[Peace-discuss] [Peace] 4th of July: "150 Years of Local Heroes"

[Laurie Solomon]

By the way Carl, why are you AFRAID that I am right?  My being right is not 
going to bring about the end of the world - oh but that it could.

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From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 3:38 PM
To: "Laurie Solomon" <ls1000 at live.com>
Cc: "Ricky Baldwin" <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>; <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] 4th of July: "150 Years of Local 
Heroes"

> I'm afraid Laurie's right about Lincoln; it took some substantial effort 
> (and
> selective quotation) to include him in an anti-war float last year.
>
> It's not much problem to find local heroes of the civil rights movement; 
> it's
> more trouble perhaps to find local heroes of the anti-war movement.
>
> At the AWARE meeting last night, someone mentioned the pacifist Dorothy 
> Day (a
> student at UIUC). Others suggested we interpret "local" widely enough to
> include Jane Addams, William Jennings Bryan, Eugene Debs, etc.
>
> I think it would be wise not to include any living figures, not only to 
> help
> recover local anti-war history, but also to avoid current debates over 
> what
> constitutes an anti-war position. --CGE
>
>
> On 5/10/10 12:37 PM, Laurie Solomon wrote:
>> Some how Stuart seems to think that Lincoln was anti-war AND anti-racist;
>> this is a questionable assumption and assertion at best. Aside from 
>> people
>> like John Lee Johnson and others that I have mentioned in a previous 
>> post,
>> there is Vernon L. Barkstall.
>>
> 

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