[Peace] Fwd: SPA event

[Peter Rohloff]

Here is some info from Kate Stepanski about an Oct 28th SPA-sponsored 
protest



Begin forwarded message:

> From: kstepans at uiuc.edu
> Date: Thu Oct 9, 2003  11:15:15 AM US/Central
> To: Peter Rohloff<rohloff at uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Re: greetings from AWARE
>
> Hi Peter,
>    Thanks for writing!  There are four of us from Student Peace Action 
> who are interested in going to D.C.  Also, SPA is having a rally 
> October 28th at Noon on the Quad.  Speakers include Frances Boyle, 
> Sarah Kanouse, Matt Reichel, Katie Goldstein on behalf of Feminist 
> Majority, Neil Parthun on behalf of SPA, and probably a student from 
> the PRC.  The focus of the event is militarism and how it affects the 
> campus such as military recruiters and contractors, ROTC, and military 
> research.  I think Neil sent a co-sponsorship request along to someone 
> from AWARE, but I just wanted to make sure everyone knows about it.
>    We're hoping to have some sort of street theatre at the event, 
> something that will draw people to at least listen out of curiosity. 
> It seems that we've been pegged as a militant peace group since the 
> right is so far right and restrictive, serious, and depressing we want 
> to have an event that is peaceful, fun, and maybe even places us in 
> utopia.  haha high expectations, eh?  So far we have our paper mache 
> Dick Cheney head(plan on making the whole administration) and drums.  
> We are thinking about having people wear costumes.  Does this sound 
> too over the top?  After the rally we're going to march over to the 
> Engineering Quad and pass out fliers on military research.
>    Anyway, let me know if you have any suggestions.  Also, I can put 
> up fliers for Prospect if you pass along the PDF.
>
> Thanks,
> Kate Stepanski
>