[Peace] events / public viewing of video released, Tuesday, Nov. 22 6pm / City Council meeting 7pm / Korean and Arab/Muslim Relations Tuesday, Nov. 29

[Karen Medina]

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

Short Descriptions:
* Tuesday, November 22, 2011 / 6pm, before the city council meeting at
7pm /  Salem Baptist Church / 500 East Park Street Champaign, IL / A
public screening of the recently released video of Champaign police
abuse which occurred in June 2011. The video is viewable here:
http://www.ucimc.org/content/video-champaign-police-choking-black-youth-while-handcuffs
* Tuesday, November 22, 2011 / 7pm / Champaign Council Chambers /
Champaign City Building / 102 N. Neil St., Champaign Illinois /
Champaign City Council meeting
* Saturdays, 8am - 1pm / Market INSIDE the Square, Lincoln Square
Mall. / AWARE table. Come by and say "hi". Calendars are in!
* Every Saturday /  4PM / in the basement of the Independent Media
Center- 202 South Broadway Avenue, Urbana, IL. / Weekly meeting of
CUCPJ, Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice
* AWARE meets every Sunday 5-7pm at a new location: McKinley
Foundation, 809 S. 5th St. in Champaign (at Fifth and Daniel, on the U
of I campus). Come to the Dean Clark room, on the main floor (near the
game room). All are welcome!
* Monday, November 28, 2011 / noon / 314A Illini Union /  HIV 30 Years
Later: Is it time to get angry again?—Mike Benner, Greater Community
AIDS Project
* Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011 / Asian American Cultural Center - 1210 W.
Nevada, Urbana / noon / Korean and Arab/Muslim Relations; speaker is
Alex Lee
* Wednesday, November 30, 2011 / 7pm / IMC 202 S Broadway Ave, Urbana
Illinois / Book group meeting / reading The New Jim Crow: Mass
Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
* Wednesday, November 30, 2011 / 7pm / La Casa Collectiva / 1203 W
Nevada / Urbana Illinois / "Rethinking the Return of CLASS POLITICS" /
Professor CE Lang from History and African American Studies
=== 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
* Thursday, December 1 / 7pm-9pm /  Champaign Public Library / C-U
Immigration Forum Discussion about the controversial "Secure
Communities", a federal program that engages local police in enforcing
immigration laws.
* Saturdays / 8am - 1pm / Market INSIDE the Square, Lincoln Square
Mall, Urbana / AWARE table
* Saturday, December 3, 2011 / 2pm-4pm / Peace Demonstration / monthly
first Saturday event / downtown Champaign corner of Neil and Main
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Long Descriptions:
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
6pm, before the city council meeting at 7pm
Salem Baptist Church / 500 East Park Street  Champaign, IL
A public screening of the recently released video of Champaign police
abuse which occurred in June 2011. The video is viewable here:
http://www.ucimc.org/content/video-champaign-police-choking-black-youth-while-handcuffs
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
7pm
Champaign Council Chambers / Champaign City Building / 102 N. Neil
St., Champaign Illinois
Champaign City Council meeting
The regular (voting) City Council meetings are held on the first and
third Tuesday evenings. The Study Sessions (non-voting) are held on
the second and fourth Tuesday evenings. All Council Meetings are held
at the City Building in the Council Chambers and begin at 7:00 P.M
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Tuesdays, 10pm
Watch "AWARE on the Air" on UPTV, Comcast channel 6 / AT&T U-Verse channel 99
[Search for "AWARE on the Air" on http://archive.org/ for past recordings.]
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Saturdays, 8am - 1pm
Market INSIDE the Square, Lincoln Square Mall.
AWARE table. Come by and say "hi". Calendars are in!
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Every Saturday,
4 PM in the Independent Media Center- 202 South Broadway Avenue, Urbana, IL.
Weekly meeting of CUCPJ, Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice
=====
AWARE meets every Sunday 5-7pm at a new location: McKinley Foundation,
809 S. 5th St. in Champaign (at Fifth and Daniel, on the U of I
campus). Come to the Dean Clark room, on the main floor (near the game
room). All are welcome!
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Monday, November 28, 2011
noon
314A Illini Union
HIV 30 Years Later: Is it time to get angry again?—Mike Benner,
Greater Community AIDS Project
[part of the Quench lunch series sponsored by the LGBTRC at the Illini Union]
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Tuesday, Nov 29, 2011
Asian American Cultural Center - 1210 W. Nevada, Urbana
noon
Korean and Arab/Muslim Relations; speaker is Alex Lee, graduate
student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of
Illinois
[part of the Food For Thought lunches at the Asian American Cultural Center]
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Tuesdays, 10pm
Watch "AWARE on the Air" on UPTV, Comcast channel 6 / AT&T U-Verse channel 99
[Search for "AWARE on the Air" on http://archive.org/ for past recordings.]
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
7pm
Book group meeting, reading The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in
the Age of Colorblindness
We are on the last chapter.
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TEACH IN SERIES LECTURE ONE: Rethinking the Return of CLASS POLITICS
Public Event · By Occupy the Quad
When: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Time: 7:00pm until 9:00pm
Where: La Casa, 1203 W Nevada; Urbana Illinois
Description: With Professor CE Lang from History and African American Studies
[Clarence E Lang's areas of specialization include 20th century
African American social movements, black communities and class, and
urban history. See more of a bio on the History website:
http://www.history.illinois.edu/people/celang]

