[Peace] Chalkers' slogans are making a difference

[Brian Dolinar]

 [image: The News-Gazette.com] Chalkers' slogans are making a difference Monday
November 19, 2007

Under the cover of darkness, the Campus Anti-war Network gathered Tuesday
night on the University of Illinois Quad and drew literally hundreds of
chalk outlines of bodies on the sidewalks. They wrote some of the usual
slogans like "College not combat, troops home now," "End the war," "Over
1,000,000 Iraqis dead," "Occupation is not liberation" and some
not-so-common things like "Bush does not care about the troops. He only
cares about Halliburton" and "How many dead bodies do you think the average
Iraqi child has seen?"

The bodies were underfoot, absent rain, for Wednesday morning's classes.

But there must have been loads of classes and exams Tuesday evening as well,
for there were large numbers of students walking by the chalkers all
evening. Even if the chalk was washed away by morning, the messages were
seen by loads of people.

One Desert Storm veteran riding by on a bike stopped to argue with the
chalkers, and after half an hour of conversation he was coming up with
slogans for the chalkers to write as well.

One by one, the Campus Anti-war Network is making a difference.

KAREN MEDINA

Champaign
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Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
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