From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Wed Jun 1 21:30:20 2016 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 16:30:20 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Jewish Voice for Peace urges release of Palestinian astrophysicist Message-ID: World-famous physicists have signed a petition for this guy. We should be able to get him out. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tallie Ben-Daniel, Jewish Voice for Peace < tallie at jewishvoiceforpeace.org> Date: Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 4:20 PM Subject: Lock Up. Released. Charged. To: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Posting your opinion on facebook shouldn't land you in jail. Free Imad Barghouthi. [image: logo] Hi Robert, Our plan today was to send a short reportback on our memberdrive, which was truly incredible - we signed up almost 2,200 new and renewed members - far beyond our 1,800 goal. But instead, we want to ask you to dive into this solidarity campaign. Because in the end, the point of building our membership is to make a difference, right? [image: Take Action] Sign our letter demanding Dr. Barghouthi's release! . TAKE ACTION . . . Dear Robert, Locked up without charge or trial. Then released by a judge, only to be indicted by a military prosecutor. And thrown back in jail. That’s what millions of Palestinians living under Israel’s military occupation face. And it’s exactly what famed Palestinian astrophysicist Imad Barghouthi is enduring - right now. Last month Dr. Barghouthi was placed under Administrative Detention - which in practice means an indefinite sentence in prison without charges - based on Facebook posts. Our Academic Advisory Council, in coalition with the US Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and the Association of Academics for the Respect of International Law in Palestine, mobilized to support their colleague. Hundreds of academics from across the globe signed a letter of support, which was presented in court by Dr. Barghouthi’s lawyer. And it made a difference, with the judge ruling for Dr. Barghouti’s release from administrative detention. But then we heard on Tuesday that IDF prosecutors had found an end-run around the release order. In spite of the judge’s ruling that Dr. Barghouti poses no danger, army prosecutors formally indicted him on charges of incitement. *Will you join us and demand Dr. Barghouthi’s release? * Along with Dr. Barghouthi, hundreds of Palestinians remain in administrative detention, without charge or trial. Since January, 190 Palestinians have been detained specifically because of Facebook posts critical of Israeli government actions. While the IDF can place gag orders on the Israeli media, they can’t place a blanket gag order the internet. In this political climate, let's send a message that all Palestinians deserve to express themselves freely. *Dr. Barghouti’s next trial date will be coming up soon - please help us show how many of us support him before then. * Onward, Tallie Tallie Ben-Daniel Academic Advisory Council Coordinator PS: We know that this back-and-forth between administrative detention and formal incitement charges is a pattern for repressing Palestinian leaders from all walks of life - like poet Dareen Tatour, who is under house arrest because of a poem she wrote. Please check out *jvp.org/unless-palestinan* for more examples of this crackdown - and opportunities to act. Jewish Voice for Peace is a national membership organization inspired by Jewish tradition to work for the freedom, equality, and dignity of all the people of Israel and Palestine. 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(If you voted for a Democrat or Republican presidential candidate in the March primary, then for the purposes of Illinois election law, you are considered a "Democrat" or "Republican" respectively.) *Key facts:* - you get paid $200 for your time and service. - you have to attend a 4 hour training conducted by the county clerk. The $200 is intended to compensate you both for your time and service on Election Day and for the time spent attending the training. - there is a preference for people serving in their own precinct, but not all election judges in a precinct are necessarily from that precinct. *Why you should consider doing this if your other commitments allow it:* Election judges help ensure that elections run smoothly and efficiently and that every eligible voter who wants to vote is allowed to vote and has whatever assistance they need in order to do that. So, you can think of an election judge as a citizen volunteer who helps protect the right to vote. An election involves a lot of moving parts and a lot can go wrong even if nobody has particularly bad intentions. A motivated and engaged election judge can help avoid problems. A simple example: in a high turnout election, a particular polling place might not have enough ballots, or enough of the right ballots, which means they could run out, which means that prospective voters could have to stand around waiting for new ballots to be delivered to the polling place from the County Clerk's office. A proactive election judge can notice that there are not enough ballots and help agitate to get new ballots delivered before the polling place runs out so that the voters' user experience is not affected. Such a mundane act is part of protecting the vote. If citizens do what they're supposed to and show up to vote, we want the system to do what it's supposed to and make their user experience pleasant and efficient. If this is something you think you might be willing and able to do, please reply to this email for more info. And please feel free to pass this note along with my email address (naiman at justforeignpolicy.org) as a contact. Everything here is nonpartisan public information. Thanks for all you do to help make democracy work for all Americans, RN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Jun 6 16:38:04 2016 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 11:38:04 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Invitation to 'AWARE on the Air, ' Tuesdays at noon, at Urbana Public TV, 400 Vine St., Urbana Message-ID: Members and friends of the 'Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana’ (AWARE) are invited to participate in the weekly TV program, ‘AWARE on the Air.’ The hour-long program is an unrehearsed panel discussion of the US government’s wars and the attendant racism (including Islamophobia, support for racist states, and the economic draft of people of color into the US military). We record at noon on Tuesdays in the Urbana City Building, 400 South Vine Street, Urbana. The program is cable-cast at 10pm Tuesdays (channel 6) and is always available on YouTube. AWARE was established almost 15 years ago, after the counter-attacks in New York and Washington on 9/11/2001. The founders of AWARE were citizens of Champaign-Urbana who realized that the US government would use the 9/11 crimes to justify its already long-standing attempt to exercise military control over the Middle East and its energy resources. The US doesn’t need oil from the Mideast, but Mideast gas and oil are needed by America’s economic competitors in Europe and Asia, and so control over them gives the US a major advantage over China, Germany, and other countries; that control benefits only the American economic elite - the one percent - and not Americans in general, who pay for war while they've watched wealth concentrate in fewer and fewer hands - at an accelerating rate - over a generation In almost 15 years of continuous war around the world since 9/11, the Bush-Obama administrations have killed more than a million people; the Obama administration continues the killing today. The focus of our program is opposition to the ongoing US wars, but as one regular panelist says, "please feel free to recite, declaim, denounce, rant & sing as you like for some 10–15 minutes, & we’ll see what comes out of the mix." The next taping will be Tuesday 7 June at noon in the UPTV studios. Please join us. —CGE From marinammanetti at yahoo.com Wed Jun 8 10:19:33 2016 From: marinammanetti at yahoo.com (marinammanetti at yahoo.com) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 13:19:33 +0300 Subject: [Peace] a question Message-ID: <0000fa3c4100$4d4e1013$778434fa$@yahoo.com> Hi, I was just wondering , have you ever seen something like that? Just take a look Regards, marinammanetti at yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun Jun 12 14:18:29 2016 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 10:18:29 -0400 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: If you support Bernie, take action now References: <2866981871.756766997@wfc.wfcDB.reply.salsalabs.com> Message-ID: <395289A7-A055-4CB4-87BE-11E053A9A30F@newsfromneptune.com> Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: RootsAction Team > Date: June 12, 2016 at 9:46:47 AM EDT > To: carl at newsfromneptune.com > Subject: If you support Bernie, take action now > Reply-To: info at rootsaction.org > > > > > > Let It Bern. > Continue to the Convention. > > > > > > Share this action on Facebook > Share this action on Twitter > > A petition is launching to tell Bernie Sanders: "We urge you to complete the process of fully representing ​the millions of people who've worked​, ​donated and voted for you." > > To add your name to this urgent message, click here. > > The petition says: "We hope that you will resist the latest ​calls ​from the Democratic Party establishment and corporate media ​to end our campaign before the national convention​​." > > At this crucial time, express that hope directly to Bernie. > > The petition notes that the Bernie Sanders campaign "has clearly stood for democratizing the United States, while insisting that democratic principles must apply to the Democratic Party." > > And the petition adds: "We believe that every vote should count -- including on the convention floor. That should mean a roll call vote on the nominee for president as part of an official process, including the nominating and seconding speeches." > > If you agree, become a signer now! > > As the petition says, "We reject the idea that democracy weakens a political party named for democracy." > > After signing the petition, please use the tools on the next webpage to share it with your friends. > > This work is only possible with your financial support. Please chip in $3 now. > > -- The RootsAction.org Team > > P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, Frances Fox Piven, Lila Garrett, Phil Donahue, Sonali Kolhatkar, and many others. > > Background: > > Bill Moyers, Michael Winship: Wasserman Schultz Has a Change of Heart, But Too Little, Too Late > > Norman Solomon: RootsAction.org co-founder on Democracy Now this week, debating the best path forward > > > > www.RootsAction.org > > > > Click here to unsubscribe and stop ALL email from RootsAction. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Amy Amy Felty 217-637-3125 ** Stone Creek Church in Urbana is showing the film Racial Taboo this summer: Friday, July 22 6:30pm - supper 7:00pm - the film begins This email was sent to karenaram at hotmail.com why did I get this? unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences Racial Taboo group discussion notification list · 1914 Clover Lane · Champaign, Il 61821 · USA [Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Mon Jun 13 15:07:23 2016 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 15:07:23 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fw: No War 2016 -- Details Announced In-Reply-To: <575eb1f0ac4_66553f598dc940765c1@ip-10-0-0-61.mail> References: <575eb1f0ac4_66553f598dc940765c1@ip-10-0-0-61.mail> Message-ID: ________________________________ From: David Swanson via WorldBeyondWar.org Sent: Monday, June 13, 2016 8:15 AM Subject: No War 2016 -- Details Announced [http://www.worldbeyondwar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/WBW_emailheader.jpg] No War 2016: Real Security Without Terrorism [http://worldbeyondwar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/002poster-300x111.jpg]Many details have now been made public for the No War 2016 conference in Washington, D.C., September 23-25, and many have already signed up to attend. If you are thinking about attending, now's the time to register. The main webpage for more information (and check out the new videos) is here: http://worldbeyondwar.org/NoWar2016 Register to attend. Agenda. Speakers. While much is set, there's still room to adjust our plans. We welcome partners, cosponsors, ideas for speakers and workshop leaders, ideas for topics and tactics. Get in touch! We're also helping to bring together similar events at the same time in other places. Let us know if we can help you. One such event will be in Berlin, Germany, at which U.S. whistleblowers and former drone program personnel will deliver to the German government this petition urging the closure of Ramstein Air Base (please add your name): http://bit.ly/1r41wT6 A big protest at Ramstein this past weekend helped to put this issue into the news. We've asked planned speakers to record more videos on why they'll be at No War 2016. You are invited to do the same and send them to us! Sign the Declaration of Peace. Find events all over the world that you can take part in. Join us on Facebook and Twitter. Support World Beyond War's work by clicking here. [http://www.worldbeyondwar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/wbwemailbottomblue.jpg] Sent via ActionNetwork.org. To update your email address or to stop receiving emails from World Beyond War, please click here. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stuartnlevy at gmail.com Thu Jun 16 00:27:26 2016 From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 19:27:26 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: URGENT: key vote tomorrow on unnecessary & dangerous new nuclear weapons Message-ID: Ask Rep. Davis to support this amendment, and oppose funding for a _new_ nuclear weapon.   Reduce the deficit by a smidgin instead. -------- Original message -------- From: "Nicolas Davies (Relayed)" Date: 06/15/2016 18:54 (GMT-06:00) To: ufpj-activist at lists.mayfirst.org Subject: {Disarmed} [ufpj-activist] URGENT: key vote tomorrow on unnecessary & dangerous new nuclear weapons I hope some other groups will also rally their members to back this amendment. - Nicolas "Sandy" Davies URGENT The US House of Representatives is likely to vote on a proposed new nuclear weapon. Write today to urge your representative to vote for the amendment that will cut funding for this dangerous and unnecessary new nuclear weapons system. Take Action Today! ACTION ALERT Critical Vote on Unnecessary & Dangerous New Nuclear Weapons Dear Nicolas J S, Tomorrow, the US House of Representatives is likely to vote on an amendment to cut funding for proposed new nuclear weapons. In today's world, nuclear weapons are a security liability, not an asset. This nuclear-armed cruise missile known as the Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) weapon is unnecessary and will cost tens of billions of dollars. The amendment, which will be voted on in the House, is a key first step in the fight against this weapon and against a dangerous new global nuclear arms race. Write today and urge your representative to vote for the amendment that will cut funding for this dangerous and unnecessary new weapon from the defense spending bill. The amendment would cut $75.8 million from the weapon program and move the savings to deficit reduction. It would effectively delay the cruise missile by one year and allow more time for the next administration and Congress to decide whether or not to pursue it—and time for UCS, our supporters, and our allies to more fully oppose this dangerous weapons program. Can we count on you to help stop the LRSO before the program gets off the ground? Write your representative today! Sincerely, Sean Meyer Manager of Strategic Campaigns Global Security Program Union of Concerned Scientists   Science for a healthy planet and safer world UCS is a 501(c)(3) organization. All gifts are tax deductible. You can be confident your donations to UCS are spent wisely. About UCS | Take Action | Donate | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe | Update Your Profile Union of Concerned Scientists 2 Brattle Square | Cambridge, MA 02138-3780 © Union of Concerned Scientists. All rights reserved. www.ucsusa.org nonprofit software -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Say "No, to war provocations". ________________________________ From: info=rootsaction.org at mail.salsalabs.net on behalf of RootsAction Team Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 8:49 AM Subject: No to Missile "Defense" Sites in Ohio, Mich., NY [https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/RA_Header.jpg] [https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/donate3bucks200b.png] No to New Missile Sites in U.S. [http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/missileoffenseEMAIL.png] [GRAPHIC: Sign here button] [https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/btn_facebook_icon_sm.jpg] Share this action on Facebook [https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/btn_twitter_icon_sm.jpg] Share this action on Twitter The U.S. military has now built missile "defense" sites in Alaska and California (as well as Romania, and under construction in Poland). Next will be New York, Michigan, or Ohio, unless we can stop them. Please click here to modify and personalize the following draft comments, and to email them and make them part of the public record to be addressed in the final Environmental Impact Statement. I strongly oppose building a Ground-Based Mid-Course Missile "Defense" system in New York, Ohio, Michigan, or anywhere else on earth. These missiles are a highly provocative part of the U.S. arms race, taken as hostile by Russia and China. Arguments in Washington, D.C., for a militarized defense against a supposed Russian threat were rejected by a senior Pentagon officer in Politico on May 12, 2016, in these terms: "The Army is looking for a purpose, and a bigger chunk of the budget. And the best way to get that is to paint the Russians as being able to land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. What a crock." Bureaucracy and profiteering are not sufficient justification for constructing these counterproductive systems, which will endanger, rather than protect, us, damage the natural environment, and waste huge sums of money needed for useful projects that answer legitimate human needs. Click here to submit your comments. After submitting your comments, please use the tools on the next webpage to share this action with your friends. Please forward this email to everyone you can so that we can send more comments before the July 18th deadline. This work is only possible with your financial support. Please chip in $3 now. -- The RootsAction.org Team P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, Frances Fox Piven, Lila Garrett, Phil Donahue, Sonali Kolhatkar, and many others. Background: Organizing Notes: Public Comments Needed on New 'Missile Defense' Deployments Politico: The U.S. Army's War Over Russia www.RootsAction.org [Donate button] [Facebook button] [Twitter button] Click here to unsubscribe and stop ALL email from RootsAction. [empowered by Salsa] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cinskeep at urbanafree.org Sun Jun 19 21:12:09 2016 From: cinskeep at urbanafree.org (Carol Inskeep) Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 21:12:09 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Restorative Justice: Film and Discussion / Tuesday at 6:30pm at the Urbana Free Library In-Reply-To: References: <7E7B336C-9C05-41C7-B22E-2E1A22793282@illinois.edu> <126358748.501289.1465508030992.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> , <1479118015.1107732.1465587041979.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>, Message-ID: Please help spread the word about this event - Thank you! Fambul Tok: The Power of Forgiveness / Film & Community Discussion Tuesday, June 21 at 6:30pm at the Urbana Free Library Fambul Tok is a film about healing in post-conflict Sierra Leone through the intimate stories of perpetrators and victims. These stories of forgiveness and reconciliation, seen through the lens of family, friends and community show a culture that values the restoration of relationships and the wholeness of community rather than measures of punishment and retribution. Join us to talk about how applying these ideas might create grassroots transformation in our own community. Refreshments will be served. Panelists Environmentalist and Community Development Specialist Christian Kamara is the National General Secretary (NGS) and Chief Executive Officer of the YMCA in Sierra Leone. Tracy Parsons is the Community Relations Manager for the City of Champaign and in this capacity he coordinates initiatives to improve the lives of youth and families. Mikhail Lyubansky is member of the Psychology Department teaching faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He facilitates, teaches, and writes about Restorative Circles. Cosponsored by the Urbana Free Library, University YMCA Urbana Rotary Club, Champaign County Community Coalition, and the Krannert Center Director of Civic Engagement and Social Practice -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Jun 20 10:41:30 2016 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 05:41:30 -0500 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune for June 17 Message-ID: https://archive.org/details/News_From_Neptune_-_Episode_304 News from Neptune for June 17, 2016, a "Fight It Out On This Line If It Takes All Summer" (unfortunately not resolve shown by B. Sanders) edition. Karen Aram, C. G. Estabrook, and David Green discuss the news of the week and its coverage by the media. 