[Peace-discuss] Coordinating activities

[Kranich, Kimberlie]

Please see below.

Once we announce our evening vigil at Westside PArk, we can cross-promote
events.

Another item for Sunday's agenda?

I'm not offering to do any of the work for this activity. I'm merely
forwarding things on and making connections. 

Kimberlie

-----Original Message-----
Subject: Emergency response rally to oppose war on Iraq


NO WAR AGAINST IRAQ!

EMERGENCY RESPONSE RALLY TO OPPOSE BUSH'S WAR ON IRAQ
12 NOON * Day after the war begins * University of IL Quad

Join with others in voicing your opposition to the war!

-- NO to unilateral, pre-emptive military aggression against Iraq
-- NO to further endangering the lives of the Iraqi people
-- NO to sending our children and loved ones to die in war
-- NO to the elimination of civil liberties at home
-- NO to an expanded military budget when we need health care & jobs
-- YES to peace, justice, democracy, and civil rights for all!

For more information or to be placed on the EMERGENCY RESPONSE PHONE
TREE, contact the PRC at (217) 352-8721 or e-mail prc at prairienet.org.
The phone tree will be used to notify people of the date and others
details of the rally as soon as the war begins.

Organized by the Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative (PRC).

Co-sponsored by: 85% Coalition, Activist Forum, AWARE, Campus Greens,
Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic Center (CIMIC) Association, El
Centro por los Trabajadoras, Feminist Majority, Friends, Illinois
Disciples Foundation, Independent Media Center, Iota Phi Theta, La
Casa Cultural Latina, Muslim Student Association, Not Your Average
Student Organization, Rainforest Action Group, School for Designing a
Society, Sexual Violence Workers for Social Justice, Sigma Gamma Rho
Sorority, Inc., St. Jude's Catholic Worker House, Student Peace
Action, Students Improving the Lives of Animals, Teachers for Peace
and Justice, Vietnam Veterans Against the War - C-U Chapter, Women's
Direct Action Collective, and World Church Service Illinois Region.

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Points of unity in opposition to a U.S. war against Iraq
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The Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative (PRC), with a long
history of organizing for peace with social justice, is absolutely
opposed to President Bush's intentions to launch a new war against
Iraq. We call on the American people and the world community to:

-- Oppose a U.S. pre-emptive war against Iraq when Iraq has neither
threatened to attack the U.S. or other countries, nor been shown to
possess weapons of mass destruction;
-- Condemn the U.S.'s violation of international law and treaties and
self-appointed role as "world cop," acting without the support or
consensus of the United Nations;
-- Speak out against the U.S.'s own build-up of nuclear weapons;
-- Reject the use of a "voluntary" military designed to give young
people access to educational opportunities, but which actually pulls
them away from school, and which additionally enlists poor, non-white
Americans for economic reasons while the advocates of war in
corporate America benefit without suffering, and which additionally
provides inadequate benefits to veterans;;
-- Oppose an astronomical increase in the U.S. Military budget at the
expense of funding for domestic programs such as education, health
care, and jobs;
-- Work to end the on-going sanctions leveled against the Iraqi
people that have been responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands
of Iraqi children;
-- Resist the use of the new "war on terrorism" as reason to
eliminate the civil liberties and rights of the American people;

Further, we call on all people of conscience to:

-- Educate yourself about Bush's war plans and the emerging anti-war
movement. We suggest visiting www.unitedforpeace.org, www.moveon.org,
and www.alternet.org/waroniraq;
-- Join with others in advocating for an alternative, socially-just
U.S. foreign policy as a means of averting terrorism;
-- Contact your local representatives and tell them that you oppose the war:
		Sen. Dick Durbin: (202) 224-2152, dick at durbin.senate.gov
		Sen. Peter Fitzgerald: (202) 224-2854,
senator_Fitzgerald at fitzgerald.senate.gov
		Rep. Tim Johnson: (202) 225-2371,
rep.Johnson at mail.house.gov;
-- In the event that the war occurs, attend PRC's emergency anti-war
rally at 12 noon on the University of Illinois Quad the day after the
war begins;
-- Attend PRC's educational panel discussion, "Against Bush's
Military Adventures: Voices of Resistance" on Saturday February 22nd
at 12 noon at the Illinois Disciples Foundation.