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Upcoming Actions and Events

STOP Blackwater Conference
Apr 24, 2009 through Apr 27, 2009

"Close Down Blackwater In Illinois"
A Catholic Worker and Clearwater Conference
With Keynote by Jeremy Scahill
Author of the NY Times Bestseller "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army." He is also a journalist with "The Nation" and with Democracy NOW!

We will also be joined by Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator or Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Diane Wilson, co-founder of CodePink and Texas Jail Project.org, along with Col. Ann Wright will be joining us for the conference on Saturday April 25th.

Download Confernce Flyer
Invitation-Schedule (updated 3/24/09)
Registration Materials
Nonviolence Guidelines for the Retreat
Directions to the Church
Housing/Motel Accommodation Information

Des Moines Catholic Workers Website for the Retreat

The church is small so please contact us if you plan to join us!
For more information or to register contact Dan Kenney

Plan to attend this important conference to be held just 20 miles from Blackwater Worldwide Midwest training site in northwest Illinois. The conference will feature workshops on Blackwater and other private military contractors. Learn about all the ways our government has been privatizing and outsourcing our security. Be a part of ending the use of Blackwater to train Illinois police officers. Be a part of dismantling this dangerous part of our military industrial and intelligence complexes.

This will be the first conference where members of citizen activist groups from all over the U.S. come together to share information, discuss alternatives, strategize, and act together to address the issue of private military and security companies.

Speakers will include Catholic Workers who were arrested at a demonstration at the gates of Blackwater's North Carolina headquarters in 2007. Also members of groups in California, Idaho, and Illinois will share their experiences with working to stop the spread of private armies. Speakers will also share information about legislative actions that are developing nationally as well as in Illinois. There will also be workshops on community building and civil disobedience.

The conference will conclude with a demonstration at Blackwater's midwest site on Monday the 27th. The demonstration will include civil disobedience for those who want to participate.

The conference will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Stockton, located at 219 North Pearl Street, Stockton Illinois 61085.

Tentative Schedule includes: Friday Evening April 24th: Friday evening is set aside for arrivals and gathering. A social time, a chance for locals, Clearwater Activists, peace activists of other groups, and Catholic Workers to meet through a circle of introductions, music, and partying.

Saturday April 25th: This will be a day long conference on Blackwater with break-out sessions and keynote at mid-day by Jeremy Scahill.
Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence will also be addressing the confernce on Saturday Morning.
Diane Wilson, co-founder of CodePink and Texas Jail Project.org, along with Col. Ann Wright will be joining us for the conference on Saturday April 25th. They will be announcing that the German Foundation Ethics & Economics group has chosen Eric Prince and Blackwater as the recipient of their 2009 Black Planet Award. Diane has been chosen, as a previous winner of the group's Blue Planet Award, to present the award to Blackwater at their headquarters in North Carolina. She has chosen to make the announcement at our conference first and then travel to North Carolina to present the award. They will be speaking and announcing the award Saturday morning or at our afternoon plenary.

Saturday evening their will be music by internationally known singer songwriter - Anne Feeney, David Stocker a peace activist from Rockford as well as other local musicians.

Sunday April 26th: Morning service with the Unitarian Universalist Church. Afternoon community building, sharing, nonviolence training and action planning. Social gathering at night.

Monday April 27th: Direct Action at Blackwater Midwest site on Skunk Hallow Road just 20 mile south of Stockton and 7 miles north of Mt. Carroll, in Jo Daviess County.

This conference is sponsored by: Midwest Regional Conference of Catholic Workers and the Clearwater Citizens' Group to Stop Blackwater.

For more information or to register contact Dan Kenney

Recent Actions and Events

IRAQ Moratorium Event
Milwaukee: Blackwater Worldwide, in Illinois and Beyond: The Dangers of Outsourcing Our Security. Dan Kenney of the Clearwater Project, organized in Illinois to oppose the privatization of war and law enforcement, will speak at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 20, in Room 001, Cudahy Hall, 1313 W Wisconsin Ave., on the Marquette University campus. Sponsored by Veterans for Peace, Iraq Moratorium, Peace Action-Wisconsin, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Progressive Students of Milwaukee and the Marquette Center for Peacemaking. The event is free and open to the public. More information, contact Peace Action, 964-5158 or Email Iraq Moratorium-Wisconsin.

