[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Speaking the Truth in the Sticks

[Barbara Dyskant]

Hi, 

I was one of the people who went to Sullivan, along with Kit and Emily.
The presentation actually was  surprisingly even-handed (for a seminar like
this), although obviously not everything was presented in agreement with
our views,  and the "military operations" personnel turned out to be an
enlistee who asked a lot of questions.  We made much networking success,
both during the meeting and afterwards, and the teach-in was
well-publicized and is likely to be attended by people we met there.  The
audience-- well, it ran the gamut of views, and it was a prime place for us
to be, in order to educate people, and educate ourselves both as to the
views of the general public and also about history (there was a lot
presented), as well as the added bonus of meeting a few delightful and
principled dissenters from other parts of the state.

I might try to write up something, although it could take a few days-- in
conjunction with others.

My main thrust of reporting is to encourage people to attend this kind of
event-- it's very, very important to have people do it.

Peace,
Barbara



I can't do much this minute -- At 03:31 PM 12/10/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>At 08:29 PM 12/05/2001 -0600, Kit Condill wrote:
>
>>Hello Everybody. This is my first and only e-mail ever. Herewith a 
>>press release from the Sullivan, Illinois News Progress:
>>
>>	"TERROR TOPIC FOR HARRIS
>>	Jonathan Harris, a local resident who recently worked for Time Magazine,
>>	will present a seminar on Middle East violence and the recent terrorist
>attacks
>>	on the United States.
>>
>>	The free, public Community Education seminar 'Why the Terror?' will be
>presented
>>	at 7 PM, Friday, December 7th, at Sullivan High School. Harris spent 
>>       considerable time studying in the Middle East, and military
operations 
>>       personnel will be on hand to contribute to the discussion.
>>
>>	For more information call the Chamber of Commerce at (217) 728-4223 or
>Sullivan
>>	High School at (217) 728-8311."
>>
>>I am going to attend this seminar and use it to publicize the 
>>Teach-in on December 15th and also to challenge what I imagine will 
>>be a fairly obnoxious interpretation of events in Afghanistan and 
>>elsewhere. I expect that the audience for this event will be highly 
>>patriotic and saturated with the ideas being put forth in the 
>>mainstream media. I would appreciate it if anyone who feels they can 
>>do a skillful job of speaking to this kind of audience and opening 
>>their minds without alienating them would attend with me. (I would 
>>also appreciate it if the seminar was on Saturday so we could go to 
>>Karaoke afterwards...but maybe we can just pound a bunch of $2.75 
>>20-ounce beers and pretend it's Karaoke night.)
>
>Kit, I'd be interested to hear how this turned out, if you or anyone else
>feels like writing a bit about it.  You could write the story, e-mail it to
>the Peace-discuss list, and also post the story on the UC-IMC web
>site/newswire.  Thanks,
>
>John Wason
>
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