[Peace-discuss] mid-month peace demonstration -- at Country Fair, Sat July 19th, 2-4pm

[Stuart Levy]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 06:10:52PM -0500, Robert Naiman wrote:
> Note that July 19 coincides with UFPJ's call for actions against war
> with Iran. The folks at UFPJ are really looking forward to folks to
> populating the UFPJ web site with actions that weekend...
> 
> Here is the call:
> 
> UFPJ: Call to Action July 19-21: No War With Iran
> Responding to the renewed threats of a U.S./Israeli attack on Iran
> before President Bush leaves office, United for Peace and Justice
> calls for coordinated Days of Action across the United States on July
> 19-21.
> http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3915
> 
> the link for posting actions is there...
> 
> Note further that we will have an ample no war with Iran sign stash...

3 cheers for serendipity!

I didn't know about it when we chose the date, but it sounds as though
we have a natural theme for the demonstration then.

Thank you for mentioning this, Robert!  I've listed this event.


> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> > Hi, all.  As part of trying to bring messages of peace to other parts of town,
> > AWARE is sponsoring a special anti-war demonstration in a different place --
> > Country Fair shopping center -- and a different time of month --
> > Saturday, July 19th, 2-4pm.
> >
> > Our regular first-Saturday-of-each-month peace demonstrations will continue to be
> > at Main & Neil in downtown Champaign.   This event is *in addition to* that series.
> > I (Stuart) hope this may become the first of several demonstrations in places
> > that don't see enough peace protests.
> >
> > Location for July 19th 2-4pm event:
> >
> >    Let's gather on the south side of Springfield,
> >    about a block west of Mattis, where there's a stoplight
> >    across from the Country Fair parking lot exit.
> >    We'll start out on the sidewalk just west of that light.
> >
> >    That puts us on the sidewalk between the Arby's parking lot
> >    and Springfield Ave., and across Springfield from the bank.
> >
> >    Some eastbound drivers stop at the light; a tree gives shade
> >    ,o part of the sidewalk; and we might end up talking with some
> >    Arby's customers (though please keep to the sidewalk -- we don't
> >    want to give Arby's reason to complain).
> >
> >    If there are enough of us, we can spread out.   A couple of
> >    the corners at the nearby Springfield and Mattis intersection
> >    may be good places to stand too.
> >
> > Parking:
> >
> >    Try the large general-purpose lot just north of Springfield,
> >    where the bank, etc. are.  Don't park in Arby's lot.
> >
> >    Also, the 50 Green and 70 Grey buses stop at Country Fair,
> >    as does the Southwest Direct MTD shuttle.
> >
> > Bring a sign, or use one of ours, or just hang out.
> >
> > Hope you can come and help us call for peace.
> >
> >
> >   Stuart
> >
> > [Since this is going to several mailing lists, I've set replies
> > to go to me by default.]
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> Ambassador Pickering on Iran Talks and Multinational Enrichment
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=kGZFrFxVg8A
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