WNPJ Annual Fall Assembly-In Milwaukee-Saturday October 4th 2008
On the campus of Marquette University

Featured Speaker-Dan Kenney, "Looking Beyond Blackwater: Organizing for Peace and Stability"
9am Saturday October 4th

Urbana, Illinois

"Privatization Threatens Our Democracy"
Friday October 10th
Urbana City Hall Council Chambers, 7:00 pm.
It will be televised on UPTV

The talk, given by Dan Kenney, will address how privatization of our military, police services, prisons, and schools threatens our democracy. Outsourcing of political decisions, security, and other significant functions that were once inherently the government's responsibility has stripped the power from the people and given it to companies and corporations such as Blackwater and Halliburton. Feasible changes need to be made to reverse this dangerous trend.

Tuesday April 8, 2008 • 7 pm
Film showing of "Blackwater Invades Illinois,"
DePaul University Art Museum
2350 N. Kenmore Ave.
(1 short block from the Fullerton ‘L’ Station)
Film showing of "Blackwater Invades Illinois," featuring Jeremy Scahill, author of
“Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army”
Followed by a discussion led by Bill Barclay of Oak Park Coalition for Truth and Justice

Saturday March 1, 2008 • 9am - 3 or 4 pm
Peace Talks
Regional Peace Conference
Keynote addresses, workshops, and get to know your friends in the peace movement.
Hosted at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church,
4700 Augustana Dr.
Rockford, IL

9:30 am – Gary Cozette Program Director Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin. America (CRLN) and Presbyterian Peace Fellowship’s “Peace Seeker for 2008”,

10:30am – First session of workshops (see list below)

11:30am – second session of workshops

12:30 noon – Lunch

1pm – Keynote: Dan Kenney “Beyond Blackwater”

2pm – Third session of workshops

3pm – proceed to Don Manzullo’s office for an anti-Blackwater demo

Workshops for Regional Peace Conference
Sessions 1 starts at 10:30am,
• Latin America update – Gary Cozette
• The Threat of Private Military and Security Companies (ie. Blackwater), and up-date of the Clearwater Project and legislation, Dan Kenney & Mary Shesgren
• philosophy of nonviolence and direct action, David Martin & Fred Turk
• Winter Soldiers – Bob Gronko

Session 2 at 11:30am,
• everyday peacemaking (group activities and role plays) – Fred Turk
• “Make a Joyful Noise” peace songs & drumming workshop, David Martin & Martin Hippie
• Running for election as a peace candidate – Bill Barclay and panel
• Colombia - Christian Peacemaker Team member and native Colombian writer/educator Julian Gutierrez
• A primer on organizing for peace: media, fundraising, and organizing basics. Stanley Campbell

Session 3, starts at 2pm
• The Threat of Private Military and Security Companies (ie. Blackwater), and up-date of the Clearwater Project and legislation, Dan Kenney & Mary Shesgren
• Thomas Merton & the Peace Movement - John Eades.
• A Peace Mission to Iran – Stanley Campbell
• Running for election as a peace candidate – Bill Barclay and panel
• Philosophy of nonviolence and direct action, David Martin & Fred Turk
• Draft Boards, Recruiters & War Resisters, Cele Meyer & Kim Abel

We will have a movie room set up with films for your viewing pleasure.

Blackwater and the Privatization of the Military
With Dan Kenney

Monday, February 11, 2008 • 7pm
Unitarian Universalist Church, 4848 Turner Dr., Rockford

Program is free & open to the public. For more info: Stanley Campbell at 815-964-7111.

Dan Kenney is an educator, activist, and investigative journalist. He is the coordinator of the DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice. He is one of the co-founders and Co-coordinators of noprivatearmies. org and of the Clearwater Project to stop Blackwater World Wide's expansion in Northern Illinois. He also was one of the founding members of the Illinois Coalition for Peace and Justice.

His article “Lurking Beneath The Surface of Blackwater North” has been widely published on the web. He also has been published in newspapers and journals. He has often spoken to citizen groups on the issue of private armies and Blackwater in particular. He presented this past November at the School Of Americas Vigil in Columbus Georgia and on the campus of Northwestern University. This February 2nd he will present at an international conference at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The conference is entitled: “The Privatization of Security and Human Rights in The Americas: Perspectives from the Global South.”

