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Anti-War Meeting Draws Sixty |
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by Peter Miller
Email: peterm (nospam) shout.net (unverified!) |
22 Oct 2001
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Sixty people attended Sunday evening's meeting of AWARE, the Anti-War, Anti-Racism Effort. Numerous events are being planned, including a teach-in during the weekend of Nov. 3 Support for pro-peace actions appears to be growing. |
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Support for pro-peace efforts in Champaign-Urbana appears to be growing, following the fourth meeting of AWARE, the Anti-War, Anti-Racism Effort. Approximately sixty people gathered at the University YMCA on Sunday evening to report on past and future events, to hear news-related poetry and radical cheers, and to discuss how people are coping with the growing tragedy of the war. Susan Parenti reported on Ladies Against War, a daily demonstration for peace in downtown Urbana. Parenti said that after four weeks of standing on the corner engaging people in discussion, the reaction of passers-by seems to have shifted from acknowledgement of the protest combined with indications of either support or opposition to the ladies' message, to non-acknowledgement. More people stare straight ahead, trying to avoid the protesters' gaze, she said. Parenti also noted she was pleased that the Thursday noon protest at I-74 and Prospect avenue drew over 30 participants. A review of under-reported news from the past week included notes the US attorney general has greatly restricted citizens' access to information by way of the freedom of information act, that Ralph Nader spoke out against the war, and that the United States government took over a satellite that could have been used to verify reports about the bombing in Afghanistan. |