[Peace] Upcoming events - Sat 2-4pm Low Wage Workers panel; Tue 7pm Josh Ruebner; ...
Stuart Levy
stuartnlevy at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 03:08:12 EDT 2014
Some upcoming events of interest to AWARE and others -
*4/11 Fri noon* University YMCA Friday Forum
<http://universityymca.org/friday_forum/>
*"Cooperatives - Creating a Community of Wealth"*
Jacqueline Hannah, General Manager of Common Ground Food Cooperative
will paint a picture of what the the cooperative business model is, the
different ways it is being used all over the world today, and its unique
ability to create community wealth. ...
*4/12 Sat 2-4PM * Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W Oregon, Urbana
*panel: "How Can We Help Low Wage Workers?"**
*Featuring**Ricky Baldwin, SEIU Local 73; Belden Fields, Emeritus
Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois, Pat Simpson,
Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, Loyola University Chicago.
For generations, Americans shared a tacit understanding that if you
worked hard, a livable income and basic securities would be yours. That
promise has been broken. Today, more than 30 million men and women in
this country work in jobs that pay poverty wages and provide few if any
benefits. ... In this panel, several aspects of the low-wage issue will
be addressed: 1) myths about low-wage workers; 2) problems with
measuring income adequacy and the history of a local living wage
campaign; 3) current social justice efforts on behalf of low-wage
workers, including "Fight for $15".
*4/15 Tue 7PM* room 1090 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St, Urbana
Join SJP UIUC as we welcome political analyst, activist and
author, Josh Ruebner, as he discusses his book,
/*Shattered Hopes: Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace*/*.
*The book analyzes the Obama administration's failed strategy to resolve
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its unwillingness to challenge the
Israel lobby.
Ruebner is the National Advocacy Director of the US Campaign to
End the Israeli Occupation ( endtheoccupation.org
<http://endtheoccupation.org/> ).
*4/18 Fri noon* YMCA Friday Forum <http://universityymca.org/friday_forum/>
*Consumer Futures in the Healthcare Marketplace***
Daniel Yunker, CEO, Land of Lincoln Health
The Affordable Care Act created two dozen health insurance
co-ops, launched with about $1.9 million in federal loan funding ---
before budget reductions sank plans for more co-ops in other states ---
with the hope that consumer-operated and -oriented plans would stir up
competition and lower insurance rates for everyone. Land of Lincoln
Health is the first and only health insurance co-op in Illinois. ...
*4/21 Mon 4-6PM* Douglass Annex, 804 N. 5th St, Champaign (in Douglass
Park)
*Oral History of Champaign-Urbana Days* (film and discussion)
Learn about the history of the community and do your part to
build a more inclusive local history!! Attend this free screening of
oral histories by community elders sharing their memories of the history
of Champaign-Urbana Day/s. After the screening join in a community
discussion about how and why to add more voices to the Oral History of
Champaign-Urbana Days before, during and after this year's festival
(August 8 & 9, 2014).
The video features Cecil Bridgewater, Erma Bridgewater, Nate
Dixon, Bruce Nesbitt, Hattie Paulk, Gerald 'Candy' Foster, and more. ...
*4/22 Tue 5:30PM* Escobar's Restaurant, 6 E Columbia Ave, Champaign
*Sierra Club Earth Day Forum**/ Happy Hour*
featuring speakers on the U-C Energy Star Challenge; Bulldog
Coal Mine; Clinton landfill/Mahomet aquifer; and IL rules for fracking
and coal ash
*4/22 Tue 7PM * Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway, Urbana
*Robert McChesney *will speak. All welcome.
Robert McChesney is professor of media at University of Illinois and
founding member of Free Press (freepress.net), a media analysis and
advocacy group. His recent books include Dollarocracy (with John
Nichols), and Digital Disconnect, both of which cover the issue of money
and media and the variety of ways corporate power has undue influence in
the media landscape.
*5/13 Wed* around 6pm Hilton Garden Inn, 1501 S Neil St, Champaign
*USEPA public hearing* on whether to assign Sole Source Aquifer
protection to the Mahomet Aquifer.
Let's hold a demonstration to show that yes, we want them to
protect it as our only feasible source of drinking water!
**
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