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Lists featuring the names and photographs of dozens of social and environmental activists were given to two elite units, with orders to eliminate each target, according to First Sergeant Rodrigo Cruz, 20. Cruz’s unit commander, a 24-year-old lieutenant, deserted rather than comply with the order. Cruz – who asked to be identified by a pseudonym for fear of reprisal – followed suit, and fled to a neighbouring country. Several other members of the unit have disappeared and are feared dead. “If I went home, they’d kill me. Ten of my former colleagues are missing. I’m 100% certain that Berta Cáceres was killed by the army,” Cruz told the Guardian. Cáceres, an indigenous Lenca leader who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 for a campaign against the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam, was shot dead in her home in March 2016 . Before her murder, she had reported 33 death threats linked to the campaign and had warned international human rights delegates that her name was on a hitlist. According to Cruz, Cáceres’s name appeared on a list given to a military police unit in the Inter-institutional Security Force (Fusina), which last summer received training from 300 US marines and FBI agents . Five men have been arrested for her murder, including Maj Mariano Díaz Chávez, an active-duty major in the Honduran army. Díaz had previously participated in joint US-Honduran military operations in Iraq, and is reported by local media to be a graduate of the elite Tesón special operations course which is partly taught by US special forces*. *Diaz was a military police instructor when arrested, but has since been given a dishonourable discharge . Annie Bird, director of the group Rights and Ecology which documents human rights abuses in Honduras, said: “Cruz’s testimony suggests death squads are targeting political opposition, but the justice system is so broken, and directly controlled by figures implicated in corruption, that there is no one [in Honduras] who can credibly investigate.” The Guardian interviewed Cruz several times by telephone and video call, and spoke with several people – academics, community leaders and activists – who have interviewed Cruz and confirmed his identity and military background. [...] === Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (202) 448-2898 x1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We at the ACLU, like many other Americans, are appalled by the Orlando tragedy. We have deep concerns, however, about legislative efforts to regulate the use of guns by relying on our nation’s error-prone and unfair watchlisting system. That’s why we sent a letter today to the Senate, opposing legislation from Sen. Cornyn (R-Texas), which uses the watchlisting system as a predicate for gun regulation, and also opposing a proposal by Sen. Feinstein (D-Calif.), which does not rely on mere presence on watchlists, but nevertheless raises issues of fundamental fairness. The letter explained to senators the ACLU’s position on gun control: We believe that the right to own and use guns is not absolute or free from government regulation since firearms are inherently dangerous instrumentalities and their use, unlike other activities protected by the Bill of Rights, can inflict serious bodily injury or death. Therefore, firearms are subject to reasonable regulation in the interests of public safety, crime prevention, maintaining the peace, environmental protection, and public health. At the same time, regulation of firearms and individual gun ownership or use must be consistent with civil liberties principles, such as due process, equal protection, freedom from unlawful searches, and privacy. And we explained why we oppose Sen. Cornyn’s legislation, which uses the watchlist system as a starting point for regulating guns. It may sound appealing to regulate firearms by using the government’s blacklisting system for what it calls “known or suspected terrorists,” but we have long experience analyzing the myriad problems with that system, and based on what we know, it needs major overhaul. As we told the senators: Our nation’s watchlisting system is error-prone and unreliable because it uses vague and overbroad criteria and secret evidence to place individuals on blacklists without a meaningful process to correct government error and clear their names. That’s why we have argued that if the government chooses to blacklist people, the standards it uses must be appropriately narrow, the information it relies on must be accurate and credible, and its use of watchlists must be consistent with the presumption of innocence and the right to due process. This is not what the government is doing, though. Instead, as we explained to the Senate using the No Fly List as an example: The government contends that it can place Americans on the No Fly List who have never been charged let alone convicted of a crime, on the basis of prediction that they nevertheless pose a threat (which is undefined) of conduct that the government concedes “may or may not occur.” Criteria like these guarantee a high risk of error and it is imperative that the watchlisting system include due process safeguards—which it does not. In the context of the No Fly List, for example, the government refuses to provide even Americans who know they are on the List with the full reasons for the placement, the basis for those reasons, and a hearing before a neutral decision-maker. It is unsurprising that a system like this is not just bloated, but applied in an arbitrary and discriminatory manner . By relying on the broken watchlist system, Sen. Cornyn’s proposal would further entrench it. Sen. Feinstein’s gun control proposal, on the other hand, has moved away from a previous version that expressly relied on watchlisting standards. Her new proposal does not rely on the mere presence of an individual on a watchlist as a basis for denial of a firearm permit. Still, her new proposal uses vague and overbroad criteria and does not contain necessary due process protections. It also includes a new notification requirement that could result in a “watchlist” that is even broader than any that currently exists — so broad that it would include even people long ago cleared of any wrongdoing by law enforcement. You should read the full letter for yourself. And then we ask you to call your senators to oppose these proposals. Congress can pass effective gun control laws without relying on unfair and discriminatory watchlists or failing to provide meaningful due process. === Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (202) 448-2898 x1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Jun 23 00:52:36 2016 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 00:52:36 +0000 Subject: [Peace] "Helping Children Has been the cause of her life"--new Hillary Clinton TV Ad In-Reply-To: References: <74F685ED-2795-46FC-B849-4F4717F8CC2A@illinois.edu> <65AE020E-4F05-4D7C-83E7-BC2669F3753E@newsfromneptune.com>, Message-ID: Carl and Prof. Boyle, David and David, Stuart and Karen M, Ron, and Midge. Yes we do need to bring this community together to voice our opposition to the continued killings. There is so much talent in this community but everyone is focused on single issues of interest. The best we were able to do last year at the U of I Law School discussion related to the "Legitimacy of Drone Killing", was about 6 of us. It's time for everyone who wants justice to come together on the single issue of war, hegemony, killing and destruction. We need to remember the date October 28th and plan. ________________________________ From: Peace-discuss on behalf of Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 7:24:08 PM To: C. G. Estabrook Cc: Peace-discuss AWARE; sf-core; Readel, Karin; Belden Fields; Hoffman, Valerie J; Miller, Joseph Thomas; Bryan Savage; jmachota at shout.net; Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List; Occupy CU Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] "Helping Children Has been the cause of her life"--new Hillary Clinton TV Ad For sure. We need a demonstration here at the College of Law on October 28 as big as the demonstration we had against Meese in 1987 when the College of Law invited Meese to speak "in honor" of the 200th Anniversary of the US Constitution over at the Krannert Center. Hey! Hey! Killer Koh Say! How Many Kids! Did you kill today! Fab Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) -----Original Message----- From: C. G. Estabrook [mailto:carl at newsfromneptune.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 7:21 PM To: Boyle, Francis A Cc: davegreen84 at yahoo.com; Readel, Karin ; Belden Fields ; jmachota at shout.net; Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List ; Bryan Savage ; Hoffman, Valerie J ; Miller, Joseph Thomas ; Occupy CU ; sf-core ; Peace-discuss AWARE Subject: Re: "Helping Children Has been the cause of her life"--new Hillary Clinton TV Ad C-U anti-war people should demonstrate against Koh (and Clinton) on October 28. —CGE > On Jun 22, 2016, at 7:06 PM, Boyle, Francis A wrote: > > That’s Killer Koh at work. He is parroting his Yale Law Mafia Boss Clinton for whose election campaign he works in the hope and expectation that he will become her Attorney General or Secretary of State. And when he comes out here to the College of Law to speak on October 28, ten days before the Presidential Election, he will make the best pitch he can to get her elected for a $5000 honorarium and in violation of the Illinois Statute strictly prohibiting the use of the University of Illinois for partisan electoral purposes. > > Fab > > > Francis A. Boyle > Law Building > 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. > Champaign IL 61820 USA > 217-333-7954 (phone) > 217-244-1478 (fax) > (personal comments only) > > From: Carl G. Estabrook [mailto:galliher at illinois.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 6:40 PM > To: Boyle, Francis A > Cc: davegreen84 at yahoo.com; Readel, Karin ; > Belden Fields ; jmachota at shout.net; Vietnam > Veterans Against the War Mailing List ; Bryan > Savage ; Hoffman, Valerie J > ; Miller, Joseph Thomas > Subject: Re: "Helping Children Has been the cause of her life"--new > Hillary Clinton TV Ad > > https://www.lawfareblog.com/obama-legal-team-and-lawfulness-attacking- > assad > > ...In an essay cross-posted at Lawfare and Just Security, Ashley Deeks and Marty Lederman criticize the dissent memo in part because it does not address how it would be lawful for the United States to attack Syrian government forces. They suggested it would be illegal under both domestic and international law. In a rejoinder posted at Just Security,Harold Koh argues that whether or not the diplomats’ proposed policy is a good idea, there would be stronger legal authority for it than they maintain. (This is obviously, in part, an iteration in the long-running debate over “responsibility to protect” and whether humanitarian interventions can be lawful even without a United Nations Security Council resolution or a self-defense rationale.)... > > > > On Jun 21, 2016, at 9:43 AM, Boyle, Francis A wrote: > > I did speak with a former student of Killer Koh at Yale Law School, who is now a law professor himself. He told me that Killer Koh is gunning to become either the Secretary of State or the Attorney General in a Mrs Clinton Administration. Obviously, the Yale Law Mafia who run this Law School are inviting Killer Koh out here ten days before the presidential election to make the best pitch he can for electing his Boss Yale Law Mafia Mrs Clinton in the hopes and expectations that they can get some nice cushy appointments in a Clinton Administration under Killer Koh at either State or Justice, etc. It’s called Bootlicking. > > Fab > > > Francis A. Boyle > Law Building > 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. > Champaign, IL 61820 USA > 217-333-7954 (phone) > 217-244-1478 (fax) > (personal comments only) > > From: Boyle, Francis A > Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 8:52 AM > To: davegreen84 at yahoo.com; Readel, Karin ; > Estabrook, Carl G ; Belden Fields > ; jmachota at shout.net; Vietnam Veterans Against the > War Mailing List ; Bryan Savage > ; Hoffman, Valerie J ; > Miller, Joseph Thomas > Subject: FW: "Helping Children Has been the cause of her life"--new > Hillary Clinton TV Ad > > Ditto for COL’s Yale Law Mafia Killer Koh: > > Hey! Hey! > Harold say! > How many kids! > Did you kill today! > > Hey! Hey! > U of I Law say! > How many kids! > Did you kill today! > > Fab > > > > > Francis A. Boyle > Law Building > 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. > Champaign IL 61820 USA > 217-333-7954 (phone) > 217-244-1478 (fax) > (personal comments only) > > From: Boyle, Francis A > Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 8:48 AM > To: 'SECTNS.aals at lists.aals.org' > Subject: "Helping Children Has been the cause of her life"--new > Hillary Clinton TV Ad > > Oh yeah, Lady MacBeth. How many children did you kill in Libya? > > Hey! Hey! > Hillary say! > How many kids! > Did you kill today! > Fab > “We came! We saw! He died!,” said Clinton mimicking Julius Caesar then laughing hysterically after Ghadafy was sodomized with a knife and beaten to death. Fab. > Doctor: > What is it she does now? Look how she rubs her hands. > Gentlewoman: > It is an accustom'd action with her, to seem thus washing her hands. I > have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour. > Lady Macbeth: > Yet here's a spot. > Doctor: > Hark, she speaks. I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my > remembrance the more strongly. > Lady Macbeth: > Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!—One; two: why, then 'tis time to > do't.—Hell is murky.—Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard? What > need we fear who knows it, when none can call our pow'r to > accompt?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much > blood in him? > Macbeth Act 5, scene 1, 26–40 > > > > > > > > Francis A. Boyle > Law Building > 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. > Champaign IL 61820 USA > 217-333-7954 (phone) > 217-244-1478 (fax) > (personal comments only) _______________________________________________ Peace-discuss mailing list Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Jun 23 02:15:11 2016 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 02:15:11 +0000 Subject: [Peace] "Helping Children Has been the cause of her life"--new Hillary Clinton TV Ad In-Reply-To: References: <74F685ED-2795-46FC-B849-4F4717F8CC2A@illinois.edu> <65AE020E-4F05-4D7C-83E7-BC2669F3753E@newsfromneptune.com>, , Message-ID: Good, we're going to hold you to that too. Carl, or David, I hope one of you will speak about this on NFN Friday. ________________________________ From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 8:06:07 PM To: Karen Aram; C. G. Estabrook; David Green; David Johnson; Stuart Levy; Karen Medina; Szoke, Ron; Mildred O'brien; Peace Discuss; peace at lists.chambana.net Subject: RE: "Helping Children Has been the cause of her life"--new Hillary Clinton TV Ad Right. I am happy to speak at the demonstration and denounce the entire Law School Faculty for bringing in Killer Koh. When they announced this at the end of last summer, I objected in the strongest terms possibly imaginable and repeatedly with ample documentation of all the dirty work he had done for Mrs Clinton when she was Secretary of State and he was her Lawyer on the Law School email list going out to all law faculty members. The COL had the entire 2015-2016 academic year to bring him in here to lecture. Instead, the COL are bringing him in here on October 28, 2016, ten days before the Presidential Election, to make the best case he can to get his fellow Yale Law Mafia Boss Mrs Clinton elected President. And it has already been reported that he is a high level operative in the Clinton Presidential Campaign. We cannot let this Travesty of Justice pass! No! No! Killer Koh! Fab Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Karen Aram [mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 7:53 PM To: Boyle, Francis A ; C. G. Estabrook ; David Green ; David Johnson ; Stuart Levy ; Karen Medina ; Szoke, Ron ; Mildred O'brien ; Peace Discuss ; peace at lists.chambana.net Subject: Re: "Helping Children Has been the cause of her life"--new Hillary Clinton TV Ad Carl and Prof. Boyle, David and David, Stuart and Karen M, Ron, and Midge. Yes we do need to bring this community together to voice our opposition to the continued killings. There is so much talent in this community but everyone is focused on single issues of interest. The best we were able to do last year at the U of I Law School discussion related to the "Legitimacy of Drone Killing", was about 6 of us. It's time for everyone who wants justice to come together on the single issue of war, hegemony, killing and destruction. We need to remember the date October 28th and plan. ________________________________ From: Peace-discuss > on behalf of Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 7:24:08 PM To: C. G. Estabrook Cc: Peace-discuss AWARE; sf-core; Readel, Karin; Belden Fields; Hoffman, Valerie J; Miller, Joseph Thomas; Bryan Savage; jmachota at shout.net; Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List; Occupy CU Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] "Helping Children Has been the cause of her life"--new Hillary Clinton TV Ad For sure. We need a demonstration here at the College of Law on October 28 as big as the demonstration we had against Meese in 1987 when the College of Law invited Meese to speak "in honor" of the 200th Anniversary of the US Constitution over at the Krannert Center. Hey! Hey! Killer Koh Say! How Many Kids! Did you kill today! Fab Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) -----Original Message----- From: C. G. Estabrook [mailto:carl at newsfromneptune.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 7:21 PM To: Boyle, Francis A > Cc: davegreen84 at yahoo.com; Readel, Karin >; Belden Fields >; jmachota at shout.net; Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List >; Bryan Savage >; Hoffman, Valerie J >; Miller, Joseph Thomas >; Occupy CU >; sf-core >; Peace-discuss AWARE > Subject: Re: "Helping Children Has been the cause of her life"--new Hillary Clinton TV Ad C-U anti-war people should demonstrate against Koh (and Clinton) on October 28. —CGE > On Jun 22, 2016, at 7:06 PM, Boyle, Francis A > wrote: > > That’s Killer Koh at work. He is parroting his Yale Law Mafia Boss Clinton for whose election campaign he works in the hope and expectation that he will become her Attorney General or Secretary of State. And when he comes out here to the College of Law to speak on October 28, ten days before the Presidential Election, he will make the best pitch he can to get her elected for a $5000 honorarium and in violation of the Illinois Statute strictly prohibiting the use of the University of Illinois for partisan electoral purposes. > > Fab > > > Francis A. Boyle > Law Building > 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. > Champaign IL 61820 USA > 217-333-7954 (phone) > 217-244-1478 (fax) > (personal comments only) > > From: Carl G. Estabrook [mailto:galliher at illinois.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 6:40 PM > To: Boyle, Francis A > > Cc: davegreen84 at yahoo.com; Readel, Karin >; > Belden Fields >; jmachota at shout.net; Vietnam > Veterans Against the War Mailing List >; Bryan > Savage >; Hoffman, Valerie J > >; Miller, Joseph Thomas > > Subject: Re: "Helping Children Has been the cause of her life"--new > Hillary Clinton TV Ad > > https://www.lawfareblog.com/obama-legal-team-and-lawfulness-attacking- > assad > > ...In an essay cross-posted at Lawfare and Just Security, Ashley Deeks and Marty Lederman criticize the dissent memo in part because it does not address how it would be lawful for the United States to attack Syrian government forces. They suggested it would be illegal under both domestic and international law. In a rejoinder posted at Just Security,Harold Koh argues that whether or not the diplomats’ proposed policy is a good idea, there would be stronger legal authority for it than they maintain. (This is obviously, in part, an iteration in the long-running debate over “responsibility to protect” and whether humanitarian interventions can be lawful even without a United Nations Security Council resolution or a self-defense rationale.)... > > > > On Jun 21, 2016, at 9:43 AM, Boyle, Francis A > wrote: > > I did speak with a former student of Killer Koh at Yale Law School, who is now a law professor himself. He told me that Killer Koh is gunning to become either the Secretary of State or the Attorney General in a Mrs Clinton Administration. Obviously, the Yale Law Mafia who run this Law School are inviting Killer Koh out here ten days before the presidential election to make the best pitch he can for electing his Boss Yale Law Mafia Mrs Clinton in the hopes and expectations that they can get some nice cushy appointments in a Clinton Administration under Killer Koh at either State or Justice, etc. It’s called Bootlicking. > > Fab > > > Francis A. Boyle > Law Building > 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. > Champaign, IL 61820 USA > 217-333-7954 (phone) > 217-244-1478 (fax) > (personal comments only) > > From: Boyle, Francis A > Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 8:52 AM > To: davegreen84 at yahoo.com; Readel, Karin >; > Estabrook, Carl G >; Belden Fields > >; jmachota at shout.net; Vietnam Veterans Against the > War Mailing List >; Bryan Savage > >; Hoffman, Valerie J >; > Miller, Joseph Thomas > > Subject: FW: "Helping Children Has been the cause of her life"--new > Hillary Clinton TV Ad > > Ditto for COL’s Yale Law Mafia Killer Koh: > > Hey! Hey! > Harold say! > How many kids! > Did you kill today! > > Hey! Hey! > U of I Law say! > How many kids! > Did you kill today! > > Fab > > > > > Francis A. Boyle > Law Building > 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. > Champaign IL 61820 USA > 217-333-7954 (phone) > 217-244-1478 (fax) > (personal comments only) > > From: Boyle, Francis A > Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2016 8:48 AM > To: 'SECTNS.aals at lists.aals.org' > > Subject: "Helping Children Has been the cause of her life"--new > Hillary Clinton TV Ad > > Oh yeah, Lady MacBeth. How many children did you kill in Libya? > > Hey! Hey! > Hillary say! > How many kids! > Did you kill today! > Fab > “We came! We saw! He died!,” said Clinton mimicking Julius Caesar then laughing hysterically after Ghadafy was sodomized with a knife and beaten to death. Fab. > Doctor: > What is it she does now? Look how she rubs her hands. > Gentlewoman: > It is an accustom'd action with her, to seem thus washing her hands. I > have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour. > Lady Macbeth: > Yet here's a spot. > Doctor: > Hark, she speaks. I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my > remembrance the more strongly. > Lady Macbeth: > Out, damn'd spot! out, I say!