[Peace-discuss] AWARE meeting - What do we need this week? (re 5pm Sun showing of locally-made film)

Mon Aug 19 02:27:06 UTC 2013

The latter.  Prepare to be virtually distributed to.

On 8/18/13 5:42 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" wrote:
> My English gets worse and worser.
>
>> we can distribute virtually anything we come up with
>
> Is virtually an adverb modifying anything "virtually anything",
> implying that some things could not be distributed but most things could?
>
> or
>
> Is virtually an adverb modifying distribute "distribute virtually"
> indicating use of an electronic medium for distribution?
>
>
> On 08/19/13 2:34, Stuart Levy wrote:
>> Hey Karen and everybody,
>>
>> We seem to be evenly split between meeting virtually vs meeting at 4. 
>> Karen (Medina) and I are game to show up at 4 today, at the usual 
>> White Horse, with whoever else would like to, for say not more than 
>> 45 minutes... and we can distribute virtually anything we come up with.
>>
>>
>> Two important things I left out of the earlier note:
>>
>> 1)   Right, *Quad Day: Sunday, **Aug. 25th,  noon-4PM.*
>>      I haven't heard of any arrangements so far.  I think David Green 
>> was asking SJP whether they'd let us join them, but don't know if 
>> we've heard back yet.   The ISO also has a table, and perhaps we 
>> could ask them.   Both are near the northwest corner of the quad, in 
>> a ghetto reserved for political groups, on a diagonal sidewalk just 
>> south of the western side of the Illini Union.
>>
>>      A question for us: if we have the chance to, *how should we 
>> present ourselves* at Quad Day?   We don't currently have a 
>> what-is-AWARE flyer; *would anyone be up for work on creating one? * 
>> In any case, we could bring some recent demonstration flyers, and 
>> possibly a demo sign if our host agrees to that.   Carl liked one 
>> that we'd been using at the Farmer's Market, celebrating three great 
>> whistleblowers - Ellsberg, Manning, Snowden.
>>
>>      In any case we'd want the signup clipboard.   Gathering contact 
>> information for interested people will be important.
>>
>> 2) *March on Washington*, next *Sat, Aug 24th*.
>>      Next weekend is the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on 
>> Washington.   A large demo is planned for the 24th.
>>
>>      The NAACP (at least) is organizing buses from around Illinois, 
>> and trying to get people to DC.   Several buses are planned from 
>> around the state - not sure whether one is passing through C-U, but 
>> it could be, and may depend on whether there's interest.    The rally 
>> is Saturday morning and afternoon, so I imagine a bus might leave 
>> (here or Peoria or Kankakee) sometime Friday afternoon, and return 
>> some time Sunday.
>>
>>       Patricia Avery, of the NAACP of Champaign County 
>> http://naacpcc.org, is I think coordinating:
>>             patricicavery {at} gmail.com      (yes, really 
>> patricicavery).
>>
>>       There are buses from Kankakee and Chicago; there's also one 
>> from Springfield which could stop in C-U if there's enough 
>> interest.   The Springfield bus plans to stay overnight in DC ($99 
>> hotel rooms), the others will drive back after the rally.
>>
>> What could people of the peace movement expect from this event?  
>> There's been some discussion of that on the UFPJ mailing list.   
>> Phyllis Bennis wrote:
>>
>>> If we look back at the October 2010 "One Nation Together" march, the 
>>> first re-connection of the labor and civil rights movement in years, 
>>> there was a similar challenge.  Anti-war organizations, especially 
>>> UFPJ, were part of the organizing, but there were no officially 
>>> designated representatives of the peace movement among the speakers. 
>>> But when the UAW's Bob King and the great Harry Belafonte took the 
>>> stage, both wrapped powerful anti-war messages into their speeches, 
>>> and the huge crowd went wild.
>>>
>>> Harry spoke of Dr. King's recognition in 1967 that the war in Viet 
