[Peace] (updated) Upcoming events of interest to a bunch of us including AWARE and Occupy...

Wed Feb 27 04:51:38 UTC 2013

Some upcoming events below - with a few more than the earlier 
announcement.  Unfortunately three of them happen concurrently on 
Wednesday evening, but hope you can attend at least one.

First a calendar summary, details below.

*Pickets in support of SEIU workers,* Wed 2/27 morning and afternoon --
*7:15am  Wed 2/27 * at *Ikenberry Commons*, 3rd and Gregory, Champaign
*4:15pm  Wed 2/27*  at *Alice Campbell Alumni Center*, Lincoln and 
Oregon, Urbana

*4pm-6pm Wed 2/27 Women's Resources Center 4th Anniversary Reception*, 
703 S. Wright St., 2nd floor

*7pm        Wed 2/27 *film*"People and the Olive", First Mennonite 
Church*, Springfield & Lincoln, Urbana
                ... A US group's ultra-marathon across Palestine and 
their efforts to replant uprooted olive trees...

*6-8pm  Wed 2/27 Planners' Network* in *"Race and Space Symposium"*, 
Asian American House, 210 W Nevada St

*7:30pm Wed 2/27 *Keynote by *Dr. Myrlie Evers-Williams + concert, 
Foellinger Great Hall, KCPA*

Talks by***activists**against the War on Drugs, Neill Franklin (LEAP) 
and Clifford Thornton (Efficacy Now)
   5:30-8:30pm  Thu 2/28*  at *Levis Faculty Center*, 919 Illinois St., 
Urbana
*  5:30-8:30pm   Fri 3/1*  at *Salem Baptist Church*, 500 E Park St., 
Champaign

*noon Fri 3/1  Rev Alexander Sharp*, University YMCA Friday Forum
    How *Protestants for the Common Good are organizing to **reform drug 
policy here in Illinois**. *

*2-4PM   Sat 3/2   AWARE anti-war demonstration**,* Main and Neil, 
downtown Champaign

*4pm      Mon 3/4  "Urban and Housing Activism from Below"* panel 
discussion, 313 Gregory Hall
*7:30pm Mon 3/4 film "Dear Mandela", University YMCA
*
*4pm      Thu 3/7  "Thought Amidst Waste: Politics in Shack Settlements 
in South Africa",* Spurlock Museum
            lecture by visiting South African 
scholar/journalist/activist Richard Pithouse -
            and see other events this week 3/4-3/9

**7:30pm Fri 3/8 film "Dear Mandela", with discussion, University YMCA

** *noon 3/8 Soulforce, Dr. Cindi Love - University YMCA Friday Forum*
        Dedicated to Relentless, Nonviolent Resistance to Oppression 
Arising out of Fundamentalism

*10am  Sat 3/9 discussion**of Dear Mandela*, Champaign Public Library room B
          (please see the film on 3/4 or 3/8 above), including Skype 
with community members or the director

*2pm   Sat 3/9 panel "Community Knowledge" ***in Durban and S. Africa*,* 
Champaign Public Library rooms A+B*
*         environmental justice, immigrant issues, incarceration, etc.

*6pm Mon 3/11 - lecture on Ida B. Wells,* Levis Faculty Center
     Lecture by historian Prof. Mia Bay, of Rutgers University, author of
     "To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells".
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*Pickets in support of SEIU workers,* Wed 2/27 morning and afternoon --
*7:15am Wed 2/27 * at *Ikenberry Commons*, 3rd and Gregory, Champaign
*4:15pm Wed 2/27*  at *Alice Campbell Alumni Center*, Lincoln and 
Oregon, Urbana
     SEIU workers on the U. of Illinois campus have been  without a 
contract since last summer.  Negotiations are ongoing, including this 
week.  A strike has been authorized - but perhaps can be averted if the 
University takes the negotiations seriously.   Come out to show your 
support for the hard working SEIU building service workers and food 
service workers!

