[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] meeting minutes from March 12, 2006

Fri Mar 17 10:58:00 CST 2006

Well, I'm disappointed by the appalling lack of
"mistakes and misrepresentations"!

Nice work.

And I do know the student reporter's name, though I
assumed she'd introduce herself: Jackie Orozco.  She's
with UI-7? (the university's channel), but what she's
working on is for a class and won't air.  FYI.

Oh- I did find one blatant misdirection of clearly
evil intent: "4g. Racism Working Group (see Community
Court Watch in 3b)" should be "...3a."  Pretty sneaky.
  But you can't fool us.  We're used to reading the
mainstream media!

Ricky 

--- karen medina <kmedina at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> AWARE Meeting Minutes
> Sunday, March 12, 2006
> 
> Facilitator: Randall Cotton
> Time Keeper: Bob Illyes
> Minutes: Karen Medina
> (All mistakes and misrepresentations belong to
> Karen)
> 
> Note: A journalism student was filming the meeting
> for the first hour. 
> (Ricky might know her name, but he wasn't telling
> us).
> 
> 1. News of the Week (10 minutes) – Carl Estabrook
> 
> 2. Introductions (5 minutes)
> 
> 3. New Ideas: (15 minutes)
> 
> 3a. "Community Court Watch" - $50
> Bob Illyes spoke to this issue. CCW had asked last
> week for AWARE to 
> consider making a $50 donation as a nominal amount
> toward Patrick 
> Thompson's court defense as a way to overcome
> "inequality of justice," 
> but the full amount would go to the defense of one
> person. Following a 
> lengthy discussion (with many points including: 1)
> whether this is 
> something that money donated to AWARE should go to,
> 2) how this one case 
> was important to equal justice, 3) anti-racism, 4)
> token support to a 
> $400 shortfall, 5) whether there is a precedence for
> supporting the 
> defense of an individual) there was a call for
> consensus. 2 in 
> attendance were against the proposal, and 1
> indicated a desire to 
> abstain. After a short discussion more, it was
> determined that a 90% 
> vote would not be achieved if the 2 remained
> unconvinced. The discussion 
> closed. Bob Illyes is taking personal donations for
> the remaining $400 
> for Patrick's defense.
> 
> 3b. UFPJ (United for Peace and Justice) - $50
> Member organizations of UFPJ are required to make an
> annual financial 
> contribution and/or provide in-kind services. UFPJ
> recommends local 
> organization with no paid staff to contribute $50. (
> 
> http://www.unitedforpeace.org/ ). It was proposed
> and through consensus 
> approved that AWARE renew membership by sending the
> $50 contribution for 
> this year.
> 
> 3c. co-sponsor ad with CCHCC - $65 for approval next
> week
> The Champaign County Health Care Consumers put out a
> booklet each year. 
> AWARE is invited to put an advertisement in the
> booklet again this year. 
> The cost would be $65. The topic was mentioned this
> week, so it will be 
> up for approval at next week's meeting.
> 
> 3d. co-sponsor "Religious voices for Peace"
> "Religious Voices for Peace" is sponsoring an
> evening of Historical 
> Readings on Peace and Justice Issues. Brian Miller
> (from the Mennonite 
> Church) contacted Durl Kruse to see if AWARE would
> be interested in 
> co-sponsoring the event (no money, just put our name
> on it). The event 
> is in honor of Mother's Day (Mother's Day was used
> historically to 
> encourage mothers to rally for peace, since mothers
> bore the loss of 
> human life more harshly than anyone else (–
> according to 
> http://mothers-day.123holiday.net/ ). Durl will look
> in to it more, but 
> encourages AWARE members to volunteer to read for
> the event. Brian 
> Miller is the person to contact: bgmiller at eiu dot
> edu.
> 
> 3e. Submissions to ICPJ by 3/15
> The up-coming meeting of the Illinois Coalition for
> Peace & Justice 
> (April 1st) needed suggestions for break-out
> sessions. They called Jan 
> Kruse to ask for some. Jan responded with some
> ideas, and she passed 
> this response around for the AWARE members to
> approve and be aware of.
> http://ilcpj.org/ for more information.
> 
> 3e. Presence at Urbana City Hall, 3/13 (resolution)
> The Urbana City Council will discuss a city
> resolution calling for "The 
> Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Iraq" at its upcoming
> meeting Monday, 
> March 13 at 7:00 p.m., 400 S. Vine Street. A week
> later (on the 3rd 
> anniversary of the invasion, March 20th), the City
