[Peace] Join us to leaflet the Art Theatre tonight 6-7pm

[Harry Mickalide]

It still seems weird to me that AWARE is willing to engage in the long-term
work of education, but will not support Black Students for Revolution or
Project1000 doing concrete anti-racist anti-capitalist work on campus.

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 11:17 AM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> AWARE will distribute the following flyer at the Champaign Art Theatre
> Tuesday, May 9, before the 7pm showing of the film "Sonita," part of THE
> SEVENTH ART STAND, the Theater's film series against Islamophobia & the
> #MuslimBan
>
> ["Two-time Sundance Film Festival award winner Sonita tells the inspiring
> story of Sonita Alizadeh, an 18-year-old Afghan refugee in Iran, who thinks
> of Michael Jackson and Rihanna as her spiritual parents and dreams of
> becoming a big-name rapper. For the time being, her only fans are the other
> teenage girls in a Tehran shelter. And her family has a very different
> future planned for her: as a bride she’s worth $9,000. Iranian director
> Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami (Going Up the Stairs) poignantly shifts from
> observer to participant altering expectations, as Sonita’s story unfolds in
> this personal and joyful portrait. An intimate portrait of creativity and
> womanhood, Sonita highlights the rarely seen intricacies and shifting
> contrasts of Iranian society through the lens of an artist who is defining
> the next generation."]
>
> ==================================
> The U.S. is Illegally Making War in the Mideast
> Pres. Trump: Bring U.S. Troops and Weapons Home
>
> The U.S. military is today killing people in seven Mideast and African
> countries - Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan.
> Thousands of U.S. troops are fighting in these countries, although most
> Americans don’t know that. In addition, the 70,000-member U.S. ‘Special
> Operations Command’ - American death squads - are active in three-quarters
> of the countries of the world. Their activities include kidnapping
> (‘rendition’), torture, and murder.
>
> [Map of Iran, surrounded by US military bases]
>
> The U.S. government says that 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 U.S. citizens and hundreds of children.
>
> Since World War II ended in 1945, the U.S. has attempted 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 U.S. a major advantage over China, Germany, and other countries -
> a chokehold which benefits only the American economic elite, the 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.
>
> Those of us in AWARE, like other anti-war groups in the United States and
> around the world, call upon President Trump to
> ~ (1) establish a foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law,
> and human rights;
> ~ (2) end U.S. wars in the Mideast and war provocations against Russia (in
> Eastern Europe) and China (in the South China Sea), and stop the drone
> assassinations;
> ~ (3) cut military spending by at least 50% and close the more than 700
> foreign military bases (neither Russia nor China has more than twelve);
> bring U.S. troops (and weapons) home;
> ~ (4) stop U.S. support for human rights abusers, notably Israel and Saudi
> Arabia; and
> ~ (5) lead on global nuclear disarmament.
>
> ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at
> <AWARE of Champaign-Urbana Illinois>:
> ~ U.S. troops & weapons out of the Mideast
> ~ Medicare for all ~ Universal basic income ~
> ==================================
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