[Peace] AWARE On The Air tonight at 10pm, ch. 6

[C. G. Estabrook]

On Democracy Now! this morning, Noam Chomsky was asked what he's advise Obama to 
do now (on domestic policy):
     "I would tell him to do what FDR did when big business was opposed to him. 
Help organize, stimulate public opposition and put through a serious populist 
program, which can be done. Stimulate the economy. Don't give away everything to 
financiers. Push through real health reform. The health reform that was pushed 
through may be a slight improvement but it leaves some major problems untouched. 
If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it is almost 
all attributable to military spending and this totally dysfunctional health 
program."
*/
_AWARE On The Air_/*_tonight at 10pm, ch. 6, brings you
_/
     Ron Szoke on Demons

     Glenn Greenwald on American media
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Which is worse?  We exhort, you decide.
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Our program is presented by members & friends of AWARE, the Anti-War Anti-Racism 
Effort of Champaign-Urbana, a local peace group - and brought to you by the good 
people at Urbana Public Television

Each week we bring you a video magazine about the US government's wars, notably 
the invasion & occupation of the Middle East, from Palestine to Pakistan -- and 
of the opposition to them, both locally and nationally, from American citizens 
like us who are appalled at the government's betrayal of our democratic principles.

Today is November 30th - as we open the book of slaughter and forgetting, we 
find that on this day
# in 1786 - the year before our supposedly-in-force constitution was written - 
Peter Leopold I of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgated a penal 
reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty: 
consequently, today is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for 
Life Day;
# in 1886 -- on the 100th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in 
Tuscany, France celebrated the occasion by having the Folies Bergère stages its 
first revue, suggesting perhaps the fundamental unseriousness of major 
governments; and
# in 1999 -- in Seattle, Washington, protests against the World Trade 
Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared 
and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies. [Alexander Cockburn of 
counterpunch.org suggests that the US ruling class can be taken by surprise 
about once every twenty years...]
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_*Anti-War Anti-Racism Calendar for 30 November 2010
Recent and upcoming events on the local scene, from
last Sunday's AWARE meeting and the AWARE mailing lists,
*_/<peace at lists.chambana.net> and <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>.
(Thanks to MOA Karen Medina.)
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/
     Let the dead of November rest!
     For us the living there's quite enough to do.
     For these are not those who have awakened
     and have imagined themselves perpetrators of the same thing.
     Neither written-off nor tax-free is the profit
     from the debts for which I am responsible.
     --from Guenter Grass, _Novemberland
_/
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RECENT EVENTS:
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*Friday-Sunday, 19-21 November. Fort Benning, Georgia (USA).
School of the Americas Watch annual "Nonviolent Direct Action to Close the 
SOA/WHINSEC" -- a combat training school for Latin American soldiers. The SOA - 
"the School of Assassins," has left a trail of blood and suffering in every 
country where its graduates have returned. Graduates have consistently used 
their skills to wage a war against their own people.
     The demonstration is usually a peaceful affair; this year following the SOA 
Watch rally, human rights activists brought their nonviolent witness to close 
the SOA into the street leading onto the military base. The activists briefly 
shut down the road with a large sign that said, "Stop: This is the End of the 
Road for the SOA": a dozen people were arrested, and others charged, including 
the 90-year old Jesuit priest Bill Brennan. When the rally participants tried to 
leave the vigil area, the police blocked off all exit points. After a few 
minutes, the police allowed people to leave on the sidewalk, only to follow 
them, indiscriminately arresting people who had neither committed any crimes nor 
engaged in civil disobedience. Among those arrested was the RT America TV crew, 
who was filming the police misconduct and bystanders. See <www.SOAW.org>.

*Thursday 25 November is the national holiday of Thanksgiving. Forty years ago, 
an American writer recalled another Thanksgiving.  He wrote about "Colonel 
Joseph Bellas, commanding officer of a hospital in Vietnam where soldiers 
boycotted Thanksgiving dinner in protest against the war: 'They're young, 
they're idealistic and don't like man's inhumanity to man. As they get older 
they will become wiser and more tolerant' [said the good colonel]. If a majority 
of the American people will, indeed, ignore resultant atrocities and support 
[the US government] policy of pursuing a war without discernible end, then this 
segment of American society may be subjected to domestic repression of a sort 
that is not without precedent in American history. [SEE AWAREIST DAVID GREEN'S 
LETTER IN THE N-G TODAY.]

