[Peace-discuss] weapons inspections

[Sarah Kanouse]

Hi all,

Carol suggested I float this idea by all of you and see who might be 
interested.

This semester, I'm in a class on political performance.  We meet weekly 
at the IMC on Wednesdays.  For one of our final performances, we will 
be performing weapons inspections on the University of Illinois campus, 
targeting labs with links to DARPA, the Academic Strategic Alliances 
Program ( http://www.llnl.gov/asci-alliances/asap.html), and the Center 
for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (www.csar.uiuc.edu).    We will not 
be engaging in any kind of trespassing, but we will ask if we can enter 
labs to search for weapons because it has come to our attention that 
the labs have links to known military organizations.

The event is already scheduled for a couple of weeks from now (the date 
is set, but please contact me for it if you are interested, as we would 
like some approximation of surprise effect).  The whole action should 
take no more than 2 hours. We'd love to have support from peace 
activists and  organizations in a number of ways:

1) to do flyering on the campus and streets near the campus about peace 
work and military research on campus
2) to join the performance--there are many labs that need inspecting!
3) to help with planning, media, etc, even if you can't help with the 
day of.

Please contact me by email or come to the next class meeting: Wednesday 
at 5:15 pm at the IMC.  I hope to see you there.

Best,

Sarah