*4pm-6pm Wed 2/27 Women's Resources Center 4th Anniversary Reception*, 
703 S. Wright St., 2nd floor
     Celebrate four years of the Women's Resource Center's programming.

*7pm Wed 2/27 *film*"People and the Olive", First Mennonite Church*, 
Springfield & Lincoln, Urbana
     Screening of the documentary */People and The Olive/*.
     The film follows a Michigan-based nonprofit's ultra-marathon across 
Palestine and their efforts to replant uprooted olive trees. This 
documentary focuses on cross-cultural connections and speaks out in 
support of Fair Trade. Join us for this 70 minute film with some 
discussion afterwards.

*6-8pm Wed 2/27 Planners' Network in "Race and Space Symposium"*, Asian 
American House, 210 W Nevada St
     Interdisciplinary symposium on segregated spaces in our 
contemporary world including ghettos, slums and gated communities.   
With Aaron Ammons, Francisco Baires, Stephanie Seawell.   Contact: Scott 
Humphrey, shmphry2 at illinois.edu.

*7:30pm Wed 2/27 *Keynote by *Dr. Myrlie Evers-Williams + concert, 
Foellinger Great Hall, KCPA*
    Culminating celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation 
sesquicentennial.
    Keynote speech by civil rights activist, and past president of the 
NAACP, Dr. Myrlie Evers-Williams (Medger Evers had been her husband).  
More about her at:
http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-Myrlie-Evers-Williams

    ... and performances by the U of I Black Choir, Women's Glee Club, 
and U of I Wind Symphony.
    At Foellinger Great Hall in Krannert Center, 500 S. Goodwin Ave, 
Urbana.  Free.

Two events with *campaigners against the drug war*, brought here by C-U 
Citizens for Peace and Justice and others --

*Neill Franklin *of*Law Enforcement Against Prohibition(LEAP) *and*
  Clifford Thornton *of*Efficacy Now*

*5:30-8:30pm  Thu 2/28*  at *Levis Faculty Center*, 919 Illinois St., Urbana
and
*5:30-8:30pm   Fri 3/1*  at *Salem Baptist Church*, 500 E Park St., 
Champaign

     Structure, for at least the Thu 2/28 event --
        film presentation on the War on Drugs
        lecture - the War on Drugs and the Black American Community
        Muslim American Society 3rd annual Social Services Award Ceremony

     Sponsored by Muslim American Society, C-U Citizens for Peace and 
Justice, Citizens with Convictions, Muslim Student Association-UIUC, 
Salem Baptist Church, ACLU, Breakfast Club, Urbana Human Relations 
Commission, UC Friends Meeting, U of I Department of African American 
Studies

    More on the speakers at
http://www.leap.cc/
       Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, of which Neill Franklin is 
executive director

    Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is an international 501(c) 3
    nonprofit organization of criminal justice professionals who bear
    personal witness to the wasteful futility and harms of our current
    drug policies. Our experience on the front lines of the "war on
    drugs" has led us to call for a repeal of prohibition and its
    replacement with a tight system of legalized regulation, which will
    effectively cripple the violent cartels and street dealers who
    control the current illegal market.

    and
http://www.efficacy-online.org
       Efficacy Now, co-founded by Clifford Thornton

    ... A call is building for all drug sales to come under government
    control to eliminate the market for drug dealers and to end the vast
    culture of criminality surrounding illegal drugs. Even Walter
    Cronkite is in the fray, saying in 2006, "...nothing will change
    until someone has the courage to stand up and say ... the war on
    drugs has failed."   Efficacy and other like-minded organizations
    are at the beginning of that new courage, a courage to create a
    dramatic shift on how we take responsibility for illicit drugs.

