[Peace] FWD: [CIBCAR] ** How the War is Playing in Peoria - PLEASE RESPOND BOLDLY...
Zachary Cravens
zcravens at students.uiuc.edu
Sat Feb 1 15:10:51 CST 2003
Here's some more anti-war sentiment in central Illinois.
>===== Original Message From "Committee to Impeach Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft and
Rumsfeld" <CIBCAR at LISTS.WINDYWILLOWS.NET> =====
To friends and alies nationwide,
This extraordinarily good news about the state of US public opinion
regarding pResident Bush's war plans is too important to not share with
EVERYONE you know, EVERYONE on your email lists. We have very little time
left to stop Bush from starting a global conflagration that is too
terrifying to contemplate.
Please read the Peoria story about the ENORMOUS opposition to this Iraq
attack from middle America, and then find 30 minutes or an hour or a full
day ASAP to respond appropriately. (A list of ideas follows the article.)
Additionally, we Americans really ALSO need to be deluging the world's TV
and print media OUTSIDE of the US to make sure that they know how ENORMOUS
is public opposition to the Bush assault on Iraq. US corporate media isn't
doing its job to let the world know most Americans are opposed, so we're
going to have to do it ourselves, and FAST. Does anyone out there have
access to such a media email list for the world's major newspapers, TV and
radio stations, etc? If someone can send such a list to me, i can circulate
it nationally as well.
best to all,
Paul Cienfuegos
Arcata CA USA
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From: "Charles Kalish" <chkalish at ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Jennings: HOW IS WAR PLAYING IN PEORIA?
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:59:22 -0800
A journalist who knows what we are trying to do has sent me a story that he
found in the Peoria Journal Star. He titled the email, "How The War Is
Playing in Peoria."
Check it out below.
Then write a letter to one of the anchors. All the contact info is at the
bottom.
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Peoria Journal Star
January 26, 2003
<http://www.pjstar.com/news/bailey/g136010a.html>http://www.pjstar.com/news/ba
iley/g136010a.html
Readers are unanimous: No to war
<Mailto:mbailey at pjstar.com>Mike Bailey
<Mailto:mbailey at pjstar.com>mbailey at pjstar.<Mailto:mbailey at pjstar.com>com
In a brave if breathtakingly risky attempt to quantify the readership of
this column, I stared into the beastly eyes of potential irrelevance last
week by inviting central Illinoisans to weigh in on war with Iraq. The
response was . . . well, let's just say I stopped counting at 40. Not since
tackling the digestively delicate subject of Krispy Kreme donuts have I had
this much feedback. Saddam is serious stuff.
Anyway, among the 41 readers I can now officially call my own, the verdict
was, incredibly, unanimous. (That I have my stethoscope placed firmly if
coldly upon the pulse of central Illinois goes without saying, but that is
ridiculous.) No to a pre-emptive strike against Iraq, no to an attack
without U.N. backing, no to trading one Saddam for 10 Osamas in this year's
game of global Strat-o-matic. No war, no way, no how.
Granted, this sampling of the locals probably wouldn't pass the exacting
polling standards of CNN/USA Today/Gallup. But they're mine, dammit, and
from where I sit, what they say goes and God bless 'em. One might describe
these folks as "peaced off," except most don't strike me as the type who
show at the federal courthouse humming John Lennon.
Indeed, there was the "retired Naval officer" and "member of the so-called
Greatest Generation" from Washington who wrote, "Bush's obsession with Iraq
makes no sense to me. . . . It will be the first time in history that we
will have attacked a sovereign nation without provocation," not counting
LBJ's Gulf of Tonkin lie. Allusions to Vietnam were common.
"Americans don't start wars; we finish them," declared Dunlap. "Morally and
strategically indefensible," proclaimed a Peoria attorney. The emperor is
naked, maintained Morton. "I am 49 years old, married, with two grown
children. I wish I had been on one of those buses to Washington." Strange
behavior for a pro-life president, proffered another Peorian. "I can think
of nothing more anti-life . . . than a war."