—One; two: why, then 'tis time to > do't.—Hell is murky.—Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard? What > need we fear who knows it, when none can call our pow'r to > accompt?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much > blood in him? > Macbeth Act 5, scene 1, 26–40 > > > > > > > > Francis A. Boyle > Law Building > 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. > Champaign IL 61820 USA > 217-333-7954 (phone) > 217-244-1478 (fax) > (personal comments only) _______________________________________________ Peace-discuss mailing list Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Thu Jun 23 02:27:00 2016 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:27:00 -0500 Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air for June 21 (#368) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <33E96E7D-348A-4440-9986-269D6C990A8C@newsfromneptune.com> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXxfMgL8uuo 'AWARE on the Air' is an unrehearsed panel discussion of the US government’s wars and the racism they inspire. Our program is presented by members and friends of AWARE, the “Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort” of Champaign-Urbana. Episode #368 was recorded at noon on Tuesday 21 June in the studios of Urbana Public Television for cablecast Tuesday at 10pm & on demand on YouTube. https://www.facebook.com/groups/305897426305/ ### -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Jun 23 14:08:02 2016 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:08:02 +0000 Subject: [Peace] What the mainstream news doesn't tell us. Message-ID: * Contact & Privacy “China will react if provoked again: you risk the war” – Interview with Andre Vltchek 22nd June 2016 / Global ["China will react if provoked again: you risk the war" - Interview with Andre Vltchek] The AntiDiplomatico (Italy) interviews philosopher, Andre Vltchek: “Russia and China are forming an incredible defensive wall to protect humanity from Western terrorism.” By Alessandro Bianchi Andre Vltchek has become renowned in Italy for being the co-author, along with Noam Chomsky, of the famous book “Western Terrorism” (Ponte alle Grazie). A documentary filmmaker, novelist, essayist, philosopher and intellectual, multi-faceted Vltchek is the cosmopolitan man par excellence, a “true revolutionary” as he likes to call himself. In recent years with his camera and his extraordinary commitment against injustice on this planet he has explored every corner of the Earth and taken over the length and breadth of Western terrorism, one that our media likes to censor and hide from our consciences. After the interviews with the great Australian journalist John Pilger and the famous American playwright John Steppling, we have the honor and privilege of speaking to our great friend of l’AntiDiplomatico, asking some questions on burning current international issues. This interview first appeared in the Italian language, published by ‘L’AntiDiplomatico’ Q: I start from a brutal question: What has become of a country that it offering Donald Trump as its ‘best candidate’? AV: It is not much different from the country that it used to be for decades, even centuries. Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population of North America, barbaric wars of aggression against Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Philippines, etc. Has anything changed now? I highly doubt it. Donald Trump is horrendous, but he is also honest. Both Presidents Clinton and Obama were great speakers, but unrepentant mass murderers. Q: In a recent survey over 53% of Americans were against both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. How long will we continue to consider the United States a democracy? And why, in your opinion, is abstention the only form of “rebellion” by a population completely excluded from the decision-making stage? AV: “Democracy” means nothing else other than, “rule of the people”, in Greek. There is nothing democratic about the political concepts of the United States and Europe. And there is absolutely nothing democratic about the “global arrangement” through which the West has been ruling over the rest of the world for decades and centuries. The second part is, I’m convinced, much more important, much more devastating; in the West, people have been tolerating their insane political system, in exchange for the countless privileges they are getting from their countries’ plundering of the planet, and violating entire nations and continents. But in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, those “un-people” have no choice at all. Q: Is Bernie Sanders really the change that many in Europe have described? AV: Bernie Sanders is like those liberal members of the German National Socialist Party during the WWII, or of the Italian Fascist movement during Mussolini. They’d do much for their own workers and peasants, socially… as long as funds were flowing in from the countries plundered by their imperialism. Under Bernie Sanders, Western workers would definitely do much better, but the rest of the world, the “wretched of the Earth” would still have to pay the bill. Q: What would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton’s presidency? AV: Nothing exceptional – things would stay the same: sponsorship of “Color” or “Umbrella” or whatever “revolutions”, some more coups, “regime changes”, direct invasions, bombing, propaganda warfare against China, Russia, Iran, South Africa and what is left of the Latin American revolutions. There would be plenty of torture in “secret centers”, but it would not be as advertised and glorified as it would be if Trump were elected. World War III would become a great possibility, but such a scenario is quite possible under any new US administration… To answer your question: business as usual. Q: What did you feel when you recently saw Obama speaking in Hiroshima and not apologizing for what was done by his country, declaring almost sarcastically – as the head of the world’s first atomic power – hope for a world without nuclear weapons? AV: I’m quite immune to such speeches, aren’t you? Although, yes… somehow Obama’s is much more disgusting than others, because he is smart and we all “know that he knows”. He is thoroughly dishonest and it is clear. It would be somehow more acceptable to see George W. puking over sushi. And Trump: he’d probably declare in Hiroshima that he’d nuke half of Asia if it would help the West to retain its control over the world. At least one would not harbor any false hopes. Q: Will the growing US expansionism come to a breaking point and collision with China? AV: Yes it will. I have no doubt about it. China is one of the greatest cultures on Earth, and it is one of those countries that suffered immensely from colonialist horrors and humiliation. Chinese people are indignant. Indignant! For decades, despite everything, they tried to make peace with the West. They are in fact the most peaceful big nation on Earth and what do they get in return? They get insults, provocations and intimidation. The Western public should learn and remember one essential thing about China: no matter what European and North American propaganda barks about the People’s Republic, China is much more “democratic” than the West. It is democratic in its own way. For thousands of years, it developed its own political system. Its rulers, no matter who they are, are given a conditional right to govern by the people. In the past, but even now it is called a “Heavenly Mandate”. If the rulers fail to respect the will of the people, they get deposed. And the Communist Party of China is greatly respectful of the desires of the majority of the Chinese people. When they want liberal reforms, they are delivered. When they want more Communism and an epic fight against corruption, like now, China’s government immediately reacts. It is powerful and democratic, although a very specific and complex arrangement. And now, the Chinese people are outraged and they are sending clear signals to Beijing: “do not succumb to the West.” “If you do, our nation will suffer immensely, and the rest of the world will turn to ashes.” Do understand: Chinese people are brilliant; the West cannot fool them. And they are thoroughly sick of Western imperialism. This time, if confronted and provoked, the Chinese government would yield to the pressure from its people: it would be forced to give orders to fight – to defend its motherland! Q: Although it is NATO that is bringing his installations more and more to the East, in Europe our information apparatus feeds the danger of an aggressive Russia. Who benefits from spreading these Russophobe feelings? AV: Of course, the Empire! Of course, the Western supremacists! With Russia, it is almost similar to China: people there have had it up to here with the West! The Russian people suffered immensely from Western imperialism. Throughout their history they fought countless invasions led by the French, Scandinavians, Brits, North Americans, Germans, Poles, Czechs and others. Tens of millions of Russian people died, fighting all sorts of Western expansionism. They defeated Nazism. They helped to liberate much of our world from colonialism. Of course the West never forgave Russia for fighting the epic battles against its expansionism and colonialism. But it is not only European and North American propaganda that is responsible for the present state of things: it is also the people, quite ordinary people, living in the West. For years now, the fake European ‘left’ is trying to portray European citizens as victims of the US imperialism. It is even trying to make the world feel sorry for those European workers who do not get a fair deal from their governments! It is thoroughly absurd. Overwhelming the majority of European citizens are unhappy with the social deal they get, yes; and that is why they are so angry with their governments. Because they want more, much more! They couldn’t care less that their benefits, salaries and other privileges, have been, for decades and centuries ‘subsidized’ by the plunder of other parts of the planet; that they are paid for by blood. There is absolutely no solidarity in the West towards its own victims, and the recent ‘refugee crises’ is direct proof of it. Fanon and Sartre had already determined more than 50 years ago, each and every European citizen is responsible for (and has been benefiting from) the countless genocides and unbridled theft. It has to be repeated again and again: you give Europeans once again ‘all benefits that they can eat’, you make them work shorter hours, and you give more money, and they’d be back in a self-congratulatory, self-righteous mode; damned be the rest of the world. The only reason so many are so pissed off at the US is because they see North America as promoting a ‘bad deal’ for its own masses, not because it is ruining the rest of the world! So, back to Russia… Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals of internationalism, solidarity and logic. And even domestically, President Putin is slowly, step-by-step, restoring many important Soviet achievements that were torpedoed by a nitwit, and one gangster – Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Let’s not forget that one poll after another clearly demonstrates that well over 50% of Russian citizens still wants both socialism and the USSR back. And the Russian government is listening. The West, both the elites (consciously) and ordinary people (sub-consciously), want Russia to go to hell; to disappear, drown, explode. It is because Russia is once again defending humanism all over the world. If it succeeds, the elites would lose their power over the planet, and the ‘ordinary citizens’ of the West would lose their privileges; the plunder would have to stop, and the life of one African or Asian person would suddenly gain the same value as that of a one European or North American. And that would be really ‘unacceptable’! On top of it, Russia and China have become two great allies. They’d never be divided as they were during the Cold War Days. Russia and China together cannot be defeated: militarily, economically or morally. The West can only try to destroy them internally, through horrendous sets of tricks, propaganda and toxic lies. But now even such a scenario is unlikely. Russian people, like their Chinese comrades, are well aware of what is going on. And there are tens of millions of their martyrs who are reminding them what is to be expected from the West. Encircled and provoked, Russia is once again turning into a mighty monolithic defense wall. Its people are ready! They want peace, above anything else. But if they’d have to fight for their own survival, and for the survival of the world, they will. And this time again, if there is a showdown, two enormous nations, Russia and China, standing side-by-side, will defeat fascism! That is why Russia is hated. That is why China is hated. They are forming a tremendous, final defense line protecting humanity from the Western terror. Q: Since the advent of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’, which began with the famous Obama’s speech at the University of Cairo in 2009, the Eastern Mediterranean has become a powder keg. Was it an external plan – a planned destruction of the states hostile to rulers in Washington, like Libya and Syria in particular, or was it a real quest for democracy and freedom? AV: Both. Some socialist movements in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, for instance, were genuine. I was making films about the so-called Arab Spring, and I’m well aware of how complex the situation really was. But it goes without saying is that the West immediately infiltrated and ‘derailed’ the revolutions, turning them into what you have described. Remember, the West had absolutely no appetite for risking its dictatorial powers over the area. It had no desire to let democratic and revolutionary forces take control of their countries. Why? Just look, again, at the polls: the majority of Arab people see the United States and Israel (definitely not Iran or Syria) as the greatest danger to the world. Could you imagine what the Arab people would do if true democracy (rule of the people) were to be victorious? They’d side with Russia and China, not with the West. And they’d throw their ‘elites’ groomed in and by the West, straight out the window. Q: Is it right today, to define Aleppo as the “Stalingrad of Syria” and “the cemetery of the dreams of fascist Erdogan” as stated by the Syrian President Assad? AV: Yes, it is like that, or at least, it is somewhere along those lines. Aleppo, Homs… Yes. I wrote about it earlier, comparing Syria to Stalingrad. Q: What do you think will be the final scenario for Syria? It risks crystallization like the Cold War-style situation between the two blocks – Damascus, Russia and regional allies, on the one hand, and Kurds with the United States on the other – and Raqqa, which would become a new Berlin? AV: The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions. But this is a new chapter. They play with the Arab countries as if they were simply some milking cows. There is no regard for human lives, or local national interests. It is because the West, despite its hypocritical rhetoric (political correctness) does not really consider non-whites and non-Christians as human beings. You kill millions, so be it. You ruin 5 regional states; who cares? Q: What role, in your opinion, do the human rights NGOs play in the current international context? AV: Even that term, ‘human rights’, makes me ill. You have to really go back to Fanon and Sartre… They said it all. Human rights are only for ‘humans’, therefore for the West. And for the rest of the Planet: there, the ‘human rights’ are used to discredit uncomfortable, even ‘hostile’ governments through countless implants like NGOs. Who talks about the real human rights violations, those committed by the West? Europeans and North Americans have already butchered hundreds of millions of people, or close to one billion, to be precise. They have been looting, torturing and raping. Even now, they are killing millions directly and tens of millions indirectly. But it does not count; because their victims are not white, therefore not human, and as a result, they don’t really have any rights. Q: 14 years ago, the coup in Venezuela against the democratically elected President Hugo Chavez failed and began the US exit from Latin America. Shortly after, the US invaded Iraq. Today the hegemony in the eastern Mediterranean wobbles, and Washington uses all the weapons at its disposal to return to Latin America. Is, in your opinion, President Rafael Correa right when he says that we are facing a new Plan Condor in the region? AV: Definitely! Comrade Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, ‘final’ offensive of the Empire in Latin America. I have just returned from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay; it is absolutely horrible what is going on there. The Empire is trying to finish both BRICS and all the Latin American revolutions. Q: If that is the case, considering what has also happened in Brazil, Ecuador and Bolivia, which techniques are being used today? AV: The same as ‘before’, the same techniques, which have been used against, for instance President Allende and ‘Unidad Popular’ in Chile, before the 9-11-1973 US-orchestrated coup. The West is supporting, even financing the right-wing media, it is financing ‘the opposition’, encourages capital flight of billions of dollars, works closely with the local ‘elites’ to create ‘deficits’, ‘uncertainty’ and despair. It creates corruption scandals, and it even supports fake ‘left’ anti-government movements. And of course it is training and corrupting some key military cadres. Q: The future of the world offers at the moment two possible paths: a US unilateralism, particularly in the event of Clinton’s presidency, made up of areas of “free” trade treaties around the world on the NAFTA model (such as the TTIP in Europe), with millions as the desperately poor products of them, profits only for multinationals, and the planned destruction of all countries who rebel against this vision (Libya and Syria style); or, the second possibility: a period of multilateralism, respect for sovereignty, self-determination and peace. If the alternative project to the ‘Washington Consensus’ were to prevail, it would be that of the BRICS and regional integration in Latin America, designed and built by Chavez, Lula and Kirchner. And which of the two views will prevail in your opinion? AV: There will be great battles fought for the future of the world! The coming years will be very tough. In order for the second scenario to win, the world would have to return where the struggle for independence and against Western colonialism and imperialism was lost or abandoned more than 50 years ago. Let’s face it: the world was never really completely de-colonized. It would be total hypocrisy to claim otherwise. One of the popular views in the liberal circles of the West is that we are actually ‘all victims of capitalism’. I disagree. This savage global capitalism is only one of the most terrible bi-products of the dominant Western culture of racism, greed, brutality and unbridled desire to control the world. The world is still being battered by the Western/white/Christian supremacy dogmas and practices, by the most primitive and fundamentalist ‘principles’. The truth has to be unveiled. If the West insists, if it keeps pushing, the battles have to be fought. And they will be fought. And the forces of internationalism, humanism and solidarity will have to be victorious, or soon there will be nothing left of the human race. Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries. His latest books are: “Exposing Lies Of The Empire” and “Fighting Against Western Imperialism”. Discussion with Noam Chomsky: On Western Terrorism. Point of No Return is his critically acclaimed political novel. Oceania – a book on Western imperialism in the South Pacific. His provocative book about Indonesia: “Indonesia – The Archipelago of Fear”. Andre is making films for teleSUR and Press TV. After living for many years in Latin America and Oceania, Vltchek presently resides and works in East Asia and the Middle East. He can be reached through his website or his Twitter. