<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Sorry, meant for Peace-discuss -- I'll try harder to check instead of just hitting Reply all...<div> --Jenifer<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 10/14/10, Jenifer Cartwright <i><jencart13@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13@yahoo.com><br>Subject: Re: [Peace] Series of Events to Unite people against Racist Mascots and Request of Co-sponsorship Thereof<br>To: "Jesse Phillippe" <japhillippe@gmail.com>, "Morton K. Brussel" <brussel@illinois.edu><br>Cc: Peace@lists.chambana.net<br>Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 5:24 PM<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span><div id="yiv391875583"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit;"><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In relation to the "chief" I suggest that AWARE put its efforts and person-power into:</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1. MASCOT REPLACEMENT</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">12-1 on Fri Oct 22 Supporting push for a new mascot asap. (There's been support in the past for "Prairie Fire" -- e g the person formally known as CI, whooshing out to dance in colorful autumn costume during half-time to "fire" up the crowd...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2. SENSITIZING C-U TO NATIVE AMERICAN ISSUES</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Working w/ local libraries and perhaps GISLIS to do a whole-town read. Antioch, IL had their (middle-school) students read Sherman Alexie's THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN for this purpose, and CU could and
should do something similar. This could be followed up/coordinated w/ lecture-discussions, film, art, etc. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">3. IGNORING THE DIEHARDS' "CHIEF" EVENTS</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Let's all stay home and drink a
toast to our victory. Unless we can get a few thousand picketers, it only makes the diehards think that -- since they clearly have the numbers -- they haven't really lost and it'd be possible to overturn the decision if they just keep fighting</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jmho.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> --Jenifer<br><br>--- On </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wed, 10/13/10, Morton K. Brussel </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><brussel@illinois.edu></span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> wrote:<br></span><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>From: Morton K. Brussel <brussel@illinois.edu><br>Subject: Re: [Peace] Series of Events to
Unite people against Racist Mascots and Request of Co-sponsorship Thereof<br>To: "Jesse Phillippe" <japhillippe@gmail.com><br>Cc: Peace@lists.chambana.net<br>Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 10:45 PM<br><br></span><div id="yiv391875583yiv98016949"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I think this is a marvelous initiative, one that AWARE in all its power should
support.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">--mkb</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On Oct 13, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Jesse Phillippe wrote:</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br class="yiv391875583yiv98016949Apple-interchange-newline"></span><blockquote type="cite"><div class="yiv391875583yiv98016949im"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dear AWARE,<br> <br>In March of 2007, the University of
Illinois formally retired the "Chief Illiniwek" mascot as its symbol.
Nonetheless, "Students for Chief Illiniwek" has continued to revisit the
Chief issue by hosting an event known as "The Next Dance" that will
occur at Assembly Hall on Oct. 23rd at 7pm. The University
Administration continues to allow this organization to profit off of a
caricature of American Indian people, and it must stop.<br>
<br></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In response to the continued efforts to host the retired
mascot on our campus, The </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">-</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Resist</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
Coalition and Students for a United Illinois are organizing two events under the theme </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">NEW
MASCOT NOW!</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> because it is time for our campus to move on. We are
hosting these events during the week of "The Next Dance", first a </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Rally
at Swanlund</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> to raise our voices to the Administration, and second, a
</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Rally at Assembly Hall </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">with a</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> "We've Moved On" Unity Party</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> to
follow. We hope these events will help educate and mobilize the
community to move on from the
former mascot and the racial stereotypes it perpetuates.<br>
<br>We are contacting your organization to see if you would be willing
to co-sponsor these events with </span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">-</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Resist</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and Students for a United Illinois, and also to publicize the events to
your membership. Co-sponsorship would consist of having your group's
name on publicity materials, actively encouraging members to attend
these events, and allowing your organization to speak at the Rally if
interested. The time and location of the events are below.
</span><div class="yiv391875583yiv98016949im"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you!<br> <br></span></div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">-</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Resist</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
Coalition and Students for a United Illinois<br></span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.iresist.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br></span></a><div class="yiv391875583yiv98016949im"><p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">NEW MASCOT NOW! Rally at Swanlund<br></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Friday,
October 22nd<br>12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.<br>In front of Swanlund
Administration Building (corner of John and Sixth Streets)<br></span></p>
</div><div class="yiv391875583yiv98016949im"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Join us as we let the Administration know it is time to move past
the former "Chief" mascot and unite behind a new mascot.<br></span>
</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <br></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">NEW MASCOT NOW! Rally at Assembly Hall<br></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Saturday,
October 23rd<br>6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.<br>Meet outside of Assembly Hall<br>
<br></span></div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Join us as we rally to show how events like "The Next Dance"
perpetuate a racial stereotype, divide our campus, and prevent us from
moving forward as a campus. The "We've Moved On" Unity Party will follow this
event.<br><br></span></i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"WE'VE MOVED ON" Unity Party<br></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Saturday,
October 23rd<br>7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.<br>Location TBD<br><br></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">After
we rally against the mascot, we will be providing the campus with a
genuinely entertaining party to serve as an alternative to "The Next
Dance."</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br><br></span>
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thank you and we would appreciate your support.</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
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