[Peace-discuss] Distribute anti-war flyers at the Art Theatre/AWARE's February flyer

Tue May 2 20:14:24 UTC 2017

Hello Carl,

I had attached the flyer to the previous email I sent to the group this
afternoon. Im attaching it again-just in case. If you think it would be
useful, please go ahead and make copies.  Thanks!

Niloofar

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
wrote:

> Karen--
>
> I’ll bring copies of the ones I mentioned, viz., [1] "Veterans for Peace
> Condemns U.S. Actions in Syria”; [2] <http://www.counterpunch.org/
> 2016/06/10/egypt-a-breeding-ground-for-terrorism/>; [3] the flyer that
> AWARE distributed in February, on the 'Muslim ban’; and [4] a flyer
> “Who/what is AWARE?” ( = the intro to AWARE ON THE AIR).
>
> If you or Niloofar have others ready, send them to me, and I can make
> copies of them as well.
>
> —CGE
>
>
>
> On May 2, 2017, at 2:37 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Either Carl or I can be a “point person.” I will plan to be there, red
> hair and green jacket, should be easy to spot. I hope Carl has the flyers
> referred to below. I will make copies of one I have which I think is also
> relevant.
>
> On May 2, 2017, at 12:30, Niloofar Shambayati <niloofar.peace at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm not at all vested in the flyer I've made in the absence of any
> alternatives. Since this flyering was not to be  "*my project", *rather a
> suggestion to Karen Aram, I'm perfectly fine with AWARE and allies to turn
> the above article into the content of a flyer for this evening. If you
> designate a point person, I'll tell the two friends who'd said they could
> help to get in touch with that person. Hope to see some of you at the
> screening this evening.
>
> Niloofar
> P.S.: I'm not going to make copies of the flyer for this evening-have no
> other use for it. If for any reason, though, your flyer couldn't be ready
> for this evening, I'm attaching the last version I made for copying and
> handing out.
>
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> *NO MUSLIM BAN!  NO CHINA WAR!*
>> *President Trump must break with the policies of his predecessors.*
>>
>> *“I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn,*
>> *Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return.” --W. H. Auden *
>>
>> *[1] NO MUSLIM BAN.* President Trump’s restrictions on entry to the US -
>> designed to lessen the chance of terrorist attacks on Americans - are
>> approved by a majority of Americans, but he is going about it in the wrong
>> way. In “War against terrorism or expansion of the American Empire?”
>> (2002), William Blum, former State Department employee and historian of US
>> interventions, puts it as follows:
>>
>> *“If I were the president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the
>> United States in a few days. Permanently. I would first apologize - very
>> publicly and very sincerely - to all the widows and the orphans, the
>> impoverished and the tortured, and all the many millions of other victims
>> of American imperialism. I would then announce that America's global
>> interventions - including the awful bombings - have come to an end. And I
>> would inform Israel that it is no longer the 51st state of the union but –
>> oddly enough – a foreign country. I would then reduce the military budget
>> by at least 90% and use the savings to pay reparations to the victims and
>> repair the damage from the many American bombings and invasions...”*
>>
>> *[2] NO CHINA WAR.* A war between the greatest military power and the
>> world's second largest economy is no longer unthinkable. The media are
>> beating the drums of war as the world is being primed to regard China as a
>> new enemy. The disputed islands in the South China Sea have become a
>> flashpoint for war between China and America. American bases form a giant
>> noose encircling China with missiles, bombers, and warships all the way
>> from Australia through the Pacific to Asia and beyond.
>> *A stereotype of communist dictatorship is widely spread by the US,
>> preventing us from understanding China as it is. The Chinese government is
>> not trying to run the world. They want to keep America from dominating the
>> region.*
>> The massive US military build-up is known in Washington as the ‘pivot to
>> Asia’. The target is China. President  Obama in 2011 said that creating an
>> American presence in the Asia Pacific was his "top priority.” For America's
>> unchallenged arms industry, the annual prize is huge profits from almost
>> $600 billion of military spending - but the smartest weapons need enemies.
>> With the current situation in the South China Sea, the danger of
>> confrontation grows by the day.
>>
>> *[3] ANTI-WAR GROUPS HERE & ABROAD CALL ON PRESIDENT TRUMP TO*
>> *~ (1) establish a foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law,
>> human rights, and respect for the sovereignty of other nations; end war
>> provocations in Europe and Asia;*
