[Peace-discuss] Coordinating activities

[Kranich, Kimberlie]

Great, Ricky!  Time to send out another announcement and release.  I've lost
my original email. 

Kimberlie

-----Original Message-----
From: Ricky Baldwin [mailto:baldwinricky at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:07 PM
To: Kranich, Kimberlie; peace-discuss at lists.cu.groogroo.com
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Coordinating activities


Actually, the evening vigil at Westside Park has been
announced.  Press releases went out over a month ago. 
The News-Gazette even ran a story on it Christmas Eve,
page B-1.

Ricky

--- "Kranich, Kimberlie" <Kranich at WILL.uiuc.edu>
wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
>
********************************************************
> Points of unity in opposition to a U.S. war against
> Iraq
>
********************************************************
> 
> 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.
> 
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