[Peace] Wed 9/28: "Making Progress Toward Peace and Justice by Lobbying Congress" - FCNL Discussion at Champaign-Urbana MM Sept 28th (and 9/23 "Locked Up and Locked Out")

[Stuart Levy]

Wednesday, Sep. 28th, 7:00pm at the Friends Meeting House in Urbana,
1904 E. Main St., Urbana:

    Hear from Stephen Donahoe, of the Friends Committee on National Legislation,
    talk about issues the FCNL works on - cutting the Pentagon budget,
    ending and preventing war, environmental sustainability, nuclear disarmament
    and Native American rights.

More on this below.


Note also *tomorrow* (6pm Fri 9/23) at Salem Baptist Church, 500 E Park St.
		"Locked Up and Locked Out"

    6pm meal, 6:30pm film showing, discussion to follow
    Two short films show how an organization of formerly incarcerated
    people in California, "All of Us or None," has successfully fought for
    job opportunities, expungement of charges from their records,
    and removing the stigma of a criminal record.

    Urbana residents Aaron Ammons and James Kilgore will talk
    about the problems their felony convictions have caused them and why
    those with felony convictions need to come together to fight for their
    rights.  

    (If you missed the similar showing & discussion last Friday at the IMC,
     here's another chance.  Millions of people in the US, especially people of color,
     are branded with felony convictions, and discrimination against them -- even when
     their offenses are decades old -- is legal and routine.  Changing this,
     as Michelle Alexander points out, will take a major social movement.
     Perhaps this is a seed for that growing movement.)
     


> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: FCNL Discussion at Champaign-Urbana MM Sept 28th
> From:    "Stephen Donahoe" <stephen.donahoe at fcnl.org>
> Date:    Fri, September 16, 2011 5:11 pm
> To:      mitten at illinois.edu
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Making Progress Toward Peace and Justice by Lobbying Congress
> 
> A Discussion with Stephen Donahoe
> 
>  from the Friends Committee on National Legislation
> <http://www.fcnl.org/> in Washington, DC
> 
> Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
> 
> 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm, at the U-C Friends Meetinghouse
> 
> Stephen is passionate about encouraging people around the country to
> lobby, advocate and support the work of FCNL. Stephen is in his fourth
> year working for FCNL. He started as an intern in 2008. This will be an
> opportunity to get an update on FCNL's work on a wide range of peace and
> justice issues including: cutting the Pentagon budget, ending and
> preventing war, environmental sustainability, nuclear disarmament and
> Native American rights. It will also be an opportunity to share your
> interests and concerns related to federal government policy.
> 
> 
> Stephen Donahoe
> Major Gifts Officer
> Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers)
> 245 Second St. NE
> Washington, DC 20002
> Direct Phone: (202) 903-2526
> Cell Phone: (740) 603-2885
> 
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