From deb.pdamerica at gmail.com Thu Nov 1 08:35:40 2018 From: deb.pdamerica at gmail.com (Debra Schrishuhn) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 03:35:40 -0500 Subject: [Peace] a few moments to reflect on racism Message-ID: Amid the maelstrom of endless news cycles and bloviating politicians, we need to take a few moments to reflect on the underlying racism among ourselves. Sadly, the candidacy locally and nationally of people of color sparks negative and racist reactions from the electoral opposition in words and actions that range from dog whistle politics to outright acts of violence and hate crimes. I commend all who work to raise awareness about the pernicious issues of institutionalized racism that pervade our society and community. We must begin talking with one another, not at each other, and we must be willing to go beyond our own comfort zones to learn how others experience the world. Here, I am not just talking about people of different political perspectives communicating, but within our own ranks, we must condemn the casual racism of disrespect and the tendency to dismiss individuals because their looks or their perspective or their speech or their dress is unfamiliar, not what we are expecting, or associated with a particular socio-economic stratum. I think often of the Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum: "In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." (paper presented to General Assembly of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1968.) Although his focus was the natural world, his words are applicable to much more than forestry and wildlife. Put another way, exposure leads to education, education leads to understanding, understanding leads to appreciation, and appreciation and love lead to action. If you have a few moments to spare, please read this article: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-midterms-candidates-of-color_us_5bd0d365e4b0d38b587f6dcf Be well, Deb From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Nov 1 19:13:57 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 19:13:57 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Yemen, already closer to 70,000 or 80,000 dead Message-ID: Story Transcript BEN NORTON: It’s The Real News Network, and I’m Ben Norton. The United Nations has warned that 14 million Yemenis are at serious risk of famine as the United States continues backing a brutal Saudi and Emirati war which many observers say borders on the genocidal. As Yemen suffers from the worst humanitarian catastrophe on earth, the UN Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock said that the danger of famine is, quote, “much bigger than anything any professional in this field has seen during their working lives.” Mainstream corporate media outlets have largely ignored or glossed over this catastrophic war since it began in March 2015, despite the fact that the U.S. and British governments have played key roles supporting the relentless Saudi bombing campaign. And even when media outlets have acknowledged the war, they have frequently downplayed and whitewashed just how criminal the assault has been. One of the most repeated myths that has been endlessly rehashed in the past few years is the claim that only 10,000 Yemenis have been killed from the violence in this war. After 21 months, virtually all major media outlets are still repeating the same death toll, that 10,000 Yemenis have died, which is a figure from January 2017 from the United Nations. Still, in October 2018, this 10,000 death figure is still being repeated by the Associated Press, Agence France Presse, and the New York Times, among other outlets. And this absurd reporting has shown how Yemen’s death toll has been grossly downplayed for years. Well, a new report in the British newspaper The Independent dispels this 10,000 death toll myth once and for all. In a new piece, titled The Yemen War Death Toll Is Five Times Higher Than We Think, veteran reporter Patrick Cockburn reports that at least 56,000 civilians and combatants were killed in Yemen in the 21 months between January 2016 and October 2018. It’s less than two years. Virtually all of those killed were Yemenis, along with a smaller number of mercenaries hired by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. This figure, this staggering figure of 56,000 dead, is based on the research of scholar Andrea Carboni, who is part of the group the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, ACLED. This researcher said he suspects the total number of people killed in fighting since the start of the U.S.-backed Saudi war in Yemen is actually between 70,000 and 80,000 dead. Between 70,000 and 80,000 dead, which would be seven to eight times higher than what most media outlets are reporting. And this number of deaths is actually increasing by more than 2,000 per month. As fighting is intensifying, specifically at the port of Hodeida- this is a major Yemeni port city that has been under attack by Saudi Arabia and the UAE. And this is still a conservative estimate, because when figures differ this researcher has always erred on the side of using lower estimates. Moreover, this figure does not even include deaths from malnutrition or diseases such as cholera, and Yemen has been suffering from one of the worst cholera epidemics in recorded history. So joining us to discuss this is the author of this shocking report that is extremely important, as it shows how dozens and dozens of media outlets have been repeating false information on the war in Yemen for two years now. The author, Patrick Cockburn, is an award-winning journalist and a longtime Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent. Patrick is also the author of several books, including most recently The Age of jihad. Thanks for joining us again, Patrick. PATRICK COCKBURN: Thank you for inviting me. BEN NORTON: Of course. So let’s just start by reviewing some of the details in this report. I mean, I did summarize a lot of them. But just for emphasis, it’s really important that people understand that since January 2017, the United Nations and the Associated Press and other media outlets have been repeating this claim that only 10,000 Yemenis were dead, were killed in the fighting. But you show that actually, in just 21 months, it’s actually over 56,000. PATRICK COCKBURN: Yes. You know, it’s been difficult for a long time to prove how many Yemenis were being killed because of difficulty of access, because the Saudis and their allies kept job playing down how many casualties there were. Finally we have figures which are very credible, that are based on multiple sources; from local reports, primarily. There’s quite an active media, local media in Yemen. Local reports in the Yemeni media about how many people are being killed in each incident. And this group ACLED, which is based in Sussex University in the UK, has been assiduously collecting this information, checking it very rigorously, and has finally published it. So you know, I think it will be, it should be, difficult in the future for people to stick to this very old figure of 10,000 dead which, as you said, is two years old. I can’t think of any other war where you had, first of all, such an enormous underestimate, and second, people have been happy to go along with a figure which is almost two