[Peace-discuss] Hello fom Joy

[Joy]

Hello Stuart,

    Thank you so very much for reaching out to me last night.  I have 
successfully contacted one of the event organizers and have accepted their 
invitation to come November 13 to help out in a variety of ways.  I am "in 
like flint" and quite pleased.  I look forward to seeing you on November 5, 
7 p.m. at the old Urbana post office.

In Peace,
Joy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Levy" <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
To: <peace at anti-war.net>
Cc: <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2008 8:52 PM
Subject: [Peace] Play "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail",Nov 8th (7pm Sat) & 
9th (2:30pm Sun), Channing-Murray


> Hey all,
>
> The play, "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail", is named for an exercise of
> civil disobedience as Henry David Thoreau refused to pay a tax to support
> the Mexican-American War.   But it wanders far from there: to Ralph Waldo 
> Emerson
> remembering his friend, to Thoreau's conversation with a runaway slave ...
> The stage directions say "time and space are awash here", and describe the 
> main character:
>
>    [...] this is *young* Thoreau -- not the bearded, weary-eyed savant
>    of the postage stamp.  Our Henry is a failure, a misfit -- not a nut --
>    but a painfully sane man in an insane world.  And only through 
> unflagging
>    humor can he hold onto his sanity.
>
> Hope you are tempted by this.  It's being directed by UofI student Matthew 
> DeMarco,
> and performed by the New Revels Players, on:
>
>    7:00pm Saturday, Nov 8th
>    2:30pm Sunday, Nov 9th
>
> both performances at Channing-Murray Foundation,
> 1209 W. Oregon (Oregon & Mathews), Urbana.
>
> (This is slightly different from earlier tentative dates -- the above 
> times are firm.)
>
>
>
>
> A couple more quotes -- one from the play (written in 1970, in the midst 
> of the
> Vietnam War, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee):
>
>    "Anytime you hear a man called 'loony,' just remember that's a great 
> compliment
>    to the man and a great disrespect to the loon.  A loon doesn't wage 
> war, his
>    government is perfect, being nonexistent.  He is the world's best 
> fisherman and
>    completely in control of his senses, thank you.
>
> and another from Thoreau directly, from his essay, Civil Disobedience:
>
>    I have never declined paying the highway tax, because I am as desirous
>    of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject; and as for
>    supporting schools, I am doing my part to educate my fellow-countrymen
>    now.  It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay
>    it.  I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw and
>    stand aloof from it effectually.  I do not care to trace the course
>    of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot
>    one with — the dollar is innocent — but I am concerned to trace
>    the effects of my allegiance.  In fact, I quietly declare war with
>    the State, after my fashion, though I will still make what use and
>    get what advantage of her I can, as is usual in such cases.
>
>
>
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