<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
We are back on the streets again tomorrow...<br>
<blockquote>AWARE's monthly anti-war demonstration<br>
<b>Saturday, April 6th</b>, 2013<br>
<b>2:00-4:00PM</b><br>
Main and Neil, downtown Champaign [*]<br>
</blockquote>
Some of us will gather for <b>lunch beforehand</b>, a couple blocks
away:<br>
<blockquote><b>12:30PM-2PM at the Esquire bar</b> (thanks to Dave
Johnson for the suggestion!)<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
Expect a stiff breeze and a small chance of rain.<br>
<br>
The flyer for this month - thanks to Carl and Karen - is drawn from
Glenn Greenwald's review of a new film, <b>"Dirty Wars"</b>,
featuring Jeremy Scahill's investigations into the US' ongoing
global war, which "renders its victims invisible and voiceless."<br>
<br>
A quote from that -- see Carl's recent peace-discuss e-mail for the
full flyer, or read Greenwald's original review:<br>
<a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/31/dirty-wars-terrorism-victims?CMP=twt_gu">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/31/dirty-wars-terrorism-victims?CMP=twt_gu</a><br>
<br>
[...]<br>
<blockquote type="cite">The message is that the US is viewed as the
greatest threat and that it is US aggression and violence far more
than any other cause that motivates support for al-Qaida and
anti-American sentiment. The son of the slain Afghan police
commander (who is the husband of one of the killed pregnant woman
and brother of the other) says that villagers refer to US Special
Forces as the "American Taliban" and that he refrained from
putting on a suicide belt and attacking US soldiers with it only
because of the pleas of his grieving siblings. An influential
Southern Yemeni cleric explains that he never heard of al-Qaida
sympathizers in his country until that 2009 cruise missile attack
and subsequent drone killings, including the one that ended the
life of Abdulrahman (a claim supported by all sorts of data). The
brutal Somali warlord explains that the Americans are the "masters
of war" who taught him everything he knows and who fuel ongoing
conflict. Anwar Awlaki's transformation from moderate and
peace-preaching American cleric to angry critic of the US is shown
to have begun with the US attack on Iraq and then rapidly
intensifying with Obama's drone attacks and kill lists.
Meanwhile, US military officials and officers interviewed by
Scahill exhibit a sociopathic indifference to their victims, while
Awlaki's increasingly angry sermons in defense of jihad are
juxtaposed with the very similar-sounding justifications of
endless war from Obama. <br>
</blockquote>
<br>
[*] There's a chance that Church/Main St. may be closed for
construction of the rubble-filled lot on the southwest corner.
Let's hope that Neil St. will remain open for traffic. <br>
<br>
Come by for a quarter hour or as long as you like. We have some
stories from this week's visit of Norman Augustine, ex-CEO of #1
military contractor Lockheed-Martin, who visited the U of I to talk
about the future of the University and of science & engineering
education. <br>
<br>
</body>
</html>