COALITION BUILDING /
University YMCA | Wahl Room / 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign

* Thursday, November 10 / 7:30pm / Cosmo Coffee (French) / University
YMCA / 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign

* Friday, November 11, 2011 / noon / Talk: "The Gridlock of Public
Policy Resulting from Polarization" speaker Jim Edgar / University
YMCA / 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign

* Friday, November 11, 2011 / noon / Minority Male Retention, speaker:
Professor Lorenzo Baber / @ the Native American House / 1206 W. Nevada
/ Urbana, Illinois

* Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: November 11, 12, and 13, 2011
3 workshops on RE-CONNECTING:   STORIES of LABOR and LEGACIES in
DOWNSTATE LANDSCAPES:
** Nov 11, 2–3:30pm @ Gregory Hall 317, UIUC -- Dr. Noeleen Murray:
“Precarious Histories: The Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum in Cape Town,
South Africa”
** Nov. 12, 2pm – 6:00 pm,
Independent Media Center
202 S. Broadway, Urbana
“Re-membering landscapes and labor struggles in UC & Effingham, IL”
** Nov 13, 10:00am – 4:00pm, Independent Media Center
202 S. Broadway, Urbana
"Re-constructing landscapes and  labor in Beardstown and Peoria, IL"

* Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: November 11, 12, and 13
Grassroots Organizing Weekend is a 3-day training for student
organizers @ Asian American Cultural Center / 1210 W. Nevada / Urbana,
Illinois


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Longer Descriptions:
Monday, Nov 7, 2011 (Lunch Scramble @ Women’s Resource Center/  703 S.
Wright St, 2nd Floor) - Asian Racialized Sports Nicknames [sponsored
by AACC and NAH ]
[part of the Lunchtime Discussion Series on campus]
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Monday, November 7, 7:00 pm,
Room 2 Education Building; 1310 South Sixth Street, Champaign, IL 61820
Located on Sixth Street between Loredo Taft and Peabody Drive.
** Documentary film: Land of Opportunity
* Land of Opportunity is  a film by Luisa Dantas about the ongoing
effort to rebuild New  Orleans, presented through the eyes of several
residents and participants. Through diverse stories of ordinary
people, the film explores the core  urban issues of urban development,
immigration, and affordable  housing.  Dantas has dedicated five years
of her life and taken thousands  of hours of film for this effort. The
showing will be followed by an open discussion with the filmmaker.
More information, including video clips, can be found at
http://www.landofopportunitymovie.com/.
* Co-sponsored by School of Architecture, Department of Geography,
Department of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Department of
Latina/Latino Studies, Department of Media and Cinema Studies
* Also, Luisa Dantas will be on the radio on WILL Focus 580 on Monday
morning at 10:00am.  Listen in for a preview of the film and more
discussion with the filmmaker.
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6pm Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St., Robeson Rooms A & B
Film: "We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân"
* The Wampanoag saved the Pilgrims from starvation, and lived to
regret it. Spurred on by their celebrated linguist Jane Little Doe
Baird, the Wampanoag of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard are reviving
their language more than a century after the last native speaker died.
* A screening with a post-film, audience-driven discussion about the
local relevance of the issues raised in the film.
* Free and open to the public.
* A sign-language interpreter will be provided for the discussion for
the hearing-impaired and the film will be shown with
closed-captioning.
* A WILL Community Cinema Screening event.
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Tuesday, November 8 at 7pm
Bobby Gonzalez "The Taino, The Native Americans who Discovered Columbus"
Part of the lunch series at La Casa Cultural Latina
1203 W. Nevada St. / Urbana, Illinois