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please share! *Gioconda Guerra Pérez, PhD* *Director* *La Casa Cultural Latina* *Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations* *University of Illinois Urbana Champaign * *1203 West Nevada Street, MC 145* *Urbana, IL 61801* *Phone: 217-244-3674* *Fax: 217-244-4513* *Email: gguerra at illinois.edu * *http://go.illinois.edu/lacasa * *Follow us on FB: La Casa Cultural Latina* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 93910 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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And remember, I *think* we are going to be marching somehow in the July 4th parade, and, For certain, on July 9th, 7-9pm, the great peace activist Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence will be speaking - * From the Front Lines of Global Peacemaking An Evening of Story, Music, and Inspiration *That's at Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W Oregon St. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stuartnlevy at gmail.com Sun Jun 26 00:47:23 2016 From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy) Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 19:47:23 -0500 Subject: [Peace] July 4th - how about Celebrating America's History of Protest? Message-ID: Thinking about July 4th Parade time again. We'll be sending in AWARE's application today or tomorrow. Karen Medina had an idea which I think is just brilliant, taking off on the generic parade theme of "Celebrating America": How about Celebrating America's History of Protest? We can go for anti-war anti-imperial protests (need a Eugene V Debs poster!), anti-slavery protests (some of our old signs might fit, like Elijah Lovejoy of Alton, IL), for protests throughout labor history (collective bargaining, a 40-hour week, minimum wage...)!, for the Civil Rights movement protests, for the great veterans' protest after WWI... - there are lots of directions and we can choose whatever we most like. Anyone mind adopting this (broad) theme? Barring objections I'd like to say this is what we'll do. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun Jun 26 04:29:20 2016 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 23:29:20 -0500 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune for June 24 Message-ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOdZS2Ex0jQ News from Neptune for 24 June 2016 - an INVADE RUSSIA edition - a Chomskyan take on the news from Urbana (IL) Public TV June 24 is the anniversary of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, in 1812, which has sent me back to one of the great works of modern history and theory, Tolstoy’s War and Peace. (It’s a novel, but a supreme illustration of the News from Neptune maxim that the poets often get there first. It’s very much worth reading in the classic English translations, if you can’t read the Russian, as I’m sorry to say I can’t. A modern liberal education should begin with learning to read languages other than one’s own - Greek, Latin, Russian, and Chinese at the top of the list. June 22 is the anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Russia, in 1941, for which the indispensable work today is also by a novelist, a more recent book by Nicholson Baker, “Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization” (2008), and his accompanying essay “Why I’m a pacifist: The dangerous myth of the Good War.” (I’ll put links on the NFN fb page.) There was of course another German war with Russia between 1812 and 1941, part of the First World War, that led to the establishment of the Soviet Union. Russia was attacked twice across the plains of Eastern Europe in the first half of the 20th century, and today it seems to be under attack again, now from the US ‘hybrid war.” This June we have the absolutely amazing provocations of Russia by Barack Obama, who’s risking nuclear war as viciously as John Kennedy did more than 50 years ago, in the so-called Cuban Missile Crisis. To explain what the US is doing - and has been doing for a while - the estimable Pepe Escobar has an important article out this week, “It’s All About Eurasia Integration.” Regular listeners to this program know that we’ve argued that US war policy is "all about Eurasia integration" - and the willingness of all US administrations to kill people to prevent the economic integration of Eurasia - principally Russia and China - because it challenges the world economic dominance of the US economic elite, the one percent. Regular listeners have also heard that, although US government tactics may change, the strategy extends back over a century, because the 'Manifest Destiny' of US capitalism to expand across North America did not stop at the water's edge but extended across the Pacific: see the Open Door Policy (1899), Mackinder's 'Heartland' doctrine (1904), and the unpleasantness with Japan that peaked in the 1940s… In their relations with Eurasia, dominant social groups in the US have illustrated the mid-19th-century maxim that ruling groups have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, only permanent interests - and continue to do so today, risking the future of the human race. At the recently concluded 20th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) – 30 ministers from 21 nations and 880 CEOs attending [but not reported in the US media] - Obama administration economic sanctions on Russia were resisted. [Pepe Escobar reports] "It was left to Putin to joke about it with Italian PM Renzi: «Matteo, why? Why are you enduring this?» [Italians know that the sanctions on Russia are having a depressive effect on the Italian economy.] "[But in spite of US roadblocks, it now seems] the breakneck-speed expansion of the Great Eurasian Corridor is unstoppable. And with Russia matching its land and wealth of natural resources with China’s population and virtually unlimited funds, there’s nothing Hybrid Wars [Pepe’s term for the open and hidden aggression of the Obama administration against Russia and China] can do to divert Russia’s own pivot to Asia.” That's why the Obama administration has been so incredibly willing to provoke war with Russia and China. ("Russian aggression!" "Chinese aggression!" they cry - in a massive case of what the psychologists call projection.) It’s really American aggression - and a Clinton administration will probably be even worse. --C. G. 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Britain's referendum in favor of leaving, or exiting, the European Union, the Brexit referendum, as the results are known, won with 52 percent of the vote on Thursday, June 23, stunning Europe's political establishment. One of the issues that has raised concern for many is that what does the Brexit mean for Britain's and Europe's economy and politics. This was one of the main topics leading up to the referendum, but a lot of disinformation [reigned] in the discussion. With us to discuss the economic and political context of the Brexit is Michael Hudson. He is a research professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and author of Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy. Also, he is an economics adviser to several governments, including Greece, Iceland, Latvia, and China. He joins us right now from New York City. Thanks, Michael, for joining us. MICHAEL HUDSON: Good to be here again. WILPERT: So let's begin with the political context in which the Brexit vote took place. Aside from the right-wing arguments about immigrants, economic concerns, and about Britain's ability to control its own economy, what would you say--what do you see as being the main kind of political background in which this vote took place? HUDSON: Well, almost all the Europeans know where the immigrants are coming from. And the ones that they're talking about are from the near East. And they're aware of the fact that most of the immigrants are coming as a result of the NATO policies promoted by Hillary and by the Obama administration. The problem began in Libya. Once Hillary pushed Obama to destroy Libya and wipe out the stable government there, she wiped out the arms--and Libya was a very heavily armed country. She turned over the arms to ISIS, to Al-Nusra, and Al-Qaeda. And Al-Qaeda used these arms under U.S. organization to attack Syria and Iraq. Now, the Syrian population, the Iraqi population, have no choice but to either emigrate or get killed. So when people talk about the immigration to Europe, the Europeans, the French, the Dutch, the English, they're all aware of the fact that this is the fact that Brussels is really NATO, and NATO is really run by Washington, and that it's America's new Cold War against Russia that's been spurring all of this demographic dislocation that's spreading into England, spreading into Europe, and is destabilizing things. So what you're seeing with the Brexit is the result of the Obama administration's pro-war, new Cold War policy. WILPERT: So are you saying that people voted for Brexit because they are really--that they were concerned about the influence of the U.S.? Or are you saying that it's because of the backlash, because of the immigration that happened, and the fact that the right wing took advantage of that [crosstalk]. HUDSON: It's a combination. The right wing was, indeed, pushing the immigrant issue, saying wait a minute, they're threatening our jobs. But the left wing was just as vocal, and the left wing was saying, why are these immigrants coming here? They're coming here because of Europe's support of NATO, and NATO's war that's bombing the near East, that is destabilizing the whole Near East, and causing a flight of refugees not only from Syria but also from Ukraine. In England, many of the so-called Polish plumbers that came years ago have now gone back to Poland, because that country's recovered. But now the worry is that a whole new wave of Ukrainians--and basically the U.S. policy is one of destabilization--so even the right-wing, while they have talked about immigrants, they have also denounced the [inaud.] fact that the European policy is run by the United States, and that you have both Marine Le Pen in France saying, we want to withdraw from NATO; we don't want confrontation with Russia. You have the left wing in England saying, we don't want concentration in Russia. And last week when I was in Germany you had the Social Democratic Party leaders saying that Russia should be invited back into the G8, that NATO was taking a warlike position and was hurting the European economy by breaking its ties with Russia and by forcing other sanctions against Russia. So you have a convergence between the left and the right, and the question is, who is going to determine the terms on which Europe is broken up and put back together? Will it simply be the right wing that's anti-immigrants? Or will it simply be the left saying we want to restructure the economy in a way that essentially avoids the austerity that is coming from Brussels, on the one hand, and from the British Conservative Party on the other. And again, you have Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch nationalists, saying, we want Holland to have its own central bank. We want to be in charge of our own money. And under Brussels, we cannot be in charge of our own money. That means we cannot run a budget deficit and spend money into the economy, and recover with a Keynesian-type policy. So the whole withdrawal from Europe means withdrawing from austerity. If you look at the voting pattern in London, in England, you had London to stay in. You had the university centers, Oxford and Cambridge, voting to stay in. You had the working class, the old industrial areas of the north and the south. You had the middle class and the industrial class saying, we're getting a really bad deal from Europe. We want to oppose austerity. And we don't want Brussels to give us not only the anti-labor, pro-bank policies, but also the trade policy that Brussels was trying to push onto Europe, the Obama trade agreement that essentially would take national economic policy out of the hands of government and put it into the hands of corporate bureaucracy, corporation courts. And the bureaucracy in Brussels, then, is largely pro-bank, pro-corporate, and anti-labor. WILPERT: That actually brings up the issue of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or the TTIP. It was one of the things that the Cameron government was really pushing for, this relationship between the European Union and the United States. Now that Britain is presumably going to be leaving the European Union, don't you think that this might open the possibility of just a TTIP between Britain and the United States? In other words, that it will--it has been one of the arguments, actually, of those who were opposed to Britain leaving the EU, that it will tie Britain even closer to the United States than it was before, and by virtue of the fact that it's leaving Europe. HUDSON: I think just the opposite. I've gotten phone calls today from Britain, and I've been on radio with Britain. The whole feeling is that this makes the TTIP impossible, because you can't do a TTIP just with Britain. You have to do it with all of Europe. And this prevents Europe, and I think Britain, too, from making this kind of trade policy. The rejection of eurozone austerity is, essentially, a rejection of the neoliberal plan that the TTIP is supposed to be the capstone of. WILPERT: And what do you think this means, then, in general for Europe's future? One of the things that--one of the dangers that many perceive is precisely that Europe, as a European Union, is going to fall apart. Do you think that's the likely scenario here? Or--. HUDSON: I watched Marine Le Pen today in France, and you could see from her face that she was overjoyed. She thinks all of a sudden, almost every European interview where the people--there was such unleashing of a feeling of freedom, a feeling of yes, we can do it. When Ireland voted not to join the European Union people just ignored the popular vote. But now it can't be ignored anymore. And I think that the British vote is a catalyst for moves in Spain, Italy, the Five Star movement in Italy, the Podemos in Spain, to say, we are--we have an alternative to Europe. Europe is sort of like the Soviet Union in the '30s and '40s. There was an argument, is it reformable or not? There is a feeling, and I think it's correct, that the European Union, the eurozone, and the euro, is not reformable, as a result of the Lisbon treaties and the other treaties that have created the euro. Europe has to be taken apart in order to be put together not on a right-wing, neoliberal basis, but on a more social basis. Now, ironically, the parties who call themselves socialists are now moved to the ultra-right, to the neoliberal. The French socialists, the German social democrats. But you're having real radical parties arise in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and potentially in Greece, again, that are going to say, well, the key of any government, of any national government, has to be the ability to issue our own money, to run a deficit, spending into the economy to make the economy recover. We cannot recover under the Lisbon agreements, under the eurozone, where the central bank will only create money to give to banks, not money to spend into the economy, to actually finance new investment and new employment. And we cannot be part of a eurozone that insists that pensions have to be cut back in order to make the banks whole and save the one percent losing money. So for the first time you're having the real left wing in Europe talking about financial issues, not about political philosophy, or the fact that countries are not going to go to war again. Nobody ever believes that France, Germany, and other countries in Europe are going to go to military war again. There is a fear that the countries in Europe may go to war against Russia, pushed by NATO, pushed by adventurism of the U.S. stance towards Russia. And so all of a sudden the eurozone that was supposed to be a bulwark of military peace has become belligerent, and even more so if Hillary would win in the United States. And there''s a feeling we do want peace. That means we have to withdraw from the eurozone. And essentially, withdrawing from Brussels means withdrawing from NATO and withdrawing from the United States. So you could say that the vote to withdraw from Europe is, it's really a vote of the British middle class, the working class, to withdraw from the U.S. neoliberalism that has been running Europe for the last ten years. WILPERT: Okay. Unfortunately we''ve run out of time, but thanks so much, Michael, for your insight on this. I'm sure we'll come back to you again, as we always do. So thanks again for joining us. HUDSON: Good to be here. 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We'll be sending in AWARE's > application today or tomorrow. > > Karen Medina had an idea which I think is just brilliant, taking off on > the generic parade theme of "Celebrating America": > > How about Celebrating America's History of Protest? > > We can go for anti-war anti-imperial protests (need a Eugene V Debs > poster!), anti-slavery protests (some of our old signs might fit, like > Elijah Lovejoy of Alton, IL), for protests throughout labor history > (collective bargaining, a 40-hour week, minimum wage...)!, for the Civil > Rights movement protests, for the great veterans' protest after WWI... - > there are lots of directions and we can choose whatever we most like. > > Anyone mind adopting this (broad) theme? 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His most recent book is titledKilling the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy. ________________________________ transcript [How Western Military Interventions Shaped the Brexit Vote]GREGORY WILPERT, TRNN: Welcome to the Real News Network. I’m Gregory Wilpert, coming to you from Quito, Ecuador. Britain’s referendum in favor of leaving, or exiting, the European Union, the Brexit referendum, as the results are known, won with 52 percent of the vote on Thursday, June 23, stunning Europe’s political establishment. One of the issues that has raised concern for many is that what does the Brexit mean for Britain’s and Europe’s economy and politics. This was one of the main topics leading up to the referendum, but a lot of disinformation [reigned] in the discussion. With us to discuss the economic and political context of the Brexit is Michael Hudson. He is a research professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and author of Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy. Also, he is an economics adviser to several governments, including Greece, Iceland, Latvia, and China. He joins us right now from New York City. Thanks, Michael, for joining us. MICHAEL HUDSON: Good to be here again. WILPERT: So let’s begin with the political context in which the Brexit vote took place. Aside from the right-wing arguments about immigrants, economic concerns, and about Britain’s ability to control its own economy, what would you say--what do you see as being the main kind of political background in which this vote took place? HUDSON: Well, almost all the Europeans know where the immigrants are coming from. And the ones that they’re talking about are from the near East. And they’re aware of the fact that most of the immigrants are coming as a result of the NATO policies promoted by Hillary and by the Obama administration. The problem began in Libya. Once Hillary pushed Obama to destroy Libya and wipe out the stable government there, she wiped out the arms--and Libya was a very heavily armed country. She turned over the arms to ISIS, to Al-Nusra, and Al-Qaeda. And Al-Qaeda used these arms under U.S. organization to attack Syria and Iraq. Now, the Syrian population, the Iraqi population, have no choice but to either emigrate or get killed. So when people talk about the immigration to Europe, the Europeans, the French, the Dutch, the English, they’re all aware of the fact that this is the fact that Brussels is really NATO, and NATO is really run by Washington, and that it’s America’s new Cold War against Russia that’s been spurring all of this demographic dislocation that’s spreading into England, spreading into Europe, and is destabilizing things. So what you’re seeing with the Brexit is the result of the Obama administration’s pro-war, new Cold War policy. WILPERT: So are you saying that people voted for Brexit because they are really--that they were concerned about the influence of the U.S.? Or are you saying that it’s because of the backlash, because of the immigration that happened, and the fact that the right wing took advantage of that [crosstalk]. HUDSON: It’s a combination. The right wing was, indeed, pushing the immigrant issue, saying wait a minute, they’re threatening our jobs. But the left wing was just as vocal, and the left wing was saying, why are these immigrants coming here? They’re coming here because of Europe’s support of NATO, and NATO’s war that’s bombing the near East, that is destabilizing the whole Near East, and causing a flight of refugees not only from Syria but also from Ukraine. In England, many of the so-called Polish plumbers that came years ago have now gone back to Poland, because that country’s recovered. But now the worry is that a whole new wave of Ukrainians--and basically the U.S. policy is one of destabilization--so even the right-wing, while they have talked about immigrants, they have also denounced the [inaud.] fact that the European policy is run by the United States, and that you have both Marine Le Pen in France saying, we want to withdraw from NATO; we don’t want confrontation with Russia. You have the left wing in England saying, we don’t want concentration in Russia. And last week when I was in Germany you had the Social Democratic Party leaders saying that Russia should be invited back into the G8, that NATO was taking a warlike position and was hurting the European economy by breaking its ties with Russia and by forcing other sanctions against Russia. So you have a convergence between the left and the right, and the question is, who is going to determine the terms on which Europe is broken up and put back together? Will it simply be the right wing