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

Wed May 7 17:18:55 EDT 2014

Thanks, Karen. You and I and everybody else on this listserv is on the same
page over U.S. involvement in Nigeria and elsewhere.

See you there.

Vukoni

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Vukoni
>
> Thank you for this. 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
>
>
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> 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] 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.
>
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 19:14:54 -0500
> From: sjp.uiuc at gmail.com
> To:
> Subject: [Peace] Fwd: #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS RALLY
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> ---------- 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>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Gershenfeld, Susan C* <sgershen at illinois.edu>
> Date: Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:58 AM
> Subject: #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS RALLY
> To:
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> 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
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> *RALLY WEDNESDAY MAY 7, 2014 ON THE QUAD AT THE UNION*
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> *4:30-6:00PM*
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> [image: cid:image001.png at 01CF688D.DE560310]
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> *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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your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future." Thomas
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