years old, and wasn’t that great to begin with. It was probably an underestimate. Probably come from health facilities. A lot of people never make it to the surviving health facilities in Yemen. BEN NORTON: Yeah, and I actually want to walk through some of this misleading reporting here, Patrick. And then I want to get your take. So back in January 2017, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, reported that 10,000 Yemeni civilians had been killed and 40,000 more Yemenis had been injured. This is January 2017. The war began in March 2015. So this is nearly two years into the war. And they said 10,000 civilians have been killed. Since January 2017, this figure it has stayed the same despite the fact that there have been thousands of U.S. and UK-backed Saudi airstrikes targeting schools, homes, even most recently vegetable markets in which more than a dozen civilians were killed. And in August Saudi Arabia bombed a bus full of children, killing over 50 civilians. So not only has the 10,000 figure not been updated, but in fact, some sources have actually decreased the 10,000 figure, as if Yemenis somehow returned from the dead. So in August 2018, 19 months after UN OCHA reported that 10,000 Yemeni civilians had been killed, instead most recently the U.N. Commissioner for Human Rights claimed that 6,600 Yemeni civilians had been killed, and 10,500 had been injured. So somehow the number of civilian deaths decreased by 4,000. And those were the confirmed deaths. I mean, of course it’s- there’s a reason that it went down. It’s because those are the specific names they had. But it shows that the reporting on this has been so bad that actually the number has not only stayed stagnant, it has actually decreased over time. Can you respond to that? PATRICK COCKBURN: Yeah. It is astonishing, and it is an indication of how coldly reported the war in Yemen has been. You know, you compare it with any other war in the region, certainly with Iraq, with Syria, you know, great international attention to civilian casualties in, certainly in Syria. Yet really very little interest in how many people are being killed in, in Yemen. Now, you know, there is some sign that this is changing over the last few weeks in reaction to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and the general discrediting of Saudi Arabia. But I wonder, once the Khashoggi affair begins to be forgotten, whether that Yemen will fall off the media map again. It hasn’t been even- it hasn’t been too difficult to work out over the last couple of years that the fighting was getting more intense, rather than less. And there is an important point to be made here, that there have been reports in the last couple of days that 10,000 troops backed by or supplied by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are massing around the port of Hodeidah, this is the last lifeline into Yemen, with the intention of attacking it. So already we’ve seen, you know, the casualties before December last year were generally under 2000 dead a month. Now every month over 2000 and going up. So this new escalation will mean that even more Yemenis will be dying in the conflict. BEN NORTON: Yeah. You’re referencing a few things here, for our viewers. One was the Saudi killing of Jamal Khashoggi, who was a columnist for The Washington Post. He was killed in a consulate in Turkey, the Saudi consulate in Turkey. And I agree with you that it’s interesting to see how there has been more attention in the media to Yemen in response to that killing. But of course, it seems to only be temporary. And then you also referenced the attack on the port of Hodeidah. This is on the western coast of Yemen. It is a crucial lifeline, as you mentioned, where 80 percent of humanitarian aid comes into Yemen. And this is actually a good segue, Patrick, as I wanted to ask you about the humanitarian situation in Yemen. The United Nations has said for years now that Yemen is suffering from the worst humanitarian catastrophe on the planet. This is because of the war, which is backed by the U.S. and the UK, and this is a bipartisan war here in the United States. It began under President Obama, and has continued under President Trump under Democratic and Republican administrations. And what’s interesting is that even when people do acknowledge the death toll, even if journalists acknowledge that the 10,000 figure is grossly understated, what is mentioned even less, virtually never, is that there have also been hundreds of thousands of deaths in Yemen from humanitarian causes; specifically, preventable diseases, malnutrition, and hunger. And looking at some of these reports, it’s also staggering how little attention these have gotten. So UNICEF reported that in 2016 alone, 63,000 Yemeni children died from preventable causes; mostly disease and malnutrition. And then in 2017, in November, the group Save the Children reported that another 50,000 Yemeni children had died from hunger and disease. That means that in 22 months of the U.S.-UK-Saudi-Emirati war on Yemen, in 22 months between the beginning of 2016 and November 2017, at least 113,000 Yemeni children died from preventable causes. So this is in addition to what you’ve been reporting, Patrick, on the likely 56,000 who were killed in violence. In addition to that, we see well over 100,000 Yemeni children died from preventable causes. Can you respond to this, as well? PATRICK COCKBURN: Yeah, it’s horrific. And you know, it’s not- a point, actually, that the UN was making recently, I don’t think got picked up very much, was, you know, that famines are pretty uncommon. You know, there was a famine in Somalia some years ago. There was another smaller one in South Sudan. But a famine like this, as big as this, this is very uncommon. I mean, it’s entirely manmade. And one could say it’s been taking place in view of the whole world. But actually it isn’t, because the news of it isn’t being reported. Now, some of this news is difficult to access. But quite a lot of it is not. You know, it’s pretty obvious what has occurred; that Yemen was always the poorest Arab country, and dependent on imports from the outside. These imports are being cut off. The economy’s being destroyed. So even such such food that is available is too expensive for much of the population. They can’t buy it. The other point is when you have a population that is just on the edge of starvation, and has been so for some years, that they get weaker and weaker. So any disease, any increase in hunger, will carry them off. You know, we’ve had this very big cholera epidemic which has killed at least 2,000 people. You know, we’re talking these figures as if there was somebody going house to house checking. But there aren’t. You know, far more people dying in their homes, in camps, far from the main roads. So the real figures are probably much greater. And you know, it’s rather extraordinary that this story has been sort of kept off the front pages, has not been leading the news anywhere in the world. And maybe that will change, now. But you know, given what we’ve seen over the last few years, I’m not confident in that. BEN NORTON: Yeah. And then finally, I want to talk about another important detail that you mentioned at the end of your most recent report, you’ve reported on this in the past as well, and your colleague Robert Fisk has at