[Peace-discuss] [Peace] AWARE flyer for Quad Day
"E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"
ewj at pigsqq.org
Tue Aug 27 23:33:29 UTC 2013
The most non-racist thing would be to consider Obama's
race as meaningless information.
The most racist thing to do would be to
call attention to the genetics of his parents
and take any action based upon that information.
On 08/28/13 4:13, David Johnson wrote:
> Gee Greg,
> I hope your not trying to imply that becasue Obama is African American
> that he should be given a blank check to commit war crimes and
> impoverish Working Americans, especially African American Workers ?
> This is EXACTLEY what the 1% ruling class of this country hoped for
> when they recruited and helped get Obama elected.
> Frankly, while we are on the subject, some of the harshest critics of
> Obama have been Cornell West and Black Agenda Report.
> Not to mention that if you research Obama's REAL history, you will see
> that he has NO common experience with the average African American in
> the U.S.. or for that matter any Working American.
> David Johnson
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Gregg Gordon <mailto:ggregg79 at yahoo.com>
> *To:* Brussel, Morton K <mailto:brussel at illinois.edu> ; Estabrook,
> Carl G <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>
> *Cc:* peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net List
> <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net%20List>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 27, 2013 12:38 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] AWARE flyer for Quad Day
>
> I realize I'm probably opening a can of worms with this, but I've
> been wondering for a long time and all the March on Washington
> stuff this weekend brought it back to mind.
>
> Why does an organization whose purpose is to fight racism so often
> speak with such hostility toward our first black president? It's
> obviously counter-intuitive, but I wonder if it also might not be
> counterproductive.
>
> Gregg Gordon
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* "Brussel, Morton K" <brussel at illinois.edu
> <mailto:brussel at illinois.edu>>
> *To:* "Estabrook, Carl G" <galliher at illinois.edu
> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>>
> *Cc:* "peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> List"
> <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>; "peace at anti-war.net"
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> *Sent:* Sunday, August 25, 2013 9:39 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] AWARE flyer for Quad Day
>
> 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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