"Is there some law in this country that says we have to have a war for
every generation?" asked "Thank You for the Soapbox." Iraq is "not worth
one ounce of blood spilled by our boys." "Dubya's folly," Canton called it.
"Where is the evidence? What happened to bin Laden?" asked a "55-year-old
voting" Peorian who punches GOP "85 percent of the time." Maybe not, next
time.
"Bush reminds me of a runaway train," moaned Macomb. "If this war kills
thousands of innocent Iraqis, their blood will be on my hands," lamented
another. "If I do not do enough, may God forgive me."
From Goodfield: Who's next? North Korea? How many more sacrifices must
Americans make on behalf of Big Oil? How about the economy? "Our role in
the world should not be that of the biggest bully but rather ... the
greatest benefactor, offering the hope of prosperity and peace rather than
threats of war and annihilation," wrote a Princeton truck driver's wife.
From the "83-year-old veteran of World War II": "The only way I could
favor such a war would be for the warmongers - Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush and
Blair - to personally lead the ground forces against Baghdad."
"So Saddam shot at Bush's daddy," wrote a 77-year-old, now former
Republican stalwart. "Well, tough. They missed, didn't they?"
The Pekin "wife of an Army Reserve captain on active duty" has gone back
and forth but concludes: "I say we get out and stay out and use all that
money to make our country as safe as possible." A first strike "actually
makes us terrorists," adds "Will of the American People." "I'd like to be
prouder of my country again," remarked "Love Not War."
Pansies, pinkos, partisans? Each and every one? Doubt it. Virtually to a
person they had the same gut reaction to what seems to be the president's -
what's the word? - eagerness for armed confrontation. Dubya does himself
no favors when he becomes "sick and tired" of those who won't shut up and
take this war like a man or a patriot or a Texan. Yeah, democracy can be
messy.
Frankly, I am flummoxed - not another word for gastrointestinal distress, I
assure you - that nary a soul went to bat for war. Strange, because central
Illinois has never suffered any shortage of "bomb 'em back to the Stone
Age" testosterone. Surely someone feels it's Saddam or the Fall of
Civilization, Baghdad or No More Bowling (ie., the End of Life as We Know
It), them or us. A columnist relies on conflict for his very sustenance,
doggone it. Can't be messin' with a man's equilibrium like this.
Or maybe there really is little support for Bush's war here in the
heartland. If political mastermind Karl Rove isn't on a flight to Peoria
pronto, is Dubya saying no more in '04?
Finally, I hate to do this to a president who's done nothing to me - it's
the rhetorical equivalent of a nuclear first strike - but desperate times
call for desperate measures. For the good of the nation and the world, I
invoke the president of battle-tested presidents, Abraham Lincoln. As a
gesture of good will to the White House, I'll fly Lincoln Lite with a
lesser-known quote (it just wouldn't be right to go Gettysburg on him just
yet):
"Public sentiment is everything," Lincoln said at his 1858 Ottawa debate
with Stephen A. Douglas. "With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without
it nothing can succeed." Sixteen years earlier, Lincoln also noted that "a
drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall." Bet my entire
readership - at 41 and counting - is nodding its head to that.
Mike Bailey is an associate editor with the Journal Star.
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The full contact information for dozens of significant media people is below.
Please let me know what you do. Thanks
IDEAS:
MAKE THEM FEEL YOUR PASSION.
Tell them you want them to stop the war - that only they can do it now.
Tell them that the case for an immediate war has not been made.
Tell them you want them to question everything that comes out of the Bush
Administration; that it's very clear that Bush wants war and he will say
and do anything to get it.
Tell them that before they publish a story, they should demand proof of its
veracity.
Tell them to stop being a free conduit for misinformation from the Bush
White House.
Tell them what MoveOn.org is telling the politicians - "Give The
Inspections A Chance To Work."
Tell them how you feel about the war.
