[Peace] Press release

[Kranich, Kimberlie]

Here's the press release that went out last night.

Activists for Peace to Flood Urbana City Council Monday Night in support of
Anti-War Resolution

Activists for peace from Urbana will fill the City Council Chambers Monday
night in support of Urbana Alderwoman Danielle Chynoweth's proposed
resolution to prevent war against Iraq.

"We feel strongly that the predicted $10 billion a month that will be spent
on a war against Iraq is better spent at home in Urbana on education, health
care, and job creation," said Ricky Baldwin, a member of the Anti-War,
Anti-Racism Effort (AWARE). AWARE asked Alderwoman Chynoweth to bring an
anti-war resolution before City Council.

"War sucks money away from local and state governments," said AWARE member,
Lori Serb. "The American people, most of the people of the world and the
residents of Urbana support a diplomatic solution not war." 

Alderwoman Chynoweth's anti-war resolution argues that the citizens of
Urbana and its local elected officials have the constitutional right to
petition the national government on this matter of grave concern to our
community as part of the national and international debate now underway.

 If passed, the resolution will be sent immediately to President Bush, the
Pentagon, and federal and state governmental leaders.

AWARE has been demonstrating weekly against a war against Iraq since October
on the sidewalks at the intersection of N. Prospect and Marketview Street.
Attendance at last Saturday's rally was 85.