From divisek at yahoo.com  Wed Mar  1 01:54:47 2017
From: divisek at yahoo.com (Dianna Visek)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 01:54:47 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace] Our Revolution: Reelect Laurel Prussing TODAY
	for	Urbana Mayor
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What is Our Revolution?  And why are they getting involved in the Urbana mayoral primary when their address is in Washington, DC?  (See bottom of email.)

Dianna
 

    On Tuesday, February 28, 2017 10:53 AM, Robert Naiman via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
 

 The main thing about the referenda about our nursing home you need to know for today is: it's not on the ballot today. It's on the ballot April 4. 
Having said that: on April 4, there will be two questions on the ballot. One question will be: do you support a property tax increase to support our county nursing home. There, supporters of our county nursing home are asking people to vote YES. The second question will be: do you support selling or disposing of our Nursing Home. On that question, supporters of our Nursing Home are asking people to vote NO. 
Also, on March 22, Champaign County Democrats will be voting on whether to endorse the referenda campaign to save our Nursing Home. Our petition to the CC Dems on that is here:
@ChampaignCoDems: Vote to Save Our County Nursing Home
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/champaigncodems-vote?r_by=1135580

Finally, this is a website for the save-our-county-nursing-home campaign, where you can get yard signs, more info, etc.:
https://www.facebook.com/ChampaignCountyCARE





Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Susan Parenti <susanroseparenti at gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, our household is going to vote, and to vote for Prussing. 
Can you help us figure out the referendum on privatizing the nursing home—is it worded so that we vote ‘no’ or ‘yes’?susan parenti

On Feb 28, 2017, at 10:28 AM, Robert Naiman via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
Ruth Wyman adds:===To all Democrats who live in Urbana. Please remember to vote in the Democratic primary today.   The polls are open from 6 am to 7 pm. 
If you are not sure where to go to vote, you can find your polling place here:https://www.champaigncountycle rk.com/elections/voter_informa tion.php
As of Thursday, more than 25 % of the early votes cast or absentee ballots requested were from voters who had voted in one or both of the last two republican primaries -- but the only issue on the ballot is the Democratic Primary for Urbana mayor!  
With such a strong showing of Republicans trying to influence the Democratic primary for Urbana mayor, it is vital that all Democrats get out to vote this Tuesday!===---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Our Revolution <info at ourrevolution.com>
Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 6:21 PM
Subject: Reelect Laurel Prussing TOMORROW for Urbana Mayor
To: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>


The mayor's election is TOMORROW 

 It’s time to make a plan to vote.  
 The mayor's election is TOMORROW, and our endorsed candidate Laurel Prussing is up for reelection. Laurel was the first woman ever elected mayor of Urbana in 2005, and her lifelong advocacy on behalf of the public only increased upon entering the mayor’s office.   
 Laurel serves on numerous board, commission and association appointments and collaborates with the Governor and Legislature to improve education and law enforcement training standards in Illinois. Thanks to her leadership on the city council, Urbana reaffirmed its status as a Sanctuary City, and with her financial acumen the city maintained its commitment to putting more than $300,000 into social service agencies. She hired a statistician to help study racial disparities in traffic stops and put two more police officers on the beat to address the recent spike in violent crime. With experience at the precinct, county, state and non-profit levels, and her Ph.D studies in public finance at the University of Illinois, Laurel’s tireless work ethic continues to serve Urbana well.  
 Laurel’s accomplishments belong to everyone in Urbana and the greater Champaign County. Her greatest work has been to engage with community and grassroots organizations, hearing your concerns and acting on them with policy. Let’s build on the progress we’ve made together.  
 Laurel needs you to show up TOMORROW and cast your vote to keep her in the mayor's office.   
 We hope that you will stand with us when you cast your ballot tomorrow so Laurel can continue doing what she does best - working for us to bring about the change we need.  
 In solidarity, 
The Team at Our Revolution PAID FOR BY OUR REVOLUTION
603 2ND ST, NE
WASHINGTON, DC, 20002

Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee. Our Revolution is a 501(c)(4) organization. Donations to Our Revolution are not deductible as charitable contributions for Federal income tax purposes. All donations are made to support Our Revolution’s general mission and are not designated for any specific activity.603 2nd St NE, Washington, DC 20002 



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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Wed Mar  1 01:58:03 2017
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 19:58:03 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Our Revolution: Reelect Laurel Prussing TODAY for
	Urbana Mayor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution

*Our Revolution* is an American progressive
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism> political action organization
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501c4> spun out of Senator Bernie Sanders'
2016 presidential campaign
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders_presidential_campaign,_2016> to
continue its work.[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-1> The
organization's mission is to educate voters about issues,[2]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-2>[3]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-3> get people
involved in the political process, and work to organize and elect
progressive candidates. *Our Revolution* is also the title of a book by
Sanders released in November 2016.[4]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-4>[5]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-5>

Launch and focus[edit
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Our_Revolution&action=edit&section=1>
]

The organization officially launched on August 24, 2016, designated as a
501(c)(4)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)_organization#501.28c.29.284.29>,[6]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-6> with a
presentation that was live-streamed online via YouTube
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube> to meetings across the country and
shown by Free Speech TV <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_TV>.

Our Revolution's three main goals are:

   1. to revitalize American democracy by engaging millions of individuals
   in the political processes;
   2. to empower the next generation of progressive leaders;
   3. to elevate political consciousness by educating the public about
   issues confronting the United States.[7]
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-7>

More specifically, the organization aims to create, support, promote and
elect progressive candidates from school board to US Senate; support and
help pass progressive ballot measures; create, train and mobilize
activists; and protest things such as oil pipelines and the Trans-Pacific
Partnership <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership>.[8]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-8> The progressive
issues Our Revolution promotes are almost identical to those of Sanders's
2016 presidential campaign: reducing income and wealth inequality, working
for single-payer healthcare
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_healthcare>, reducing the price
of prescription drugs, instituting a $15 minimum wage, expanding Social
Security, creating jobs, and making public colleges and universities
tuition-free.[9] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-9> The
organization will support minority rights, specifically African American,
Latino and Native American rights, including government respect of treaties
with Native Americans. Organizations that support Our Revolution include People
for Bernie <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_for_Bernie>, National
Nurses United <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Nurses_United>, and
the Communications Workers of America
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Workers_of_America>, among
others.[10] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-:0-10>
2016 election[edit
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Our_Revolution&action=edit&section=2>
]

During the 2016 election
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,_2016>, the
organization supported several ballot measures and candidates, with $1.3
million raised.[11]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-11> Of the 106
candidates and 34 ballot initiatives Our Revolution supported, 58
candidates and 23 ballot initiatives won in 2016.[12]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-:1-12>[13]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-13> Our Revolution,
like Sanders, opposed the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump>. After Trump's election, Our
Revolution issued the following statement:

We will do everything in our power to ensure that the president-elect
cannot ignore the battles Americans are facing every single day. Our job is
to offer a real alternative vision and engage on the local and national
level to continue the work of the political revolution in the face of a
divided nation.[12]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-:1-12>

Sanders himself announced, "I intend to work with President Trump on those
issues where he will, in fact, work for the middle class and working
families of this country. I will vigorously oppose him if he appeals to
racism or sexism or some of the other discriminatory measures that he
brought up during his campaign."[14]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-14>

Chairman Larry Cohen cited populist sentiment and cautioned that political
and economic elitists may face backlash in upcoming elections.[15]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-15>
Staffing[edit
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Our_Revolution&action=edit&section=3>
]

The organization's staff include chairman Larry Cohen
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Cohen_(union_leader)> and president Jeff
Weaver <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Weaver_(political_staffer)>.[16]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-wapostaff-16>[17]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-17>[18]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-18> Erika Andiola,
the Sanders campaign's Latino press secretary, has joined the
organization's communications staff.[19]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-19> Our
Revolution's 501(c)(4) designation prevents Sanders from playing a role in
the organization because he is an elected official.[20]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-20>

On August 29, 2016 the board of Our Revolution was announced as:

   - Larry Cohen
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Cohen_(union_leader)> (Chairman)
   – Labor
   - Nina Turner <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Turner> – Former Ohio
   State Senator
   - Deborah Parker – Native American Leader
   - Ben Jealous <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Jealous> – Civil
   Rights Leader
   - Jim Hightower <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Hightower> –
   Political Leader, National Radio Commentator & Writer
   - Jim Zogby <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Zogby> – Arab American
   Human Rights Leader
   - Huck Gutman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huck_Gutman> – Former Chief
   of Staff for Senator Bernie Sanders
   - Jane Kleeb – Environmental Activist
   - Lucy Flores <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Flores> – Former
   Nevada Assemblywoman
   - Jonathan Daley – Immigration, Reproductive Justice and Trans Queer
   Liberation Activist
   - Shailene Woodley <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shailene_Woodley> –
   Actress and Environmental Activist[21]
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-21>[22]
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-22>

At the start, the organization faced a significant staffing challenge as
eight of its initial 15 staffers left before the launch when Weaver was
chosen as president. They objected to the way he had handled Sanders'
presidential campaign and to his decision to make Our Revolution a 501(c)(4)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)_organization#501.28c.29.284.29>.[23]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-23>[24]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-24> Some staffers
also left in protest of a lack of diversity among the organization's
leaders.[10] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-:0-10> The
remaining staff were subsequently joined by an additional three staffers,
bringing the total to ten.[16]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-wapostaff-16>[25]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-25>[26]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Revolution#cite_note-26>


Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:54 PM, Dianna Visek <divisek at yahoo.com> wrote:

> What is Our Revolution?  And why are they getting involved in the Urbana
> mayoral primary when their address is in Washington, DC?  (See bottom of
> email.)
>
> Dianna
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 28, 2017 10:53 AM, Robert Naiman via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>
> The main thing about the referenda about our nursing home you need to know
> for today is: it's not on the ballot today. It's on the ballot April 4.
>
> Having said that: on April 4, there will be two questions on the ballot.
> One question will be: do you support a property tax increase to support our
> county nursing home. There, supporters of our county nursing home are
> asking people to vote YES. The second question will be: do you support
> selling or disposing of our Nursing Home. On that question, supporters of
> our Nursing Home are asking people to vote NO.
>
> Also, on March 22, Champaign County Democrats will be voting on whether to
> endorse the referenda campaign to save our Nursing Home. Our petition to
> the CC Dems on that is here:
>
> @ChampaignCoDems: Vote to Save Our County Nursing Home
> http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/champaigncodems-vote?r_by=1135580
>
> Finally, this is a website for the save-our-county-nursing-home campaign,
> where you can get yard signs, more info, etc.:
>
> https://www.facebook.com/ChampaignCountyCARE
>
>
>
>
>
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
> (202) 448-2898 x1 <(202)%20448-2898>
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Susan Parenti <
> susanroseparenti at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, our household is going to vote, and to vote for Prussing.
>
> Can you help us figure out the referendum on privatizing the nursing
> home—is it worded so that we vote ‘no’ or ‘yes’?
> susan parenti
>
> On Feb 28, 2017, at 10:28 AM, Robert Naiman via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
> Ruth Wyman adds:
> ===
> To all Democrats who live in Urbana. Please remember to vote in the
> Democratic primary today.   The polls are open from 6 am to 7 pm.
> If you are not sure where to go to vote, you can find your polling place
> here:
> https://www.champaigncountycle rk.com/elections/voter_informa tion.php
> <https://www.champaigncountyclerk.com/elections/voter_information.php>
> As of Thursday, more than 25 % of the early votes cast or absentee
> ballots requested were from voters who had voted in one or both of the last
> two republican primaries -- but the only issue on the ballot is the
> Democratic Primary for Urbana mayor!
> With such a strong showing of Republicans trying to influence the
> Democratic primary for Urbana mayor, it is vital that all Democrats get out
> to vote this Tuesday!
> ===
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Our Revolution* <info at ourrevolution.com>
> Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 6:21 PM
> Subject: Reelect Laurel Prussing TOMORROW for Urbana Mayor
> To: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
>
>
> The mayor's election is TOMORROW [image: Our Revolution]
> It’s time to make a plan to vote.
>
> *The mayor's election is TOMORROW, and our endorsed candidate Laurel
> Prussing is up for reelection.
> <https://go.ourrevolution.com/page/m/24fb0a0d/43f7c5d4/21af44dc/62002026/4160945099/VEsH/>*
> Laurel was the first woman ever elected mayor of Urbana in 2005, and her
> lifelong advocacy on behalf of the public only increased upon entering the
> mayor’s office.
>
> Laurel serves on numerous board, commission and association appointments
> and collaborates with the Governor and Legislature to improve education and
> law enforcement training standards in Illinois. Thanks to her leadership on
> the city council, Urbana reaffirmed its status as a Sanctuary City, and
> with her financial acumen the city maintained its commitment to putting
> more than $300,000 into social service agencies. She hired a statistician
> to help study racial disparities in traffic stops and put two more police
> officers on the beat to address the recent spike in violent crime. With
> experience at the precinct, county, state and non-profit levels, and her
> Ph.D studies in public finance at the University of Illinois, Laurel’s
> tireless work ethic continues to serve Urbana well.
>
> Laurel’s accomplishments belong to everyone in Urbana and the greater
> Champaign County. Her greatest work has been to engage with community and
> grassroots organizations, hearing your concerns and acting on them with
> policy. Let’s build on the progress we’ve made together.
>
> *Laurel needs you to show up TOMORROW and cast your vote to keep her in
> the mayor's office.
> <https://go.ourrevolution.com/page/m/24fb0a0d/43f7c5d4/21af44dc/62002026/4160945099/VEsE/>*
>
> We hope that you will stand with us when you cast your ballot tomorrow so
> Laurel can continue doing what she does best - working for us to bring
> about the change we need.
>
> In solidarity,
>
> The Team at Our Revolution
> PAID FOR BY OUR REVOLUTION
> 603 2ND ST, NE
> WASHINGTON, DC, 20002
>
> Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee. Our Revolution is
> a 501(c)(4) organization. Donations to Our Revolution are not deductible as
> charitable contributions for Federal income tax purposes. All donations are
> made to support Our Revolution’s general mission and are not designated for
> any specific activity.
> 603 2nd St NE, Washington, DC 20002
>
>
>
>
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From susanroseparenti at gmail.com  Wed Mar  1 02:01:12 2017
From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:01:12 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Our Revolution: Reelect Laurel Prussing TODAY for
	Urbana Mayor
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Our Revolution is Bernie Sanders’ initiative. Laurel Prussing is a delegate for Bernie Sanders. The’Our Revolution’ group is doing a super job of following every possible candidate—local, state, national—and informing people of the vulnerability of that candidate and the need for support. 

Diana, I don’t think I know you, so am not sure what next to say. For my part, I am immensely grateful that the Bernie group is hammering at this angle—to get the majority of people in Congress to not be murderous corporatists—and to keep telling us about elections and candidates.

Possibly your neighbor—
Susan Parenti
> On Feb 28, 2017, at 7:54 PM, Dianna Visek <divisek at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> What is Our Revolution?  And why are they getting involved in the Urbana mayoral primary when their address is in Washington, DC?  (See bottom of email.)
> 
> Dianna
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, February 28, 2017 10:53 AM, Robert Naiman via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> The main thing about the referenda about our nursing home you need to know for today is: it's not on the ballot today. It's on the ballot April 4. 
> 
> Having said that: on April 4, there will be two questions on the ballot. One question will be: do you support a property tax increase to support our county nursing home. There, supporters of our county nursing home are asking people to vote YES. The second question will be: do you support selling or disposing of our Nursing Home. On that question, supporters of our Nursing Home are asking people to vote NO. 
> 
> Also, on March 22, Champaign County Democrats will be voting on whether to endorse the referenda campaign to save our Nursing Home. Our petition to the CC Dems on that is here:
> 
> @ChampaignCoDems: Vote to Save Our County Nursing Home
> http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/champaigncodems-vote?r_by=1135580 <http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/champaigncodems-vote?r_by=1135580>
> 
> Finally, this is a website for the save-our-county-nursing-home campaign, where you can get yard signs, more info, etc.:
> 
> https://www.facebook.com/ChampaignCountyCARE <https://www.facebook.com/ChampaignCountyCARE>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org <http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/>
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org <mailto:naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
> (202) 448-2898 x1
> 
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Susan Parenti <susanroseparenti at gmail.com <mailto:susanroseparenti at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Yes, our household is going to vote, and to vote for Prussing. 
> 
> Can you help us figure out the referendum on privatizing the nursing home—is it worded so that we vote ‘no’ or ‘yes’?
> susan parenti
>> On Feb 28, 2017, at 10:28 AM, Robert Naiman via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
>> 
>> Ruth Wyman adds:
>> ===
>> To all Democrats who live in Urbana. Please remember to vote in the Democratic primary today.   The polls are open from 6 am to 7 pm. 
>> If you are not sure where to go to vote, you can find your polling place here:
>> https://www.champaigncountycle rk.com/elections/voter_informa tion.php <https://www.champaigncountyclerk.com/elections/voter_information.php>
>> As of Thursday, more than 25 % of the early votes cast or absentee ballots requested were from voters who had voted in one or both of the last two republican primaries -- but the only issue on the ballot is the Democratic Primary for Urbana mayor!  
>> With such a strong showing of Republicans trying to influence the Democratic primary for Urbana mayor, it is vital that all Democrats get out to vote this Tuesday!
>> ===
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Our Revolution <info at ourrevolution.com <mailto:info at ourrevolution.com>>
>> Date: Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 6:21 PM
>> Subject: Reelect Laurel Prussing TOMORROW for Urbana Mayor
>> To: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com <mailto:naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>>
>> 
>> 
>>  
>> It’s time to make a plan to vote.
>>  
>> The mayor's election is TOMORROW, and our endorsed candidate Laurel Prussing is up for reelection. <https://go.ourrevolution.com/page/m/24fb0a0d/43f7c5d4/21af44dc/62002026/4160945099/VEsH/> Laurel was the first woman ever elected mayor of Urbana in 2005, and her lifelong advocacy on behalf of the public only increased upon entering the mayor’s office. 
>>  
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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Wed Mar  1 15:29:28 2017
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 09:29:28 -0600
Subject: [Peace] FAIR: US Media Downplaying US Contribution to Potential
	Yemen Famine
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http://fair.org/home/downplaying-us-contribution-to-potential-yemen-famine/

Downplaying US Contribution to Potential Yemen Famine
By Adam Johnson
Feb 27 2017

For almost two years, the United States has backed—with weapons, logistics
and political support—a Saudi-led war in Yemen that has left
<http://www.alternet.org/world/one-nastiest-wars-recent-history-raging-yemen-and-us-heavily-involved-it>
over
10,000 dead, 40,000 wounded, 2.5 million internally displaced, 2.2 million
children suffering from malnutrition and over 90 percent of civilians in
need of humanitarian aid.

A recent UN report <https://www.unicef.org/media/media_94893.html> on the
humanitarian crisis and near-famine conditions in Yemen (that encompassed
South Sudan, Nigeria and Somalia as well) has led to a rare instance of
Western media taking notice of the war and its catastrophic effect. But
missing from most of these reports is the role of the United States and its
ally Saudi Arabia—whose two-year-long siege and bombing have left the
country in ruins.

A* Daily News* editorial (“USA for Africa (and Yemen),” 2/27/17
<http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/u-s-africa-yemen-article-1.2981829>)
called on readers to give to aid organizations helping to alleviate the
crisis, but neglected to mention the US/Saudi role in the humanitarian
disaster the* Daily News* itself insisted was “caused by acts of man rather
than God.” Which men were those? The* Daily News *doesn’t say.
[image: AP: Almost 1.4 million children face 'imminent death:' UN agency]
<http://fair.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/APFamine.png>

*This AP report (2/21/17
<http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/02/21/almost-14-million-children-face-imminent-death-un-agency.html>)
notes that “in Yemen’s conflict, nearly half a million children have
‘severe acute malnutrition'”–but it doesn’t mention the US government’s
contribution to that conflict.*

Similarly, reports on the near-famine in Yemen in the* Guardian *(2/12/17
<https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/12/famine-looms-four-countries-aid-system-struggles-yemen-south-sudan-nigeria-somalia>
), *AP* (2/21/17
<http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/02/21/almost-14-million-children-face-imminent-death-un-agency.html>
), *CBS News* (2/22/17
<http://www.cbsnews.com/news/un-needs-billions-to-prevent-catastrophe-of-hunger-famine/>)
and *Reuters* (2/22/17
<http://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-famine-idUSKBN1612QB>) neglected to
mention the US-backed, Saudi-led bombing and siege that caused the hunger
crisis in the first place.