For Native American Heritage month, come to La Casa and join us in
learning about the Taino indigenous peoples of Puerto Rico. Bobby
Gonzales, a national known multicultural motivational speaker, will be
drawing on his Native American (Taino) and Latino (Puerto Rican) roots
to offer a unique repertoire of discourses, readings and performances
that celebrate his indigenous heritage. FREE DINNER WILL ALSO BE
PROVIDED! Co-sponsored by the Native American House, Lambda Theta
Alpha, the Interested Ladies of Lambda Theta Alpha, and M.E.Ch.A
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Wednesday, November 9 (Lunch Scramble @ BNAACC) - Sustainability:
Unpacking Environmental Racism —speaker: Selene González from Little
Village Environmental Justice Organization
[I also saw this advertised as "Environmental Justice and Race in
Chicago’s Little Village"]
[sponsored by La Casa & Women's Resource Center]
Part of the lunch series, Food For The Soul at the Bruce D. Nesbitt
African American Cultural Center / 708 S. Matthews / Urbana, Illinois
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Every Thursday, 11am-5:30pm
Farm stand on the Quad on Thursdays;
The Sustainable Student Farm, in conjunction with the Illini Union,
will be offering campus-grown produce each Thursday from 11
a.m.-5:30p.m. The farm stand is located behind the Illini Union on the
Quad. The farm is a joint venture of the department of crop sciences,
Student Sustainability Committee and Dining Services.
URL: http://thefarm.illinois.edu
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
5:30pm
WHERE: Tim Johnson's office, 2004 Fox Drive in Champaign
Veterans to stage protest at Tim Johnson's office this Thursday on the
Eve of Veterans' Day
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Thursday, November 10
University YMCA | Wahl Room / 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign
5 - 7 PM
** ACTIVISM AND COALITION BUILDING with Aaron Johnson-Ortiz,
Organizer, Graduate Employees Organization
* Learn the basics of direct action organizing from labor organizer
and activist, Aaron Johnson-Ortiz.  Gain ideas for actions and learn
how to bring others to your cause. Learn what it takes to build a
strong coalition and how to turn combined passion into change.
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Thursday, November 10
University YMCA / 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign
Cosmo Coffee
* French this week. At these weekly informal gatherings, held from
7:30 to 9:30 p.m., coffee, tea, and homemade ethnic desserts are
served.
* International and American students, club members and non-members,
are all welcome. Coffee Hours are good opportunities to meet people
from around the world and learn about other cultures.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
University YMCA / 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign
noon
Talk: "The Gridlock of Public Policy Resulting from Polarization"
Jim Edgar, 38th Governor of Illinois, 1990-1998
* Part of the Fall 2011 Friday Forum lectures on THE FUTURE OF LEARNING:
IS PUBLIC EDUCATION UNDER SIEGE?
* Jim Edgar was the 38th governor of Illinois. As governor, he made
fiscal discipline and children the cornerstones of his two terms.
First elected in 1990, Governor Edgar won re-election in 1994 by the
largest margin ever for a governor. His popularity as governor
prompted a Chicago Tribune columnist to write near the end of his
administration that Edgar's popularity in Illinois was "second only to
Michael Jordan's."
* Edgar has served in a variety of leadership roles, including
president of the Council of State Governments, as a member of the
executive committee of the National Governors' Association and as
chairman of the Midwest Governors' Association. He has also been a
Resident Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University. Governor Edgar serves on a variety of civic and corporate
boards of directors.
* By the time he left office in January 1999, Governor Edgar had
eliminated the backlog in payments of the state's bills, given the
state a surplus and reduced the size of state government. He had also
fought for and won passage of historic legislation on the way Illinois
schools are funded and had overhauled the state's child welfare
system.
* Before becoming governor, Edgar served as secretary of state for 10
years and was elected to the Illinois House from Charleston in 1976.
He received a B.A. in history from Eastern Illinois University in
1968.
* ALL LECTURES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
* Y THAI LUNCH TICKETS: $6.00/3.00 student
* http://www.universityymca.org/friday_forum/
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Minority Male Retention, speaker: Professor Lorenzo Baber from
Educational Policy Studies
Part of the Lunch Scramble at the Native American House / 1206 W.
Nevada / Urbana, Illinois
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Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: November 11, 12, and 13, 2011
3 workshops on RE-CONNECTING:   STORIES of LABOR and LEGACIES in
DOWNSTATE LANDSCAPES
* Nov 11, 2–3:30pm
Gregory Hall 317, UIUC Campus
Dr. Noeleen Murray: “Precarious Histories: The Lwandle Migrant Labour
Museum in Cape Town, South Africa”
* Nov. 12, 2pm – 6:00 pm,
Independent Media Center
202 S. Broadway, Urbana
