[Peace-discuss] Join us to leaflet the Art Theatre tonight 6-7pm
Stuart Levy
stuartnlevy at gmail.com
Thu May 11 03:54:07 UTC 2017
Well - I was happy to be among the supportive people when the Black
United Front bravely spoke to the Board of Trustees to put forward their
demands. And though I wasn't able to be there when the faculty senate
considered the #Project1000 proposal, I did spread the word on facebook
that it was happening, and hope others who wouldn't otherwise have known
about it might have attended that. And I consider myself part of AWARE.
That said, yes, AWARE has generally not tried to live up to the
Anti-Racism in its name, which is there thanks to the words chosen by
Mark Enslin long ago.
On 5/10/17 6:26 PM, Harry Mickalide via Peace-discuss wrote:
> Like, we in AWARE want to distribute power more evenly across the
> world, but we are unwilling to support the students trying to seize
> power and democratize our own university.
>
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Harry Mickalide <mickalideh at gmail.com
> <mailto:mickalideh at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> It still seems weird to me that AWARE is willing to engage in the
> long-term work of education, but will not support Black Students
> for Revolution or Project1000 doing concrete anti-racist
> anti-capitalist work on campus.
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 11:17 AM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace
> <peace at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
>
> AWARE will distribute the following flyer at the Champaign Art
> Theatre Tuesday, May 9, before the 7pm showing of the film
> "Sonita," part of THE SEVENTH ART STAND, the Theater's film
> series against Islamophobia & the #MuslimBan
>
> ["Two-time Sundance Film Festival award winner Sonita tells
> the inspiring story of Sonita Alizadeh, an 18-year-old Afghan
> refugee in Iran, who thinks of Michael Jackson and Rihanna as
> her spiritual parents and dreams of becoming a big-name
> rapper. For the time being, her only fans are the other
> teenage girls in a Tehran shelter. And her family has a very
> different future planned for her: as a bride she’s worth
> $9,000. Iranian director Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami (Going Up the
> Stairs) poignantly shifts from observer to participant
> altering expectations, as Sonita’s story unfolds in this
> personal and joyful portrait. An intimate portrait of
> creativity and womanhood, Sonita highlights the rarely seen
> intricacies and shifting contrasts of Iranian society through
> the lens of an artist who is defining the next generation."]
>
> ==================================
> The U.S. is Illegally Making War in the Mideast
> Pres. Trump: Bring U.S. Troops and Weapons Home
>
> The U.S. military is today killing people in seven Mideast and
> African countries - Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen,
> Somalia, and Pakistan. Thousands of U.S. troops are fighting
> in these countries, although most Americans don’t know that.
> In addition, the 70,000-member U.S. ‘Special Operations
> Command’ - American death squads - are active in
> three-quarters of the countries of the world. Their activities
> include kidnapping (‘rendition’), torture, and murder.
>
> [Map of Iran, surrounded by US military bases]
>
> The U.S. government says that we’re fighting terrorism, but we
> are in fact creating terrorists - in response particularly to
> the drone assassinations, “the most extreme terrorist campaign
> of modern times” - which have killed more than 5,000 people,
> including U.S. citizens and hundreds of children.
>
> Since World War II ended in 1945, the U.S. has attempted to
> exercise military control over the Mideast and its energy
> resources. The U.S. doesn’t need oil from the Mideast, but
> Mideast gas and oil are needed by America’s economic
> competitors in Europe and Asia, and so control over them gives
> the U.S. a major advantage over China, Germany, and other
> countries - a chokehold which benefits only the American
> economic elite, the one percent. In 2003 the US illegally
> invaded Iraq - and killed perhaps a million people for that
> purpose - and now has thousands of troops and mercenaries
> throughout the Mideast.
>
> Those of us in AWARE, like other anti-war groups in the United
> States and around the world, call upon President Trump to
> ~ (1) establish a foreign policy based on diplomacy,
> international law, and human rights;
> ~ (2) end U.S. wars in the Mideast and war provocations
> against Russia (in Eastern Europe) and China (in the South
> China Sea), and stop the 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 U.S. troops (and weapons) home;
> ~ (4) stop U.S. 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>:
> ~ U.S. troops & weapons out of the Mideast
> ~ Medicare for all ~ Universal basic income ~
> ==================================
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