[Peace] AOTA: How many kids did you kill today, clueless big-mouth idiot?

[C. G. Estabrook]

/AWARE On The Air/ for the third week of January 2011 will be cablecast tonight 
on Urbana Public Television (channel 6) at 10pm.

On tonight's program, the Rising Tide (of violence) will be addressed by Ron 
Szoke, the Obama administration's Mickey Mouse (sorry - Tom and Jerry) war in 
AfPak will be discussed by Linda Weber, and propaganda for America's Mideast war 
from CNN and the NYT will be considered.

Today is January 18, as we open the book of slaughter and forgetting: on this 
day in
# 1919 -- World War I peace conference opens in Versailles, France. The dominant 
economic classes recruit nationalism against socialism: see John Maynard Keynes, 
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (cf. the Bretton Woods system, from WWII 
to neoliberalism in the 1970s);
# 1943 -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by Polish Jews against German occupation;
# 1944 -- Soviet forces liberate Leningrad, effectively ending a three year 
siege by the German army and beginning the military defeat of Germany in WWII  
(US invades Europe - "D-Day" - only when that is clear, but the major fighting 
is in the East); and
# 1945 -- Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army.

Before the taping of the show, Ron related the following story:

"Wang Han-chin, an electrician in central Taiwan, accused five neighbours of 
teaching their mynah, a parrot-like bird, to curse at him as revenge after he 
complained to the police that they were too loud. Wang alleged that whenever he 
left home, the bird would see him off with the words 'Clueless big-mouthed 
idiot,' causing serious distress and making him lose concentration at work so he 
suffered burn injuries, it said. He pressed charges, but the neighbours denied 
instructing the bird to curse and prosecutors decided to drop the charges due to 
insufficient evidence linking the bird to his injuries."

We do not know if the neighbors were charged with corrupting the morals of a mynah.

--il tuo schiavo

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     Anti-War Anti-Racism Calendar - Protests in January
     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.)

***
Defenseless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
--W. H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"

*Tuesday 11 January, Witness Against Torture <http://www.witnesstorture.org> 
began its protest of American torture, symbolized by Guantanamo, which turned 10 
that day.

*Saturday 15 January, Washington, D.C. Ongoing demonstrations against 20 Years 
of War on Iraq 
<http://dccatholicworker.wordpress.com/2010/12/25/january-15-1991-january15-2011-20-years-of-u-s-war-on-iraq>

*Monday 17 January, Washington, D.C., and Quantico VA. Protest of FBI Raids and 
Bradley Manning Imprisonment
http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm

*Wednesday 19 January 7:30-9pm Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave., U.
Pioneering Latinos: Building a Legacy on and Beyond the Playing Field
Film: "Roberto Clemente" /Adrian Burgos with filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz

*Thursday 20 January 3-7pm Wesley Evening Food Pantry, 1205 W. Green St., U.
Martin Luther King Jr. Youth Day of Service

*Thursday 20 January 7-10pm Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Ave., U.
Pioneering Latinos: Building a Legacy on and Beyond the Playing Field:
Fireside Chat with Bernardo Ruiz, Fernando Prez and Adrian Burgos

*Friday 21 January marks one year since the Supreme Court's "Citizens United" 
ruling handing corporations the power to spend unlimited funds on elections.  
Events are being planned.

*Saturday 22 January 9am, Cafe Kopi, 109 N. Walnut St., Champaign. AWARE book 
club begins! The first book: Aaron Glantz, The War Comes Home: Washington's 
Battle Against America's Veterans

*Saturday 22 January 10am-1pm Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S, 
Goodwin Ave., C.
Martin Luther King Jr. Culminating Community Event

*Saturday 22 January 10am-2pm Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Martin Luther King Jr. Writing Contest Presentation of Winners

*Tuesday 25 January, across the country. Protest FBI Raids <http://www.stopfbi.net>

*Tuesday 25 January 11am-3pm Activity Day at UIUC. Will there be any campus 
anti-war groups there?

The Critical Research and Action Caucus (CRAAC!) will be meeting for another 
Radical Reading Circle on Tuesday, January 25th at 5pm at the University YMCA in 
the chapel room. We will be discussing Myles Horton, The Long Haul and its 
relevance to contemporary struggles here in Champaign-Urbana and beyond. All are 
welcome.

New reading group to examine "how the U.S. came to have the highest 
incarceration rate in the world". First meeting will be Tuesday, January 25 at 
5pm in the IPRH Seminar Room, 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Urbana [IPRH stands 
for Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities]

Public library screenings of Independent Lens documentaries prior to their 
broadcast on WILL-TV. First event: For Once in My Life screening and post 
screening discussion. January 27 at 6:30pm, Champaign Public Library, 200 W. 
Green St. <http://ww.itvs.org/screenings>

*Thursday 27 January, Washington, D.C. Bill of Rights Day <http://www.bordc.org>

*Thursday 27 January 27, 7pm. The Red Herring Coffee House, 1209 W. Oregon St., 
Urbana
The People Speak: A Live Performance. It's been a year since the death of 
historian Howard Zinn. Commemorate the anniversary of his passing with local 
activists from the campus and the community with a live staged reading of "The 
People Speak." Using dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries 
and speeches of everyday Americans, THE PEOPLE SPEAK gives voice to those who 
spoke up for social change throughout U.S. history, and insisted on equality and 
justice. Based on Zinn's best-selling books, A People's History of the United 
States and Voices of a People's History of the United States, THE PEOPLE SPEAK 
illustrates the relevance of these historical moments to our society today and 
reminds us never to take liberty for granted. (Admission charge.)

Invisible Conflicts Fundraiser to benefit "Peace Together Uganda", a 
community-based organization in rural Pajule, northern Uganda. PTU was created 
as a forum for rebuilding a community devastated by a twenty-year civil war. 
January 29th at 12:30 a run around the Quad in underwear or costume. Thaw out 
until 2pm at the YMCA; food, Ugandan jewelry, auction.

***
"NOTHING appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a 
philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the 
few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and 
passions to those of their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is 
effected, we shall find, that, as FORCE is always on the side of the governed, 
the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on 
opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most 
despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most 
popular..."
--David Hume, "Of the First Principles of Government" (1768)

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