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color="#000000"><b>Our Issues, Our People:</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000">The 12th
grade<i> Math and Social Justice</i> class, at the Lawndale/Little
Village Social Justice High School will present what we have been
learning this year to our communities in North Lawndale and Little
Village. We will present on using mathematics to learn
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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1"
color="#000000"><i>Neighborhood displacement</i></font></ul>
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</x-tab> * Gentrification, sub-prime mortgages, deportation,
immigration</i></font></div>
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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000"><i>HIV/AIDS
in our communities
<li>Criminalization of Youth of Color/People of Color</i></font></ul>
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color="#000000"><b>Wednesday, May 20, 2009</b></font></div>
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color="#000000"><b>5:30-8:00 PM (refreshments at 5:30; program starts
at 6:00)</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2"
color="#000000"><b>Little Village/Lawndale High School
Campus</b></font></div>
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color="#000000"><b>3120 S. Kostner Ave.</b></font></div>
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color="#000000"><b>Library (2nd floor, follow signs)</b></font></div>
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color="#000000"><b>Spanish translated provided</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2"
color="#000000"><b>Thursday, May 21, 2009</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2"
color="#000000"><b>5:30-8:00 PM (refreshments at 5:30; program starts
at 6:00)</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2"
color="#000000"><b>Better Boys Foundation</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2"
color="#000000"><b>1512 S. Pulaski</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+2"
color="#000000"><b>Multi-purpose room</b></font></div>
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</b></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000">For
more information or to help out, contact Rico Gutstein
(312-613-6799;<u> gutstein@uic.edu</u>)</font></div>
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