[Peace-discuss] Request for co-sponsorship from PRC

[Ricky Baldwin]

Sounds great.  We had been discussing the need to make
more connections on this anyway - and now with a
drunken Cheney shooting people and Bush on tape not
giving a flying -yikes!- about Hurricane Katrina ...

--- Jen Tayabji <tayabji at shout.net> wrote:

> Dear AWARE,
> 
> It's Jen Tayabji from the Progressive
> Resource/Action Cooperative (PRC). I
> am writing you today to ask for AWARE's
> co-sponsorship of an upcoming event.
> 
> On March 28th, the PRC will be hosting Professor
> Francis A. Boyle in a talk
> entitled, "The National Case To Impeach President
> George W. Bush, Jr." It
> will begin at 7pm at 213 Gregory Hall (south part of
> UIUC Quad). The event
> is free and open to the public.
> 
> George W. Bush was returned to the US presidency by
> voters convinced of his
> moral and leadership qualities. But his moral
> failures were exposed through
> the Downing Street Memo's proof of systematic lying
> concerning Iraqi WMD and
> connection to al-Qaeda. And now, his leadership on
> the domestic front has
> been proved to be criminally negligent in response
> to the ravages of
> Hurricane Katrina. Only impeachment offers Americans
> a swift and appropriate
> recourse. George W. Bush must be impeached for lying
> in leading the nation
> to war in Iraq. And President Bush, Vice President
> Cheney, and Secretary of
> Homeland Security Michael Chertoff must be impeached
> for denying Equal
> Protection of the Laws to the Katrina Victims
> because they are Poor and
> because they are Black, in violation of the Fifth
> and Fourteenth Amendments
> to the United States Constitution.
> 
> Francis A. Boyle is a leading American expert in
> international law. He was
> responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons
> Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989,
> the American implementing legislation for the 1972
> Biological Weapons
> Convention. He served on the Board of Directors of
> Amnesty International
> (1988-1992), and represented Bosnia-Herzegovina at
> the World Court.
> Professor Boyle teaches international law at the
> University of Illinois,
> Champaign. His books include "The Future of
> International Law and American
> Foreign Policy ", "Foundations of World Order: The
> Legalist Approach to
> International Relations 1898-1921." He holds a
> Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude
> as well as a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from
> Harvard University.
> 
> We are looking for organizations to cosponsor this
> event by allowing us to
> use their name in the publicity, by helping us
> publicize the event (sending
> out an email, having us speak at a org. meeting,
> etc.), and by helping bring
> out people to attend this event. Financial donations
> are encouraged, but not
> required to cosponsor the event.
> 
> Please let me know by 3pm on Tuesday, March 7th, if
> AWARE would like to
> cosponsor.
> 
> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to
> contact me!
> 
> In solidarity,
> Jen Tayabji
> PRC Co-coordinator
> 
>
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> Jen Tayabji
> Executive Director
> Illinois Disciples Foundation (IDF)
> 610 E. Springfield Ave., Champaign, IL  61820
> Work (217) 352-8721 | Cell (217) 840-8248
> http://www.prairienet.org/idf
> 
> "If we remember those times and places--and there
> are so many--where people
> have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy
> to act, and at least
> the possibility of sending this spinning top of a
> world in a different
> direction. And if we do act, in however small a way,
> we don't have to wait
> for some grand utopian future. The future is an
> infinite succession of
> presents, and to live now as we think human beings
> should live, in defiance
> of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous
> victory."
> 
> --Howard Zinn
> 
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