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Winter it may be, but the wars and threat of more go on, so ...<br>
<br>
please join AWARE for <b>any part of</b> our monthly anti-war
demonstration<br>
<br>
2-4PM, Saturday, January 4th<br>
corner of Main and Neil, downtown Champaign<br>
<br>
Two present causes -<br>
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A bipartisan move in Congress - led, among others, by our own
Senator Kirk - is pushing a bill that would undermine the Obama
Administration's negotiations with Iran. The negotiations, if
successful, would agree on monitoring and limiting Iran's nuclear
development in exchange for some relief of sanctions. AIPAC, and
their allies in Congress, are seeking to torpedo the negotiations -
see e.g. M. J. Rosenberg's review of the bill, S. 1881, here:<br>
<br>
<a
href="http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2013/12/19/another-aipac-bill-designed-to-get-us-into-a-war-with-iran/">http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2013/12/19/another-aipac-bill-designed-to-get-us-into-a-war-with-iran/</a><br>
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Many groups have been speaking out against the bill, including Iraq
Veterans Against the War/Vietnam Veterans Against the War (who just
demonstrated outside Sen. Kirk's Chicago office this week); <a
href="http://justforeignpolicy.org/">Just Foreign Policy</a>; as
well as liberal pro-Israel groups such as Americans for Peace Now
and J Street.<br>
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The Senate reconvenes next week.<br>
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It's important that our Senators know that pursuing this bill means
promoting war with Iran, and that that is something the American
people do not want.<br>
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Rather than promoting war, we should promote people. As a late
Christmas present, millions of unemployed in the US found that the
extension of unemployment insurance had been allowed by Congress to
expire. Some (including our Rep. Davis) say that offering
unemployment insurance makes it too easy for people to stay
unemployed. We could better say that our economic recovery
remains mediocre, at best, that too many of the jobs that are
created are poor compared with those which were lost, and that there
are still many more job seekers than there are jobs for them. We
need unemployment insurance, along with the whole suite of programs
for social improvement that our predecessors have fought for and so
must we.<br>
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If you come by this Saturday, bundle up - it'll be a bit milder but
very windy. In any case, whatever you do, speak out for peace!<br>
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