[Peace] AWARE minutes

[Al Kagan]

AWARE Minutes
September 8, 2002


Carol Inskeep facilitated this meeting.

1. Carl Estabrook's News of the Week.

2. Past Events.
AWARE at today's Bears game.  There were 10-12 folks.  People were 
more hostile than usual.  The next game is Sept. 22nd.

3. Upcoming Events.
Mosque open house tonight.
Saturday, Sept. 14th, 3-11 pm, Street Theater Festival, Fish and 
Crane Alleys behind the Embassy and the Iron Post. We can have a 
table and/or protest there.
Sunday, Sept. 15th, 5 PM, AWARE meeting, presentation by local mosque.
Saturday, Sept. 21st, 10 AM, NOW demonstration at Wal-mart, a 
"merchant of shame."
Monday, Sept. 23rd, Palestinian activist speaker at IDF.
Sundays at 7:30 pm, Estabrook for Congress campaign meetings, Green 
Street Center, 24 E. Green St., Champaign.  Need volunteers.

4. Voices in the Wilderness campaign presented by Jeff Guntzel.
There is a dual campaign: a general peace pledge and a pledge of 
resistance including civil disobedience against the looming war on 
Iraq.  This is based on the 1980s Central American Pledge campaign. 
12,000 have already signed nationwide, including 1500 in Chicago. 
The Chicago campaign will include letter-writing, meetings with govt 
representatives, and if necessary sit-in at govt reps offices.  We 
will put this on our next agenda.

5. September 11th event.
12-1 pm meet at Quad plaza on grass for memorial event.  Signs will 
be available there against war with Iraq and erosion of civil 
liberties.
1-2 pm march to FBI office at old train station in downtown 
Champaign. We need volunteers to be marshals.  We have a permit, and 
must remain on the sidewalks.
2-3 pm chants and speeches, including Carl Estabrook.  Jeff and 
Robert will research chants.  We can use: "Justice not war.  Let us 
not become what we deplore."

6. Teach-in evaluation.
There were more than 100 people and we raised $180 which is about 
breaking even. Two scheduled speakers were Robert Hostetter and Jeff 
Guntzel. Maaria Mosafar substituted for Ahmed Bensouda, and Steve 
Hartnett gave a short presentation on the status of the Bill of 
Rights. Some of it was also broadcast on WEFT, and it will be an 
AWARE cable TV program.
There was general agreement on the success of the event and that the 
speakers gave down to earth accessible talks, but some wanted to up 
the ante to be more threatening to the power structure. We agreed 
that we need to do both educational and direct action events like the 
upcoming march to the FBI office, and possibly sit-ins as suggested 
by Voices in the Wilderness.
We need to use today's sign-up sheet to update our phone list, and 
prepare for Iraq war.


Minutes by Al Kagan
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
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