[Peace] upcoming events / Thursday, March 15 through beginning of April 2012

[Karen Medina]

# Thursday #

SEIU is going to sponsor a rally at 2pm at 3/15 at the Kraft plant on
North Mattis Ave.  Be alert for additional details.

Vigil for Syria
Thursday, March 15, 2012
8pm - 11pm
Main Quad at the University of Illinois
Organized by the Arab Student Association

Occupy the Midwest, a convergence
March 15th-18th (Thursday through Sunday)
St. Louis, MO
 http://www.occupythemidwest.org/

# Sunday #

The YES Men Fix the World
Sunday, March 18, 2012
2pm
Champaign Public Library, Room B
 www.democracynow.org/2012/2/28/wikileaks_private_spies_stratfor_helped_dow

Film: The Interrupters
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
6:30pm-8:30pm
Urbana Free Library Auditorium
Sponsored by Prairie Land Conflict Mediation Center

4/28, Women’s Rights National Day of Action


Joshua Landis
Whither Syria?
Thursday, March 29, 2012
4:00 pm.
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory Street
Urbana
[offered by the Center for Advanced Study]

Justice, Self-Respect and the Culture of Poverty
Friday, March 30, 2012
4pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory Street, Urbana Illinois
Speaker: Tommie Shelby


Can Globalization Promote Human Rights?
Friday, March 30
12 noon
YMCA Friday Forum / 1001 South Wright Street | Champaign, I
Rhoda Howard- Hassman, Canada Research Chair in International Human
Rights (2003); Professor, Department of Global Studies and Balsillie
School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University


What: Using Restorative Justice Practices in Your Life
When: Saturday, March 31, 1-5pm
Where: Urbana Free Library downstairs Auditorium (additional parking
across street)
Presenters: Mikhail Lyubansky and Elaine Shpungin
Cost: Free and Open to the Public through generous sponsorship by
Training and Education Committee
CEUs: For therapists and counselors, CEU credits will be available for $20.00
Registration: http://svy.mk/restorative-justice (to help with
resources such as seating and handouts we ask (but do not require)
that you register; those who register by March 20 will be entered in
drawing for fabulous prize)

"Countering Torture"
Sunday, April 1 / ACLU brunch
11 AM
12:15 PM - business meeting and speaker
Milo's Restaurant / 2870 S. Philo Rd., Urbana, Illinois
The speaker is a black activist lawyer, Standish Willis, who
spearheaded taking the Jon Burge case of police torture in Chicago to
the United Nations.
To make reservations: http://www.aclu-cu.org/reserve.htm


Film: "Office Space" (1999)
April 3, 2012
7pm
100 Gregory Hall /  810 South Wright Street Urbana, IL
 This comedy, written and directed by Mike Judge, has become a cult
classic for its rendition of life in the cubicles of corporate
America. Ever wanted to take a baseball bat to the copy machine? Turns
out you weren't the only one...

The Making of a Successful Multilateral Environmental Agreement:
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and its
Montreal Protocol
Friday, April 6, 2012
12 noon
YMCA Friday Forum / 1001 South Wright Street | Champaign, Illinois
Sotiria Koloutsou-Vakakis, Lecturer and Research Scientist, Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois
This lecture invites you to think and discuss on a number of
questions, such as: How are multilateral environmental agreements
(MEAs) made? How does that affect their success? What is the yardstick
for measuring MEA success? Why is the Montreal Protocol an
effectiveness outlier among numerous MEAs of doubtful effectiveness?
Why is it so hard to transfer the lessons learned from the Montreal
Protocol to other MEAs?

Annual Town Meeting / City of Champaign Township
April 10, 2012 ,
7pm
[Stuart mentioned: April 12, 2012, but I checked the cctownship.com schedule]
City of Champaign City Building
            City Council Chambers
            First Floor, East Wing
            102 North Neil Street
            Champaign, IL  61820

Annual Town Meeting / Cunningham Township Meeting in Urbana
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
[6pm? 8pm?]
City of Urbana
400 South Vine Street

Debts and Deficits: Combating Recession in the U.S., Latin America, and Eurozone
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?

4/17 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."

=== May 2012 ===
May 18 - 19, 2012; G8 at Camp David
May 20 - 21
The G8 meeting has been moved to Camp David instead of Chicago (May 18 - 19)
The gathering of NATO allies and the International Security Assistance
Force (ISAF) will go on in Chicago as planned in mid-May.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-g8-summit-to-be-held-at-camp-david-not-chicago-20120305,0,2787373.story
The G8 summit will take place on May 18 and 19, addressing a range of
economic, political and security issues.  The president will then host
the NATO allies and partners on May 20 and 21 in Chicago, where they
will discuss the war in Afghanistan and their planned withdrawal.