[Peace-discuss] News-Gazette - write our own reviews of events: Mother's Response to war!

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

The following letter was just sent to the News-Gazette.  Not sure they 
will print it!
JAN K

Please DO Not leave out and /or change  parts of this letter!  (I put 
this at the top:  wanting to avoid the N-G's constant changing and 
editing of letters without asking the writer about these changes.


November 12, the Monday after Veteran’s Day an important and meaningful 
event took place at the Urbana Civic Center: A Mother's Response to 
war.
A News-Gazette reporter chose not to do a story about this event ahead 
of time. Two local Television stations (channel 3 and 15) showed up to 
cover the event, yet missed the true content of what actually took 
place.  However, the 60-70 people present can testify that
  an amazing event  took place. If you had attended you would have heard 
mothers of soldiers speaking.  These are soldiers who have served or 
been wounded or are currently deployed in Iraq.  These mothers spoke 
with facts and rage, poetry and eloquence.  One mother though she could 
not be present sent her art installation: "The Decider" to show in a 
dramatic way the devastation of the Iraq war on the soldiers and the 
Iraqi people. This event missed out on an advance human-interest story 
from the News-Gazette since the reporter would only do an advance story 
if one of the mother agreed to “name” her soldier son. She said no.  
Despite this, the AWARE organized event went forward and those who 
attended found meaning and comfort from the presence of Iraq Veterans 
Against War and Mothers of soldiers who say “this war must end”.
This was an "anti-war, bring the troops home, end the war" event and 
those speaking and listening are wondering when our government and the 
media will catch up with the citizens of this country.



On Nov 14, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Karen Medina wrote:

> 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.
>
> -
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