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Community Volunteer CornerPark Hill Community Center Halloween Party, Thursday Oct. 29
The Muhammad Ali Institute will be volunteering at the annual Halloween party at Park Hill Community Center for their youth. If you have a gift of face painting, working with young people or just like passing out treats, contact the Ali Institute at 852-6372 to sign up or for more information. The young people will be there from 5 to 6:30 p.m. and then the teens will come in from6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Breakfast with Santa, Saturday, Dec. 19
The Muhammad Ali Institute will be working with Park Hill Community Center in celebrating Breakfast with Santa. The time for this event will be 10 a.m. More details will be coming, please visit again for further details or call the Ali Institute at 852-6372.
Breaking Bread: A Community DinnerCome join us as we proudly present Breaking Bread: A Free Progressive Dinner featuring organizations working to make U of L a more inclusive and diverse community on Thursday October 22 from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. Appetizers served at the Cultural Center then move on to the PEACC office for more finger food. Main course served at Intersection prepared by LGBT services, First Year Initiatives, Office of Civic Engagement, Leadership & Service and the Women's Center. Dessert and coffee served in Ekstrom library, 2nd floor by the Anne Braden Institute and the Muhammad Ali Institute. Meet the staff of each organization and learn more about the services offered and plans for the rest of the school year. Door prizes will be given at the end of the night to students who attended all four venues!
Peace and Justice Week, Nov. 2- 11, 2009click here for poster of events
Monday, November 2ndFaculty BreakfastUniversity Club 9amAn invitation-only event to connect faculty members to the work of the Muhammad Ali Institute for Peace and Justice. Sponsored by the Muhammad Ali Institute for Peace and Justice Journey of HopeChao Auditorium 6pmDon’t miss this stimulating panel discussion featuring Journey of Hope, an organization led by murder victim family members joined by death row family members, family members of the executed, the exonerated, and others with stories to tell. Journey of Hope conducts public education speaking tours and addresses alternatives to the death penalty. Please contact Kate Miller at the ACLU of KY with any questions at 502-581-9746 or kate@aclu-ky.org. Sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union, Anne Braden Institute, the University of Louisville chapter of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, Pan African Studies Graduate Association, the University of Louisville chapter of Amenity International, as well as the student chapter of the NAACP
Tuesday, November 3rdBrown Bag Lunch “New Roots”Muhammad Ali Institute 12 noonThe Muhammad Ali Institute will be hosting Karyn Moskowitz, founder of New Roots, an agency that works tirelessly to bring fresh produce to areas within Louisville’s food desert. Come discuss food justice and learn how New Roots works toward eliminating food injustices in our community. Just bring your lunch and we will provide the drinks and desserts! Sponsored by the Muhammad Ali Institute for Peace and Justice
Wednesday, November 4thLet’s Talk Lunch: “What is Economic Violence?”Cultural Center 12noonIn collaboration with the Muhammad Ali Institute for Peace and Justice, the Black Faculty/Staff Association's November Let's Talk will focus on Economic Violence (part of the SeeRedNow campaign http://www.seerednow.org/economic.html) by looking at some of the areas within our community. Urban renewal or urban revitalization is often thought as a good thing, but what happens to those who are displaced by “progress”? Together let’s look at some past renewal/revitalization projects funded by the Hope VI federal grant and talk to community members from Sheppard Square and Parkway Place (Park Hill) about the upcoming Hope VI revitalization projects that are planned for their areas. Let's Talk on November 4 about what we can do as individuals and as a campus community to find solutions to the problems of economic violence. As always, *FREE LUNCH*! Co-sponsored
by BFSA, Cultural Center, and Society of Porter Scholars Thursday, November 5thConversation Cafe: Legal Issues in ImmigrationCultural Center 12 noonWhat are the current hot button legal issues in immigration? Do undocumented immigrants have rights according to US law? How does immigration law affect the average US citizen? Join UofL law professor Enid Trucios-Haynes, a leading scholar in this field, as we learn about and discuss the local, national, and international implications of immigration law. Free lunch provided to all participants. Sponsored by the Office of First Year Initiatives Book-in-Common program
Social Justice TheaterStrickler Hall, Rm. 101 7pmFighting for social justice isn’t always what you think, come see three productions that revolve around the fight for social justice in unique ways. Dr. Burton and the African American Theater Arts program will have a scene from the recent production of “Come Burning Down”, Theater Arts graduate student K. O. Ewing Roush will be performing a one-man production of an original screenplay, and the Ali Scholars will be using their talents to inform and raise awareness about violence using the See Red Now campaign. Co-sponsored by the African American Theater Dept. Saturday, November 7thHow Can We Best Serve? Working With Immigration and Refugee PopulationStudent Activities Center 10:30amJoin us for the first in a series of community engagement workshops and trainings designed to educate UofL students about our community's needs and social justice issues, and to provide students with a better understanding of how they can effectively engage with the community through direct service. This program is for UofL students who are interested in volunteering with our immigrant and refugee community or who want to learn more about this community. Sessions will cover Literacy, Health, and Legal Issues. Presenters include staff from Americana, Backside Learning Center at Churchill Downs, JCPS: English as Second Language Office and the Newcomer Academy. Sponsored by the Office of Civic Engagement, Leadership, and Service
