[Peace] Re: [Peace-discuss] Anti-War Billboard! U-C Friends Meeting seeks support

[C. G. Estabrook]

I continue to think this an unfortunate campaign.  Putting aside the real 
question of the effect of the war on the American economy, it is at best a 
matter of preaching to the converted: you find this argument effective if and 
only if you already find something wrong with the war.

Consider what the reaction would be to such a campaign in the US during the 
Second World War.  If you said the fight against Naziism was costing too much, 
you would be condemned as someone putting a price on freedom.

We have to be imaginative enough to realize that defenders of the current war 
hold a similar opinion.  If we can't convince them that they're wrong about the 
character of the war, we won't convince them with niggling complaints about the 
cost. --CGE


Stuart Levy wrote:
> This billboard:
>    http://picasaweb.google.com/BarKes/NewAlbum423081210PM/photo
> 
> will be coming to the Champaign-Urbana region in May,
> sponsored by the U-C Friends Meeting and American Friends' Service
> Committee and supported by checks from  everyone who wants to see it
> happen.  This will be up for 28 days at an unannounced location to be
> chosen by the Adams Outdoor Advertising Co., which may be able to give
> us more space as the summer goes on.
> 
> What we need is around $1550 as projected cost for several billboards.
> $775 of that will get us the first one.
> 
> Please make out checks to "UC Friends' Meeting" and give
> it to whoever is soliciting the check, OR mail the check to
> 
>     UC Friends' Meeting
>     1904 E. Main St.
>     Urbana, Il 61802
> 
> 
> [Passing this message along from Barbara Kessel]
> 
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