[Peace-discuss] Anti-War Billboard! U-C Friends Meeting seeks support

[Karen Medina]

Carl,

I definitely see your point. Even so, I think there are people out there who are against the war because the war is wrong, but they remain in their comfort zone and wait for it to pass.  I have heard the argument that the war is not a local issue and therefore there is nothing that they can do about it. 

The cost of the war is one way that touches everyone even in a local way. 

And it is more evidence that there is a long-term occupation planned. The US has no plans to reconstruct Iraq -- to provide clean water or jobs or econimic stability; we only have plans to create a huge safe zones to keep Iraqis out.

-karen medina

 

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:58:32 -0500
>From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Anti-War Billboard! U-C Friends Meeting seeks support  
>To: Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
>Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net, peace at anti-war.net
>
>I continue to think this an unfortunate campaign.  Putting aside the real 
>question of the effect of the war on the American economy, it is at best a 
>matter of preaching to the converted: you find this argument effective if and 
>only if you already find something wrong with the war.
>
>Consider what the reaction would be to such a campaign in the US during the 
>Second World War.  If you said the fight against Naziism was costing too much, 
>you would be condemned as someone putting a price on freedom.
>
>We have to be imaginative enough to realize that defenders of the current war 
>hold a similar opinion.  If we can't convince them that they're wrong about the 
>character of the war, we won't convince them with niggling complaints about the 
>cost. --CGE
>
>
>Stuart Levy wrote:
>> This billboard:
>>    http://picasaweb.google.com/BarKes/NewAlbum423081210PM/photo
>> 
>> will be coming to the Champaign-Urbana region in May,
>> sponsored by the U-C Friends Meeting and American Friends' Service
>> Committee and supported by checks from  everyone who wants to see it
>> happen.  This will be up for 28 days at an unannounced location to be
>> chosen by the Adams Outdoor Advertising Co., which may be able to give
>> us more space as the summer goes on.
>> 
>> What we need is around $1550 as projected cost for several billboards.
>> $775 of that will get us the first one.
>> 
>> Please make out checks to "UC Friends' Meeting" and give
>> it to whoever is soliciting the check, OR mail the check to
>> 
>>     UC Friends' Meeting
>>     1904 E. Main St.
>>     Urbana, Il 61802
>> 
>> 
>> [Passing this message along from Barbara Kessel]
>> 
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