[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [prc-l] Action to defend the PRC

[Brooke Anderson]

>Delivered-To: prc-l at prairienet.org
>Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:36:28 -0500 (CDT)
>From: "Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative" <prc at prairienet.org>
>To: prc-l
>Subject: [prc-l] Action to defend the PRC
>
>Dear friends,
>
>We are writing with an urgent appeal for your support in defense of the
>PRC and the anti-"Chief" movement as a whole.
>
>Please take a moment to read more and take immediate action.
>
>In today's Daily Illini, University of Illinois President James Stukel  is
>quoted as saying "The PRC, they don't want to have any recognition of
>Native Americans (through) activities in campus." You can read the full
>story at
>http://dailyillini.collegepublisher.com/news/2004/09/10/News/Chief.Choice.Must.Reflect.Il.Heritage-715178.shtml.
>
>Stukel's comments are a direct attack on the integrity and motives of the
>PRC, as well as on the many very talented students and community members
>in the anti-"Chief" movement. To suggest  that working to eliminate "Chief
>Illiniwek" is to work against, or in disregard for Native cultures, is
>absurd, inappropriate, and what appears to be a clear attempt to
>disguise the issue, confuse the public, and draw attention away from the
>racist and useless resolution he moved through the Board of Trustees
>yesterday in Springfield.
>
>TELL STUKEL: YOU CAN'T FOOL ME!!!
>
>Contact President Stukel immediately with the following message, or write
>your own:
>
>Dear President Stukel,
>
>I am appalled by your comments in the Daily Illini today in which you
>suggested that the Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative (and by
>extension the larger anti-"Chief" movement)is disinterested in the
>celebration of Native cultures or activities on campus. To do right by
>Native peoples is not to "celebrate" or "honor" them at halftime with a
>fake "Chief," to put a caricature of their people on sweatshirts and
>boxer shorts, or to pass self-congratulatory resolutions proclaiming the
>University's love for Native culture and  scholarship. Rather, to create a
>truly multicultural campus to which Native students and scholars would
>feel  truly welcomed, you must first respect the wishes of hundreds of
>Native organizations and thousands of Native peoples  who've relentlessly
>asked the University to cease the
>use of the "Chief Illiniwek" name, mascot, and logo.  Your comments in
>today's paper reveal the deep failure of your leadership and disrespect
>for your students. I call on you to issue a  formal apology to the PRC and
>to act now to eliminate "Chief Illiniwek" as the mascot and symbol of the
>University of Illinois.
>
>Sincerely,
>[YOUR NAME GOES HERE]
>
>You can contact President Stukel at:
>
>    Email address: jstukel at uillinois.edu
>    Champaign office: (217) 333-3070
>    Chicago office: (312) 413-9097
>
>Please copy all emails to prc at prairienet.org (or, if you call, send us  an
>email to let us know that you called).
>
>We also encourage you to:
>
>1. Get organizations with which you're affiliated to write statements to
>Stukel in defense of the PRC (at this rate, your student group could be
>the next to be slandered -- we've got to stick  together to defend our
>rights!).
>
>2. Write a letter to the editor in defense of the PRC and against "Chief
>Illiniwek." Letters can be sent to letters at dailyillini.com.
>
>Thank you for your time, support, and action.
>
>Sincerely,
>The PRC
>
>
>
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Brooke Anderson
Champaign County Health Care Consumers
44 E. Main St., Suite 208
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone = (217) 352-6533, x 17
Fax = (217) 352-9745
Email = brooke at shout.net
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