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The most non-racist thing would be to consider Obama's <br>
race as meaningless information.<br>
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The most racist thing to do would be to <br>
call attention to the genetics of his parents <br>
and take any action based upon that information.<br>
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On 08/28/13 4:13, David Johnson wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="4">Gee Greg,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="4">I hope your not trying to imply that
becasue Obama is African American that he should be given a blank check
to commit war crimes and impoverish Working Americans, especially
African American Workers ?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="4">This is EXACTLEY what the 1% ruling
class of this country hoped for when they recruited and helped get
Obama elected.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="4">Frankly, while we are on the
subject, some of the harshest critics of Obama have been Cornell West
and Black Agenda Report.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="4">Not to mention that if you research
Obama's REAL history, you will see that he has NO common experience
with the average African American in the U.S.. or for that matter any
Working American.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="4">David Johnson</font></div>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" title="brussel@illinois.edu"
href="mailto:brussel@illinois.edu">Brussel, Morton K</a> ; <a
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href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">Estabrook, Carl G</a> </div>
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013 12:38 PM</div>
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Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] AWARE flyer for Quad Day</div>
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<div><span>I realize I'm probably opening a can of worms with this,
but I've been wondering for a long time and all the March on Washington
stuff this weekend brought it back to mind.</span></div>
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does an organization whose purpose is to fight racism so often speak
with such hostility toward our first black president? It's obviously
counter-intuitive, but I wonder if it also might not be
counterproductive.</span></div>
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Gordon<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "Brussel, Morton K" <<a
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "Estabrook, Carl
G" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "<a
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List" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"><Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net></a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:peace@anti-war.net">"peace@anti-war.net"</a>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, August
25, 2013 9:39 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Peace]
[Peace-discuss] AWARE flyer for Quad Day<br>
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<div>I would add that this administration is now specifically
threatening, and waging covert activities against, Iran and Syria, two
countries of no threat to the U.S., but who are seen by this
administration as a threat to "our national interests", that of
corporate America and its clients.
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<div>--kb<br>
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<div>But in any case a useful statement. </div>
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<div>On Aug 25, 2013, at 10:00 AM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:</div>
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The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana (AWARE)<br>
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AWARE was founded immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001,
by residents of Champaign-Urbana and members of the University of
Illinois, who saw that the U.S. government would use those crimes as an
excuse to carry on and expand its wars for the control of Middle East
energy resources. For a dozen years members and friends of AWARE have
worked to end the killing by informing their fellow citizens of the
real nature of the "war on terrorism," in opposition to the largest and
most sophisticated propaganda campaign in history, conducted by the
Bush and Obama administrations, and directed at the American people.<br>
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Today the U.S. government is threatening, invading, and occupying
countries in a vast circle with a 2500-mile radius around the Persian
Gulf, from north Africa to the borders of India and China, a region
sometimes called the "Greater Middle East." (The U.S. military calls it
"Central Command.") This region has the world's greatest concentration
of oil and natural gas, and our government is spending hundreds of
billions of dollars, month after month, to control it. Control and not
just access to these energy resources is what our government demands.
We in fact import little of our own oil supplies from the Mideast -
most of our imported oil comes from the western hemisphere, notably
Canada and Venezuela - but control of world energy supplies gives the
U.S. an unparalleled advantage over our economic rivals in Europe and
Asia.<br>
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President Obama is killing men, women, and children around the world to
"fight terrorism," he claims, but as Noam Chomsky explains, “The Obama
administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism ... it’s doing it
all over the world. Obama ... is running the biggest terrorist
operation that exists ... The drone assassination campaigns ... are
just part of it; special forces operations and so on, all of these
operations, they are terror operations.” The U.S. Special Operations
Command - in fact a 25,000-member private army run by the president -
are American death squads, who by their own account are operating in
more than a hundred countries around the world. No wonder we are hated
in those countries.<br>
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If you object to the Obama administration's conducting illegal and
unjustified war - and lying about the reasons for it - join us. AWARE
meets every Sunday evening 5-6pm at the White Horse Inn on in
Champaign, near the UIUC campus. We discuss the war and plan activities
like the following:<br>
~ Street demonstrations. For more than a decade AWARE has conducted
demonstrations and distributed information about the war; they now
occur on the first Saturday of every month, 2-4pm, at Main and Neil
Streets in downtown Champaign. All are welcome to join us.<br>
~ Information tables. At the Urbana Farmers' Market and other public
events, like the Sweet Corn Festival and the Taste of Champaign, AWARE
has tables with free printed information on the war and books,
t-shirts, buttons and bumper stickers at cost.<br>
~ Television programs. AWARE produces a weekly hour of discussion on
the war, "AWARE on the Air," seen Tuesdays at 10pm on Urbana Public
Television <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.urbanapublictelevision.org/" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank">http://www.urbanapublictelevision.org/</a>>. The
program is recorded unrehearsed at noon on Tuesdays in the UPTV
studios. Members and friends of AWARE are invited to attend and
participate in the discussion.<br>
~ Articles in the local media. Letters to the Editor in the
Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette and even the Daily Illini are one of the
few ways to join a general political discussion locally.<br>
~ Demands to elected representatives. People in Champaign-Urbana are
represented in Congress by Senators Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk, and by
Representative Rodney Davis. All three support the administration's
wars and assassinations - and are in fact urging Obama to expand the
killing. You can register your opinion by calling their Washington DC
offices, which can be reached at 202-224-3121. (Say that you are
calling from Illinois' 13th Congressional District.)<br>
~ Internet presence. AWARE conducts two email mailing lists, which you
can join on the websites: <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace</a>>
for announcements, and, for discussion of the war, <<a
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href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a>>.
You can join the discussion on our Facebook page: <<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/305897426305/" rel="nofollow"
target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/305897426305/</a>>.<br>
<br>
AWARE honors the whistleblowers - Manning, Assange, Snowden<br>
and others - persecuted by the Obama administration<br>
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