[Peace-discuss] AWARE flyer for Quad Day

Mon Aug 26 03:03:53 UTC 2013

Thank you, Mort.

I agree, Iran and Syria should be in there. So should the chief clients, Saudi Arabia and Israel. 

The task was to present AWARE's raison d'etre and its activities - and keep it to one page... 

--CGE

On Aug 25, 2013, at 9:39 PM, "Brussel, Morton K" <brussel at illinois.edu> wrote:

> I would add that this administration is now specifically threatening, and waging covert activities against, Iran and Syria, two countries of no threat to the U.S., but who are seen by this administration as a threat to "our national interests", that of corporate America and its clients. 
> 
> --kb
> 
> But in any case a useful statement. 
> 
> 
> On Aug 25, 2013, at 10:00 AM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
> 
>> [The flyer is attached. Comments are welcome. The text is as follows.]
>> 
>> 
>> The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana (AWARE)
>> 
>> AWARE was founded immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001, by residents of Champaign-Urbana and members of the University of Illinois, who saw that the U.S. government would use those crimes as an excuse to carry on and expand its wars for the control of Middle East energy resources. For a dozen years members and friends of AWARE have worked to end the killing by informing their fellow citizens of the real nature of the "war on terrorism," in opposition to the largest and most sophisticated propaganda campaign in history, conducted by the Bush and Obama administrations, and directed at the American people.
>> 
>> Today the U.S. government is threatening, invading, and occupying countries in a vast circle with a 2500-mile radius around the Persian Gulf, from north Africa to the borders of India and China, a region sometimes called the "Greater Middle East." (The U.S. military calls it "Central Command.") This region has the world's greatest concentration of oil and natural gas, and our government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars, month after month, to control it. Control and not just access to these energy resources is what our government demands. We in fact import little of our own oil supplies from the Mideast - most of our imported oil comes from the western hemisphere, notably Canada and Venezuela - but control of world energy supplies gives the U.S. an unparalleled advantage over our economic rivals in Europe and Asia.
>> 
>> President Obama is killing men, women, and children around the world to "fight terrorism," he claims, but as Noam Chomsky explains, “The Obama administration is dedicated to increasing terrorism ... it’s doing it all over the world. Obama ... is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists ... The drone assassination campaigns ... are just part of it; special forces operations and so on, all of these operations, they are terror operations.” The U.S. Special Operations Command - in fact a 25,000-member private army run by the president - are American death squads, who by their own account are operating in more than a hundred countries around the world. No wonder we are hated in those countries.
>> 
>> If you object to the Obama administration's conducting illegal and unjustified war - and lying about the reasons for it - join us. AWARE meets every Sunday evening 5-6pm at the White Horse Inn on in Champaign, near the UIUC campus. We discuss the war and plan activities like the following:
>> ~ Street demonstrations. For more than a decade AWARE has conducted demonstrations and distributed information about the war; they now occur on the first Saturday of every month, 2-4pm, at Main and Neil Streets in downtown Champaign. All are welcome to join us.
>> ~ Information tables. At the Urbana Farmers' Market and other public events, like the Sweet Corn Festival and the Taste of Champaign, AWARE has tables with free printed information on the war and books, t-shirts, buttons and bumper stickers at cost.
>> ~ Television programs. AWARE produces a weekly hour of discussion on the war, "AWARE on the Air," seen Tuesdays at 10pm on Urbana Public Television  <http://www.urbanapublictelevision.org/>. The program is recorded unrehearsed at noon on Tuesdays in the UPTV studios. Members and friends of AWARE are invited to attend and participate in the discussion.
>> ~ Articles in the local media. Letters to the Editor in the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette and even the Daily Illini are one of the few ways to join a general political discussion locally.
>> ~ Demands to elected representatives. People in Champaign-Urbana are represented in Congress by Senators Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk, and by Representative Rodney Davis. All three support the administration's wars and assassinations - and are in fact urging Obama to expand the killing. You can register your opinion by calling their Washington DC offices, which can be reached at 202-224-3121. (Say that you are calling from Illinois' 13th Congressional District.)
>> ~ Internet presence. AWARE conducts two email mailing lists, which you can join on the websites: <https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace> for announcements, and, for discussion of the war, <https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss>. You can join the discussion on our Facebook page: <https://www.facebook.com/groups/305897426305/>.
>> 
>> AWARE honors the whistleblowers - Manning, Assange, Snowden
>> and others - persecuted by the Obama administration
>> 
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