[Peace] Urbana People's History Project

[Stuart Levy]

[Seems like a cool project.  ElizaBeth sent this note to Peace a few days ago,
but I'm not sure whether it got out; it's in the archives, but at least
a couple of us didn't see it.

Does anyone from AWARE remember the event she describes here?
What else would we like to remember?  Some of the 4th-of-July parades
("a better world is possible", say), or the Postcards for Peace effort,
or the Feb. 15, 2003 demonstration in a blizzard, or the Mothers Against War
event in the civic center, or ... ??  -Stuart]


Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:07:48 -0600
From: Elizabeth Simpson <urbanapeopleshistory at gmail.com>
Subject: Urbana People's History Project
To: peace at lists.chambana.net, slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu

Hi Stuart and AWARE members (note: Stuart, if this email doesn't go to the
list, can you please forward it?),

This is elizaBeth Simpson. I am coordinating the Urbana Champaign People's
History Poster Project:

*The Celebrate Urbana-Champaign People’s History Project (CUCPHP) is a
collective effort to identify overlooked citizens, groups, and events that
have made a significant contribution to the social well being of the
Urbana-Champaign community. CUCPHP will publicize their impact via the
design and distribution of attractive, artistic posters. It is a
not-for-profit project that is funded in part by the Urbana Public Arts
program. For more details, please visist:
www.urbanapeopleshistory.wordpress.com
*
 I would like to do a poster about an event that happened in the early days
of AWARE (or just before), in which Homeland Security was coming to take
away a community member named Ahmed, and many community members went to his
house in protest the morning of. I am looking for people who were there to
talk to, so that I can reconstruct the event. If you were there, or know
someone who was, please contact me at:

urbanapeopleshistory at gmail.com
or by phone at 344-8324

Also, if there are other people, events, groups that you would like to see a
poster made about, please let me know. For example, we could make a poster
about beginning of AWARE itself, which was a wonderful event in our local
history where many people came together around a common cause.

Thank you for your time,
elizaBeth