He serves on the Board of Directors of the DeKalb Teachers’ Union Local of the American Federation of Teachers. He also is a member of the City of DeKalb Environmental Commission. His poetry has appeared in journals. In addition to the above he is a fourth grade teacher in the DeKalb School District of DeKalb Illinois.

Blackwater Invades Illinois Documentary Showing
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 7 p.m.
Batavia Public Library, 10 S. Batavia Ave., Batavia.

The screening is sponsored by Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice.
Admission is free. Light refreshments will be served and a discussion will follow the film. Copies of the DVD will be available. Stop Blackwater T-shirts will be available for sale.

Drum Gathering At Gate to Blackwater North
October 7th • 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
A Drum Circle Gathering will be held Sunday October 7th from at the gates of Blackwater North on Skunk Hollow Rd. in southeast Jo Daviess county. Anyone interested in helping to create rhythms of peace is invited to join us. Extra drums and rhythm instruments will be available.

Blackwater North is an eighty acre shooting range and weapons training facility that offers classes to law enforcement and military personnel, as well as the general public. It is owned by Blackwater USA, a controversial military contractor and private army with the largest private military base and armory in the country, as well as several thousand mercenary soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. It's employees have recently been involved in massacres of Iraqi citizens, and some are being investigated for weapons smuggling.

If you come to the Drum Circle Gathering, please plan to car-pool as parking is limited. To get there, take IL Rt. 78 to E. Loran Rd., about ten miles south of Stockton or ten miles north of Mt. Carroll. Follow the pavement on E. Loran about four miles and turn right on Skunk Hollow Rd. The parking area is about a mile from E. Loran Rd., on the west side of Skunk Hollow Rd. The gates of Blackwater North are about a quarter mile further. Passengers and gear may be unloaded at the gates, but please park only in the designated parking area. Please drive slowly, and respect private property.

Simultaneous demonstrations are being held at Blackwater's home base in Moyoc, North Carolina, and in San Diego, California at the site of a planned eight-hundred-acre training camp called Blackwater West. We gather at the gates to resist this dangerous new form of corporate power and greed. We gather to call forth the rhythms of life and give them voice through our drums and songs. We gather to call for an end to the madness and evil of war for profit. We gather to pray for peace.

For more info contact Martin Hippie at 815-845-2608 or popeace@aeroinc.net

Saturday, August 11
2:00 - 4:00 pm
11311 Skunk Hollow Rd., Mt. Carroll, IL

A Gathering at the Gates (of Blackwater North)
for a peace festival: music, speakers, drumming and dancing..... more details to follow

Join us at the gates, the first time ever that a group of unarmed citizens have gathered for peace to draw attention to the world’s most powerful private military firm, Blackwater USA’s, presence in Illinois.

We’ll have information available about Blackwater’s history and their role in the Iraq war. This event will also highlight the privatization of our military.

No Parking Will Be Allowed On Skunk Hollow Rd.
Parking is available at the Pleasant Valley Twnsp lot at Willow Rd and Rt 78.

click here for map and directions

Please Check Back
We are working on details for a possible bus and will have info shortly.

We plan to have ride share contacts for: Elgin, Chicago, North Shore, DeKalb, OakPark... others? (let us know).

click here to download event flyer

Saturday, June 16th
10:00 am till Noon
Unity House at Unity Temple, Upper East Classroom.
Oak Park, IL

CNIPG (Confederation of Northern Illinois Peace Groups) meeting,
The Clearwater project to challenge Blackwater will be a major topic on the agenda of this meeting.

Sunday, July 1st
2:00 - 4:00pm
Wesley United Methodist Church
2200 16th Avenue
Sterling IL 61081

Meeting of the Clearwater Group

May 15-18 - Jeremy Scahill Illinois book tour (see below)
May 20 – Clearwater meeting Contact us for more information.

Jeremy Scahill, best-selling author of Blackwater, tour information

Click on links to download flyers for Jeremy Schahill's book tour.

