[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Demonstration - No New Iraq War - Sunday, 11:30am - 1:00pm - at Main and Neil

Sun Jun 15 20:48:20 EDT 2014

Thank you to all who came out today on such short notice. Many people were not able to attend given prior commitments. 
David Johnson, and David Green were there before Stuart and I arrived with signs. Ron and Rebecca Szoke attended, as did Rohn Koestner. My neighbor Hongs' daughter and her boyfriend joined us as well. So all totaled we had nine people though not all at the same time. 
The leaflet from last week was quite appropriate, and it was a beautiful, though very windy day. There were many diners, though we didn't get the notice we usually do at our Saturday demonstrations.
Do we feel good or better about ourselves for having protested air strikes on Iraq? No, not really. 
Do we think we made a difference? No, but we had to do something to voice our discontent and hope that it won't happen. 
Please keep signing those petitions folks.

Karen Aram

Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:20:32 -0500
To: peace at anti-war.net
CC: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
Subject: [Peace] Demonstration - No New Iraq War - Sunday, 11:30am - 1:00pm - at Main and Neil
From: peace at lists.chambana.net

    The US is "considering" use of military force to
      support the Iraqi government - against the same insurgents whom
      we're already supporting as they fight the Syrian government.
      Adding military fuel to the fire is no answer in Iraq.

      At today's AWARE table we talked about the alarming prospect of
      use of new US military force in Iraq.   If you can spare a few
      minutes tomorrow morning/early afternoon, please join us for a
      special demonstration -

        Main and Neil, downtown
        Champaign (the usual demonstration site)

          Sunday, June 15th

          11:30am - 1:00pm  (but not the usual time)

      We'll aim to have some signs, but if you have time to make a new
      one, that could be good.  Likewise if you have an idea for a sign
      you'd like to see - whether you'll be there or not - please let us
      know.

      Other ways to act, and things to read -

          Just Foreign Policy created a MoveOn petition opposing
      intervention, by calling for Congressional authorization for any
      action.  This was enough obstacle to block direct US military
      intervention in Syria last autumn, and perhaps it could be here:

             http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/no-new-US-war-in-Iraq

      Some articles with aspects you won't likely read in the mainstream
      media, thanks to Lee Siu Hin -  

      6/13 Iraq Watch: Latest News from
              Information Clearinghouse

      Capture
            of Mosul Ushers in the Birth of a Sunni Caliphate
       By
            Patrick Cockburn

      If
          the Isis advance takes more towns and villages, then the
          territory lost to the government may become too large to
          reconquer. 
      http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38791.htm

      Sunni
            Caliphate Has Been Bankrolled By Saudi Arabia
       By
            Robert Fisk

      The
          jihadists of Isis and sundry other groupuscules paid by the
          Saudi Wahhabis - and by Kuwaiti oligarchs - now rule thousands
          of square miles. 
      http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38798.htm

      Iraq
            in Hell: Blame the Neocons!
      The
            secret history of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
       By
            Joseph Cannon

      Even
          fighters for the rival Nusra front -- the Syrian rebels who
          eat hearts and desecrate churches -- temporarily broke with
          ISIS, on the grounds that ISIS is too extreme. 
      http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38792.htm

      America's
            Covert Re-Invasion of Iraq
       By
            Tony Cartalucci

      With
          the West declaring ISIS fully villainous in an attempt to
          intervene more directly in northern Iraq and eastern Syria,
          creating a long desired "buffer zone" within which to harbor,
          arm, and fund an even larger terrorist expeditionary force.
      http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38793.htm

      How
            The US Is Arming Both Sides Of The Iraqi Conflict
       By
            Tyler Durden

      The
          clear winner here? The US military-industrial complex. 
      http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38799.htm

      Bowe
            Bergdahl, Barack Obama, and the Horror of America
       By
            Paul Street

      "'The
          governor said that the villagers have brought two tractor
          trailers full of pieces of human bodies to his office to prove
          the casualties that had occurred,' 
      http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38800.htm

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