[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Iraq war protest held on campus

[Karen Medina]

Nice picture of Stuart Levy too!

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>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:40:51 -0500
>From: "Brian Dolinar" <briandolinar at gmail.com>  
>Subject: [Peace] Iraq war protest held on campus  
>To: announce at communitycourtwatch.org, "AWARE peace" <peace at lists.chambana.net>, "martin smith" <send2smith at yahoo.com>, "mark enslin" <enslin.mark at gmail.com>, "Tom Abram" <tabram at gmail.com>
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>                   The News-Gazette.com
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> 
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>Iraq war protest held on campus
>
>      By Paul Wood
>
>        Friday March 14, 2008
>
>   Heather Coit/The News-Gazette
>
>   Erik McDuffie, center left, a University of Illinois
>   faculty member, spends a die-in talking with Brian
>   Dolinar, foreground, a member of CU Citizens for
>   Peace and Justice, as they join others in protesting
>   the continued war in Iraq on the UI Quad in Urbana
>   on Thursday. Protest organizers ended the the almost
>   two-hour rally by using chalk to trace participants
>   during the die-in to provide a lasting impression.
>
>   URBANA – Local anti-war activists marked America's
>   fifth year in Iraq on Thursday with speeches on the
>   Quad, a march through Campustown and a "die-in."
>
>   About 35 marchers gathered on Anniversary Plaza
>   south of the Illini Union just before noon, strode
>   past the Alma Mater to Green Street, turned west to
>   Fifth Street and came back on John, then took a turn
>   around the University of Illinois quadrangle.
>
>   The protesters themselves noted that the turnout
>   wasn't huge, with speaker Alex Kueny noting that the
>   Vietnam War was not protested in its first five
>   years, and that the protests peaked 10 years into
>   the war.
>
>   Two-thirds of Americans oppose the current war,
>   Kueny, a freshman in history, told the crowd.
>
>   Protesters took a page from Vietnam era protesters
>   and chanted "Hey Bush, Whaddya Say, How Many Kids
>   Did You Kill Today," a rhyme once used to castigate
>   Lyndon Baines Johnson.
>
>   "No Justice, No Peace, U.S. Out Of The Middle East"
>   was another popular slogan.
>
>   Mark Mallon, a junior in English who helped plan the
>   protest as part of the Prairie Greens Party, said he
>   was pleased with the response.
>
>   Another Green Party leader, Susan Rodgers, said
>   organizers had tried to get the word out in a hurry
>   using techniques unavailable to Abbie Hoffman, such
>   as Facebook and e-mail lists.
>
>   There was no evident counterprotest, though a few
>   people shouted their disagreement with the marchers
>   as they walked along Green and Fifth streets.
>
>   The noon hour was a big time for high school tours,
>   and a crowd from Naperville fell in behind the
>   marchers near the English Building.
>
>   One incoming UI student from Naperville, Kristen
>   Meder, said she looked forward to demonstration as
>   part of her Illini experience.
>
>   "Megaphones! I love it!" she said as her group
>   veered toward the English Building.
>
>   Although most of the marchers were college-aged,
>   Mark Enslin has been around since the headier times
>   of the 1970s.
>
>   The composer, a teacher at the School for Designing
>   A Society, carried two poster-sized signs as he
>   walked his bike with the marchers.
>
>   In his opinion, the current war is celebrating its
>   17th anniversary, dating back to the end of the
>   first Gulf War of the president's father.
>
>   Enslin said a climate of militarism keeps up
>   pressure for war in the media and elsewhere, and
>   opponents of the war need to do the same thing,
>   pressing every day for an accounting.
>
>   Another veteran protester, UI law professor emeritus
>   Francis Boyle, renewed a call for the impeachment of
>   the president and vice president, as well as a
>   Nuremberg-like trial of U.S. leaders for what Boyle
>   described as "genocide" in the Middle East.
>
>   Another speaker, Green Party county board candidate
>   Walter Pituc, said the war is costing this country
>   $12 billion a month, money he suggested could be
>   better spent on education or taking care of homeless
>   veterans.
>
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