[Peace] upcoming events: "Birth of a Nation" w/panel tonight; "Palestine 101" Thu; SEIU rally Fri; ... 10/28 Harold Koh Not Welcome!
Stuart Levy
stuartnlevy at gmail.com
Sun Oct 9 18:33:29 UTC 2016
*Summary:
7pm Sun 10/9 - "Birth of a Nation" film & discussion at Art Theater *
** 6pm Thu 10/13 - "Palestine 101: An Introduction to the Conflict"
***** 4:30pm Fri 10/14 - SEIU Rally for a Fair Contract (in
negotiations with U of Illinois)***
**** 1pm-9pm Sat 10/15 - Fundraiser - "CU Stands with Standing Rock"
********* 7pm Thu 10/20 - singer Roy Zimmerman - "This Machine"
11:30am Fri 10/28 - **********Harold Koh: Former Top Legal Advisor to
Hillary Clinton & Legal Architect of U.S. Crimes against Humanity - Not
Welcome!
****7pm Sun 10/9 *tonight* - "Birth of a Nation" *film at the Art Theater,
with panel discussion to follow. (The film is showing at many other
times too over the next couple of weeks, but this is the only panel.)
Nate Parker's acclaimed film about Nat Turner's slave revolt
addresses U.S. history and revolutionary violence, and raises
several necessary specters of discussion - on & offscreen.
More info: http://www.arttheater.coop/the-birth-of-a-nation/
<http://www.arttheater.coop/the-birth-of-a-nation/>
Post-show panel:
Malaika Mckee-Culpepper (Department of African American Studies, UIUC)
Charisse Burden-Stelly (Department of African American Studies, UIUC)
Robert King (Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault and the Breakfast Club)
Lou Turner (Department of African American Studies, UIUC)
Moderated by Sundiata Cha-Jua (Department of African-American
Studies, UIUC)
*
6pm Thu 10/13 - "Palestine 101: An Introduction to the Conflict"*
Lincoln Hall room 1027, 702 S Wright St, Champaign
Come learn more about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and hear from
students activists organizing around the cause of Palestinian
liberation! This event is open to all students at UIUC with any
level of knowledge of the conflict.
Speakers include:
Dr. Kenneth Cuno (History): History of the Conflict
Dr. Lila Sharif (AAS): Socio-cultural Effects of Apartheid and
Settler-Colonialism
Stephanie Skora (UIUC alumna and President of the UP Center of
Champaign County): Pinkwashing and Jewish Solidarity with Palestine
There will be a Q&A session and time for discussion after all three
speakers.
Hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine UIUC
Co-Sponsors: Campus Union for Trans Equality an Support (CUTES),
Native American and Indigenous Student Organization (NAISO), Black
Students for Revolution (BSFR)
*4:30pm Fri 10/14 - SEIU Rally for a Fair Contract (in negotiations with
U of Illinois)*
Oak & Kirby, Champaign
Next picket: Friday October 14 at 4:30pm, corner of Oak and Kirby.
Join us! The $5 billion-plus University still insists on offering no
raises, only cuts! BSWs and FSWs, many of whom only make
$17,000-30,000 a year, stand to lose thousands to health care
increases alone, and management wants to raise parking fees, force
employees to work more than 8 hours in a day without overtime, and
more. This impacts our communities as workers and their families
have less disposable income. Join our fight!
*1pm-9pm Sat 10/15 - Fundraiser - "CU Stands with Standing Rock"*
Alto Vineyards, 4210 N. Duncan Rd, Champaign
https://www.facebook.com/events/161627100954548/
The two CU Stands with Standing Rock fundraising events will consist
of a mix of local bands playing their music, interspersed with
presentations from Native American speakers about the current
situation with DAPL, Native American culture, heritage, and history.
Donate (in person, or) at: https://www.gofundme.com/cuswsr
(The second such fundraiser will be Nov 12th 1pm-10pm at the IMC.
