[Peace-discuss] [Peace] UIUC UGL promoting administration war propaganda

[C. G. Estabrook]

  Look at their FB page. A hoax perhaps, but I think not.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Urbana-IL/Undergraduate-Library-UIUC/6148508508?v=app_2373072738&ref=ts#!/pages/Urbana-IL/Undergraduate-Library-UIUC/6148508508?v=wall&ref=ts

On 8/30/10 9:27 PM, Karen Medina wrote:
> Carl,
>
> The Undergraduate Library sent you this message????? What was the
> actual email address? If it was the staff at the library, I think it
> is time for the librarians of greater CU to do something. But I really
> cannot fathom it being from the library.
>
> -karen medina
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:14 PM, C. G. Estabrook<galliher at illinois.edu>  wrote:
>> The Undergraduate Library @ UIUC announces the following:
>>
>> "Witness history! Tomorrow (August 31) marks the end of the War in Iraq
>> (sic). Join us at UGL to watch a live broadcast of President Obama's
>> declaration of the end of the combat mission, and stay for a discussion
>> afterward."
>>
>> I sent them a note ("That's an outrageous acquiescence to the
>> administration's propaganda. The war is nowhere near over. Obama continues
>> to order mass murder in the Middle East in pursuit of America's neo-colonial
>> project in the region. I hope you will have someone to point that out in the
>> discussion afterward..."), to which they (?) replied
>>
>> "Carl, come to the broadcast! I'm hoping the President's address will be
>> followed by a vibrant discussion of *all* the issues. For the record, I
>> don't disagree with you at all -- but it is still a historic moment, and a
>> fantastically rich opportunity to talk about dozens of different things."
>>
>> I suppose AWARE - perhaps particularly AWARE's new undergraduate members -
>> should show up.
>>
>> And I suppose we geezers have to go for moral support...  --CGE
>>
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