[Peace-discuss] Minutes from the AWARE meeting, October 22

[C G Estabrook]

At their regular meeting (Sundays 5-6pm at Pizza M, 208 W Main St, Urbana) this week, members of AWARE considered which AWARE activities in our communities best publicized US war making and the opposition to it:

[1] The literature table at the Farmers’ Market in Lincoln Square is over for the year. This weekly activity will be replaced by an indoor market until Xmas, run by the Urbana Business Association. It was suggested that AWARE have a table there on three or four Saturdays - perhaps December 2, 9, 16, and/or 23 

[2]  Our monthly antiwar demonstration in downtown Champaign (the first Saturday of every month, 2-4pm, at the corner of Main and Neil Streets) will occur inshallah on Saturday 4 November. Suggestions (or drafts) of a flyer to be distributed then are welcome.

[3]  ‘AWARE on the Air’ (a TV program available on Urbana Public TV and YouTube) is our weekly one-hour discussion of the ongoing U.S. wars and the resistance to them. New programs are recorded every Tuesday, noon to 1pm, in the studios of UPTV, 200 Vine St., Urbana. Members and friends of AWARE are invited to participate in this unrehearsed discussion.  

[4] AWARE members at the meeting recommend the following articles this week:

<http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41702706>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Townley>
<http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/08/27/neo-cons-fundies-feddies-con-artists-bush-to-obama/>
<http://www.smilepolitely.com/arts/travesties_explores_the_nature_of_art_and_politics/>
<http://www.atimes.com/misunderstanding-bloody-stick-usdprk-impasse/>
<https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/20/clinton-assange-and-the-war-on-truth/>
<https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/20/socialism-land-and-banking-2017-compared-to-1917/>
<https://will.illinois.edu/stillhere/story/still-here-vietnam-war-stories-from-illinois>

[5] The following appeared in the News-Gazette:  
	
“We want to hear your Vietnam stories...
This is a forum open to all who lived during those years: servicemen, civilians, refugees, protesters, contractors, and local, state and federal officials.
One objective: to continue this newspaper's tradition of sharing history through the stories of local people.
But it's also our hope that by reading about each other's experiences, we as a society can bridge the divisions that were painfully obvious in the U.S. during the 1960s and '70s.
Feel free to contact Managing Editor Dan Corkery at dcorkery at news-gazette.com or by mail at The News-Gazette, P.O. Box 677, Champaign, IL 61824-0677.”

It’s suggested that members and friends of AWARE of the appropriate age should write a comment of this sort (perhaps 100-700 words) and send it in. Antiwar stories should counter war stories.

[6] Note the following: <https://allevents.in/urbana/what-is-socialism/294752744345793>.

--CGE