To the extent these stories cover the war in Yemen, they typically do so in
a “cycle of violence” framing that gives the reader the impression the
crisis is entirely domestic in origin. As FAIR has previously noted (
10/14/16
<http://fair.org/home/hiding-us-role-in-yemen-slaughter-so-bombing-can-be-sold-as-self-defense/>),
while it’s common for American media to describe the Houthi-led provisional
government as “Iranian-backed,” the role of Saudi Arabia and its Gulf
allies is less often highlighted, while the role of the United States (and
Britain) in supporting the Saudi-led assault is frequently omitted entirely.
[image: The Guardian view on famine: sitting by as disaster unfolds]
<http://fair.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/GuardianFamine.png>

*Like the US, the UK has not been “sitting by” but actively contributing to
famine in Yemen.*

A separate *Guardian* editorial (2/23/17
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/23/the-guardian-view-on-famine-sitting-by-as-disaster-unfolds?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet>),
while briefly mentioning the war was “fueled in part by British and US
bombs” in the text of the article, insisted in the headline the UK was
“sitting by” as “disaster unfolded.” The UK is, of course, not “sitting
by.” The British government has provided £3.3 billion in arms sales—as well
as logistical support, surveillance assistance and political cover
<https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/29/uk-and-saudi-arabia-in-secret-deal-over-human-rights-council-place>—to
the Saudi regime primarily responsible for the disaster in question.

A UN report from last year
<http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-yemen-security-un-idUKKBN15D0S9> found
there had “been widespread and systematic violations of international
humanitarian law, international human rights law and human rights norms” by
the Saudi government and its allies. The US role in the humanitarian
disaster was so significant, *Reuters* revealed last year
<http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-yemen-idUSKCN12A0BQ>, the
State Department was sending internal emails warning of possible US
exposure to war crimes prosecution.

One notable exception was the *New York Times *(2/22/17
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/world/africa/why-20-million-people-are-on-brink-of-famine-in-a-world-of-plenty.html>),
which expressly mentioned the US and Saudi role in the war in its report on
the UN’s findings.

Over the past six months, the humanitarian crisis in Yemen—to say nothing
of the US’s role in it—has been virtually nonexistent on cable and
broadcast news. *NBC News*, *Fox News* and *MSNBC *have all neglected to
cover the story. When it was covered on TV news, as with *CNN *(10/7/16
<http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/27/middleeast/yemen-world-food-program/>) and* ABC
News* (10/28/16
<http://abcnews.go.com/International/graffiti-artist-portrays-horrors-war-yemen/story?id=43103611>)
last October, the role of the United States in fueling the crisis was
omitted altogether.

The US’s role in the war in Yemen is even more urgent of late, with
President Donald Trump ramping up support
<https://theintercept.com/2017/02/10/trump-intends-to-follow-up-botched-yemen-military-raid-by-helping-saudis-target-civilians/>
for
Saudi Arabia’s harsh tactics, including possibly cutting off access to the
critical port of Hodeidah on Yemen’s west coast—an act that the* Huffington
Post *(2/22/17
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-hodeidah-yemen-famine_us_58a88970e4b037d17d28610b>)
insists could “spark a full-blown famine in Yemen.”

A first step to putting political pressure on Trump to mitigate the
suffering in Yemen is for the US public to speak out about their
government’s role—a condition unlikely to be met if corporate media never
bother to mention it.
------------------------------

*Adam Johnson is a contributing analyst for FAIR.org. You can f**ind him
on Twitter at @AdamJohnsonNYC <https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonnyc>.*

===

Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu Mar  2 15:57:01 2017
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 15:57:01 +0000
Subject: [Peace] The truth about Syria
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Karen Aram<https://www.facebook.com/karen.aram.1?fref=nf><https://www.facebook.com/karen.aram.1?fref=nf>
Just now<https://www.facebook.com/karen.aram.1/posts/10211925982814154> ·
<https://www.facebook.com/karen.aram.1/posts/10211925982814154#>

A highly detailed critique by Barbara McKenzie of Patrick Henningsen<https://www.facebook.com/pjhenningsen>'s "21st. Century Wire" which can be accessed online, where accompanying photo's and VDO's can be viewed. They don't appear here within the context of my cut and paste of the text. This is one of the best news services for information related to our wars in the Mideast and North Africa, and the photo's and VDO's are well worth viewing.

Syria Solidarity UK Take on Vanessa Beeley – and Lose

FEBRUARY 28, 2017 BY BARBARA MCKENZIE 5 COMMENTS

Barbara McKenzie
21st Century Wire

One of the most difficult things about reporting on a war that claims to be a civil war or a popular revolution, is to gauge the feelings of the ordinary people. The Syrian voice in practice tends to be reduced to ‘my friend’s cousin’, or ‘three people I spoke to in a refugee camp in Jordan’, or ‘all the ex-pats’. This was never going to be good enough for Vanessa Beeley.
Vanessa Beeley has been following the Syrian war closely, since leaving Gaza in May 2013. She visited the country three times during 2016. She has carried out in-depth investigations into phenomena such as the fake humanitarian construct known as the White Helmets . Beeley was in Aleppo during and after its liberation from US, NATO & Gulf state funded, extremist groups in December 2016. She chose to make the most of this rare opportunity by interviewing the people who had been trapped, under occupation by these Nusra Front-led terrorist groups, in East Aleppo. Many interviews were conducted, literally as these Syrian civilians emerged from their almost five year imprisonment. Having undertaken this task, she did this thoroughly, speaking with as many people as possible from the liberated districts of East Aleppo, whose voices can be heard in her videos (full list here).

In recent weeks Vanessa Beeley has been speaking at venues in the United Kingdom, including Bristol on the 17th February (her presentation was videoed and the video should soon be available). The meeting was attended by about 70 people, including a hostile group from Syria Solidarity UK (SSUK).
SSUK is a hard-line proponent of regime change in Syria, promoting active intervention by NATO state powers, including a Libya-style no-fly zone. Its narrative assumes a ‘popular revolution’, the total veracity of Western propaganda, and the validity of propaganda constructs like the White Helmets. One of the SSUK members, Clara Connolly, has written her own report on Vanessa Beeley’s presentation, Beeley in Bristol.

It is a common tactic for people who actively support war and destruction in Syria, regardless of the harm to the Syrian people, to claim the moral high ground over those opposing the war. Clara Connolly, in her attempts to declare Vanessa Beeley as incompetent and morally deficient, only exposes her own moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
Connolly is big on labels, starting with the public meeting itself, which is termed a ‘Stalinist cult meeting’. In the first few lines, she manages to damn Vanessa Beeley by association with the ‘far-right’ (Infowars), the socialist paper Morning Star, and the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), also termed Stalinist by Connolly, who conceivably does not know what the term means. Mehrnaz Shahabi, who introduced Beeley, is described as ‘an open supporter of the Iranian regime’. Shahabi does indeed belong to the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran – perhaps we should expect an ISUK group to emerge in the event of NATO contriving a colour revolution in Iran.
Consideration of some of the issues raised by Connolly reveals her total lack of interest in the real facts of the Syrian conflict.

Food shortages in Aleppo. ‘Beeley […] advanced the astonishing and unsupported theory that there was “enough food in East Aleppo for a year”.’
The following is one of the testimonies supporting this statement, that Beeley had included in her presentation, that was seemingly ignored or overlooked by Connolly in her eagerness to disappear the Syrian voices that did not agree with the SSUK narrative on Syria:

In the last months of 2016, extravagant claims were made of the Syrian government deliberately starving Aleppo into submission; take, for example the Nation, Assad Regime to Besieged Aleppo: Surrender or Starve. During and after liberation of East Aleppo, by the Syrian Arab Army and allies, storehouses were found with substantial quantities of food aid – this unassailable fact has been widely reported, but seems to have completely escaped Clara Connolly.

In September 2016 a bizarre situation arose whereby the UN was demanding access to eastern Aleppo for humanitarian aid, but there were protests by the occupying Nusra Front-led extremist forces, insisting that is was not humiliating food aid they wanted, but an opening of the Castello road, a long-time conduit for weapons, supplies and equipment for the embedded terrorists.

One look at the protesters shows why they rejected food aid – starvation is not usually a problem for the extremist and terrorist occupying forces in Syria:

Various extremist factions and their supporters in East Aleppo prior to its liberation by SAA and allies. Third from left is Riyadh educated and funded “chief” of Jaish al Fatah ( Army of Conquest), Sheikh Abdullah Muhaysini. (Image via @Sadattawa)
WHITE HELMETS STARVING
White Helmets leader, Raed Saleh, says Aleppo residents 10 days from starvation. November 2016 Photo taken of White Helmet, Ismail Alabdullah end of October 2016

The same situation prevails in other towns occupied by militants. The town of Madaya, occupied by Ahrar Al Sham & assorted extremist groups, and under siege by the Syrian army, regularly receives aid from the Red Crescent/Red Cross with entry negotiated through the Syrian government in Damascus. However, in January 2016, even though aid for three months had gone in the previous October, there were reports of starvation in the town, blamed, naturally, on the Syrian government. When people who needed medical treatment emerged from the town, RT’s Murad Gazdiev went to meet them (there were no representatives from Western media present). He was told that the militants were hoarding the food aid and selling it at exorbitant prices. A familiar “siege” pattern across the extremist and terrorist occupied areas of Syria.

21st Century Wire article on Madaya: West Engineer Another Humanitarian Media Hoax in Syria

Misuse of schools and hospitals – ‘Beeley claimed al Nusra occupied schools and hospitals‘

There is extensive evidence, reported even in the corporate press, of the schools and hospitals of eastern Aleppo used by extremists as military bases, prisons and storehouses, as in the video above, for anything but their intended purpose. In early December 2016, the Syrian Arab Army searched the National Hospital in eastern Aleppo, which was still in use, but as a military command centre, weapon depot and prison.

The last hospital in Aleppo
That the National Hospital was standing at all should come as a surprise, given all the reports of the ‘Last Hospital’ in Aleppo, which along with the ‘Last Clown’ and ‘Last Gardener’ have passed into legend.

On 28 April 2016 Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported Syria: Airstrike destroys MSF-supported hospital in Aleppo killing 14 – the hospital was reduced to rubble according to MSF’s source, unnamed ‘hospital staff’. The story that once again the Russians had obliterated the last hospital in Aleppo went viral, see for example, the Washington Post. Connolly, however, is clearly completely unaware of this well reported story, accusing Beeley of ‘disputing a claim that was never made’.

The extravagant claims were quickly forgotten by both MSF and the press – as Connolly correctly points out, MSF stated in May 2016 that it would reopen in two weeks, which does not alter the fact of the original lie, reported with such enthusiasm by MSF and the corporate media, all of whom continue to disseminate lies from the same sources.
In December 2016 Vanessa Beeley tracked down the hospital and found it intact and usable, with records proving it was operational in July 2016, three months later (video here) .

Connolly claims to take offense that Vanessa Beeley, along with most people following the Syrian conflict, ridicule the continual dramatic announcements from MSF of the destruction of another ‘last hospital’. Scoffing at blatant propaganda is a proper response, certainly not to be compared with Hillary Clinton’s laughing at the demise of Gaddafi, or Madeleine Albright’s dismissal of the deaths of half a million children due to US crippling sanctions on Iraq. For Albright, these deaths were, a price that was “worth it” for the US geopolitical agenda that rarely leaves a target country standing, post US intervention.

The White Helmets ‘What is important about the White Helmets is what they do—attacking rescuers in cities under bombardment is like attacking the New York Fire Brigade after 9/11.’

Needless to say Beeley is NOT attacking the work of first responders, and in fact she has written several articles promoting the role of the real civil defence in Syria. What she has done, however, is expose the shadow state function & terrorist affiliations of the White Helmets, who are far from being humanitarian, first responders, according to the testimony of Syrian civilians living alongside these frauds, in East Aleppo, for almost five years.

The White Helmets, self-styled as an impartial first-responder outfit, are funded by the UK, the US and allied NATO & Gulf states for the primary purpose of constructing propaganda, in order to garner acceptance for a no-fly zone in Syria. A No-Fly Zone that has been called a declaration of war between the US and Russia on Syrian soil, by a number of analysts and scholars. Hillary Clinton herself, admitted that a No Fly Zone would lead to greater bloodshed in Syria.

The material the White Helmets provide is a primary source for claims of alleged Russian and Syrian war crimes, the majority of which have been discredited and proven to be False Flags. They have been a vital weapon in the campaign for an escalated intervention against the Syrian government, army and allies – any attack on the credibility of the White Helmets is seen by NATO and its allies as a blow to that cause.

A member of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, whom Beeley spoke with, likewise could not recall seeing White Helmets operating in eastern Aleppo:

Barrel bombs: ‘Beeley argues that if the SNHR figure of 35,000 barrel bombs had fallen on Syria, it would have been the equivalent of several atom bombs and “we wouldn’t have a world”.’
SNHRbarrelbombs

If Connolly is intimating that the statement she is attributing to Beeley is nonsense, she would be right – the US dropped 26,000 bombs in 2016 alone without managing to destroy the planet. And Vanessa Beeley did indeed say something like this, but Connolly is omitting one vital piece of Beeley’s argument – the equivalence of several atom bombs is based on the wild claims made for the power of the barrel bomb. Although the barrel bomb is in truth a very primitive weapon, James Le Mesurier, UK ex military trainer of the White Helmets, announced on the BBC that a single bomb was equivalent to an 8.0 magnitude earthquake (see Beeley’s Syria: Consign Barrel Bombs to the Propaganda Graveyard). It is certainly not Vanessa Beeley who is talking nonsense

‘Moderate rebels’ – al Zinki, Ahrar al Sham, al Nusra, ISIS
The Astana talks over Syria’s future between the Syrian government and the opposition achieved one thing at least: they revealed exactly what is meant by what John Kerry used to fondly term the ‘legitimate opposition’ in Syria.

The opposition delegation to the talks were led by Mohammed Alloush of Jaish al Islam, and the two largest factions involved were Jaish al Islam and Ahrar al Sham. Both these groups are regarded as barbaric extremists by the Syrian people, both groups have been involved in disgusting warcrimes: Jaish al Islam is notable for its use of chemical weapons and using caged women as human shields, while Ahrar al Sham has participated in many atrocities including the massacre of al Zara. The ideological identity of both groups with that of ISIS and al Nusra is indisputable.

Of the two groups, Ahrar is the one with a strong presence in northern Syria, including Aleppo, and its operational links with both ISIS and al Nusra are well recorded; see e.g. Guido Steinberg, Ahrar al-Sham:
The “Syrian Taliban”, and Stanford University, Mapping Militant Organisations.

The policy of the Obama administration was to make ISIS the fall guy in the context of Syria: the US was waging war on ISIS, rather than terrorism. Al Nusra, also designated as a terrorist organisation, was in turn separated from the other groups, so that the followers of the conflict have been constantly subjected to silly statements from both John Kerry and Russia’s Sergei Lavrov about the US disentangling its ‘moderates’ from the extremists.

Connolly is anxious to devalue the presence and role of al Nusra and ISIS in Aleppo, playing to the fiction that Aleppo was dominated by ‘moderates’, i.e. Ahrar al Sham, and Harakat al Zinki, who were responsible for the gleeful beheading of Abdullah Issa in July 2016. She insists that ‘until February 2016, Al-Nusra were not in Aleppo at all, and after that only in small numbers compared to the other brigades’ (pointing to the UN figures of 900 out of 11,000) and ‘In reality ISIS had had no presence in East Aleppo since January 2014’.

In fact, al Nusra has paraded its presence in Aleppo on regular intervals over the years, for example in October 2013, September 2014, and May 2015, with weekly parades reported in April 2016. Protests nominally carried out by the ‘Free Syrian Army’, such as the one protesting food aid above, inevitably show the al Nusra flag; when Murad Gazdiev filmed across to eastern Aleppo in October 2016, the only flags showing on the front line were ISIS and al Nusra.

ISIS may have officially left Aleppo in 2014, but its spirit lived on, as the footage from Beeley’s footage from the White Helmet base and the Syrian Arab Army’s foray into the National Hospital both reveal. The al Zinki group, which enjoys a special relationship with the White Helmets, apparent in Channel 4’s homage to al Zinki, clearly identifies with ISIS.

In September 2016 Eva Bartlett appeared on RT’s Crosstalk, Syria: CEASEFIRE 2.0, and was asked to comment on moderate rebels.
 ‘It’s a farce. There are no moderate rebels, and this is what Syrians would say if they had a voice. They’re all committing the same crimes, the same heinous acts.’ (at 6:20 mins)

Another guest on the programme, Stephen Zunes, took issue with Eva Bartlett, but he was unable to suggest a single group that could be considered moderate.

‘The alphabet soup of differently named Jihadi groups in Syria merely disguises a single continuum of violent Wahhabi Jihadis all committed to the same cause: the overthrow of the Syrian government and the establishment of a sectarian Wahhabi exclusively Sunni state in its place’ ~ Alexander Mercouris.

Syrian Voices
SSUK’s slogan is #ListentoSyrians<https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/listentosyrians?source=feed_text&story_id=10211925982814154>. Connolly, however, was clearly unimpressed with Beeley’s endeavours to do exactly that, i.e. listen to Syrians. She calls into question both the veracity and the value of Beeley’s interviews: according to Connolly, ‘they needed extensive commentary from Beeley to yield the sense she wanted’. This is a matter of opinion – while it is true there are no intrusive pieces to camera, most would consider that the clips speak for themselves.

No doubt there are others who question Beeley’s interviews, those who will claim that her interviewees are speaking under fear of their lives. It is up to a psychologist to assess whether these claims are consistent with the body language of the people of Aleppo, or with their eagerness to speak of their experiences.

However, CNN, the BBC, and organisations such as SSUK could have tested the veracity of the reporting of Vanessa Beeley and RT reporters like Murad Gazdiev and Lizzie Phelam, both before and after liberation, but have chosen not to. They could have arranged to enter the National Hospital to check the findings of the Syrian Arab Army, but failed to do so. What Beeley achieved with a video camera and an interpreter seems quite obvious now, but neither the BBC nor CNN, with all their resources, or SSUK for that matter, have made any attempt to emulate this feat.
Connolly’s attack on Beeley is malicious, unresearched and manifestly agenda-driven. Within the murky fog of ignorance willfully created by propaganda from the likes of SSUK, the integrity and intellect of Beeley’s work, and its real contribution to understanding, shine like a beacon.
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From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 13:01:53 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Flyer for the demonstration by members and friends of AWARE,
 Saturday 4 March, 2-4pm, Church & Neil in Champaign
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President Trump: End U.S. Wars 
“...provide for the common defence...” 
BRING ALL U.S. TROOPS AND WEAPONS HOME

The U.S. is today making war in at least seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. In addition, the 70,000-member U.S. ‘Special Operations Command’ is active in no less than 70% of the countries of the world. Their activities include kidnapping (‘rendition’), torture, and murder.

Since World War II, U.S. presidents have killed more than 20 million people in 37 nations. The US continues to be what Martin Luther King called it long ago: “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”
	
Why has our government plagued the world with war for more than two generations? The answer is simple and horrible - to protect the profits of the one percent - the American economic elite.

When World War II ended in 1945, the U.S. was the only undamaged major country, and controlled the world economy, for the benefit of that one percent. In all the years since, US administrations have been willing to kill people and make war to “maintain the disparity,” as American planners said.

As a result, the US government is today engaged in war and war provocations around the world: 

MIDEAST. Our anti-war group AWARE was established fifteen years ago, after the attacks of 9/11/2001, by citizens of Champaign-Urbana who realized that the US government would use those crimes to justify its already long-standing attempts to exercise military control over the Mideast and its energy resources. The U.S. 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 - a chokehold which benefits only the American one percent. In 2003 the US illegally invaded Iraq - and killed perhaps a million people for that purpose - and now has thousands of troops and mercenaries throughout the Mideast.
	
UKRAINE. The Obama administration arranged the overthrow of an elected president in Ukraine and helped to install the only European government since WWII to contain Nazis. Then it encouraged an attack on the eastern Ukrainian provinces who refused to submit to the coup, killing thousands. The attack continues, while Russia tries to arrange a cease-fire (Minsk II).  The Crimea region, appalled by the coup government, voted to join Russia.   

E. EUROPE. When East and West Germany were reunited, in 1990, the US promised it would not extend NATO into Eastern Europe. But the Clinton administration broke that promise, and NATO advanced to the Russian border. In his last days in office, President Obama sent troops and tanks into Poland. The last national leader to do that was Hitler: Russia, attacked through Poland in both WWI and WWII, was understandably alarmed. 

S. CHINA SEA. President Obama in 2011 said that creating an American presence in the Asia Pacific was his "top priority.” His “pivot to Asia” is a US military build-up that threatens China’s trade routes, but for America's arms industry, the prize is huge profits. And the danger of confrontation grows by the day.