The Independent, reported on how Saudi Arabia is in fact intentionally targeting food production inside Yemen. You mentioned that the famine, the near-famine conditions that affect 14 million Yemenis who are on the verge of famine, this is a manmade catastrophe. It’s not a natural disaster. It’s an intentional strategy being pursued by the U.S. and UK-backed Saudi coalition that is trying to force the population into submission. And specifically, in your reporting you cited the research of Professor Martha Mundy, who is a Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics, who is a world expert on Yemen’s agriculture and on the food production inside Yemen. She has documented in meticulous detail how the Saudi coalition, with support from the U.S. and the UK, has been intentionally bombing food depots, has been bombing farms, has been bombing vegetable markets and stores inside Yemen to starve the population. Can you speak about this important detail as well, which gets almost no attention in mainstream media? PATRICK COCKBURN: Yeah. Again, this is very important, because this is a meticulous study of what’s happened, really, from the … You know, this bombing started in the spring of 2015. It was led by Saudi Arabia, and particularly was the initiative of the Crown Prince, but at that stage he was defense minister, Mohammed bin Salman, who has become so notorious since because of the Khashoggi murder. Originally the operation was called Decisive Storm, and apparently they thought it would take a few weeks. By the end of 2016, according to the study, they appear to have become more and more frustrated. So they had started [attacking] infrastructure, food production, food storage. If you go from that period to today, 220 fishing boats on the Red Sea are being destroyed. The fish catch is down by 50 percent. You know, this means a lot for people who are already on the age of starvation. And the attack on the economic infrastructure as a whole means that, you know, there are secondary effects if the price of fuel goes up. So you know, you are an impoverished farmer, and he can’t afford the fuel to put in a pump to irrigate his land, or enough … they don’t have the money to hire a tractor or rent a tractor for a week or so, because no fuel has become more expensive. All the evidence is that there is a very deliberate economic war going on, directed at the Yemenis, in order to drive them to negotiate. It hasn’t happened yet. It probably won’t happen. But all this is intensifying the hunger and the starvation. Making It easier for cholera to spread; most people have no resort except dirty water. So all these things are coming together with this intensifying of the military war, and heavy civilian casualties, and the worsening famine in all parts of the country. BEN NORTON: Yeah, Patrick, and on that note of economic war, another key detail that’s been largely glossed over is that the Saudi-backed government in South Yemen moved the central bank from the North, from the capital of Sana’a, which has prevented thousands of workers- especially medical workers- from being paid for two years now. So we have seen that more than half of the medical centers in the country have been destroyed or damaged, and that even the medical workers who are still working to try to save lives have not been paid. So thanks for joining us here at The Real News and discussing the importance of this kind of independent journalism, and reporting critically on the war, because you’re one of the only people doing it. Thanks a lot, Patrick. PATRICK COCKBURN: Thank you. BEN NORTON: We were speaking with Patrick Cockburn, who is an award-winning journalist and a veteran reporter for The Independent. We were speaking about his most recent report that shows how, although many media reports have claimed only 10,000 Yemenis have died in the U.S.-backed Saudi war, in fact, the figure is likely between 70,000-80,000. I’m Ben Norton reporting for The Real News Network. Thanks for joining us. Related Bios Patrick Cockburn ________________________________ [https://therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BIO-ben-150x150.jpg] Ben Norton Related St -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From cgestabrook at gmail.com Sat Nov 3 02:49:17 2018 From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 21:49:17 -0500 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune 2 November 2018 Message-ID: [J. B. Nicholson] Notes on News from Neptune episode #401 "Why Vote?” edition Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN6v5JKjQ-U Links to items mentioned on the show. Thomas Ferguson & Benjamin Page on "The Economic and Social Roots of Populist Rebellion: Support for Donald Trump in 2016" https://www.ineteconomics.org/…/the-economic-and-social-roo… Related: https://theintercept.com/…/the-midterms-are-days-away-what…/-- "The Midterms Are Days Away. What Will Drive Trump Voters: Race or Class?" (Political scientist John Sides debates The Intercept’s senior politics editor Briahna Joy Gray on whether Trump voters were motivated by race or class.) My answer: Probably class. Jonathan Cook on "Bolsonaro: a Monster Engineered by Our Media" https://www.counterpunch.org/…/bolsonaro-a-monster-enginee…/ Max Fischer on "The Weaknesses in Liberal Democracy That May Be Pulling It Apart" https://www.nytimes.com/…/am…/democracy-brazil-populism.html Stephen F. Cohen on "Who’s Really ‘Undermining’ American Democracy?" https://on.rt.com/9hrz https://www.thenation.com/…/whos-really-undermining-americ…/ The Real News on fascism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROqYhUGvKUo -- with Ben Norton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqcuA26CbOE -- with Paul Jay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LRlOd-Pies Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields' "RACE CRAFT: The Soul of Inequality in American Life" Complete text: https://thecharnelhouse.org/…/barbara-j-fields-and-karen-fi… Interview: https://www.jacobinmag.com/…/karen-barbara-fields-racecraf…/ Dead Pundits Society shows (including Adolph Reed, Jr. episodes) RSS feed: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/…/soundcloud:users:…/sounds.rss Adolph Reed, Jr. on "The Trouble With Uplift" https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-trouble-with-uplift-reed Bruce Dixon on "How Stupid Do Stacey Abrams, Lucy McBath and Most Other Progressive Democrat Congressional Candidates Think We Are?" https://blackagendareport.com/how-stupid-do-stacey-abrams-l… Stacey Abrams on Democracy Now (Amy Goodman pushing identity politics in order to stump for an inadequate candidate we haven't been given good reason to support.) https://www.democracynow.org/…/meet_stacey_abrams_democrat_… https://www.democracynow.org/…/oprah_winfrey_campaigns_with… New York Times on "Yemen Girl Who Turned World’s Eyes to Famine Is Dead" https://www.nytimes.com/…/yemen-starvation-amal-hussain.html -J From cgestabrook at gmail.com Sat Nov 3 14:04:46 2018 From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 09:04:46 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Flyer for today's demo Message-ID: <589A812C-9826-47E8-BA4D-BFE817EE1845@gmail.com> Flyer to be distributes at AWARE's regular anti-war demonstration in downtown Champaign on Saturday 3 November, 2-4pm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The