>>> Nam was not only unconscionable, but also unwinnable. And then he said
>>>
>>> "Now today, almost half a century later, as we gather in this place 
>>> where Dr. King prayed for the soul of this great nation … the wars 
>>> that we wage today in far-away lands are unconscionable, immoral, 
>>> and unwinnable. …The president’ s decision to escalate the war, in 
>>> that region alone, costs the nation $33 billion.That sum of money 
>>> could not only create 600,000 jobs, but would even leave us a few 
>>> million to start rebuilding our schools, our roads, our hospitals 
>>> and affordable housing. It will also help to rebuild the lives of 
>>> our returning wounded veterans….Peace is necessary for justice. It 
>>> is necessary for hope. It is necessary for our future.”
>>>
>>> The crowd roared.  People there had largely been mobilized by the 
>>> labor movement and the civil rights movement, not the peace 
>>> movement. But their openness, eagerness, to take literature, engage 
>>> in conversations, talk about the costs of war, even buy t-shirts! - 
>>> was amazing.  They - not the count of speaker affiliations - is 
>>> still why we go.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There are plenty of limitations in how the leadership of next week's 
>>> march, 50 years after the 1963 march on Washington,  is framing the 
>>> issues - and the lack of a specific focus on wars and military 
>>> spending is certainly top of my list of problems. But that's 
>>> precisely why a major presence of anti-war and peace voices needs to 
>>> be there. Big protests are never only about who's on the stage and 
>>> what they say - although that's important.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/18/13 10:28 AM, Karen Aram wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>> I am okay with 4:00pm. If you and Karen need a ride to the meeting, 
>>> let me know.
>>>
>>> Question: Do we share a table with a group at the Quad on Quad day? 
>>> Carl was going to ask David Green about that. If so, we need to discuss.
>>>
>>> I am also interested in discussing support and assistance for David 
>>> Green's campaign.
>>>
>>> Sorry, I wasn't at last weeks meeting so I am uninformed.
>>>
>>> Karen A.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 09:16:00 -0500
>>> From: salevy at illinois.edu
>>> To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>>> CC: salevy at illinois.edu
>>> Subject: [Peace-discuss] AWARE meeting - What do we need this week? 
>>> (re 5pm Sun showing of locally-made film)
>>>
>>> Peaceable people,
>>>
>>> What do we need to decide at our next meeting, normally today at 5pm?
>>>
>>> It's at the same time as the only showing of a locally made film 
>>> ("House of Thaddeus" 
>>> <http://smilepolitely.com/arts/enter_house_of_thaddeus/>, 5pm sharp 
>>> at the Art Theater, today, Sunday the 18th).   I'd really like to 
>>> see this, maybe others would too.   Can we do business by e-mail 
>>> today?   Or, Karen suggests, we could meet earlier, say 4pm.    Or 
>>> we could meet at 5 as usual.
>>>
>>>
>>> Upcoming events:
>>>
>>>    10AM Tuesday, Aug 20th: Comprehensive Immigration Reform rally at 
>>> Rep. Rodney Davis' office, 2004 Fox Drive, Champaign.
>>>        The Immigration Forum group is encouraging anyone interested 
>>> in immigration reform to attend this rally, to help press Davis to 
>>> support the cause.  (In Peoria, Illinois People's Action recently 
>>> got Aaron Schock, a right-wing Republican, to agree to support 
>>> having a path to citizenship.)
>>>
>>>
>>>    8-noon, Saturday, Aug 24th: still not sure whether we'll have a 
>>> space at Farmer's Market next week.  The spaces are full, though 
>>> they're checking whether we might be able to be on a waiting list.
>>>
>>>
>>>    1:30PM Sunday, Sep 1st, Champaign Public Library: David Green 
>>> announces his candidacy for US Congress!
>>>
>>>
>>>    2-4PM Saturday, Sep 7th, Main & Neil: monthly demonstration.
>>>
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