[Peace] Fwd: Disturbing Images from Downtown Champaign

[Shameem Rakha]

Hi everyone. I'm new to your group.  Thanks for having me.  Not that  I consider the News Gazette to be worthy of reading, but  it does give a distinctly local perspective.  Here is what it said about this outrageous mural in today's paper:  http://www.news-gazette.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/art/2010-09-09/artist-alters-building-mural-after-it-provokes-outcry.htm

Shameem Rakha, M.Ed., NBCT, Doctoral Student, Youth Community Informatics Graduate Assistant

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. 
-Stephen Jay Gould 



From: eheim2 at illinois.edu
Sent: Thu 9/9/2010 5:09 PM
To: Rachel Storm; peace at anti-war.net; Brian Dolinar; Barbara kessel; Pat Nolan; DebRugg at aol.com; hardcore at iresist.org
Subject: Re: [Peace] Fwd: Disturbing Images from Downtown Champaign


Is it too early to organize a response? What do people think?

Eric

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 18:58:11 -0500
>From: Rachel Storm <rachelstrm at gmail.com>  
>Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Disturbing Images from Downtown Champaign  
>To: peace at anti-war.net, Brian Dolinar <briandolinar at gmail.com>, Barbara kessel <barkes at gmail.com>, Pat Nolan <pnolan96 at aol.com>, DebRugg at aol.com, hardcore at iresist.org
>
>   Please forward widely.
>   ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>   From: Davis, Ashley <adavis2 at ad.uiuc.edu>
>   Date: Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:24 PM
>   Subject: Disturbing Images from Downtown Champaign
>   To: OIIR at listserv.illinois.edu
>
>   Hello Colleagues,
>    
>   I hope you are well on this beautiful Tuesday. This
>   afternoon I received a phone call concerning
>   disturbing images in downtown Champaign. I rushed to
>   the scene of the crime and found the images to
>   be as disheartening and disturbing as described.
>    
>   Talks with the owner concerning the
>   offensive nature of the images proved futile. They
>   were first described as "art," then "history," and
>   finally as "folklore." These images are being
>   painted as I type and are located on the wall
>   of "Carrie's" on Neil St. in downtown Champaign
>   across the street from Boltini Lounge.
>    
>   I warn you to brace yourselves as you view
>   this image. There are more images but the list
>   serv won't let them through.  Encounters such as
>   this prove the need for the existence of the Bruce
>   Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, OMSA, DAAS
>   and OIIR as our mission to educate individuals is
>   never-ending.
>    
>   Best,
>   Ashley M. Davis
>
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