<https://www.facebook.com/events/195344260876359/>)
*7pm Thu 10/20 - singer Roy Zimmerman - "This Machine"*
Allen Hall, 1005 W Gregory Dr, Urbana
"This Machine" is ninety minutes of Roy Zimmerman's hilarious,
rhyme-intensive original songs. The title is a reference to Woody
Guthrie and Pete Seeger to be sure, but also an acknowledgement that
songwriting does good work in the world. “Sometimes I think satire
is the most hopeful and heartfelt form of expression,” says Roy,
“because in calling out the world's absurdities and laughing in
their face, I'm affirming the real possibility for change.”
[I (Stuart) think he's like a modern-day Phil Ochs, but with better
music. Come hear him if you can.]
***11:30am-1pm Fri 10/28 - protest former State Dept lawyer Harold Koh*
U of I College of Law, 504 E Pennsylvania Ave, Champaign
Harold Koh: Former Top Legal Advisor to Hillary Clinton & Legal
Architect of U.S. Crimes against Humanity - Not Welcome!
Protest Koh’s speech at the University of Illinois Law School!
When: 11:30 am, Friday, Oct. 28
Where: North Courtyard, Law Building Complex, 504 E. Pennsylvania
Ave, Champaign, IL 61820
We live in a time of state-sanctioned murder of Black, brown, and
poor people within the U.S. and beyond. Since Obama’s election in
2008, extra-judicial killings have often been perpetrated and
justified by former liberal critics of past President Bush’s open
practices of torture, war, and occupation. Top lawyers have played a
crucial role in this process. One of the most prominent has been
Harold Koh, currently a professor of international law and former
Yale Law School dean who served as Hillary Clinton’s top legal
advisor while she was Secretary of State (2009 to 2013). In that
capacity, Koh has planned, promoted, and justified heinous crimes
that have cost thousands of lives and devastated whole regions and
countries. Anyone with a conscience should protest his appearance as
an honored guest at the University of Illinois Law School on October
28.
Here are just a few examples of the many crimes for which he must be
held to account:
Koh helped to conceive, execute, and publicly defend President
Obama’s drone assassination program. He participated, based on
questionable CIA intelligence, in deciding who ought to live and who
ought to die, all without charges, trial, an opportunity to defend
themselves or to surrender. The victims include thousands of
innocent people in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and other countries,
and at least two U.S. citizens, Anwar al-Awlaki, and a few weeks
later, his 16-year-old son, again without any due process.
He testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that
Obama’s devastating 2011 bombardment of Libya was not a “hostile
action" since there was “limited exposure for US troops," so no
Congressional approval was needed. His boss, Hillary Clinton, was an
outspoken advocate of the savage NATO bombing. Obama sent Koh to
testify after lawyers from the Justice and Defense Departments
refused to take the Administration’s line, which was both illegal
and immoral. Thousands died in that bombardment, the country’s
infrastructure was destroyed, and an open field has been created for
reactionary jihadists.
Koh was part of the State Dept. team that claimed “it was not clear”
whether the coup d’etat in Honduras (2009) was really a coup, so the
sanctions that would be required against the coup regime were not
applied. A cable from the US Embassy in Honduras to the State Dept.
that was revealed by Wikileaks exposed his lies. Instead of
sanctions, the U.S. worked with the coup government to drive the
elected president out of the country and establish a regime more to
US liking.
Koh participated in the shocking failure of the US State Dept to
investigate the Israeli commando murder (2010) on the Mavi Marmara
of passengers attempting to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza,
including Furkan Dogan, a US citizen. Instead, the US chose to rely
on Israel’s investigation of its own murder, not unlike US police
investigating their murders.
The list could go on. We urge you to join World Can’t Wait Chicago,
AWARE, Neighbors for Peace, Central Illinois Prairie Greens, World
Labor Hour, and more (list in formation, contact
chicago at worldcantwait.org to add your name) at 11:30 am on October
28, North Courtyard, Law Building Complex, 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.,
Champaign, Il 61820
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