Tuesday, November 10thAnne Braden Memorial Lecture - Michael Honey: “From Civil Rights to Economic Justice: The Freedom’s Movement’s Unfinished Business”Chao Auditorium 5:30 pmScholar-activist Mike Honey is a distinguished historian and professor at U-Washington/Tacoma with 3 award-winning books linking the civil rights and labor movements. He also lived and worked for a time in Louisville with Carl and Anne Braden and the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF). Honey’s latest book, Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign, beautifully examines Dr. King’s radical legacy and the movement’s unfinished business. The lecture will also feature a musical performance and a slide show. Sponsored by the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research
Wednesday, November 11thA Morning with Hamza YusufInterfaith Center 9:30 am to 11:30amThe Muslim Student Association invites you to join Hamza Yusuf, internationally recognized Islamic scholar, for a rare intimate discussion. Mr. Yusuf was born in Washington State and raised in Northern California. In 1977, he became Muslim and subsequently traveled to the Muslim world where he studied for ten years in the U.A.E., in Saudi Arabia, and in North and West Africa. He received teaching licenses in various Islamic subjects from several well-known scholars in these various countries. He has traveled all over the world giving talks on Islam. He also founded the Zaytuna Institute which has developed an international reputation for presenting a classical picture of Islam in the West and which is dedicated to the revival of traditional study methods and the sciences of Islam. Sponsored by the
Muslim Student Association
Postcard Project!As part of GREEN DOT KY, PEACC and the Office of LGBT services will collaborate with the newly formed Bias Incident Response Team (BIRT), for a campus wide positive speech campaign called the "Postcard Project". Be watching for details on how you can get involved in replacing red dots of hate speech with green dots of positive communication through chalking, Facebook, banners, and making artistic postcards with messages of PEACC. For more details check out the website at: www.louisville/edu/peacc Co-sponsored by PEACC and Intersection
Peace and Justice Week is a program of the Muhammad Ali Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of Louisville in cooperation with a variety of campus departments and organizations and community agencies. For more information, contact the Ali Institute at 852-6372.
Brown Bag SeriesThe Ali Institute announces a series of Brown Bag lunches:
Pride Week“Falling Somewhere in the Middle; A Conversation about Gender Neural Bathrooms.”
Gender neural bathrooms has been one of the causes of the LGBT community here on campus with the central issue being one of equal access for everyone. On 22 September at noon, come to the Ali Institute to hear local activist and blogger Monica Roberts discuss this vital issue.
Monica Robert is a writer, blogger, and lecturer on transgender issues. She’s an advocate with a special emphasis on not only getting African-American transpeople and other voices of color more involved in empowering themselves, educating the GLBT community about our issues, but also shedding light about the struggles of GLBT people in Africa. You can read her blog at http://transgriot.blogspot.com/.
Economic Violence and a conversation with Alaina Watson
According to recent reports poverty, unemployment, and homelessness are on the rise in our communities. The current economic crisis has pushed a lot of people to the edge and back, on October 6 at noon, come hear one person's story about being pushed past that edge and surviving. Come out and let’s have an honest discussion about the current state of our personal and national economic situation. Together lets start to combat economic violence.
Alaina Watson was featured in the June 3, 2009 edition of the LEO weekly where her life story was used as an example of the new face of homelessness. Her compelling story highlights the economic hardships that the working poor are dealing with on a daily basis.
Just Act DayAs students, faculty, and staff of the University of Louisville - an urban university part of a community deeply impacted by the many forms of violence - we have a responsibility to do something to address social injustices in our community. With this in mind, the Muhammad Ali Institute for Peace and Justice invites you to:
Just Act! Day
Saturday, April 17th A day of service and action. Our community partners and work site will be the Parkhill Community Center. More details regarding this day of service to come.
To sign up to volunteer, email Erika Stith or call her at 852-6372
See Red NowThe Muhammad Ali Institute announces SeeRedNow, its new social justice/violence prevention campaign. Learn more about the See Red Now campaign...
...and check out the awesome new SeeRedNow website! www.seerednow.org
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