[Peace-discuss] Flyer for July 2 demo 2-4pm Church & Neil (draft - text)

[C. G. Estabrook]

[RECTO]
A.W.A.R.E.
The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana

The U.S. government is waging illegal wars around the world
and secretly twisting the international economy via ‘trade pacts’
(TPP, TTIP) for the benefit of less than 1% of the U.S. population.

Join our demonstration the first Saturday of every month,
at the intersection of Church and Neil in Champaign, 2-4pm

Meet with us Saturdays at the Urbana Farmers’ Market (Lincoln 
Square) for books, bumper stickers, literature, and conversation

Watch our weekly Urbana Public Television (channel 6) program 
“AWARE on the Air” (also on YouTube), and/or join us at noon Tuesdays
in the Urbana City Council Chambers for the live unrehearsed recordings 

We meet Sundays at 5pm at Cafeteria & Company, 208 W. Main, Urbana;
new members welcome: for information write us at <aware at anti-war.net <mailto:aware at anti-war.net>>
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President Obama is making war in eight countries;
he is sending U.S. ‘special forces’ into more than 3/4 of the 
countries around the world; he has assassinated thousands
by drone - the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern
times; and he is provoking war with Russia and China.

Contact the president (202-456-1111) and our representatives in Congress (202-224-3121):
tell them to end the wars and drone attacks, cut military spending by at least half, bring the
troops home, and close the US military’s 1,000 foreign bases; stop US support for - and 
arms sales to - human rights abusers like Israel, and lead on global nuclear disarmament. 

	President Barack Obama - <http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments>
	Senator Dick Durbin - <http://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email>
	Senator Mark Kirk - <http://www.kirk.senate.gov/?p=comment_on_legislation>
	Representative Rodney Davis - <https://rodneydavis.house.gov/contact/email-me>


[VERSO]
AWARE will have people marching with signs in the Champaign County Freedom Celebration
on July 4 <http://www.july4th.net/>. The theme is “Celebrate America!” 
AWARE will CELEBRATE AMERICA'S HISTORY OF PROTEST.

Although the U.S. government is (as Martin Luther King said) “the greatest purveyor of violence
in the world today,” Americans have protested all of the wars that U.S. governments have gotten
into, from the beginning. President John Adams wrote in 1813, “The middle third [is] the
soundest part of the Nation and always averse to War.”

AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 1775-83:
American leaders encourage separation from Britain not for ‘liberty’ but to protect the slave
economy from British threats to abolish it. They establish a Constitution not for democracy but
to "protect the minority of the opulent [the rich] against the majority" (James Madison).

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1860-65:
Lincoln and the Republicans attack the South not to free the slaves but to bring the whole
country’s economy under Northern control. ("A house divided against itself cannot stand.")

WORLD WAR I 1917-18:
President Wilson is re-elected in 1916 on the slogan, “He kept us out of war!” - while he is
scheming with New York banks to get the U.S. into the First World War. (His Creel Commission
produces propaganda for war from leading intellectuals.)

WORLD WAR II 1941-45:
President Roosevelt uses Pearl Harbor (probably known in advance) to get an anti-war public to
continue the fight for U.S. control of the Pacific, while Russia defeats Germany in Europe.

KOREA 1950-53:
President Truman uses atomic bombs to show U.S. military superiority to the post-WWII world,
then uses Russia and China to “scare hell out of the American people” to continue war economy.

VIETNAM 1962-75:
President Kennedy carpet-bombs and sends troops to deter “the threat of a good example” - a
post-colonial society developing outside U.S. world economic control (the ‘domino theory’).

TERROR WARS I: CENTRAL AMERICA 1981-96
President Reagan plans to do in Central America what Kennedy did in Vietnam but is prevented
by post-Vietnam anti-war sentiment; so he sponsors proxy wars throughout the region.

TERROR WARS II: MIDEAST 1991-ongoing
President  Bush I attacks Iraq in 1991 to “kick the Vietnam syndrome” [= the public’s aversion to
war post-Vietnam] and begin a generation of U.S. attacks on the Mideast to control its energy
resources. Greatest antiwar demonstrations in U.S. and world history take place before
President  Bush II’s lying invasion of Iraq. President Obama continues and expands the wars 
after lying that he opposed them, to get elected.

“...what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge.” [The Tempest 2.1]

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