wars the U.S. is waging in eight countries, and its war provocations against Russia and China, risk a wider - even nuclear - war. ~ Although most Americans are not aware of it, the U.S. government is today making war - and killing people - in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen - principally to control the flow of oil out of the Mideast and North Africa, which the US uses as a weapon against its economic rivals from Germany to China. ~ The ongoing drone assassination program - called “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times” - has killed thousands of people (most of them not the presumed targets), including American citizens and hundreds of children. ~ More than a quarter of a million American troops are stationed in a thousand U.S. bases on foreign soil, most of them surrounding Russia and China. ~ The 70,000-members of the U.S. ‘Special Operations Command’ are active in three quarters of the countries of the world. Their activities have included kidnapping (the U.S. government calls it ‘rendition’), torture, and murder. Since World War II the United States has killed between 20 and 30 million people in wars (in Korea, Vietnam, the Mideast, and elsewhere) designed to maintain the world-wide economic dominance that the US inherited at the end of World War II, as the only largely undamaged major country. It is unfortunately the basis of US foreign policy to use war and the threats of war to retard the economic development of Russia and China as competitors to American control of the world economy - from U.S. support for a fascist coup in Ukraine to U.S. naval provocations in the South China Sea and huge NATO military exercises in eastern Europe. The rest of the world recognizes that the U.S. government is what Martin Luther King called it long ago - “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” With other peace groups around the world, we call upon President Trump and our government to close all foreign military bases, bring all U.S. troops (and weapons) home, and provide social supports - including free medical care, education, and a universal basic income - for Americans, who have been made poorer by generations of our government’s wars. ~~~ AWARE, the ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT (on Facebook at ) Write our representatives in Congress - demand U.S. troops and weapons out of the Mideast ~ Medicare for all ~ free education through college ~ universal basic income ~ Representative Rodney Davis: Senator Tammy Duckworth: Senator Dick Durbin: ### From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Nov 3 18:13:10 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 18:13:10 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Flyer to be distributed at today's regular anti-war demo in downtown Champaign In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Carl The message below is fine, but you implemented it on the AWARE FB page, of a posting of Rodney Davis, feigning interest in his constituents. Thats an underhanded way of promoting Davis as if he was an anti-war candidate, he is not. > On Nov 3, 2018, at 07:10, C G Estabrook via Peace wrote: > > WHILE WE ARE PREOCCUPIED WITH POLITICS AT HOME, > OUR GOVERNMENT IS KILLING PEOPLE > IN WARS AROUND THE WORLD > > International polls show that the United States - not Russia, China, Iran, or Israel - is by far the most feared government in the world. The wars the U.S. is waging in eight countries, and its war provocations against Russia and China, risk a wider - even nuclear - war. > > ~ Although most Americans are not aware of it, the U.S. government is today making war - and killing people - in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen - principally to control the flow of oil out of the Mideast and North Africa, which the US uses as a weapon against its economic rivals from Germany to China. > ~ The ongoing drone assassination program - called “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times” - has killed thousands of people (most of them not the presumed targets), including American citizens and hundreds of children. > ~ More than a quarter of a million American troops are stationed in a thousand U.S. bases on foreign soil, most of them surrounding Russia and China. > ~ The 70,000-members of the U.S. ‘Special Operations Command’ are active in three quarters of the countries of the world. Their activities have included kidnapping (the U.S. government calls it ‘rendition’), torture, and murder. > > Since World War II the United States has killed between 20 and 30 million people in wars (in Korea, Vietnam, the Mideast, and elsewhere) designed to maintain the world-wide economic dominance that the US inherited at the end of World War II, as the only largely undamaged major country. > > It is unfortunately the basis of US foreign policy to use war and the threats of war to retard the economic development of Russia and China as competitors to American control of the world economy - from U.S. support for a fascist coup in Ukraine to U.S. naval provocations in the South China Sea and huge NATO military exercises in eastern Europe. > > The rest of the world recognizes that the U.S. government is what Martin Luther King called it long ago - “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” > > With other peace groups around the world, we call upon President Trump and our government to close all foreign military bases, bring all U.S. troops (and weapons) home, and provide social supports - including free medical care, education, and a universal basic income - for Americans, who have been made poorer by generations of our government’s wars. > > ~~~ > AWARE, the ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT > (on Facebook at ) > > Write our representatives in Congress - demand U.S. troops and weapons out of the Mideast > ~ Medicare for all ~ free education through college ~ universal basic income ~ > > Representative Rodney Davis: > Senator Tammy Duckworth: > Senator Dick Durbin: > > ### > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From davidgreen50 at gmail.com Sat Nov 3 22:02:13 2018 From: davidgreen50 at gmail.com (David Green) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 17:02:13 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Incident during demo this afternoon Message-ID: At the demonstration this afternoon I picked a sign that said "The military does not protect my "freedom." Sometime after 20:30, A middle aged woman and man crossed Neil to the southeast corner of Neil and Main where I was standing. She walked up to me and firmly shoved the sign, knocking me slightly backwards causing me to drop the sign. I accused her of assault, and while she and and the man tried to debate the issue with me, I called 911. The fellow implied that I was wimpish for caring about being shoved by a woman. They stood there while I asked the police to send a squad car over. While on the phone, I followed them down Main Street going east, and watched them turn into the PNC parking lot. I told the 911 officer that I was following them, and he told me not to. I obeyed his orders (I regret doing so). I went back to the corner and waited for a police officer, which took several minutes. An officer came and took my account of the incident and descriptions of them. He also of