[Peace] upcoming peace and justice events that I know about

[Karen Medina]

Upcoming peace and justice events that I know about:

OccupyCU Picnic Lunch in the Park
Saturday, April 7 at 12:30pm
Location: West Side Park, Champaign (the park between University and Church
/ State and Elm)

Monthly peace demonstration, Saturday, April 7th, 2-4pm
Where? Downtown Champaign, the corners of Neil St and Main St
Why? Because War Is Not The Answer
Yeah, but why now? Elections are coming up, people think the wars are over,
and people think the US won't invade again... but large numbers of troops
were just sent to Northern Australia, preparing for more Asian actions. And
Iran keeps coming up. You know something? Voting just is not enough.

Saturday April 6th at 2:00pm POTLUCK and ROUND-TABLE at St. Jude Catholic
Worker House.
The Discussion will be: JAIL, THE IMPRISONMENT OF MIND, BODY, AND SPIRIT
All are welcome, if you have jail/prison experiences please come and share
them. - at St Jude Catholic Worker House. 317 S Randolph St, Champaign,
Illinois

Township Meetings in Illinois
April 10, 2012

Annual Town Meeting / Cunningham Township Meeting in Urbana
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
6pm
City of Urbana
400 South Vine Street

Annual Town Meeting / City of Champaign Township
April 10, 2012 ,
7pm
City of Champaign City Building
            City Council Chambers
            First Floor, East Wing
            102 North Neil Street
            Champaign, IL  61820


potluck dinner/meeting to discuss CU's mobilization against NATO!
When: Next Wednesday, April 11th, 6pm - 7:30pm
Where: Sarah's house (412 West Illinois Street in Urbana at the
intersection of Illinois and McCullough).
* What: Lots of CU organizers have been hatching plans to protest the
May 20-21 NATO summit in Chicago. We want to get everyone under one
roof so that we can share ideas, discuss plans, and brainstorm ways to
connect the dots between our local work and the upcoming NATO summit.
We're going to do this over food (please bring some if you can but not
required).
* Background: NATO is an alliance of Western military superpowers that
throws military might behind the U.S.-led Global War on Terror and
other overt and covert military campaigns and occupations around the
world. NATO's summit meeting, slated to take place in Chicago on May
20th through 21st, is expected to be met with massive protests from
anti-war and social justice organizations. Champaign-Urbana groups are
planning to join in this resistance against NATO's unjust wars and
occupations by participating in the Chicago protests and raising
awareness locally.

Invisible War | Sexual Assault Awareness Month Film Screening
Thursday, April 12 at 7:30am
Location: Allen Hall's Main Lounge | 1005 W. Gregory Drive Urbana, IL 61820
* As part of National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the University of
Illinois Women's Resource Center together with the Central Illinois Iraq
Veterans Against the War and Civillian-Soldier Alliance will be screening
The Invisible War, a documentary on the that examines the epidemic levels
of sexual assault in the military which debuted this January at the 2012
Sundance Film Festival. Focusing on the powerfully emotional stories of
multiple sexual assault survivors, The Invisible War is a moving indictment
of the systemic cover-up of military sex crimes, chronicling the women’s
struggles to rebuild their lives and fight for justice. It also features
hard-hitting interviews with high-ranking military officials and members of
Congress that reveal the perfect storm of conditions that exist for rape in
the military, its long-hidden history, and what can be done to bring about
much-needed change.
* Today, a female soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan is more likely to be
raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. Sexual assault within
the ranks is so frequent that one in three female service members are raped
while in the military. These crimes are routinely covered up by the chain
of command, with higher-ranking officers granted virtual impunity for
assaulting junior service members.


Debts and Deficits: Combating Recession in the U.S., Latin America, and
Eurozone
Friday, April 13
12 Noon
YMCA Friday Forum / 1001 South Wright Street | Champaign, IL
Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Mark Weisbrot offers a look at how each of the major regional world
economies is fairing through the current economic recession as well as the
approaches implemented to stop it.  Who has the best plan and will it be
enough?

Scott Walker (Wisconsin Governor who does not believe in collective
bargaining) is visiting Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, April 17
He was invited by the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce to their "Employer
Action Day"
[Walker, who faces a recall election, may also be the focus of a federal
corruption investigation and is responsible for spearheading the Wisconsin
effort that destroyed worker rights]
All of this begs the question, "Is this what Illinois business leaders
want?"  We can’t answer that question. We can say that we in the labor
movement won’t sit idly by.

Tuesday, April 17 7pm "Last Train Home" (2009), 66 Library
  This award-winning documentary focuses on the everyday struggles of
Chinese factory workers and their families. The film, which follows a
single family, tells the story of working people - according to Roger Ebert
- "like stunning, grieving fiction."

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels visits Champaign, Illinois
[The Champaign County Republican Party has announced that Indiana Governor
Mitch Daniels will headline their annual Lincoln Day Dinner at 7:00pm on
Thursday, April 19, 2012 at the Hilton Garden Conference Center in
Champaign.]
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Again, the labor movement won't sit idly by.
* In the 2005 session of the General Assembly, Daniels and Republicans,
with some Democrat support, successfully enacted a voter registration law
that required voters to show a government issued photo ID before they could
be permitted to vote. The law was the first of its kind in the United
States, and many civil rights organizations, like the ACLU, opposed the
bill saying it would unfairly impact minorities, poor, and elderly voters
who may be unable to afford an ID or may be physically unable to apply for
an ID.
* In February, 2011, Republican legislators attempted to pass a right to
work bill in the Indiana House of Representatives. The bill would have made
it illegal for employees to be required to join a workers' union.
Republicans argued that it would help the state attract new employers.
Unable to prevent the measure from passing, Democratic legislators fled the
state to deny the body quorum while several hundred protesters staged
demonstrations at the capital.
* In May 2011, the state ended all funding for Planned Parenthood and all
other health service providers who offered abortion services.
* On May 10 Daniels signed into law two immigration bills; one denying
in-state tuition prices to illegal immigrants and another creating fines
for employers that employed illegal immigrants. Several protestors, at
least five of whom were illegal immigrants, were arrested while protesting
the law at the statehouse when they broke into Daniels' office after being
denied a meeting. Student leaders called for their release, while some
state legislators called for their deportation.
* On March 4, 2009, Daniels signed into law a bill which allowed the state
to mandate the use of syngas through coal gasification technology

21st Annual Champaign-Urbana CROP Hunger Walk in Champaign-Urbana
April 22
www.churchworldservice.org/site/TR/2012SpringCROPHungerWalk/TR-Spring2012?px=1150362&pg=personal&fr_id=14242
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