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

[C. G. Estabrook]

Perhaps the best thing that can be said for the cost argument is that it defeats 
the notion that the war is not a local issue.

Karen Medina wrote:
> 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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