[Peace] Fwd: Disturbing Images from Downtown Champaign

[Brian Dolinar]

I went down to Carrie's and snooped around today.
The "mural" has been covered over with a fresh layer of green paint.
The woman behind the desk was talking with someone on the phone about the
controversy.
Carrie, she said, had "caught a bunch of flak" for the mural and didn't go
into the shop today to avoid people like me there to ask questions.
I quietly slipped out. There's talk about a response circulating.
I did get a business card.
You can email Carrie Jo Homann at carries at insighbb.com
Or you can call 352-3231.

BD

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Shameem Rakha
<rakhash at champaignschools.org>wrote:

>  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
> >
> >   --
> >   _____________________________________________
> >   Kind regards,
> >
> >   Rachel Storm
> >   Program Coordinator, Illinois Women's Resources
> >   Center
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