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Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Education : Elections & Legislation : Globalization : Government Secrecy : Health : International Relations : Iraq : Media : Peace |
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PRC Hosts Anti-War Teach-In |
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by Jen Tayabji
Email: tayabji (nospam) shout.net (verified)
Phone: (217) 352-8721
Address: 610 E. Springfield Ave., Champaign |
13 Oct 2005
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The Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative (PRC) invites you to the...
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PRC Anti-War Teach-In
Saturday, October 22nd
1-5pm
At the Illinois Disciples Foundation**
Free and open to the public!
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JOIN US TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ENDING THE WAR, MILITARY COUNSELING, AND HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED! |
On Saturday, October 22nd, the PRC will be hosting an Anti-War Teach-In with workshops addressing the issues of veteran’s movements, civil liberties, war and the media, and pre-enlistment counseling.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
1pm: Opening Remarks from PRC
1:30-2:15pm: Choice of “Veterans’ Movements Workshop by Joe Miller” OR “Film clips from the “Brothers and Others” documentary”
2:30-3:15pm: Choice of “Civil Liberties Workshop by the Champaign County ACLU” OR “War and the Media Workshop by Victor Pickard”
3:30-4:30pm: Keynote Presentation from Ray Parrish: “Tough Love: Counter Recruitment as Social Therapy”
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
Joe Miller will be hosting a workshop on the history of veterans’ movements against war. He is an academic advisor and professor at the University of Illinois. He is also a Vietnam veteran and serves as a national co-coordinator of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). Also, there will be a workshop that shows clips from the documentary Brothers and Others, which chronicles the impact of 9/11 on Muslims and Arabs in America. The filmmakers follow immigrants and Americans as they struggle in the heightened climate of hate, FBI and INS investigations, and the economic hardships that erupted following the 9/11 attacks. Members of the Champaign County American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) will present a workshop on the loss of civil liberties since September 11th, 2001. Victor Pickard, a U of I graduate student in Communications, will be leading a workshop on media and the war.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION:
After the workshops, Ray Parrish, the keynote speaker, will lead an hour-long presentation entitled, “Tough Love: Counter Recruiting as Social Therapy.” Ray Parrish is a Vietnam-era U.S. Air Force veteran. He worked his way through college as a part-time veteran's counselor and a full time activist. He ran the Midwest Comm. for Military Counseling for a decade until the funding ran out in 1995. Then he spent five years as an American Legion Veterans Service Officer. He now works for Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) as a military counselor. He helps counsel potential enlistees, GIs, and veterans. He will be focusing his presentation on how to do counter recruitment, also known as pre-enlistment counseling, so that attendees will be able to work on this issue after attending his workshop.
The PRC Teach-In is being co-sponsored by: 85% Coalition, Activist Forum, Campus Greens, Channing-Murray Foundation, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Illinois Disciples Foundation, La Casa Cultural Latina, Men Against Sexual Violence, School for Designing a Society, U-C- Friends Meeting Peace and Service Committee, UIUC Gender and Women’s Studies Program, the University YMCA, and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
**The PRC Anti-War Teach-In will be held at the Illinois Disciples Foundation, located at the northwest corner of Springfield and Wright in Champaign. Limited free parking is available. The Teach-In is free and open to the public and is wheelchair accessible.
The Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative (PRC) is a multi-issue multi-tactical activist organization committed to the self-determination and human rights of all people. The PRC is a registered student organization at the University of Illinois and a program of the Illinois Disciples Foundation. For more information about the Teach-In or the PRC, please contact the PRC at (217) 352-8721 or prc (at) prairienet.org. Or visit us online at www.prairienet.org/prc! |
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http://www.prairienet.org/prc
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Re: PRC Hosts Anti-War Teach-In |
by just wondering
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18 Oct 2005
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am I the only person who always thinks People's Republic of China when the see PRC? have they considered going by PRAC? |