that’s anti-immigrants? Or will it simply be the left saying we want to restructure the economy in a way that essentially avoids the austerity that is coming from Brussels, on the one hand, and from the British Conservative Party on the other. And again, you have Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch nationalists, saying, we want Holland to have its own central bank. We want to be in charge of our own money. And under Brussels, we cannot be in charge of our own money. That means we cannot run a budget deficit and spend money into the economy, and recover with a Keynesian-type policy. So the whole withdrawal from Europe means withdrawing from austerity. If you look at the voting pattern in London, in England, you had London to stay in. You had the university centers, Oxford and Cambridge, voting to stay in. You had the working class, the old industrial areas of the north and the south. You had the middle class and the industrial class saying, we’re getting a really bad deal from Europe. We want to oppose austerity. And we don’t want Brussels to give us not only the anti-labor, pro-bank policies, but also the trade policy that Brussels was trying to push onto Europe, the Obama trade agreement that essentially would take national economic policy out of the hands of government and put it into the hands of corporate bureaucracy, corporation courts. And the bureaucracy in Brussels, then, is largely pro-bank, pro-corporate, and anti-labor. WILPERT: That actually brings up the issue of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or the TTIP. It was one of the things that the Cameron government was really pushing for, this relationship between the European Union and the United States. Now that Britain is presumably going to be leaving the European Union, don’t you think that this might open the possibility of just a TTIP between Britain and the United States? In other words, that it will--it has been one of the arguments, actually, of those who were opposed to Britain leaving the EU, that it will tie Britain even closer to the United States than it was before, and by virtue of the fact that it’s leaving Europe. HUDSON: I think just the opposite. I’ve gotten phone calls today from Britain, and I’ve been on radio with Britain. The whole feeling is that this makes the TTIP impossible, because you can’t do a TTIP just with Britain. You have to do it with all of Europe. And this prevents Europe, and I think Britain, too, from making this kind of trade policy. The rejection of eurozone austerity is, essentially, a rejection of the neoliberal plan that the TTIP is supposed to be the capstone of. WILPERT: And what do you think this means, then, in general for Europe’s future? One of the things that--one of the dangers that many perceive is precisely that Europe, as a European Union, is going to fall apart. Do you think that’s the likely scenario here? Or--. HUDSON: I watched Marine Le Pen today in France, and you could see from her face that she was overjoyed. She thinks all of a sudden, almost every European interview where the people--there was such unleashing of a feeling of freedom, a feeling of yes, we can do it. When Ireland voted not to join the European Union people just ignored the popular vote. But now it can’t be ignored anymore. And I think that the British vote is a catalyst for moves in Spain, Italy, the Five Star movement in Italy, the Podemos in Spain, to say, we are--we have an alternative to Europe. Europe is sort of like the Soviet Union in the ‘30s and ‘40s. There was an argument, is it reformable or not? There is a feeling, and I think it’s correct, that the European Union, the eurozone, and the euro, is not reformable, as a result of the Lisbon treaties and the other treaties that have created the euro. Europe has to be taken apart in order to be put together not on a right-wing, neoliberal basis, but on a more social basis. Now, ironically, the parties who call themselves socialists are now moved to the ultra-right, to the neoliberal. The French socialists, the German social democrats. But you’re having real radical parties arise in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and potentially in Greece, again, that are going to say, well, the key of any government, of any national government, has to be the ability to issue our own money, to run a deficit, spending into the economy to make the economy recover. We cannot recover under the Lisbon agreements, under the eurozone, where the central bank will only create money to give to banks, not money to spend into the economy, to actually finance new investment and new employment. And we cannot be part of a eurozone that insists that pensions have to be cut back in order to make the banks whole and save the one percent losing money. So for the first time you’re having the real left wing in Europe talking about financial issues, not about political philosophy, or the fact that countries are not going to go to war again. Nobody ever believes that France, Germany, and other countries in Europe are going to go to military war again. There is a fear that the countries in Europe may go to war against Russia, pushed by NATO, pushed by adventurism of the U.S. stance towards Russia. And so all of a sudden the eurozone that was supposed to be a bulwark of military peace has become belligerent, and even more so if Hillary would win in the United States. And there’'s a feeling we do want peace. That means we have to withdraw from the eurozone. And essentially, withdrawing from Brussels means withdrawing from NATO and withdrawing from the United States. So you could say that the vote to withdraw from Europe is, it’s really a vote of the British middle class, the working class, to withdraw from the U.S. neoliberalism that has been running Europe for the last ten years. WILPERT: Okay. Unfortunately we'’ve run out of time, but thanks so much, Michael, for your insight on this. I’m sure we’ll come back to you again, as we always do. So thanks again for joining us. HUDSON: Good to be here. WILPERT: And thank you for watching the Real News Network. _______________________________________________ Peace-discuss mailing list Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Jun 26 22:00:06 2016 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 22:00:06 +0000 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] One of the best explanations of Brexit, that I've seen so far. In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: True, but he keeps it simple for those of us who don't comprehend economics. I recognize many people probably are simply anti-immigrants, and that certainly helped get the vote accomplished, but we need to recognize that the wars, killing and destruction in the middle east, for which we are responsible, are the main problem and brexit may assist in weakening US and neoliberal influence. ________________________________ From: Brussel, Morton K Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2016 4:49:01 PM To: Karen Aram Cc: Peace-discuss List; Peace Discuss; peace at lists.chambana.net Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] One of the best explanations of Brexit, that I've seen so far. No nuance here. This guy is no oracle, as much as we might like to believe much of what he so assuredly states. Just my impression. —mkb On Jun 26, 2016, at 3:38 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss > wrote: Michael Hudson is a Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author of The Bubble and Beyond and Finance Capitalism and its Discontents. His most recent book is titledKilling the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy. ________________________________ transcript [How Western Military Interventions Shaped the Brexit Vote]GREGORY WILPERT, TRNN: Welcome to the Real News Network. I’m Gregory Wilpert, coming to you from Quito, Ecuador. Britain’s referendum in favor of leaving, or exiting, the European Union, the Brexit referendum, as the results are known, won with 52 percent of the vote on Thursday, June 23, stunning Europe’s political establishment. One of the issues that has raised concern for many is that what does the Brexit mean for Britain’s and Europe’s economy and politics. This was one of the main topics leading up to the referendum, but a lot of disinformation [reigned] in the discussion. With us to discuss the economic and political context of the Brexit is Michael Hudson. He is a research professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and author of Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy. Also, he is an economics adviser to several governments, including Greece, Iceland, Latvia, and China. He joins us right now from New York City. Thanks, Michael, for joining us. MICHAEL HUDSON: Good to be here again. WILPERT: So let’s begin with the political context in which the Brexit vote took place. Aside from the right-wing arguments about immigrants, economic concerns, and about Britain’s ability to control its own economy, what would you say--what do you see as being the main kind of political background in which this vote took place? HUDSON: Well, almost all the Europeans know where the immigrants are coming from. And the ones that they’re talking about are from the near East. And they’re aware of the fact that most of the immigrants are coming as a result of the NATO policies promoted by Hillary and by the Obama administration. The problem began in Libya. Once Hillary pushed Obama to destroy Libya and wipe out the stable government there, she wiped out the arms--and Libya was a very heavily armed country. She turned over the arms to ISIS, to Al-Nusra, and Al-Qaeda. And Al-Qaeda used these arms under U.S. organization to attack Syria and Iraq. Now, the Syrian population, the Iraqi population, have no choice but to either emigrate or get killed. So when people talk about the immigration to Europe, the Europeans, the French, the Dutch, the English, they’re all aware of the fact that this is the fact that Brussels is really NATO, and NATO is really run by Washington, and that it’s America’s new Cold War against Russia that’s been spurring all of this demographic dislocation that’s spreading into England, spreading into Europe, and is destabilizing things. So what you’re seeing with the Brexit is the result of the Obama administration’s pro-war, new Cold War policy. WILPERT: So are you saying that people voted for Brexit because they are really--that they were concerned about the influence of the U.S.? Or are you saying that it’s because of the backlash, because of the immigration that happened, and the fact that the right wing took advantage of that [crosstalk]. HUDSON: It’s a combination. The right wing was, indeed, pushing the immigrant issue, saying wait a minute, they’re threatening our jobs. But the left wing was just as vocal, and the left wing was saying, why are these immigrants coming here? They’re coming here because of Europe’s support of NATO, and NATO’s war that’s bombing the near East, that is destabilizing the whole Near East, and causing a flight of refugees not only from Syria but also from Ukraine. In England, many of the so-called Polish plumbers that came years ago have now gone back to Poland, because that country’s recovered. But now the worry is that a whole new wave of Ukrainians--and basically the U.S. policy is one of destabilization--so even the right-wing, while they have talked about immigrants, they have also denounced the [inaud.] fact that the European policy is run by the United States, and that you have both Marine Le Pen in France saying, we want to withdraw from NATO; we don’t want confrontation with Russia. You have the left wing in England saying, we don’t want concentration in Russia. And last week when I was in Germany you had the Social Democratic Party leaders saying that Russia should be invited back into the G8, that NATO was taking a warlike position and was hurting the European economy by breaking its ties with Russia and by forcing other sanctions against Russia. So you have a convergence between the left and the right, and the question is, who is going to determine the terms on which Europe is broken up and put back together? Will it simply be the right wing that’s anti-immigrants? Or will it simply be the left saying we want to restructure the economy in a way that essentially avoids the austerity that is coming from Brussels, on the one hand, and from the British Conservative Party on the other. And again, you have Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch nationalists, saying, we want Holland to have its own central bank. We want to be in charge of our own money. And under Brussels, we cannot be in charge of our own money. That means we cannot run a budget deficit and spend money into the economy, and recover with a Keynesian-type policy. So the whole withdrawal from Europe means withdrawing from austerity. If you look at the voting pattern in London, in England, you had London to stay in. You had the university centers, Oxford and Cambridge, voting to stay in. You had the working class, the old industrial areas of the north and the south. You had the middle class and the industrial class saying, we’re getting a really bad deal from Europe. We want to oppose austerity. And we don’t want Brussels to give us not only the anti-labor, pro-bank policies, but also the trade policy that Brussels was trying to push onto Europe, the Obama trade agreement that essentially would take national economic policy out of the hands of government and put it into the hands of corporate bureaucracy, corporation courts. And the bureaucracy in Brussels, then, is largely pro-bank, pro-corporate, and anti-labor. WILPERT: That actually brings up the issue of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or the TTIP. It was one of the things that the Cameron government was really pushing for, this relationship between the European Union and the United States. Now that Britain is presumably going to be leaving the European Union, don’t you think that this might open the possibility of just a TTIP between Britain and the United States? In other words, that it will--it has been one of the arguments, actually, of those who were opposed to Britain leaving the EU, that it will tie Britain even closer to the United States than it was before, and by virtue of the fact that it’s leaving Europe. HUDSON: I think just the opposite. I’ve gotten phone calls today from Britain, and I’ve been on radio with Britain. The whole feeling is that this makes the TTIP impossible, because you can’t do a TTIP just with Britain. You have to do it with all of Europe. And this prevents Europe, and I think Britain, too, from making this kind of trade policy. The rejection of eurozone austerity is, essentially, a rejection of the neoliberal plan that the TTIP is supposed to be the capstone of. WILPERT: And what do you think this means, then, in general for Europe’s future? One of the things that--one of the dangers that many perceive is precisely that Europe, as a European Union, is going to fall apart. Do you think that’s the likely scenario here? Or--. HUDSON: I watched Marine Le Pen today in France, and you could see from her face that she was overjoyed. She thinks all of a sudden, almost every European interview where the people--there was such unleashing of a feeling of freedom, a feeling of yes, we can do it. When Ireland voted not to join the European Union people just ignored the popular vote. But now it can’t be ignored anymore. And I think that the British vote is a catalyst for moves in Spain, Italy, the Five Star movement in Italy, the Podemos in Spain, to say, we are--we have an alternative to Europe. Europe is sort of like the Soviet Union in the ‘30s and ‘40s. There was an argument, is it reformable or not? There is a feeling, and I think it’s correct, that the European Union, the eurozone, and the euro, is not reformable, as a result of the Lisbon treaties and the other treaties that have created the euro. Europe has to be taken apart in order to be put together not on a right-wing, neoliberal basis, but on a more social basis. Now, ironically, the parties who call themselves socialists are now moved to the ultra-right, to the neoliberal. The French socialists, the German social democrats. But you’re having real radical parties arise in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and potentially in Greece, again, that are going to say, well, the key of any government, of any national government, has to be the ability to issue our own money, to run a deficit, spending into the economy to make the economy recover. We cannot recover under the Lisbon agreements, under the eurozone, where the central bank will only create money to give to banks, not money to spend into the economy, to actually finance new investment and new employment. And we cannot be part of a eurozone that insists that pensions have to be cut back in order to make the banks whole and save the one percent losing money. So for the first time you’re having the real left wing in Europe talking about financial issues, not about political philosophy, or the fact that countries are not going to go to war again. Nobody ever believes that France, Germany, and other countries in Europe are going to go to military war again. There is a fear that the countries in Europe may go to war against Russia, pushed by NATO, pushed by adventurism of the U.S. stance towards Russia. And so all of a sudden the eurozone that was supposed to be a bulwark of military peace has become belligerent, and even more so if Hillary would win in the United States. And there’'s a feeling we do want peace. That means we have to withdraw from the eurozone. And essentially, withdrawing from Brussels means withdrawing from NATO and withdrawing from the United States. So you could say that the vote to withdraw from Europe is, it’s really a vote of the British middle class, the working class, to withdraw from the U.S. neoliberalism that has been running Europe for the last ten years. WILPERT: Okay. Unfortunately we'’ve run out of time, but thanks so much, Michael, for your insight on this. I’m sure we’ll come back to you again, as we always do. So thanks again for joining us. HUDSON: Good to be here. 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We'll be sending in AWARE's >> application today or tomorrow. >> >> Karen Medina had an idea which I think is just brilliant, taking off on >> the generic parade theme of "Celebrating America": >> >> How about Celebrating America's History of Protest? >> >> We can go for anti-war anti-imperial protests (need a Eugene V Debs >> poster!), anti-slavery protests (some of our old signs might fit, like >> Elijah Lovejoy of Alton, IL), for protests throughout labor history >> (collective bargaining, a 40-hour week, minimum wage...)!, for the Civil >> Rights movement protests, for the great veterans' protest after WWI... - >> there are lots of directions and we can choose whatever we most like. >> >> Anyone mind adopting this (broad) theme? Barring objections I'd like to >> say this is what we'll do. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Mon Jun 27 13:03:35 2016 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:03:35 +0000 Subject: [Peace] A better Brexit analysis? Message-ID: 20 hrs Why the British Said No to Europe By John Pilger The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media. This was, in great part, a vote by those angered and demoralised by the sheer arrogance of the apologists for the “remain” campaign and the dismemberment of a socially just civil life in Britain. The last bastion of the historic reforms of 1945, the National Health Service, has been so subverted by Tory and Labour-supported privateers it is fighting for its life. A forewarning came when the Treasurer, George Osborne, the embodiment of both Britain’s ancient regime and the banking mafia in Europe, threatened to cut £30 billion from public services if people voted the wrong way; it was blackmail on a shocking scale. Immigration was exploited in the campaign with consummate cynicism, not only by populist politicians from the lunar right, but by Labour politicians drawing on their own venerable tradition of promoting and nurturing racism, a symptom of corruption not at the bottom but at the top. The reason millions of refugees have fled the Middle East – first Iraq, now Syria – are the invasions and imperial mayhem of Britain, the United States, France, the European Union and Nato. Before that, there was the wilful destruction of Yugoslavia. Before that, there was the theft of Palestine and the imposition of Israel. The pith helmets may have long gone, but the blood has never dried. A nineteenth century contempt for countries and peoples, depending on their degree of colonial usefulness, remains a centerpiece of modern “globalization”, with its perverse socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor: its freedom for capital and denial of freedom to labour; its perfidious politicians and politicized civil servants. All this has now come home to Europe, enriching the likes of Tony Blair and impoverishing and disempowering millions. On 23 June, the British said no more. The most effective propagandists of the “European ideal” have not been the far right, but an insufferably patrician class for whom metropolitan London is the United Kingdom. Its leading members see themselves as liberal, enlightened, cultivated tribunes of the 21st century zeitgeist, even “cool”. What they really are is a bourgeoisie with insatiable consumerist tastes and ancient instincts of their own superiority. In their house paper, the Guardian, they have gloated, day after day, at those who would even consider the EU profoundly undemocratic, a source of social injustice and a virulent extremism known as“neoliberalism”. The aim of this extremism is to install a permanent, capitalist theocracy that ensures a two-thirds society, with the majority divided and indebted, managed by a corporate class, and a permanent working poor. In Britain today, 63 per cent of poor children grow up in families where one member is working. For them, the trap has closed. More than 600,000 residents of Britain’s second city, Greater Manchester, are, reports a study, “experiencing the effects of extreme poverty” and 1.6 million are slipping into penury. Little of this social catastrophe is acknowledged in the bourgeois controlled media, notably the Oxbridge dominated BBC. During the referendum campaign, almost no insightful analysis was allowed to intrude upon the clichéd hysteria about“leaving Europe”, as if Britain was about to be towed in hostile currents somewhere north of Iceland. On the morning after the vote, a BBC radio reporter welcomed politicians to his studio as old chums. “Well,” he said to“Lord” Peter Mandelson, the disgraced architect of Blairism, “why do these people want it so badly?” The “these people”are the majority of Britons. The wealthy war criminal Tony Blair remains a hero of the Mandelson “European” class, though few will say so these days. The Guardian once described Blair as “mystical” and has been true to his “project” of rapacious war. The day after the vote, the columnist Martin Kettle offered a Brechtian solution to the misuse of democracy by the masses.