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The US government says we’re fighting terrorism, but we are in fact creating terrorists - in response particularly to the drone assassinations, “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times” - which have killed more than 5,000 people, including US citizens and hundreds of children. 

William Blum (author of “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II”) writes,

	“If I were the president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the United States in a few days. Permanently. I would first apologize - very publicly and very sincerely - to all the widows and the orphans, the impoverished and the tortured, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism. I would then announce that America's global interventions - including the awful bombings - have come to an end. And I would inform Israel that it is no longer the 51st state of the union but – oddly enough – a foreign country. I would then reduce the military budget by at least 90% and use the savings to pay reparations to the victims and repair the damage from the many American bombings and invasions...”

ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at <AWARE of Champaign Urbana Illinois>
US troops & weapons out of the Mideast! ~ Medicare for all! ~ Universal basic income!  

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Subject: [Peace] The Bloated Military
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Mar  4 14:12:37 2017
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 14:12:37 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Labor issues and imperialist socialists
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Rant for the day: When American socialists support war in Syria, because "we have to unite with the "rebels" to bring down a Dictator," then spout Marxist rhetoric of uniting the working class around the world, they are supporting US militarism and hegemony. First we have to unite our own working class against the capitalist system, against the "faux unions" who support our Oligarchy, against supporting the US military with our tax dollars, and build a solid foundation here in the US , before we go stumbling around in nations of which we know little about, with our superior "white man's burden" attitudes that "we shall lead them." that some how they need us. The assumption that journalists reporting on conditions elsewhere in the world, leads to efforts at organizing and joining hands is a fantasy, a goal for future perhaps, but given the situation in the US, dating back almost 40 years, a fantasy.  To be clear, the WSWS.org<http://wsws.org> suggests uniting in solidarity with working classes around the world, but they also point out the necessity of building working class movements, by limiting our support for wars, and the military in order to do so. See below:

As attack on jobs escalates, AFL-CIO chief pledges to “partner” with Trump administration
By Jerry White
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4 March 2017
Friday was the last day of work for 1,300 General Motors hourly employees at the GM Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant. Less than a year after being hired and promised full-time positions by GM and union officials, the workers are out of a job. Medical insurance is running out at the end of the month, and there are few prospects for decent jobs in a city where 117,000 workers are unemployed.

The job cuts in Detroit provide a far more realistic picture of the US economy than soaring stock markets or the Fed officials’ fantasies about “full employment.” Yet the layoff of 1,300 workers was not even deemed newsworthy by the local media. It also did not rate a mention by President Trump, who has appointed GM’s CEO to his corporate advisory board.
The Detroit job cuts follow more than 2,000 GM layoffs in Lansing, Michigan, and Lordstown, Ohio in January. They anticipate a far greater onslaught as US corporations restructure in response to the global economic slowdown and increasing international competition.

In the US, automakers are cutting production due to a growing glut of unsold cars. Commercial aircraft manufacturer Boeing, which cut eight percent of its workforce last year, announced Friday that 1,880 workers had accepted voluntary retirements. The company said more job cuts are expected in 2017 amid falling orders and tight competition with European-based Airbus, which announced 1,200 job cuts a few months ago. A new layoff announcement is made virtually every day in the retail, banking and technology sectors.

These are part of an international process. On Wednesday, China’s labor minister, Yin Weimin, said the country will cut another 500,000 steel and coal jobs this year. Last year, 726,000 workers lost their jobs in the coal and steel industries, or 40 percent of the 1.8 million jobs the government said would be eliminated in those industries as part of a massive restructuring of state enterprises.

In addition to the job cuts, corporations are seeking to transform their workforces into largely casual, temporary laborers, hired and fired at will, like the Detroit-Hamtramck GM workers.

According to the Government Accountability Office, contingent workers now comprise 40.4 percent of all employees. Under Obama, 95 percent of all new jobs created in the US since the so-called economic recovery began have been part-time and temporary. In the European Union, more than half of all new jobs since 2010 have been through temporary contracts.
The corporations are also accelerating their plans to dump their pensions and retiree health care obligations and continue to shift the cost of medical coverage on to workers. This month, 22,600 retired coal miners or their widows were notified that they will be losing health care benefits on April 30, when funding for their insurance plans expire. More than one million working or retired Americans are currently covered by pension plans that are in imminent danger of insolvency, according to the Pension Rights Center.

The Trump administration, packed with billionaires, is planning to slash corporate taxes and eliminate workplace safety, environmental and labor regulations. In his address to the joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Trump declared that his government has “undertaken a historic effort to massively reduce job crushing regulations.” The increase in military spending outlined in his new budget will be paid for by slashing food stamps and other essential programs, while the ultra-reactionaries appointed to key agencies set their sights on the privatization of public education and the elimination of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

As Wall Street is celebrating the Trump administration’s plans for a massive handout to the corporations and banks, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has pledged that his corporatist and anti-working class organization is “absolutely” committed to partnering with Trump.

Trump’s fascistic rants against immigrant workers and endless claims that foreign countries and foreign workers are destroying jobs and lowering wages is a calculated effort, aided and abetted by the unions, to divide the working class and block a unified response to the escalation of the class war policies at home and ever greater imperialist militarism abroad.
Responding to the speech, Trumka, the president of the AFL-CIO labor federation, told Fox News that the unions were prepared for Trump to “rewrite the rules of the economy,” particularly on trade and immigration policy.

Trump’s speech was the president’s “finest moment,” the union head said, signaling that “he’s about to start doing business rather than playing for the camera—that was a good sign.” Far from condemning the president’s xenophobic and racist slanders against immigrants, the AFL-CIO head signaled his support for an even more brutal immigration policy, including against legal residents.
“I was actually pleasantly surprised,” Trumka said, “to hear him say the system is broken and its legal immigration, as well as undocumented people—he talked about them a lot—but this was the first time he spoke about legal immigration being used to drive down wages. We’ve been saying that for a long time.”

Trumka said that workers voted for the president because “they wanted him to rewrite the rules of the economy—not for the rich, not for the wealthy, not for corporate America, not for Wall Street but for them—and so he’s been a mixed bag on that,” he said. The unions would tout the good things he did and criticize the bad, Trumka said, echoing the lie that trade wars and mass deportation were good for American workers.
“Will we partner with him? Absolutely,” Trumka said. “Will we partner with him to try to rewrite the immigration rules of the country? Absolutely… Using the bully pulpit to say this is your country, this is where you owe your allegiance, this is where you should be investing and building, that is a good thing.”

The trade unions have been a chief conduit for spreading nationalist poison among workers for a very long time. In the early 1980s, as American capitalism fell into decline and its corporations confronted international competitors, the unions promoted economic nationalism to justify their integration into the structure of corporate management and collusion in the destruction of the jobs and living standards of the workers they claimed to represent.

While the unions have worked closely with the Democrats in overseeing the attack on jobs and wages for decades, they now see income opportunities in Trump’s efforts to entice corporations to “Buy American, Hire American.” This has nothing to do with the interests of workers. Rather, the executives want to restore their lost income through the influx of new dues-paying members, regardless of whether they are earning poverty wages.
The unions are not “workers’ organizations,” but labor-management syndicates that are hostile to the interests of the working class. New organizations of struggle, including rank-and-file factory and workplace committees, democratically controlled by workers and committed to the methods of the class struggle, must be built to resist the coming attacks on jobs, living standards, essential social services and all the basic social rights of the working class.

Above all workers must reject economic nationalism. Workers in every country face the struggles and confront the same enemy: the global capitalist system, which enriches a handful of billionaires at the expense of the broad masses of working people whose collective labor creates society’s riches.

To unite the working class—black, white, native born and immigrant, in the US and around the world—workers must build a political movement, independent of both capitalist parties, the Democrats and Republicans, to fight for international socialism and against the danger of world war.
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From divisek at yahoo.com  Sat Mar  4 16:53:57 2017
From: divisek at yahoo.com (Dianna Visek)
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 16:53:57 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace] Fw: Paul Diehl - March 7 - The United Nations in Its 8th
 Decade: Constructing a Balance Sheet
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Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 13:43:14 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Chris Hedges interviews Kevin Zeese on "resistance"
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Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 17:57:18 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace] US now scanning retinas before international flights
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun Mar  5 19:30:20 2017
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 19:30:20 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Upcoming Event
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The local chapter of the Green Party, the Prairie Greens have an upcoming event, featuring local speakers as well as Rich Whitney, at the Champaign Public Library from 3:00-6:00 this Saturday, the 11th. 

More information will be forthcoming follow.

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From: divisek at yahoo.com (Dianna Visek)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 02:21:02 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace] lectures on Trump, secrecy, American federalism and more
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The Law School is having an interesting series of lectures on current topics.  See:
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon Mar  6 02:45:27 2017
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 02:45:27 +0000
Subject: [Peace] lectures on Trump, secrecy, American federalism and more
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If they are like the one they had on “freedom of speech” then spent the whole time promoting Hillary and other Illinois Democrats, or the debate last year on “the legitimacy of targeted killing,” promoting drone warfare? I’ll pass thank you.



On Mar 5, 2017, at 18:21, Dianna Visek via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

The Law School is having an interesting series of lectures on current topics.  See:

College of Law - Master Calendar<https://illinois.edu/calendar/list/5714>

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From jtrimmer111 at gmail.com  Mon Mar  6 02:50:26 2017
From: jtrimmer111 at gmail.com (Jo Trimmer)
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 18:50:26 -0800
Subject: [Peace] add2List...
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I am not Jennifer and I am fed up with getting all these emails.
PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THESE MAILING LISTS

On 13 Feb 2017 3:31 am, "Ivan R" <ivanpromotes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Please add the following name to the Peace_List and other activist sites
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon Mar  6 14:10:32 2017
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 14:10:32 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Transport in the US, is outdated,
 while China's high speed rail, of ten years, is expanding across Eurasia.
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In Silicon Valley, Caltrain Upgrade Is Imperiled as Trump Withholds Funds

By THOMAS FULLER<https://www.nytimes.com/by/thomas-fuller>MARCH 6, 2017

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Construction was under way last month in Fresno, Calif., on the first leg of the high-speed rail line connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles. The high-speed rail project and Caltrain are administratively separate, but a 2013 agreement to share tracks as a cost-saving measure raised Republican ire.CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO — The engineers of Silicon Valley are fine-tuning driverless cars, building robots designed to replicate the human brain and shaving milliseconds off internet response times.

Their trip to work, however, can be a throwback to the predigital age. The region’s commuter rail line is saddled with aging, smoke-spewing, diesel-powered locomotives.

For more than a decade, the managers of the Silicon Valley railway, known as Caltrain, have been planning to upgrade to faster and less polluting electric trains.

But those plans are now imperiled by the Trump administration’s decision in February to withhold a $647 million federal grant.

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In this impasse, some transportation experts see a foretaste of the political infighting and financial hurdles that could plague the nationwide infrastructure projects that President Trump is promising. Reviving America’s rusted and sagging infrastructure is one of the few areas where it seemed Democrats and Republicans could agree. But making these projects a reality — the “new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and railways gleaming across our beautiful land” that Mr. Trump enumerated to Congress last week — will require political cooperation and accommodations that are increasingly rare in ultrapartisan times.

In the case of Caltrain, the decision to withhold the grant came after California’s Republican congressional delegation asked the transportation secretary, Elaine L. Chao, to withdraw funding because the electrified system also would be used for the state’s bigger high-speed rail<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/high_speed_rail_projects/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier> project, a plan they vehemently oppose.

The high-speed rail line connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles is the most ambitious rail plan in the country and has been in the works for more than two decades with a projected cost of $64 billion. The project calls for completion in 2029.

Photo
[https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/03/04/us/00Transport-1/00Transport-1-master675.jpg]
A Caltrain station in Sunnyvale, Calif. The commuter rail line is saddled with aging, smoke-spewing, diesel-powered locomotives. CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times

Despite initial support, Republicans now regard the high-speed project as too costly.

“We have said no more federal dollars will go to California high-speed rail,” said Representative Jeff Denham, a Republican who is chairman of the House Subcommittee on Railroads. “We’re very strong on that position.”

In an interview, Mr. Denham said the project should immediately stop.

There has long been tension in California between advocates of more freeways and those favoring public transport. But the high-speed rail project had bipartisan support in its early stages. It was formally started in 1996 by Republican Gov. Pete Wilson and was supported by another Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

That consensus is long gone. The letter penned by the state’s 14 Republican members of Congress, including Kevin McCarthy, the House majority leader, called the project a “boondoggle” and described the Caltrain grant as an “irresponsible use of taxpayer dollars.”

Caltrain and the high-speed rail project are administratively separate, but a 2013 agreement to share tracks as a cost-saving measure raised Republican ire.

Defunding the electrification of the Silicon Valley corridor has immediate consequences for the system’s 65,000 daily commuters. Caltrain had hoped to switch to its electric system by 2021. The current trains are overcrowded and breakdowns are frequent; there are more than 19 mechanical failures per month, according to Caltrain engineers. Two-thirds of the fleet has “reached the end of its useful life,” Caltrain says.

At the rail line’s maintenance depot, engineers say they have trouble finding parts for the locomotives, which were built in the 1980s. And new maintenance workers need lectures from veteran technicians because they have no experience working on such old equipment.

Photo
[https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/03/04/us/00Transport-6/00Transport-6-master675.jpg]
Nick Christ doing maintenance on a Caltrain locomotive. Engineers say they have trouble finding parts for the locomotives, which were built in the 1980s. CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times

“You change out parts here and there,” said Joe Navarro, director of operations and maintenance at Caltrain. “We are putting Band-Aids on. It’s very challenging.”

Getting to work by car or bus is often not a better alternative in Silicon Valley. A recent study<http://inrix.com/scorecard/> found that the San Francisco Bay Area has the nation’s third-most-congested roads.

“We are lucky to live in a place where innovation is in the DNA, but we don’t see that for public transport,” said Sridhar Iyer, a software engineer for Twitter who rides the double-decker Caltrain that runs near the headquarters of Apple, Facebook and Google. “The whole thing is stuck in the past.”

In recent weeks, more than a dozen leaders of Silicon Valley firms called lawmakers to urge that the federal money be released for the Caltrain electrification project, according to Carl Guardino, the president of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which represents most of the region’s large tech companies.

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Sridhar Iyer, center, a software engineer for Twitter, says of Caltrain, “The whole thing is stuck in the past.” CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times

Mr. Guardino called the Republican campaign to block funding “a misinformed effort.”

“The most important asset of the innovation economy are our employees,” he said. “When they are stuck and stalled in traffic they are not productively creating the future.”

The specific objection by Republicans is that $600 million of state funds allocated to Caltrain’s electrification were initially authorized by a 2008 referendum on high-speed rail, known as Proposition 1A.

“They are stealing Prop 1A money and using it for something else,” Mr. Denham said.

Caltrain says that although the two trains will use the same tracks, the electrification project is “independent” and high-speed rail’s use of the corridor will require a separate environmental review.

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[https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/03/04/us/00Transport-7/00Transport-7-master675.jpg]
State Route 99’s lanes are being shifted in Fresno to make way for the high-speed rail line.CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times

The bigger picture, proponents of the electrification project say, is that the commuter rail project deserves the support of the Trump administration because it meets the broad criteria of its infrastructure push — it will be made in America by American workers. Almost all of the materials for the new train system will be sourced from factories across 14 states. Caltrain estimates the project will create nearly 10,000 jobs.

“This is the perfect project if you care about infrastructure, if you care about jobs and if you care about focusing on areas that are going to deliver long-term economic benefit,” said Stuart Cohen, the executive director of TransForm, a nonprofit group that advocates public transportation.

The state High-Speed Rail Authority is making a similar pitch. “Every ounce of the steel, every ounce of the concrete is domestic,” Dan Richard, the authority’s chairman, said. “We are reaching out to the Trump administration to make the case that this is entirely consistent with the president’s vision.”

An opinion <http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_316MBS.pdf> poll<http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_316MBS.pdf> by the Public Policy Institute of California last year showed a slim majority of respondents — 52 percent — support the high-speed rail project.

Outside Fresno, a city in California’s Central Valley surrounded by almond and fruit orchards and racked by poverty, about 1,000 workers have been employed on the project to build viaducts and tunnels at 10 construction sites.

The Finance Department of Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, decided on Friday that the project was ready to lay some track and approved $2.6 billion in spending. But there are lingering questions about how the later stages of the project will be financed, especially if Congress blocks more federal support.

Although the authority was established more than two decades, ago it was only in 2013 that construction began on the first, 119-mile segment of the project.

Mayor Lee Brand of Fresno, a Republican, supports the project, which would make Silicon Valley a 45-minute train ride away by 2025.

“I don’t look at this ideologically,” Mr. Brand said. “I look at it practically. The city of Fresno can enjoy a major benefit from what’s going on with high-speed rail. This is a poor city that needs all the help it can get.”

Photo
[https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/03/04/us/00Transport-4/00Transport-4-master675.jpg]
The high-speed rail line is the most ambitious rail plan in the country and has been in the works for more than two decades with a projected cost of $64 billion. The project calls for completion in 2029.CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times

Tom Richards, a real estate developer in Fresno who is on the authority’s board, said the rail connection could encourage tech companies to set up in the city and workers to commute to well-paying jobs in Silicon Valley.

“This is a whole story about connecting California together,” he said.

Susan Beachy contributed research.

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In Silicon Valley, Caltrain Upgrade Is Imperiled as Trump Withholds Funds

By THOMAS FULLER<https://www.nytimes.com/by/thomas-fuller>MARCH 6, 2017

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Construction was under way last month in Fresno, Calif., on the first leg of the high-speed rail line connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles. The high-speed rail project and Caltrain are administratively separate, but a 2013 agreement to share tracks as a cost-saving measure raised Republican ire.CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO — The engineers of Silicon Valley are fine-tuning driverless cars, building robots designed to replicate the human brain and shaving milliseconds off internet response times.

Their trip to work, however, can be a throwback to the predigital age. The region’s commuter rail line is saddled with aging, smoke-spewing, diesel-powered locomotives.

For more than a decade, the managers of the Silicon Valley railway, known as Caltrain, have been planning to upgrade to faster and less polluting electric trains.

But those plans are now imperiled by the Trump administration’s decision in February to withhold a $647 million federal grant.

Continue reading the main story<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/trump-and-republicans-block-caltrain-grant.html?emc=edit_th_20170306&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=32895054#story-continues-1>

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In this impasse, some transportation experts see a foretaste of the political infighting and financial hurdles that could plague the nationwide infrastructure projects that President Trump is promising. Reviving America’s rusted and sagging infrastructure is one of the few areas where it seemed Democrats and Republicans could agree. But making these projects a reality — the “new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and railways gleaming across our beautiful land” that Mr. Trump enumerated to Congress last week — will require political cooperation and accommodations that are increasingly rare in ultrapartisan times.

In the case of Caltrain, the decision to withhold the grant came after California’s Republican congressional delegation asked the transportation secretary, Elaine L. Chao, to withdraw funding because the electrified system also would be used for the state’s bigger high-speed rail<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/high_speed_rail_projects/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier> project, a plan they vehemently oppose.

The high-speed rail line connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles is the most ambitious rail plan in the country and has been in the works for more than two decades with a projected cost of $64 billion. The project calls for completion in 2029.

Photo
[https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/03/04/us/00Transport-1/00Transport-1-master675.jpg]
A Caltrain station in Sunnyvale, Calif. The commuter rail line is saddled with aging, smoke-spewing, diesel-powered locomotives. CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times

Despite initial support, Republicans now regard the high-speed project as too costly.

“We have said no more federal dollars will go to California high-speed rail,” said Representative Jeff Denham, a Republican who is chairman of the House Subcommittee on Railroads. “We’re very strong on that position.”

In an interview, Mr. Denham said the project should immediately stop.

There has long been tension in California between advocates of more freeways and those favoring public transport. But the high-speed rail project had bipartisan support in its early stages. It was formally started in 1996 by Republican Gov. Pete Wilson and was supported by another Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

That consensus is long gone. The letter penned by the state’s 14 Republican members of Congress, including Kevin McCarthy, the House majority leader, called the project a “boondoggle” and described the Caltrain grant as an “irresponsible use of taxpayer dollars.”

Caltrain and the high-speed rail project are administratively separate, but a 2013 agreement to share tracks as a cost-saving measure raised Republican ire.

Defunding the electrification of the Silicon Valley corridor has immediate consequences for the system’s 65,000 daily commuters. Caltrain had hoped to switch to its electric system by 2021. The current trains are overcrowded and breakdowns are frequent; there are more than 19 mechanical failures per month, according to Caltrain engineers. Two-thirds of the fleet has “reached the end of its useful life,” Caltrain says.