May 15 – 3 p.m. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
May 15 – 7 p.m. Highland Community College, Elizabeth Campus
May 16 – 7 p.m. Northwestern University, Harris Hall, Room #108, Evanston
May 17 – 7:30 p.m. Barbara’s Bookstore, 1100 Lake Street, Oak Park
May 18 – 7 p.m. Grace Place, 637 S. Dearborn Avenue, Chicago

See www.blackwaterbook.com for more information



	Upcoming Actions and Events STOP Blackwater Conference Apr 24, 2009 through Apr 27, 2009 "Close Down Blackwater In Illinois" A Catholic Worker and Clearwater Conference With Keynote by Jeremy Scahill Author of the NY Times Bestseller *"Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army."* He is also a journalist with "The Nation" and with Democracy NOW! We will also be joined by Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator or Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Diane Wilson, co-founder of CodePink and Texas Jail Project.org, along with Col. Ann Wright will be joining us for the conference on Saturday April 25th. Download Confernce Flyer Invitation-Schedule (updated 3/24/09) Registration Materials Nonviolence Guidelines for the Retreat Directions to the Church Housing/Motel Accommodation Information Des Moines Catholic Workers Website for the Retreat *The church is small so please contact us if you plan to join us!* For more information or to register contact Dan Kenney Plan to attend this important conference to be held just 20 miles from Blackwater Worldwide Midwest training site in northwest Illinois. The conference will feature workshops on Blackwater and other private military contractors. Learn about all the ways our government has been privatizing and outsourcing our security. Be a part of ending the use of Blackwater to train Illinois police officers. Be a part of dismantling this dangerous part of our military industrial and intelligence complexes. This will be the first conference where members of citizen activist groups from all over the U.S. come together to share information, discuss alternatives, strategize, and act together to address the issue of private military and security companies. Speakers will include Catholic Workers who were arrested at a demonstration at the gates of Blackwater's North Carolina headquarters in 2007. Also members of groups in California, Idaho, and Illinois will share their experiences with working to stop the spread of private armies. Speakers will also share information about legislative actions that are developing nationally as well as in Illinois. There will also be workshops on community building and civil disobedience. The conference will conclude with a demonstration at Blackwater's midwest site on Monday the 27th. The demonstration will include civil disobedience for those who want to participate. The conference will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Stockton, located at 219 North Pearl Street, Stockton Illinois 61085. Tentative Schedule includes: Friday Evening April 24th: Friday evening is set aside for arrivals and gathering. A social time, a chance for locals, Clearwater Activists, peace activists of other groups, and Catholic Workers to meet through a circle of introductions, music, and partying. Saturday April 25th: This will be a day long conference on Blackwater with break-out sessions and keynote at mid-day by Jeremy Scahill. Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence will also be addressing the confernce on Saturday Morning. Diane Wilson, co-founder of CodePink and Texas Jail Project.org, along with Col. Ann Wright will be joining us for the conference on Saturday April 25th. They will be announcing that the German Foundation Ethics & Economics group has chosen Eric Prince and Blackwater as the recipient of their 2009 Black Planet Award. Diane has been chosen, as a previous winner of the group's Blue Planet Award, to present the award to Blackwater at their headquarters in North Carolina. She has chosen to make the announcement at our conference first and then travel to North Carolina to present the award. They will be speaking and announcing the award Saturday morning or at our afternoon plenary. Saturday evening their will be music by internationally known singer songwriter - Anne Feeney, David Stocker a peace activist from Rockford as well as other local musicians. Sunday April 26th: Morning service with the Unitarian Universalist Church. Afternoon community building, sharing, nonviolence training and action planning. Social gathering at night. Monday April 27th: Direct Action at Blackwater Midwest site on Skunk Hallow Road just 20 mile south of Stockton and 7 miles north of Mt. Carroll, in Jo Daviess County. This conference is sponsored by: Midwest Regional Conference of Catholic Workers and the Clearwater Citizens' Group to Stop Blackwater. For more information or to register contact Dan Kenney Recent Actions and Events IRAQ Moratorium Event Milwaukee: Blackwater Worldwide, in Illinois and Beyond: The Dangers of Outsourcing Our Security. Dan