[Peace] upcoming events: Flex-N-Gate / corporations as psychopaths / Egypt's anniversary / MLK speech / prisons / undocumented youth

[Karen Medina]

Events that I know about for this week:

MLK event:
Film and Discussion: "The Other America": The Historic Stanford
University Speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Ikenberry Commons, 301 East Gregory Drive, Champaign
MLK Commemoration Planning Committee
Contacts: Otis Noble III and Lou Turner
onoble at illinois.edu and loturner at illinois.edu

film: The Corporation
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
6pm (library closes at 9pm)
Champaign Public Library
200 West Green Street
Champaign, IL
Free to the public
Brought to you by OccupyCU and AWARE Films
[The film is in vignettes examining and criticizing corporate business
practices. It attempts to compare the way corporations are
systematically compelled to behave with the symptoms of psychopathy,
i.e. callous disregard for the feelings of other people, the
incapacity to maintain human relationships, reckless disregard for the
safety of others, deceitfulness (continual lying to deceive for
profit), the incapacity to experience guilt, and the failure to
conform to social norms and respect the law.]

Jan. 25 Egyptian Revolution First-Year Anniversary Panel Discussion
Public Event · By Hazem Hossam, Rania Al-Sabbagh and Fatemah Hermes
When: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Time: 7:00pm until 9:00pm
Where
Illini Union, Room A of the IRA

reading group about the prison system
Potluck at 6:30, meeting at 7.
IMC, meeting room in the basement

Occupy! A Panel Discussion
Thursday, January 26, 4:00 P.M.
805 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana
Panelists: Susan Davis, Sarah Lazare, John Nerone, Christian Sandvig
For additional information about this event, contact:
IPRH (244-3344, iprh at illinois.edu)(Illinois


3-day Occupy Intensive at the School for Designing a Society
-- a Midwest Occupy Convergence being hosted by SDS in Champaign-Urbana.
"Truck Stop for the Long Haul"
Fri, January 27, 12am – Mon, January 30, 12am
at the IMC, 202 S Broadway Ave, Urbana, Illinois
Go to the website and register yourself!
www.designingasociety.net/upcoming/occupie


Potluck & Occupy CU General Assembly–Newcomers’ Edition
Fri, January 27
6pm
at the IMC, 202 S Broadway Ave, Urbana, Illinois

"The People Speak: A Live Performance" (remember Howard Zinn?)
Friday, January 27, 2012
8:30pm
Independent Media Center (at the IMC this year so we can tie in with
other events happening Friday.)
202 S. Broadway, Urbana
$5 suggested donation. No one turned away.
[This is a fund-raiser for Haymarket Books, a non-profit publisher
with some really great books including Howard Zinn's books, Tariq Ali,
Stephen Kinzer, Norman Finkelstein, Dahr Jamail, Chris Hedges, Edward
W. Said, Nasser Anuri, Noam Chomsky, Rachel Corrie, David Barsamian,
and so many others. -karen medina]

This Saturday a group of workers is coming forward to describe hideous
health & safety conditions at the Flex-N-Gate plant in Urbana (home
base for a huge car parts manufacturing operation that spans several
states and a couple countries).
The local plant makes bumpers.  Workers there are sometimes knocked
down/out by the bumpers on the line, splashed with painful acids and
toxic chemicals they take home on their clothes, and are not given the
proper safety equipment or information in a language they can
understand.  Many of the workers are Congolese French speakers or
Spanish speakers from Latin America.
Here's the time and place to be:
Saturday January 28, 2012 @ 12pm
Holiday Inn Hotel and Conference Center
1001 Killarney Street
Urbana, IL 61801


February 1 – 7 p.m.
Papers: The Story of Undocumented Youth”
Channing Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon, U.
Free and open to the public; light refreshments are served
"Papers" is the story of undocumented youth and the challenges they
face as they turn 18 without legal status.  65,000 undocumented
students graduate every year from high school without “papers. ” These
are young people born outside of the United States who were educated
in American schools, hold American values, know only the U.S. as home
and who, upon high school graduation, find the door to their future
slammed shut.  It is against the law to work or drive. It is
difficult, if not impossible in some states, to attend college. They
live at risk of arrest, detention and deportation to countries they
may not even remember. Currently, there is no path to citizenship for
these young people.   Community organizations around the country,
including here in Champaign-Urbana, are working to change immigration
policy on behalf of these young people.