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<p class="ydpdadc473aMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 23px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><font class="">F</font><font class="">ormer President Barack Obama will receive the “Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government” from the University of
Illinois at Foellinger Auditorium on the UIUC campus on Friday, September 7<sup class="">th</sup>, 11:00 a.m. He will lecture on “authoritarian politics” and the “responsibilities of citizenship.”</font></font></span></p>
<p class="ydpdadc473aMsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" class="" color="#000000">In response and protest, a coalition of local peace and social justice groups plans to voice criticism of Obama’s policies and of the appropriateness of this award,
beginning at 10:00 a.m. in front (on the north side) of Foellinger. </font></p>
<p class="ydpdadc473aMsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" class="" color="#000000">Informed speakers will address Obama’s war-making policies, especially in Libya and Syria, as well as his drone assassination program; his support—even before becoming
President—for the bail-out of Wall Street bankers rather than homeowners, and his continuation of neoliberal economic policies that continued to devastate working families throughout his administration; his deportation policies, which were precedent to those
of the current administration; and his betrayal of campaign promises made to the labor movement in general and regarding pro-union “card check” (Employee Free Choice Act) legislation in particular.</font></p>
<p class="ydpdadc473aMsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><font size="5" class="" color="#000000">Speakers representing a variety of organizations will have an opportunity to counter the university administration-promoted propaganda inherent in this visit, award,
and lecture; and to do so in a truthful and dignified manner that attracts attention to the popular desire for peace and justice, and away from the cult of personality that is inherent in such a visit by a primary representative of American and global ruling
elites.</font></p>
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