“Now surely we can agree referendums are bad for Britain”, said the headline over his full-page piece. The “we” was unexplained but understood - just as “these people” is understood. “The referendum has conferred less legitimacy on politics, not more,” wrote Kettle. “ … the verdict on referendums should be a ruthless one. Never again.” The kind of ruthlessness Kettle longs is found in Greece, a country now airbrushed. There, they had a referendum and the result was ignored. Like the Labour Party in Britain, the leaders of the Syriza government in Athens are the products of an affluent, highly privileged, educated middle class, groomed in the fakery and political treachery of post-modernism. The Greek people courageously used the referendum to demand their government sought “better terms” with a venal status in Brussels that was crushing the life out of their country. They were betrayed, as the British would have been betrayed. On Friday, the Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was asked by the BBC if he would pay tribute to the departed Cameron, his comrade in the “remain” campaign. Corbyn fulsomely praised Cameron’s “dignity” and noted his backing for gay marriage and his apology to the Irish families of the dead of Bloody Sunday. He said nothing about Cameron’s divisiveness, his brutal austerity policies, his lies about “protecting” the Health Service. Neither did he remind people of the war mongering of the Cameron government: the dispatch of British special forces to Libya and British bomb aimers to Saudi Arabia and, above all, the beckoning of world war three. In the week of the referendum vote, no British politician and, to my knowledge, no journalist referred to Vladimir Putin’s speech in St. Petersburg commemorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June, 1941. The Soviet victory – at a cost of 27 million Soviet lives and the majority of all German forces – won the Second World War. Putin likened the current frenzied build up of Nato troops and war material on Russia’s western borders to the Third Reich’s Operation Barbarossa. Nato’s exercises in Poland were the biggest since the Nazi invasion; Operation Anaconda had simulated an attack on Russia, presumably with nuclear weapons. On the eve of the referendum, the quisling Secretary-General of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, warned Britons they would be endangering “peace and security” if they voted to leave the EU. The millions who ignored him and Cameron, Osborne, Corbyn, Obama and the man who runs the Bank of England may, just may, have struck a blow for real peace and democracy in Europe. https://www.rt.com/op-edge/348454-why-british-no-europe/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From galliher at illinois.edu Mon Jun 27 13:53:23 2016 From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. 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Barring objections I'd like to say this is what we'll do. > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From kmedina67 at gmail.com Mon Jun 27 16:01:58 2016 From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:01:58 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] July 4th - how about Celebrating America's History of Protest? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Very good point about protest as exception. the problem with america's rejection of war is two-fold... 1. Rejection of war as exception, the same point you made could be said here. 2. We need other groups to join us. There aren't enough AWARE who can walk in the heat, that will be in town, that aren't working that day. 3.5 people can make an impact, but we are also part of a community that is aching to be heard, "fellow americans, democracy means protesting", otherwise we would still have slavery, women could not vote, veterans would have no benefits, workers would have no contracts, and the vietnam war would not have ended. // america doesn't reject war enough. -karen medina On Jun 27, 2016 8:54 AM, "Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss" < peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > The difficulty with this theme is that it implies “protest” is the > exception - and what’s being protested against (war) is is usual and > expected - and therefore in some sense justified - “in possession,” as > lawyers might say. > > We might “Celebrate America” by saying “Celebrate America’s Rejection of > War,” since every US war since the beginning has been opposed by the US > public. (See attachment.) > > As President John Adams wrote in 1813, "The middle third ..., the soundest > part of the Nation [is] always averse to War.” > > —CGE > > > > > > > > On Jun 25, 2016, at 7:47 PM, Stuart Levy via Peace < > peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > > > > Thinking about July 4th Parade time again. We'll be sending in AWARE's > application today or tomorrow. > > > > Karen Medina had an idea which I think is just brilliant, taking off on > the generic parade theme of "Celebrating America": > > > > How about Celebrating America's History of Protest? > > > > We can go for anti-war anti-imperial protests (need a Eugene V Debs > poster!), anti-slavery protests (some of our old signs might fit, like > Elijah Lovejoy of Alton, IL), for protests throughout labor history > (collective bargaining, a 40-hour week, minimum wage...)!, for the Civil > Rights movement protests, for the great veterans' protest after WWI... - > there are lots of directions and we can choose whatever we most like. > > > > Anyone mind adopting this (broad) theme? Barring objections I'd like > to say this is what we'll do. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Peace mailing list > > Peace at lists.chambana.net > > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From galliher at illinois.edu Mon Jun 27 16:14:59 2016 From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:14:59 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] July 4th - how about Celebrating America's History of Protest? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 3.5 people? (“When you call me .5, smile...”) Americans are averse to war. Killing people is the exception. I’ll carry a poster that says, =================== President Obama: "Turns out I’m really good at killing people.” IS THIS WHAT WE CELEBRATE? =================== > On Jun 27, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Karen Medina wrote: > > Very good point about protest as exception. > > the problem with america's rejection of war is two-fold... > 1. Rejection of war as exception, the same point you made could be said here. > 2. We need other groups to join us. There aren't enough AWARE who can walk in the heat, that will be in town, that aren't working that day. 3.5 people can make an impact, but we are also part of a community that is aching to be heard, "fellow americans, democracy means protesting", otherwise we would still have slavery, women could not vote, veterans would have no benefits, workers would have no contracts, and the vietnam war would not have ended. // america doesn't reject war enough. > > -karen medina > > On Jun 27, 2016 8:54 AM, "Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss" > wrote: > The difficulty with this theme is that it implies “protest” is the exception - and what’s being protested against (war) is is usual and expected - and therefore in some sense justified - “in possession,” as lawyers might say. > > We might “Celebrate America” by saying “Celebrate America’s Rejection of War,” since every US war since the beginning has been opposed by the US public. (See attachment.) > > As President John Adams wrote in 1813, "The middle third ..., the soundest part of the Nation [is] always averse to War.” > > —CGE > > > > > > > > On Jun 25, 2016, at 7:47 PM, Stuart Levy via Peace > wrote: > > > > Thinking about July 4th Parade time again. We'll be sending in AWARE's application today or tomorrow. > > > > Karen Medina had an idea which I think is just brilliant, taking off on the generic parade theme of "Celebrating America": > > > > How about Celebrating America's History of Protest? > > > > We can go for anti-war anti-imperial protests (need a Eugene V Debs poster!), anti-slavery protests (some of our old signs might fit, like Elijah Lovejoy of Alton, IL), for protests throughout labor history (collective bargaining, a 40-hour week, minimum wage...)!, for the Civil Rights movement protests, for the great veterans' protest after WWI... - there are lots of directions and we can choose whatever we most like. > > > > Anyone mind adopting this (broad) theme? Barring objections I'd like to say this is what we'll do. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Peace mailing list > > Peace at lists.chambana.net > > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Jun 27 16:20:11 2016 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:20:11 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] July 4th - how about Celebrating America's History of Protest? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B89D821-7ABC-4069-9919-0C69E71CDD82@newsfromneptune.com> CELEBRATE AMERICA President Obama: "Turns out I’m really good at killing people.” IS THIS WHAT WE CELEBRATE? From mickalideh at gmail.com Mon Jun 27 16:22:03 2016 From: mickalideh at gmail.com (Harry Mickalide) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:22:03 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] July 4th - how about Celebrating America's History of Protest? In-Reply-To: <4B89D821-7ABC-4069-9919-0C69E71CDD82@newsfromneptune.com> References: <4B89D821-7ABC-4069-9919-0C69E71CDD82@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: I'm going to be carrying a "S.T.E.M. Boycotts the War Machine" poster regardless. On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 11:20 AM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace < peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > CELEBRATE AMERICA > > President Obama: "Turns out > I’m really good at killing people.” > > IS THIS WHAT WE CELEBRATE? > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Estabrook via Peace > wrote: CELEBRATE AMERICA President Obama: "Turns out I’m really good at killing people.” IS THIS WHAT WE CELEBRATE? _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: OutlookEmoji-😊.png Type: image/png Size: 488 bytes Desc: OutlookEmoji-😊.png URL: From davegreen84 at yahoo.com Mon Jun 27 16:33:49 2016 From: davegreen84 at yahoo.com (David Green) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:33:49 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] July 4th - how about Celebrating America's History of Protest? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1626315135.2374665.1467045229155.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> The good news is that the forecast calls for high 70s next Monday morning.  The bad news is that many CU progressives who oppose war are firmly aligned with the Ammons Democrats. On Monday, June 27, 2016 11:02 AM, Karen Medina via Peace wrote: Very good point about protest as exception.the problem with america's rejection of war is two-fold... 1. Rejection of war as exception, the same  point you made could be said here. 2. We need other groups to join us. There aren't enough AWARE who can walk in the heat, that will be in town, that aren't working that day. 3.5 people can make an impact, but we are also part of a community that is aching to be heard, "fellow americans, democracy means protesting", otherwise we would still have slavery, women could not vote, veterans would have no benefits, workers would have no contracts, and the vietnam  war would not have ended. // america doesn't reject war enough.-karen medinaOn Jun 27, 2016 8:54 AM, "Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss" wrote: The difficulty with this theme is that it implies “protest” is the exception - and what’s being protested against (war) is is usual and expected - and therefore in some sense justified - “in possession,” as lawyers might say. We might “Celebrate America” by saying “Celebrate America’s Rejection of War,” since every US war since the beginning has been opposed by the US public. (See attachment.) As President John Adams wrote in 1813, "The middle third ..., the soundest part of the Nation [is] always averse to War.” —CGE > On Jun 25, 2016, at 7:47 PM, Stuart Levy via Peace wrote: > > Thinking about July 4th Parade time again.   We'll be sending in AWARE's application today or tomorrow. > > Karen Medina had an idea which I think is just brilliant, taking off on the generic parade theme of "Celebrating America": > >     How about Celebrating America's History of Protest? > > We can go for anti-war anti-imperial protests (need a Eugene V Debs poster!), anti-slavery protests (some of our old signs might fit, like Elijah Lovejoy of Alton, IL), for protests throughout labor history (collective bargaining, a 40-hour week, minimum wage...)!, for the Civil Rights movement protests, for the great veterans' protest after WWI...  - there are lots of directions and we can choose whatever we most like. > > Anyone mind adopting this (broad) theme?   Barring objections I'd like to say this is what we'll do. > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace _______________________________________________ Peace-discuss mailing list Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The bad news is that many CU progressives who oppose war are firmly aligned with the Ammons Democrats. > > > On Monday, June 27, 2016 11:02 AM, Karen Medina via Peace wrote: > > > Very good point about protest as exception. > the problem with america's rejection of war is two-fold... > 1. Rejection of war as exception, the same point you made could be said here. > 2. We need other groups to join us. There aren't enough AWARE who can walk in the heat, that will be in town, that aren't working that day. 3.5 people can make an impact, but we are also part of a community that is aching to be heard, "fellow americans, democracy means protesting", otherwise we would still have slavery, women could not vote, veterans would have no benefits, workers would have no contracts, and the vietnam war would not have ended. // america doesn't reject war enough. > -karen medina > On Jun 27, 2016 8:54 AM, "Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss" wrote: > The difficulty with this theme is that it implies “protest” is the exception - and what’s being protested against (war) is is usual and expected - and therefore in some sense justified - “in possession,” as lawyers might say. > > We might “Celebrate America” by saying “Celebrate America’s Rejection of War,” since every US war since the beginning has been opposed by the US public. (See attachment.) > > As President John Adams wrote in 1813, "The middle third ..., the soundest part of the Nation [is] always averse to War.” > > —CGE > > > > > > > > On Jun 25, 2016, at 7:47 PM, Stuart Levy via Peace wrote: > > > > Thinking about July 4th Parade time again. We'll be sending in AWARE's application today or tomorrow. > > > > Karen Medina had an idea which I think is just brilliant, taking off on the generic parade theme of "Celebrating America": > > > > How about Celebrating America's History of Protest? > > > > We can go for anti-war anti-imperial protests (need a Eugene V Debs poster!), anti-slavery protests (some of our old signs might fit, like Elijah Lovejoy of Alton, IL), for protests throughout labor history (collective bargaining, a 40-hour week, minimum wage...)!, for the Civil Rights movement protests, for the great veterans' protest after WWI... - there are lots of directions and we can choose whatever we most like. > > > > Anyone mind adopting this (broad) theme? Barring objections I'd like to say this is what we'll do. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Peace mailing list > > Peace at lists.chambana.net > > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Jun 27 17:08:44 2016 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 12:08:44 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] July 4th - how about Celebrating America's History of Protest? In-Reply-To: <1626315135.2374665.1467045229155.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1626315135.2374665.1467045229155.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <9A32761B-94C0-4103-BAB3-2898E34906A7@newsfromneptune.com> CELEBRATE AMERICA’S AVERSION TO WAR “The soundest part of the Nation is always averse to War.” --Pres. John Adams, 1813 US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People In 37 Nations Since WWII Obama's Drone Assassinations Kill Thousands: US citizens & hundreds of children... 'The Most Extreme Terrorist Campaign of Modern Times' > On Jun 27, 2016, at 11:33 AM, David Green wrote: > > The good news is that the forecast calls for high 70s next Monday morning. The bad news is that many CU progressives who oppose war are firmly aligned with the Ammons Democrats. > > > On Monday, June 27, 2016 11:02 AM, Karen Medina via Peace wrote: > > > Very good point about protest as exception. > the problem with america's rejection of war is two-fold... > 1. Rejection of war as exception, the same point you made could be said here. > 2. We need other groups to join us. There aren't enough AWARE who can walk in the heat, that will be in town, that aren't working that day. 3.5 people can make an impact, but we are also part of a community that is aching to be heard, "fellow americans, democracy means protesting", otherwise we would still have slavery, women could not vote, veterans would have no benefits, workers would have no contracts, and the vietnam war would not have ended. // america doesn't reject war enough. > -karen medina > On Jun 27, 2016 8:54 AM, "Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss" > wrote: > The difficulty with this theme is that it implies “protest” is the exception - and what’s being protested against (war) is is usual and expected - and therefore in some sense justified - “in possession,” as lawyers might say. > > We might “Celebrate America” by saying “Celebrate America’s Rejection of War,” since every US war since the beginning has been opposed by the US public. (See attachment.) > > As President John Adams wrote in 1813, "The middle third ..., the soundest part of the Nation [is] always averse to War.” > > —CGE > > > > > > > > On Jun 25, 2016, at 7:47 PM, Stuart Levy via Peace > wrote: > > > > Thinking about July 4th Parade time again. We'll be sending in AWARE's application today or tomorrow. > > > > Karen Medina had an idea which I think is just brilliant, taking off on the generic parade theme of "Celebrating America": > > > > How about Celebrating America's History of Protest? > > > > We can go for anti-war anti-imperial protests (need a Eugene V Debs poster!), anti-slavery protests (some of our old signs might fit, like Elijah Lovejoy of Alton, IL), for protests throughout labor history (collective bargaining, a 40-hour week, minimum wage...)!, for the Civil Rights movement protests, for the great veterans' protest after WWI... - there are lots of directions and we can choose whatever we most like. > > > > Anyone mind adopting this (broad) theme? 