[Peace] many upcoming events - Weisbrot; Migrants; IVAW 10 years in Afghanistan speak-out; Beehive/Cost of Coal; Unity March; Health care forum; Giving Voice to Iraqi Refugees

[Stuart Levy]

Summary of upcoming events, with details below:

Mon 10/3  8pm  Levis Faculty Center, 3rd floor
   Mark Weisbrot: "The Ignorant Elite: Neoliberalism and Its Consequences"

Tue 10/4  3:30pm-5pm  Levis Faculty Center, first floor Reading Room
   Mark Weisbrot: "Latin American Policy under Obama:
		   Politics, Economics, and Geopolitics"

Wed 10/5  6:30-8pm  Champaign Public Library room "C"
    Norma Price, who works with Samaritans in southern Arizona:
    "Hear What It Means to Cross the Border - Migrants and their experiences"

Thu 10/6  ---  Wherever you are
   Make a clamor for peace -- demonstrate, lobby Congress, do something!

Thu 10/6  7pm  U-C Independent Media Center, downtown Urbana
    Beehive Collective -- "Mountaintop Removal: The True Cost of Coal"
    Hear from this visiting group of activist artists!
     http://beehivecollective.org/

Fri 10/7  Noon   U of I Quad (south side of Illini Union, facing the Quad)
    Iraq Veterans Against the War will be hosting a speak-out on the quad on the
    10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.  Speak out
    against the occupations, against militarism, and for peace and social justice.

Fri 10/7  6-8pm  U-C Independent Media Center, Broadway & Elm, downtown Urbana
    Opening reception for "Unity in the Community: Sowing Seeds of Empowerment",
    photo exhibit running 10/7-10/21 -- photos remembering Kiwane Carrington
    and Unity March VII, by Patricia Rosario.

Sat 10/8  11:30am rally at WEFT (113 N. Market St, Champaign),
          noon rally outside, and march to Chase Bank (University & Randolph)

    NATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION UNITY MARCH
    Rally for decent jobs, Medicare for all, strengthen social security,
    labor rights, protecting and expanding public education,
    ending the wars, ending discrimination against felony convicts,
    make wealthy people and corporations pay their taxes, and
    demand that the bailed-out banks give back our money!

Wed 10/12  5:30-7:30pm   Champaign Library rooms A and B
   Health Care Community Forum, by CBHC, CCHCC, NAACP and others
   Panel on the new Illinois health insurance marketplace

Fri 10/14  7pm  UofI music bldg auditorium (1114 W Nevada, U)
   "No Place Called Home" - one-woman play giving voice to Iraqi refugees
   By Kim Schultz, part of a delegation of US artists who visited Iraqi refugee camps.


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Mon 10/3  8pm  UofI Levis Faculty Center, 3rd floor, 919 W. Illinois St, U.
   Mark Weisbrot (of Center for Economic and Policy Research, cepr.net) speaks:
   "The Ignorant Elite: Neoliberalism and Its Consequences"


Tue 10/4  3:30pm  Levis Faculty Center Reading Room (first floor)
   Mark Weisbrot (of cepr.net) speaks again:
   "Latin American Policy under Obama: Politics, Economics, and Geopolitics"

   Weisbrot was interviewed on Robert McChesney's "Media Matters" WILL-AM
   radio program last weekend, Oct 2nd (and many times in the past);
   find it in the archives at
       http://will.illinois.edu/mediamatters/

   Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research,
    in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of
    Michigan. He has written numerous research papers on economic policy,
    especially on Latin America and international economic policy. He is also
    co-author, with Dean Baker, of "Social Security: The Phony Crisis."
    He writes a regular column on economic and policy issues, distributed to
    over 550 papers by McClatchy; writes a weekly column for The Guardian (UK);
    appears regularly on radio and television.  He is also president of Just Foreign Policy.


Wed 10/5  6:30-8pm  Champaign Public Library room "C"

    Hear What It Means to Cross the Border
    Migrants and their experiences

    What are the real stories of immigration and our southern border?
    Norma Price is a retired physician and co-author of the book,
       With The Virgin - Stories From The Migrant Trail.
    Dr. Price works with Samaritans in southern Arizona.
    In this work she has learned about the border
    and its people - on the ground and face to face.

    She will share their stories on Wednesday, Oct. 5, from 6:30 to 8 pm in the
    Robeson Pavilon Room C, Champaign Public Library. Her presentation is free
    and open to the public.

Wed 10/5  7:00-9:00pm  basement room of IMC
   Reading group for Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow" meets.  Reading Chapter 2 this week.
   If you'd like to join, please let James Kilgore, jjincu {at} gmail dot com, know.


Thu 10/6  ---  Wherever you are
   Make a clamor for peace.  Friday will be the 10th anniversary of
   the US invasion of Afghanistan (see the IVAW event at noon on Friday).
   Some people are going to join demonstrations in Washington, DC,
   on the 6th date, or in Chicago (or Champaign!) on the 8th.
   But there are other good things to do too -- see Robert Naiman's article:
      http://www.truth-out.org/october-6-lets-make-national-clamor-peace/1317305972


Thu 10/6  7pm  U-C Independent Media Center, Broadway & Elm, Urbana

    Beehive Collective -- "Mountaintop Removal: The True Cost of Coal"
     http://beehivecollective.org/

    A high energy, interactive, graphic-based picture-lecture that speaks to
    the overwhelming and complex picture of globalization, militarization, and
    resource extraction, as well as the small-scale changes and actions we can
    undertake to build another world!