course took my personal info, including even my height and weight. He proceeded to drive around for a while and returned to report that he had not sighted them. No further action was advised or promised by him. David Green -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Nov 3 22:23:45 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 22:23:45 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Incident during demo this afternoon In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: David So sorry you had to go through that, a description of the couple would be helpful, so next month they can be avoided if seen. Sorry, also I wasn’t there, she pushed a man, but likely wouldn’t push a woman, knowing there might be consequences. I once had an 8 or 10 year old girl, kick my sign, it was in the seventy’s while protesting on behalf of farm workers, in front of the Safeway in DC. She kept kicking it, and wouldn’t stop when I told her to do so. It was a cloth sign held close to the ground, so there was nothing I could do. She had a gang of girls behind her, and she was determined to prove how tough she was. It was a tough neighborhood, and I wasn’t about to get into a fight with a little girl, nor was I going to allow myself to be bullied by one either. When she challenged by asking me, “what was I going to do about it," as she kicked it again. I told her to “meet me in the parking lot at 4:00PM,” it was 3:00, I told her she’d better be there, and she said the same to me as she and her friends left. I got the hell out of there by 3:30, because sometimes its best not to engage. Sun Tzu 101 PS 20:30? > On Nov 3, 2018, at 15:02, David Green via Peace wrote: > > At the demonstration this afternoon I picked a sign that said "The military does not protect my "freedom." > > Sometime after 20:30, A middle aged woman and man crossed Neil to the southeast corner of Neil and Main where I was standing. She walked up to me and firmly shoved the sign, knocking me slightly backwards causing me to drop the sign. > > I accused her of assault, and while she and and the man tried to debate the issue with me, I called 911. The fellow implied that I was wimpish for caring about being shoved by a woman. They stood there while I asked the police to send a squad car over. While on the phone, I followed them down Main Street going east, and watched them turn into the PNC parking lot. I told the 911 officer that I was following them, and he told me not to. I obeyed his orders (I regret doing so). > > I went back to the corner and waited for a police officer, which took several minutes. An officer came and took my account of the incident and descriptions of them. He also of course took my personal info, including even my height and weight. > > He proceeded to drive around for a while and returned to report that he had not sighted them. No further action was advised or promised by him. > > David Green > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From davidgreen50 at gmail.com Sat Nov 3 22:44:40 2018 From: davidgreen50 at gmail.com (David Green) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 17:44:40 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Incident during demo this afternoon In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: No reason to believe they'll ever show up again, just a random thing I would guess. I did give a description of her to the officer. Nothing will come of it. On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 5:23 PM Karen Aram wrote: > David > > So sorry you had to go through that, a description of the couple would be > helpful, so next month they can be avoided if seen. Sorry, also I wasn’t > there, she pushed a man, but likely wouldn’t push a woman, knowing there > might be consequences. > > I once had an 8 or 10 year old girl, kick my sign, it was in the seventy’s > while protesting on behalf of farm workers, in front of the Safeway in DC. > She kept kicking it, and wouldn’t stop when I told her to do so. It was a > cloth sign held close to the ground, so there was nothing I could do. She > had a gang of girls behind her, and she was determined to prove how tough > she was. It was a tough neighborhood, and I wasn’t about to get into a > fight with a little girl, nor was I going to allow myself to be bullied by > one either. When she challenged by asking me, “what was I going to do about > it," as she kicked it again. I told her to “meet me in the parking lot at > 4:00PM,” it was 3:00, I told her she’d better be there, and she said the > same to me as she and her friends left. I got the hell out of there by > 3:30, because sometimes its best not to engage. Sun Tzu 101 > > PS 20:30? > > > > > On Nov 3, 2018, at 15:02, David Green via Peace < > peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > > > > At the demonstration this afternoon I picked a sign that said "The > military does not protect my "freedom." > > > > Sometime after 20:30, A middle aged woman and man crossed Neil to the > southeast corner of Neil and Main where I was standing. She walked up to me > and firmly shoved the sign, knocking me slightly backwards causing me to > drop the sign. > > > > I accused her of assault, and while she and and the man tried to debate > the issue with me, I called 911. The fellow implied that I was wimpish for > caring about being shoved by a woman. They stood there while I asked the > police to send a squad car over. While on the phone, I followed them down > Main Street going east, and watched them turn into the PNC parking lot. I > told the 911 officer that I was following them, and he told me not to. I > obeyed his orders (I regret doing so). > > > > I went back to the corner and waited for a police officer, which took > several minutes. An officer came and took my account of the incident and > descriptions of them. He also of course took my personal info, including > even my height and weight. > > > > He proceeded to drive around for a while and returned to report that he > had not sighted them. No further action was advised or promised by him. > > > > David Green > > _______________________________________________ > > Peace mailing list > > Peace at lists.chambana.net > > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Nov 3 22:58:34 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 22:58:34 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Incident during demo this afternoon In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: David My experience with a child, wasn’t to diminish what took place to you today, but rather to point out how disturbing it is when something like this happens. We are usually approached by people who are genuinely supportive and appreciate what we’re doing, so when someone is rude and abusive, it leaves us a bit shaken. I was shaken by a kid, and I still remember it, from long ago. We are usually demonstrating on behalf of others, their welfare, for peace, so violence is the last thing we want or expect. If anyone thinks they are deterring us from our cause, by their actions, they are so very wrong. On Nov 3, 2018, at 15:44, David Green > wrote: No reason to believe they'll ever show up again, just a random thing I would guess. I did give a description of her to the officer. Nothing will come of it. On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 5:23 PM Karen Aram > wrote: David So sorry you had to go through that, a description of the couple would be helpful, so next month they can be avoided if seen. Sorry, also I wasn’t there, she pushed a man, but likely wouldn’t push a woman, knowing there might be consequences. I once had an 8 or 10 year old girl, kick my sign, it was in the seventy’s while protesting on behalf of farm workers, in front of the Safeway in DC. She kept kicking it, and wouldn’t stop when I told her to do so. It was a cloth sign held close to the ground, so there was nothing I could do. She had a gang of girls behind her, and she was determined to prove how tough she was. It was a tough neighborhood, and I wasn’t about to get into a fight with a little girl, nor was I going to allow myself to be bullied by one either. When she challenged by asking me, “what was I going to do about it," as she kicked it again. I told her to “meet me in the parking lot at 4:00PM,” it was 3:00, I told her she’d better be there, and she said the same to me as she and her friends left. I got the hell out of there by 3:30, because sometimes its best not to engage. Sun Tzu 101 PS 20:30? > On Nov 3, 2018, at 15:02, David Green via Peace > wrote: > > At the demonstration this afternoon I picked a sign that said "The military does not protect my "freedom." > > Sometime after 20:30, A middle aged woman and man crossed Neil to the southeast corner of Neil and Main where I was standing. She walked up to me and firmly shoved the sign, knocking me slightly backwards causing me to drop the sign. > > I accused her of assault, and while she and and the man tried to debate the issue with me, I called 911. The fellow implied that I was wimpish for caring about being shoved by a woman. They stood there while I asked the police to send a squad car over. While on the phone, I followed them down Main Street going east, and watched them turn into the PNC parking lot. I told the 911 officer that I was following them, and he told me not to. I obeyed his orders (I regret doing so). > > I went back to the corner and waited for a police officer, which took several minutes. An officer came and took my account of the incident and descriptions of them. He also of course took my personal info, including even my height and weight. > > He proceeded to drive around for a while and returned to report that he had not sighted them. No further action was advised or promised by him. > > David Green > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidgreen50 at gmail.com Sun Nov 4 02:58:39 2018 From: davidgreen50 at gmail.com (David Green) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 21:58:39 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Incident during demo this afternoon In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: It will take me a few days to get over being shaken and angry by this violent incident. I was so horrified that I didn't have the wherewithal to either laugh at her or punch her in the face. That's probably for the best. The man whom she was with in a way facilitated the whole scene. It's hard to imagine that she would do what she did without him standing there and trying to make light of it. A very ugly scene, unlike anything I've seen since 2003. On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 5:58 PM Karen Aram wrote: > > > David > > My experience with a child, wasn’t to diminish what took place to you > today, but rather to point out how disturbing it is when something like > this happens. We are usually approached by people who are genuinely > supportive and appreciate what we’re doing, so when someone is rude and > abusive, it leaves us a bit shaken. I was shaken by a kid, and I still > remember it, from long ago. We are usually demonstrating on behalf of > others, their welfare, for peace, so violence is the last thing we want or > expect. If anyone thinks they are deterring us from our cause, by their > actions, they are so very wrong. > > > On Nov 3, 2018, at 15:44, David Green wrote: > > No reason to believe they'll ever show up again, just a random thing I > would guess. I did give a description of her to the officer. Nothing will > come of it. > > On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 5:23 PM Karen Aram wrote: > >> David >> >> So sorry you had to go through that, a description of the couple would be >> helpful, so next month they can be avoided if seen. Sorry, also I wasn’t >> there, she pushed a man, but likely wouldn’t push a woman, knowing there >> might be consequences. >> >> I once had an 8 or 10 year old girl, kick my sign, it was in the >> seventy’s while protesting on behalf of farm workers, in front of the >> Safeway in DC. She kept kicking it, and wouldn’t stop when I told her to do >> so. It was a cloth sign held close to the ground, so there was nothing I >> could do. She had a gang of girls behind her, and she was determined to >> prove how tough she was. It was a tough neighborhood, and I wasn’t about to >> get into a fight with a little girl, nor was I going to allow myself to be >> bullied by one either. When she challenged by asking me, “what was I going >> to do about it," as she kicked it again. I told her to “meet me in the >> parking lot at 4:00PM,” it was 3:00, I told her she’d better be there, and >> she said the same to me as she and her friends left. I got the hell out of >> there by 3:30, because sometimes its best not to engage. Sun Tzu 101 >> >> PS 20:30? >> >> >> >> > On Nov 3, 2018, at 15:02, David Green via Peace < >> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: >> > >> > At the demonstration this afternoon I picked a sign that said "The >> military does not protect my "freedom." >> > >> > Sometime after 20:30, A middle aged woman and man crossed Neil to the >> southeast corner of Neil and Main where I was standing. She walked up to me >> and firmly shoved the sign, knocking me slightly backwards causing me to >> drop the sign. >> > >> > I accused her of assault, and while she and and the man tried to debate >> the issue with me, I called 911. The fellow implied that I was wimpish for >> caring about being shoved by a woman. They stood there while I asked the >> police to send a squad car over. While on the phone, I followed them down >> Main Street going east, and watched them turn into the PNC parking lot. I >> told the 911 officer that I was following them, and he told me not to. I >> obeyed his orders (I regret doing so). >> > >> > I went back to the corner and waited for a police officer, which took >> several minutes. An officer came and took my account of the incident and >> descriptions of them. He also of course took my personal info, including >> even my height and weight. >> > >> > He proceeded to drive around for a while and returned to report that he >> had not sighted them. No further action was advised or promised by him. >> > >> > David Green >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Peace mailing list >> > Peace at lists.chambana.net >> > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Nov 4 12:02:38 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 12:02:38 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Incident during demo this afternoon In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Exactly, she had a man to back her up, make her feel strong and empowered, but she also knew that a man