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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 ~ January 2014</b></u></i></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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</p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 20pt"><b>Ill.
Congressmen Vote For War (For Profits For The 1%)</b></font></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><font style="font-size: 20pt"><b>And
Not For Jobs (For The Rest Of Us).</b></font></p><p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 22pt"><i><b>TELL
THEM TO STOP, OR VOTE THEM OUT</b></i></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<font style="font-size: 11pt">A bipartisan move in Congress -
led, among others, by Illinois' own junior senator, Mark Kirk - is
pushing a bill that would undermine the Obama Administration's
negotiations with Iran. The negotiations, if successful, would agree
on monitoring and limiting Iran's nuclear development in exchange for
some relief of sanctions. The Israel lobby group AIPAC and their
allies in Congress are seeking to torpedo the negotiations - and
launch a war with Iran. For a detailed account, see M. J. Rosenberg's
review of the bill, S. 1881, here:</font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt"><i><<a href="http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2013/12/19/another-aipac-bill-designed-to-get-us-into-a-war-with-iran/">http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2013/12/19/another-aipac-bill-designed-to-get-us-into-a-war-with-iran/</a>>.</i></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<font style="font-size: 11pt">Many groups have been speaking
out against the bill. in a demonstration in front of Senator Kirk's
Chicago office on the last day of 2013, representatives of Iraq
Veterans Against the War, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and
Veterans for Peace demanded “Negotiations Not Sanctions” and
“Diplomacy not War.” </font>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt">The trade and economic sanctions
that Senator Kirk and the Israel lobby want kill the weakest first.
(In 1996 the Clinton administration said that killing half a million
children in Iraq with sanctions was “worth it.”) The Senate
reconvenes next week. It's important that our Senators know that
pursuing this bill means promoting war with Iran, and that that is
something the American people do not want.</font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<font style="font-size: 11pt">Rather than promoting war, we
should promote people – but that's not what our Congressional
representatives are doing: as a late Christmas present, millions of
unemployed in the US found that the extension of unemployment
insurance had been allowed by Congress to expire. Some (including our
own Representative Rodney Davis) say that offering unemployment
insurance makes it too easy for people to stay unemployed. We should
rather say that our economic recovery remains mediocre at best; too
many of the jobs that are created are poor compared with those which
were lost; and there are still many more job seekers than there are
jobs for them. We need unemployment insurance, along with the whole
suite of programs for social improvement that our predecessors have
fought for. So must we.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 11pt"><b>It's
time for Americans to say no to the child-killers in the White House
and Congress – particularly because we sent them there and so are
responsible for what they do. We need to tell them what to do –
including not to attack Iran, and to provide real jobs for Americans.
Contact the president (202-456-1111) and our representatives in
Congress (202-224-3121), by phone or online, and give them your
opinion.</b></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 11pt"><b> President
Obama:
</b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"><i><b><<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments">http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments</a>><br> </b></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"><b>Senator
Durbin: </b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"><i><b> <<a href="http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm">http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact.cfm</a>><br> </b></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"><b>Senator
Kirk:
</b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"><i><b> <<a href="http://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=comment_on_legislation">http://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=comment_on_legislation</a>><br> </b></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"><b>Representative
Davis:</b></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"><i><b>
<<a href="https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me">https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me</a>>*</b></i></font></p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 11pt"><i><b>AWARE
meets every Sunday evening</b></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"><i>
5-6pm at the White Horse Inn on John Street in Champaign, near the
UIUC campus. Members and friends of AWARE also present a weekly hour
of discussion on the war -- </i></font>
</p><p align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font style="font-size: 11pt"><i><b>AWARE
on the Air</b></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"><i>,
Tuesdays at 10pm on </i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"><i><b>Urbana
Public Television</b></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt"><i>
cable TV and livestreaming at <<a href="http://urbanapublictelevision.org">urbanapublictelevision.org</a>>;
it's recorded at noon on Tuesdays: to participate, call 217-359-9466.</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><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<font style="font-size: 10pt">____________________</font></p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<font style="font-size: 10pt">*[A member of AWARE, David
Green, is a candidate in the March 18 Democratic primary to oppose
Rep. Davis.]</font></p></body></html>