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PABN (Progressive Activism in Bloomington-Normal) Progressive Events Calender |
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by Adam Jones Email: adjameson (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified!) Phone: 309-820-1713 |
23 Apr 2001
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Progressive Events Calender |
Dear all,
PABN (Progressive Activism in Bloomington-Normal) is a progressive activist network for Bloomington-Normal and the surrounding areas. The PABN site <www.pabn.org> will soon feature not only this events calender, but links, online petitions, and contact information for local progressive activist groups.
I appreciate your help collecting and distributing this information. If you know of upcoming an progressive event, or someone who would like to receive this weekly mailing, please contact me.
Best regards,
Adam
adjameson (at) yahoo.com
309-820-1713
Announcements appear at the bottom of the calender.
Also see the Urbana-Champaign IndyMedia Center Progressive Calendar:
http://urbana.indymedia.org/active/news/calendar.php3
APRIL 24 TUESDAY
7 PM: ISU Amnesty International meeting
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7 PM, Old Main Room, Bone Student Center, ISU: \"Lectures from Camp\" by Lawson Inada, author and poet
APRIL 25 WEDNESDAY
7:30 PM, Old Main Room, Bone Student Center, ISU: Minority Scholar in Residence lecture by Dr. Frankie Bailey, Professor of Criminal Justice at the University if Albany, NY
APRIL 26 THURSDAY
Illinois State University: Border Subjects V: Global (Dis)Connections (ISU Art Gallery):
9 AM - 10:30 AM: Globality and Technoculture:
· Maurice Amutabi, \"Northern NGOs as Vehicles of Globalization in the South: The Case of Kenya\"
· Kavita Philip and Terry Harpold, \"Party Over, Oops, Out of Time: Y2K, Technological \'Risk\' and Cybercultural Primitivism\"
· Christopher Breu, \"Lo-Fi Strum v. Techno Hum: The Antinomies of Contemporary Music\"
10 AM - 12:15 PM: Bordered Economies
· Jean-Marc Trouille, \"Facing up to Globalisation: Franco-German Economic Cooperation in Europe\"
· Corry Cropper, \"Myth and Sport: Selling Sport in an Emerging Global Economy\"
· Amentahru Wahlrab, \"The Ideological War Over Globalisation\"
1:30 PM - 3 PM, ISU Art Gallery: Plenary Address: Janet Abu Lughud: \"Pants Suits to Dallas: The End of Globalization\'s Diffusion Chain\"
3:15 PM - 5:15 PM: Globalizing Human Rights
· Helen Trouille, \"The European Judicial Area - Europe pulling together or torn apart?\"
· Pacale Feuillée-Kendall, \"The penal process: French stagnation and the European/world challenge\"
· Susan Fest and Mary Watson, \"Discursive Formations of Global Human Resource Ethical Dilemmas\"
· Kavita Philip, \"Environmental Rights as Human Rights? Reflections on the Intersections of Globalisation, Environmentalism, and International Human Rights Law\"
6 PM: Reception: Rebecca Saunders
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6:30 PM, 211 Stevenson Hall, ISU: People Against the Mistreatment of Animals (PAMA) meeting
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9 PM, 101 Stevenson Hall, ISU: ISU Cinema Society: Oleanna (1994, 89 min, David Mamet)
APRIL 27 FRIDAY
Illinois State University: Border Subjects V: Global (Dis)Connections (ISU Art Gallery):
9 AM - 10:30 AM: Foreign Desires and Undesirables
· Amy Spellacy, \"Reluctant Good Neighbors: The Maintenance of Boundaries in the Reception and Representation of the Good Neighbor Policy within the United States\"
· Valerie Orlando, \"Global Citizens: immigrants and foreigners. Reconstructing the Disconnected in the Parisian Ghetto: Beur Culture through the films \'Salut Cousin!\', \'100% Arabica\' and \'La Haine\'\"
· Waldemar Matias, \"Roads to equality: Gay Rights in Romania\"
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Memory, Fetishism, and National Cultures
· Lisa Fluet, \"Samurai Bureacrats: Wells, Internationalism, and the Petit Bourgeois Boy\"
· Jennifer Jenkins, \"Globalization and Prussian Heritage: the Return of the Imperial Past in Berlin\"
· Vaheed, Ramazani, \"Global Fetish: On War and Gender\"
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11:30 AM - 1:30 PM: ISU Quad (north end): Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) informational demonstration about the current US govt. administration\'s anti-environmental stance.
