[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Who'd be there if we hold a Main Event tomorrow 1/2 2-4pm?

[Stuart Levy]

On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 02:01:13PM -0600, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> I was working on a flyer for tomorrow when I concluded that I lacked the
> courage/foolhardiness to stand outside for two hours.  Having just come 
> back
> from a brief trip around town, I'm adopting Ron's position...
>
> If anyone really wants to be out, I'll finish the flyer, but I really don't 
> recommend it.  --CGE

I'd just taken a 45-minute walk before sending that note.  It was, well,
invigorating.  Very pretty snow & sunlight but wish I'd had a scarf.

At this point I've heard an almost-certainly-Yes from one person.
OK, anybody else?   Maybe we can decide by late evening.

Carl, what would the flyer be on if you do finish it?
The notion of a Just War vs.  our actual unjust ones, or ... ?

> Stuart Levy wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:54:36AM -0600, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>>> The high tomorrow is predicted to be 12 degrees Fahrenheit.
>>> Shall we cancel the demo scheduled for 2-4pm at Neil & Main in Champaign?
>>> I think my Southern blood is too thin for that...  --CGE
>> I'd be inclined to go ahead and demonstrate tomorrow, *if* say at least 3
>> others intend to be there too, for at least an hour.  Anyone game?  Please
>> speak up if so.
>> (Otherwise I'll spend Sat afternoon at work, more comfortably but less
>> satisfyingly.)
>> If we do hold a Main Event, we could hand out Carl's Afghanistan flyer 
>> again,
>> or perhaps could print one of the articles about the international march 
>> to
>> Gaza -- it would be good to draw people's attention to that if we can 
>> avoid
>> frostbite.  Anyone have a favorite *concise* article? Democracy Now,
>> Christian Science Monitor, Agence France Presse, and the BBC have all been
>> variously covering it -- probably others too -- but there hadn't been much 
>> in
>> the US mainstream media as Just Foreign Policy pointed out.. 
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