[Peace] peace demonstration tomorrow, Saturday, December 1, 2018; 2pm-4pm, downtown Champaign, Main and Neil streets

[David Green]

Unfortunately, according to the forecast, this will be a tough one; not
just rain but thunderstorms possible all day.


On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:48 PM Karen Medina via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Peace demonstration / Saturday, December 1, 2018; 2pm-4pm
>
> Forecast said something about rain so dress to keep dry. And warm
> because it does get windy on those corners. (gloves. hat. layers.)
>
> "Which corners?" you ask. The 4 corners of Neil Street and Main Street
> in downtown Champaign Illinois.
>
> Come prepared to talk about Yemen*, or peace, or your values, or your
> politics -- or all of the above. We shall try to make the conversation
> worth your time and discomfort.  GET OFF YOUR couch and join us.
>
> If you can't make it, please devote 2 hours to using your MIGHTY PEN
> to denounce war -- you have to share it to make it count.
>
> You have been invited!**
> -karen medina
> -- --
> Footnotes:
> * or any other war in which the United States government is invested.
> ** I apologize for the reference to an ancient parable, but even
> agnostics and atheists can enjoy the power of a good story sometimes.
> The invitation is a reference to Luke 14:16-17, "A certain man
> prepared a great banquet and invited many guests. When it was time for
> the banquet, he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited,
> ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’" All of those invited were too
> busy to come. // "Then the owner of the house became angry and said to
> his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city,
> and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’ ...
> "For I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will taste my
> banquet.’”… // In this case, if you decline the invitation to be part
> of anti-war movement, then you are joining the "good people" who do
> nothing -- which refers to the line "All that is necessary for the
> triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." which is often
> attributed to Edmund Burke.
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