[Peace-discuss] Minutes for the AWARE meeting on the 24th, from Jessica

[Ricky Baldwin]

So what's the next step with this guy Bernie and
Americans Against Escalation in Iraq?  I talked to him
the other day.  I haven't had a chance to check out
the website yet.

Ricky


--- Jan & Durl Kruse <jandurl at insightbb.com> wrote:

> > From: Jessica Bales
> > Date: June 27, 2007 11:01:27 AM CDT
> >
> > Subject: Minutes for the meeting on the 24th, from
> Jessica
> >
> > Minutes for A.W.A.R.E. meeting, 6-24-07*
> >
> > News (Carl):
> > The CIA opens a series on Bush, Bush/Cheney
> threatens
> > the CIA
> > CIA’s mass declassifying of documents
> > “we will run out of troops by 2008” – Times
> > 14 soldiers die in Bagdahd
> > Highschool barred from performing play that uses
> > words of former soldiers about the war.
> >
> > Present (some members may be omitted):
> > Barbra, Conrad, Carl, Jessica, Dan, Bob, Berard,
> > Durl, Linda, Bob, Janet, Rodger, Karen, Stuart,
> > Mark, Jan,  Joe
> >
> > --Bernard from Americans Against Escalation in
> Iraq,
> > looking to cooperate with aware to persuade Tim
> > Johnson into taking a public pro-withdrawl stance.
> > Bernard Bergmann
> > (2050 425-0805
> > illinois1 at iraqsummer.org
> > http://noiraqescalation.org
> >
> > Working Groups:
> > 	-Finance:
> > Purchases for Fourth of July parade: $76.64
> > $2,091.36 remaining budget
> > Profit from most recent farmer’s market: $00.00
>    ( cancelled due to rain)
> 
> > -Main Event: July 7th 2-4 Corner Main & Neil
> downtown Champaign
> 
> > The Fourth of July parade; theme is Free
> Enterprise.
> > A.W.A.R.E.’s take on the theme will be about the
> costs
> > of free enterprise. Staging sight to be announced.
>  Parade steps off 
> > 1:05 PM
> >
> > 	-Farmer’s Market:
> > The staffing list was passed around.
> >
> > 	-A.W.A.R.E. Presents:
> > On hold for now, participants were absent.
> >
> > 	-Anti-Racism:
> > Raymond Morales case:
> > 	Raymond is a PuertoRican scholar at the U of I.
> He is
> > trying to get his PhD in Molecular Cell Biology,
> but
> > is having some difficulties, as the school is
> > threatening to throw him out of the program on the
> > grounds that no advisors will take him. The reason
> for
> > this is an incident in which the police searched
> for
> > Morales at his lab at the U of I, because of some
> > activist chalking.
> >
> > Patrick Thomson case:
> > 	Status review of case at 11:00 on Tuesday the
> 26th
> >
> > 	-Counter Recruitment:
> > Urbana school board response to inquiries
> concerning
> > polices on recruiters in the secondary schools:
> > ‘There are no administrative procedures for
> recruiters
> > in the building’
> > The National guard was observed by an A.W.A.R.E.
> > member at the Taste of Champaign doing camoflouge
> face
> > painting on young children.
> >
> > 	-Student Groups:
> > teen members of A.W.A.R.E. continue to post
> updates
> > from the Domincan Republic, where they are
> visiting.
> >
> > 	-Anti Torture to be added to working groups.
> > Development of anti=torture workshops discussed.
> >
> > 	-Old Business:
> > Fourth of July parade:
> > Starts at 1:05 (location to be designated), ends
> at
> > 2-3:30
> > Sign making party for A.W.A.R.E. July 4th Parade
> entry
> > @ 2007  S. George Huff Urbana was held Tuesday 
> June 26@ 7:00 PM
> >
> > -New Ideas:
> > Pro-War propaganda article written by John Foreman
> > which refers heavily to quotes of soldiers.
> Response
> > letter to editor to be written (?).
> >
> > -Events of past week:
> > toxic walk (tour of toxic waste sites in north
> > Champaign)
> > Veterans of Iraq and Martin Smith in Chicago
> > Die in on Wright and Green
> >
> > 	-Upcoming events:
> > Public I (through the IMC site), Die in on cover
> > “Presentation on grassroots peacemaking in Africa
> on
> > June 29th, 2007 at 7 PM at Urbana-Champaign
> Friends
> > Meetinghouse, 1904 E. Main St., Urbana. ‘Healing
> from
> > Deadly Violence’”
> >
> >
> >
> >  *all errors or omissions are the fault of the
> minute
> > taker.
> 
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