“The arc of the moral universe is long,
but it bends toward justice.
—
Martin Luther King Jr.”
ARC 109
ARC 09 at the US Social Forum
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ARC09 Potluck & Discussion: Another Chicago is Possible
Next potluck/discussion is right around the
corner! Come join a broad group of activists, organizers &
community members, including Barbara Ransby, Aaron Hughes, Laurie Jo
Reynolds, and Dave Stovall, to discuss recent lessons learned from
local struggles and think about what another Chicago might look like.
ARC09
is planning and preparing to participate in the US Social Forum in
Detroit this June, and we're hoping that this conversation will help us
all think about what Chicago can contribute to the process, and how our
communities can work and struggle together. Please come and share your
stories to help each other dream for the US Social Forum and beyond.
ARC
Potlucks are a chance to take pause and break bread on a regular basis-
to check in with each other, to sustain ourselves. To set the table for
building relationships and putting together perspectives. We hope
you'll be able to join us!
Sunday, March 7
2-5pm
At Chicago ACTS
1400 W. Hubbard Street
Please let us know if you're coming and if you would bring a drink, dish or dessert! Click HERE to RSVP.
Please Forward widely!
Some info on the US Social Forum: http://www.ussf2010.org
ARC09 Potluck Lunch: Breaking Bread with Palestine
Join the ARC community in welcoming back friends who have recently
traveled to Palestine, Egypt & Israel. Peter Sporn worked with the Palestinian Medical Relief Society and Physicians for Human
Rights-Israel, while Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers and Ali Abunimah
participated in last month's Gaza Freedom March.
Guests will
be sharing their gut-wrenching and inspiring stories and welcoming
conversation about their trips and our role as international solidarity
workers.
ARC Potlucks are a chance at taking pause and breaking
bread on a regular basis- to check in with each other, to sustain
ourselves. To set the table for building relationships and putting
together perspectives. We hope you'll be able to join us!
Sunday, February 7
2-5pm
At Chicago ACTS
1400 W. Hubbard Street
Please RSVP & let us know if you can bring a dish, drink or dessert by clicking here: http://bit.ly/7TdpOe
Please Forward!
Contact planners: info@arc109.org. Find us on Facebook. Find the Facebook Event Page.
Fierce Urgency of Now on CAN TV
You can catch a replay of 'The Fierce Urgency of Now: Healthcare and Human Rights for All' on CAN TV. It will run on Thursday, October 29th at 12:00PM on Channel 21.
The Fierce Urgency of Now: Health Care and Human Rights for All
Saturday, September 19 2-5PM
Access Living, 115 W Chicago
Why has the debate over health care reform involved partisan politicians, media pundits, corporate interests, and hired agitators rather than the people? Why has the single payer option been demonized on the right, the media, and even the liberal establishment? How does the broader crisis in health care in this country – clinic closings, epidemics of disease related to inequality and inaccessibility to care, indifference to wellness in our schools, our public services, the military – relate to the unwillingness to address growing economic gaps in our society and the abdication of public authority for the sake of private concerns? How can the United States learn from other communities about how to deliver care, promote wellness, and affirm the public interest, in order to achieve human rights, here and around the world?
Let's have a dialogue...
Guest Speakers include:
Vijay Prashad- activist, scholar, author of "Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World"
Matt Ginnsberg-Jaeckle
- with STOP, organizing to save mental health clinics and stop patient dumping by the U of C
Dr. Linda Murray
- leading public health advocate, Medical Director, Woodlawn Adult Health Center
Yalda Afshar
- public health advocate and practitioner
With various other local and national activists, community members, scholars, and practitioners.
The event will include a multimedia presentation on the state of the
moment, a presentation on local to international contexts by invited
speakers, and end with a Town Hall inviting Chicago folks on the ground
and YOU to collectively reflect on, digest, and connect how the current struggle over
health care-- the debates, the longings, the mobs, the industry, the
government-- feeds off and illuminates the deeper social and political
crisis we face.
Please forward widely!
Contact planners: info@arc109.org. Find us on Facebook. Find the Facebook Event Page. Access Living is an accessible space. If you have specific needs to be
able to participate, don't hesitate to ask. ARC09 is all volunteers -
folks always welcome to help out! Event posters & t-shirts will be
available for donation to help defray the space costs. If you'd like to
share healthcare related art and/or literature at the event, please let
us know!
"We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now....Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity....We must move past indecision to action." MLK
Bob Barr on Troy Davis
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Constitutional question
Constitutional question
Bob Barr
Strange
as it might seem, the Supreme Court of the United States has never
directly and explicitly held that it is unconstitutional for a state to
execute a person about whom substantial evidence of innocence has been
presented.
However,
in a rare exercise of the high court's power to directly order a lower
federal court to consider evidence of actual innocence concerning a man
already found sentenced to death, at least three justices have declared
a willingness to hold that "actual innocence" is constitutionally based.
The
historic ruling came in the case of Anthony Troy Davis, who was
convicted 20 years ago of the late-night shooting death of Savannah,
Ga., police officer Mark MacPhail. Davis' conviction was based not on
direct physical evidence or DNA test results, but entirely on so-called
eye-witness accounts.
The
conviction was subsequently upheld on appeals. However, the fact that
seven of nine of those eyewitnesses have recanted their testimony,
coupled with the fact that none of the state or federal courts have yet
heard directly from any of those witnesses, presented to the Supreme
Court a strong argument that Davis should at least be allowed to make
such a case.
Women in the Vanguard: A Force of Secularism in the Arab World with Nadia Hijab
Nadia
Hijab is director of Development Analysis and Communication Services,
and an independent consultant to the United Nations and other
international organizations on gender, human rights, and human
development.
Hijab's first book, Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work was published by Cambridge University Press, and she has written widely on the subject of women in the Middle East.
Hijab is also Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies, an independent non-profit research organization and a leading resource on the Arab-Israeli conflict. She co-authored Citizens Apart: A Portrait of Palestinians in Israel published by I. B. Tauris.
She is a syndicated columnist for AgenceGlobal, and a frequent public speaker and media commentator. She was Editor-in-Chief of the London-based Middle East magazine before moving to New York to join the United Nations, which she left in 2000 to establish DACS. She has served as co-chair of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and is a past president of the Association of Arab American University Graduates.
329 Cardinal Room
Student Center East (SCE)
750 South Halsted UIC Campus
12:00pm-2:00pm
RSVP: Nadia Sulayman at nsulay1(at)uic(dot)edu
Clinic closures and community violence
Long-term violence reduction strategies are to be found in the social fabric of our communities and not in our criminal justice system. Our criminal justice system is reactive and is not built to be proactive, i.e., they respond to violence and for the most part do not prevent violence. Prevention plays out in our ability to educate, employ, and assist community members in dealing with issues in their life before they rise to the level of the criminal justice system. By the time the criminal justice system intercedes, victimization has already usually occurred that could have potentially been avoided through the commitment of adequate social and community resources.
Anyone who pays even a minimal amount of attention to the Chicago media is constantly bombarded with evidence of our society’s failures. This week is different in that we have proof of the fallout of a past failure (the shooting of a mentally disturbed homeless man in the loop) mixed with a forecast of what is to come based on decisions currently made by our political leaders (the closing of numerous area mental health clinics).
Read the full post here.
Photos from May 2nd gathering
Here are some photos from our May 2nd gathering. Sorry for the delay in sharing these with you all!
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