>> *~ (2) end the wars (in the Mideast and elsewhere) and stop US drone
>> assassinations;*
>> *~ (3) cut military spending by at least 50% and close the more than 700
>> foreign military bases (neither Russia nor China has more than twelve);
>> bring US troops (and weapons) home; and withdraw the US ‘special forces’ -
>> death squads - sent into 70% of the world’s countries; *
>> *~ (4) stop US support for human rights abusers, notably Israel and Saudi
>> Arabia; and*
>> *~ (5) lead on global nuclear disarmament.*
>>
>> *ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at “AWARE of Champaign Urbana
>> Illinois”*
>>
>>
>> On May 2, 2017, at 9:11 AM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The article in Counterpunch is perfect for “Egypt”
>>
>> Harsh and true.
>>
>> On May 2, 2017, at 05:30, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> If AWARE wants to leaflet the film about Egypt at the art Theatre
>> tonight, here’s a recent article that could be handed out:
>>
>> http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/10/egypt-a-breeding-grou
>> nd-for-terrorism/
>>
>> And I’ll append a flyer AWARE distributed in February, on the 'Muslim
>> ban.’
>>
>> Regards, Carl
>>
>>
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>> On Apr 30, 2017, at 3:29 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> This is a message from Niloofar, if anyone has a copy of the flyers we
>> have currently she would like to see one.  For future she suggests:
>>
>> *Speak up for the humanity and against the Muslim and refugee bans and
>> military escalation*
>>
>>
>> I think the message of speaking out against Muslim & refugee bans and
>> warmongering should be accompanied by action recommendations. You can
>> decide which is better:
>>
>>
>> 1.   The message be the same for all three flyers: fear and hatred
>> against Muslims have brought out the worst in some people and we need to
>> counter the propaganda. These misplaced sentiments have diverted the
>> attention from real domestic problems and have allowed the elite to assert
>> their dominance through use of direct and indirect military force.
>>
>> The result? Death, destruction, chaos, famine, refugee crisis, and
>> hopelessness in the region and diversion of resources away from economic
>> development and the essential needs of the American people to build up of
>> the already bloated military machine.
>>
>>
>> Please write letters to the editor, sign petitions (the links) call the
>> congress, & engage relatives and friends on these issues."
>>
>>
>>
>> Or specifically written in the context of each film:
>>
>>
>> 2.   *Egypt:* Against the U.S. laws, military aid has been flowing to
>> the post-coup Egypt,...[background: propping up the military since 1970's
>> have helped the continuation of authoritarian rule and prevented the
>> formation of political parties and civil society to carry the revolution to
>> its fruition].
>>
>> Targeting *Iran* (the only stable country in the region with a limited
>> democracy) as the main supporter of terrorism is catering to the pressures
>> of regional allies (Israel and Saudi Arabia) is against the long-term
>> interests of the U.S.
>>
>>
>> The invasion and occupation of *Afghanistan* have been disastrous for
>> the people and has forced many to seek refuge in neighboring countries
>> (shown in the Iranian film) and try mostly unsuccessfully to get to the
>> West. [The wrong-headed U.S. policy toward Afghanistan in 1980's
>> inadvertently helped Taliban to take over and al Qaeda to create terrorist
>> cells…]
>>
>> *Yemen'*s dictatorship, supported by the U.S., was finally overthrown by
>> the people's peaceful demonstrations (shown in the film) but the power
>> struggle between two tribal factions led to temporary and cynical alliances
>> and allowed Saudi Arabia to invade and bomb the country with the
>> acquiescence of the U.S. The situation is getting worse by day and has led
>> to a famine that can be eradicated by the intervention of the U.S.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Please write letters to the editor, sign petitions (the links) call the
>> congress, & engage relatives and friends on these issues."
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Anti-war demonstrators et al
>>
>> Niloofar has suggested distributing flyers at the Art Theatre for their
>> showing of films related to Iran, Yemen, and one other Middle Eastern
>> nation, she has more information related to the films.
>>
>> They are showing on May 2nd., May 9th, and May 16th. at 7:00pm.
>>
>> I think we should assist her in this endeavor. We can discuss at our
>> meeting flyers that maybe utilized. For this Tuesday’s film we could use
>> the current flyers on hand, those that I recently returned to Carl and
>> Stuart.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> <flyer-201702.rtfd.zip>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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