Fwd: Re: [Peace-discuss] discussion please

[Alfred Kagan]

Folks, Remember that we once decided to use the theme: "Another World 
is Possible."  I still like it, and it encompasses all the issues 
that we need to bring out.


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>I've been thinking about this, too; and I think Lisa's exactly right.  We
>should be careful about doing something that appears jovial on the
>11th.  (I think we'll have more latitude if we plan activities for
>the one-year anniversary of the bombing.  Maybe a game of "where's
>Osama", for instance.)
>
>The theme that continues to work for me is Mother Jones' famous sentiment,
>"Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living."  Solemn yet
>defiant.
>
>Knowing that we need concrete suggestions, I'd propose this:
>
>"Pray": A memorial luncheon on the quad.  A simple bread and soup affair,
>open to all with an open mic and perhaps a couple prepared statements.
>
>"Fight": A parade demonstrating our opposition to policies that escalate
>violence against others and thereby endangers US citizens.  The parade
>should pass by the Armory ("don't allow yourselves to be ordered into a
>dirty war") and the FBI ("America declines as the FBI grows"). 
>
>The theme we express to the public could be MJ's statement.
>
>Just a thought.
>
>-Peter
>
>
>On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Lisa Chason wrote:
>
>>  Dear friends,
>>  I don't know about anyone else but I am having a really hard time getting
>>  behind our plan for a picnic and parade on 9/11. We tried to discuss it a
>>  bit at Sunday's meeting and ideally I would have been more clear and
>>  resolute at that time, but alas I wasn't, and I find that as the plans
>>  progress I'm more and more uncomfortable. On Monday I was asked to submit an
>>  item for the community calendar that the Walk for Peace group is organizing.
>>  I sent them the following blurb, thinking that our Protest for Peace would
>>  contrast nicely with their Walk for Peace:
>>
>>  AWARE and Student Peace Action will hold a Protest for Peace Picnic and
>>  Parade on September 11 starting at 12:00 noon on the main quad of the
>>  University. Booths and activities will highlight the political impact 9/11
>>  has had, followed by a march through downtown Champaign to the building that
>>  houses the local FBI to demonstrate against the curtailment of civil
>>  liberties and the homeland spying movement.
>>
>>  My problem is with the 'picnic and parade'. Frankly, I find the jovial
>>  quality it elicits in serious bad taste for that day.
>>
>>  Maybe a 'Protest for Peace Rally: 9/11 and its after-effects' that continues
>>  to have booths and tables on the quad, perhaps even cut out the parade thru
>>  Champaign and instead stay on the quad with some speakers, and have one of
>>  the booths concern the FBI-related issues...
>>
>>  I'd like to open this up for more discussion. Not because I want to talk it
>>  to death but because I think it matters WHAT we do, and it's especially
>  > important to get it right on this day.
>>
>>  Lisa
>>
>>
>>
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