[Peace] How to locate AWARE table at Sweetcorn Festival

[C. G. Estabrook]

Ah, rudeness! The sin against the holy spirit of American politics, viz. 
Coercive Harmony!*

The Great AWARE Schism of 2005, in which a number of important AWAREists left 
the organization and walked no more with us, was occasioned by their conviction 
that some members of the group had been "rude" to the new junior senator from 
Illinois when he held a rally in town by suggesting that he was not really 
opposed to the war.

(For my account of the G.A.S., see "Illinois Anti-Warriors and the Attractive 
Senator" <http://www.counterpunch.org/estabrook09292005.html>; note that the 
newly-appointed SC justice John Roberts is unaccountably referred to there as 
"Rogers": perhaps the soon-to-be chief justice was confused with TV's Mr. 
Rogers, owing to the resemblance of the person who appointed him to King Friday 
XIII.)

--CGE (who was thoroughly instructed as a lad that a gentleman is never 
unintentionally rude -- though he proved a poor student, and no gentleman)

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* Nader, Laura. 1995: "Coercive harmony - the political economy of legal 
models," Department of Anthropology, U. of California, Berkeley; 25 pp.  Nader, 
professor of anthropology at UC Berkeley, describes "basically a movement 
against the contentious in anything, and it has very strange bedfellows, from 
people with various psychiatric therapy movements, Christian fundamentalists, 
corporations sick of paying lawyers, activists who believe we should love each 
other.  We are talking about coercive harmony -- an ideology that says if you 
disagree, you should really keep your mouth shut."


Robert Dunn wrote:
> my favorite moment of AWAREs table was when Wayne Johnson rather loudly 
> talked about his desire to make bombs in his home! Sorry Wayne, 
> the local GOP did not find that too funny, plus your being extremely 
> rude to our 103rd State Rep candidate. AWARE, please be aware, ( no pun 
> intented that Wayne Johnson is not to be trusted. He has been banned 
> from IlliniPundit, the local GOP banned him! Maybe for AWAREs 
> reputation, you guys should follow suite!
> 
> Robert Dunn
>  
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> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:19:32 -0700
> From: jencart13 at yahoo.com
> To: peace at anti-war.net
> Subject: [Peace] How to locate AWARE table at Sweetcorn Festival
> 
> Easiest way for me to locate the table was to find the ticket booth with 
> the pointy purple and white top (taller than everything else), and then 
> walk East a scant half block on Main while looking to my Right... and 
> seeing the flapping shirts and AWARE awning, etc. 
>  --Jenifer
> 
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