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<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="3"><i><u><b>AWARE
~ The Anti-War Anti- Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana ~ October
2013<br></b></u></i></font><br>
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<font size="6"><b>THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAS SHUT DOWN</b></font></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in; ">
<font size="6"><b>THINGS THAT HELP PEOPLE --</b></font></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in; ">
<font size="6"><b>BUT THEY HAVEN'T STOPPED </b></font>
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<font size="6"><b>KILLING PEOPLE...</b></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-left: -0.49in; margin-bottom: 0in; ">
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</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="2" style="font-size: 10pt"><i>1
Oct 2013 - "...wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical
right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes
and remove regulations, but failed to realize that eventually the
craziness would take on a life of its own - that the monster they
created would turn on its creators as well as the little people"
[<a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com">krugman.blogs.nytimes.com</a>].</i></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><br>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="2" style="font-size: 10pt"><i>5
Oct 2013 - "At least five civilians, including three children,
have been killed in a NATO air attack in eastern Afghanistan,
according to government officials. The civilians, aged between 12 and
20, were killed overnight on Friday while they were out hunting birds
in the area of Saracha, a few miles from Jalalabad city..."
[<a href="http://aljazeera.com">aljazeera.com</a>].</i></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="2" style="font-size: 10pt"><br><b>In
spite of the government shutdown, </b>President Obama still picks out
people to die under U.S. drone attacks every week. On what White
House aides call "Terror Tuesday," the president's
underlings compile a list of who should be executed, and the
president then chooses from "baseball cards" who will die!
The assassinations are carried out in secrecy: the administration
doesn't release accounts of the people they kill. The Bureau of
Investigative Journalism in London estimates that the president has
killed 2,500-4,000 people with drones alone - including over 200
children.</font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><br>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="2" style="font-size: 10pt"><b>Today
the U.S. government is threatening, invading, and occupying countries</b>
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. </font>
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</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="2" style="font-size: 10pt"><b>President
Obama is killing men, women, and children around the world</b>
to "fight terrorism," he claims, but in fact he is
dedicated to increasing terrorism, all over the world, with his
global assassination campaign. He is running the biggest terrorist
operation that exists, and the drone strikes are just part of it. 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. </font>
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</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font size="2" style="font-size: 10pt"><i><b>If
you object to the Obama administration's illegal and unjustified wars</b>
- and the lies about the reasons for them - please join us. 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 at 202-224-3121.
Say that you are calling from Illinois' 13th Congressional District.</i></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="2" style="font-size: 10pt"><i><b>AWARE
meets every Sunday evening</b>
5-6pm at the White Horse Inn on John Street in Champaign, near the
UIUC campus. We discuss the war and plan local activities. AWARE also
produces a weekly hour of discussion on the war, AWARE on the Air,
Tuesdays at 10pm on Urbana Public Television
<<a href="http://urbanapublictelevision.org">urbanapublictelevision.org</a>>. The program is recorded
unrehearsed at noon on Tuesdays at the UPTV studios, in the Urbana
City Council chambers. Members and friends of AWARE are invited to
attend and participate in the discussion.</i></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><br>
</p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="4"><i><b>AWARE
honors those who reveal the government's crimes - Manning, Assange,
Snowden and others - and are persecuted by the Obama administration
for it.</b></i></font></p></body></html>