[Peace-discuss] [Peace] [OccupyCU] Farmer's Market and Demonstration on Saturday; and, another on Sept. 6th for Bradley Manning on eve of Obama's speech?

[Stuart Levy]

One way we can cast this: barring the rapture, we know that of Obama and 
Romney, one of the two will be the next President.  We could say that 
the demonstration is addressing both of them.  Their positions with 
respect to Manning and government-embarrassing whistleblowers are 
probably pretty similar anyway.


On 9/1/12 10:10 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> I think it's wrong to give Obama a pass on Bradley Manning and hold 
> off on condemning his crimes - from the suppression of WikiLeaks to 
> the murders of Americans and others - for ostensible fear of a 
> candidate (Romney) whose positions on economic and military matters 
> are inherently identical to those of the administration.
>
> "Voting for reform-minded candidates should take about five minutes, 
> and then we go back to the important work on the ground to change the 
> conditions in which the mostly farcical election process proceeds" 
> [Chomsky]. --CGE
>
>
> On Sep 1, 2012, at 1:20 AM, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:jencart13 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>> I'm guessing you guys haven't been listening to the Repub Convention 
>> speeches, but Romney et al are  FAR, FAR, FAR worse than Obama et 
>> al... So how 'bout we save our protests until AFTER the election, and 
>> use our energy defeating the LOTS WORSE evils??? It won't 
>> significantly affect YOUR lives if the Dems are defeated, but it will 
>> be devastating to MILLIONS across the US and the world.
>>
>> --- On *Fri, 8/31/12, Stuart Levy /<stuartnlevy at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:stuartnlevy at gmail.com>>/* wrote:
>>
>>
>>     From: Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:stuartnlevy at gmail.com>>
>>     Subject: [Peace-discuss] Farmer's Market and Demonstration on
>>     Saturday; and, another on Sept. 6th for Bradley Manning on eve of
>>     Obama's speech?
>>     To: "Peace" <peace at anti-war.net <mailto:peace at anti-war.net>>,
>>     "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>>     <mailto:peace-discuss at anti-war.net>>, "ocCUpy"
>>     <occupycu at lists.chambana.net <mailto:occupycu at lists.chambana.net>>
>>     Date: Friday, August 31, 2012, 11:26 AM
>>
>>     The wars go on despite the weather and so shall we (at least
>>     we'll try).
>>
>>     Expect AWARE and CUCPJ at the Farmer's Market tomorrow morning,
>>     8-noon.
>>
>>     And, from 2-4, the AWARE+OccupyCU demonstration will be at its
>>     usual first-Saturday site,
>>
>>        Main and Neil, downtown Champaign
>>        2-4 PM Saturday, Sept. 1st
>>
>>     If it turns into a real downpour, we'll retire somewhere nearby
>>     for lunch.
>>
>>
>>
>>     There's also a nationally-coordinated suggestion for groups to
>>     hold demonstrations on *Thursday, September 6th*, in support of
>>     Bradley Manning --
>>
>>         "Show Obama that Bradley Manning is our hero"
>>
>>     Why the 6th?  That's the date of Obama's acceptance speech at the
>>     DNC.
>>
>>     To make a definite *proposal*, how about:
>>
>>        (proposed) Demonstration in support of accused whistleblower
>>     Bradley Manning
>>        5:00PM Thursday, Sept. 6th
>>        Urbana Veterans' Memorial
>>            (that's Broadway and Main, or, the NW corner of the block
>>     where the county courthouse is)
>>
>>     What do people think?   (Could also make sense to complain more
>>     broadly about Obama's unfulfilled promise as a peace, civil
>>     liberties, etc. candidate from four years ago.)
>>
>>     If you like the idea *and* think you can be there for at least
>>     part of 5-6PM, please write back (either to
>>     peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>>     <x-msg://14/mc/compose?to=peace-discuss@anti-war.net> or to
>>     occupyCU or to me, but not to the peace list please).
>>
>>     If we have at least, say, five people who believe they can do
>>     this, then let's go for it.  Meanwhile let's consider Sept. 6th
>>     as still tentative.
>>
>>     _______________________________________________
>>     Peace-discuss mailing list
>>     Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>>     <x-msg://14/mc/compose?to=Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net>
>>     http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> OccupyCU mailing list
>> OccupyCU at lists.chambana.net <mailto:OccupyCU at lists.chambana.net>
>> http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/occupycu
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Peace mailing list
> Peace at lists.chambana.net
> http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/attachments/20120901/b3702069/attachment.html>