*Tuesday 30 November 30, 7-9:30pm. Department of African American Studies,
1201 West Nevada Street, U. A panel discussion: "Race, the Tea Party, the U.S.'s 
Hard Shift to the Right." (We'll discuss it here next week.)

UPCOMING EVENTS:
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*Wednesday 1 December, 5:30pm. Greg Hall, Room 217
A public forum: "The Recession is over...FOR WHOM?"
"What is really happening with the economy? What are the real solutions to our 
economic woes? And how can we fight for those kinds of solutions? Come to a 
public forum to discuss these questions. Sponsored by the International 
Socialist Organization. For more information, call 415-713-6260 or email 
<iso.champaign at gmail.com>."

*Wednesday 1 December, 6pm. Champaign Public Library, 200 West Green Street, C
Workshop: "Finding Affordable Health Care: Local Programs & Resources." This 
workshop will focus on local resources, programs and clinics providing 
affordable health care and dental care for low-income and uninsured residents of 
our community. Now that health reform has become law, there is much work to be 
done to explain the law to consumers and to the community.

*Thursday 2 December, 5:30pm. University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street C.
A film by ZHANG CHI, "The Shaft" (Dixia de Tiankong) [part of the Y's Global 
Lens 2010 film series]. In three intertwined stories, a father, son and daughter 
fight to hold onto hope and family as they face the harsh realities of life in a 
poor western Chinese mining town 
<http://www.globalfilm.org/lens10/the_shaft.htm>. Free and open to everyone.

*Saturday 4 December, 7:30am-1pm. Lincoln Square, U.
AWARE table at the indoor Farmer's Market. We have peace calendars for 2011. If 
you would like to work the table, contact <slevy @illinois.edu>.

*Saturday 4 December, 2-4pm. Main & Neil Sts., Champaign
AWARE's monthly peace demonstration, "The Main Event." Bring a sign or use one 
of ours; we'll hand out information about the war to motorists and passers-by.

*Sunday 5 December, 3:30pm.  Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, UIUC.
A 1950's themed cocktail party. Hosts will be collecting donations for the 
Eastern Illinois Foodbank.  Admission is free and kids are welcome!

*Monday 6 December, 6pm.  St. Jude Catholic Worker House, 317 S. Randolph St., C.
Potluck and roundtable.  We'll watch "Money as Debt," an animated short film 
that gives the history of currency, banking, and our government's "fractional 
reserve system:" the creation of money through citizens' debt

*Thursday 9 December, 5:30pm. University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St., C.
A film by OLIVER HERMANUS, "Shirley Adams" [part of the Y's Global Lens 2010 
film series]. In the depressed Cape Town neighborhood of Cape Flats, a single 
mother contemplates her fate and cautiously accepts the help of an overeager 
social worker as she struggles to care for her paraplegic and suicidal son 
<http://www.globalfilm.org/lens10/shirley_adams.htm>. Free and open to everyone!

*Thursday 16 December.  The presidential mansion, "The White House," Washington, DC.
Veteran-led civil resistance to the wars. Activists and veterans will march to 
the White House, refuse to move, demand an immediate end to U.S. wars, whether 
conducted by occupation troops, drones or proxy, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, 
Yemen and Palestine. Groups being led by Veterans for Peace will nonviolently 
refuse to leave the White House, willing to be dragged away and arrested for 
peace. They will carry forward a flame of resistance to the war machine that 
will not diminish as we place themselves, as Mario Savio said, "upon the gears 
and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus" and we will make 
it stop. See <www.stopthesewars.org>.

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AWARE is happy to provide anti-war speakers and discussion leaders for local 
events.  See our Facebook page, our website at <anti-war.net>, or write 
<cge at shout.net>. AWARE is an independent organization that works with other 
political groups and parties opposed to US war, but it is not a member of them.

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