Kenney of the Clearwater Project, organized in Illinois to oppose the privatization of war and law enforcement, will speak at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 20, in Room 001, Cudahy Hall, 1313 W Wisconsin Ave., on the Marquette University campus. Sponsored by Veterans for Peace, Iraq Moratorium, Peace Action-Wisconsin, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Progressive Students of Milwaukee and the Marquette Center for Peacemaking. The event is free and open to the public. More information, contact Peace Action, 964-5158 or Email Iraq Moratorium-Wisconsin. WNPJ Annual Fall Assembly-In Milwaukee-Saturday October 4th 2008 On the campus of Marquette University Featured Speaker-Dan Kenney, "Looking Beyond Blackwater: Organizing for Peace and Stability" 9am Saturday October 4th Urbana, Illinois *"Privatization Threatens Our Democracy"* Friday October 10th Urbana City Hall Council Chambers, 7:00 pm. It will be televised on UPTV The talk, given by Dan Kenney, will address how privatization of our military, police services, prisons, and schools threatens our democracy. Outsourcing of political decisions, security, and other significant functions that were once inherently the government's responsibility has stripped the power from the people and given it to companies and corporations such as Blackwater and Halliburton. Feasible changes need to be made to reverse this dangerous trend. Tuesday April 8, 2008 • 7 pm Film showing of "Blackwater Invades Illinois," DePaul University Art Museum 2350 N. Kenmore Ave. (1 short block from the Fullerton ‘L’ Station) Film showing of "Blackwater Invades Illinois," featuring Jeremy Scahill, author of “Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army” Followed by a discussion led by Bill Barclay of Oak Park Coalition for Truth and Justice Saturday March 1, 2008 • 9am - 3 or 4 pm Peace Talks Regional Peace Conference Keynote addresses, workshops, and get to know your friends in the peace movement. Hosted at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 4700 Augustana Dr. Rockford, IL 9:30 am – Gary Cozette Program Director Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin. America (CRLN) and Presbyterian Peace Fellowship’s “Peace Seeker for 2008”, 10:30am – First session of workshops (see list below) 11:30am – second session of workshops 12:30 noon – Lunch 1pm – Keynote: Dan Kenney “Beyond Blackwater” 2pm – Third session of workshops 3pm – proceed to Don Manzullo’s office for an anti-Blackwater demo Workshops for Regional Peace Conference Sessions 1 starts at 10:30am, • Latin America update – Gary Cozette • The Threat of Private Military and Security Companies (ie. Blackwater), and up-date of the Clearwater Project and legislation, Dan Kenney & Mary Shesgren • philosophy of nonviolence and direct action, David Martin & Fred Turk • Winter Soldiers – Bob Gronko Session 2 at 11:30am, • everyday peacemaking (group activities and role plays) – Fred Turk • “Make a Joyful Noise” peace songs & drumming workshop, David Martin & Martin Hippie • Running for election as a peace candidate – Bill Barclay and panel • Colombia - Christian Peacemaker Team member and native Colombian writer/educator Julian Gutierrez • A primer on organizing for peace: media, fundraising, and organizing basics. Stanley Campbell Session 3, starts at 2pm • The Threat of Private Military and Security Companies (ie. Blackwater), and up-date of the Clearwater Project and legislation, Dan Kenney & Mary Shesgren • Thomas Merton & the Peace Movement - John Eades. • A Peace Mission to Iran – Stanley Campbell • Running for election as a peace candidate – Bill Barclay and panel • Philosophy of nonviolence and direct action, David Martin & Fred Turk • Draft Boards, Recruiters & War Resisters, Cele Meyer & Kim Abel We will have a movie room set up with films for your viewing pleasure. Blackwater and the Privatization of the Military *With Dan Kenney* Monday, February 11, 2008 • 7pm Unitarian Universalist Church, 4848 Turner Dr., Rockford Program is free & open to the public. For more info: Stanley Campbell at 815-964-7111. Dan Kenney is an educator, activist, and investigative journalist. He is the coordinator of the DeKalb Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice. He is one of the co-founders and Co-coordinators of noprivatearmies. org and of the Clearwater Project to stop Blackwater World Wide's expansion in Northern Illinois. He also was one of the founding members of the Illinois Coalition for Peace and Justice. His article “Lurking Beneath The Surface of Blackwater North” has been widely published on the web. He also has been published in newspapers and journals. He has often spoken to citizen groups on the issue of private armies and Blackwater in particular. He presented this past November at the School Of Americas Vigil in Columbus Georgia and on the campus of Northwestern University. This February 2nd he will present at an international conference at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The