<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 36px; font-family: Times;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A.W.A.R.E.</div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;" class=""><b class="">The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana</b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""></i></b><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">The U.S. government is waging illegal wars around the world</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">and secretly twisting the international economy via ‘trade pacts’</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">like the TPP for the benefit of less than 1% of the U.S. population.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; min-height: 18px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;" class=""><b class="">Join our demonstration the first Saturday of every month,</b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;" class=""><b class="">at the intersection of Church and Neil in Champaign, 2-4pm. </b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; min-height: 18px;" class=""><i class=""></i><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Meet with us on Saturdays at the indoor market at Lincoln Square</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">in Urbana for books, bumper stickers, literature, and conversation.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; min-height: 18px;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""></i></b><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Watch our weekly Urbana Public Television (channel 6) program </i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">“AWARE on the Air” (also on YouTube) or join us at noon Tuesdays</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">in the Urbana City Council Chambers for the live unrehearsed recordings. </i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class="">We meet Sundays at 5pm at Cafeteria & Company, 208 W. Main, Urbana.</b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class="">New members welcome: for information write us at <i class=""><</i></b><a href="mailto:aware@anti-war.net" class=""><b class=""><i class="">aware@anti-war.net</i></b></a><b class=""><i class="">></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class="">***</b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: 16px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-family: Baskerville;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class=""><i class="">President Obama is making war in eight countries;</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-family: Baskerville;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class=""><i class="">he is sending U.S. ‘special forces’ into more than 3/4 of the</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-family: Baskerville;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class=""><i class="">countries around the world; he has assassinated thousands</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-family: Baskerville;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class=""><i class="">by drone - the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-family: Baskerville;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class=""><i class="">times; and he is provoking war with Russia and China.</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class=""><i class=""></i></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 13px;" class=""><b class="">Contact the president (202-456-1111) and our representatives in Congress (202-224-3121):</b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 13px;" class=""><b class="">tell them to end the wars and drone attacks, cut military spending by at least half, bring the</b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 13px;" class=""><b class="">troops home, and close the US military’s 1,000 foreign bases; stop US support for - and </b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 13px;" class=""><b class="">arms sales to - human rights abusers like Israel, and lead on global nuclear disarmament. </b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; min-height: 12px;" class=""><b style="text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; min-height: 12px;" class=""><b style="text-align: justify;" class="">President Barack Obama <i class="">- <<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments" class="">http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments</a>></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; min-height: 12px;" class=""><b style="text-align: justify;" class="">Senator Dick Durbin<i class=""> - <<a href="http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email" class="">http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email</a>></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; min-height: 12px;" class=""><b style="text-align: justify;" class="">Senator Mark Kirk<i class=""> - <<a href="http://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=comment_on_legislation" class="">http://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=comment_on_legislation</a>></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; min-height: 12px;" class=""><b style="text-align: justify;" class="">Representative Rodney Davis<i class=""> - <<a href="https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me" class="">https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me</a>></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center; margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;" class="">[verso]</div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class=""><i class="">AWARE ~ The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana ~ 2 January 2016</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><b class=""><i class=""></i></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px;" class=""><b class="">STOPPING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S WARS</b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; min-height: 12px;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""></i></b><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it ... </i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Obama's drone program is the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times." --Noam Chomsky</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">“You can't bomb terrorism out of existence. Terrorism survives war.” --Phyllis Bennis</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left; margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; min-height: 12px;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""></i></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px;" class="">To: Editor, Champaign-Urbana News Gazette</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px;" class="">From: AWARE, the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; text-align: justify;" class=""><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>For 14 years the Bush-Obama administrations have been killing people in the Mideast. </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; text-align: justify;" class=""><i class="">They say they are fighting terrorism, but they are in fact creating terrorists in response </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; text-align: justify;" class=""><i class="">to US military control over Mideast energy resources, which benefits only </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; text-align: justify;" class=""><i class="">the world-wide economic control of the American 1%. </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; text-align: justify;" class=""><i class="">The US doesn’t need oil from the Mideast, but Mideast gas and oil are needed </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; text-align: justify;" class=""><i class="">by America’s economic competitors in Europe and Asia, and so control over them</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; text-align: justify;" class=""><i class=""> gives the US government a major advantage over China, Germany, and other countries. </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; text-align: justify;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>President Obama has attacked eight countries (two more than President Bush), </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; text-align: justify;" class="">and his ongoing drone campaign (the NY Times says he chooses the targets himself) </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; text-align: justify;" class="">has already killed more than 6,000 people, including US citizens and hundreds of children. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; text-align: justify;" class="">He directs a private presidential army (‘special operations forces’) of more than 70,000, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; text-align: justify;" class="">active in more than 3/4 of the countries in the world. Their activities include kidnapping </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; text-align: justify;" class="">(‘rendition’), torture and murder. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>We must demand of Obama and his successor (probably Clinton), that he</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" class=""><i class=""></i><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">(1) end his drone killings;</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" class=""><i class=""></i><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">(2) bring all US troops (and mercenaries) home;</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" class=""><i class=""></i><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">(3) close the 1,000 foreign US bases in the Mideast and elsewhere </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">(no other country has more than twelve); </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" class=""><i class=""></i><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">(4) end the provocations of Russia (in Ukraine) and China (in the South China Sea); </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" class=""><i class=""></i><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">(5) end support for Israel's apartheid policies; and </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 15px;" class=""><i class=""></i><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">(6) support negotiations among the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">Syria, Iraq, and the Kurds to end the Syrian and Iraqi civil wars.</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: center;" class="">*** </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;" class=""><i class="">“‘Turns out I'm really good at killing people,’ Obama said quietly.</i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;" class=""><i class="">‘Didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.’”</i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;" class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;" class=""><i class="">###</i></b></div></body></html>