[Peace] Speaking the Truth in the Sticks

[John Wason]

At 08:29 PM 12/05/2001 -0600, Kit Condill wrote:

>Hello Everybody. This is my first and only e-mail ever. Herewith a 
>press release from the Sullivan, Illinois News Progress:
>
>	"TERROR TOPIC FOR HARRIS
>	Jonathan Harris, a local resident who recently worked for Time Magazine,
>	will present a seminar on Middle East violence and the recent terrorist
attacks
>	on the United States.
>
>	The free, public Community Education seminar 'Why the Terror?' will be
presented
>	at 7 PM, Friday, December 7th, at Sullivan High School. Harris spent 
>       considerable time studying in the Middle East, and military operations 
>       personnel will be on hand to contribute to the discussion.
>
>	For more information call the Chamber of Commerce at (217) 728-4223 or
Sullivan
>	High School at (217) 728-8311."
>
>I am going to attend this seminar and use it to publicize the 
>Teach-in on December 15th and also to challenge what I imagine will 
>be a fairly obnoxious interpretation of events in Afghanistan and 
>elsewhere. I expect that the audience for this event will be highly 
>patriotic and saturated with the ideas being put forth in the 
>mainstream media. I would appreciate it if anyone who feels they can 
>do a skillful job of speaking to this kind of audience and opening 
>their minds without alienating them would attend with me. (I would 
>also appreciate it if the seminar was on Saturday so we could go to 
>Karaoke afterwards...but maybe we can just pound a bunch of $2.75 
>20-ounce beers and pretend it's Karaoke night.)

Kit, I'd be interested to hear how this turned out, if you or anyone else
feels like writing a bit about it.  You could write the story, e-mail it to
the Peace-discuss list, and also post the story on the UC-IMC web
site/newswire.  Thanks,

John Wason