demonstrating on behalf of peace would likely not fight back and she could do as she wished and get away with it. Very representational, the USG with our weapons. It’s going to take a while to get over such an ugly incident. Things have gotten much uglier and more violent since 2003, just as the USG has gotten uglier and meaner, destroying so many lives since 2003. Your sign was absolutely correct, the US military has not protected us, in fact it has left us all more vulnerable, with every nation we destroy, with the millions of lives we’ve destroyed, we have created more hatred from others. With more funding going to support the military, not individual soldiers but weapons, contractors etc, less is available for social services, creating more poverty every day. Take care, but don’t give up fighting for peace, many are with you. On Nov 3, 2018, at 19:58, David Green > wrote: It will take me a few days to get over being shaken and angry by this violent incident. I was so horrified that I didn't have the wherewithal to either laugh at her or punch her in the face. That's probably for the best. The man whom she was with in a way facilitated the whole scene. It's hard to imagine that she would do what she did without him standing there and trying to make light of it. A very ugly scene, unlike anything I've seen since 2003. On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 5:58 PM Karen Aram > wrote: David My experience with a child, wasn’t to diminish what took place to you today, but rather to point out how disturbing it is when something like this happens. We are usually approached by people who are genuinely supportive and appreciate what we’re doing, so when someone is rude and abusive, it leaves us a bit shaken. I was shaken by a kid, and I still remember it, from long ago. We are usually demonstrating on behalf of others, their welfare, for peace, so violence is the last thing we want or expect. If anyone thinks they are deterring us from our cause, by their actions, they are so very wrong. On Nov 3, 2018, at 15:44, David Green > wrote: No reason to believe they'll ever show up again, just a random thing I would guess. I did give a description of her to the officer. Nothing will come of it. On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 5:23 PM Karen Aram > wrote: David So sorry you had to go through that, a description of the couple would be helpful, so next month they can be avoided if seen. Sorry, also I wasn’t there, she pushed a man, but likely wouldn’t push a woman, knowing there might be consequences. I once had an 8 or 10 year old girl, kick my sign, it was in the seventy’s while protesting on behalf of farm workers, in front of the Safeway in DC. She kept kicking it, and wouldn’t stop when I told her to do so. It was a cloth sign held close to the ground, so there was nothing I could do. She had a gang of girls behind her, and she was determined to prove how tough she was. It was a tough neighborhood, and I wasn’t about to get into a fight with a little girl, nor was I going to allow myself to be bullied by one either. When she challenged by asking me, “what was I going to do about it," as she kicked it again. I told her to “meet me in the parking lot at 4:00PM,” it was 3:00, I told her she’d better be there, and she said the same to me as she and her friends left. I got the hell out of there by 3:30, because sometimes its best not to engage. Sun Tzu 101 PS 20:30? > On Nov 3, 2018, at 15:02, David Green via Peace > wrote: > > At the demonstration this afternoon I picked a sign that said "The military does not protect my "freedom." > > Sometime after 20:30, A middle aged woman and man crossed Neil to the southeast corner of Neil and Main where I was standing. She walked up to me and firmly shoved the sign, knocking me slightly backwards causing me to drop the sign. > > I accused her of assault, and while she and and the man tried to debate the issue with me, I called 911. The fellow implied that I was wimpish for caring about being shoved by a woman. They stood there while I asked the police to send a squad car over. While on the phone, I followed them down Main Street going east, and watched them turn into the PNC parking lot. I told the 911 officer that I was following them, and he told me not to. I obeyed his orders (I regret doing so). > > I went back to the corner and waited for a police officer, which took several minutes. An officer came and took my account of the incident and descriptions of them. He also of course took my personal info, including even my height and weight. > > He proceeded to drive around for a while and returned to report that he had not sighted them. No further action was advised or promised by him. > > David Green > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidgreen50 at gmail.com Sun Nov 4 16:56:03 2018 From: davidgreen50 at gmail.com (David Green) Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 10:56:03 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Incident during demo this afternoon In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I think it's telling that when we hold up signs against war, the reactions are generally positive. There were certainly positive reactions to my anti-military sign yesterday, but when you bring in the military, that triggers a certain group of people. Our media propaganda has, for obvious reasons, managed to separate the military from the crimes of the state. The profession of military innocence, evidenced by the flyover that apparently occurred before the football game (about 2:25 when we were already out there), is a case in point. There were two or three nasty drive-by comments even before this incident, which is untypical of our demonstrations over the past couple of years. DG On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 6:17 AM C G Estabrook wrote: > And we think that our demonstrations have no effect… > > Sorry you had to put up with this, David, but it’s certainly worthwhile. > Thanks. > > > > On Nov 3, 2018, at 5:02 PM, David Green via Peace < > peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > > > > At the demonstration this afternoon I picked a sign that said "The > military does not protect my "freedom." > > > > Sometime after 20:30, A middle aged woman and man crossed Neil to the > southeast corner of Neil and Main where I was standing. She walked up to me > and firmly shoved the sign, knocking me slightly backwards causing me to > drop the sign. > > > > I accused her of assault, and while she and and the man tried to debate > the issue with me, I called 911. The fellow implied that I was wimpish for > caring about being shoved by a woman. They stood there while I asked the > police to send a squad car over. While on the phone, I followed them down > Main Street going east, and watched them turn into the PNC parking lot. I > told the 911 officer that I was following them, and he told me not to. I > obeyed his orders (I regret doing so). > > > > I went back to the corner and waited for a police officer, which took > several minutes. An officer came and took my account of the incident and > descriptions of them. He also of course took my personal info, including > even my height and weight. > > > > He proceeded to drive around for a while and returned to report that he > had not sighted them. No further action was advised