[Peace-discuss] president's speech on afghanistan - emergency response...

[Jenifer Cartwright]

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--- On Wed, 11/11/09, Iraq Veterans Against the War <ivaw.champaign at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Iraq Veterans Against the War <ivaw.champaign at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] president's speech on afghanistan - emergency response...
To: "Stuart Levy" <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Cc: "Paul McGuire" <ptmcguire at hotmail.com>, andersonpt85 at gmail.com, "Campus Anti-War Network" <can.uiuc at gmail.com>, brmcint at ilstu.edu, duanelinton at gmail.com, "Patsy Howell" <ummtamala at yahoo.com>, "Peace-discuss List" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>, "Jacob" <jacob_a_crawford at yahoo.com>, "Naeem Sheikh" <nsheikh at illinoisalumni.org>
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 6:59 PM


I just returned from DC and will be here for two weeks!  i think this is an EXCELLENT idea and i will try to get IVAW to co-sponsor.  i appreciate that you have take the initiative on this.  

however, if there is not an official speech and just an announcement in the press of a troop surge, then we should advertise that we will protest the DAY OF at 5pm. 
-martin


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 08:51:20AM -0500, Robert Naiman wrote:
> press speculation would suggest better than even odds that sometime in
> November, the President will give a speech announcing that he intends
> to send tens of thousands of more troops to Afghanistan in 2010.
>
> I propose to spread around in advance the idea that there will be
> a demonstration at the Vets Memorial in Urbana at 5pm the day of the
> president's speech.

That sounds great!

I'm Cc'ing IVAW, CAN, and Naeem Sheikh and Patsy Howell of the Mosque,
hoping that they might like to do this or something like it too.

Other members of the ICJPE coalition have talked about an
emergency response up in Chicago as well -- see
   http://icjpe.org/actions/index.php?start=12&np=4
and
   http://icjpe.org/actions/index.php?id=3413

> the idea of 5pm the day of the speech is to try to get into the
> president's news cycle. so that when people are watching the local tv
> news, the first thing they see is the president's announcement and the
> second thing they see is the local reaction: "but local protesters say
> that escalation is not the answer."
>
> I furthermore propose that we invite Tim Johnson to speak. he's
> rock-solid on this. now that's man bites dog.
>
>
> --
> Robert Naiman
> Just Foreign Policy
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