[Peace-discuss] Fw: tomorrow's AWARE demonstration - and flyer sources: Snowden's statement ('the Obama Administration is afraid of an informed, angry public') and USLAW against intervention in Syria

Sat Jul 6 01:18:09 UTC 2013

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From: "David Johnson" <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>
To: "Carl G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] tomorrow's AWARE demonstration - and flyer 
sources: Snowden's statement ('the Obama Administration is afraid of an 
informed, angry public') and USLAW against intervention in Syria


> Yes !
>
> Our task should be to " connect the dots "
>
> David J.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Carl G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
> To: "Stuart Levy" <stuartnlevy at gmail.com>
> Cc: "David Johnson" <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>; "Peace-discuss" 
> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 3:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] tomorrow's AWARE demonstration - and flyer 
> sources: Snowden's statement ('the Obama Administration is afraid of an 
> informed, angry public') and USLAW against intervention in Syria
>
>
> Confirming once again Chomsky's point that people working against the 
> war/for economic justice/etc., even in the same town, don't know others 
> who are doing similar things.
>
> AWARE was actually founded, right after 9/11, to bring together people and 
> groups in C-U who were working against the wars that the USG would falsely 
> justify on the basis of the 9/11 attacks - which of course proved too 
> true. But the 'clearing house' function tended to yield to fissiparous 
> tendencies over time...
>
> --CGE
>
>
> On Jul 5, 2013, at 2:53 PM, Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's a great question.  I've no idea who they were.  Cool though!   Did 
>> anyone else recognize them?
>>
>> As they stood there, they held a sign that said something like (maybe 
>> someone remembers better) -
>>
>>      Clapper                  Snowden
>>
>>     Lied to Congress about
>>     NSA eavesdropping        Exposed NSA eavesdropping
>>
>>     Patriot?                  Traitor?
>>
>> On 7/5/13 1:48 PM, David Johnson wrote:
>>>  Stuart,
>>>
>>> Who were those people at the parade yetsreday ( across from Illini Grove 
>>> on Lincoln ) who were standing in the crowd, and speaking in favor of 
>>> Snowden and the First Ammendment etc.., using an amplified microphone / 
>>> bullhorn ?
>>>
>>> David J.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Stuart Levy
>>> To: Peace Discuss
>>> Cc: occupycu
>>> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 1:30 PM
>>> Subject: [Peace-discuss] tomorrow's AWARE demonstration - and flyer 
>>> sources: Snowden's statement ('the Obama Administration is afraid of an 
>>> informed, angry public') and USLAW against intervention in Syria
>>>
>>> Tomorrow is the first Saturday of the month - AWARE's monthly anti-war 
>>> demonstration:
>>>
>>>      2-4PM, Saturday, July 6th,
>>>      corner of Main and Neil, downtown Champaign - the usual place
>>>
>>> We haven't settled on a flyer for tomorrow, but talked a bit after the 
>>> parade about things that might go in it, including Edward Snowden's 
>>> statement this week (below).  Also below is a current statement by US 
>>> Labor Against the War opposing intervention in Syria.     Discussers of 
>>> peace, what do we think of these?   Are there other things that we 
>>> really need to include?  I'll aim to assemble something tonight, and get 
>>> it copied tomorrow midday, unless someone else wants to do either of 
>>> those.
>>>
>>>
>>>> One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and 
>>>> safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty 
>>>> has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others 
>>>> who I have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my 
>>>> life and they returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will 
>>>> always be thankful.
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would 
>>>> not permit any diplomatic "wheeling and dealing" over my case. Yet now 
>>>> it is being reported that after promising not to do so, the President 
>>>> ordered his Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from 
>>>> which I have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions.
>>>>
>>>> This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither 
>>>> is the extralegal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools of 
>>>> political aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those 
>>>> who would come after me. For decades the United States of America has 
>>>> been one of the strongest defenders of the human right to seek asylum. 
>>>> Sadly, this right, laid out and voted for by the U.S. in Article 14 of 
>>>> the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is now being rejected by the 
>>>> current government of my country. The Obama administration has now 
>>>> adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. Although I am 
>>>> convicted of nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving 
>>>> me a stateless person. Without any judicial order, the administration 
>>>> now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to 
>>>> everybody. The right to seek asylum.
>>>>
>>>> In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers 
>>>> like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, 
>>>> or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is 
>>>> afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional 
>>>> government it was promised — and it should be.
>>>>
>>>> I am unbowed in my convictions and impressed at the efforts taken by so 
>>>> many.
>>>>
>>>> Edward Joseph Snowden
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Michael Eisenscher 
>>> <nationalcoordinator at uslaboragainstwar.org> wrote:
>>> The Crisis in Syria:
>>> Statement by the Steering Committee of
>>> U.S. Labor Against the War
>>> July 5, 2013
>>> • We oppose any U.S.  military intervention, direct or indirect, in the 
>>> Syrian conflict
>>> • The U.S. should focus on providing more humanitarian assistance 
>>> through established internationally recognized neutral institutions and 
>>> organizations
>>> • There is no military solution to the crisis in Syria
>>> • Initial steps to arm rebels will surely create pressure for further 
>>> escalation, leading the U.S. into another quagmire
>>> • We call on our government to reverse its decision to provide arms and 
>>> other military support to the Syrian rebels
>>> • The Syrian crisis is for the Syrian people to resolve by political 
>>> negotiations
>>> • There must be an immediate full arms embargo applied to all countries
>>> • We support initiatives in Congress to prevent the U.S. from becoming 
>>> embroiled in another armed conflict in the Middle East
>>> • We call for using funds now spent on the military to address poverty, 
>>> unemployment, inequality and numerous other social ills here at home and 
>>> abroad
>>> • By addressing these problems we will also increase our national 
>>> security and reduce the need to resort to arms.
>>> Download full statement in PDF format
>>>
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