[Peace] Re: [Ucprogressives] anti-war resolution update

[Eric Jakobsson]

I tend to be pretty conservative about local governments taking stands on 
Federal issues outside their jurisdiction.  But the Iraq invasion and its 
context (expressed intent for global economic, military, and political 
domination of the world by one country) is so fundamentally threatening in 
the long term to the basic principles of all democratic institutions that 
in this case it is justified.

Eric

At 03:20 PM 1/25/2003 -0600, Danielle Chynoweth wrote:
>Dear Friends,
>
>News coverage of the resolution has been great.
>
>Last night WICD ran the resolution as its top story for the 10 o'clock
>news.  The Mayor was (roughly) quoted as saying "We should not spend on
>our time international issues that lack local relevance and for which have
>no expertise in."  My response was to list all the ways spending $10
>billion a month on war will ruin our already flailing economy - something
>*very* relevant to our city.  Since I know he opposes the war, I was
>saddened by his lack of support.
>
>This story was followed (perfectly) by a story about how broke out schools
>are.
>
>The top national story was about how Bush may allow inspectors more time.
>I am sure this was fed to the press to prime them for a potential backing
>away from war during Tuesday's State of the Union address.
>
>WICD said they may come to the peace rally today on North Prospect.
>
>This morning, the News Gazette ran a front page article on the resolution
>which said nothing but positive things about it.
>
>Also, I awoke to the voice mail of a World War II veteran leaving an
>anonymous message thanking me from bring this resolution forward.  All of
>you deserve the thanks as well, so I pass it on.
>
>I gave Mike Monson (NG) and Karen Moe (WICD) contacts for AWARE to follow
>up.
>
>peace,
>Danielle
>
>
>--
>| Danielle Chynoweth
>|
>| Art Director * OJC Technologies * ojctech.com
>| City Council Member * Urbana City Council * city.urbana.il.us
>
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Biochemistry
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