[Peace-discuss] AWARE monthly demonstration, Saturday April 6th, 2-4pm

[Stuart Levy]

We are back on the streets again tomorrow...

    AWARE's monthly anti-war demonstration
    *Saturday, April 6th*, 2013
    *2:00-4:00PM*
    Main and Neil, downtown Champaign [*]

Some of us will gather for *lunch beforehand*, a couple blocks away:

    *12:30PM-2PM at the Esquire bar* (thanks to Dave Johnson for the
    suggestion!)

Expect a stiff breeze and a small chance of rain.

The flyer for this month - thanks to Carl and Karen - is drawn from 
Glenn Greenwald's review of a new film, *"Dirty Wars"*, featuring Jeremy 
Scahill's investigations into the US' ongoing global war, which "renders 
its victims invisible and voiceless."

A quote from that -- see Carl's recent peace-discuss e-mail for the full 
flyer, or read Greenwald's original review:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/31/dirty-wars-terrorism-victims?CMP=twt_gu

[...]
> The message is that the US is viewed as the greatest threat and that 
> it is US aggression and violence far more than any other cause that 
> motivates support for al-Qaida and anti-American sentiment. The son of 
> the slain Afghan police commander (who is the husband of one of the 
> killed pregnant woman and brother of the other) says that villagers 
> refer to US Special Forces as the "American Taliban" and that he 
> refrained from putting on a suicide belt and attacking US soldiers 
> with it only because of the pleas of his grieving siblings. An 
> influential Southern Yemeni cleric explains that he never heard of 
> al-Qaida sympathizers in his country until that 2009 cruise missile 
> attack and subsequent drone killings, including the one that ended the 
> life of Abdulrahman (a claim supported by all sorts of data). The 
> brutal Somali warlord explains that the Americans are the "masters of 
> war" who taught him everything he knows and who fuel ongoing conflict. 
> Anwar Awlaki's transformation from moderate and peace-preaching 
> American cleric to angry critic of the US is shown to have begun with 
> the US attack on Iraq and then rapidly intensifying with Obama's drone 
> attacks and kill lists. Meanwhile, US military officials and officers 
> interviewed by Scahill exhibit a sociopathic indifference to their 
> victims, while Awlaki's increasingly angry sermons in defense of jihad 
> are juxtaposed with the very similar-sounding justifications of 
> endless war from Obama.

[*]  There's a chance that Church/Main St. may be closed for 
construction of the rubble-filled lot on the southwest corner. Let's 
hope that Neil St. will remain open for traffic.

Come by for a quarter hour or as long as you like.  We have some stories 
from this week's visit of Norman Augustine, ex-CEO of #1 military 
contractor Lockheed-Martin, who visited the U of I to talk about the 
future of the University and of science & engineering education.

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