At the rail line’s maintenance depot, engineers say they have trouble finding parts for the locomotives, which were built in the 1980s. And new maintenance workers need lectures from veteran technicians because they have no experience working on such old equipment.

Photo
[https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/03/04/us/00Transport-6/00Transport-6-master675.jpg]
Nick Christ doing maintenance on a Caltrain locomotive. Engineers say they have trouble finding parts for the locomotives, which were built in the 1980s. CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times

“You change out parts here and there,” said Joe Navarro, director of operations and maintenance at Caltrain. “We are putting Band-Aids on. It’s very challenging.”

Getting to work by car or bus is often not a better alternative in Silicon Valley. A recent study<http://inrix.com/scorecard/> found that the San Francisco Bay Area has the nation’s third-most-congested roads.

“We are lucky to live in a place where innovation is in the DNA, but we don’t see that for public transport,” said Sridhar Iyer, a software engineer for Twitter who rides the double-decker Caltrain that runs near the headquarters of Apple, Facebook and Google. “The whole thing is stuck in the past.”

In recent weeks, more than a dozen leaders of Silicon Valley firms called lawmakers to urge that the federal money be released for the Caltrain electrification project, according to Carl Guardino, the president of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which represents most of the region’s large tech companies.

Photo
[https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/03/04/us/00Transport-3/00Transport-3-master675.jpg]
Sridhar Iyer, center, a software engineer for Twitter, says of Caltrain, “The whole thing is stuck in the past.” CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times

Mr. Guardino called the Republican campaign to block funding “a misinformed effort.”

“The most important asset of the innovation economy are our employees,” he said. “When they are stuck and stalled in traffic they are not productively creating the future.”

The specific objection by Republicans is that $600 million of state funds allocated to Caltrain’s electrification were initially authorized by a 2008 referendum on high-speed rail, known as Proposition 1A.

“They are stealing Prop 1A money and using it for something else,” Mr. Denham said.

Caltrain says that although the two trains will use the same tracks, the electrification project is “independent” and high-speed rail’s use of the corridor will require a separate environmental review.

Photo
[https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/03/04/us/00Transport-7/00Transport-7-master675.jpg]
State Route 99’s lanes are being shifted in Fresno to make way for the high-speed rail line.CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times

The bigger picture, proponents of the electrification project say, is that the commuter rail project deserves the support of the Trump administration because it meets the broad criteria of its infrastructure push — it will be made in America by American workers. Almost all of the materials for the new train system will be sourced from factories across 14 states. Caltrain estimates the project will create nearly 10,000 jobs.

“This is the perfect project if you care about infrastructure, if you care about jobs and if you care about focusing on areas that are going to deliver long-term economic benefit,” said Stuart Cohen, the executive director of TransForm, a nonprofit group that advocates public transportation.

The state High-Speed Rail Authority is making a similar pitch. “Every ounce of the steel, every ounce of the concrete is domestic,” Dan Richard, the authority’s chairman, said. “We are reaching out to the Trump administration to make the case that this is entirely consistent with the president’s vision.”

An opinion <http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_316MBS.pdf> poll<http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/survey/S_316MBS.pdf> by the Public Policy Institute of California last year showed a slim majority of respondents — 52 percent — support the high-speed rail project.

Outside Fresno, a city in California’s Central Valley surrounded by almond and fruit orchards and racked by poverty, about 1,000 workers have been employed on the project to build viaducts and tunnels at 10 construction sites.

The Finance Department of Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, decided on Friday that the project was ready to lay some track and approved $2.6 billion in spending. But there are lingering questions about how the later stages of the project will be financed, especially if Congress blocks more federal support.

Although the authority was established more than two decades, ago it was only in 2013 that construction began on the first, 119-mile segment of the project.

Mayor Lee Brand of Fresno, a Republican, supports the project, which would make Silicon Valley a 45-minute train ride away by 2025.

“I don’t look at this ideologically,” Mr. Brand said. “I look at it practically. The city of Fresno can enjoy a major benefit from what’s going on with high-speed rail. This is a poor city that needs all the help it can get.”

Photo
[https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/03/04/us/00Transport-4/00Transport-4-master675.jpg]
The high-speed rail line is the most ambitious rail plan in the country and has been in the works for more than two decades with a projected cost of $64 billion. The project calls for completion in 2029.CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times

Tom Richards, a real estate developer in Fresno who is on the authority’s board, said the rail connection could encourage tech companies to set up in the city and workers to commute to well-paying jobs in Silicon Valley.

“This is a whole story about connecting California together,” he said.

Susan Beachy contributed research.

A version of this article appears in print on March 6, 2017, on Page A10 of the New York edition with the headline: Silicon Valley Rail Upgrade Is Imperiled Amid G.O.P. Ire. Order Reprints<http://www.nytreprints.com/>|  Today's Paper<http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html>|Subscribe<http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp839RF.html?campaignId=48JQY>

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From divisek at yahoo.com  Mon Mar  6 16:04:19 2017
From: divisek at yahoo.com (Dianna Visek)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 16:04:19 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace] lectures on Trump, secrecy, American federalism and more
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They did a good Constitutional analysis of Trump's immigration edict about a month ago, even tho it was clear they didn't agree with him.
With an open mind, you can learn things from those you disagree with.

Dianna
 

    On Sunday, March 5, 2017 8:45 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
 

 If they are like the one they had on “freedom of speech” then spent the whole time promoting Hillary and other Illinois Democrats, or the debate last year on “the legitimacy of targeted killing,” promoting drone warfare? I’ll pass thank you. 



On Mar 5, 2017, at 18:21, Dianna Visek via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
The Law School is having an interesting series of lectures on current topics.  See:
College of Law - Master Calendar


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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon Mar  6 17:13:23 2017
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 17:13:23 +0000
Subject: [Peace] lectures on Trump, secrecy, American federalism and more
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References: <278000598.3001076.1488766862746.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
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I had an open mind, when attending the two previous lectures referred to in my previous email, and was appalled.

I agree with Prof. Francis Boyle, that  “You can’t learn anything from law professors  who maliciously  hold out a war criminal and a murderer of US Citizens  for emulation by their law students."
Francis A. Boyle
Professor of Law


 On Mar 6, 2017, at 08:04, Dianna Visek <divisek at yahoo.com<mailto:divisek at yahoo.com>> wrote:

They did a good Constitutional analysis of Trump's immigration edict about a month ago, even tho it was clear they didn't agree with him.

With an open mind, you can learn things from those you disagree with.

Dianna


On Sunday, March 5, 2017 8:45 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com<mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>> wrote:


If they are like the one they had on “freedom of speech” then spent the whole time promoting Hillary and other Illinois Democrats, or the debate last year on “the legitimacy of targeted killing,” promoting drone warfare? I’ll pass thank you.



On Mar 5, 2017, at 18:21, Dianna Visek via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

The Law School is having an interesting series of lectures on current topics.  See:

College of Law - Master Calendar<https://illinois.edu/calendar/list/5714>

<https://illinois.edu/calendar/list/5714>





College of Law - Master Calendar




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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon Mar  6 18:04:11 2017
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 18:04:11 +0000
Subject: [Peace] This mornings rant
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We are manipulated by a media propaganda machine, disguised as “balanced” and “open minded”. 

Milo Yanou……… was prevented from speaking at Berkeley, by “questionable anarchists,” creating havoc, thus giving him undeserved publicity, as well as frightening off genuine dissent. As a result, the protestors who organized a peaceful protest, lost the opportunity to counteract Milo’s nonsense.
 
Curbing ones freedom of speech is not the way to counteract lies and nonsense. 

However, that does not mean one should support by way of acquiescence, either. 

Providing a soapbox to those who wish to spread lies and propaganda is complicity. 

Somethings we counteract, and somethings we ignore. Knowing the difference is very important. 

From susanroseparenti at gmail.com  Mon Mar  6 21:10:15 2017
From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 15:10:15 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: FW: INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre presents:
 MANIFESTO a performance of intersectional feminist voices of inspiration
 and intervention
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*TEXT ONLY BELOW*

*INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre presents:*

*MANIFESTO*

*a performance of*
*intersectional feminist voices of inspiration and intervention*
*in honor of Women’s History Month*

*Armory Free Theatre* *(Room 160 Armory)*
*Wednesday,                       March 8th @ 7:00 PM*
*Thursday,                           March 9th** @ 7:00 PM*
*Friday                                 March 10th @ 5:00 PM*
*Friday                                 March 10th** @ 7:00 PM*



*Channing Murray Foundation (1209 W Oregon, Urbana)*
*Thursday                            March 16th** @ 7:00 PM*

*All performances are free and open to the public.*
*A discussion follows each performance. *
*All locations are wheelchair accessible*

*This program is sponsored in part by the Women’s Resources Center and the
Channing Murray Foundation.*

*INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre is sponsored by the *
*Counseling Center and the Department of Theatre*
*at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.*

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From galliher at illinois.edu  Tue Mar  7 06:07:43 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
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Too Frightened to Change a Hated Order
Despite profound discontent, the prospect of an exit from the neoliberal orthodoxies of the past 40 years terrifies even those who know how much they have suffered from it.
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The term “anti-systemic movements” was commonly used 25 years ago to characterize forces on the left in revolt against capitalism. Today, it has not lost relevance in the West, but its meaning has changed. The movements of revolt that have multiplied over the past decade no longer rebel against capitalism, but against neoliberalism—deregulated financial flows, privatized services, and escalating social inequality, that specific variant of the reign of capital set in place in Europe and America since the 1980s. The resultant economic and political order has been accepted all but indistinguishably by governments of the center-right and center-left, in accordance with the central tenet of la pensée unique, Margaret Thatcher’s dictum that “there is no alternative.” Two kinds of movement are now arrayed against this system; the established order stigmatizes them, whether from the right or left, as the menace of populism.

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It is not by chance that these movements first arose in Europe rather than the United States. Sixty years after the Treaty of Rome, the reason is clear. The common market of 1957, an outgrowth of the coal-and-steel community of the Schuman Plan (designed both to prevent any reversion to a century of Franco-German hostilities and to consolidate post-war economic growth in western Europe), was the product of a period of full employment and rising popular incomes, the entrenchment of representative democracy, and the development of welfare systems. Its commercial arrangements impinged very little on the sovereignty of the nation-states composing it, which were strengthened rather than weakened. Budgets and exchange rates were determined domestically, by parliaments accountable to national electorates, in which politically contrasting policies were vigorously debated. Attempts by the Commission in Brussels to aggrandize itself were famously rebuffed by Paris. Not only France under Charles de Gaulle but, in its own more muted fashion, West Germany under Konrad Adenauer, pursued foreign policies independent of the United States and capable of defying it.

The end of the trente glorieuses brought a major change in this construction. From the mid-1970s, the advanced capitalist world entered a long downturn, as analyzed by the American historian Robert Brenner: lower growth rates and slower increases in productivity, decade by decade, less employment and greater inequality, punctuated by sharp recessions. From the 1980s, starting in the UK and the US, and gradually spreading to Europe, policy directions were reversed: Welfare systems were cut back, public industries and services privatized, and financial markets deregulated. Neoliberalism had arrived. In Europe, this came over time to take a uniquely rigid institutional form: The number of member states in what became the European Union multiplied more than fourfold, incorporating a vast low-wage zone in the east.

DRACONIAN AUSTERITY
From monetary union in 1990 to the Stability Pact in 1997, then the Single Market Act in 2011, the powers of national parliaments were voided in a supranational structure of bureaucratic authority shielded from popular will, just as the ultraliberal economist Friedrich Hayek had prophesied. With this machinery in place, draconian austerity could be imposed on helpless electorates, under the joint direction of the Commission and a reunified Germany, now the most powerful state in the union, where leading thinkers candidly announce its vocation as continental hegemon. Externally, over the same period, the EU and its members ceased to play any significant role in the world at variance with US directives, becoming the advance guard of neo–Cold War policies towards Russia set by the US and paid for by Europe.

So it is no surprise that the ever more oligarchic cast of the EU, defying popular will in successive referendums and embedding budgetary diktats in constitutional law, should have generated so many movements of protest against it. What is the landscape of these forces? In the pre-enlargement core of the EU, the western Europe of the cold-war era (the topography of eastern Europe is so different that it can be set aside for present purposes), movements of the right dominate opposition to the system in France (Front National), the Netherlands (Party for Freedom, PVV), Austria (Freedom Party of Austria), Sweden (Sweden Democrats), Denmark (Danish People’s Party), Finland (True Finns), Germany (Alternative for Germany, AfD) and Britain (UKIP).

In Spain, Greece, and Ireland, movements of the left have predominated: Podemos, Syriza, and Sinn Fein. Uniquely, Italy has both a strong anti-systemic movement of the right in the Lega, and a still larger one across the left/right divide in the Five Star Movement (M5S). The latter’s extra-parliamentary rhetoric on taxes and immigration puts it to the right, but it is put on the left by its parliamentary record of consistent opposition to the neoliberal measures of Matteo Renzi’s government (particularly on education and deregulation of the labor market), and its central role in defeating Renzi’s bid to weaken Italy’s democratic constitution. To this can be added Momentum, which emerged in Britain behind Jeremy Corbyn’s unexpected election as Labour Party leader. All the movements of the right except the AfD predate the crash of 2008; some have histories going back to the 1970s or earlier. Syriza took off, and M5S, Podemos, and Momentum were born, as direct results of the global financial crisis.

The central fact is the greater overall weight of movements of the right over those of the left, both in the number of countries where they have the upper hand and in voting strength. Both are reactions to the structure of the neoliberal system, which finds its starkest, most concentrated expression in today’s EU, with its order founded on the reduction and privatization of public services; the abrogation of democratic control and representation; and deregulation of the factors of production. All three are present at national level in Europe, as elsewhere, but they are of a higher degree of intensity at EU level, as the torture of Greece, trampling of referendums, and scale of human trafficking attest. In the political arena, they are the overriding issues of popular concern, driving protests against the system over austerity, sovereignty, and immigration. Anti-systemic movements are differentiated by the weight they attach to each—to which color in the neoliberal palette they direct most hostility.

COMMON CAUSE AGAINST IMMIGRANTS
Movements of the right predominate over those of the left because from early on they made the immigration issue their own, playing on xenophobic and racist reactions to gain widespread support among the most vulnerable sectors of the population. With the exception of the movements in the Netherlands and Germany, which believe in economic liberalism, this is typically linked (in France, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland) not to denunciation but to defense of the welfare state; it is claimed that the arrival of immigrants undermines this. But it would be wrong to attribute all their advantage to this card; in important examples—the Front National (FN) in France is the most significant—they have an edge on other fronts too.

Monetary union is the most obvious example. The single currency and central bank, designed at Maastricht, have made the imposition of austerity and denial of popular sovereignty into a single system. Movements of the left may attack these as vehemently as any movement of the right, if not more so. But the solutions they propose are less radical. On the right, the FN and the Lega have clear remedies to the strains of the single currency and immigration: exit the euro and stop the influx. On the left, with isolated exceptions, no such unambiguous demands have ever been made. At best, the substitutes are technical adjustments to the single currency, too complicated to have much popular purchase, and vague, embarrassed allusions to quotas; neither is as readily intelligible to voters as the straightforward propositions of the right.

Immigration and monetary union create special difficulties for the left for historical reasons. The Treaty of Rome was founded on the promise of free movement of capital, commodities, and labor within a common European market. As long as the European Community was confined to countries of Western Europe, the factors of production where mobility mattered most were capital and commodities: Migration across borders within the community was generally quite modest. But by the late 1960s, immigrant labor from former African, Asian, and Caribbean colonies, and semi-colonial regions of the former Ottoman Empire, was already significant in numbers. EU enlargement to Eastern Europe then sharply increased intra-union migration. Finally, neo-imperial adventures in former Mediterranean colonies—the military blitz on Libya and proxy fanning of civil war in Syria—have driven large waves of refugees into Europe, along with retaliatory terror by militants from a region where the West remains camped as overlord, with its bases, bombers, and special forces.

All of this has kindled xenophobia: Anti-systemic movements of the right have fed on it, and movements of the left have fought it, loyal to the cause of a humane internationalism. The same underlying attachments have led most of the left to resist any thought of ending monetary union, as a regression to a nationalism responsible for Europe’s past catastrophes. The ideal of European unity remains for them a cardinal value. But the present Europe of neoliberal integration is more coherent than any of the hesitant alternatives they have so far proposed. Austerity, oligarchy, and the ability to move factors of production form an interconnected system. Factor mobility cannot be separated from oligarchy: Historically, no European electorate was ever consulted about the arrival or scale of foreign labor; this always occurred behind its back. The negation of democracy, which became the structure of the EU, excluded from the start any say in the composition of its population. The rejection of this Europe by movements of the right is politically more consistent than rejection by the left, another reason for the right’s advantage.

RECORD LEVELS OF VOTER DISCONTENT
The arrival of M5S, Syriza, Podemos, and the AfD marked a jump in popular discontent in Europe. Polls now post record levels of voter disaffection with the EU. But, right or left, the electoral weight of anti-systemic movements remains limited. In the last European elections, the three most successful results for the right—UKIP, the FN, and the Danish People’s Party—were around 25 percent of the vote. In national elections, the average figure across Western Europe for all such right and left forces combined is about 15 percent. That percentage of the electorate poses little threat to the system; 25 percent can represent a headache, but the “populist danger” of media alarm remains to date very modest. The only cases where an anti-systemic movement has come to power, or looked as if it could do so, are those where a deliberate misapportioning of seats, through an electoral premium designed to favor the establishment, backfired, or risked doing so, as in Greece or Italy.

In reality, there is a wide gap between the degree of popular disillusion with today’s neoliberal EU—by last summer, majorities in France and Spain expressed their aversion to it, and even in Germany, barely half of those polled had a positive opinion of it—and the extent of support for forces declaring against it. Indignation or disgust at what the EU has become is common, but for some time the fundamental determinant of European voting patterns has been, and remains, fear. The socio-economic status quo is widely detested. But it is regularly ratified at the polls with the reelection of parties responsible for it, because of fears that to upset the status, alarming markets, would bring worse misery. The single currency has not accelerated growth in Europe, and has inflicted acute hardship in the countries of the south worst affected. But the prospect of an exit terrifies even those who know by now how much they have suffered from it. Fear trumps anger. Hence the acquiescence of the Greek electorate in Syriza’s capitulation to Brussels, the setbacks of Podemos in Spain, the shuffling of feet by the Parti de Gauche in France. The underlying sense is everywhere the same. The system is bad. To affront it is to risk retribution.

What, then, explains Brexit? Mass immigration is another fear across the EU, and it was whipped up in the UK by the Leave campaign, in which Nigel Farage was a conspicuous speaker and organizer, alongside prominent Conservatives. But xenophobia on its own is by no means enough to outweigh fear of economic meltdown. In England, as elsewhere, it has been growing as one government after another has lied about the scale of immigration. But if the referendum on the EU had just been a contest between these fears, as the political establishment sought to make it, Remain would have no doubt won by a handsome margin, as it did in the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence.


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There were further factors. After Maastricht, the British political class declined the straitjacket of the euro, only to pursue a native neoliberalism more drastic than any on the continent: first, the financialized hubris of New Labour, plunging Britain into a banking crisis before any other European country, then a Conservative-Liberal administration of an austerity more drastic than any generated without external constraint in Europe. Economically, the results of this combination are unique. No other European country has been so dramatically polarized by region, between a bubble-enclosed, high-income metropolis in London and the southeast, and an impoverished, deindustrialized north and northeast where voters felt they had little to lose in voting for Leave (crucially, a more abstract prospect than ditching the euro), whatever happened to the City and foreign investment. Fear counted for less than despair.

Politically, too, no other European country has so blatantly rigged an electoral system: UKIP was the largest single British party at Strasbourg under proportional representation in 2014, yet a year later, with 13 percent of the vote, it gained just a single seat at Westminster, while the Scottish National Party, with under 5 percent of the vote, took 55 seats. Under the interchangeable Labour and Conservative regimes produced by this system, voters at the bottom of the income pyramid deserted the polls. But suddenly granted, for once, a real choice in a national referendum, they returned in force to deliver their verdict on the desolations of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron.

Finally, and decisively, came the historical difference separating Britain from the continent. For centuries, the country was not only an empire dwarfing any European rival culturally but, unlike France, Germany, Italy, or most the rest of the continent, did not suffer defeat, invasion, or occupation in either world war. So expropriation of local powers by a bureaucracy in Belgium was bound to grate more than elsewhere: Why should a state that twice saw off the might of Berlin submit to petty meddling from Brussels or Luxembourg? Issues of identity could more readily trump issues of interest than in the rest of the EU. So the normal formula—fear of economic retribution outweighs fear of alien immigration—failed to function, bent out of shape by a combination of economic despair and national amour-propre.

