[Peace] country-wide protest against the FBI raids / Monday, 4:30pm / I-72 University Avenue, and N. Country Fair Dr.

[Julien Ball]

Karen, 
Thanks to you and other AWARE members for pulling this together on such short notice!
Feel free to take or leave my suggestions, since I won't be able to make it (though I will post the email announcement to our list and help get the word out), but I think, even if the FBI office is not in a high-traffic area, that those working inside the building will very much know we're there if we're chanting loudly, so it would be worth doing it there anyway. If there's somewhere with high foot traffic nearby where we could actually talk to people, maybe we could march there?
I also kind of think that we want to send a different message to the FBI: they're not welcome to spy on our movement activists, who are standing up and doing the right (and not to mention legally protected) thing.
Just my two cents',
Julien

> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:20:07 -0500
> Subject: country-wide protest against the FBI raids / Monday, 4:30pm / I-72 University Avenue, and N. Country Fair Dr.
> From: kmedina67 at gmail.com
> To: leightonlc at gmail.com; slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu; julienball at hotmail.com; peace at lists.chambana.net
> 
> Okay, we're doing it. Monday, September 27, 4:30pm we are having a
> local demonstration, joining the nation-wide demonstration against the
> FBI raids on peace activists in Minnesota and Chicago.
> 
> The FBI does have an office in Champaign.
> 2117 W Park Court
> Champaign, IL	 61821-2986
> (West of Mattis, just west of the Snucks shopping center) see the map
> 
> Possible interesting idea: since the building is down a street where
> nobody goes, yet it is really close to Interstate 72, we could have
> the demonstration right there on I-72/University Ave,  first stop
> light before people get into town. Corner of N. Country Fair Dr and
> I-72 eastbound.
> 
> Possible interesting message:
> You are entering a town with an active Peace Movement.
> Everyone welcome, including the FBI.
> 
> Spread the word. FAST.
> 
> The map:
> http://maps.google.com/maps?key=ABQIAAAAU85ObwpHaQwS-qYBWeeflBS2gtc9xxfbLvJDJoeGQ0y6TMbUjRQGH_4Ekkr-c1gGutkYXAf7994-EA&mapclient=jsapi&ie=UTF8&ll=40.119992,-88.284631&spn=0.019592,0.03592&t=h&z=15
 		 	   		  
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