[Peace-discuss] AWARE on the Air, Sept. 4

[E. Wayne Johnson]

On the event of the Nobel Peace Prize...

"How dare you?"
"It's bull-shit!"
"How come you all cheer when I say <bull-shit> "
-  Cindy Sheehan


C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UrtW4tepzM
>
> AWARE ON THE AIR is presented by members and friends of AWARE, the 
> Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana, a local peace group, 
> and recorded In the studios of Urbana Public Television on September 
> 4, in the 36th week of 2018 - another week in which the world can see 
> that the most extensive global terrorism is US world-wide war-making.
>
> ~ Our show Is produced and directed by Jason Liggett & Crofton Coleman 
> - thanks to whom also this program & others like it will be available 
> on YouTube & <archive.org <http://archive.org>>.
>
> ~ Our show tonight was largely written by Dr. Know/J. B. Nicholson. 
> See Know’s Notes on the FB page for AOTA, along with links to articles 
> referred to tonight <https://www.facebook.com/groups/305897426305/>.
>
> ~ There’s a demonstration against Obama’s speech on campus this 
> Friday. Karen Aram writes,
>
> ‘Former President Barack Obama will receive the “Paul H. Douglas Award 
> for Ethics in Government” from the University of Illinois at 
> Foellinger Auditorium on the UIUC campus on Friday, September 7th, 
> 11:00 a.m. He will lecture on “authoritarian politics” and the 
> “responsibilities of citizenship.”
> ‘In response and protest, a coalition of local peace and social 
> justice groups plans to voice criticism of Obama’s policies and of the 
> appropriateness of this award, beginning at 10:00 a.m. in front (on 
> the north side) of Foellinger.
> ‘Informed speakers will address Obama’s war-making policies, 
> especially in Libya and Syria, as well as his drone assassination 
> program; his support—even before becoming President—for the bail-out 
> of Wall Street bankers rather than homeowners, and his continuation of 
> neoliberal economic policies that continued to devastate working 
> families throughout his administration; his deportation policies, 
> which were precedent to those of the current administration; and his 
> betrayal of campaign promises made to the labor movement in general 
> and regarding pro-union “card check” (Employee Free Choice 
> Act) legislation in particular.
> ‘Speakers representing a variety of organizations will have an 
> opportunity to counter the university administration-promoted 
> propaganda inherent in this visit, award, and lecture; and to do so in 
> a truthful and dignified manner that attracts attention to the popular 
> desire for peace and justice, and away from the cult of personality 
> that is inherent in such a visit by a primary representative of 
> American and global ruling elites.’
>
> ~ There’s an open AWARE meeting this coming Sunday, 5-6pm - at 
> Hammerhead Coffee, University Avenue at Wright Street on the NW edge 
> of the campus.
>
> ~ Finally, AWARE honors those who reveal the crimes of the US 
> government - which the rest of the world knows about, but Americans 
> don't - Manning, Assange, Snowden, and others - who are truth-tellers 
> persecuted by the US government.   - particularly our 'liberal 
> Democrat' Sen. Durbin, a shill for the Russiagate propaganda.
>
> ~ Now this is Carl Estabrook for members & friends of the Anti-war 
> Anti-racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana - saying in the words of the 
> late Edward Murrow, “Good night - and good luck."     ###
>
>
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