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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Maybe we should begin plans for 2018, with a coalition of anti-war / anti-capitalist people from many of C-U’s organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David J.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Karen Aram [mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 02, 2017 4:10 PM<br><b>To:</b> David Johnson<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Why I won’t be marching in the July 4th parade<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Stuart will be marching with the Immigration Forum, he said they are protesting against the USG. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I have nothing creative to offer, but you might check with David Green, he has our signs and he might be going. There really isn’t anyone else to make much of a contingent. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jul 2, 2017, at 13:59, David Johnson <<a href="mailto:davidjohnson1451@comcast.net">davidjohnson1451@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I understand Karen and Carl, but it is a shame, considering the past years AWARE presence in the parade and it’s creative and powerful anti-war ; float / procession / theme.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Out of sight, out of mind !</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David J.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Peace-discuss [<a href="mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net">mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net</a>]<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></b>Karen Aram via Peace-discuss<br><b>Sent:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Sunday, July 02, 2017 3:25 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>C. G. Estabrook<br><b>Cc:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>; <a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>; <a href="mailto:prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net">prairiegreens@lists.chambana.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class=apple-converted-space> </span>Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Why I won’t be marching in the July 4th parade</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1D2129;letter-spacing:-.2pt;background:#F6F7F9'> </span><span class=uficommentbody><span style='font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129;letter-spacing:-.2pt;background:#F6F7F9'>I won</span></span><span class=uficommentbody><span style='font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1D2129;letter-spacing:-.2pt;background:#F6F7F9'>’</span></span><span class=uficommentbody><span style='font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129;letter-spacing:-.2pt;background:#F6F7F9'>t be going either, and its not just due to the heat, and my asthma There is little to celebrate with the continued injustice towards the working class, with the lack of healthcare, murder of people of color by our militarized police, continuing austerity and most of all the continuation of murders and destruction of millions around the globe, being perpetuated by the USG. We should be protesting, and some of us did yesterday.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jul 2, 2017, at 12:34, C. G. Estabrook via Peace <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net"><span style='color:purple'>peace@lists.chambana.net</span></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>“Champaign County. Freedom Celebration, ‘Salute To Education,’ includes a morning Youth Race and a 5K Race/walk, a parade at 11:05 a.m. begins near First and Florida, continues East on Florida to Lincoln Avenue then proceeds North on Lincoln Avenue to California. Evening entertainment at 7 p.m., corner of Kirby Avenue and First Street. Fireworks at 9:15 p.m., lunched [sic] from UI parking lot E14, west of State Farm Center.” [C-U News-Gazette]<br>======================================<br><br>AWARE has in years past been a notable presence in the July 4th parade in Champaign-Urbana. Talented AWAREists have presented anti-war floats and displays, often mocking the official patriotic themes of the event. (One AWARE entry under a ‘war heroes’ theme featured huge photos of courageous war resisters.)<br><br>But I’ve been convinced by Doug, long-time friend of AWARE, that any participation in the celebration of the shockingly misnamed “war of independence” lends support to the heavily mythologized tradition of America’s ‘good wars.’<br><br>None of them was good, including the ‘war against fascism,’ used by US propaganda to justify imperialist war from 1945 to the present day.<br><br>The poets often get there first: see Philip K. Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle” (1962) - a literary meditation, as in a distorting mirror, of how war can be used to justify further war. More directly, in “Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization” (2008), Nicholson Baker provides the history of the coming of WWII: Americans born since then have been systematically deprived of an historically accurate account - and not innocently, but to support Americas' subsequent wars.<br><br>We miseducated Americans have allowed US presidents to kill between 20 and 30 million people since 1945, for the profits of the US 1%.<br><br>In a lecture more than 40 years ago, just as the repressive policies of neoliberalism began to be adopted by all subsequent administrations (criticizing it made Trump president), the late Howard Zinn exposed the Fourth of July mythology. See the appended article, “Rethinking the Fourth of July,” with references to the important observations of historians Ray Raphael and Gerald Horne.<br><br>I don’t now see how I can oppose the propaganda of the Fourth of July celebrations and still participate, even in a critical way. I’ll stay home and watch the Red Sox play. --CGE<br><br><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-bigelow/rethinking-the-fourth-of-july_b_5552378.html"><span style='color:purple'>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-bigelow/rethinking-the-fourth-of-july_b_5552378.html</span></a><br><br>###<br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Peace@lists.chambana.net"><span style='color:purple'>Peace@lists.chambana.net</span></a><br><a href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace"><span style='color:purple'>https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>