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

[Barbara kessel]

Fantastic reporting and protesting, my friends.
Just a little anecdote. My acupuncturist came to the event on Monday
night and said today, "That was the most meaningful Veterans' Day
ceremony I have ever been to in my life and it made me know I had to
do more myself. The very next day I got a an e-mail call for
"Acupuncturists without Borders" to do acu-puncture free on PTSD vets
and I signed up for training. Also going to come to North Prospect
next time."   Barbara K

On 11/14/07, Jan & Durl Kruse <jandurl at insightbb.com> wrote:
> 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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