[Peace-discuss] new flyer

[Ricky Baldwin]

I think Carl has a good idea.  Who's willing to help
with this?

Ricky


--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
wrote:
> I like it.  And I like the idea of quotations. 
> Should more be added?
> 
> We should have leaflets ready for the events noted
> below -- the first two
> are Monday and Tuesday of this week.  The topics and
> speakers are (for the
> most part...) painfully conventional -- the whole
> things smacks of a
> standard academic pacification campaign -- but
> perhaps the unnamed student
> participants will liven it up.
> 
> I'm willing to do some leafletting and/or person a
> table with literature
> on Monday and Tuesday.  Perhaps we should do some
> Commondreams and Znet
> hardcopies (Roy, Fisk, Chomsky, etc.)  The whole
> thing seems to be
> designed to convince people that things are getting
> back together,
> competent professionals are in command, there's no
> cause for alarm, etc.,
> etc.  Maybe we can suggest something else.
> 
> 	=====================================
> 	From http://www.oc.uiuc.edu/oc/forum/
> 	=====================================
> 
> 	CAMPUS FORUM EVENT SERIES
>  	The Nation and International Conflict:
> 	Impacts on the Community, World, Country and
> Individual
>  
> This student-faculty forum series will examine the
> implications of ongoing
> conflict between the United States and countries and
> non-state actors
> across the globe. Each session will consist of three
> faculty presentations
> and student panel responses, followed by presenters'
> replies to questions
> from the audience.
> 
> All sessions will be held at the University of
> Illinois at
> Urbana-Champaign in 100 Noyes Lab. Free and Open to
> the Public
> 
> Information Resources on the Nation and
> International Conflict
> 
> "The hope of democracy depends upon the diffusion of
> knowledge and
> wisdom."
> 
> These words are carved above the entrance of the
> Main Library on the
> University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana campus.
> On April 21, 2003
> members of the campus community will join together
> to discuss and debate
> the military conflict in Iraq. The following
> webpage,
> http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/iraq.htm is brought
> to you by the
> University Library in an effort to inform this
> debate. This page is not
> comprehensive. The individuals developing the page
> hope to provide
> material on both sides of the debate and provide the
> user with the means
> to explore the issues raised in more depth.
> 
> Sponsored by: The Office of the Chancellor, the
> Office of the Provost, the
> Student Peace Action Registered Student
> Organization, Program in Arms
> Control, Disarmament, and International Security
> (ACDIS), Global
> Crossroads, History, International Programs and
> Studies, College of Law,
> the University Library, Department of Philosophy,
> Department of Political
> Science, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern
> Studies and the Program
> for the Study of Religion.
>  
> 
> *Monday, April 21, 7:00-10:00 pm - 100 Noyes
> Laboratory
> 
> Impacts on the Community: Explore the impact on U.S.
> and foreign nationals
> engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.
> 
> Academic Freedoms (Matt Finkin, Law)
> 
> Libraries and Privacy (Leigh Estabrook, Library and
> Information Science
> and Sociology)
> 
> International Student and Scholar Community (Ivor
> Emmanuel, Office of
> International Student Affairs)
> 
> Student responders to be announced
> 
> To submit questions for these topics, send the
> following information:
> Forum date, topic or speaker you are sending the
> question to, your name
> and email address and your question.to:
> forum at admin.uiuc.edu
> 
> 
> *Tuesday, April 22, 3:00-5:00 pm - 100 Noyes
> Laboratory
> 
> Impacts on the World: Look at the future of Iraq and
> its interaction with
> the global community.
> 
> Physical Reconstruction in Iraq: At What Cost and
> Who Pays? (Hadi
> Esfahani, Economics)
> 
> Political Reconstruction in Iraq: What is Possible,
> What is Likely? (Ed
> Kolodziej, Political Science)
> 
> Arms Control and Disarmament: Iraq and the
> International Context (Cliff
> Singer, ACDIS and Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological
> Engineering)
> 
> Student responders to be announced
> 
> To submit questions for these topics, send the
> following information:
> Forum date, topic or speaker you are sending the
> question to, your name
> and email address and your question.to:
> forum at admin.uiuc.edu
> 
>  
> *Monday, April 28, 7:00-10:00 pm - 100 Noyes
> Laboratory
> 
> Impacts on the Country: Examine economic
> implications of war and homeland
> defense for the global and U.S. economies.
> 
> Stable Oil Prices: Needed and Practicable? (Hadi
> Esfahani, Economics)
> 
> Guns and Tax Cuts: Economically Sustainable? (Robert
> Resek, Economics)
> 
> Guns and Tax Cuts: Politically Sustainable? (Paul
> Quirk, Institute of
> Government and Public Affairs and Political Science)
> 
> Student responders will participate
> 
> To submit questions for these topics, send the
> following information:
> Forum date, topic or speaker you are sending the
> question to, your name
> and email address and your question.to:
> forum at admin.uiuc.edu
> 
>  
> *Tuesday, April 29, 3:00-5:00 pm - 100 Noyes
> Laboratory
> 
> Impacts on the Individual: Examine questions of
> ethics and conscience in
> troubling times.
> 
> The Role of Religion in This Conflict (Robert McKim,
> Philosophy and
> Religious Studies)
> 
> Constraints from Ethics in War (Dwight Roblyer,
> ACDIS)
> 
> Conscience on Campus: Morality, Military
> Recruitment, and Conscientious
> Objection (Monsignor Stuart Swetland, Religious
> Studies and Newman
> Foundation)
> 
> Student responders will participate
> 
> To submit questions for these topics, send the
> following information:
> Forum date, topic or speaker you are sending the
> question to, your name
> and email address and your question.to:
> forum at admin.uiuc.edu
> 
>  
>
===============================================================
> 
> 
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Ricky Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > Unless anyone has serious objections, I'd like to
> ask for help
> > distributing and posting a new flyer inviting
> people to join us on
> > Prospect every week.
> > 
> > I've made up a simple one, text below.  Anyone who
> wants it as a Word
> > attachment, please let me know and I'll send it to
> you right away.
> > 
> > Ricky
> > 
> > [Picture this centered, with the first lines big
> and bold, etc.]
> > 
> > OCCUPATION IS NOT LIBERATION
> > 
> > Protest
> > 
> > THIS SATURDAY 2-4 pm N. Prospect & Marketview
> Champaign
> > 
> > "Never I thought this would happen to my country. 
> Now, I think, my
> > sadness will never go away." – Iraqi mother
> > 
> > "We're very glad to be rid of Saddam, but we don't
> trust the
> > Americans… We don't want a new dictator." – Iraqi
> protester
> > 
> > “What was promised to Afghans with the collapse of
> the Taliban was a
> > new life of hope and change.  But what was
> delivered? Nothing.
> > Everyone is back in business,” – Afghan President
> Hamid Karzai’s
> > brother
> > 
> > Sponsored by AWARE (Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort).
> > 
> > 
> 
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