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<div class="">We get a lot of horn honks, and a lot of positive comments from people, when demonstrating, some people take our photo’s which I find amusing, as if we are an anachronism. Of course, on occasion some of us get a few fingers and fu’s, or verbal
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<div class="">PS Let me know how your crossing the border to Canada goes, I’ve been told you need your passport, when going to and from Canada, since 9/11, I wonder if that is still true?</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">I hope to be in Canada. Will be finding out what returning thru a border is like for a white, cis, older couple. Just got to see the Rivera murals in the Detroit Institute of Art for the first time. So taking time off to re-charge.
There was a protest in downtown Detroit Sunday July 2. We honked and waved to show support going by. We did not know about it ahead of time and it was mostly over by 330. Anne Bjornson Parkinson</div>
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<div dir="auto" class=""><b class="">From: </b>Karen Aram via Peace-discuss<peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net class=""></peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net></div>
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I’m willing to talk, but even those who claim to be anti-capitalist can’t be bothered to join our AWARE anti-war movement, we’re the only group in town without a political agenda, other than stopping war and funding programs to eleviate poverty.
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">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 class=""></o:p></span></div>
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Stuart will be marching with the Immigration Forum, he said they are protesting against the USG.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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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 class=""></o:p></div>
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“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 class="">
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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
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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
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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,
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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 class="">
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