US LEAP IN THE DARK
These were also the conditions in which a US Republican presidential candidate of unprecedented background and temperament—abhorrent to mainstream bipartisan opinion, with no attempt to conform to accepted codes of civil or political conduct, and disliked by many of his actual voters—could appeal to enough disregarded white Rust Belt workers to win the election. As in Britain, desperation outweighed apprehension in deindustrialized proletarian regions. There too, much more rawly and openly, in a country with a deeper history of native racism, immigrants were denounced and barriers, physical as well as procedural, demanded. Above all, empire was not a distant memory of the past but a vivid attribute of the present and natural claim on the future, yet it had been cast aside by those in power in the name of a globalization that meant ruin for ordinary people and humiliation for their country. Donald Trump’s slogan was “Make America Great Again”—prosperous in discarding the fetishes of free movement of goods and labor, and victorious in ignoring the trammels and pieties of multilateralism: He was not wrong to proclaim that his triumph was Brexit writ large. It was a much more spectacular revolt, since it was not confined to a single—mostly symbolic—issue, and was devoid of any establishment respectability or editorial blessing.

Trump’s victory has thrown the European political class, center-right and center-left united, into outraged dismay. Breaking established conventions on immigration is bad enough. The EU may have had few scruples in penning refugees into Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey, with its tens of thousands of political prisoners, police torture, and suspension of what passes for the rule of law; or in winking at barbed-wire barricades across Greece’s northern frontier to keep them locked up on Aegean Islands. But the EU, respecting diplomatic decencies, has never openly gloried in its exclusions. Trump’s lack of inhibition in these matters does not directly affect the union. What does, and is cause for far more serious concern, is his rejection of the ideology of free movement of the factors of production, and, even more so, his apparently cavalier disregard for NATO and his comments about a less belligerent attitude to Russia. Whether either of these is more than a gesture soon to be forgotten, like many of his domestic promises, remains to be seen. But his election has crystallized a significant difference between a number of anti-systemic movements of the right or ambiguous center, and parties of the established left, pink or green. In France and Italy, movements of the right have consistently opposed neo–Cold War policies and military adventures applauded by the parties of the left, including the blitz on Libya and sanctions on Russia.

The British referendum and the US election were anti-systemic convulsions of the right, though flanked by anti-systemic upsurges of the left (the Bernie Sanders movement in the US and the Corbyn phenomenon in the UK), smaller in scale, if still less expected. What the consequences of Trump or Brexit will be remain indeterminate, though no doubt more limited than current predictions. The established order is far from beaten in either country, and, as Greece has shown, is capable of absorbing and neutralizing revolts from whatever direction with impressive speed. Among the antibodies it has already generated are yuppie simulacra of populist breakthroughs (Albert Rivera in Spain, Emmanuel Macron in France), inveighing against the deadlocks and corruptions of the present, and promising a cleaner and more dynamic politics of the future, beyond the decaying parties.

For anti-systemic movements of the left in Europe, the lesson of recent years is clear. If they are not to go on being outpaced by movements of the right, they cannot afford to be less radical in attacking the system, and must be more coherent in their opposition to it. That means facing the probability that the EU is now so path-dependent as a neoliberal construction that reform of it is no longer seriously conceivable. It would have to be undone before anything better could be built, either by breaking out of the current EU, or by reconstructing Europe on another foundation, committing Maastricht to the flames. Unless there is a further, deeper economic crisis, there is little likelihood of either.

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Mar  8 00:02:32 2017
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 00:02:32 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Prairie Greens program/meeting this Saturday time change.
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In the Champaign Public Library, Robeson room. A&B, at 3:30 - 5:00pm, Saturday 11th.

Rich Whitney will be speaking along with other members of the Green Party.

From galliher at illinois.edu  Wed Mar  8 00:28:24 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
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Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Anti-Empire Report, March 7, 2017
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https://williamblum.org/aer/read/149 <https://williamblum.org/aer/read/149>

"For the record: I don’t support the US fighting ISIS in Syria. I don’t trust the Pentagon’s motivation, or their choice of bombing targets. They’re probably still into regime change. I’d leave the job to Russia and its allies.zFor the record: I don’t support the US fighting ISIS in Syria. I don’t trust the Pentagon’s motivation, or their choice of bombing targets. They’re probably still into regime change. I’d leave the job to Russia and its allies."

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>>>>> Wednesday,                       March 8th @ 7:00 PM
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>>>>> Friday                                 March 10th @ 5:00 PM
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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Wed Mar  8 18:29:03 2017
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 12:29:03 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Hillel: UIUC BDS Alert
Message-ID: <CALMNhNS7r6SEJyvnp_Ohcg6T=8J31SBbMsFe_GypN2iZJ=X43g@mail.gmail.com>

FYI.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erez Cohen <erez at illinihillel.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 12:13 PM
Subject: UIUC BDS Alert
To: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com


UIUC Student body votes on Divestment today
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     On January 30th at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
students launched an effort to include a divestment referendum
<#m_-56099704749929099_referendum> on the ballot for the Spring 2017
Student Senate elections. This referendum calls for the university to
divest from 16 companies that do business with Israel. As soon as the
referendum initiative began, Hillel and JUF's Israel Education Center
supported students to stand against this referendum.  Together with campus
partners the students formed United Illini for a United Campus.
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     The language of the referendum is intentionally deceptive.  It claims
to protect human rights but in fact, the real goal is to target Israel via
the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement
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, which seeks to delegitimize the Jewish state.  While a campus referendum
cannot harm Israel's economy, it can have detrimental effects on the Jewish
campus community and campus climate.

     Even in the face of blatant disregard for process
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anti-Semitic
attacks and cyber bullying, the students are working around the clock to
prevent the referendum from passing and ensure that UIUC's values of
inclusion, diversity and academic freedom are upheld.

      Hillel is working closely with partners from JUF's Israel Education
Center, Israel on Campus Coalition, Israel Action Network, and Chabad to
create messaging, marketing materials, strategy and support for students.
The overall strategy includes a comprehensive outreach plan, social media
campaign and targeted communication.

     Voting will take place March 8th and 9th. Throughout those two days
United Illini students will work energetically to get out the vote and
encourage their campus community to VOTE NO.

     Please contact any current UIUC students you know and encourage them
to VOTE NO at vote.illinois.edu
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. If they would like to get involved, please direct them to United Illini
for a United Campus
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.

We will update you again once the voting is complete.

Thank you,

Erez Cohen - erez at illinihillel.org 217-819-3625 <(217)%20819-3625>
[image: Vote NO on Question 4]
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[image: referendum]The referendum question as seen on the ballot:

     Shall the students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
recommend to the Board of Trustees that the University divest, or withdraw
investments, from companies which actively normalize, engage in, or fund
recognized human rights violations of marginalized groups worldwide? Yes OR
No

Explanatory Statement:
This referendum calls upon the Board of Trustees to pull its investments
from companies that normalize, engage in or fund recognized violations of
human rights, including those of the Palestinian people and all peoples
marginalized on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender,
class, and ability.  The authors of this referendum call for greater
accountability in how the University invests its funds, particularly those
managed under the active endowment pool.  This referendum builds on a
resolution passed by the Academic Senate in April 2016, which called upon
the Board of Trustees to switch to a passively managed socially responsible
investment fund.  This referendum calls on the manager's of the University
Endowment Pool to sell its holdings in the companies listed here, and does
NOT ask the University to sever all ties with these companies:

1)      Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Ltd.
2)      Elbit Systems Ltd.
3)      ExxonMobil Corporation
4)      Enbridge Inc.
5)      G4S plc
6)      Raytheon Company
7)      General Electric
8)      HP Inc.
9)      Citigroup Inc.
10)   The Boeing Company
11)   Nestle S.A.
12)   Northrup Grumman Corporation
13)   Tyson Foods, Inc.
14)   Motorola Solutions Inc.
15)   Caterpillar Inc.
16)   Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company
17)   Sodexo S.A.
[image: Illini Hillel Logo]
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UIUC Hillel | Margie K. and Louis N. Cohen Center for Jewish Life,
503 E. John Street, Champaign, IL 61820
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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Wed Mar  8 21:18:48 2017
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 15:18:48 -0600
Subject: [Peace] SJP UIUC on the divestment referendum today and tomorrow
Message-ID: <CALMNhNTDeyHm3F=dTc=E8pMBd_oCCUNHitpgXK=gU9fhVAK-4A@mail.gmail.com>

*Divestment Campaign*
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Thank you once again to everyone who signed and helped in the campaign for
#UIUCDivest.

Now that it is on the ballot..
IT IS OFFICIALLY TIME TO *VOTE YES!!*

Y'all only have today and tomorrow so I want you to stop everything you're
doing at this moment and follow these simple steps:
1. Go to vote.illinois.edu
2. Sign in with your netID
3. Vote YES to Referendum #4
4. Give yourself a high-five
5. Make sure you remind your friends to do the same!

Visit the following social media platforms to learn more about what this
referendum stands for!
#UIUCDivest (IG
<http://facebook.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4465a3a1c41a6293a42daf477&id=39e81ae265&e=67c12fcbd7>
/Twitter
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/FB
<http://facebook.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4465a3a1c41a6293a42daf477&id=faf888f4c8&e=67c12fcbd7>
/Website
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)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: SJP UIUC <sjp.uiuc at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 1:52 PM
Subject: SJP UIUC Weekly Newsletter ✊
To: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com


This is a quick update for SJP's upcoming week events. Make sure to come
out and show your support!
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.
*Students for Justice in Palestine * *SP17,  March 8, 2017 || Vol. 9 Issue
22*
Weekly Updates
Hello everyone!
It is International Women's Day today and given the recent losses, I urge
you all to take a moment of silence for the trans black women whose lives
were taken just this past month and reflect on the trans women who
sacrificed their lives to shape this liberation movement into what is today.

On another note..
THE DAY HAS COME.
After all of the events this past month, the time has finally come to VOTE
YES on the referendum. It is important that y'all don't forget because it
is only TODAY and TOMORROW.

And as always, thank you for standing with the cause:

*Confronting Sexual Violence in Activist Communities*
<http://facebook.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4465a3a1c41a6293a42daf477&id=9d52ae1357&e=67c12fcbd7>
This week, in place of our regular GBMs, the SJP meeting will be replaced
with the workshop event, "Confronting Sexual Violence in Activist
Communities." This workshop hosted by activist Hannah Gutierrez along with
the Women's Resources Center aims to examine and discuss an issue that is
much too prevalent to be unaddressed and yet, such is the case.

This event will be held tomorrow on *Thursday (March 9)* at the *University
YMCA from 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM*. This workshop will entail food & refreshments
as well as crucial information about bystander intervention in relation to
activist communities. Bring yourselves there, bring your friends there, and
bring everybody else there too.

*Divestment Campaign*
<http://facebook.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=4465a3a1c41a6293a42daf477&id=247c5a4afb&e=67c12fcbd7>
Thank you once again to everyone who signed and helped in the campaign for
#UIUCDivest.

Now that it is on the ballot..
IT IS OFFICIALLY TIME TO *VOTE YES!!*

Y'all only have today and tomorrow so I want you to stop everything you're
doing at this moment and follow these simple steps:
1. Go to vote.illinois.edu
2. Sign in with your netID
3. Vote YES to Referendum #4
4. Give yourself a high-five
5. Make sure you remind your friends to do the same!

Visit the following social media platforms to learn more about what this
referendum stands for!
#UIUCDivest (IG
<http://facebook.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4465a3a1c41a6293a42daf477&id=39e81ae265&e=67c12fcbd7>
/Twitter
<http://facebook.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=4465a3a1c41a6293a42daf477&id=be964471fe&e=67c12fcbd7>
/FB
<http://facebook.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4465a3a1c41a6293a42daf477&id=faf888f4c8&e=67c12fcbd7>
/Website
<http://facebook.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4465a3a1c41a6293a42daf477&id=246933d654&e=67c12fcbd7>
)

*Israeli Apartheid Week*
IAW preparations are underway and IAW Committee is looking for more people
to help with the planning/preparations for upcoming events, so please let
us know if you want to help!

*Upcoming Solidarity Events:*
*Build Programs Not Jails
<http://facebook.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4465a3a1c41a6293a42daf477&id=1cd3fdd101&e=67c12fcbd7>
- BPNJ is hosting an event, Challenging State Violence: Community
Strategies and Tactics
<http://facebook.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=4465a3a1c41a6293a42daf477&id=0504e081c5&e=67c12fcbd7>
this upcoming *Sunday (March 12)* at the *Urbana-Champaign Independent
Media Center starting from 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM*. The content covered in this
event is particularly relevant to these atrocious times. Come to the event
to learn about "how education, surveillance, incarceration, borders, and
alternatives to incarceration are increasingly impacted by heightened
criminalization and state violence." Make sure to check out the FB event
<http://facebook.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4465a3a1c41a6293a42daf477&id=9a4a7b1076&e=67c12fcbd7>
for more info!
*Crescendo
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- Crescendo's first bake sale is an important one for all POC as it is an "I
am Not a Quota" Bake Sale
<http://facebook.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4465a3a1c41a6293a42daf477&id=4f1111415c&e=67c12fcbd7>.
Come out and buy delicious goodies starting at 25 cents on *Tuesday (March
14) *on the* Main Quad from 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM*. All people of all genders
and ethnicities are welcome so come out, come out!
*Mixed Student Union
<http://facebook.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=4465a3a1c41a6293a42daf477&id=a77e080c99&e=67c12fcbd7>
- MSU is hosting an MSU Bake Sale
<http://facebook.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4465a3a1c41a6293a42daf477&id=fb344f78d3&e=67c12fcbd7>
as well this *Tuesday (March 14)* on the *Main Quad from 10:00 AM -
4:00 PM*. "As
a group made of students of color, we know that Black, Latinx and Native
American students remain underrepresented on campus. Come grab a cookie and
learn about some facts, figures and student-led solutions for increasing
underrepresented student populations!"
*Black Students for Revolution
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-
BSFR is still rolling with their movement to unite the students to *demand
for a transformed university *in the areas that the university is failing
us as students. Be sure to check out the list of demands
<http://facebook.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4465a3a1c41a6293a42daf477&id=7229c1bfff&e=67c12fcbd7>
if
you have not yet already!

Also, if you have not already, join our S
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UIUC Facebook Group
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and
*follow us* on all our social media (linked below).

*In Solidarity *
SJP UIUC
UPCOMING EVENTS
*VOTE YES #4*
March 8/9, @ vote.illinois.edu

*Confronting Sexual Violence in Activist Communities*
March 9, 6:30 PM [YMCA]
ABOUT UIUC's SJP Chapter  SJP UIUC is a student organization which works to
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advocates for all forms of justice for the Palestinian people through
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From rohnkoester at gmail.com  Thu Mar  9 20:01:41 2017
From: rohnkoester at gmail.com (Rohn Koester)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 14:01:41 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Tonight: Saving the Social Safety Net
Message-ID: <CACw=kz9wQg+6-0uj=cxMjGOhiJ3PfdK2Mx5WoEQr0=_u9RXEfw@mail.gmail.com>

Tonight!

*Saving the Social Safety Net*




*A panel discussion featuring:--Claudia Lennhoff, Executive Director,
Champaign County Healthcare Consumers--Patricia Simpson, Emerita Professor,
Loyola University Chicago--Belden fields, Emeritus Professor, UIUC*


*What you need to know about the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Medicare,
and Social Security. The myths behind the current attacks on these
programs, and what can be done to save them.*


*Where: Channing-Murray FoundationWhen: Thursday, March 9, 6-8pm*
Sponsored by the Channing-Murray Foundation. Co-sponsored by the Social
Action Committee of UUCUC.

This event is free and open to the public.
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From galliher at illinois.edu  Fri Mar 10 00:49:43 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 18:49:43 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Ars moriendi
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun Mar 12 01:03:08 2017
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 01:03:08 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Upcoming Event: Racist Uncle Joe Workshop
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Subject: Upcoming Event: Racist Uncle Joe Workshop
Date: March 11, 2017 at 11:02:17 PST
To: Amy Felty <asfelty at gmail.com<mailto:asfelty at gmail.com>>

Some people have already taken the following workshop with Joe Minarik presented it on February 13th at the YMCA on campus.  Others asked for a repeat.  Here is the date!  Please spread the word and get in touch with Amarin Young (email in the flyer) to reserve a space or ask for a future date.

Amarin will facilitate this very good interactive workshop with very helpful approaches for many situations.

Hope to see you there!
Amy

[cid:5CFAC3EF-3B74-43B6-BDE6-52C457309DFA at hsd1.il.comcast.net.]


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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun Mar 12 01:22:25 2017
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 01:22:25 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Journalist Fellowship Opportunity
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We are seeking applicants for the Illinois Humanities Engagement Fellowship at the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting in Champaign, IL.

ILLINOIS HUMANITIES AND THE MIDWEST CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting<http://investigatemidwest.org/> (MCIR) is an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering agribusiness, Big Ag and related issues through investigative, enterprise and data-driven reporting. Illinois Humanities is a private 501(c)(3) state-level affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and works to build dialogue across all sectors of society to examine issues important to democracy in strategically selected topical focus areas.

This fellowship is a collaboration between MCIR and Illinois Humanities’ Media and Journalism programming<https://www.ilhumanities.org/focus-area/media-journalism/>, which aims to strengthen connections and build collaboration between journalists and the publics they cover.

THE FELLOWSHIP

The overarching objective of this project is to foster high-quality investigative journalism that’s driven and informed by public engagement with stakeholder communities in Illinois. In collaboration with MCIR and Illinois Humanities staff, the Engagement Fellow will design, develop and implement an engagement program to be substantially integrated into MCIR’s reporting and editorial workflow.

A successful engagement program will accomplish several things:

  *   Cultivate, expand and diversify MCIR’s audience – and meaningfully involve that audience in all stages of MCIR’s process, from story selection through reporting and circulation
  *   Deepen relationships between MCIR and key stakeholder communities to increase public understanding of, and conversation around, complex issues in topics such as agribusiness, government programs, environment and energy
  *   Lay the groundwork for a sustainable engagement apparatus capable of continuing after the Fellowship term is complete
  *   Help IL Humanities and MCIR – and the discipline of journalism as a whole – develop a deeper understanding of how audience engagement can most effectively advance high-quality public-interest journalism and support the unique needs of local media ecosystems, particularly those outside major metropolitan areas

Although social media plays an important role in MCIR’s work, this fellowship is about more than social media. A successful project will find, reach, and build credibility with the constituencies that have a direct stake in the issues being covered, and develop ways for those communities to meaningfully inform and shape MCIR’s reporting.

REQUIREMENTS

Most project details and deliverables will be determined by the strategic plan developed by the Fellow in collaboration with MCIR. The Fellow will be required to incorporate a minimum of one public event per quarter (4 for the 12-month fellowship term) into that plan. This requirement should not be seen as comprehensive, but as a baseline; additional components may include real-world gatherings, online community-building, or other modes of engagement. Illinois Humanities will provide logistical support for the execution of all public events.

MCIR and Illinois Humanities view this initiative as a learning opportunity for the field of journalism as well as for the Fellow. To this end, the Fellow will be required to:

  *   Participate in monthly mentorship sessions with experienced leaders in engagement journalism
  *   Host two seminars or webinars sharing project progress and lessons learned with other practitioners, one at fellowship term midpoint and one after term is complete
  *   Attend and present at Illinois Humanities’ People-Powered Publishing Conference in Chicago, IL on November 8-9, 2017

Illinois Humanities will organize the above sessions in consultation with the Fellow and MCIR.

The Fellow will maintain full-time residency at the MCIR newsroom in Champaign, IL for the duration of the 12-month fellowship. Regional travel will be required. A budget for travel and other project-related expenses will be provided.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

  *   A proven track record in organizing and engaging communities, especially in a journalistic context
  *   Experience as a news reporter and/or editor, especially investigative reporting and/or reporting on issues of importance to rural areas
  *   Familiarity with social media tools, strategy and metrics
  *   A bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, English, or a related field

Preferred:

  *   Knowledge of the state of Illinois, its communities and its media ecosystem, especially outside the Chicago area
  *   Familiarity with current practices in the emerging field of engagement-driven journalism

COMPENSATION

The Fellow will receive a one-year, $38,000 stipend. IL Humanities and MCIR will provide separate funding for project-related expenses.

HOW TO APPLY

Submit a resume, cover letter, and 3 references to simon.nyi at ilhumanities.org<mailto:simon.nyi at ilhumanities.org?subject=Illinois%20Humanities%20MCIR%20Engagement%20Fellowship%20Application> with the subject line “Illinois Humanities MCIR Engagement Fellowship Application” by 5 PM CST on April 10, 2017.
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From galliher at illinois.edu  Mon Mar 13 22:52:47 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 17:52:47 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Ars moriendi
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, the prolific author whose bittersweet paean, “You May Want to Marry My Husband,” was one of The Times’s most-read articles this month, has died of ovarian cancer. She was 51.