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URL: From briandolinar at gmail.com Mon Jun 27 19:42:55 2016 From: briandolinar at gmail.com (Brian Dolinar) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 14:42:55 -0500 Subject: [Peace] In Memory, Honor, and Love of Gene Vanderport by Belden Fields Message-ID: This reflection on the life of longtime labor activist and revolutionary Gene Vanderport written by Belden Fields for the Public i. BD http://publici.ucimc.org/in-memory-honor-and-love-of-gene-vanderport/ It is difficult to write about an untimely death of someone whom one has known for almost half a century. Gene was my student, my comrade, and my friend since the late 1960s. Only a couple of years after my arrival to teach political science at the U of I in 1965, a young, bright eyed, highly intelligent and articulate student showed up in one of my classes. It was Gene. He was living in the Danvillle Collective and driving in to take his classes. The Collective was a group of politically radical young people who were living together at a time when such communes existed all over the country. Gene was a very committed democratic socialist, a socialist in the mold of Gene Debs. He and I shared that ideology. While Gene was radical in his politics, he stood out as being more culturally conservative than many of his radical peers in both his dress and his aversion to drugs. Gene was very interested in the idea and practice of worker control over the work place. So, one day he came to me and proposed an independent study course in which he would go to Yugoslavia and observe and interview people who were actually working in factories in which workers were in control. This made Yugoslavia unique among the communist countries of Eastern Europe. I thought this was very gutsy for someone of his age who had never been out of the country before. I agree to it and it turned out to be a wonderful, broadening experience for Gene. It reinforced his conviction that workers did not just need to be objects in a factory production line as portrayed in Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times. Instead, they had the knowledge, experience, and commitment to run their own enterprises. He became a proponent of both producer and consumer cooperatives that are not uncommon today. Gene was one of those great student protesters of the 1960s. He opposed the war in Vietnam and the treatment accorded to Cuba by the US government. But he was never just negative. He always envisioned, and fought for, a democratic socialist future in the States. After graduating from the University of Illinois, Gene took a job at the Veterans Administration Hospital in his native Danville. There he became active in the union and rose to its leadership. He was so successful in that role that he was called to the Washington office of the union and sent all over the country as an organizer. Anyone who knows anything about unions knows that the job of a traveling organizer takes an enormous toll on a person’s mind and body. So, after a number of years doing that, Gene looked for a position that involved less travel, but also that permitted him to live in a community in which one could develop roots. He looked back home. He took a position as the Director of the Illinois Education Association in this area. This permitted him to be close to his widowed mother who lived in a house in the woods near Danville. They called it the Green Cocoon. While back here, Gene, along with others, including myself, created the group Socialist Forum. Gene and I also served as coordinators of the Living Wage Association of Champaign, which was successful in getting living wage policies adopted in the city of Urbana and Champaign County. Gene was also active in the Labor Coalition at the U of I. We, and Gene’s wonderful wife, Germaine Light, were also were also very active in the Central Illinois Jobs with Justice Coalition. We engaged in many strike and lock-out support actions together. Gene was arrested in a sit-in supporting the Staley (now Tate and Lyle) workers in Decatur. That arrest became a badge of honor for him. Gene and I were very close. He used to call me Dad. And, since I had no other sons, he became kind of a son to me. He would always listen to what I had to say, and sometimes he would do what I suggested. But Gene was his own agent, a cooperative comrade in fights for social justice. The labor movement lost a staunch fighter for workers’ rights. I have lost a “son” a student, comrade, and friend over a span of over 50 years. Gene, his wife Germaine, my wife Jane, and I, liked to go to the Gene Debs dinners in Terre Haute. Debs was hero to us, a democratic socialist who had to run for the American presidency from a jail cell because of his opposition to U.S. entry into the First World War. Nevertheless, Debs got almost a million votes. I am so glad that Gene Vanderport lived to see Bernie Sanders gain so many backers as an avowed socialist. We never thought we would see the day that this would happen, that the idea of socialism would no longer be taboo in American politics. So my son, one more thing that I would advise you to do. Tell Gene Debs all about it up there. Tell him how so many young people supported this socialist. Make his day in eternity. Love, peace, and justice be with both of you. Till we meet again. Belden (Dad) -- Brian Dolinar, Ph.D. briandolinar.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: <096A34F4-1F1A-4438-BD3C-0C7D83D33E6E@illinois.edu> References: , <096A34F4-1F1A-4438-BD3C-0C7D83D33E6E@illinois.edu> Message-ID: Ok Mort, read Carl's perhaps you'll like that one better. ________________________________ From: Brussel, Morton K Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 4:33:10 PM To: Karen Aram Cc: Peace Discuss; peace at lists.chambana.net; Peace-discuss List Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] A better Brexit analysis? A sublime polemic!! —mkb On Jun 27, 2016, at 8:03 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss > wrote: 20 hrs Why the British Said No to Europe By John Pilger -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kmedina67 at gmail.com Tue Jun 28 03:57:59 2016 From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 22:57:59 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] July 4th - how about Celebrating America's History of Protest? In-Reply-To: <9A32761B-94C0-4103-BAB3-2898E34906A7@newsfromneptune.com> References: <1626315135.2374665.1467045229155.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <9A32761B-94C0-4103-BAB3-2898E34906A7@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: Perfect. Now we need a sign making party. Would saturday night work? Where? On Jun 27, 2016 12:08 PM, "C. G. Estabrook" wrote: > CELEBRATE AMERICA’S > AVERSION TO WAR > “The soundest part of the Nation > is always averse to War.” > --Pres. John Adams, 1813 > > US Has Killed > More Than 20 > Million People > In 37 Nations > Since WWII > > Obama's Drone Assassinations > Kill Thousands: US citizens > & hundreds of children... > 'The Most Extreme Terrorist > Campaign of Modern Times' > > > > On Jun 27, 2016, at 11:33 AM, David Green wrote: > > The good news is that the forecast calls for high 70s next Monday > morning. The bad news is that many CU progressives who oppose war are > firmly aligned with the Ammons Democrats. > > > On Monday, June 27, 2016 11:02 AM, Karen Medina via Peace < > peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > > > > Very good point about protest as exception. > the problem with america's rejection of war is two-fold... > 1. Rejection of war as exception, the same point you made could be said > here. > 2. We need other groups to join us. There aren't enough AWARE who can walk > in the heat, that will be in town, that aren't working that day. 3.5 people > can make an impact, but we are also part of a community that is aching to > be heard, "fellow americans, democracy means protesting", otherwise we > would still have slavery, women could not vote, veterans would have no > benefits, workers would have no contracts, and the vietnam war would not > have ended. // america doesn't reject war enough. > -karen medina > On Jun 27, 2016 8:54 AM, "Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss" < > peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > > The difficulty with this theme is that it implies “protest” is the > exception - and what’s being protested against (war) is is usual and > expected - and therefore in some sense justified - “in possession,” as > lawyers might say. > > We might “Celebrate America” by saying “Celebrate America’s Rejection of > War,” since every US war since the beginning has been opposed by the US > public. (See attachment.) > > As President John Adams wrote in 1813, "The middle third ..., the soundest > part of the Nation [is] always averse to War.” > > —CGE > > > > > > > > On Jun 25, 2016, at 7:47 PM, Stuart Levy via Peace < > peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > > > > Thinking about July 4th Parade time again. We'll be sending in AWARE's > application today or tomorrow. > > > > Karen Medina had an idea which I think is just brilliant, taking off on > the generic parade theme of "Celebrating America": > > > > How about Celebrating America's History of Protest? > > > > We can go for anti-war anti-imperial protests (need a Eugene V Debs > poster!), anti-slavery protests (some of our old signs might fit, like > Elijah Lovejoy of Alton, IL), for protests throughout labor history > (collective bargaining, a 40-hour week, minimum wage...)!, for the Civil > Rights movement protests, for the great veterans' protest after WWI... - > there are lots of directions and we can choose whatever we most like. > > > > Anyone mind adopting this (broad) theme? Barring objections I'd like > to say this is what we'll do. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Peace mailing list > > Peace at lists.chambana.net > > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue Jun 28 04:05:28 2016 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 23:05:28 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] July 4th - how about Celebrating America's History of Protest? In-Reply-To: References: <1626315135.2374665.1467045229155.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> <9A32761B-94C0-4103-BAB3-2898E34906A7@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: My house (where Piketty reading group met) is available. > On Jun 27, 2016, at 10:57 PM, Karen Medina via Peace wrote: > > Perfect. > Now we need a sign making party. > Would saturday night work? Where? > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jjincu at gmail.com Tue Jun 28 05:15:02 2016 From: jjincu at gmail.com (James Kilgore) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:15:02 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Announce] In Memory, Honor, and Love of Gene Vanderport by Belden Fields In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Beautiful piece, Belden. Thanks so much for sharing this history and your personal connections with Gene. In solidarity, James James Kilgore Research Scholar Center for African Studies University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) Author of *Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time* On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Brian Dolinar wrote: > This reflection on the life of longtime labor activist and revolutionary > Gene Vanderport written by Belden Fields for the Public i. > > BD > > http://publici.ucimc.org/in-memory-honor-and-love-of-gene-vanderport/ > > > It is difficult to write about an untimely death of someone whom one has > known for almost half a century. Gene was my student, my comrade, and my > friend since the late 1960s. Only a couple of years after my arrival to > teach political science at the U of I in 1965, a young, bright eyed, highly > intelligent and articulate student showed up in one of my classes. It was > Gene. He was living in the Danvillle Collective and driving in to take his > classes. The Collective was a group of politically radical young people who > were living together at a time when such communes existed all over the > country. Gene was a very committed democratic socialist, a socialist in the > mold of Gene Debs. He and I shared that ideology. While Gene was radical in > his politics, he stood out as being more culturally conservative than many > of his radical peers in both his dress and his aversion to drugs. > > Gene was very interested in the idea and practice of worker control over > the work place. So, one day he came to me and proposed an independent study > course in which he would go to Yugoslavia and observe and interview people > who were actually working in factories in which workers were in control. > This made Yugoslavia unique among the communist countries of Eastern > Europe. I thought this was very gutsy for someone of his age who had never > been out of the country before. I agree to it and it turned out to be a > wonderful, broadening experience for Gene. It reinforced his conviction > that workers did not just need to be objects in a factory production line > as portrayed in Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times. Instead, they had the > knowledge, experience, and commitment to run their own enterprises. He > became a proponent of both producer and consumer cooperatives that are not > uncommon today. > > Gene was one of those great student protesters of the 1960s. He opposed > the war in Vietnam and the treatment accorded to Cuba by the US government. > But he was never just negative. He always envisioned, and fought for, a > democratic socialist future in the States. > > After graduating from the University of Illinois, Gene took a job at the > Veterans Administration Hospital in his native Danville. There he became > active in the union and rose to its leadership. He was so successful in > that role that he was called to the Washington office of the union and sent > all over the country as an organizer. Anyone who knows anything about > unions knows that the job of a traveling organizer takes an enormous toll > on a person’s mind and body. So, after a number of years doing that, Gene > looked for a position that involved less travel, but also that permitted > him to live in a community in which one could develop roots. He looked back > home. He took a position as the Director of the Illinois Education > Association in this area. This permitted him to be close to his widowed > mother who lived in a house in the woods near Danville. They called it the > Green Cocoon. > > While back here, Gene, along with others, including myself, created the > group Socialist Forum. Gene and I also served as coordinators of the Living > Wage Association of Champaign, which was successful in getting living wage > policies adopted in the city of Urbana and Champaign County. Gene was also > active in the Labor Coalition at the U of I. We, and Gene’s wonderful wife, > Germaine Light, were also were also very active in the Central Illinois > Jobs with Justice Coalition. We engaged in many strike and lock-out support > actions together. Gene was arrested in a sit-in supporting the Staley (now > Tate and Lyle) workers in Decatur. That arrest became a badge of honor for > him. > > Gene and I were very close. He used to call me Dad. And, since I had no > other sons, he became kind of a son to me. He would always listen to what I > had to say, and sometimes he would do what I suggested. But Gene was his > own agent, a cooperative comrade in fights for social justice. The labor > movement lost a staunch fighter for workers’ rights. > > I have lost a “son” a student, comrade, and friend over a span of over 50 > years. Gene, his wife Germaine, my wife Jane, and I, liked to go to the > Gene Debs dinners in Terre Haute. Debs was hero to us, a democratic > socialist who had to run for the American presidency from a jail cell > because of his opposition to U.S. entry into the First World War. > Nevertheless, Debs got almost a million votes. I am so glad that Gene > Vanderport lived to see Bernie Sanders gain so many backers as an avowed > socialist. We never thought we would see the day that this would happen, > that the idea of socialism would no longer be taboo in American politics. > > So my son, one more thing that I would advise you to do. Tell Gene Debs > all about it up there. Tell him how so many young people supported this > socialist. Make his day in eternity. > > Love, peace, and justice be with both of you. Till we meet again. > > Belden (Dad) > -- > Brian Dolinar, Ph.D. > briandolinar.com > > _______________________________________________ > Announce mailing list > Announce at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/announce-communitycourtwatch > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sandra.ahten at gmail.com Tue Jun 28 12:26:14 2016 From: sandra.ahten at gmail.com (Sandra Ahten) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 07:26:14 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Announce] In Memory, Honor, and Love of Gene Vanderport by Belden Fields In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: As per Beldon and I discussion, this was read on WEFT last night on CU Progressive News. Thanks for taking the time to write it Beldon. It is a beautiful tribute. Sandra Sandra Ahten On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:15 AM, James Kilgore wrote: > Beautiful piece, Belden. Thanks so much for sharing this history and your > personal connections with Gene. > > In solidarity, > James > > James Kilgore > Research Scholar > Center for African Studies > University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) > Author of *Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key > Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time* > > > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Brian Dolinar > wrote: > >> This reflection on the life of longtime labor activist and revolutionary >> Gene Vanderport written by Belden Fields for the Public i. >> >> BD >> >> http://publici.ucimc.org/in-memory-honor-and-love-of-gene-vanderport/ >> >> >> It is difficult to write about an untimely death of someone whom one has >> known for almost half a century. Gene was my student, my comrade, and my >> friend since the late 1960s. Only a couple of years after my arrival to >> teach political science at the U of I in 1965, a young, bright eyed, highly >> intelligent and articulate student showed up in one of my classes. It was >> Gene. He was living in the Danvillle Collective and driving in to take his >> classes. The Collective was a group of politically radical young people who >> were living together at a time when such communes existed all over the >> country. Gene was a very committed democratic socialist, a socialist in the >> mold of Gene Debs. He and I shared that ideology. While Gene was radical in >> his politics, he stood out as being more culturally conservative than many >> of his radical peers in both his dress and his aversion to drugs. >> >> Gene was very interested in the idea and practice of worker control over >> the work place. So, one day he came to me and proposed an independent study >> course in which he would go to Yugoslavia and observe and interview people >> who were actually working in factories in which workers were in control. >> This made Yugoslavia unique among the communist countries of Eastern >> Europe. I thought this was very gutsy for someone of his age who had never >> been out of the country before. I agree to it and it turned out to be a >> wonderful, broadening experience for Gene. It reinforced his conviction >> that workers did not just need to be objects in a factory production line >> as portrayed in Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times. Instead, they had the >> knowledge, experience, and commitment to run their own enterprises. He >> became a proponent of both producer and consumer cooperatives that are not >> uncommon today. >> >> Gene was one of those great student protesters of the 1960s. He opposed >> the war in Vietnam and the treatment accorded to Cuba by the US government. >> But he was never just negative. He always envisioned, and fought for, a >> democratic socialist future in the States. >> >> After graduating from the University of Illinois, Gene took a job at the >> Veterans Administration Hospital in his native Danville. There he became >> active in the union and rose to its leadership. He was so successful in >> that role that he was called to the Washington office of the union and sent >> all over the country as an organizer. Anyone who knows anything about >> unions knows that the job of a traveling organizer takes an enormous toll >> on a person’s mind and body. So, after a number of years doing that, Gene >> looked for a position that involved less travel, but also that permitted >> him to live in a community in which one could develop roots. He looked back >> home. He took a position as the Director of the Illinois Education >> Association in this area. This permitted him to be close to his widowed >> mother who lived in a house in the woods near Danville. They called it the >> Green Cocoon. >> >> While back here, Gene, along with others, including myself, created the >> group Socialist Forum. Gene and I also served as coordinators of the Living >> Wage Association of Champaign, which was successful in getting living wage >> policies adopted in the city of Urbana and Champaign County. Gene was also >> active in the Labor Coalition at the U of I. We, and Gene’s wonderful wife, >> Germaine Light, were also were also very active in the Central Illinois >> Jobs with Justice Coalition. We engaged in many strike and lock-out support >> actions together. Gene was arrested in a sit-in supporting the Staley (now >> Tate and Lyle) workers in Decatur. That arrest became a badge of honor for >> him. >> >> Gene and I were very close. He used to call me Dad. And, since I had no >> other sons, he became kind of a son to me. He would always listen to what I >> had to say, and sometimes he would do what I suggested. But Gene was his >> own agent, a cooperative comrade in fights for social justice. The labor >> movement lost a staunch fighter for workers’ rights. >> >> I have lost a “son” a student, comrade, and friend over a span of over 50 >> years. Gene, his wife Germaine, my wife Jane, and I, liked to go to the >> Gene Debs dinners in Terre Haute. Debs was hero to us, a democratic >> socialist who had to run for the American presidency from a jail cell >> because of his opposition to U.S. entry into the First World War. >> Nevertheless, Debs got almost a million votes. I am so glad that Gene >> Vanderport lived to see Bernie Sanders gain so many backers as an avowed >> socialist. We never thought we would see the day that this would happen, >> that the idea of socialism would no longer be taboo in American politics. >> >> So my son, one more thing that I would advise you to do. Tell Gene Debs >> all about it up there. Tell him how so many young people supported this >> socialist. Make his day in eternity. >> >> Love, peace, and justice be with both of you. Till we meet again. >> >> Belden (Dad) >> -- >> Brian Dolinar, Ph.D. >> briandolinar.