[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Thanks to everyone!

[Lisa Chason]

what a pleasure to read this the last thing before I go to bed this night...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kranich, Kimberlie" <Kranich at WILL.uiuc.edu>
To: <peace at lists.groogroo.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 5:41 PM
Subject: [Peace] Thanks to everyone!


> Dear Everyone,
>
> We are fabulous group!!! My heart is warmed by our collective energy,
> creativity, consistency and bravery.
>
> Thank you, Ricky, for your summaries of our actions on Prospect. These
> little stories keep the momentum going and show the progress and process
of
> getting others to join us. I was happy to see some new signs on Saturday
> including one that listed our meeting time, date and place. What a smart
way
> to recruit! Though I will be out-of-town and unable to join in next week,
I
> am happy to make some more phone calls.
>
> Our relatively large and consistent numbers has been a slow build. I think
> that it is helpful to remember that just over one year ago Susan Parenti
> organized the first group of anti-war demonstrators. They demonstrated
five
> days a week outside the Urbana Library for weeks on end. Their numbers
were
> much smaller, but they kept on keeping on! I remember seeing her emails
and
> wanting to join them but had a hard time getting over there during the
week.
> Then she added Saturday demonstrations and more people came.  It was
scarier
> back then to stand on the street corner with our anti-war signs.  We still
> get the angry hateful folks today, but more and more people seem
sympathetic
> and are also willing to join us.
>
> So, thank you, Susan Parenti, for being there from the very beginning when
> it was so scary (one time a jogger almost hit one of them and cars more
than
> once drove threatenly close to the curb where the demonstrations were
taking
> place and then squealed away). Susan used to be the one who week after
week
> posted the notices about the demonstrations, made the calls, and organized
> some of the poster making for a group called "Art and Revolution."
>
> And now those efforts have expanded to include many more people. Without
> this expansion, we wouldn't still be a visible force.  My thanks to all of
> the people who expanded our street protests and involved greater numbers.
>
> Thank you, Sandra Ahten, for your peace postcards brainstorm. What a
> spectacular way to use art as political awareness and protest. The
postcards
> are fabulous!
>
> There's more to be thankful for, I am certain. These are just some of the
> things I am thankful for about AWARE. I'm involved because of all of this
> momentum and because so many people have stood up and taken on the
> responsibilities of doing what needs to be done.
>
> This effort is a long haul effort.  And at the one-year plus mark, I
wanted
> to say thanks to everyone who has ever been involved and to those who are
> still involved and to celebrate the peaceful resistance that we have
> collectively sustained.
>
> Here's to another year of more visibility, greater numbers, and more
> peaceful pressure!
>
> Kimberlie
>
>
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