TELL THEM WHAT EVER YOU WANT. JUST TELL THEM SOMETHING - ONE THING - NOW !!
Make it short and sweet. No rhetoric. No jargon.
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Complete Contact List for TV, Cable, Radio,
Magazines, & Newspapers below
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ABC
ABC News
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Phone: 212-456-7777
D.C. Bureau phone: 202-222-7777
General e-mail:
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Peter Jennings @ ABC World News Tonight:
Phone: 212-456-4040
Fax: 212-456-2795
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click on
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o.com/service/Help/abcmail_news.html
Click down in the News Show box to World News Tonight.
Ted Koppel c/o Nightline:
1717 DeSales St., NW, Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-222-7000
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or click on
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o.com/service/Help/abcmail_news.html
Click down in the News Show box to Nightline.
20/20:
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Phone: 212-456-2020
Fax: 212-456-0533
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ABC's Good Morning America:
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Phone: 212-456-5900
Fax: 212-456-7257
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President ABC News: David Westin, 47 W. 66th St., NY 10023
CBS
Dan Rather @ CBS Evening News:
Phone: 212-975-3691 or 202-457-4385
Fax: 212-975-1893
Email:
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The Early Show:
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60 Minutes:
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Phone: 212-975-2006
Fax: 212-757-6975
60 Minutes II:
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Phone: 212-975-4321
Fax: 212-975-1893
D.C. Bureau phone: 202-457-4385
CNBC
2200 Fletcher Ave.
Fort Lee, NJ 07024
Phone: (201) 585-2622
Fax: (201) 583-5453
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CNN
CNN
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Phone: 404-827-1500
Fax: 404-827-1906
E-mail:
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CNN Washington Bureau
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Phone: 202-898-7900
Fax: 202-898-7923
Crossfire:
Phone: 202-898-7655
Fax: 202-898-7611
Larry King Live:
Phone: 202-898-7690
Fax: 202-898-7686
Fox News Channel
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New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 301-3000
Fax: (212) 301-4229
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MSNBC
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Secaucus, NJ 07094
Phone: (201) 583-5000
Fax: (201) 583-5453
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NBC
Tom Brokaw @ NBC Nightly News:
Phone: 212-664-4971 or 202-885-4259
Fax: 202-362-2009
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NBC News' Today:
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Fax: 212-664-4426
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Dateline NBC:
Phone: 212-664-7501
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NBC
30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112
Phone: 212-664-4444
Fax: 212-664-4426
NBC's Washington Bureau
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Phone: 202-885-4200
Fax: 202-362-2009
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Jim Lehrer @ The NewsHour:
3620 South 27th St., Arlington, VA 22206
Phone: 703-998-2150
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PBS, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 703-739-5000
Fax: 703-739-8458
Bill Moyers: Bill Moyers, Public Affairs TV, 450 W. 33rd St., 7th Floor, NY
10001; Phone 212-560-8600;
NPR
National Public Radio
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Phone: 202-513-2000
Fax: 202-513-3329
E-mail: Jeffrey Dvorkin, Ombudsman
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All Things Considered:
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Morning Edition:
Phone: 202-513-2150
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Phone: 800-528-4637 or 213-237-5000
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E-mail:
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New York Times
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Phone: 212-556-1234
Fax: 212-556-3690
D.C. Bureau phone: 202-862-0300
E-mail:
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President, New York Times: Janet L. Robinson;
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com
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USA Today
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Phone: 800-872-0001 or 703-854-3400
Fax: 703-854-2165
E-mail:
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Wall Street Journal
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Phone: 212-416-2000
Fax: 212-416-2658
E-mail:
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teractive.wsj.com>com
Washington Post
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Phone: 202-334-6000
Fax: 202-334-5269
E-mail:
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om>com
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Phone: 212-621-1500
Fax: 212-621-7523
D.C. Bureau phone: 202-776-9400
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Time magazine
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Phone: 212-522-1212
Fax: 212-522-0323
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Phone: 202-955-2000
Fax: 202-955-2049
E-mail:
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