<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">A dozen years ago AWARE split - and was practically destroyed - over racism. A majority (probably) of the then rather large group insisted that presidential aspirant Barack Obama was an anti-war figure whom AWARE should support.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A minority argued that he was a conventional politician who would duplicitously support the war. At least one prominent member of AWARE took the position that one couldn’t treat black politicians the same way one treated white politicians. He and most of the majority eventually left the group.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I wrote about the matter at the time: <<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/09/29/illinois-anti-warriors-and-the-attractive-senator/" class="">http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/09/29/illinois-anti-warriors-and-the-attractive-senator/</a>>.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—CGE</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 10, 2017, at 10:54 PM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Well - I was happy to be among the supportive people when the Black
United Front bravely spoke to the Board of Trustees to put forward
their demands. And though I wasn't able to be there when the
faculty senate considered the #Project1000 proposal, I did spread
the word on facebook that it was happening, and hope others who
wouldn't otherwise have known about it might have attended that.
And I consider myself part of AWARE.<br class="">
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That said, yes, AWARE has generally not tried to live up to the
Anti-Racism in its name, which is there thanks to the words chosen
by Mark Enslin long ago.<br class="">
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<div dir="ltr" class="">Like, we in AWARE want to distribute power more
evenly across the world, but we are unwilling to support the
students trying to seize power and democratize our own
university.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">It still seems weird to me that AWARE is
willing to engage in the long-term work of education, but
will not support Black Students for Revolution or
Project1000 doing concrete anti-racist anti-capitalist
work on campus.</div>
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will distribute the following flyer at the
Champaign Art Theatre Tuesday, May 9, before the
7pm showing of the film "Sonita," part of THE
SEVENTH ART STAND, the Theater's film series
against Islamophobia & the #MuslimBan. […]<br class="">
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The U.S. is Illegally Making War in the Mideast<br class="">
Pres. Trump: Bring U.S. Troops and Weapons Home<br class="">
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The U.S. military is today killing people in seven
Mideast and African countries - Afghanistan, Iraq,
Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan.
Thousands of U.S. troops are fighting in these
countries, although most Americans don’t know
that. In addition, the 70,000-member U.S. ‘Special
Operations Command’ - American death squads - are
active in three-quarters of the countries of the
world. Their activities include kidnapping
(‘rendition’), torture, and murder.<br class="">
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[Map of Iran, surrounded by US military bases]<br class="">
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The U.S. government says that we’re fighting
terrorism, but we are in fact creating terrorists
- in response particularly to the drone
assassinations, “the most extreme terrorist
campaign of modern times” - which have killed more
than 5,000 people, including U.S. citizens and
hundreds of children.<br class="">
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Since World War II ended in 1945, the U.S. has
attempted to exercise military control over the
Mideast and its energy resources. The U.S. doesn’t
need oil from the Mideast, but Mideast gas and oil
are needed by America’s economic competitors in
Europe and Asia, and so control over them gives
the U.S. a major advantage over China, Germany,
and other countries - a chokehold which benefits
only the American economic elite, the one percent.
In 2003 the US illegally invaded Iraq - and killed
perhaps a million people for that purpose - and
now has thousands of troops and mercenaries
throughout the Mideast.<br class="">
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Those of us in AWARE, like other anti-war groups
in the United States and around the world, call
upon President Trump to<br class="">
~ (1) establish a foreign policy based on
diplomacy, international law, and human rights;<br class="">
~ (2) end U.S. wars in the Mideast and war
provocations against Russia (in Eastern Europe)
and China (in the South China Sea), and stop the
drone assassinations;<br class="">
~ (3) cut military spending by at least 50% and
close the more than 700 foreign military bases
(neither Russia nor China has more than twelve);
bring U.S. troops (and weapons) home;<br class="">
~ (4) stop U.S. support for human rights abusers,
notably Israel and Saudi Arabia; and<br class="">
~ (5) lead on global nuclear disarmament.<br class="">
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ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at <AWARE of Champaign-Urbana Illinois>:<br class="">
~ U.S. troops & weapons out of the Mideast ~ Medicare for all ~ Universal basic income ~<br class="">
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