> Council will vote 
> whether to pass the resolution. Note: There may be
> some movement to 
> change the wording of some of the "Whereases," but
> the current wording 
> can be found here:
>
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/112136/index.php
> There will also be a "Community Peace Vigil" on
> March 20th, 6:30 – 7:00 
> pm, at the Urbana City Hall, 400 S. Vine St.
> 
> 4. Working Groups: (30 minutes)
> 
> 4a. Finances – Jan Kruse
> One outstanding check; $91 collected at Shadid
> event; $2659.69 balance
> 
> 4b. AWARE Presents
> Next planning meeting: Tuesday, March 21st, 7pm,
> 2007 George Huff.
> Upcoming: In May, events with Anna Piller from a
> human rights 
> organization based in the Occupied Palestinian
> Territories.
> Hopefuls: Noam Chomsky (has a full schedule up to
> Fall 2007; audio 
> presentations available here
> http://www.chomsky.info/audionvideo.htm ); 
> Howard Zinn (see cool stuff here:
> http://howardzinn.org/default/ ); 
> Cindy Sheehan (Fall this year?).
> 
> 4c. Church Presence – Durl Kruse
> There will be a "Church Presence" planning meeting
> Wednesday March 15, 
> 7pm at the Kruse's house. Bring suggestions for
> churches that need the 
> presence of AWARE. They will be creating handouts
> and new signs. Give up 
> war for Lent!
> 
> 4d. Urbana City Council Resolution
> There are two upcoming City Council meetings. This
> week (Monday March 
> 13th) there will be a discussion; if enough members
> vote yes this week, 
> next Monday (the 20th) will be the vote. This week,
> there is a 10 minute 
> time limit for us to present our case: Gary Storm
> will do a 5 minute 
> history of the resolution; Mort Brussels will give a
> 5 minute concise 
> summary of the economic and social impact of the
> war. The current 
> signature count is: 329 from Urbana; 221 from
> surrounding areas.
> 
> 4e. Counter-recruitment
> There has been no word from Centennial High School.
> There was a short 
> discussion of Talon watching and use of Freedom of
> Information. 
> Evidently, law schools have to accept recruiters
> because they receive 
> Federal funding (and the Supreme Court was involved
> in this). At least 
> one law school has given up the federal funding and
> refused recruiter 
> access.
> 
> 4f. MAIN Event
> Carol Inskeep has the signs. The next One Main event
> will be on April 
> 1st (the same day as the Illinois Coalition for
> Peace & Justice meeting).
> 
> 4g. Racism Working Group
> (see Community Court Watch in 3b).
> 
> 4h. Books 2 Prisoners
> Books 2 Prisoners needs books on Black History.
> There was an offer of a 
> DVD on the 1963 Lincoln Memorial. JBJ and libraries?
> David Green 
> suggests that we might keep our eyes open for good
> books at these sales.
> 
> 5. Last Week's Events (15 minutes for 5 and 6)
> 
> Anthony Shadid events brought to you by AWARE, the
> university, and the 
> Muslim community. Mr. Shadid also spoke at Uni High
> (Durl was his escort 
> and said the teens were great). It was suggested
> that we reach out to 
> Uni High students and encourage them to join us.
> 
> 6. Upcoming Events (March 2006)
> •	Paradise Now is a really good film. Showing at the
> Boardman's Art 
> Theatre. It is about a suicide mission. 9:45pm
> showings. 3pm on Saturday 
> and Sunday. NOW SHOWING, THROUGH THURSDAY, MARCH 23.
> •	Resolution Discussion; Urbana City Council;
> Monday, 3/13, 7pm
> •	Community Shares, Tuesday, 3/14
> •	Police Review, Tuesday, 3/14, 7pm
> •	Church Presence Working Group Meets 3/15, 7pm,
> 2007 George Huff
> •	SDS (Students for Democratic Society) Film
> Showing, Wednesday, 3/15, 
> 7pm, Channing-Murray (SDS is reforming! This film is
> on the history and 
> origin of SDS)
> •	Jobs with Justice Tatman's Picket, Kirby and Neil,
> Friday, 3/17, 12noon-1
> •	Community Court Watch meeting – 3/18, 4pm
> •	3rd Anniversary of the Invasion – Monday 3/20
> •	Community Peace Vigil – Monday, 3/20, 6:30–7pm,
> Urbana City Hall, 400 
> S. Vine St.
> •	Resolution Vote; Urbana City Council; Monday,
> 3/20/2006, 7pm
> •	Community Court Watch – 3/22, 1pm County
> Courthouse
> •	Potluck at the Kruse's - 3/25, 6:30pm
> 
> Respectfully submitted by Karen Medina
> All mistakes and misrepresentations are mine.
> _______________________________________________
> Peace mailing list
> Peace at lists.chambana.net
> http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/peace
> 

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com 