[Peace-discuss] Coordinating activities

Wed Jan 29 14:12:26 CST 2003

I agree - a joint one perhaps...

--- "Kranich, Kimberlie" <Kranich at WILL.uiuc.edu>
wrote:
> Great, Ricky!  Time to send out another announcement
> and release.  I've lost
> my original email. 
> 
> Kimberlie
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ricky Baldwin [mailto:baldwinricky at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:07 PM
> To: Kranich, Kimberlie;
> peace-discuss at lists.cu.groogroo.com
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Coordinating activities
> 
> 
> Actually, the evening vigil at Westside Park has
> been
> announced.  Press releases went out over a month
> ago. 
> The News-Gazette even ran a story on it Christmas
> Eve,
> page B-1.
> 
> Ricky
> 
> --- "Kranich, Kimberlie" <Kranich at WILL.uiuc.edu>
> wrote:
> > 
> > Please see below.
> > 
> > Once we announce our evening vigil at Westside
> PArk,
> > we can cross-promote
> > events.
> > 
> > Another item for Sunday's agenda?
> > 
> > I'm not offering to do any of the work for this
> > activity. I'm merely
> > forwarding things on and making connections. 
> > 
> > Kimberlie
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Subject: Emergency response rally to oppose war on
> > Iraq
> > 
> > 
> > NO WAR AGAINST IRAQ!
> > 
> > EMERGENCY RESPONSE RALLY TO OPPOSE BUSH'S WAR ON
> > IRAQ
> > 12 NOON * Day after the war begins * University of
> > IL Quad
> > 
> > Join with others in voicing your opposition to the
> > war!
> > 
> > -- NO to unilateral, pre-emptive military
> aggression
> > against Iraq
> > -- NO to further endangering the lives of the
> Iraqi
> > people
> > -- NO to sending our children and loved ones to
> die
> > in war
> > -- NO to the elimination of civil liberties at
> home
> > -- NO to an expanded military budget when we need
> > health care & jobs
> > -- YES to peace, justice, democracy, and civil
> > rights for all!
> > 
> > For more information or to be placed on the
> > EMERGENCY RESPONSE PHONE
> > TREE, contact the PRC at (217) 352-8721 or e-mail
> > prc at prairienet.org.
> > The phone tree will be used to notify people of
> the
> > date and others
> > details of the rally as soon as the war begins.
> > 
> > Organized by the Progressive Resource/Action
> > Cooperative (PRC).
> > 
> > Co-sponsored by: 85% Coalition, Activist Forum,
> > AWARE, Campus Greens,
> > Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic Center (CIMIC)
> > Association, El
> > Centro por los Trabajadoras, Feminist Majority,
> > Friends, Illinois
> > Disciples Foundation, Independent Media Center,
> Iota
> > Phi Theta, La
> > Casa Cultural Latina, Muslim Student Association,
> > Not Your Average
> > Student Organization, Rainforest Action Group,
> > School for Designing a
> > Society, Sexual Violence Workers for Social
> Justice,
> > Sigma Gamma Rho
> > Sorority, Inc., St. Jude's Catholic Worker House,
> > Student Peace
> > Action, Students Improving the Lives of Animals,
> > Teachers for Peace
> > and Justice, Vietnam Veterans Against the War -
> C-U
> > Chapter, Women's
> > Direct Action Collective, and World Church Service
> > Illinois Region.
> > 
> >
>
********************************************************
> > Points of unity in opposition to a U.S. war
> against
> > Iraq
> >
>
********************************************************
> > 
> > The Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative (PRC),
> > with a long
> > history of organizing for peace with social
> justice,
> > is absolutely
> > opposed to President Bush's intentions to launch a
> > new war against
> > Iraq. We call on the American people and the world
> > community to:
> > 
> > -- Oppose a U.S. pre-emptive war against Iraq when
> > Iraq has neither
> > threatened to attack the U.S. or other countries,
> > nor been shown to
> > possess weapons of mass destruction;
> > -- Condemn the U.S.'s violation of international
> law
> > and treaties and
> > self-appointed role as "world cop," acting without
> > the support or
> > consensus of the United Nations;
> > -- Speak out against the U.S.'s own build-up of
> > nuclear weapons;
> > -- Reject the use of a "voluntary" military
> designed
> > to give young
> > people access to educational opportunities, but
> > which actually pulls
> > them away from school, and which additionally
> > enlists poor, non-white
> > Americans for economic reasons while the advocates
> > of war in
> > corporate America benefit without suffering, and
> > which additionally
> > provides inadequate benefits to veterans;;
> > -- Oppose an astronomical increase in the U.S.
> > Military budget at the
> > expense of funding for domestic programs such as
> > education, health
> > care, and jobs;
> > -- Work to end the on-going sanctions leveled
> > against the Iraqi
> > people that have been responsible for the deaths
> of
> > tens of thousands
> > of Iraqi children;
> > -- Resist the use of the new "war on terrorism" as
> > reason to
> > eliminate the civil liberties and rights of the
> > American people;
> > 
> > Further, we call on all people of conscience to:
> > 
> > -- Educate yourself about Bush's war plans and the
> > emerging anti-war
> > movement. We suggest visiting
> > www.unitedforpeace.org, www.moveon.org,
> > and www.alternet.org/waroniraq;
> > -- Join with others in advocating for an
> > alternative, socially-just
> > U.S. foreign policy as a means of averting
> > terrorism;
> > -- Contact your local representatives and tell
> them
> > that you oppose the war:
> > 		Sen. Dick Durbin: (202) 224-2152,
> > dick at durbin.senate.gov
> > 		Sen. Peter Fitzgerald: (202) 224-2854,
> > senator_Fitzgerald at fitzgerald.senate.gov
> > 		Rep. Tim Johnson: (202) 225-2371,
> > rep.Johnson at mail.house.gov;
> > -- In the event that the war occurs, attend PRC's
> > emergency anti-war
> > rally at 12 noon on the University of Illinois
> Quad
> > the day after the
> > war begins;
> > -- Attend PRC's educational panel discussion,
> > "Against Bush's
> > Military Adventures: Voices of Resistance" on
> > Saturday February 22nd
> > at 12 noon at the Illinois Disciples Foundation.
> > 
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