“Re-membering landscapes and labor struggles in UC & Effingham, IL”
* Nov 13, 10:00am – 4:00pm, Independent Media Center
202 S. Broadway, Urbana
“Re-constructing landscapes and  labor in Beardstown and Peoria, IL”
ALL WELCOME. FOOD PROVIDED
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
Terri Barnes: tbarnes2 at illinois.edu OR Ken Salo: kensalo at illinois.edu
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Grassroots Organizing Weekend
Grassroots Organizing Weekend is a 3-day training for student
organizers that will take place from November 11th - 13th at the Asian
American Cultural Center on the U of I campus. As a participant,
students will learn how to increase organizing skills on campus and in
the community, overcome lack of participation on campus, increase
membership of their organization, and more. The training is free but
space is limited.
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Monday, Nov 14, 2011 - Honoring Women for Veterans' Day —Lizette
Rivera, La Casa, & Student Panel
Part of the Dish It Up Monday lunch events.
at the Women's Resource Center / 703 S. Wright Street / Champaign,
Illinois / 2nd floor
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Every Thursday, 11am-5:30pm
Farm stand on the Quad on Thursdays;
The Sustainable Student Farm, in conjunction with the Illini Union,
will be offering campus-grown produce each Thursday from 11
a.m.-5:30p.m. The farm stand is located behind the Illini Union on the
Quad. The farm is a joint venture of the department of crop sciences,
Student Sustainability Committee and Dining Services.
URL: http://thefarm.illinois.edu
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noon, Thursday, Nov 17 - Examining the Latin@ Educational Plight:
>From Landmark Court Cases to the Assault on Youth — speaker: Miguel
Saucedo, Educational Policy Studies
Lunch @ La Casa - La Casa Cultural Latina- 1203 W. Nevada, Urbana
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
5-7pm
University YMCA / Latzer Hall / 1001 South Wright Street, Champaign
The University YMCA would like to invite you to attend the annual
Thanksgiving Potluck on Thursday, November 17 from 5-7 PM in Latzer
Hall at the Y.
* Join students, staff, board members, and friends of the Y for
delicious food and good times as we celebrate the beginning of fall
break and the end of another great semester of Y programs.
* Feel free to bring a dish but don't let not being able to cook stop
you from joining us.  We will have turkey, tofurkey,  turkey,
tofurkey, and delicious vegan and non-vegan sides and vegan and
nonvegan pumpkin pies.
* Plan to cook?  Let us know what you are making here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dEdZdUcwYTU2ZUhPSFU4clAtZ25vY2c6MQ#gid=0
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Thurs, 11/17 | 5:30pm | University Y: Latzer Hall | FREE
University YMCA / 1001 South Wright, Champaign, Illinois
Global Lens film: THE WHITE MEADOWS
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[I only have incomplete information at the present time]
Saturday, Nov 29, 2011 - Korean and Arab/Muslim Relations; speaker is
Alex Lee from the Department of Anthropology [at the University of
Illinois, I think]
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=== December 2011 ====
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - Student Spotlights on Latina/o Issues, Part 2
Lunch @ La Casat - La Casa Cultural Latina- 1203 W. Nevada, Urbana, Ilinois
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6 pm Tuesday, Dec. 6
Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St., Robeson Rooms A & B
Film: "Troop 1500"
* At Hilltop Prison in Gatesville, Texas, a unique Girl Scout troop —
Troop 1500 — unites daughters with mothers who are serving time for
serious crimes, giving them a chance to rebuild their broken bonds.
Facing long sentences from the courts, the mothers struggle to mend
their fractured relationships with their daughters.
* A screening with a post-film, audience-driven discussion about the
local relevance of the issues raised in the film.
* Free and open to the public.
* A sign-language interpreter will be provided for the discussion for
the hearing-impaired and the film will be shown with
closed-captioning.
* A WILL Community Cinema Screening event.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Kwanzaa - speaker Angela Clark from the BNAACC
Part of the lunch, Food For The Soul, program at the Bruce D. Nesbitt
African American Cultural Center / 708 S. Matthews, Urbana, Illinois
=== January 2012 ===
=== February 2012 ===
6 pm Tuesday, Feb. 7
Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St., Robeson Rooms A & B
Film: "More than a Month"
* Filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman sets off on a cross-country
campaign to end Black History Month. His tongue-in-cheek journey
explores the complexity and contradictions of relegating an entire
group’s history to one month in a so-called "post-racial" America.
* A screening with a post-film, audience-driven discussion about the
local relevance of the issues raised in the film.
* Free and open to the public.
* A sign-language interpreter will be provided for the discussion for
the hearing-impaired and the film will be shown with
closed-captioning.
* A WILL Community Cinema Screening event.