    There is much in this site that reveals how drug prohibition, a.k.a.
    "War on drugs," is not effective and even destructive of our
    society.  It damages race relations. It packs our prisons. It breeds
    police corruption and abuse. It drains funds best used for urban
    renewal and educational programs. ...

also note next Friday's YMCA Friday Forum is on the drug war as well --

*noon Fri 3/1  Rev Alexander Sharp*, University YMCA Friday Forum
    How *Protestants for the Common Good are organizing to **reform drug 
policy here in Illinois**. *
     University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign
     [more about the Friday Forum series below]

*2-4PM Sat 3/2   AWARE anti-war demonstration**, Main and Neil, downtown 
Champaign*
        As ever, AWARE will demonstrate against the wars and talk about 
them with passersby
        at the corner of Main and Neil.   Please come join us if you 
have a chance.

*noon 3/8 Soulforce, Dr. Cindi Love - University YMCA Friday Forum*
        Dedicated to Relentless, Nonviolent Resistance to Oppression 
Arising out of Fundamentalism

    The talk will focus on the challenges faced by marginalized
    communities, who are often subjected to the violence of exclusion,
    and highlight the non-violent efforts made by Soulforce to resist
    the oppression arising out of the fundamentalist agenda.

*4pm Thu 3/7  Richard Pithouse, "Thought Amidst Waste: Politics in Shack 
Settlements in South Africa",* Spurlock Museum

    Richard Pithouse, a South African scholar, journalist and activist
    with the Durban shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo, will
    lecture on the political history of shack settlements in South
    Africa and contemporary shack dwellers' struggles as they illuminate
    the prospects for emancipatory politics among the poor. Free and
    open to all.

Other events related to Pithouse's visit during that week, 3/4 - 3/9:

*4pm  Mon 3/4  "Urban and Housing Activism from Below",* 313 Gregory Hall
     panel discussion including Richard Pithouse (Rhodes University, S. 
Africa); Asef Bayat, UIUC Sociology; Ken Salo, Urban and Regional 
Planning; Tariq Ali, History
*7:30pm Mon 3/4 film "Dear Mandela", University YMCA*
*7:30pm Fri 3/8 film "Dear Mandela", with discussion, University YMCA*

*10am  Sat 3/9 discussion**of Dear Mandela*, Champaign Public Library room B
          discussion of the film (*please see it on 3/4 or 3/8 at the 
YMCA*),
          including planned Skype with Abhlali members or the film's 
director

*2pm   Sat 3/9 community panel on "Community Knowledge" ***in Durban and 
S. Africa*,* Champaign Public Library rooms A+B*
*             addressing environmental justice, immigrant issues, 
incarceration, etc.

*6pm Mon 3/11 - 2013 Ida B. Wells Lecture,* in Levis Faculty Center
     Lecture by historian Prof. Mia Bay, of Rutgers University, author of
     "To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells".

    Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless anti-lynching
    crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal
    to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be
    labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day but made her a model for
    later civil rights activists as well as a powerful witness to the
    troubled racial politics of her era.

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The University YMCA Friday Forum, at noon every Friday during the school 
year, has a theme this year of Faith in Action.   See the full list of 
speakers here:
http://www.universityymca.org/friday_forum/
including

     3/29 Rev. Dr. Eugene Barnes, Metanoia Centers - Working on Economic 
Justice and Community Transformation from a Faith Base

     4/5 Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core and Member of President 
Obama's Advisory Council - Author of /Acts of Faith /and /Sacred Ground: 
Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America/

     4/12 Rev. Dr. Clare Butterfield, Faith in Place, and Rev. Bob 
Rasmus, St. Matthew Lutheran Church - Helping People of Faith Understand 
Ecology and Economy as a Moral Issue

     4/19 Dr. Irfan Ahmad, Avicenna Community Health Center, and Donna 
Camp, Wesley Evening Food Pantry - Local Faith-Based Responses to Hunger 
and Healthcare

     4/26 Rabbi Rogerio Cukierman, Executive Director, UIUC Hillel/Cohen 
Center - Praying with Our Legs: The Intersection of Social Justice and 
Spirituality

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