[Peace] PRC Anti-War Teach-In!

[Jen Tayabji]

The Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative (PRC) invites you to the...

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PRC Anti-War Teach-In
Saturday, October 22nd
1-5pm
At the Illinois Disciples Foundation**

Free and open to the public!

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On Saturday, October 22nd, the PRC will be hosting an Anti-War Teach-In
with workshops addressing the issues of veteran's movements, civil
liberties, war and the media, and pre-enlistment counseling.

JOIN US TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ENDING THE WAR, MILITARY COUNSELING, AND HOW
YOU CAN GET INVOLVED!

  SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

1pm: Opening Remarks from PRC

1:30-2:15pm: Choice of "Veterans' Movements Workshop by Joe Miller" OR
"Film clips from the "Brothers and Others" documentary"

2:30-3:15pm: Choice of "Civil Liberties Workshop by the Champaign County
ACLU" OR "War and the Media Workshop by Victor Pickard"

3:30-4:30pm: Keynote Presentation from Ray Parrish: "Tough Love: Counter
Recruitment as Social Therapy"


WORKSHOP DETAILS:

Joe Miller will be hosting a workshop on the history of veterans'
movements against war. He is an academic advisor and professor at the
University of Illinois. He is also a Vietnam veteran and serves as a
national co-coordinator of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW).
Also, there will be a workshop that shows clips from the documentary
"Brothers and Others," which chronicles the impact of 9/11 on Muslims
and Arabs in America. The filmmakers follow immigrants and Americans as
they struggle in the heightened climate of hate, FBI and INS
investigations, and the economic hardships that erupted following the
9/11 attacks. Members of the Champaign County American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) will present a workshop on the loss of civil liberties
since September 11th, 2001. Victor Pickard, a U of I graduate student in
Communications, will be leading a workshop on media and the war.

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION:

After the workshops, Ray Parrish, the keynote speaker, will lead an
hour-long presentation entitled, "Tough Love: Counter Recruiting as
Social Therapy." Ray Parrish is a Vietnam-era U.S. Air Force veteran. He
worked his way through college as a part-time veteran's counselor and a
full time activist. He ran the Midwest Comm. for Military Counseling for
a decade until the funding ran out in 1995. Then he spent five years as
an American Legion Veterans Service Officer. He now works for Vietnam
Veterans Against the War (VVAW) as a military counselor. He helps
counsel potential enlistees, GIs, and veterans. He will be focusing his
presentation on how to do counter recruitment, also known as
pre-enlistment counseling, so that attendees will be able to work on
this issue after attending his workshop.


The PRC Teach-In is being co-sponsored by: 85% Coalition, Activist
Forum, Campus Greens, Channing-Murray Foundation, Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Illinois Disciples Foundation, La
Casa Cultural Latina, Men Against Sexual Violence, School for Designing
a Society, U-C- Friends Meeting Peace and Service Committee, UIUC Gender
and Women's Studies Program, the University YMCA, and the Vietnam
Veterans Against the War.

**The PRC Anti-War Teach-In will be held at the Illinois Disciples
Foundation, located at the northwest corner of Springfield and Wright in
Champaign. Limited free parking is available. The Teach-In is free and
open to the public and is wheelchair accessible.

The Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative (PRC) is a multi-issue
multi-tactical activist organization committed to the self-determination
and human rights of all people. The PRC is a registered student
organization at the University of Illinois and a program of the Illinois
Disciples Foundation. For more information about the Teach-In or the
PRC, please contact the PRC at (217) 352-8721 or prc at prairienet.org. Or
visit us online at www.prairienet.org/prc!

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