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Announce mailing list >> Announce at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/announce-communitycourtwatch >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Announce mailing list > Announce at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/announce-communitycourtwatch > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks so much for sharing this history and your >> personal connections with Gene. >> >> In solidarity, >> James >> >> James Kilgore >> Research Scholar >> Center for African Studies >> University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) >> Author of *Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key >> Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time* >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Brian Dolinar >> wrote: >> >>> This reflection on the life of longtime labor activist and revolutionary >>> Gene Vanderport written by Belden Fields for the Public i. >>> >>> BD >>> >>> http://publici.ucimc.org/in-memory-honor-and-love-of-gene-vanderport/ >>> >>> >>> It is difficult to write about an untimely death of someone whom one has >>> known for almost half a century. Gene was my student, my comrade, and my >>> friend since the late 1960s. Only a couple of years after my arrival to >>> teach political science at the U of I in 1965, a young, bright eyed, highly >>> intelligent and articulate student showed up in one of my classes. It was >>> Gene. He was living in the Danvillle Collective and driving in to take his >>> classes. The Collective was a group of politically radical young people who >>> were living together at a time when such communes existed all over the >>> country. Gene was a very committed democratic socialist, a socialist in the >>> mold of Gene Debs. He and I shared that ideology. While Gene was radical in >>> his politics, he stood out as being more culturally conservative than many >>> of his radical peers in both his dress and his aversion to drugs. >>> >>> Gene was very interested in the idea and practice of worker control over >>> the work place. So, one day he came to me and proposed an independent study >>> course in which he would go to Yugoslavia and observe and interview people >>> who were actually working in factories in which workers were in control. >>> This made Yugoslavia unique among the communist countries of Eastern >>> Europe. I thought this was very gutsy for someone of his age who had never >>> been out of the country before. I agree to it and it turned out to be a >>> wonderful, broadening experience for Gene. It reinforced his conviction >>> that workers did not just need to be objects in a factory production line >>> as portrayed in Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times. Instead, they had the >>> knowledge, experience, and commitment to run their own enterprises. He >>> became a proponent of both producer and consumer cooperatives that are not >>> uncommon today. >>> >>> Gene was one of those great student protesters of the 1960s. He opposed >>> the war in Vietnam and the treatment accorded to Cuba by the US government. >>> But he was never just negative. He always envisioned, and fought for, a >>> democratic socialist future in the States. >>> >>> After graduating from the University of Illinois, Gene took a job at the >>> Veterans Administration Hospital in his native Danville. There he became >>> active in the union and rose to its leadership. He was so successful in >>> that role that he was called to the Washington office of the union and sent >>> all over the country as an organizer. Anyone who knows anything about >>> unions knows that the job of a traveling organizer takes an enormous toll >>> on a person’s mind and body. So, after a number of years doing that, Gene >>> looked for a position that involved less travel, but also that permitted >>> him to live in a community in which one could develop roots. He looked back >>> home. He took a position as the Director of the Illinois Education >>> Association in this area. This permitted him to be close to his widowed >>> mother who lived in a house in the woods near Danville. They called it the >>> Green Cocoon. >>> >>> While back here, Gene, along with others, including myself, created the >>> group Socialist Forum. Gene and I also served as coordinators of the Living >>> Wage Association of Champaign, which was successful in getting living wage >>> policies adopted in the city of Urbana and Champaign County. Gene was also >>> active in the Labor Coalition at the U of I. We, and Gene’s wonderful wife, >>> Germaine Light, were also were also very active in the Central Illinois >>> Jobs with Justice Coalition. We engaged in many strike and lock-out support >>> actions together. Gene was arrested in a sit-in supporting the Staley (now >>> Tate and Lyle) workers in Decatur. That arrest became a badge of honor for >>> him. >>> >>> Gene and I were very close. He used to call me Dad. And, since I had no >>> other sons, he became kind of a son to me. He would always listen to what I >>> had to say, and sometimes he would do what I suggested. But Gene was his >>> own agent, a cooperative comrade in fights for social justice. The labor >>> movement lost a staunch fighter for workers’ rights. >>> >>> I have lost a “son” a student, comrade, and friend over a span of over >>> 50 years. Gene, his wife Germaine, my wife Jane, and I, liked to go to the >>> Gene Debs dinners in Terre Haute. Debs was hero to us, a democratic >>> socialist who had to run for the American presidency from a jail cell >>> because of his opposition to U.S. entry into the First World War. >>> Nevertheless, Debs got almost a million votes. I am so glad that Gene >>> Vanderport lived to see Bernie Sanders gain so many backers as an avowed >>> socialist. We never thought we would see the day that this would happen, >>> that the idea of socialism would no longer be taboo in American politics. >>> >>> So my son, one more thing that I would advise you to do. Tell Gene Debs >>> all about it up there. Tell him how so many young people supported this >>> socialist. Make his day in eternity. >>> >>> Love, peace, and justice be with both of you. Till we meet again. >>> >>> Belden (Dad) >>> -- >>> Brian Dolinar, Ph.D. >>> briandolinar.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Announce mailing list >>> Announce at lists.chambana.net >>> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/announce-communitycourtwatch >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Announce mailing list >> Announce at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/announce-communitycourtwatch >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Announce mailing list > Announce at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/announce-communitycourtwatch > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fboyle at illinois.edu Wed Jun 29 01:53:18 2016 From: fboyle at illinois.edu (Boyle, Francis A) Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 01:53:18 +0000 Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air, June 28 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ok. Thanks Carl.Thanks for having me on. Thanks for the support. And I hope everyone can mobilize to terminate the Killer Koh Lecture here at the College of Law on October 28. Fab Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: C. G. Estabrook [mailto:carl at newsfromneptune.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:48 PM To: Boyle, Francis A Cc: Peace Discuss Subject: AWARE on the Air, June 28 Francis— The members of AWARE appreciate your participation in tonight’s program (Episode #369). The program is archived and may be viewed at >. We’d be delighted to have you join us again whenever your schedule allows. Regards, Carl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kmedina67 at gmail.com Wed Jun 29 15:58:44 2016 From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina) Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 10:58:44 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Gene Vanderport's memorial service July 10 Message-ID: --- forwarding from Jobs With Justice / Ricky Baldwin --- More details to follow, but I know you will all want to know the date and place of Gene Vanderport's memorial service: July 10, 2016 at the Laborer's Hall 108 E Anthony Drive, Urbana The visitation will begin at either 1 or 2pm, service at 4pm. I know we will be patient as the details are worked out, but I knew you would want to mark your calendars. Please help pass this information on as appropriate. We continue to mourn this devastating loss, but we will do it together, as the community that Gene served his whole life. Solidarity, Ricky Baldwin _______________________________________________ Campuslabor mailing list Campuslabor at lists.uigeo.org http://lists.uigeo.org/listinfo.cgi/campuslabor-uigeo.org -- Brian Dolinar, Ph.D. briandolinar.com _______________________________________________ Discuss-CommunityCourtwatch mailing list Discuss-CommunityCourtwatch at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss-communitycourtwatch -- -- karen medina "The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kmedina67 at gmail.com Wed Jun 29 22:16:57 2016 From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina) Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 17:16:57 -0500 Subject: [Peace] 4th of July parade / come join, come cheer / celebrate the American Protest movements Message-ID: Dear Peace, Have you ever wished that the parade included things that you want to celebrate? The News-Gazette sponsored theme of this year's (2016) 4th of July community celebration is: "Celebrate America," which just doesn't do it for us. So we are taking their theme and celebrating the Come "Celebrate the American Protest Movements" that brought us the end of slavery, the right to vote, fair labor standards, veterans benefits, civil rights, the end of the Vietnam War, the New Deal, and marriage equality; and is demanding environmental regulation, clean jobs, the U.S. Military out of the Middle East, transgender rights, income equality, equal rights, programs not prisons, reform of the justice system, rights for the undocumented, ... 11:05am start. AWARE has reserved a position: We are #95 out of 111. The staging area is in the parking lot west of the State Farm Center (formerly known as the Assembly Hall). The official parade route is: * The parade begins near First & Kirby. * Continues East on Florida to Lincoln Ave. * then proceeds North on Lincoln Ave to California. * Parade units turn onto Illinois street to disperse and exit area at Goodwin Ave. (near Krannert Center for the Performing Arts) We could use some volunteers to drive people back to the staging area. Or just bring us water to drink. ------- UPTV will not have live parade coverage but will broadcast their coverage later. (check the website for UPTV -- http://urbanapublictelevision.yolasite.com/tv-broadcast-schedule.php -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fboyle at illinois.edu Thu Jun 30 00:39:30 2016 From: fboyle at illinois.edu (Boyle, Francis A) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:39:30 +0000 Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air, June 28 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Examples of allegations of violations by public employees that may be investigated by the OEIG include, but are not limited to: fraud, abuse of authority, corruption, theft of state property, improper use of state time, property, or other resources for prohibited political purposes Maggie Hickey, Executive Inspector General This website is intended to provide you with information and resources related to the functions of this office. The menu above provides immediate access to our publicly disclosed investigative reports, related decisions, newsletters and other information. You may file a secure, encrypted online complaint by simply clicking on the following: online complaint link. If you have questions, you may contact us by clicking the following: online information request. Actually, I have already caught the College of Law in a prima facie violation of the Illinois Statute prohibiting the use of University Resources for electoral campaign purposes by means of the following Official Notice using the University Logo and web-site to announce Killer Koh’s October 28 Lecture here, ten days before the presidential election involving his Yale Law Mafia Boss Mrs Clinton when he is a prominent member of her presidential election campaign and her lawyer. It took University Resources to prepare, post and host this Notice on a University web-site. We know for a fact that last year the Illinois Inspector General sanctioned a professor for only ONE email message on his University Account related to an electoral campaign. Beyond this Notice, has there also been even one iota of coordination between COL/KOH and His Clinton Presidential Campaign on this October 28 lecture date? Emails, phones, faxes, preparations, reservations, invitations, etc? Between COL/KOH and the National Democratic Party? Between COL/KOH and the Champaign Democratic Party? The Illinois Inspector General has the power and the obligation to get to the bottom of this. But she has no authority to act on her own. Someone must first file a Complaint. Is there a Volunteer in the House? Fab. [https://www.law.illinois.edu/resources/images/imark-50.png]ILLINOIS | LAW INTRANET · Admissions · Faculty · Academics · Careers Services · Library · Alumni Relations · Giving · Calendar o Upcoming Featured Events o Upcoming Lectures and Conferences o Academic Calendar o Schedule an Event Top of Form Harold Koh (Yale) to deliver the 2016 Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law Friday, October 28, 2016 Max L. Rowe Auditorium, Law Building 12:00 PM–1:00 PM The University of Illinois College of Law presents the 2016 Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law, featuring Harold Koh. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will be held in the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Pavilion following the lecture. Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Professor Koh is one of the country’s leading experts in public and private international law, national security law, and human rights. Bottom of Form College of Law 504 East Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Illinois 61820 Phone (217) 333-0931 Fax (217) 244-1478 © 2016 University of Illinois Quick Links · About · ABA Required Disclosures · Administrative Directory · Calendar · For the Media · Illini Union Bookstore · Visiting the College · Webmail · Give Now Illinois Law Social Media · Twitter · Facebook · LinkedIn · YouTube · RSS · Sina Weibo Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:53 PM To: C. G. Estabrook Cc: Peace Discuss ; Karen Aram ; C. G. Estabrook ; David Green ; David Johnson ; Stuart Levy ; Karen Medina ; Szoke, Ron ; Mildred O'brien ; Peace Discuss ; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com' ; Readel, Karin ; Estabrook, Carl G ; 'Belden Fields' ; 'jmachota at shout.net' ; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List' ; 'Bryan Savage' ; Hoffman, Valerie J ; Miller, Joseph Thomas Subject: RE: AWARE on the Air, June 28 Ok. Thanks Carl.Thanks for having me on. Thanks for the support. And I hope everyone can mobilize to terminate the Killer Koh Lecture here at the College of Law on October 28. Fab Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: C. G. Estabrook [mailto:carl at newsfromneptune.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:48 PM To: Boyle, Francis A > Cc: Peace Discuss > Subject: AWARE on the Air, June 28 Francis— The members of AWARE appreciate your participation in tonight’s program (Episode #369). The program is archived and may be viewed at >. We’d be delighted to have you join us again whenever your schedule allows. Regards, Carl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1625 bytes Desc: image003.jpg URL: From fboyle at illinois.edu Thu Jun 30 01:47:10 2016 From: fboyle at illinois.edu (Boyle, Francis A) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 01:47:10 +0000 Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air, June 28 References: Message-ID: As I know from long and sad experience here at the College of Law, so-called University of Illinois “whistleblower protection” is a joke and a fraud when it comes to protecting me from retaliation. So I am asking for a Volunteer to file a Complaint with the Illinois Inspector General. Fab. Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 7:39 PM To: C. G. Estabrook Cc: Peace Discuss ; Karen Aram ; C. G. Estabrook ; David Green ; David Johnson ; Stuart Levy ; Karen Medina ; Szoke, Ron ; Mildred O'brien ; Peace Discuss ; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com' ; Readel, Karin ; Estabrook, Carl G ; 'Belden Fields' ; 'jmachota at shout.net' ; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List' ; 'Bryan Savage' ; Hoffman, Valerie J ; Miller, Joseph Thomas Subject: RE: AWARE on the Air, June 28 Examples of allegations of violations by public employees that may be investigated by the OEIG include, but are not limited to: fraud, abuse of authority, corruption, theft of state property, improper use of state time, property, or other resources for prohibited political purposes Maggie Hickey, Executive Inspector General This website is intended to provide you with information and resources related to the functions of this office. The menu above provides immediate access to our publicly disclosed investigative reports, related decisions, newsletters and other information. You may file a secure, encrypted online complaint by simply clicking on the following: online complaint link. If you have questions, you may contact us by clicking the following: online information request. Actually, I have already caught the College of Law in a prima facie violation of the Illinois Statute prohibiting the use of University Resources for electoral campaign purposes by means of the following Official Notice using the University Logo and web-site to announce Killer Koh’s October 28 Lecture here, ten days before the presidential election involving his Yale Law Mafia Boss Mrs Clinton when he is a prominent member of her presidential election campaign and her lawyer. It took University Resources to prepare, post and host this Notice on a University web-site. We know for a fact that last year the Illinois Inspector General sanctioned a professor for only ONE email message on his University Account related to an electoral campaign. Beyond this Notice, has there also been even one iota of coordination between COL/KOH and His Clinton Presidential Campaign on this October 28 lecture date? Emails, phones, faxes, preparations, reservations, invitations, etc? Between COL/KOH and the National Democratic Party? Between COL/KOH and the Champaign Democratic Party? The Illinois Inspector General has the power and the obligation to get to the bottom of this. But she has no authority to act on her own. Someone must first file a Complaint. Is there a Volunteer in the House? Fab. [https://www.law.illinois.edu/resources/images/imark-50.png]ILLINOIS | LAW INTRANET · Admissions · Faculty · Academics · Careers Services · Library · Alumni Relations · Giving · Calendar o Upcoming Featured Events o Upcoming Lectures and Conferences o Academic Calendar o Schedule an Event Top of Form Harold Koh (Yale) to deliver the 2016 Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law Friday, October 28, 2016 Max L. Rowe Auditorium, Law Building 12:00 PM–1:00 PM The University of Illinois College of Law presents the 2016 Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture on the Role of Government and the Law, featuring Harold Koh. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will be held in the Peer and Sarah Pedersen Pavilion following the lecture. Harold Hongju Koh is Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Professor Koh is one of the country’s leading experts in public and private international law, national security law, and human rights. Bottom of Form College of Law 504 East Pennsylvania Avenue Champaign, Illinois 61820 Phone (217) 333-0931 Fax (217) 244-1478 © 2016 University of Illinois Quick Links · About · ABA Required Disclosures · Administrative Directory · Calendar · For the Media · Illini Union Bookstore · Visiting the College · Webmail · Give Now Illinois Law Social Media · Twitter · Facebook · LinkedIn · YouTube · RSS · Sina Weibo Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: Boyle, Francis A Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:53 PM To: C. G. Estabrook > Cc: Peace Discuss >; Karen Aram >; C. G. Estabrook >; David Green >; David Johnson >; Stuart Levy >; Karen Medina >; Szoke, Ron >; Mildred O'brien >; Peace Discuss >; peace at lists.chambana.net; 'davegreen84 at yahoo.com' >; Readel, Karin >; Estabrook, Carl G >; 'Belden Fields' >; 'jmachota at shout.net' >; 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War Mailing List' >; 'Bryan Savage' >; Hoffman, Valerie J >; Miller, Joseph Thomas > Subject: RE: AWARE on the Air, June 28 Ok. Thanks Carl.Thanks for having me on. Thanks for the support. And I hope everyone can mobilize to terminate the Killer Koh Lecture here at the College of Law on October 28. Fab Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) From: C. G. Estabrook [mailto:carl at newsfromneptune.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:48 PM To: Boyle, Francis A > Cc: Peace Discuss > Subject: AWARE on the Air, June 28 Francis— The members of AWARE appreciate your participation in tonight’s program (Episode #369). The program is archived and may be viewed at >. We’d be delighted to have you join us again whenever your schedule allows. Regards, Carl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1625 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: