[Peace-discuss] Today in the News-Gazette

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

On May 26, a group of concerned high school students took dramatic  
action to address American complacency and political inaction with  
regard to the war in Iraq. In a visual form of protest meant to bring  
home the reality of the death and destruction, 15 youth simultaneously  
fell to the ground at the intersection of Green and Wright streets in  
front of the Alma Mater statue. They repeated this "die-in" every time  
the cars stopped for the red light from noon to 1:30 p.m.

Several passers-by stopped and joined them. The frustration Americans  
are feeling nationally with the recent passage of the war funding bill  
was apparent that day among both the devoted student protesters and  
those who cheered them on.

With this protest the students demanded that U.S. Rep. Timothy Johnson  
and U.S. Sens. Barack Obama and Richard Durbin vote anti-war. Letters  
were sent to Johnson, Obama and Durbin, and they were invited to  
attend. This war has killed too many, and it is past time that our  
politicians do their part in ending it, not as anti-war politicians,  
not as Democrats or as Republicans, but as responsible citizens of this  
world who should, out of compassion for others, work for peace.

This action was a powerful display of a fact that mainstream media has  
been shamelessly overlooking: that the youth have not yet succumbed to  
apathy.

SHARA ESBENSHADE

Urbana
  Find this article at:
   
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/opinions/letters/2007/06/04/ 
local_youth_seeking_an_end_to_war_in
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