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(1) Several of us from CUCPJ and AWARE met on Sat. afternoon in the
IMC's basement family room, made a bunch of signs for the 4th of
July parade, and planned for more. We're meeting again *this
evening*:<br>
<br>
around 6PM, Sunday 6/30, in the basement Family Room of the
Independent Media Center<br>
at Broadway and Elm, downtown Urbana.<br>
<br>
Enter by the small set of stairs that lead down from the street<br>
on the Elm St (north) side of the building.<br>
<br>
We have markers, paints, posterboard, cloth for a banner, etc.<br>
<br>
We'll probably be talking about signs and parade stuff<br>
at tonight's AWARE meeting (5pm, White Horse bar, 6th and John
St).<br>
Also, we have our monthly demonstration next weekend, July 6th.<br>
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(2) See this film if you can - preferably this Tuesday evening, July
2nd:<br>
<br>
<b>"Dirty Wars"</b><b>,</b> documentary following the work of
journalist<b> Jeremy Scahill<br>
7:30PM Tuesday, 7/2</b> at the<b> Art Theater</b> in
Champaign<br>
<b>with discussion to follow,</b> led by Niloofar Shambayati<br>
<br>
(it'll be shown at other times too, though without discussion:<br>
11:30am Wed 7/3; 5:00pm Thu 7/4; and 11:30am Sat 7/6)<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">... a gripping journey into the heart of
America’s covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia and
beyond. What begins as a report into a U.S. night raid gone
terribly wrong in a remote corner of Afghanistan quickly turns
into a global investigation of the secretive and powerful Joint
Special Operations Command [...] Drawn into the stories and lives
of the people he meets along the way, Scahill is forced to
confront the painful consequences of a war spinning out of
control, as well as his own role as a journalist. Dirty Wars takes
viewers to remote corners of the globe to see first-hand wars
fought in their name, leaving haunting questions about freedom and
democracy, war and justice. </blockquote>
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(3) Journalist Glenn Greenwald spoke last Friday to the Socialism
2013 conference in Chicago about what Edward Snowden has revealed on
the U.S. surveillance state, about the contagious nature of courage,
about the corruption of mainstream journalism, and other topics - a
good talk. And a great introduction by Jeremy Scahill. Watch it
here:<br>
<br>
<a
href="http://wearemany.org/v/2013/06/glenn-greenwald-speaks-out">http://wearemany.org/v/2013/06/glenn-greenwald-speaks-out</a><br>
<br>
(Early on Greenwald mentions the Guardian (UK), for which he
writes, having just received one of the highest honors of world
journalism. Not a Peabody award, Pulitzer prize, ... - this is
better still - he reports that the US Army now blocks access to the
Guardian web site from all Army locations around the world. Maybe
they recognize the courage is contagious, too.)<br>
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