<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 36px; font-family: Times;" class=""><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11px;" class="">[RECTO]</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 36px; font-family: Times;" class="">A.W.A.R.E.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><b class="">The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; min-height: 21px;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""></i></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">The U.S. government is waging illegal wars around the world</i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">and secretly twisting the international economy via ‘trade pacts’</i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">(TPP, TTIP) for the benefit of less than 1% of the U.S. population.</i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; min-height: 18px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><b class="">Join our demonstration the first Saturday of every month,</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><b class="">at the intersection of Church and Neil in Champaign, 2-4pm</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; min-height: 18px;" class=""><i class=""></i><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Meet with us Saturdays at the Urbana Farmers’ Market (Lincoln </i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Square) for books, bumper stickers, literature, and conversation</i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; min-height: 18px;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""></i></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">Watch our weekly Urbana Public Television (channel 6) program </i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">“AWARE on the Air” (also on YouTube), and/or join us at noon Tuesdays</i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">in the Urbana City Council Chambers for the live unrehearsed recordings </i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px; min-height: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class="">We meet Sundays at 5pm at Cafeteria & Company, 208 W. Main, Urbana;</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; 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="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 16px;" class=""><b class="">***</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 14px; min-height: 16px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; 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="margin: 0px; text-align: center; 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="margin: 0px; text-align: center; 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="margin: 0px; text-align: center; 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="margin: 0px; text-align: center; 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="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="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 13px;" class=""><b class="">Contact the president (202-456-1111) and our representatives in Congress (202-224-3121):</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; 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="margin: 0px; text-align: center; 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="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 13px;" class=""><b class="">arms sales to - human rights abusers like Israel, and lead on global nuclear disarmament. </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 11px; min-height: 12px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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>><br class="">
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i>Senator Dick Durbin<i class=""> - <<a href="http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email" class="">http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email</a>><br class="">
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i>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>><br class="">
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></i>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="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 11px;" class=""><b class="">[VERSO]</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">AWARE will have people marching with signs in the Champaign County Freedom Celebration</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">on July 4 <i class=""><<a href="http://www.july4th.net/" class="">http://www.july4th.net/</a>>.</i> The theme is “Celebrate America!” </div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class="">AWARE will CELEBRATE AMERICA'S HISTORY OF PROTEST.</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">Although the U.S. government is (as Martin Luther King said) “the greatest purveyor of violence</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">in the world today,” Americans have protested all of the wars that U.S. governments have gotten</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">into, from the beginning. President John Adams wrote in 1813, “The middle third [is] the</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">soundest part of the Nation and always averse to War.”</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 14px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class="">AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 1775-83:</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">American leaders encourage separation from Britain not for ‘liberty’ but to protect the slave</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">economy from British threats to abolish it. They establish a Constitution not for democracy but</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">to "protect the minority of the opulent [the rich] against the majority" (James Madison).</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 14px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class="">AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1860-65:</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">Lincoln and the Republicans attack the South not to free the slaves but to bring the whole</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">country’s economy under Northern control. ("A house divided against itself cannot stand.")</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 14px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class="">WORLD WAR I 1917-18:</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">President Wilson is re-elected in 1916 on the slogan, “He kept us out of war!” - while he is</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">scheming with New York banks to get the U.S. into the First World War. (His Creel Commission</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">produces propaganda for war from leading intellectuals.)</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class="">WORLD WAR II 1941-45:</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">President Roosevelt uses Pearl Harbor (probably known in advance) to get an anti-war public to</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">continue the fight for U.S. control of the Pacific, while Russia defeats Germany in Europe.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class="">KOREA 1950-53</b>:</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">President Truman uses atomic bombs to show U.S. military superiority to the post-WWII world,</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">then uses Russia and China to “scare hell out of the American people” to continue war economy.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class="">VIETNAM 1962-75:</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">President Kennedy carpet-bombs and sends troops to deter “the threat of a good example” - a</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">post-colonial society developing outside U.S. world economic control (the ‘domino theory’).</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class="">TERROR WARS I: CENTRAL AMERICA 1981-96</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">President Reagan plans to do in Central America what Kennedy did in Vietnam but is prevented</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">by post-Vietnam anti-war sentiment; so he sponsors proxy wars throughout the region.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><b class="">TERROR WARS II: MIDEAST 1991-ongoing</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">President Bush I attacks Iraq in 1991 to “kick the Vietnam syndrome” [= the public’s aversion to</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">war post-Vietnam] and begin a generation of U.S. attacks on the Mideast to control its energy</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">resources. Greatest antiwar demonstrations in U.S. and world history take place before</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">President Bush II’s lying invasion of Iraq. President Obama continues and expands the wars </div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class="">after lying that he opposed them, to get elected.</div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">“...what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge.” [The Tempest 2.1]</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-size: 12px; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><i class="">###</i></div></body></html>