[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] is AWARE aware?

[Alfred Kagan]

Except that we may need to move quickly.  I have put it on our next agenda.

At 4:04 PM -0500 10/31/02, Ricky Baldwin wrote:
>Hey Margaret -
>
>I think that's a great idea.  Let's invite him one Sunday night for 
>a brief presentation with short Q&A.  Thanks for bringing it up, 
>Susan.
>
>Any further discussion should probably happen on the peace-discuss 
>list, though.  ;-)
>
>Ricky
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>From: "Margaret E. Kosal"
>To: peace at lists.groogroo.com
>Subject: Re: [Peace] is AWARE aware?
>Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:07:17 -0600
>Susan -
>You bring up some very good points!
>Surprisingly, the News-Gazette ('News-Gazoo') coverage has been 
>sympathetic to Dr. Henry's supporters. (Full disclosure - i was 
>substantially quoted & given the last word in Wednesday's article.)
>Are folks aware that there is a "Street Media Center" (just off 1st 
>at Chester)?
>John Lee Johnson might be a candidate for invitation to AWARE 
>meeting or as a guest presenter at the School?
>At least one of us, is living a lot closer than 2 miles.
>Namaste,
>Margaret ... dangerously over-educated
>At 08:24 AM 10/31/2002 -0600, parenti susan rose wrote:
>  >Are we in AWARE aware of what is happening in our own town?
>  >
>  >I would like to add to our concerns, and to Sunday's meeting agenda,
>  >the
>  >racist activities that are going on right now: the Champaign school
>  >board
>  >is holding hearings to fire Delores Henry(I think I have it spelled
>  >right), an AFrican-American woman hired in 1998 to address the
>  >overt-
>  >racism in Champaign schools. The school board is all white, and they
>  >claim
>  >now that because of 'confidential matters' they will not let the
>  >pbulic
>  >witness their law proceedings against her. Delores has indicated
>  >that she
>  >wants the public at these sessions, and wants as many of us possible
>  >to
>  >watch what the school board is doing, and to intervene.
>  >
>  >Can our anti-war emphasis take on the 'anti-racism' commitment that
>  >our
>  >name implies? Especially as this is a local battle, against a global
>  >problem, being played out 2 miles away from us.
>  >
>  >Can Student Peace Action join in? Campus groups are unaware of the
>  >racism
>  >in the local schools here, and of what is happening to Delores
>  >Henry. The
>  >more educated you get, the more distant from local concerns, it
>  >seems. Yuck.
>  >
>  >Susan Parenti
>  >
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