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Announcement :: Peace |
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Stop World War 3 Engagement Saturday |
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by Kimberlie Kranich
Email: kakranich (nospam) yahoo.com (verified) |
10 Oct 2002
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Join us for a peaceful engagement to stop a premptive strike against Iraq! |
Stop World War 3!
Rally & Engagement with Shoppers
2-4pm Saturday, October 12
Corner of N. Prospect and Marketview Street (on the sidewalks)
"Drop Bush, Not Bombs"
"Money for Healthcare, Not War"
"Governments Lie"
"Stop World War 3"
"Congress, You Represent Us, Not Bush"
"People Other than Saddam Live in Iraq"
"Do You Want Nuclear Weapons Used in Your Name?"
The above are just a few of the messages peaceniks will carry on signs and in literature. This peaceful demonstration seeks to engage shoppers about the
possible consequences of a premptive strike against Iraq.
Some marchers will talk with shoppers and hand out literature giving reasons to be against
a war.
Come and bring a friend and a sign (or borrow ours). Help us pass out literature. Let the public know that most Americans don't agree with a policy shift from containment to preemptive strikes. We are in the majority
yet Congress is not listening to the people. Bring your best, well-reasoned peaceful reasons with you.
Rain, wind or shine! The march and street teach-in will go on.
This event is sponsored by the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort (AWARE). AWARE meets every Sunday evening at 5pm at the Independent Media Center located at 218 W. Main Street in downtown Urbana. 344-8820.
Contact for this action is Kimberlie: 359-9884 |
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Professor ECE University Of Illinois |
by Sean Meyn
s-meyn (nospam) uiuc.edu (verified) |
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10 Oct 2002
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Thank you! |
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Citizen |
by Andrea Antulov
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12 Oct 2002
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I am not a pacifist. I believe we need military as surely as we need locks on our doors. I believe the wealth even the poorest among us enjoy, is provided by its presence.
I am not in favor of becoming a society without guns. I believe an armed population is less likely to have it's unpopular members hauled into an arena and shot; And as rural folks know sometimes by the time the police find your farm, it's too late.
The mindless thugs who beat Robert Nash to death in Champaign, IL on August 8, did not need guns to conduct their crime.
I am in favor of drafting college students regardless of grade point averages.
1. Because they have an equal responsibility to serve. "All men are created equal" is patriotic phrase I hold dear. (This now includes women).
2. It is because of their abilities that they should serve. Was Vietnam a long drawn out fiasco because our best minds were not participating?
3. I value college students opinions. They are literate, and are unfettered by jobs and if their lives were at stake, they would read, debate and participate in the workings of our government.
4. They are the consumer decision makers. It is not the 18 year old son of a cashier at Walmart who will decide to purchase an electric hybrid car and affect our country's need for oil; But it is he who TOLD to serve in the military under our current draft policy.
FAIR WAR OR NO WAR! This sounds like a slogan for the 21st century I'd support. |
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Guns And Crime |
by ML:
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13 Oct 2002
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Andrea,
I don't trust the government to a monopoly on violence either. But the thugs that beat Gregory Brown to death didn't need guns either. But they had them, along with their badges and a big pat on the back from the System.
So I don't think that guns in them selves will solve any problems.
But I am keen on the idea of a fair war. The best proposal for that which I've heard is to simply have Bush and Saddam duel it out in the desert with just the two of them present. Bush gets his Rambo wetdream and Saddam gets... well, who cares, as long as they "take it outside!" and don't bother the rest of us with their juvenile antics. |