See more about the event on the facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/160744327356370/

More about the Teach-Ins by Occupy the Quad:
Curious about Occupy Wall Street? We have initiated a teach in series
to educate about relevant issues that affect all of us. Our goal is to
make them informative, interesting, accessible, and to the point.
Please join us in kicking off our series.

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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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Thursday, December 1
7pm-9pm
Champaign Public Library
C-U Immigration Forum Discussion

At the forum, speakers will provide context and individuals will give
first-hand accounts. Questions and comments are encouraged.

"Secure Communities" is a controversial federal program that engages
local police in enforcing immigration laws. Although "Secure
Communities" was advertised as an initiative to catch and deport
dangerous criminals, it has instead led to the detainment and
deportation of many non-criminal immigrants in our community. In fact,
locally, over 70% of those arrested and detained are non-criminal
immigrant neighbors
in Champaign County.

Hosted by the C-U Immigration Forum    The Champaign-Urbana
Immigration Forum is composed of immigrants, students, local clergy,
service providers, labor unions representatives and ordinary citizens
concerned about the plight of immigrants in our community.

Co-hosted by: ACLU . CU Citizens for Peace and Justice . La Colectiva
. Muslim American Association . Quakers (Friends Meeting) . Social
Action Comm, Unitarian Universalist Church . University YMCA . WRFU .
Channing Murray Foundation
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Saturdays, 8am - 1pm
Market INSIDE the Square, Lincoln Square Mall.
AWARE table. Come by and say "hi". Calendars are in!
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Occupy CU is planning an event around the theme of "Move Your Money"
from big banks to small local banks.
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Satruday, December 3, 2011
2pm-4pm
"AWARE's Main Event" monthly anti-war demonstration. Join us on the
first Saturday of each month, 2 - 4 pm, at the corner of Main St. and
Neil St. rain, wind or shine. Our peace-related themes vary from month
to month.
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Every Saturday,
4 PM in the Independent Media Center- 202 South Broadway Avenue, Urbana, IL.
Weekly meeting of CUCPJ, Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice
=====
AWARE meets every Sunday 5-7pm at a new location: McKinley Foundation,
809 S. 5th St. in Champaign (at Fifth and Daniel, on the U of I
campus). Come to the Dean Clark room, on the main floor (near the game
room). All are welcome!
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Monday, December 5
407 Illini Union
noon
The Health Care System Through the Eyes of LGBT People —Robbe Burton,
from the LGBT Resource Center
[part of the Quench lunch series sponsored by the LGBTRC at the Illini Union]
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Wednesday, Dec  7
noon
Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center - 708 S. Matthews, Urbana
"Kwanzaa"— Angela Clark from the African American Cultural Center (BNAACC)
[Part of the "Food For The Soul" Wednesday lunches at the BNAACC]
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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
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Saturdays, 8am - 1pm
Market INSIDE the Square, Lincoln Square Mall.
AWARE table. Come by and say "hi". Calendars are in!
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=== 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.