[Peace] sudan numbers

Tue Aug 3 12:56:57 CDT 2004

its ~50,000 dead and killed, ~900,000 internally displaced, and ~100,000 
refugees in Chad.  These numbers are independent of residual IDP's and 
refugees fron the Southern conflict....

peace,
scott

----Original Message Follows----
From: peace-request at lists.groogroo.com
Reply-To: peace at lists.groogroo.com
To: peace at lists.groogroo.com
Subject: Peace Digest, Vol 7, Issue 3
Date: Tue,  3 Aug 2004 12:00:50 -0500 (CDT)

Send Peace mailing list submissions to
	peace at lists.groogroo.com

To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
	http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/peace
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
	peace-request at lists.groogroo.com

You can reach the person managing the list at
	peace-owner at lists.groogroo.com

When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of Peace digest..."

Today's Topics:

    1. AWARE minutes 8/1/04 (Gabriel Stanton)
    2. Bite out o' Bush Bash reminder! (Rich Frazin)
    3. Re: AWARE minutes 8/1/04 (Randall Cotton)
    4. Re: AWARE minutes 8/1/04 (Alfred Kagan)

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message: 1
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 13:40:14 -0400
From: "Gabriel Stanton" <ggstanto at hotmail.com>
Subject: [Peace] AWARE minutes 8/1/04
To: peace at lists.groogroo.com
Message-ID: <BAY22-F24y8ziep9VUc0002168b at hotmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed

AWARE 8/1/04 meeting minutes
Facilitator: Gabe Stanton
Notes: Gabe Stanton
Cherry Tomatoes and Basil(God, G Stanton, C Green)
Time/Agenda( Durl&Jan Kruse and Consensus!)
Attending(18)

News of the week(Carl was absent)
Big News Item(Susan Davis)- U.S. Intelligence warns of potential terrorist
strikes on financial institutions in Washington, DC, Newark, New Jersey and
New York City during this week. Homeland security secretary Tom Ridge raised
the threat level to Orange and said information was specific but could not
tell if attack was imminent. Residents will probably have to deal with
increased, survelliance, police presence and blocked off streets in these
cities.  Earlier Ridge announced that there was information that Al Quaeda
planned to attack to disrupt elections In other words be afraid and trust in
your president to have a plan to pull us out of this mess. Does anyone
remember the October Surprise in 1980 before Reagan was elected president?
    -Bush Administration criticized for not recognizing conflict in Sudan as
genocide. Close to 160,000 dead and 500,000 are displaced.(AL)
   -International NGOs denounce World Trade Pact (check out OneWorld.net or
commondreams.org

Working Groups

ATTN:  Someone needed to write agendas/facillitate next meeting!

WILL- Susan checked website to find out if there was anything in the mission
statement or bylaws which would suggest that commentaries about a broad
ranging issue such as war were in fact not permitted as they suggested in
their rejection of AWARE’s attempt to air commentary about the Iraq war and
or the occupation of Israel. The mission statement seemed to suggest that
commentary would be welcome and even desired as part of a free exchange of
ideas and wouldn’t necessarily limited to something strictly local such as
sewage.A few in the meeting pointed out that war was an issue with local
effects and offered to write letters to WILL and other media addressing our
concerns with this area of concern. If one of the mission statements of WILL
is to seek new knowledge then limiting our document Art supported commentary
would seem to be inconsistent.

UPTV- Randall has been working to get FSTV featuring Democracy Now Amy
Goodman on Urbana Public Television. He has worked to send a letter from
WEFT addressing the radio station’s support of this news outlet. Randall has
written up a 11/2 page of summary of the issue and description of FSTV and
the programs that it offers. He has agreed to personally invest the money
needed to bring this service to the Urbana community. He has already gotten
some organizations to support the idea and has gotten more than 800
individuals to sign the petition supporting the move. Other organizations
could still be contacted including CCHCC and planned parenthood. Post to the
peace lists if you’d like to help.

