[Peace] Rerun AOTA

[C. G. Estabrook]

The Obama administration is re-running the 2002 Venezuela coup in Honduras...

The Obama administration is re-running the 1962 South Vietnam invasion in 
Afghanistan (complete with "strategic hamlets"), perhaps to honor the memory of 
  the late Robert McNamara, avatar of the "soulful corporation," responsible for 
millions dead in SE Asia...

...so AWARE On the Air (AOTA), cocking a snoot at MSM, which gives us only evil 
Iranians and dead pop stars, will re-run last week's animadversions at 10pm 
tonight on Urbana Public Television, cable channel 6.

Karen Medina, Ron Szoke, and yr. obdt. servt. recorded a new AOTA today, 
complete with balloons and Stuart Levy's pictures of the splendid posters 
constructed for the AWARE July 4 float.

The private corporation called the "Champaign County Freedom Celebration" 
decreed the theme of this year's July 4 parade to be the "Lasting Legacy of 
Lincoln."

To their credit, the parade's organizers were overcome with remorse at the last 
moment, emotionally paralyzed at the contradiction involved in running a 
celebration of a successful anti-colonial revolution at the very time the US is 
spending billions and killing thousands to suppress anti-colonial revolutions 
half way around the world. So they canceled the parade.  TV stations will rerun 
last year's...

In the spirit of the day, today's AOTA is prevented by technical difficulties 
from being shown tonight.  The wars are re-reruns, and so are we.

But here's our calendar of recent & upcoming antiwar events, with thanks to 
Randall Cotton for the minutes of last Sunday's AWARE meeting:

	Local Events Calendar
	*********************

July 11 (Saturday) 8AM-noon, AWARE's weekly presence at Farmer's Market (Urbana 
Market at the Square), providing literature, expression (bumper stickers, 
buttons, etc) and conversation to further AWARE's mission.

July 11 (Saturday) 2-4PM Main St & Neil St, Champaign. "The Main Event" - 
AWARE's monthly street demonstration event. Largely focuses on opposing U.S. 
occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, but is open for anyone to join us either 
using one of our signs or one of their own. We try to have a topical flyer to 
distribute to motorists and passers-by each month.

July 14 (Tuesday)  6-7:30PM Free Community Veterans Clinic at Urbana-Champaign 
Friends Meetinghouse, 1904 E Main St, Urbana As an outcome of AWARE's panel on 
PTSD in 2008, this free acupuncture clinic was started in February 2009 and is 
held the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month for stress reduction. This free 
clinic is open to U.S. military veterans, current members of the Armed Forces, 
or their immediate support network. Sponsored by Acupuncturists Without Borders 
<www.acuwithoutborders.org>.

**NEW** July 16 (Thursday) First Mennonite Church (adjacent yard), 902 W. 
Springfield Ave, Urbana.  Statewide-coordinated "Vigil for Reform at Tamms 
Supermax Prison."

Sep 12-13 (Saturday-Sunday) Chicago, IL. US Campaign to End the Occupation: 8th 
Annual National Organizers' Conference. See: 
<http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?list=type&type=253>. AWARE 
participates in this campaign to oppose military aid to Israel and  is now 
officially listed as an endorsing organization for a letter to Congress on the 
matter. See: 
<http://www.endtheoccupation.org/downloads/FY2010BudgetOpenLetter.pdf>.  A 
formal letter has been sent by an AWARE member to Sen. Durbin regarding 
opposition to military aid to Israel and including a request to meet in person 
with AWARE.  We'll inform you of the date and place of the meeting: we hope you 
can plan to attend.

**Planning going forward for a "Midwest Liberty Festival", possibly at Du Quoin 
in southern Illinois in the fall. Possible speakers mentioned so far include 
Naomi Wolf, Rep. Ron Paul with Rand Paul (candidate for the Senate from 
Kentucky), & Cindy Sheehan. For more information: <info at midwestlibertyfest.com> 
and <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=119830955184>.

***

On this day, July 7, in 1846, American troops occupied Monterey and Yerba Buena, 
beginning the United States' invasion of Mexico; the U.S. eventually took over 
half of Mexico in a war that Congressmen John Quincy Adams & Abraham Lincoln 
condemned as a "presidential war":


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