[Peace-discuss] I-Resist Tuesday events reminder....

[bokhari at uiuc.edu]

Anti-"Chief" Actions

Campus Town Protests:  Tuesday June 15, 2004 12:00 – 1:30 pm
       Green Street and Sixth, Champaign, Illinois

Evening Vigil:  Tuesday June 15, 2004 6:00 pm
              UIUC Quad

On Tuesday, June 15, 2004, from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm, 
students, faculty, staff and community members will protest 
the use of the "Chief Illiniwek" mascot on Green and 6th 
Street in Campus Town.  The protestors will target businesses 
that profit from the sale of the "Chief" emblem – focusing on 
those establishments that prominently display this mascot or 
other commodified forms of American Indian stereotypes.  

This protest symbolizes an escalation in the fight against 
the use of the "Chief" mascot.  We are asking all Champaign-
Urbana community members to boycott businesses that are 
profiting from the perpetuation of negative stereotypes.  The 
use of "Chief Illiniwek" as a school mascot continues to 
polarize the campus community and sends a message of  
disrespect and domination over American Indians and all other 
subjugated populations in this country. The boycott will 
continue until the Board of Trustees votes to retire the use 
of the "Chief" mascot at UIUC.  

I-Resist! is also sponsoring an evening vigil on Tuesday - 
June 15, 2004 at 6pm on the UIUC quad.  We invite you to show 
your support for this movement by attending these 
important events.  

To pressure the Board to address this issue, UIUC protestors 
will join other organizations in Chicago at the June 16 
rally/march (begins at 2:00 pm at Truman College) and at the 
June 17 Board of Trustees meeting.

Contact cosmico at sbcglobal.net for more information

new email in effect after getting kicked off the UIUC server *sigh*
bokhari at warpmail.net

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*If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but
the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is
sustained pressure that keeps building, organizations that keep doing
things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it
better the next time...*
                                              *Noam Chomsky*
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