Fahrenheit Art Theater -(Jan) Because Fahrenheit 911 sales are so good and
it will know be kept into the seventh week we are keeping the table with the
Michael Moore display as is at the Art theater on church street. Donations
are coming in and people are taking bumperstickers, buttons and literature.

Legal Police- Susan researched towing ordinances in the city of Champaign to
determine where protesters could safely park. She found that it is within
the rights of Lowes and Tires Plus to tow if we are in their lot. But the
question remains where does the parking area for Lowes begin? Directly in
front of the store. Furthermore is parking area in shopping malls public or
private property? Susan found out that Marketplace mall is owned entirely by
the largest Mall contractor in the U.S. (The World?) General Growth Inc. The
conclusion is that we should try to learn more about where it is permitted
for us to park.

Farmer’s Market- (Jan&Durl)Should we buy Fairly Trade Zapatista coffee to
sell at the Farmer’s Market. Can we ask for more than a donation? If we sold
it for profit would that change our status as an organization according to
the Farmer’s Market bylaws?  Are we only allowed to sell locally produced
food products. All of these questions are left to be answered. What is clear
is that the coffee is selling well in small quantities and that it is from
Chiapas Mexico.
-100 more yard signs were ordered (Vote out Bush and Cheney). There have
been some negative letters to the editor calling the signs (unpatriotic and
ugly) Perhaps someone should write a letter in favor of the signs.
-Janet has been asked to order more buttons and stickers. We are running low
on election related merchandise. Sales have been consistently good.
-Durl agreed to design a flyer advertising monthly demonstrations on
Prospect and Marketview(P4P)
-If you’d like to sign up for tabling at the Farmer’s Market for the coming
weeks you can do so at the table.
-List of guidelines for tabling revised-Durl-Some highlights- AWARE doesn’t
formally endorse candidates or parties.   We agreed to shorten part to
“Avoid being confrontational or hostile. Discussions should be appropriate
to supports positions that are opposed to war and racism.
-AWARE is sponsoring the protest of the Republican Convention organized by
United for Peace in Justice in front of Madison Square Garden the day before
the convention on August 29th of this year.

Prospect for Peace-Gabe et al.  The event will occur this coming Saturday
August 7 on the corner of Prospect and Marketview from 2-4PM. Invite friends
and neighbors. R.  will continue video coverage. David G. Has the signs.
Paul Patton suggested people should bring or make signs having to do with
Hiroshima Day August 6, 2003.

Literature-Susan and Al handed out a pamphlet entitled American Foreign
Policy: Spreading Democracy or Imposing Empire? It addresses some of the
major changes in foreign policy after September 11 including the doctrine of
preemptive war, control of world oil reserves and the racist policy that is
a result abroad and in the U.S. It was sent out over the peace discuss lists
and small corrections were made.  It is an excellent overview of some of the
major issues that concern AWARE and includes contact info for the group.

Events of the Past Week- B. Taylor is interested in moving shortwave station
Radio for Peace International from Costa Rica to his farm near Allerton
Park. He is interested in fundraising for transport of the gigantic
transmitter and for an affordable 6 megahertz AM transmitter. Problems with
FCC liscensing have yet to be worked out.

Coming Events.
Vigil/protest in front of UofI Alma Mater at the corner of Green and Wright
streets in remembrance of Hiroshima Day, Friday August 6 12-1PM  Signs will
be available and information about new nuclear weapons proposed by Bush
administration.

CU day-Saturday, August 14 11:00-6PM in Douglass park (AWARE still not
signed up. Looking for someone to facillitate tabling at this event) Perhaps
someone could take the table from the farmer’s market to this event.
Quad Day (quad of University of Illinois) Tuesday August 24th-(we have a
spot reserved)Volunteers needed to table at this event. Durl volunteered to
put up the table.

Sweet corn Festival(downtown Urbana) August 27 10AM-6PM-AWARE has table
reserved and is looking for volunteers to sit at Table

CU Progressives picnic(Crystal Lake Park, Urbana) October 3, 3:30PM Object
of the meeting is to try to bring progressives together to share ideas and
get more people involved in progressive movement. Music and 2 confirmed
speakers (1 on the proposal for a Citizens Police Review Board and 1 speaker
on Alternative/Independent media will be featured. Volunteers needed to make
cookies!

