[Peace-discuss] News-Gazette - write our own reviews of events

[Karen Medina]

Peace Discuss,

The News-Gazette just called. They are going to run my letter about the Campus Anti-war Network's chalk body outlines on the Quad.

So now I am thinking that we don't necessarily need a NG reporter to show up for anti-war events -- we can write up a report on the event and submit it as an opinion piece. 

Anyone want to write up a quick article on Monday night's event, "A Mother's Response to War"?

The power of the pen and chalk are in our hands,
-karen medina
p.s. It reminds me a bit of the small town newspapers that would write up social events. 

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:17:27 -0600 (CST)
>From: Karen Medina <kmedina at uiuc.edu>  
>Subject: [Peace] check out the Quad Wednesday morning -- chalk bodies asking for the troops to come home   
>To: peace at lists.chambana.net
>
>Dear Peace,
>
>Under the cover of darkness, the Campus Anti-war Network gathered on the University of Illinois Quad this evening and drew literally hundreds of chalk outlines of bodies on the sidewalks. They wrote some of the usual slogans like "College not combat, troops home now", "End the war", "Over 1,000,000 Iraqis dead", "Occupation is not liberation"  and some not-so-common things like "Bush does not care about the troops. He only cares about Halliburton" and "How many dead bodies do you think the average Iraqi child has seen?".
>
>If it does not rain tonight, the bodies will be underfoot for tomorrow morning's classes.
>
>But there must have been loads of classes and exams this evening as well, for there were large numbers of students walking by the chalkers all evening. Even if the chalk is washed away by morning, the messages were seen by loads of people. 
>
>One homeless Desert Storm veteran riding by on a bike stopped to argue with the chalkers, and after half an hour of conversation he was coming up with slogans for the chalkers to write as well. 
>
>One by one, the Campus Anti-war Network is making a difference.
>
>-karen medina  
>
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