[Peace] Re: video (fwd)

[Al Kagan]

I am strongly supportive of showing this video.

At 6:50 PM -0500 6/29/02, parenti susan rose wrote:
>  >From Robert Mendoza.....
>
>Would anyone be interested?
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 21:11:30 -0700
>From: Robert Mendoza <roberto_raynaldo at hotmail.com>
>To: sparenti at staff.uiuc.edu
>Subject: Re: video
>
>Can you foward this info to the rest of the list. I mentioned this video at
>a previous AWARE meeting. They may be willing to come out and speak if some
>venues in Central Illinois and maybe Chicago could be organized. Robert M
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