New Ideas:
-Mort Brussel- Boston Social Forum is offering social justice documentaries
-There will be a film about Howard Zinn coming out soon
-Gabe is leaving town but he’ll be back someday. Thanks to everyone for your
support.

If you’d like to volunteer for anything stop by our farmer’s market table on
Saturday 7-12 check out our website anti-war.net or email aware at grex.org

_________________________________________________________________
Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search!
http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/

------------------------------

Message: 2
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:17:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Frazin <xxx36148 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Peace] Bite out o' Bush Bash reminder!
To: peace at lists.groogroo.com
Message-ID: <20040802181720.28260.qmail at web52906.mail.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Dear David Gill Supporters,

     You're invited to the Take a Bite Out of Bush Bash on
TUES, AUG 3. 7-9 P.M. at the HISTORIC LINCOLN HOTEL in Urbana (Race
and Green)

We are going to finish off a big cake bearing the likenesses of Bush
and Tim Johnson
and have a few drinks.

If you have it, bring your Fahrenheit 911 ticket stub and we'll send
them all to Tim Johnson along wiht a letter asking to justify his
support for the war!

We encourage $10 donations to support the Gill campaign.

    Please RSVP to beat_timjohnson at yahoo.com if you know you can
attend.

Thanks,
  Rich

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com

------------------------------

Message: 3
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:15:11 -0500
From: "Randall Cotton" <recotton at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Peace] AWARE minutes 8/1/04
To: <peace at lists.groogroo.com>
Message-ID: <004a01c478c5$08a9c250$e869d445 at POLOKOV>
Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="iso-8859-1"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gabriel Stanton" <ggstanto at hotmail.com>
To: <peace at lists.groogroo.com>
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 12:40 PM
Subject: [Peace] AWARE minutes 8/1/04

:    -Bush Administration criticized for not recognizing conflict in Sudan
as
: genocide. Close to 160,000 dead and 500,000 are displaced.(AL)

The numbers I've seen are 30,000-50,000 dead, over one million displaced.

Perhaps the 160,000 refers to the number of refugees in Chad? I've seen
180,000 for that estimate.

Al, can you confirm and/or enlighten us on this?

Thanks
R

------------------------------

Message: 4
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:39:09 -0500
From: Alfred Kagan <akagan at uiuc.edu>
Subject: Re: [Peace] AWARE minutes 8/1/04
To: "Randall Cotton" <recotton at earthlink.net>,
	<peace at lists.groogroo.com>
Message-ID: <p0611040dbd3448b3d195@[130.126.36.50]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"

The latest I have seen is 150,000 killed and 1 million displaced.
But I imagine it is difficult to know these things for sure.

At 2:15 PM -0500 8/2/04, Randall Cotton wrote:
 >----- Original Message -----
 >From: "Gabriel Stanton" <ggstanto at hotmail.com>
 >To: <peace at lists.groogroo.com>
 >Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 12:40 PM
 >Subject: [Peace] AWARE minutes 8/1/04
 >
 >
 >:    -Bush Administration criticized for not recognizing conflict in Sudan
 >as
 >: genocide. Close to 160,000 dead and 500,000 are displaced.(AL)
 >
 >The numbers I've seen are 30,000-50,000 dead, over one million displaced.
 >
 >Perhaps the 160,000 refers to the number of refugees in Chad? I've seen
 >180,000 for that estimate.
 >
 >Al, can you confirm and/or enlighten us on this?
 >
 >Thanks
 >R
 >
 >_______________________________________________
 >Peace mailing list
 >Peace at lists.groogroo.com
 >http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/peace

--

Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu

------------------------------

_______________________________________________
Peace mailing list
Peace at lists.groogroo.com
http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/peace

End of Peace Digest, Vol 7, Issue 3
***********************************