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Global (Dis)Connections (ISU Art Gallery):
1:30 PM - 3 PM: Plenary Address: Richard Terdiman, \"Cultural Studies in a Traditional Frame\"
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM ISU Art Gallery: Global (Dis)Connections: Round Table:
5:30 PM: Reception: Mohammed Tavakoli
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6 PM, Studio Theater, University of Illinois, Springfield: registration for the 2001 Illinois Green Party State Convention. Online registration: www.springfieldgreens.com. Contact: Marc Sanson: <msanson (at) email.com>, 217-546-1210 <www.springfieldgreens.com>
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7:30 PM, UIS Studio Theater: Illinois Green Party State Convention. Featured speaker: Howie Hawkins (founding member of Green Party USA)--free event
APRIL 28 SATURDAY
8 AM, Studio Theater, University of Illinois, Springfield: registration for the 2001 Illinois Green Party State Convention. Online registration: www.springfieldgreens.com. Contact: Marc Sanson: <msanson (at) email.com>, 217-546-1210 <www.springfieldgreens.com>
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3:30 PM, 211 Stevenson Hall, ISU: Bloomington Normal Greens meeting
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9:30 PM, Bootleggers (Springfield): Green Party post-party--free event
APRIL 29 SUNDAY
University of IL, Springfield: 2001 Illinois Green Party State Convention. Online registeration: www.springfieldgreens.com. Contact: Marc Sanson: <msanson (at) email.com>, 217-546-1210 <www.springfieldgreens.com>
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7 PM, 138 Schroeder Hall, ISU: Human Rights film series
APRIL 30 MONDAY
7 PM, 330 Science Lab Building, ISU: Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) meeting: Free showing of \"Butterfly\" (2000, 79 min, Doug Wolens), a documentary about Earth First activist Julia \"Butterfly\" Hill. I hear there will also be food.....
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9 PM, 211 Stevenson, ISU: United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) meeting
MAY 1 TUESDAY
7 PM: ISU Amnesty International meeting
MAY 2 WEDNESDAY
ISU Quad: Human Rights Day (various groups will have tables)
7 PM, Circus Room, Bone Student Center, ISU: Academic Senate
MAY 3 THURSDAY
6:30 PM, 211 Stevenson Hall, ISU: People Against the Mistreatment of Animals (PAMA) meeting
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9 PM, 101 Stevenson: ISU Cinema Society: Orlando (1992, 93 min) & London Story (1980, 10 min) (Sally Potter)
MAY 4 FRIDAY
MAY 5 SATURDAY
MAY 6 SUNDAY
MAY 7 MONDAY
MAY 8 TUESDAY
MAY 9 WEDNESDAY
MAY 10 THURSDAY
MAY 11 FRIDAY
MAY 12 SATURDAY
2 - 3:30, 6 - 7:30 PM, Peoria: PAMA invites you to help protest the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, performing at 3 amd 7. For more information email <kilcher (at) davesworld.net>
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The website for Campus Vegetarian Society is now online at:
http://www.veggieboards.com/cvs/
Campus Vegetarian Society is a new student organization starting up this fall.
To join the mailing list, please go to:
http://isuveg.listbot.com
Interested in playing an active role in the development of the group? Questions? E-mail:
webmaster (at) veggieboards.com
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update: May Day activities |
by Adam Jones adjameson (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified) |
Current rating: 0 24 Apr 2001
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MAY 1 TUESDAY
6 PM, Forsyth United Methodist Church, Forsyth: May Day action against predatory lenders. Sponsored by the Central IL Organizing Project.
7 PM: St. Peter's AME church, Decatur: May Day action, pt. 2 (adjourn at 8 PM)
Buses will leave from Bloomington and Springfield; there will be a van from Champaign.
For info/maps/organizing assistance: Tony Eckert 309-838-3304 (Bloomington); Ben Wiederholt 217-546-6948 (Springfield)
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update: May Day activities |
by Adam Jones adjameson (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified) |
Current rating: 0 24 Apr 2001
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MAY 1 TUESDAY
6 PM, Forsyth United Methodist Church, Forsyth: May Day action against predatory lenders. Sponsored by the Central IL Organizing Project.
7 PM: St. Peter's AME church, Decatur: May Day action, pt. 2 (adjourn at 8 PM)
Buses will leave from Bloomington and Springfield; there will be a van from Champaign.
For info/maps/organizing assistance: Tony Eckert 309-838-3304 (Bloomington); Ben Wiederholt 217-546-6948 (Springfield)
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Mayday in Urbana |
by Mike Lehman (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 25 Apr 2001
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May 1 will bring a Mayday celebration to the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois Quad.
Mayday had its origins in an ancient Celtic festival of spring. During a strike for the eight-hour day which began on May 1, 1889, four workers were killed by police in Chicago. At a memorial service for the dead, a bomb exploded among the police, who responded by opening fire on the crowd. Eight labor leaders were sentenced to die for their alleged complicity in the attack on the police. In the wake of this event, Mayday was declared an international day dedicated to workers. Today most countries, except the United States, recognize it as Labor Day.
A coalition of local labor and progressive groups will be celebrating Mayday Tuesday, May 1 on the Quad from 11am to 2pm. At noon the bells of Altgeld Hall, named after the Illinois governor who pardoned the last three of the convicted workers, will play the "Internationale," which is considered the anthem of the working class. There will be a number of speakers and performers on the South Patio of the Illini Union from noon to 1pm. Everyone is invited to attend.
This event is in conjunction with Socialist Forum, Champaign County Living Wage Association, Colombia Support Network, GEO, SEIU Local 880, UPE, Women Against Racism, Interfaith Council, Green Party, YWCA, Common Ground Food Co-op, Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, School for Designing A Society, Associated Newspoets.
Speakers and performers include Jim Barrett, Marianne Ferber, Minkah Makalani, Sarah Kanouse, Ron Peters, Mike Griffin, Maria Silva, and Paul Kotheimer.
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