conference is entitled: “The Privatization of Security and Human Rights in The Americas: Perspectives from the Global South.” He serves on the Board of Directors of the DeKalb Teachers’ Union Local of the American Federation of Teachers. He also is a member of the City of DeKalb Environmental Commission. His poetry has appeared in journals. In addition to the above he is a fourth grade teacher in the DeKalb School District of DeKalb Illinois. Blackwater Invades Illinois Documentary Showing Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 7 p.m. Batavia Public Library, 10 S. Batavia Ave., Batavia. The screening is sponsored by Fox Valley Citizens for Peace & Justice. Admission is free. Light refreshments will be served and a discussion will follow the film. Copies of the DVD will be available. Stop Blackwater T-shirts will be available for sale. Drum Gathering At Gate to Blackwater North October 7th • 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. A Drum Circle Gathering will be held Sunday October 7th from at the gates of Blackwater North on Skunk Hollow Rd. in southeast Jo Daviess county. Anyone interested in helping to create rhythms of peace is invited to join us. Extra drums and rhythm instruments will be available. Blackwater North is an eighty acre shooting range and weapons training facility that offers classes to law enforcement and military personnel, as well as the general public. It is owned by Blackwater USA, a controversial military contractor and private army with the largest private military base and armory in the country, as well as several thousand mercenary soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. It's employees have recently been involved in massacres of Iraqi citizens, and some are being investigated for weapons smuggling. If you come to the Drum Circle Gathering, please plan to car-pool as parking is limited. To get there, take IL Rt. 78 to E. Loran Rd., about ten miles south of Stockton or ten miles north of Mt. Carroll. Follow the pavement on E. Loran about four miles and turn right on Skunk Hollow Rd. The parking area is about a mile from E. Loran Rd., on the west side of Skunk Hollow Rd. The gates of Blackwater North are about a quarter mile further. Passengers and gear may be unloaded at the gates, but please park only in the designated parking area. Please drive slowly, and respect private property. Simultaneous demonstrations are being held at Blackwater's home base in Moyoc, North Carolina, and in San Diego, California at the site of a planned eight-hundred-acre training camp called Blackwater West. We gather at the gates to resist this dangerous new form of corporate power and greed. We gather to call forth the rhythms of life and give them voice through our drums and songs. We gather to call for an end to the madness and evil of war for profit. We gather to pray for peace. For more info contact Martin Hippie at 815-845-2608 or popeace@aeroinc.net Saturday, August 11 2:00 - 4:00 pm 11311 Skunk Hollow Rd., Mt. Carroll, IL A Gathering at the Gates (of Blackwater North) for a peace festival: music, speakers, drumming and dancing..... more details to follow Join us at the gates, the first time ever that a group of unarmed citizens have gathered for peace to draw attention to the world’s most powerful private military firm, Blackwater USA’s, presence in Illinois. We’ll have information available about Blackwater’s history and their role in the Iraq war. This event will also highlight the privatization of our military. No Parking Will Be Allowed On Skunk Hollow Rd. Parking is available at the Pleasant Valley Twnsp lot at Willow Rd and Rt 78. click here for map and directions *Please Check Back* We are working on details for a possible bus and will have info shortly. We plan to have ride share contacts for: Elgin, Chicago, North Shore, DeKalb, OakPark... others? (let us know). click here to download event flyer Saturday, June 16th 10:00 am till Noon Unity House at Unity Temple, Upper East Classroom. Oak Park, IL CNIPG (Confederation of Northern Illinois Peace Groups) meeting, The Clearwater project to challenge Blackwater will be a major topic on the agenda of this meeting. Sunday, July 1st 2:00 - 4:00pm Wesley United Methodist Church 2200 16th Avenue Sterling IL 61081 Meeting of the Clearwater Group May 15-18 - Jeremy Scahill Illinois book tour (see below) May 20 – Clearwater meeting Contact us for more information. Jeremy Scahill, best-selling author of Blackwater, tour information Click on links to download flyers for Jeremy Schahill's book tour. May 15 – 3 p.m. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb May 15 – 7 p.m. Highland Community College, Elizabeth Campus May 16 – 7 p.m. Northwestern University, Harris Hall, Room #108, Evanston May 17 – 7:30 p.m. Barbara’s Bookstore, 1100 Lake Street, Oak Park May 18 – 7 p.m. Grace Place, 637 S. Dearborn Avenue, Chicago See www.blackwaterbook.com for more information









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