[Peace] social justice events coming up

[Karen Medina]

Dear Peace,

I promised to put out some announcements for Channing-Murray. So I gathered
a bunch of other social justice related stuff too. All local stuff
happening in the next few weeks. Not the definitive list, but worthy of
note. -karen medina

Some events -- possible Public Service Announcements



Hispanic Heritage Month – September 15th through October 15, 2015

See the events schedule on the website for the Casa Cultural Latina on the
University of Illinois’ campus

https://oiir.illinois.edu/la-casa-cultural-latina/la-casa-events/hispanic-heritage-month



Latin American Film Festival at the Art Theater Co-op

Started Friday September 18th and runs through Thursday September 24th



Community Meeting to Protect the Mahomet Aquifer

Saturday, September 19th, 2015

10:30am -12:30pm

Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St, Champaign Illinois



The 6th Annual CU Pride Festival

Saturday, September 19th, 2015

Noon (educational events)

Downtown Champaign

Parade: 5pm

http://www.unitingpride.org/#!cu-pridefest/c20jp



The 26th annual Tagore Festival Keynote Talk “Translating Tagore”

Saturday, September 19th, 2015

5:45pm to 6:45pm. There is a reception before the talk. / Channing Murray
Foundation; 1209 West Oregon Street, Urbana, IL

And a cultural program immediately after (6:45) at the East Central
Illinois Bengali Association.



Tibetan Monks visiting Champaign Urbana

Sunday September 20th (2015) through Monday September 21st.

Performance, chanting in Sanskrit & dharma talk: Buddhism and Happiness

7:30pm, Sunday September 20th.

Channing Murray Foundation Church, 1209 Oregon, Urbana IL (near the
University of Illinois campus)

Children’s Tibetan Art Program

5pm, Monday September 21

Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 Nevada, Urbana, IL

Financial donations gratefully accepted.



First film of the annual Social Justice Film Festival

“Freedom Riders: Threatened. Attacked. Jailed.”

Monday, September 21st, 2015

6:30pm

Red Herring at the Channing Murray Foundation; 1209 W. Oregon St., Urbana
Illinois.



“Coal Ash: In Your Backyard” Informational Meeting

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

5:30pm

Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St., Champaign, IL

Facebook event announcement:
https://www.facebook.com/events/707326632706770/



“Breaking Down Racism” is the YMCA’s Friday Forum Lecture series this Fall
2015 semester. The subtitle is “Uncovering the Reality of Racial Injustice
in the U.S.

[9/18’s lecture has already happened. (the title was “Black Mothers in the
‘Hidden America’”: Effects of Discriminatory and Unequal Housing]

* What It Means to Be White – is September 25th

* Border Crisis, Immigration Policy , and Rhetorics of Citizenship – is
October 2nd

* Police Violence, Confederate Flags, and Sundown Towns – is October 9

* The History of African American School Achievement in the 20th Century –
is October 16.

Fridays at noon in Latzer Hall at the YMCA on campus / 1001 S. Wright St.,
Champaign, IL.

* Also, as part of this… a film screening at the Art Theater Co-op, “The
Whole Gritty City” – Tuesday October 20th. 7:30pm.



“The Long Journey Home” – looking at the challenges faced by Latino
communities who live and work in Central Illinois

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

7pm

Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, Illinois
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