In the essay, Ms. Rosenthal sketched a dating profile for her husband of 26 years, Jason Brian Rosenthal, knowing she did not have long to live. “He is an easy man to fall in love with,” she wrote. “I did it in one day.” [NYT 17.03.13]

> On Mar 9, 2017, at 6:49 PM, Carl G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/style/modern-love-you-may-want-to-marry-my-husband.html <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/style/modern-love-you-may-want-to-marry-my-husband.html>



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From galliher at illinois.edu  Tue Mar 14 01:06:05 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 20:06:05 -0500
Subject: [Peace] How come anything?
In-Reply-To: <C0BC1440-CA96-4388-843E-1168A86434D0@illinois.edu>
References: <7D39A6AC-5E71-438E-B770-0D89136D2DE1@illinois.edu>
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http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/women-swooned/ <http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/women-swooned/>

SHAHIDHA BARI: ...It was a genial crowd that gathered at the LSE Literary Festival on Friday night for the Forum for European Philosophy panel discussion “Existentialism is Easy” (which I chaired). There was standing room only, and Bakewell, Martin and the philosopher Stella Sandford were pressed with a stream of impossible questions: “Is love a hope or an illusion?”, and “Doesn’t nihilism oblige us to relate to others rather than excuse us from life?” (questions not so far from Martin Heidegger’s foundational one: “Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?”).

["It is clear that we reach out to, but do not reach, an answer to our ultimate question, how come anything instead of nothing? But we are able to exclude some answers. If God is whatever answers our question, how come everything then evidently he is not to be included amongst everything. God cannot be a thing, an existent among others. It is not possible that God and the universe should add up to make two." --H. McCabe, 'God and Creation’]

https://www.facebook.com/notes/carl-g-estabrook/herbert-mccabe-op-god-and-creation/10153640869347474 <https://www.facebook.com/notes/carl-g-estabrook/herbert-mccabe-op-god-and-creation/10153640869347474>
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From galliher at illinois.edu  Tue Mar 14 02:47:03 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 21:47:03 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Why Trump is losing to the neolibs and neocons
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Once installed as President, with no prior ties to the Republican party or political experience of any sort, Trump was virtually bound to put together a government at variance with most of what he said on the campaign trail, drawing on bankers and businessmen, generals and a couple of politicos of right-wing stamp, to produce a cabinet out of George Grosz. His few intimates lurk in the background, within the White House or on the National Security Council. The incompatibilities between Trump and the party he shanghaied have been on display from the start. Before even their confirmation, his defence and foreign ministers were publicly contradicting him on the need for a swift understanding with Russia, the most incendiary of his themes, to which Washington as an imperial hub is most sensitive. Further along, conflicts over tariffs, deficits, health-care, are predictable. Immigration too, since unlike any European country, the US is historically a land of immigrants, where the kind of xenophobic backlash swelling in the EU and UK is off-set by a powerful ideology of welcome for newcomers, one that for equally historical reasons does not exist in Europe, as integral to, rather than a problem for, national identity. Passionate opposition to any all-out repression and expulsion of illegals has already sparked demonstrations in the streets and blockage in the courts, causing jumpiness in Republican ranks in Congress. The only domains in which there would appear to be a frictionless overlap between the President and his party are deregulation, where executive orders are already pouring forth, with legislative repeal of Dodd–Frank to follow, and judicial appointments, where unity over the Supreme Court is assured. Otherwise, even taxation, given talk of border adjustment charges, is proving contentious.

Overlaying these structural tensions, themselves disabling policy coherence, is the personal style, impulsive and erratic, of the tyro at the helm of the state, spreading disorder in the conduct of its affairs. To all appearances, an Ubu Roi has been let loose in the White House. Nowhere more so, given virtually complete executive leeway, than in dealings with the outside world. Looking forward to the break-up of the EU, moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, tearing up the submission of Iran, threatening to upgrade relations with Taiwan, hinting at termination of sanctions on Russia, publicly browbeating Mexico—is there any rhyme or reason in such reckless trashing of received Atlantic wisdom? Or is it, as every indication would suggest, all random bluster, as easily retracted as vented? Plainly, it is too soon to say. Could some reverse edition of Nixon’s embrace of Beijing to put pressure on Moscow, an entente with Russia to squeeze China, so far the prime object of Presidential ire, yet emerge from the morass of ongoing confusions? The speed with which the security bureaucracy in Washington, with the press in full cry behind it, has moved to discredit any prospect of such a diplomatic somersault speaks for itself. Constitutionally, the power of the US Presidency in foreign affairs has few legislative restraints. But its condition is hierarchical discipline in the executive itself. Once this is freely breached, as in the encirclement of the West Wing under way, autonomy contracts and policy tends to revert to autopilot. The only reliable assumption is that American greatness requires the American empire, for whatever occasional ends it sets itself and with whatever tactical means necessary to pursue them. Institutional continuity will inevitably enfold and undoubtedly enfeeble individual caprice. --PERRY ANDERSON

From galliher at illinois.edu  Wed Mar 15 14:28:58 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 09:28:58 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Gabbard, Rand Paul, and the Stop Arming Terrorists Act,
In-Reply-To: <5ACB3952-EE33-49F6-8D32-D39ECBE70388@illinois.edu>
References: <7D39A6AC-5E71-438E-B770-0D89136D2DE1@illinois.edu>
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http://www.newslogue.com/debate/394/CaitlinJohnstone?referrer=emailNewArticle <http://www.newslogue.com/debate/394/CaitlinJohnstone?referrer=emailNewArticle>

...It is an established fact that America has been knowingly arming, funding and training terrorist factions in Syria, who are the only groups still fighting against the Assad government that the US establishment wants to overthrow. With her bipartisan Stop Arming Terrorists Act, [Rep. Tulsi] Gabbard [D-HI] is forcing American politicians to take a stand on this unforgivable behavior in front of the whole nation.

...Following Gabbard’s lead, outspoken non-interventionist Republican Rand Paul [R-KY] has now introduced the Senate version of this same Act, which means that if Gabbard decides to do what so many of us are screaming our lungs out for her to do and runs for president in 2020, she’ll likely be competing for the nomination with Democrats who‘ve voted against one of the two congressional bills. The legislation is expected to be met with resistance from the increasingly indistinguishable neocons and establishment Democrats, since it attacks longstanding policies backed by the Bush and Obama administrations, and by their military industrial complex donors and the plutocrats who benefit from America’s insane interventionist foreign policy…

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From deb.pdamerica at gmail.com  Wed Mar 15 16:22:14 2017
From: deb.pdamerica at gmail.com (Debra Schrishuhn)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 11:22:14 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Gabbard, Rand Paul, and the Stop Arming Terrorists Act, 
In-Reply-To: <C81502D9-D315-4067-88D5-EBDC38BC3716@illinois.edu>
References: <7D39A6AC-5E71-438E-B770-0D89136D2DE1@illinois.edu>
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I would love to see Tulsi run in 2020. She is one gutsy lady!
Deb

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 15, 2017, at 9:28 AM, "Carl G. Estabrook via Peace" <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> http://www.newslogue.com/debate/394/CaitlinJohnstone?referrer=emailNewArticle
> 
> ...It is an established fact that America has been knowingly arming, funding and training terrorist factions in Syria, who are the only groups still fighting against the Assad government that the US establishment wants to overthrow. With her bipartisan Stop Arming Terrorists Act, [Rep. Tulsi] Gabbard [D-HI] is forcing American politicians to take a stand on this unforgivable behavior in front of the whole nation.
> 
> ...Following Gabbard’s lead, outspoken non-interventionist Republican Rand Paul [R-KY] has now introduced the Senate version of this same Act, which means that if Gabbard decides to do what so many of us are screaming our lungs out for her to do and runs for president in 2020, she’ll likely be competing for the nomination with Democrats who‘ve voted against one of the two congressional bills. The legislation is expected to be met with resistance from the increasingly indistinguishable neocons and establishment Democrats, since it attacks longstanding policies backed by the Bush and Obama administrations, and by their military industrial complex donors and the plutocrats who benefit from America’s insane interventionist foreign policy…
> 
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Mar 15 17:18:08 2017
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 17:18:08 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Gabbard, Rand Paul, and the Stop Arming Terrorists Act, 
In-Reply-To: <4BF66BD1-9650-4220-AC37-82A31A26A41F@gmail.com>
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Yes, Tulsi is gutsy, and she is providing the truth in respect to Syria, but she appears almost “too good to be true”, and we need to always beware of that which is too good to be true.

If Tulsi does run for President in 2020, she’ll probably run as a Democrat, another female to take on the glass ceiling, as did Hillary, only Hillary was a warmonger, and just not young or refreshing. Tulsi is young, former military, and a woman of color being 1/4 Samoan, and a Hindu, what’s there not to like? The foreign policy issues that Bernie, who produced truth in relation to domestic issues, would not.

Just having another Democrat in the White House will produce no more change or progress than we’ve had under Obama or Trump. Just a continued march to oblivion, which is why we need to build an alternative to the two party system which is owned by the same military/industrial complex known now as the “Deep State” or “Shadow Government.”


On Mar 15, 2017, at 09:22, Debra Schrishuhn via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

I would love to see Tulsi run in 2020. She is one gutsy lady!
Deb

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 15, 2017, at 9:28 AM, "Carl G. Estabrook via Peace" <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

http://www.newslogue.com/debate/394/CaitlinJohnstone?referrer=emailNewArticle

...It is an established fact that America has been knowingly arming, funding and training terrorist factions in Syria, who are the only groups still fighting against the Assad government that the US establishment wants to overthrow. With her bipartisan Stop Arming Terrorists Act, [Rep. Tulsi] Gabbard [D-HI] is forcing American politicians to take a stand on this unforgivable behavior in front of the whole nation.

...Following Gabbard’s lead, outspoken non-interventionist Republican Rand Paul [R-KY] has now introduced the Senate version of this same Act, which means that if Gabbard decides to do what so many of us are screaming our lungs out for her to do and runs for president in 2020, she’ll likely be competing for the nomination with Democrats who‘ve voted against one of the two congressional bills. The legislation is expected to be met with resistance from the increasingly indistinguishable neocons and establishment Democrats, since it attacks longstanding policies backed by the Bush and Obama administrations, and by their military industrial complex donors and the plutocrats who benefit from America’s insane interventionist foreign policy…

—CGE
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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Sat Mar 18 01:32:22 2017
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 20:32:22 -0500
Subject: [Peace] event: "Is Fraternity [in France] Possible" / March 27,
 5pm / Foreign Language Bldg
Message-ID: <CA+0uwiZ+42ibLe4Gx0WvscDDK9MY7VB+MEX-AdsT5uqbS5vxaQ@mail.gmail.com>

Event: "Is Fraternity Possible: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Contemporary
France-History and Reflections.” a public lecture
When: 5pm on March 27th, 2017
Where: in Lucy Ellis Lounge (Foreign Language Building, 707 S Matthews)
entitled:

Who: Professor Maud Mandel, a professor of history and Judaic Studies and
Dean of the College at Brown University. Her most recent book is

*Muslims and Jews in France*
*Sponsor: "*Program in Jewish Culture and Society" at the UIUC campus.
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Professor Maud Mandel right after spring break as this year’s Einhorn
lecturer. Professor Mandel is a professor of history and Judaic Studies and
Dean of the College at Brown University. Her most recent book is *Muslims
and Jews in France *and she will present a public lecture at 5pm on March
27th in Lucy Ellis Lounge (FLB, 707 S Matthews) entitled: Is Fraternity
Possible: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Contemporary France-History and
Reflections.” Please encourage colleagues and students to come to this
lecture.

Professor Mandel will also give a paper at the next Jewish Studies workshop
at noon on March 27th over bagels! The title of her paper is “Street Riots
and Jewish Politics: Anti-Jewish Violence in Tunisia before
Decolonization.” A link to her essay is here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xfdrr5mwsz710gu/AADdwmppUyoulOqeHQFAJBhta?dl=0
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.dropbox.com_sh_xfdrr5mwsz710gu_AADdwmppUyoulOqeHQFAJBhta-3Fdl-3D0&d=DwMGaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=W6ip3UxENmOEijjyTZ4PjhgzYyQXbOZIrVlsCgpnEYA&m=Uz-bkXV4Lb3E31r8I0--LB1mPItjJF6eJugUgztByms&s=scrFm_wVEAXXadP12Kc6BRGbrvvXzE-IfNvTQ78Hzhk&e=>

On Tuesday March 28th, Professor Mandel will meet with undergraduates over
lunch sponsored by the IPRH Inside Scoop series at noon in 109
English—please sign up or encourage your students to sign up for lunch from
Caribbean Grill—space is limited! See attached flyer. Many thanks to
Antoinette Burton and Nancy Castro and the IPRH for this!

We are immensely grateful to the Einhorn family for making this important
visit possible.
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From galliher at illinois.edu  Mon Mar 20 09:49:42 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 04:49:42 -0500
Subject: [Peace] God! Man at Yale...
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Message-ID: <8E955C14-BE72-4C60-9E60-2587E0D4CEBE@illinois.edu>

(With apologies, if appropriate, to William Buckley, author of “God and Man at Yale,” 1951.)

“Most of the world is just collapsing in laughter” on claims that Russia intervened in the US election, says Noam Chomsky: <http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/most-of-the-world-is-just-collapsing-in-laughter-on-claims-that-russia-intervened-in-the-us-election-an-interview-with-noam-chomsky/>.

But not a humorless Yale historian who says that Russia invaded  - and now occupies - the US! 

Hunter Thompson used to call this 'bad craziness’: <http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/lost-war-russia-article-1.3001640 <http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/lost-war-russia-article-1.3001640>>.

—CGE

P.S. - I’m reminded of a dangerous anti-climax, given Yale as a primary recruiting-ground for the CIA:

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From galliher at illinois.edu  Mon Mar 20 20:53:14 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:53:14 -0500
Subject: [Peace] The Russian threat
Message-ID: <22E59BEC-8E3E-4854-B628-05AFDCB439EF@illinois.edu>

http://www.janes.com/article/68766/russia-announces-deepest-defence-budget-cuts-since-1990s#pq=mp3rbv <http://www.janes.com/article/68766/russia-announces-deepest-defence-budget-cuts-since-1990s#pq=mp3rbv>
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From galliher at illinois.edu  Wed Mar 22 00:57:36 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 19:57:36 -0500
Subject: [Peace] The leading academic foreign policy journal finally tells
	the truth
Message-ID: <C3821D47-593A-4812-9FE9-0E8825D742E4@illinois.edu>

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/03/21/a-breach-in-the-anti-putin-groupthink/ <https://consortiumnews.com/2017/03/21/a-breach-in-the-anti-putin-groupthink/>

“For 25 years, Republicans and Democrats have acted in ways that look much the same to Moscow. Washington has pursued policies that have ignored Russian interests (and sometimes international law as well) in order to encircle Moscow with military alliances and trade blocs conducive to U.S. interests. It is no wonder that Russia pushes back. The wonder is that the U.S. policy elite doesn’t get this, even as foreign-affairs neophyte Trump apparently does…

"[This article] details all the errors and stupidities of the Obama administration in its handling of Russia and Putin, faulting President Obama and Secretary of State (and later presidential candidate) Hillary Clinton for all of their provocative and insensitive [sic] words and deeds. What we see in U.S. policy ... is the application of double standards, a prosecutorial stance towards Russia, and outrageous lies about the country and its leadership foisted on the American public.”

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From galliher at illinois.edu  Wed Mar 22 03:25:19 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:25:19 -0500
Subject: [Peace] AWARE ON THE AIR for Tuesday 21 March
Message-ID: <E6252A3A-3896-4AA3-87BD-B95DE311AB64@illinois.edu>

The principal topics of today’s program are US murder in Yemen; anti-Russian hysteria, encouraged by both Republicans and Democrats; and the new administration’s resistance to war with Russia and China. Sources:

~ “Why Trump Should Stay Out of Yemen,” by Patrick Cockburn
~ "McCain and Montenegro: the anatomy of a conspiracy theory," by Justin Raimondo

The second half of the program is announced as a video on “whistle-blowers.” It’s in fact on the leading whistle-blower of the 19th century, Karl Marx, who died 14 March 1883. It's available separately on YouTube, at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRtggSypXq8> - Richard Wolff : "Karl Marx was a genius."

—CGE

From galliher at illinois.edu  Wed Mar 22 03:50:43 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:50:43 -0500
Subject: [Peace] AWARE ON THE AIR for Tuesday 21 March CORRECTED
In-Reply-To: <E6252A3A-3896-4AA3-87BD-B95DE311AB64@illinois.edu>
References: <E6252A3A-3896-4AA3-87BD-B95DE311AB64@illinois.edu>
Message-ID: <D9519064-0961-4333-94BF-87D2739CDFB7@illinois.edu>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwKFbX6yLj8&feature=youtu.be <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwKFbX6yLj8&feature=youtu.be>

The principal topics of today’s program are US murder in Yemen; anti-Russian hysteria, encouraged by both Republicans and Democrats; and the new administration’s resistance to war with Russia and China. Sources:

~ “Why Trump Should Stay Out of Yemen,” by Patrick Cockburn
~ "McCain and Montenegro: the anatomy of a conspiracy theory," by Justin Raimondo

The second half of the program is announced as a video on “whistle-blowers.” It’s in fact on the leading whistle-blower of the 19th century, Karl Marx, who died 14 March 1883. It's available separately on YouTube, at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRtggSypXq8> - Richard Wolff : "Karl Marx was a genius."

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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Wed Mar 22 16:10:24 2017
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:10:24 -0500
Subject: [Peace] tonight: Champaign County Democrats consider Nursing Home
	referendum
Message-ID: <CALMNhNRWaSEOCAE+RhM=FLOgA21enNm+pVOHEMv64=LP+j1TRA@mail.gmail.com>

As you surely know, in the April 4 election, Champaign County voters will
consider a tax increase to support the Champaign County Nursing Home. They
will also vote on whether to support a sale of the Nursing Home. Early
voting in the April 4 election has already begun.

Tonight, Champaign County Democrats will vote on whether to endorse the
campaign for the Nursing Home tax increase and opposition to sale.

The meeting is at 7 pm, at Democratic Headquarters, 110 S. Neil St.
Champaign. There is an allotted time for public participation towards the
beginning of the meeting.

At the meeting, we will present the following petition in support of the
ask, which at this writing has 93 signatures.

@ChampaignCoDems: Vote to Save Our County Nursing Home
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/champaigncodems-vote?r_by=1135580

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Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Wed Mar 22 17:15:10 2017
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (kmedina67)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:15:10 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Please sign the petition before the meeting tonightRE:
 tonight: Champaign County Democrats consider Nursing Home	referendum
Message-ID: <3uon3d39b6615bn3chi8q4y8.1490202910404@email.android.com>


Please sign the petition before tonight's county board meeting

Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
-------- Original message --------From: Robert Naiman via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> Date: 3/22/17  11:10  (GMT-06:00) To: peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> Subject: [Peace] tonight: Champaign County Democrats consider Nursing Home	referendum 

As you surely know, in the April 4 election, Champaign County voters will consider a tax increase to support the Champaign County Nursing Home. They will also vote on whether to support a sale of the Nursing Home. Early voting in the April 4 election has already begun.  Tonight, Champaign County Democrats will vote on whether to endorse the campaign for the Nursing Home tax increase and opposition to sale.
The meeting is at 7 pm, at Democratic Headquarters, 110 S. Neil St. Champaign. There is an allotted time for public participation towards the beginning of the meeting. 
At the meeting, we will present the following petition in support of the ask, which at this writing has 93 signatures. 
@ChampaignCoDems: Vote to Save Our County Nursing Home
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/champaigncodems-vote?r_by=1135580

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Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Thu Mar 23 14:10:38 2017
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:10:38 -0500
Subject: [Peace] CC Dems endorse Nursing Home;
 Indivisible at Rodney Davis today against ACA repeal
Message-ID: <CALMNhNRmFFqRmgC7saTdJvDxxXNwgi=Kx7dBYvqQ=bS6QDMEyA@mail.gmail.com>

Last night Champaign County Democrats endorsed the referenda campaign in
support of the Nursing Home: YES on the tax increase, NO on sale or
disposal of the Nursing Home. Early voting in the April 4 referenda is
already underway. A Facebook graphic that shows the YES and NO on the
sample ballot is here
<https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FChampaignCountyCARE%2Fposts%2F1244407842275100%3A0>
.

