[Peace-discuss] Fwd: RE: Submission for Commentary on WILL-580
Al Kagan
akagan at uiuc.edu
Sun May 23 12:59:38 CDT 2004
Obviously, we need to discuss this at the
meeting. However, we do have at least 2 allies
inside WILL, Kim and Jack Brigtman. My initial
reaction is that we need to talk with them.
Boycotting should not be our first response.
At 10:55 PM -0500 5/21/04, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>This is outrageous -- a lie this cowardly simply shows that they don't
>care what we think. How should we respond? I think we should probably
>publish the correspondence about the commentaries -- and perhaps organize
>a campaign to withhold pledges.
>
>David Inge chaired a discussion at the library the other night on
>censorship: the right-wingers trumpeted their support for free speech,
>while the "liberal" medium in town was shutting it down. Perhaps John
>Foreman would like to editorialize on this censorship. --CGE
>
>
>On Fri, 21 May 2004, David Green wrote:
>
>> Here is Ali Kawa's response to my submission--not too
>> surprising, unfortunately.
>>
>> --- "Kawa, Ali" <kawa at WILL.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> > From: "Kawa, Ali" <kawa at WILL.uiuc.edu>
>> > To: 'David Green' <davegreen48 at yahoo.com>
>> > CC: "Pearce, Jay" <jhpearce at WILL.uiuc.edu>
>> > Subject: RE: Submission for Commentary on WILL-580
>> > Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 11:41:52 -0500
>> >
>> > David,
>> >
>> > Thank you for your commentary submission. Because
>> > we are trying to keep
>> > commentaries geared to issues involving our region
>> > and of clearly local
>> > relevance, I would suggest you submit this
>> > commentary to NPR for national
>> > consideration.
>> >
>> > I have copied instructions from the NPR website
>> > below.
>> >
>> > Again, thanks for your interest!
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> >
>> > Ali Kawa
>> > WILL AM 580
>> > 300 N. Goodwin Ave.
>> > Urbana, IL 61801
>> >
>> > http://www.npr.org/about/pitch/
>> >
>> > How do I submit a commentary or essay?
>> > We are looking for commentaries or essays that tell
>> > a tale, reveal a
>> > personal reflection, or add an informed perspective
>> > to events in the news.
>> > We want pieces that express an original idea with
>> > clear, creative writing.
>> > While many essays are from regularly scheduled
>> > commentators, we also want to
>> > hear from people who can comment on a once-only
>> > basis.
>> >
>> > Here are some guidelines:
>> >
>> > * Send one or two written commentaries in the body
>> > of the e-mail. Because of
>> > security and virus concerns, we are unable to open
>> > e-mails with attachments.
>> >
>> > * Each commentary should take about two-and-a-half
>> > minutes to read aloud
>> > (about 300 words in length).
>> > * Please include your name, address, daytime
>> > telephone number, and e-mail
>> > address.
>> >
>> > Send your commentary (with the word "Commentary
>> > Submission" in the subject
>> > line) to Morning Edition: mecommentary at npr.org, All
>> > Things Considered:
>> > atccommentary at npr.org or The Tavis Smiley Show's
>> > Sheryl Flowers
>> > (sflowers at npr.org)
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: David Green [mailto:davegreen48 at yahoo.com]
>> > Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 9:31 PM
>> > To: kawa at will.uiuc.edu
>> > Cc: jhpearce at will.uiuc.edu
>> > Subject: Submission for Commentary on WILL-580
>> >
>> >
>> > Subsequent to interactions with Randall Cotton, I
>> > would like to submit the following commentary for
>> > consideration on behalf of AWARE, the Anti-War
>> > Anti-Racism Effort:
>> >
>> > As local men and women in our military continue
>> > to sacrifice for our government's "war on
>> > terrorism,"
>> > it is vital to place the events of 9/11 and our
>> > subsequent wars in historical context. But this past
>> > March 15th, NPR's Morning Edition aired a commentary
>> > by Ruben Navarette titled "Enough with Vietnam."
>> > Navarette claimed that reflecting on our experience
>> > in
>> > Vietnam is irrelevant to preventing a future attack
>> > on
>> > our soil.
>> >
>> > Indeed, he expressed no interest in any of the
>> > historical context relevant to an understanding of
> > > terrorism as a response-however immoral--to U.S.
>> > foreign policy. This imperial history broadly
>> > includes
>> > U.S. relations with both Latin America and Asia, but
>> > at the very least must consider U.S. policies in the
>> > Middle East since World War II that have
>> > consistently
>> > viewed the people of that region as pawns in the
>> > service of American interests. These interests
>> > translate into control over the region's oil
>> > resources. Uncensored and unflattering historical
>> > perspectives are vital for an understanding of the
>> > continuities of U.S. foreign policy, and the
>> > consistently aggressive actions by leaders of both
>> > parties that-until 9/11-had not resulted in an
>> > attack
>> > within our borders.
>> >
>> > George Bush and John Kerry share this
>> > historical
>> > myopia. Bush has repeated the deceptions and
>> > illegality of the Vietnam War in Iraq. Meanwhile
>> > Kerry
>> > writes in A Call to Service "it's time to recognize
>> > (Vietnam) as an exception, not a ruling example, of
>> > the U.S. military engagements of the twentieth
>> > century." But I would assert that the key to
>> > understanding Vietnam is as the most egregious
>> > example
>> > of the rule that the U.S. is willing to use force
>> > against any country whose popular aspirations
>> > threaten
>> > the interests and profits of U.S.-centered global
>> > corporate capitalism. Since World War II, this rule
>> > has been applied with bloody results in Iran,
>> > Guatemala, the Congo, Indonesia, Chile, Angola,
>> > Nicaragua, and elsewhere.
>> >
>> > We all want to avoid the pain of another event
>> > like 9/11. But to do so we must critically examine
>> > the
>> > continuities of our history-including Iraq-and then
>> > fundamentally change coercive U.S. foreign policies.
>> > It is my view, on behalf of the Anti-war Anti-racism
>> > Effort, that continued denial of our problematic
>> > past
>> > and present only makes future attacks more likely.
>> >
>> > David Green
>> > 2709 Lakeview Drive
>> > Champaign
>> > 356-2034 (home)
>> > 265-5222 (work)
>> >
>> > davegreen48 at yahoo.com
>> > dlgreen at uiuc.edu
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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