[Peace] rally info (fwd)

[Matthew Reichel]

	Student Peace Action needs help with flyering for the rally event next
monday! Particularly, we need help with off campus locations such as
downtown Urbana and downtown Champaign.
	If anyone can help, just let me know via e-mail. Perhaps I can
drop some fliers off at the imc shortly.
	Should be a good event.

	Updated co-sponsors: Student Peace Action, AWARE, the Muslim
Student Association, Community United Church of Christ, the Black Greek
Council, the Campus Greens, Spirit of Seattle, the Campaign to
Impeach Bush at U of I, Legalize it, the Presidential Prayer Team,
Students for the Sixties, Students for Kucinich, Students Improving the
Lives of Animals (SILA), Pandora's Rag, and more ...


Operation American Freedom: Democracy NOT Empire

Date: Monday April 28th, 2003
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Quad
Event: Rally
Speakers:

Joe Moore - Chicago Alderman who championed an anti-war resolution to a
46-1 approval, and is now working tirelessly to drop charges on peaceful
protestors arrested on the famous March 20th "Taking of Lake Shore Drive."

Danielle Chynoweth - Urbana City Councilwoman who succeeded in making
Urbana one of nearly 200 Cities for Peace in the U.S.

Daria Roithmayr - UIUC law professor will discuss the limits on academic
freedoms seen over the course of the last year

Ali Ammoura - Former member of Illinois Student Government and anti-war
activist


	On Monday April 28th at 12pm, Student Peace Action will be
sponsoring an anti-war rally on the quad. The purpose of this event will
be to reflect on the conflict with Iraq, and the implications it has had
on thenational community. Specifically, our speakers will discuss a range
of topics exploring the health of democracy in the United States. Daria
Roithmayr, a UIUC law professor, will discuss the intrusion on academic
freedoms and other liberties during the course of the last year.
Meanwhile, we will have a host of speakers that will discuss the
revitalization of civil society that has occurred via the recent anti-war
movement. Ali Ammoura will talk about his experience presiding over the
passing of an anti-war resolution in Illinois Student Government (ISG).
Danielle Chynoweth, Urbana City councilwomen, will discuss her work on
a similar resolution that passed before the Urbana City Council. Finally,
Joe Moore, a Chicago Alderman, will discuss his triumphant work in
getting an anti-war resolution passed in Chicago by an astounding 46-1
vote.

	Now, more than ever, it is important for the peace movement to feel
empowered. The movement to oppose the war on Iraq was the biggest of
its kind prior to the commencement of war, and this fact will prove to
be important as the Bush administration decided upon its next pre-emptive
strike.


Solidarity,
Student Peace Action