Indivisible Illinois is doing a statewide event at Congressional offices
against ACA repeal today, with an action at Rodney Davis' office in
Champaign at noon.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1279916922087047/

===

Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Fri Mar 24 16:05:43 2017
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:05:43 -0500
Subject: [Peace] TODAY: Press Dick Durbin to talk about famine at Illinois
	Wesleyan
Message-ID: <CALMNhNRijuGNwaeGaLxJHhLCL4-OAemk1E4krvL9WNcpyksZYw@mail.gmail.com>

When I called, I had to let the phone ring several times before I could
leave a message.

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From: Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org>
Date: Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:03 AM
Subject: TODAY: Press Dick Durbin to talk about famine at Illinois Wesleyan
To: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com


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Dear Robert,

At 5:30 PM today, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin is having a Town Hall
Meeting at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. [1]

*Please call Dick Durbin's office in Springfield now at 217-492-4062
<(217)%20492-4062>.* When you reach a staffer or leave a message [you may
need to let the phone ring several times], you can say something like:

"I urge Senator Durbin in his speech at Illinois Wesleyan to join the
bipartisan call on Saudi Arabia to permit humanitarian groups access to
Hodeida to avert famine in Yemen."

When you've made your call, *please report it here*:

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/call-in-durbin-town-hall-famine
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=n0f%2BDA99PZ3ZBU5x3%2BMp2GnU5HeWBsr2>

Yesterday, a bipartisan group of ten Senators urged Secretary of State
Tillerson to launch an urgent diplomatic effort to address obstacles in
northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen preventing
humanitarian aid from being delivered to people who desperately need it. [2]

About Yemen, the ten Senators wrote:

[...]
In Yemen, the World Food Program estimates that 80% of the population is in
urgent need of humanitarian assistance. In short, *millions of innocent
people will starve to death without concerted and urgent action in the
coming weeks*.
[...]

[...]
In Yemen, we ask that the Department of State work urgently with
stakeholders to persuade combatants to *permit humanitarian groups
increased access to Red Sea ports like Hodeida* to deliver much-needed
assistance to vulnerable communities.
[...]

Please call Dick Durbin at *217-492-4062 <(217)%20492-4062>* now.

And if you haven't signed our petition to Senator Durbin yet, *you can do
that here
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sjlD8EkCmzGipvzY8KnrgmnU5HeWBsr2>*.


Thanks for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just,

Robert Naiman, Avram Reisman, and Sarah Burns
Just Foreign Policy

*If you think our work is important, support us with a $17 donation.*
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References:
1. https://www.facebook.com/SenatorDurbin/posts/1290072631028407
2. https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-
releases?ContentRecord_id=7D1BDC36-79DE-4AB2-A9F1-1A89B8B5111D

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From rohnkoester at gmail.com  Fri Mar 24 22:54:02 2017
From: rohnkoester at gmail.com (Rohn Koester)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 17:54:02 -0500
Subject: [Peace] This Sunday at Channing-Murray -- Native American
 Spirituality and the Environment
Message-ID: <CACw=kz-fdPCvy6336Tsf2ooiuGxe6=Ko1eCA+6GSscmx675VWQ@mail.gmail.com>

The Channing-Murray Foundation welcomes you to join us this Sunday,
March 26, at 2:30pm, for our concluding event in the Spirituality and
the Environment series, featuring Beverly Smith of the Native American
House.

The service will include a presentation on indigenous education prior
to European colonialism, the development of personal identity in
relation to the environment, and the sacred role of water in Native
American culture.

As with other CMF Sunday Services, this event is free and open to the
public. Snacks and drinks will be provided as well as an opportunity
for fellowship after the service.

From galliher at illinois.edu  Sat Mar 25 02:38:01 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 21:38:01 -0500
Subject: [Peace] The Obama Plot to Sabotage Trump
In-Reply-To: <D9519064-0961-4333-94BF-87D2739CDFB7@illinois.edu>
References: <E6252A3A-3896-4AA3-87BD-B95DE311AB64@illinois.edu>
 <D9519064-0961-4333-94BF-87D2739CDFB7@illinois.edu>
Message-ID: <7AD73427-6AF0-4CAF-BC80-76EE41776305@illinois.edu>

"The real scandal, which the media regard as a diversion from the primary target, Trump, is that a Deep State conspiracy to bring down his presidency seems to have been put in place by Obamaites, and perhaps approved by Obama himself.”

http://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/the-obama-plot-to-sabotage-trump/ <http://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/the-obama-plot-to-sabotage-trump/>
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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Sat Mar 25 05:19:59 2017
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (kmedina67)
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 00:19:59 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Native American Spirituality and the Environment
Message-ID: <w0uwphw67v7qbx64h2y2si7f.1490419199828@email.android.com>



Dear peace, Some of you may be interested in this event at channing-murray featuring Beverly Smith of the native American house at uiuc.
The Channing-Murray Foundation welcomes you to join us this Sunday,
March 26, at 2:30pm, for our concluding event in the Spirituality and
the Environment series, featuring Beverly Smith of the Native American
House.

The service will include a presentation on indigenous education prior
to colonializtion, the development of personal identity in relation to
the environment, and the sacred role of water in Native American
culture.

As with other CMF Sunday Services, this event is free and open to the
public. Snacks and drinks will be provided as well as an opportunity
for fellowship after the service.
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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Sat Mar 25 13:20:19 2017
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina)
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 08:20:19 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Nursing Home Days of Action this Weekend!
Message-ID: <CA+0uwianfLB5SKdSmp+yA3ZQ2ajGWpNTBfbpLKMg1EWOjzFw4w@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Peace,

Below is a forwarded invitation to help canvass for the nursing home this
weekend.

If you have time, please consider canvassing (knocking on doors or phone
calling) for the Champaign County Nursing Home issue...
Saturday, March 25 (today) and Sunday, March 26, 2017
from 1pm-4pm. (You can help for an hour or all three)
(see details of where and the wording on the ballot in the forwarded
message below)

Why do I think canvassing is extremely important?
* The entire county will be voting on the issue, not just the towns of
Champaign and Urbana. This means we need as many people as possible voting.
* We need to educate as many people as possible. Some people may not even
know about the April 4th election, even more people may not know about the
Nursing Home issue.
* Increasing taxes is not easy. In these hard times of the state of
Illinois being way behind on paying its bills, a tax increase could be seem
like a hardship on some people (about $30 for the average home), but in the
long term keeping the nursing home from being privatized will (I believe)
save the people of the county a lot of money.  The county nursing home
takes in people that the privatized nursing homes don't.
* Privatizing services seems to be the way everything is going and people
seem to be willing to let this happen. Because of this privatization, our
county no longer has many of the services every community needs in order to
be healthy. A nursing home for our seniors and recovering patients is one
of those services that is vital; we all benefit from having it. I am
willing to pay to keep it. Once something is privatized, we no longer have
oversight as a community.

Please consider helping to get the word out.

Pace e bene,
-- karen medina
"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark
Twain
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Join our fight and come out and let voters know how to support the
Champaign County Nursing Home in the April 4th Election!

We are going to knock on doors and make phone calls to inform voters in
Champaign and Urbana.  There will be a training on how to talk about the
issues and what to expect going door to door or making calls.

Come out *Saturday the 25th* or *Sunday the 26th*:

Meet at:
1pm-4pm
110 S. Neil St.

DONATE TODAY AT CHAMPAIGNCOUNTYCARE.ORG

SHARE THE SAMPLE BALLOT WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS!


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From divisek at yahoo.com  Sat Mar 25 14:22:15 2017
From: divisek at yahoo.com (Dianna Visek)
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 14:22:15 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Nursing Home Days of Action this Weekend!
In-Reply-To: <CA+0uwianfLB5SKdSmp+yA3ZQ2ajGWpNTBfbpLKMg1EWOjzFw4w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CA+0uwianfLB5SKdSmp+yA3ZQ2ajGWpNTBfbpLKMg1EWOjzFw4w@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <805944064.4600975.1490451736078@mail.yahoo.com>

I've had the misfortune of having had parents in 7 facilities (assisted living and nursing homes) in Champaign County. As far as I know, all facilities in the county, other than Meadowbrook, take both Medicare and Medicaid.  Meadowbrook only takes Medicare in their rehabilitation unit and is the only facility I've encountered that mostly takes private pay.

Dianna 

    On Saturday, March 25, 2017 8:20 AM, Karen Medina via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
 

 Dear Peace,

Below is a forwarded invitation to help canvass for the nursing home this weekend. 

If you have time, please consider canvassing (knocking on doors or phone calling) for the Champaign County Nursing Home issue...
Saturday, March 25 (today) and Sunday, March 26, 2017
from 1pm-4pm. (You can help for an hour or all three)
(see details of where and the wording on the ballot in the forwarded message below)

Why do I think canvassing is extremely important?
* The entire county will be voting on the issue, not just the towns of Champaign and Urbana. This means we need as many people as possible voting.
* We need to educate as many people as possible. Some people may not even know about the April 4th election, even more people may not know about the Nursing Home issue. 
* Increasing taxes is not easy. In these hard times of the state of Illinois being way behind on paying its bills, a tax increase could be seem like a hardship on some people (about $30 for the average home), but in the long term keeping the nursing home from being privatized will (I believe) save the people of the county a lot of money.  The county nursing home takes in people that the privatized nursing homes don't.  
* Privatizing services seems to be the way everything is going and people seem to be willing to let this happen. Because of this privatization, our county no longer has many of the services every community needs in order to be healthy. A nursing home for our seniors and recovering patients is one of those services that is vital; we all benefit from having it. I am willing to pay to keep it. Once something is privatized, we no longer have oversight as a community. 

Please consider helping to get the word out.   

Pace e bene,
-- karen medina
"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Join our fight and come out and let voters know how to support the Champaign County Nursing Home in the April 4th Election!
We are going to knock on doors and make phone calls to inform voters in Champaign and Urbana.  There will be a training on how to talk about the issues and what to expect going door to door or making calls.  
Come out Saturday the 25th or Sunday the 26th:
Meet at: 1pm-4pm110 S. Neil St.
DONATE TODAY AT CHAMPAIGNCOUNTYCARE.ORG
SHARE THE SAMPLE BALLOT WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS!





_______________________________________________
Peace mailing list
Peace at lists.chambana.net
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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Sat Mar 25 16:16:59 2017
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 11:16:59 -0500
Subject: [Peace] video clip: Durbin on stopping the famine in Yemen,
 arms deal, Rubio letter, Kristof
Message-ID: <CALMNhNQyG=V_LxRafb7cv4Mb7gbxN9EPtiFSYV2in+HsB142Gw@mail.gmail.com>

The whole Town Hall at Illinois Wesleyan is at

https://www.facebook.com/SenatorDurbin/videos/1292030237499313/

My exchange with Durbin on Yemen [and on the Iran nuclear deal, as it
turned out] is at -50:33 in that video.

I snipped the exchange on Yemen [and Iran nuclear deal] and posted it here:

https://www.facebook.com/robert.naiman/videos/10155856031907656/

After the formal event I handed Durbin 255 signatures from across Illinois
on this petition:

Congress: Stop the Saudi Arms Deal. Stop the Famine in Yemen.
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/senatordurbin-senatorcardin?r_by=1135580

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Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
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From marketype at yahoo.com  Sat Mar 25 17:02:48 2017
From: marketype at yahoo.com (Mark Morenz-Harbinger)
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 17:02:48 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace] Native American Spirituality and the Environment
References: <234966.3657192.1490461368543.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <234966.3657192.1490461368543@mail.yahoo.com>

Is there anyway someone fro AWARE could post a video of this somewhere?

Best,
_Mark A. Morenz-Harbinger


--------------------------------------------
On Fri, 3/24/17, kmedina67 via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

 Subject: [Peace] Native American Spirituality and the Environment
 To: "Peace List" <peace at lists.chambana.net>
 Date: Friday, March 24, 2017, 10:19 PM
 
 
 
 Dear peace, Some of you may be
 interested in this event at channing-murray featuring
 Beverly Smith of the native American house at
 uiuc.
 The Channing-Murray Foundation welcomes you to join us this
 Sunday,
 March 26, at 2:30pm, for our concluding event in the
 Spirituality and
 the Environment series, featuring Beverly Smith of the
 Native American
 House.
 
 The service will include a presentation on indigenous
 education prior
 to colonializtion, the development of personal identity in
 relation to
 the environment, and the sacred role of water in Native
 American
 culture.
 
 As with other CMF Sunday Services, this event is free and
 open to the
 public. Snacks and drinks will be provided as well as an
 opportunity
 for fellowship after the service.
 
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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Sat Mar 25 20:12:50 2017
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (kmedina67)
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 15:12:50 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Nursing Home Days of Action this Weekend!
Message-ID: <fenkugahc8m7jjthrhofy9qg.1490472770591@email.android.com>

Dear peace,I would like to move this conversation to the sister list,  peace-discuss (peace is for events, which is the main point of my original post). Diana, are you on the peace-discuss list?
Yes, all the nursing homes i know of do take some Medicaid and Medicare patients. 1) It is a question of how many patients,  how long, and what restrictions they put on it. And, if ever there is a threat to medicaid payments, like there is going on right now with the state being way behind on the processing of the medicaid, what do the privatized nursing homes do?2) having more space for medicaid patients is not the only advantage to a public nursing home.
On a side note, there is a tendency to expect medicaid to be there for our families. Medicaid and medicare are a tax supported programs, i.e. Socialized care for the good of us all. But some of the same people who like medicaid claim that privatizing  services is the way they would prefer things to be. I am not sure we can have it both ways.
- Karen medina

Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
-------- Original message --------From: Dianna Visek <divisek at yahoo.com> Date: 3/25/17  09:22  (GMT-06:00) To: Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com>, Peace List <peace at lists.chambana.net> Subject: Re: [Peace] Fwd: Nursing Home Days of Action this Weekend! 
I've had the misfortune of having had parents in 7 facilities (assisted living and nursing homes) in Champaign County. As far as I know, all facilities in the county, other than Meadowbrook, take both Medicare and Medicaid.  Meadowbrook only takes Medicare in their rehabilitation unit and is the only facility I've encountered that mostly takes private pay.

Dianna 

    On Saturday, March 25, 2017 8:20 AM, Karen Medina via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
  

 Dear Peace,

Below is a forwarded invitation to help canvass for the nursing home this weekend. 

If you have time, please consider canvassing (knocking on doors or phone calling) for the Champaign County Nursing Home issue...
Saturday, March 25 (today) and Sunday, March 26, 2017
from 1pm-4pm. (You can help for an hour or all three)
(see details of where and the wording on the ballot in the forwarded message below)

Why do I think canvassing is extremely important?
* The entire county will be voting on the issue, not just the towns of Champaign and Urbana. This means we need as many people as possible voting.
* We need to educate as many people as possible. Some people may not even know about the April 4th election, even more people may not know about the Nursing Home issue. 
* Increasing taxes is not easy. In these hard times of the state of Illinois being way behind on paying its bills, a tax increase could be seem like a hardship on some people (about $30 for the average home), but in the long term keeping the nursing home from being privatized will (I believe) save the people of the county a lot of money.  The county nursing home takes in people that the privatized nursing homes don't.  
* Privatizing services seems to be the way everything is going and people seem to be willing to let this happen. Because of this privatization, our county no longer has many of the services every community needs in order to be healthy. A nursing home for our seniors and recovering patients is one of those services that is vital; we all benefit from having it. I am willing to pay to keep it. Once something is privatized, we no longer have oversight as a community. 

Please consider helping to get the word out.   

Pace e bene,
-- karen medina
"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Join our fight and come out and let voters know how to support the Champaign County Nursing Home in the April 4th Election!
We are going to knock on doors and make phone calls to inform voters in Champaign and Urbana.  There will be a training on how to talk about the issues and what to expect going door to door or making calls.  
Come out Saturday the 25th or Sunday the 26th:
Meet at: 1pm-4pm110 S. Neil St.
DONATE TODAY AT CHAMPAIGNCOUNTYCARE.ORG
SHARE THE SAMPLE BALLOT WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS!







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From galliher at illinois.edu  Wed Mar 29 01:42:55 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:42:55 -0500
Subject: [Peace] On this week's AWARE ON THE AIR
In-Reply-To: <7AD73427-6AF0-4CAF-BC80-76EE41776305@illinois.edu>
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"The Trump administration’s plan to splinter Syria and establish a permanent garrison in the eastern part of the country won’t be stopped unless the American people express their opposition en masse. Investigative journalist, James Carden, recommends that Congress pass a 'No Presidential Wars' resolution that 'would prohibit the president from 'initiating wars against state or non-state actors without prior congressional declarations under Article I, section 8, clause 11 (Declare War Clause).' It’s a great idea, but it won’t happen without pressure from below. People will have to get more involved if they want the bloodletting to end. There’s no other way.”

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/28/ending-syrias-nightmare-will-take-pressure-from-below/

—CGE

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Mar 29 12:39:57 2017
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:39:57 +0000
Subject: [Peace] On this week's AWARE ON THE AIR
In-Reply-To: <69C63627-8D2A-48F2-A4E5-BE3C6285D920@illinois.edu>
References: <E6252A3A-3896-4AA3-87BD-B95DE311AB64@illinois.edu>
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Excellent article, providing a bill, or opportunity for the American people to support and rise up against perpetual wars and destruction. 
It provides the background to the US goal of “regime change” and “division” creating further chaos in order to control. 
This is not an idea that Trump just came up with, its what the powers that be, behind the throne, Deep State made up of Think Tanks like the Brookings Institute, have had as their goal for a very long time. Begun under the Bush Administration and expanded by the Obama Administration, now under Trump. 

It’s time the American people recognize we are ruled by Oligarchs and our taxpayer money that should be providing jobs and healthcare is supporting these wars of aggression placing us on the doorstep of confrontation with Russia, who will not, and cannot back away from supporting Syria, because they know full well that they, after Iran are next on the list. 

The irony is that Russia maybe the only hope for peace, for vulnerable nations. Unless the American people take action to stop our Representatives from further carnage. 


> On Mar 28, 2017, at 18:42, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> "The Trump administration’s plan to splinter Syria and establish a permanent garrison in the eastern part of the country won’t be stopped unless the American people express their opposition en masse. Investigative journalist, James Carden, recommends that Congress pass a 'No Presidential Wars' resolution that 'would prohibit the president from 'initiating wars against state or non-state actors without prior congressional declarations under Article I, section 8, clause 11 (Declare War Clause).' It’s a great idea, but it won’t happen without pressure from below. People will have to get more involved if they want the bloodletting to end. There’s no other way.”
> 
> http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/28/ending-syrias-nightmare-will-take-pressure-from-below/
> 
> —CGE
> _______________________________________________
> Peace mailing list
> Peace at lists.chambana.net
> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace


From galliher at illinois.edu  Wed Mar 29 12:43:29 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 07:43:29 -0500
Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air, Tuesday 28 March
Message-ID: <18D2717E-F021-4DD6-ACC1-0E27F3A7BCD3@illinois.edu>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTuWlzU0lCQ <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTuWlzU0lCQ>

The principal topics of today’s program are 
~ renewed US killing in the Mideast reveals President Trump not as a strong 'fascist' leader but as a weak executive, falling into the long-standing pattern of US energy imperialism in SW Asia. 
~ "The Trump administration’s plan to splinter Syria and establish a permanent garrison in the eastern part of the country won’t be stopped unless the American people express their opposition en masse." [Mike Whitney]
~ "The movement to 'resist Trump' is basically a distractionary movement to stop the examination of neoliberal and neoconservative policy - identity politics as a cover. How bankrupt is this anti-Trump 'resistance'?" [J. B. Nicholson]

Sources:
~ “Trump’s War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised” | By Glenn Greenwald 
~ “Operation Mosul: A Medieval Massacre” | By Stephen Lendman
~ “Trump's Wars” | By Emma Ashford

The second half of the program is announced as a video of a speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, setting out a coherent Russian foreign and military policy, in contrast to Washington's obvious lies. It's available separately on YouTube, at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMsWzn5F7mU>.

—CGE
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Mar 29 14:03:18 2017
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:03:18 +0000
Subject: [Peace] On this week's AWARE ON THE AIR
In-Reply-To: <A577E3DDF9C35E4DA9C0B5E0346A12F0327EE6C1@CITESMBX4.ad.uillinois.edu>
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Francis, 

Unfortunately I must agree, the war powers will continue unabated because our Congress is as “controlled,” not all, but most, as the Administration. 

While it might be worthwhile, to give the “declaration of war” powers back to Congress, as our Constitution requires. There are too many proven ways of getting around it, and it will serve as “another distraction.” As to Impeachment, yes it seems that catching a President in the act of “fornication” or “talking to Russian Diplomats,” seems far more important than stopping our government from slaughtering millions of people. 


