[Peace-discuss] Hello fom Joy

[Karen Medina]

Hey Joy,

Thanks for offering to help out, counseling wise, with the Winter Soldier event 
November 13th too! 

-karen medina
---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:14:41 -0500
>From: "Joy" <jgeo61 at sbcglobal.net>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Hello fom Joy  
>To: <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
>
>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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