[Peace] Minutes for the AWARE meeting on the 24th, from Jessica

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

> From: Jessica Bales
> Date: June 27, 2007 11:01:27 AM CDT
>
> Subject: Minutes for the meeting on the 24th, from Jessica
>
> Minutes for A.W.A.R.E. meeting, 6-24-07*
>
> News (Carl):
> The CIA opens a series on Bush, Bush/Cheney threatens
> the CIA
> CIA’s mass declassifying of documents
> “we will run out of troops by 2008” – Times
> 14 soldiers die in Bagdahd
> Highschool barred from performing play that uses
> words of former soldiers about the war.
>
> Present (some members may be omitted):
> Barbra, Conrad, Carl, Jessica, Dan, Bob, Berard,
> Durl, Linda, Bob, Janet, Rodger, Karen, Stuart,
> Mark, Jan,  Joe
>
> --Bernard from Americans Against Escalation in Iraq,
> looking to cooperate with aware to persuade Tim
> Johnson into taking a public pro-withdrawl stance.
> Bernard Bergmann
> (2050 425-0805
> illinois1 at iraqsummer.org
> http://noiraqescalation.org
>
> Working Groups:
> 	-Finance:
> Purchases for Fourth of July parade: $76.64
> $2,091.36 remaining budget
> Profit from most recent farmer’s market: $00.00
   ( cancelled due to rain)

> -Main Event: July 7th 2-4 Corner Main & Neil downtown Champaign

> The Fourth of July parade; theme is Free Enterprise.
> A.W.A.R.E.’s take on the theme will be about the costs
> of free enterprise. Staging sight to be announced.  Parade steps off 
> 1:05 PM
>
> 	-Farmer’s Market:
> The staffing list was passed around.
>
> 	-A.W.A.R.E. Presents:
> On hold for now, participants were absent.
>
> 	-Anti-Racism:
> Raymond Morales case:
> 	Raymond is a PuertoRican scholar at the U of I. He is
> trying to get his PhD in Molecular Cell Biology, but
> is having some difficulties, as the school is
> threatening to throw him out of the program on the
> grounds that no advisors will take him. The reason for
> this is an incident in which the police searched for
> Morales at his lab at the U of I, because of some
> activist chalking.
>
> Patrick Thomson case:
> 	Status review of case at 11:00 on Tuesday the 26th
>
> 	-Counter Recruitment:
> Urbana school board response to inquiries concerning
> polices on recruiters in the secondary schools:
> ‘There are no administrative procedures for recruiters
> in the building’
> The National guard was observed by an A.W.A.R.E.
> member at the Taste of Champaign doing camoflouge face
> painting on young children.
>
> 	-Student Groups:
> teen members of A.W.A.R.E. continue to post updates
> from the Domincan Republic, where they are visiting.
>
> 	-Anti Torture to be added to working groups.
> Development of anti=torture workshops discussed.
>
> 	-Old Business:
> Fourth of July parade:
> Starts at 1:05 (location to be designated), ends at
> 2-3:30
> Sign making party for A.W.A.R.E. July 4th Parade entry
> @ 2007  S. George Huff Urbana was held Tuesday  June 26@ 7:00 PM
>
> -New Ideas:
> Pro-War propaganda article written by John Foreman
> which refers heavily to quotes of soldiers. Response
> letter to editor to be written (?).
>
> -Events of past week:
> toxic walk (tour of toxic waste sites in north
> Champaign)
> Veterans of Iraq and Martin Smith in Chicago
> Die in on Wright and Green
>
> 	-Upcoming events:
> Public I (through the IMC site), Die in on cover
> “Presentation on grassroots peacemaking in Africa on
> June 29th, 2007 at 7 PM at Urbana-Champaign Friends
> Meetinghouse, 1904 E. Main St., Urbana. ‘Healing from
> Deadly Violence’”
>
>
>
>  *all errors or omissions are the fault of the minute
> taker.

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