[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Fwd: #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS RALLY

Wed May 7 16:16:21 EDT 2014

By Allah, I will sell them in the
marketplace<http://www.voanews.com/content/abubakar-shekau-who-is-the-leader-of-boko-haram/1909717.html>

and hundreds of people are killed each month in northeastern Nigeria as a
result of the now five-year insurgency by militant Islamist sect Boko Haram.

yet you Karen, Vukoni, SJP at al. find no words to see how's this linked to
Islam?

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Vukoni and all
>
> I'm not sure my response went out this morning, my apologies if I'm being
> repetitive.
>
> Thank you for the below information. I will attend the rally.
> Pressure on the Nigerian government to find and return the abducted girls
> is certainly something I support and wish to participate, though I
> retain reservations regarding US military intervention.
>
> Look forward to seeing you there.
>
> Karen
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 00:06:18 -0500
> From: vukoni at afrikem.com
> To: karenaram at hotmail.com
> CC: peace-discuss at anti-war.net; peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net;
> sjp.uiuc at gmail.com; peace at lists.chambana.net
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Fwd: #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS RALLY
>
> Dear Karen and all,
>
> Greetings. Thanks for circulating the information about the rally and for
> raising concerns about the troubling role of the United States.
>
> Please allow me to clarify. I was at the meeting where the members of the
> African Students Organization (ASO) at the University of Illinois took the
> decision to organize a rally in support of efforts to find and return the
> abducted girls. The main goal of this rally is to put pressure on the
> Nigerian government to act in securing the release of the abducted girls.
> But since this is very much a regionalized conflict with Boko Haram having
> rear bases or safe havens in Cameroon, Niger and possibly Chad. So, we
> added the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), African Union
> (AU), and the UN and other international agencies. This is not a call for
> U.S. intervention, although there certainly are some of our ASO members and
> indeed elements among the elites in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa who are
> only too ready to abdicate their responsibilities to the United States.
>
> I urge those of you who are able to come to this rally to do so. Your
> presence and support will be deeply appreciated. I will be there.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Vukoni
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I can only imagine the pain and anguish of the families of these children,
> however I urge caution and restraint, in respect to action being taken by
> foreign nationals.
>
> Pressuring the Nigerian government, yes. But do we really want
> "international parties involved"? Nigerians are capable of solving their
> problems without the help of the US military. Nigeria is a very oil rich
> nation, one of the emerging economies with a government that was
> democratically elected, I have no idea whether they are a good or bad gov.,
> but we've all seen this before.
>
> The US is already in Nigeria, according to the news:
>
> *"They are also pursuing efforts to help the Nigerian military improve its
> professional military education, to bolster its counter-IED (improvised
> explosive device) capacity and carry out responsible CT (counterterrorism)
> operations," said Carney."*
>
> The Boko Haram fundamentalist group was not a problem until the Nigerian
> government went in and massacred them in 2009, according to a former
> Nigerian journalist and colleague of Amy Goodman on Democracy Now. org.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 19:14:54 -0500
> From: sjp.uiuc at gmail.com
> To:
> Subject: [Peace] Fwd: #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS RALLY
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Yazen Affaneh* <yaffan3 at illinois.edu>
> Date: Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:50 PM
> Subject: Fwd: #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS RALLY
> To: Sjp Uiuc <sjp.uiuc at gmail.com>
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Gershenfeld, Susan C* <sgershen at illinois.edu>
> Date: Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:58 AM
> Subject: #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS RALLY
> To:
>
>
>
>
> PLEASE SHARE WIDELY
>
>
> *On April 14, 2014, over 200 girls were abducted from their boarding
> school in Nigeria by a terrorist group, Boko Haram, that may be selling
> them as brides for $12 each. This is really systematic rape and slavery.
> The abducted 200+ girls are victims of an ongoing conflict that they did
> not create, and their voices need to be heard.*
>
>
>
> *Please sign & share the petition. This petition calls on the Nigerian
> government and all enabled international parties to immediately rescue
> them.*
>
> http://www.change.org/petitions/over-200-girls-are-missing-in-nigeria-please-help-find-them-bringbackourgirls?recruiter=2172591&utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition
>
>
>
> *RALLY WEDNESDAY MAY 7, 2014 ON THE QUAD AT THE UNION*
>
> *4:30-6:00PM*
>
> [image: cid:image001.png at 01CF688D.DE560310]
>
> *We, the African Student Organization (ASO) at the University of Illinois,
> assembled here in Urbana-Champaign are conscious of our responsibilities to
> the problems facing our continent and demand immediate and swift pressure
> be brought to Nigeria’s government to provide safety and security to its
> citizens as well as Economic Community of West Africans (ECOWAS), the
> African Union, United Nations, and other Pan African and international
> organization to search for the 200+ abducted school girls.*
>
>
>
> *We further assert and proclaim the unity among ourselves and our
> solidarity to mobilize collectively with Africans and friends in order to
> realize our common objective. We therefore affirm our dedication to the
> cause that we have proclaimed.*
>
>
>
> *#BringBackOurGirls #SavingOurSelves #StopHumanSexTrafficking #UIUC*
>
>
>
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