    Our insatiable demand for cheap power has lead to the most extreme,
    devastating form of coal mining yet, Mountaintop Removal (MTR). The TRUE
    COST OF COAL graphic uses MTR in Appalachia as a lens through which to
    understand the historical and contemporary story of ENGERY, RESOURCE
    EXTRACTION and of AMERICAN EMPIRE accelerating throughout the world.  We
    will expose the DECEPTIONS of CLEAN COAL technologies and bring to light
    the ensuing CLIMATE CHAOS facing the world today.

    With a gigantic portable teeming with intricate images of plants and
    animals from the most bio-diverse temperate forest on the planet, the Bees
    will share (and seek) stories of how coal mining and Mountaintop Removal
    affect communities and ecosystems throughout Appalachia and beyond.

    The TRUE COST OF COAL will challenge all of us who
    casually flip on a light switch to examine our own connection
    about what we can do to stop it from within our own communities.



Fri 10/7  Noon   U of I Quad (south side of Illini Union, facing the Quad)

    Iraq Veterans Against the War will be hosting a speak-out on the quad on the
    10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.

    Join us in speaking out against the occupations, against militarism,
    and for peace and social justice.

    This October 7th marks the ten-year anniversary of the continued occupation
    of Afghanistan. This decade of war has devastated and traumatized the people
    of Afghanistan, while also having dire consequences here at home, yet we are
    seeing an escalation in the so-called global war on terror.  The end of the
    occupation of Afghanistan is nowhere in sight, and the occupation of Iraq
    persists, despite promises of withdrawal.  Drone attacks and raids are
    carried out daily across the Afghan border into Pakistan, violating
    their sovereignty.  Our government continues to spend one trillion dollars a
    year to fund worldwide military operations in the midst of a budget crisis,
    maintaining 800 military bases around the globe.  Service members continue to
    suffer from war and conflict even after discharge, as they are faced with
    untreated physical and mental injuries, unemployment, substance abuse, and
    homelessness.  Meanwhile, rates of trauma amongst occupied populations are
    unknown, with some estimating that they are near universal.


Fri 10/7  6-8pm  U-C Independent Media Center, Broadway & Elm, downtown Urbana

  Opening reception for "Unity in the Community: Sowing Seeds of Empowerment", 10/7-10/21

  An art exhibit of photographs remembering Kiwane Carrington
  and the Unity March VII  by Patricia T. Rosario.
  The show will run from October 7 - 21.
  Opening reception on Friday, October 7, 6 - 8 p.m.
  Light refreshments will be served.

  Contact: Patricia Rosario, rosario1 {at} illinois.edu


Sat 10/8  8am-noon  Urbana Farmer's Market (Lincoln Square parking lot)
    Come talk with AWARE at the Farmer's Market.  For the rest of the season,
    we and all the community groups will be back in the main Market area,
    along the north edge, as in previous years.

Sat 10/8  11:30am  rally at WEFT (113 N. Market St, Champaign),
	  noon rally outside, and march to Chase Bank

    NATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION UNITY MARCH

    SATURDAY OCT. 8TH, 11:30 AM (if you're there at 11:30,
	come into WEFT studios and join the Labor Hour broadcast)

    RALLY AND MARCH STARTS AT WEFT RADIO STATION ( 113 N. MARKET ST. )
    AND ENDS AT CHASE BANK (University and Randolph)

    Rally and march for ...
    GOOD PAYING JOBS ****
    EXPANSION OF MEDICARE FOR ALL ****
    PROTECT AND STRENGTHEN SOCIAL SECURITY ****
    PROTECT AND EXPAND THE RIGHT TO FORM UNIONS ****
    END THE WARS AND BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW ****
    END DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE WITH FELONIES ****
    PROTECT AND EXPAND FREE PUBLIC EDUCATION ****
    MAKE THE RICH AND THE CORPORATIONS PAY THEIR TAXES ****
    DEMAND THAT THE BAIL-OUT BANKS GIVE BACK OUR MONEY ! ****


Wed 10/12  5:30-7:30pm   Champaign Library rooms A and B

   Health Care Community Forum

   "Join CBHC (Campaign for Better Health Care), NAACP,
    CCHCC, CCBCC, Smile Healthy, Avicenna and other groups
    to find out how the health care law affects you.
    Expert panelists will discuss & answer questions about
    establishing the new Illinois health insurance marketplace
    and ways to take action to ensure the marketplace benefits you!"
    [Note: some announcements mention "Tue Oct 12th", but it appears
    that this is actually happening Wed Oct 12th.]


Fri 10/14  7pm  UofI music building auditorium, 1114 W Nevada, U.

          No Place Called Home
   a play giving voice to Iraqi refugees

   written and performed by Kim Schultz
   Friday, Oct 14, 7pm
   UofI music building auditorium

    Kim Schultz is the playwright and actress of No Place Called Home,
    a one-woman play based on the vignettes of Iraqi refugees living
    in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

    In 2009, Schultz was part of a delegation of American artists
    who visited Iraqi refugee camps. The delegation met with hundreds
    of refugees at community centers and in their homes.

    Upon their return, the artists began creating a series of artistic
    pieces designed to humanize the crisis and give voice to the millions
    of refugees whose plight has yet to enter broad public consciousness.

    No Place Called Home is a result of this effort.