[Peace] AWARE NOTES

[Alfred Kagan]

When I talked with the Chancellor's Office about 3 weeks ago, they 
said that they thought student groups would have the open mike, but 
they were not sponsoring it.

At 11:34 AM -0400 8/31/02, Ricky Baldwin wrote:
>If the University had offered to have an open mic, and now has 
>decided not to, that seems to me a golden opportunity for letters to 
>the DI and leaflets addressing this issue - "What are they afraid 
>of?" sort of thing - no?
>
>>From: Rob Scott <rob at anacroatan.org>
>>To: peace at lists.groogroo.com
>>Subject: [Peace] AWARE NOTES
>>Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 10:36:24 -0500 (CDT)
>>
>>AWARE notes 8/25/02
>>
>>Dave Green played some music about what Europe did to the world in the
>>16th century.
>>
>>Merideth Kruse talked about Plan Columbia.
>>
>>Carl Estabrook gave the news of the week.
>>
>>I started taking notes.
>>
>>Past week events, worthy of attention:
>>
>>1. As the Bears game began, 25 people protested against war on Iraq, on
>>Kirby Ave, amongst gridlock traffic. There were more "negative" responses
>>than the week before; lots of rowdy frat boys was a common
>>explanation. Next game is 9/8 and everyone agrees we should do continue
>>protesting, perhaps becoming Bears fans ourselves.
>>2. We made signs for the 9-11 direct action. About ten people showed up
>>and we produced about 12 new signs, including 3 big banners reading "NO
>>WAR" "ENOUGH HAVE DIED" and "NO MORE MILITARY BUILDUP". Much credit to
>>Lisa Chason.
>>
>>Upcoming events:
>>
>>1. This Wednesday, August 28th, Tim Johnson is holding an open meeting
>>with the public at the Urbana Civic Center from 6:30 - 8:30. Meet at the
>>Courier Cafe between 5:45 and 6:00 to go over there with a group and a
>>game-plan.
>>2. September 13 Amnesty International President Phil Shult will pass
>>through town, possibly speaking somewhere (?)
>>3. University High School wants someone from AWARE to come talk to their
>>social advocacy group class this fall...
>>4. Javier Ortez is doing a tour talking about the Pennsylvania-based
>>organization "Why War?" (an AWARE-like group) and Sharon Courvie will be
>>calling him to possibly coordinate an event in U-C.
>>5. The University has announced that 9-11 the plaza on the quad will be
>>reserved for memorial services to the victims of 9-11, and have taken away
>>the open-mic offer, so we will meet on the grass before marching to the
>>FBI building. We plan to leaflet the entire quad about what is happening.
>>
>>AWARE *will* be meeting on 9/8 even though we will have just protested war
>>at a Bears game and hosted a teach-in the same day... of course we'll be
>>gearing up for the 9/11 event which will occur three days later.
>>
>>We broke into working groups for the rest of the meeting.
>>
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