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

Sun Jun 15 20:50:57 EDT 2014

Nice work.

And don't discount the difference you make. Obama and the 1% fear you - as they should.

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On Jun 15, 2014, at 8:48 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> 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
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>  
> 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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