[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Peace] Re: Memorial in Champaign-Urbana this Saturday for Dr. Tiller?

[Stuart Laird]

Prayer vigil?  Given that Dr. Tiller was killed while attending church, I
assume he was a religious person, and if someone wants to organize a prayer
event, that's fine I guess.  Many of Dr. Teller's supporters are
nonreligious persons, and I'd hope that anything that AWARE sponsors would
focus on the aspects of Tiller's life that we can all agree on:  keeping
abortion safe, legal, and accessible and rallying in support of the brave
physicians who risk their lives to keep places like PPECI open as full
service women's health clinics.

$0.02

- Stuart

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rachel Storm <rachelstrm at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Subject: [Peace] Re: Memorial in Champaign-Urbana this Saturday for Dr.
Tiller?
To: hault2 at uiuc.edu, "Hann, Lena" <lenah at ppil.org>, Lena Hann <
lena.hann at gmail.com>
Cc: amasong_singers at lists.amasong.org, Sarah Rasmusson <
sarahrasmusson at yahoo.com>, lefortune at gmail.com, peace at lists.chambana.net,
lreagan at uiuc.edu, srasmus3 at uiuc.edu, pmorey at illinois.edu,
wantland at illinois.edu, Paula A Treichler <ptreich at gmail.com>


*I am writing this e-mail in response to an e-mail sent from local artist
and reproductive justice advocate Heather Ault, whose e-mail you should be
able to access below for reference.*

Dear Heather and Everyone,

I, too, was shocked and devastated by the death of Dr. George Tiller and am
so happy to know that you're interested in organizing something in his
honor. I've copied your e-mail along with this one to Lena Hann, Education
Programs Coordinator at Planned Parenthood and would love to help organize a
prayer vigil. I haven't heard of something already underway, but perhaps
Lena could let us know of whether Planned Parenthood would be a great site
for the vigil--and I think it would!

I'll be forwarding this message around and looking forward to organizing
something for this Saturday. (I should also mention that a friend of mine
and my partner Michael's was just pronounced terminally ill and has only a
few short days to live. Because of this, I may be out of town, but I will
certainly do all I can to make the vigil happen-- even if I cannot be
present.)

Let's open up a dialogue here about where, when, and how we can honor Dr.
George Tiller.

In peace,
Rachel Storm



On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Heather Ault <hault2 at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hello friends,
>
> I'm curious if you might be interested in organizing a prayer vigil this
> Saturday at 10am, the time of Dr. Tiller's funeral? Or, perhaps there
> are efforts already underway? I'm thinking that outside of Planned
> Parenthood might be a great place to hold the event. Rachel has been
> working there as an intern, and might have some ideas.
>
> This is a really important time to rally together the reproductive
> rights supporters in our community and support our local Planned
> Parenthood! Rachel works there as an intern, and I'm sure will have some
> ideas. Looking forward to doing what we can do.
>
> Here's a list of other events that happened on Monday night....
> http://www.feministing.com/archives/015748.html
>
> And, an article with the time of his funeral...
> http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/46727532.html
>
> Looking forward to hearing what you all think. Or, of others people I
> can connect with. If you are busy or out of town, please send along your
> great ideas!
>
> In solidarity,
> Heather
>
> ...
> Heather Ault
> MFA Candidate, School of Art and Design
> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
> www.heatherault.org
>
>


-- 
Rachel Storm, Transnational Gender Politics
WIMSE Program Assistant
Forte International Exchange Local Representative



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