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AWARE's next anti-war demonstration is tomorrow, Saturday, May 7th,
at the usual time and place - 2:00-4:00PM, corner of Main and Neil,
downtown Champaign.<br>
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Please join us if you'd like to stand against the wars!<br>
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(Keep an eye on the weather. Thunderstorms are possible, and we
might not stay out if they do come.)<br>
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Our wars are still going on, NATO crowds the borders of Russia, it
hasn't been a good year for peace.<br>
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Still we can be inspired by the late Daniel Berrigan, who left us a
week ago, on April 30th - on the 41st anniversary of the end of the
Vietnam War which he steadfastly opposed:<br>
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<a
href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/daniel-berrigan-my-dangerous-friend"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/daniel-berrigan-my-dangerous-friend">http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/daniel-berrigan-my-dangerous-friend</a></a><br>
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And inspired too by the feeling of being global citizens, which more
than half of people around the world said they considered stronger
than their feeling of being citizens of their own state. David
Swanson writes:<br>
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<b><font size="2"><font face="arial"> </font></font></b><b>What
Is a Global Citizen, and Can it Save Us?</b><br>
<big><font color="black" size="2"><big><a
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__davidswanson.org_node_5133&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=CchvPtbhV68GlFbtnZqW5H5Rw2afnmPRULFDxuaCJuQ&s=-9VanGa_l8d-mXVsXIIvBWGSS0om_mMConTMoowbIuY&e="
target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://davidswanson.org/node/5133">http://davidswanson.org/node/5133</a></a><br>
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for example:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="arial" color="black" size="2">[...] So how
do we think like world citizens? Try this. Read an article about
a distant place. Think: "That happened to some of us." By "us"
mean humanity. Read an article about peace activists protesting
war who say aloud "We are bombing innocent people," identifying
themselves with the U.S. military. Work at it until you can find
such statements incomprehensible. Search online for articles
mentioning "enemy." Correct them to reflect the fact that
everyone has the same enemies: war, environmental destruction,
disease, starvation. Search for "them" and "those people" and
change it to us and we humans.</font></blockquote>
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