[Peace] Fw: IMPORTANT RALLY THURSDAY!!

[David Green]

This Leo guy also made a point to call me an
anti-Semite a few weeks ago at a panel where a couple
of white male students were complaining about the lack
of conservative professors. I was responding to the
Lawrence Summers/women in science issue, among other
things. Naturally, bullyboy Zionism attracts a lot of
these types.

David Green


--- Randall Cotton <recotton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I'm forwarding this on from Meghan Sullivan (who
> forwarded it from someone
> else). Meghan is a student at UIUC (AWARE recently
> sponsored an event
> involving Rainforest Action Network that was brought
> to our attention by
> Meghan.).
> 
> The announcement below, which may be of interest to
> some on this list, is of
> an upcoming counter-demonstration in opposition to
> an "Orange and Blue
> Observer" event raffling off 3 semi-automatic
> handguns to promote repeal of
> gun control laws (and raise funds for their
> "Observer" publication). "Orange
> and Blue Observer" is a registered student
> organization at UIUC.
> 
> The announcement below is being circulated among
> many student activists at
> UIUC.
> 
> There is a recent article in the Daily Illini
> covering the recent raffle of
> an AK-47 by this same "Orange and Blue Observer"
> organization:
> 
>
http://www.dailyillini.com/news/2005/04/01/News/Ak47-Assault.Rifle.Raffled.At.Rally-909876.shtml
> 
> The apparent leader of this "Orange and Blue
> Observer", Leo Buchignani, was
> also identified in another Daily Illini article as a
> *pro-sweatshop*
> demonstrator at an event last November:
> 
>
http://www.dailyillini.com/news/2004/11/10/News/Students.Don.Sweatshop.Attire.For.Show-799215.shtml
> 
> And wrote a letter-to-the-editor regarding that:
> 
>
http://www.dailyillini.com/news/2004/11/16/Opinions/Letter.ProSweatshop.Stance-806136.shtml
> 
> This Leo Buchignani must be a real piece of work 8-)
> 
> R
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <masulliv at uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 1:38 AM
> Subject: Fwd: IMPORTANT RALLY THURSDAY!!
> 
> From: <cbbrowni at uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 10:42 PM
> Subject: IMPORTANT RALLY THURSDAY!!
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Quoting the president of the RSO the Orange and Blue
> observer, "If more women carried firearms, there
> would be
> fewer cases of rape"
> 
> I realize that many of you don't know me and I
> appreciate
> you taking time out of your day to read this
> message. On
> Thursday, April 14, the Orange and Blue Observer
> will be
> raffling off 3 semi-automatic handguns to display
> their
> constitutional right to bear arms as well as their
> contention with the Illinois laws prohibiting
> citizens from
> carrying concealed weapons.
> 
> Shocking though it may seem, their actions are
> completely
> legal, and the only recourse we as students have is
> to
> protest their actions, awknowledging them to be
> extreme
> distortions of the concepts of safety and
> self-defense. Two
> weeks ago, when the OBO raffled off an AK-47, we
> were able
> to rally together 15 students within 2 hours to
> protest.
> Please help us increase our numbers and help us to
> protest
> the presence of guns on our campus. We will meet
> outside of
> the union, quad side, at 12 noon on Thursday. Look
> for the
> vibrant posters and a woman wearing bright pink.
> Please
> notify as many people as you can- we need as many
> people as
> possible! Also, please bring any posters or poster
> board you
> may have so that we are easily identifiable as a
> group.
> Please feel free to bring anything else you feel
> would
> contribute.
> 
> Quoting both the Daily Illini and the Orange and
> Blue
> Observer, here's the other side of the story:
> 
> "If more women carried firearms, there would be
> fewer cases
> of rape"
> '"God made man and woman," Observer Editor Leo
> Buchignani
> said.  "Smith and Wesson made them equal.  For the
> first
> time in history, handguns neutralize the male
> strength
> advantage over women.  I don't understand why all
> feminists
> don't arm themselves."
> The Observer held the "Defense of the 2nd Amendment"
>  to
> protest Illinois' gun laws, some of the strictest in
> the
> nation. These laws cause hundreds of preventable
> rapes,
> murders and robberies. Gun laws hurt vulnerable
> groups like
> inner city communities, minorities and women the
> most
> because they are most in danger from predators. The
> Observer
> feels gun law is a moral issue and protests the
> immoral
> Illinois gun law regime."
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Peace mailing list
> Peace at lists.chambana.net
> http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/peace
>