[Peace] Deloris Henry hearings:

[Sascha Meinrath]

Hi everyone,

I have attended the hearings each of the last two night (stories are up on
the IMC's website:  www.ucimc.org).  I don't know if they are continuing
tonight (though I suspect they are).  It's _really_ important to have
public support at these meetings.  I am very concerned about what's been
happening and have worked for several years with Deloris.

While the N-G may be sympathetic now, there's no guarantee that they will
be so in the future.  The N-G has been fairly one-sided in much of its
coverage of racial climate issues -- I would love to see it's more recent
stances continue; but without outside observers I worry that a lot of
information is getting obfuscated.

--Sascha

p.s. I work at the Street Media Center and would be happy to answer any
questions folks have about it.  It's part of a company called Innovative
Education (http://www.innovativeed.org/) and we do a lot of work with
African American youth using hip-hop culture as an empowerment tool.

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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:43:58 -0600
To: <peace at lists.groogroo.com>, <sdas at ojctech.com>
From: "Margaret E. Kosal" <nerdgirl at s.scs.uiuc.edu>
Subject: [Sdas] Re: [Peace] is AWARE aware?

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