> On Mar 29, 2017, at 05:51, Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> Sorry the spacing for my Blowjob Poem got thrown off by the interaction of the computer programs.
> 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: Boyle, Francis A 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 7:50 AM
> To: 'Karen Aram' <karenaram at hotmail.com>; Estabrook, Carl G <galliher at illinois.edu>
> Cc: 'Peace-discuss List' <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>; 'prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net' <prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net>; 'Peace' <peace at anti-war.net>
> Subject: RE: [Peace] On this week's AWARE ON THE AIR
> 
> The only remedy is Impeachment. And I have worked incessantly to impeach Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr and Obama for presidential warmaking. With no success. The bottom line is that the US Congress basically supports presidential warmongering. Fab.
> Blow Jobs
> 
> The House impeached Clinton
> For a blow job and lying about a blow job That is the standard for impeachment In the blowjob U.S. House of Representatives
> 
> The Senate tried but did not convict Clinton For a blow job and lying about a blowjob In the blowjob U.S. Senate
> 
> The House did not even impeach Bushie Junior For war and lying about war In the blowjob U.S. House
> 
> The House did not even impeach Obama
> For war and lying about war
> In the blowjob U.S. House
> 
> Ergo
> Blowjobs
> Are more important than wars
> To our Blowjob Congress
> 
> Just a gang of blowjobs
> Republicans and Democrats
> Tweedle-dumb versus Tweedle-greed
> All in it for the blowjob by Wall Street Always the best Congress money can buy
> 
> Government of the blowjobs, by the blowjobs, and for the blowjobs Government of the warmongers, by the warmongers, and for the warmongers Is not war the ultimate blowjob?
> 
> 
> 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: Boyle, Francis A
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 7:42 AM
> To: 'Karen Aram' <karenaram at hotmail.com>; Estabrook, Carl G <galliher at illinois.edu>
> Cc: Peace-discuss List <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>; prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net; Peace <peace at anti-war.net>
> Subject: RE: [Peace] On this week's AWARE ON THE AIR
> 
> Basically this is what we thought we were doing with the War Powers Resolution of 1973. But all Presidents since then have perverted it and all Congresses have gone along with it.
> 
> 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: Peace [mailto:peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Karen Aram via Peace
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 7:40 AM
> To: Estabrook, Carl G <galliher at illinois.edu>
> Cc: Peace-discuss List <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>; prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net; Peace <peace at anti-war.net>
> Subject: Re: [Peace] On this week's AWARE ON THE AIR
> 
> Excellent article, providing a bill, or opportunity for the American people to support and rise up against perpetual wars and destruction. 
> It provides the background to the US goal of “regime change” and “division” creating further chaos in order to control. 
> This is not an idea that Trump just came up with, its what the powers that be, behind the throne, Deep State made up of Think Tanks like the Brookings Institute, have had as their goal for a very long time. Begun under the Bush Administration and expanded by the Obama Administration, now under Trump. 
> 
> It’s time the American people recognize we are ruled by Oligarchs and our taxpayer money that should be providing jobs and healthcare is supporting these wars of aggression placing us on the doorstep of confrontation with Russia, who will not, and cannot back away from supporting Syria, because they know full well that they, after Iran are next on the list. 
> 
> The irony is that Russia maybe the only hope for peace, for vulnerable nations. Unless the American people take action to stop our Representatives from further carnage. 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 28, 2017, at 18:42, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>> 
>> "The Trump administration’s plan to splinter Syria and establish a permanent garrison in the eastern part of the country won’t be stopped unless the American people express their opposition en masse. Investigative journalist, James Carden, recommends that Congress pass a 'No Presidential Wars' resolution that 'would prohibit the president from 'initiating wars against state or non-state actors without prior congressional declarations under Article I, section 8, clause 11 (Declare War Clause).' It’s a great idea, but it won’t happen without pressure from below. People will have to get more involved if they want the bloodletting to end. There’s no other way.”
>> 
>> http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/28/ending-syrias-nightmare-will-ta
>> ke-pressure-from-below/
>> 
>> —CGE
>> _______________________________________________
>> Peace mailing list
>> Peace at lists.chambana.net
>> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Peace mailing list
> Peace at lists.chambana.net
> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace


From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Mar 29 14:04:46 2017
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:04:46 +0000
Subject: [Peace] On this week's AWARE ON THE AIR
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References: <E6252A3A-3896-4AA3-87BD-B95DE311AB64@illinois.edu>
 <D9519064-0961-4333-94BF-87D2739CDFB7@illinois.edu>
 <7AD73427-6AF0-4CAF-BC80-76EE41776305@illinois.edu>
 <69C63627-8D2A-48F2-A4E5-BE3C6285D920@illinois.edu>
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It came through fine on my end.

> On Mar 29, 2017, at 05:51, Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> Sorry the spacing for my Blowjob Poem got thrown off by the interaction of the computer programs.
> 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: Boyle, Francis A 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 7:50 AM
> To: 'Karen Aram' <karenaram at hotmail.com>; Estabrook, Carl G <galliher at illinois.edu>
> Cc: 'Peace-discuss List' <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>; 'prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net' <prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net>; 'Peace' <peace at anti-war.net>
> Subject: RE: [Peace] On this week's AWARE ON THE AIR
> 
> The only remedy is Impeachment. And I have worked incessantly to impeach Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr and Obama for presidential warmaking. With no success. The bottom line is that the US Congress basically supports presidential warmongering. Fab.
> Blow Jobs
> 
> The House impeached Clinton
> For a blow job and lying about a blow job That is the standard for impeachment In the blowjob U.S. House of Representatives
> 
> The Senate tried but did not convict Clinton For a blow job and lying about a blowjob In the blowjob U.S. Senate
> 
> The House did not even impeach Bushie Junior For war and lying about war In the blowjob U.S. House
> 
> The House did not even impeach Obama
> For war and lying about war
> In the blowjob U.S. House
> 
> Ergo
> Blowjobs
> Are more important than wars
> To our Blowjob Congress
> 
> Just a gang of blowjobs
> Republicans and Democrats
> Tweedle-dumb versus Tweedle-greed
> All in it for the blowjob by Wall Street Always the best Congress money can buy
> 
> Government of the blowjobs, by the blowjobs, and for the blowjobs Government of the warmongers, by the warmongers, and for the warmongers Is not war the ultimate blowjob?
> 
> 
> 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: Boyle, Francis A
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 7:42 AM
> To: 'Karen Aram' <karenaram at hotmail.com>; Estabrook, Carl G <galliher at illinois.edu>
> Cc: Peace-discuss List <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>; prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net; Peace <peace at anti-war.net>
> Subject: RE: [Peace] On this week's AWARE ON THE AIR
> 
> Basically this is what we thought we were doing with the War Powers Resolution of 1973. But all Presidents since then have perverted it and all Congresses have gone along with it.
> 
> 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: Peace [mailto:peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Karen Aram via Peace
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 7:40 AM
> To: Estabrook, Carl G <galliher at illinois.edu>
> Cc: Peace-discuss List <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>; prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net; Peace <peace at anti-war.net>
> Subject: Re: [Peace] On this week's AWARE ON THE AIR
> 
> Excellent article, providing a bill, or opportunity for the American people to support and rise up against perpetual wars and destruction. 
> It provides the background to the US goal of “regime change” and “division” creating further chaos in order to control. 
> This is not an idea that Trump just came up with, its what the powers that be, behind the throne, Deep State made up of Think Tanks like the Brookings Institute, have had as their goal for a very long time. Begun under the Bush Administration and expanded by the Obama Administration, now under Trump. 
> 
> It’s time the American people recognize we are ruled by Oligarchs and our taxpayer money that should be providing jobs and healthcare is supporting these wars of aggression placing us on the doorstep of confrontation with Russia, who will not, and cannot back away from supporting Syria, because they know full well that they, after Iran are next on the list. 
> 
> The irony is that Russia maybe the only hope for peace, for vulnerable nations. Unless the American people take action to stop our Representatives from further carnage. 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 28, 2017, at 18:42, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>> 
>> "The Trump administration’s plan to splinter Syria and establish a permanent garrison in the eastern part of the country won’t be stopped unless the American people express their opposition en masse. Investigative journalist, James Carden, recommends that Congress pass a 'No Presidential Wars' resolution that 'would prohibit the president from 'initiating wars against state or non-state actors without prior congressional declarations under Article I, section 8, clause 11 (Declare War Clause).' It’s a great idea, but it won’t happen without pressure from below. People will have to get more involved if they want the bloodletting to end. There’s no other way.”
>> 
>> http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/28/ending-syrias-nightmare-will-ta
>> ke-pressure-from-below/
>> 
>> —CGE
>> _______________________________________________
>> Peace mailing list
>> Peace at lists.chambana.net
>> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Peace mailing list
> Peace at lists.chambana.net
> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace


From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Wed Mar 29 20:51:38 2017
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:51:38 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Rodney Davis: join Justin Amash,
 Walter Jones to challenge US role in Saudi Yemen war
Message-ID: <CALMNhNRqONqa3m+MwkTDqNF4RzwapED9d+JQkCn7=HtHWWn4cw@mail.gmail.com>

*Now* let's go after Rodney Davis on this. If Justin Amash and Walter Jones
can do it, Rodney Davis can do it.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 3:39 PM
Subject: Help Reps. Pocan, Amash Challenge U.S. Role in Saudis' Yemen War
To: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org


[image: Just Foreign Policy]
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Dear Robert,

Urge your Rep. to sign the Pocan-Amash-Lieu-Jones letter.

Take Action
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2BA3LDbkE4R0%2F2iI8tpYyIv4THIAjCEma>

U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's war and blockade in Yemen has brought Yemen
to the brink of famine, with hundreds of thousands of Yemeni children
facing starvation. [1] Instead of ending the carnage, some in the Trump
Administration want to get the U.S. directly involved in Saudi Arabia's
war. [2] *But this war has never been authorized by Congress.* The Houthi
Shia targets of the Saudi war aren't "associated forces" of Al Qaeda. *On
the contrary*: Al Qaeda has fought alongside Saudi Arabia against the
Houthis, and Saudi Arabia's war against the Houthis has strengthened Al
Qaeda. [3] Since Congress has never authorized this war, *direct U.S.
participation would violate the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution*.


Now Reps. Mark Pocan [D-WI], Justin Amash [R-MI], Ted Lieu [D-CA], and
Walter Jones [R-NC] are leading a bipartisan letter challenging the
Administration to show its legal justification for direct participation in
the Saudi war against the Houthis without Congressional authorization.
Building support for this letter is a step towards invoking the War Powers
Resolution to compel the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the conflict.

*Urge your Representative to sign the Pocan-Amash-Lieu-Jones letter by
signing our petition on MoveOn
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iaNG7vHU%2BflLUEIu5q2wVv4THIAjCEma>.*

Thanks for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just,

Robert Naiman, Avram Reisman, and Sarah Burns
Just Foreign Policy

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References:
1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/hundreds-
of-thousands-of-yemeni-children-are-nearing-starvatio
n/2017/02/23/f01ead8a-f850-11e6-aa1e-5f735ee31334_story.html
2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump
-administration-weighs-deeper-involvement-in-yemen-war/2017/
03/26/b81eecd8-0e49-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html
3. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/25/the-u-s-bac
ked-war-in-yemen-is-strengthening-al-qaeda.html

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From galliher at illinois.edu  Thu Mar 30 13:18:42 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:18:42 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Flyer for Saturday's anti-war demonstration
Message-ID: <907CC0E0-27A9-4E5D-BD5D-F353716194DA@illinois.edu>

AWARE will hold its regular monthly demonstration anti-war this Saturday 4/1 in downtown Champaign, at the intersection of Main & Neil, 2-4pm.

All are welcome. The following flyer will be distributed:


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From galliher at illinois.edu  Thu Mar 30 13:18:42 2017
From: galliher at illinois.edu (Carl G. Estabrook)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:18:42 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Flyer for Saturday's anti-war demonstration
Message-ID: <907CC0E0-27A9-4E5D-BD5D-F353716194DA@illinois.edu>

AWARE will hold its regular monthly demonstration anti-war this Saturday 4/1 in downtown Champaign, at the intersection of Main & Neil, 2-4pm.

All are welcome. The following flyer will be distributed:


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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Thu Mar 30 14:25:19 2017
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:25:19 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Call Rodney Davis: Make Trump Show Legal Basis for Joining
 Saudis' Yemen War
Message-ID: <CALMNhNTcUj47fP=k-Kod0G_OfsSpy73HVWHBaTnGCJNDrC_VBA@mail.gmail.com>

*Call Rep. Rodney Davis now at (202) 225-2371 <(202)%20225-2371>.* When you
reach a staffer or leave a message, you can say something like:

"As a constituent, I urge you to sign the the Pocan-Amash-Lieu-Jones letter
pressing the Trump Administration to show its legal justification for
direct U.S. involvement in Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen."

When you've made your call, *please report it here
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5Omfm6JbGTUGL3aLJcMJkcBM05vVo%2BXI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justforeignpolicy.org%2Fact%2Fcall-yemen-war-authorization-letter>*
.

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From: Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 9:17 AM
Subject: Call Your Rep.: Make Trump Show Legal Basis for Joining Saudis'
Yemen War
To: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org


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Dear Robert,

Some in the Trump Administration want to get the U.S. directly involved in
Saudi Arabia's war in and blockade of Yemen. [1] *U.S. participation in
this war has never been authorized by Congress.* The Houthi Shia
adversaries of the Saudi war aren't "associated forces" of Al Qaeda. *On
the contrary*: Al Qaeda has fought alongside Saudi Arabia against the
Houthis, and Saudi Arabia's war against the Houthis has strengthened Al
Qaeda. [2] Since Congress has never authorized this war, *direct U.S.
participation would violate the Constitution and the War Powers Resolution*.
Reps. *Mark Pocan* [D-WI], *Justin Amash* [R-MI], *Ted Lieu* [D-CA],
and *Walter
Jones* [R-NC] are leading a bipartisan letter challenging the
Administration to show its legal justification for direct participation in
the Saudi war.

*Call Rep. Rodney Davis now at (202) 225-2371 <(202)%20225-2371>.* When you
reach a staffer or leave a message, you can say something like:

"As a constituent, I urge you to sign the the Pocan-Amash-Lieu-Jones letter
pressing the Trump Administration to show its legal justification for
direct U.S. involvement in Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen."

When you've made your call, *please report it here
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5Omfm6JbGTUGL3aLJcMJkcBM05vVo%2BXI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justforeignpolicy.org%2Fact%2Fcall-yemen-war-authorization-letter>*
.

The Pocan-Amash letter to Trump states: “engaging our military against
Yemen’s Houthis when no direct threat to the United States exists and
without prior congressional authorization *would violate the separation of
powers clearly delineated in the Constitution*. For this reason, we write
to request that the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) provide, without delay,
any legal justification that it would cite if the administration intends to
engage in direct hostilities against Yemen’s Houthis without seeking
congressional authorization.”

*Please call Rep. Rodney Davis now at (202) 225-2371 <(202)%20225-2371>,
and please report your call here
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8OH2CrwRe2dSM0vFO1MeCJ8LwbDlq1hu&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justforeignpolicy.org%2Fact%2Fcall-yemen-war-authorization-letter>.*

And if you haven't signed our petition to the House yet, *you can do that
here
<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=okEl8HMPhbVyEEAjxn4sVZ8LwbDlq1hu&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpetitions.moveon.org%2Fsign%2Fhelp-repmarkpocan-justinamas%3Fr_by%3D1135580>*.


Thanks for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just,

Robert Naiman, Avram Reisman, and Sarah Burns
Just Foreign Policy

*Help support our work!*
If you think our work is important, support us with a $15 donation.
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References:
1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/
trump-administration-weighs-deeper-involvement-in-yemen-
war/2017/03/26/b81eecd8-0e49-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html
2. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/25/the-u-s-
backed-war-in-yemen-is-strengthening-al-qaeda.html

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From cgestabrook at gmail.com  Thu Mar 30 16:20:07 2017
From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 11:20:07 -0500
Subject: [Peace] A Green Candidate for the 13th Illinois Congressional
	District
In-Reply-To: <18D2717E-F021-4DD6-ACC1-0E27F3A7BCD3@illinois.edu>
References: <18D2717E-F021-4DD6-ACC1-0E27F3A7BCD3@illinois.edu>
Message-ID: <894F7910-537D-4449-9805-875D4DF99329@gmail.com>

The local seat in the US House of Representatives is insecurely held by Rodney Davis, a Republican.

The Prairie Greens should run a candidate against him in 2018, on a platform of

~ opposing climate catastrophe;
~ bringing all US troops and weapons home;
~ expanding Medicare to all; and 
~ establishing a universal basic income.

Whomever the Democrats run against Davis, s/he will not support these positions. 

We should run a Green candidate. —CGE
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From stuartnlevy at gmail.com  Fri Mar 31 05:55:23 2017
From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:55:23 -0500
Subject: [Peace] AWARE anti-war demonstration - Sat April 1st, 2-4pm,
 Main & Neil in downtown Champaign
Message-ID: <3e08a601-3df0-493d-afed-abe92d8c4205@gmail.com>

AWARE returns to the streets to demonstrate against our wars this Saturday -

   Saturday, April 1st, 2-4PM
   corner of Main and Neil, downtown Champaign

Please join us for any or all of that time.

Fifty years ago next week - April 4, 1967 - civil rights leader Martin
Luther King, Jr. gave a speech, "Beyond Vietnam".  
How little has changed in half a century?   May our vision be as
uncompromising as his was then.

(The full text is here: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0115-13.htm )

    "Why are you speaking about the war, Dr. King?" "Why are you joining
    the voices of dissent?" "Peace and civil rights don't mix," they
    say. "Aren't you hurting the cause of your people," they ask? And
    when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their
    concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean
    that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my
    calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the
    world in which they live.

    [...]

    "I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence
    of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly
    to *the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own
    government. * For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this
    government, *for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling
    under our violence, I cannot be silent.*"

    [...]

    "[The people of Vietnam] must see Americans as strange liberators.
    [...] Even though they quoted the American Declaration of
    Independence in their own document of freedom, we refused to
    recognize them. [...]

    When Diem was overthrown they may have been happy, but the long line
    of military dictators seemed to offer no real change, especially in
    terms of their need for land and peace.

    The only change came from *America, as we increased our troop
    commitments in support of governments which were singularly corrupt,
    inept, and without popular support.* All the while the people read
    our leaflets and received the regular promises of peace and
    democracy and land reform. Now they languish under our bombs and
    consider us, not their fellow Vietnamese, the real enemy. They move
    sadly and apathetically as we herd them off the land of their
    fathers into concentration camps where minimal social needs are
    rarely met. They know they must move on or be destroyed by our bombs."

    [...]

    "We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if
    our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane
    convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his
    convictions, but we must all protest.

    Now there is something seductively tempting about stopping there and
    sending us all off on what in some circles has become a popular
    crusade against the war in Vietnam. I say we must enter that
    struggle, but I wish to go on now to say something even more disturbing.

    *The war *in Vietnam is *but a symptom of a far deeper malady within
    the American spirit,* and if we ignore this sobering reality...and
    if we ignore this sobering reality, we will find ourselves
    organizing "clergy and laymen concerned" committees for the next
    generation. They will be concerned about Guatemala -- Guatemala and
    Peru. They will be concerned about Thailand and Cambodia. They will
    be concerned about Mozambique and South Africa. *We will be marching
    for these and a dozen other names and attending rallies without end,
    unless there is a significant and profound change in American life
    and policy.*

    And so, such thoughts take us beyond Vietnam, but not beyond our
    calling as sons of the living God."

    [...]

    "*In 1957, a sensitive American official overseas said that it
    seemed to him that our nation was on the wrong side of a world
    revolution.* During the past ten years, we have seen emerge a
    pattern of suppression which has now justified the presence of U.S.
    military advisors in Venezuela. *This need to maintain social
    stability for our investments* accounts for the counterrevolutionary
    action of American forces in Guatemala. It tells why American
    helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Cambodia and why
    American napalm and Green Beret forces have already been active
    against rebels in Peru."

    [...]

    "*A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the
    fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. *On
    the one hand, we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's
    roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come
    to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men
    and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make
    their journey on life's highway. *True compassion is more than
    flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which
    produces beggars needs restructuring.*"
    [...]

    "*A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring
    contrast of poverty and wealth. *With righteous indignation, it will
    look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West
    investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America,
    only to take the profits out with no concern for the social
    betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will
    look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and
    say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it
    has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not
    just."

    [...]

    "This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our
    nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs
    of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men
    home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and
    psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice,
    and love. *A nation* *that continues year after year to spend more
    money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is
    approaching spiritual death.*"

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