[Peace] AWARE On The Air tonight at ten, channel six

[C. G. Estabrook]

AWARE ON THE AIR for thanksgiving week, 2009, is presented by members & friends 
of AWARE, the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana, a local peace 
group.  Each Tuesday at 10pm on cable channel 6 we bring you an account of the 
America's war-making, notably the invasion & occupation of the Middle East, from 
Palestine to Pakistan, from the Caspian Sea to the Horn of Africa -- and of the 
opposition to it, both locally and nationally, from US citizens like us who are 
appalled at the government's actions.

TODAY IS NOVEMBER 24.  On this day in 1859 Charles Darwin published "On the 
Origin of Species": its place in the rather plodding history of 19c. biology is 
largely overshadowed by its mystifying role as a touchstone of liberal orthodoxy 
today.  The same year saw the publication in English of Edmund Fitzgerald's "The 
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám", Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities", and Alfred 
Lord Tennyson's "Idylls of the King".  All are better reads than Darwin's book.

THE ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM CALENDAR for November 2009 -- recent and upcoming 
events on the local scene, taken from last Sunday's AWARE meeting:

*NOW UNTIL NEXT SUMMER -- PEACEABLE ASSEMBLY CAMPAIGN.  The organization Voices 
for Creative Nonviolence is initiating a nationwide campaign to seek an end to 
the U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and an end to U.S. support of 
the continued occupation of the Palestinian territories. Beginning in September, 
2009, and continuing for the next ten months, we will engage in both legal and 
extralegal (nonviolent civil disobedience/civil resistance) lobbying efforts, 
urging Representatives and Senators to stop authorizing and funding wars and 
occupations.  For more information and resources see 
<www.peaceableassemblycampaign.org>, email <pac at vcnv.org>, or call 773-878-3815.

*Nov 23 (yesterday) NATIONAL DAY OF OUTRAGE FOR KIWANE CARRINGTON.  The 
Champaign City Council have said that they are the body responsible for 
overseeing the police.  The police killing of an unarmed 15-year-old black youth 
is not acceptable.  Call on the Council to act and remove the police responsible.
	On Friday October 9, 2009, Kiwane Carrington and Jeshaun Manning-Carter, two 
unarmed 15-year-olds were accosted by Champaign officers - including the Chief 
of Police - at the place where Kiwane stayed.  Kiwane was shot and killed. 
Jeshaun was arrested, at first for burglary (charges since dropped), and then 
for felony aggravated resisting a peace officer, and was taken to jail. 
Something is fundamentally wrong with police procedure where a mistaken 
assumption about burglary leads to guns drawn, ransacking of a home, and killing 
of a young person -- with the Chief of Police present!

*Nov 28 (Saturday) 8am-noon AWARE's presence at the LINCOLN SQUARE HOLIDAY 
MARKET - literature, discussion,  & paraphernalia.

*Nov 29 (Sunday)  Multi-Family COMMUNITY POTLUCK to benefit the needy, 4 – 6 
p.m., Church of the Brethren, 1210 N. Neil Street, Champaign, for information 
call 344-1811

*Nov 29 (Sunday) 5-6:30pm AWARE MEETING in the basement of the old post office, 
Urbana.  Visitors and new members are welcome.  If you're opposed to the war & 
want to know what you can do, join us & work on it together.  AWARE an 
independent political organization; we work with many other groups but are not 
directly affiliated with any.

*Dec 1 (Tuesday) 7pm "LIFE IN PALESTINE: OUR TRAVELS IN THE HOLY LAND"- a 
presentation by people from C-U (including some AWARE members) who recently 
returned from a 10-day stay in the West Bank, with excursions to Jerusalem and 
Israel.  Presenters will describe what they experienced - including travel 
restrictions, the separation wall, a visit to a refugee camp, olive harvesting 
and a Palestinian peace initiative.  Slides will accompany the presentation, and 
a question and answer session will follow.

*Dec 5 (Saturday) 2-4pm THE MAIN EVENT -- AWARE's monthly street demonstration 
on the first Saturday of the month at Neil and Main Streets (hence the name) in 
downtown Champaign.  We present signs to the traffic stopped at the 
intersection, and hand out flyers to motorists and passers-by. Bring a sign or 
use one of ours. We try to have a topical flyer produced each month.

...AND - WHEN IT IS ANNOUNCED - A DEMONSTRATION AGAINST PRESIDENT OBAMA'S PLAN 
FOR MORE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN!

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AWARE IS HAPPY to provide anti-war speakers and discussion leaders for local 
events.  See our website at <anti-war.net> or write <cge at shout.net>.

The program is presented by KAREN MEDINA, WAYNE JOHNSON, RON SZOKE, LINDA WEBER, 
other members & friends of AWARE -- and yr. obdt. servt. -- who wish you an 
ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM ANTI-IMPERIALIST THANKSGIVING!

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