[Peace] is AWARE aware?

[Margaret E. Kosal]

Susan -

You bring up some very good points!
Surprisingly, the News-Gazette ('News-Gazoo') coverage has been sympathetic 
to Dr. Henry's supporters. (Full disclosure - i was substantially quoted & 
given the last word in Wednesday's article.)
Are folks aware that there is a "Street Media Center" (just off 1st at 
Chester)?

John Lee Johnson might be a candidate for invitation to AWARE meeting or as 
a guest presenter at the School?

At least one of us, is living a lot closer than 2 miles.

Namaste,
Margaret ... dangerously over-educated

At 08:24 AM 10/31/2002 -0600, parenti susan rose wrote:
>Are we in AWARE aware of what is happening in our own town?
>
>I would like to add to our concerns, and to Sunday's meeting agenda, the
>racist activities that are going on right now: the Champaign school board
>is holding hearings to fire Delores Henry(I think I have it spelled
>right), an AFrican-American woman hired in 1998 to address the overt-
>racism in Champaign schools. The school board is all white, and they claim
>now that because of 'confidential matters' they will not let the pbulic
>witness their law proceedings against her. Delores has indicated that she
>wants the public at these sessions, and wants as many of us possible to
>watch what the school board is doing, and to intervene.
>
>Can our anti-war emphasis take on the 'anti-racism' commitment that our
>name implies? Especially as this is a local battle, against a global
>problem, being played out 2 miles away from us.
>
>Can Student Peace Action join in? Campus groups are unaware of the racism
>in the local schools here, and of what is happening to Delores Henry. The
>more educated you get, the more distant from local concerns, it seems. Yuck.
>
>Susan Parenti
>
>_______________________________________________
>Peace mailing list
>Peace at lists.groogroo.com
>http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/peace