[Peace] Invitation to 'AWARE on the Air, ' Tuesdays at noon, at Urbana Public TV, 400 Vine St., Urbana

[C. G. Estabrook]

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