or promised by him. > > > > David Green > > _______________________________________________ > > Peace mailing list > > Peace at lists.chambana.net > > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sent from my iPhone From susanroseparenti at gmail.com Wed Nov 7 21:28:47 2018 From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 15:28:47 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Between Christmas & New Years Drive to W. Virginia for FRee! Message-ID: Patch and I are making a get-together on our land in West Virginia this winter, between Christmas and New Year’s——for morale, for connected-ness, for fun, for figuring out activism in these times. This is a crazy idea (as I write down below) but maybe crazy is right for these times. Several cars will be going from Urbana to WestVirginia and back--and there's room for several people to come along. So here is the official invitation: ------------------------------------------- *We invite you to spend the week between Christmas and New Years with us at our Institute in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia! Patch Adams, Mark Enslin, and the rest of our team will be there all week (me too), with the closing event being a whack-o New Years Eve party!* *A week between Christmas and New Years in West Virginia? Crazy, right? Hey---this is the time in our world to break out 'good crazy'----and this will be really GOOD crazy.* *We're calling this week the Health Care Justice Celebration, and the focus will be on the question--- how to be an activist while working as a professional in care systems? In addition to guest presentations, there will be skit-making, theater, role games where we move from the problems we see to solutions/dream we want.* *Want to present on ideas/projects you're involved with and excited about? Let us know—we're reserving late afternoons for participant's workshops and presentations.* *More information (and on-line application) is available at:* *http://www.patchadams.org/course/health-care-justice-celebration .* *Cost: $800 for room, board, airport pickup, program. Place: Gesundheit Institute, Hillsboro West VirginiaTime: sessions begin 6pm December 27, thru 11am January 1, 2019* *Who should attend? people with a stake in care systems----health care providers, environmental justicers, med-and-nursing-students, teachers, ecologists, students, business people, patients.* *Bonus: join us at our New Year’s Eve Party!!!* *To apply: contact programming at patchadams.org * *[image: HCJC-2019-Final-toSend-Final.jpeg]* -- *Susan Parenti* *Educational Coordinator * *The School for Designing a Society *www.designingasociety.net *Like us on Facebook !* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Nov 8 23:28:23 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 23:28:23 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Journalism at its best. A year ago, Chris Hedges interviews Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal on the war in Syria. Message-ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6C249jh7wQ From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Nov 8 23:28:23 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 23:28:23 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Journalism at its best. A year ago, Chris Hedges interviews Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal on the war in Syria. Message-ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6C249jh7wQ From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Nov 9 14:50:37 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 14:50:37 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Kings Bay Plowshares: US INFs References: Message-ID: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA BRUNSWICK DIVISION USA V NO. 2:18-CR- 22 ELIZABETH MCALISTER SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION OF FRANCIS A. BOYLE Pursuant to 28 USC 1746, Francis A. Boyle declares under penalty of perjury: 1. I submitted a Declaration in this matter dated June 25, 2018. This Declaration supplements that original Declaration and should be read in light of that document. 2. I am an expert in International Law and Foreign Policy and my credentials are set out in the previous Declaration. 3. It was my conclusion in June 25, 2018, for the reasons set out at length in that document, that the existence, threat or use of any of the Trident thermonuclear weapons at Kings Bay is absolutely illegal and criminal under the laws of the United States and international law. 4. Recent events have made the existence, threat or use of those weapons of mass destruction like the Kings Bay Tridents even more horrific and the possibility of nuclear war even more likely. 5. In October of 2018, President Donald Trump and his U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton declared it is the intention of the U.S. to withdraw from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. 6. The INF Treaty was signed on December 8, 1987 by President Ronald Reagan of the United States and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union. 7. The INF Treaty barred both the United States and Russia from deploying nuclear and conventional ground launched ballistic missiles and cruise missiles with a range of 500 to 5500 kilometers or 300 to 3400 miles. 8. As a result of the INF Treaty, the U.S. and the Soviet Union destroyed a total of 2,692 short, medium, and intermediate range missiles by June 1, 1991. 9. Reactivating Intermediate Range Nuclear Missiles will make the world and the United States a much more dangerous place, and will greatly exacerbate the current violations of U.S. and international law which I discussed in my initial Declaration. 10. New Intermediate Range Nuclear Missiles, combined with the Trident missiles, give the United States an even more obvious and effective illegal and criminal offensive first-strike nuclear weapons capability against both Russia and China. 11. Intermediate Range Nuclear Missiles will be able to reach Russia in as little as 3 minutes from launch in Eastern Europe and the Tridents can reach Russia in around 15 minutes. 12. The Intermediate Range Nuclear Missiles would primarily target strategic nuclear weapons command centers in Russia, while the Tridents will be targeted at all other civilian population centers and infrastructure locations and nuclear forces. 13. U.S. INFs in Europe will provide Russia with an enormous incentive to “use it or lose it” by launching a pre-emptive strategic nuclear attack upon the Continental United States in the event of a crisis or an accident or a computer malfunction or a radar misinterpretation or human error. These phenomena have repeatedly happened before. 14. According to President Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton, one of the other reasons for pulling the United States out of the INF Treaty is so that the United States can deploy INFs against China and thus better threaten China with an illegal and criminal offensive first-strike nuclear weapons attack. 15. The Intermediate Range Nuclear Missiles would primarily target strategic nuclear weapons command centers in China, while the Tridents will be targeted at all other civilian population centers and infrastructure locations and nuclear forces. 16. U.S. INFs in Asia will provide China with an enormous incentive to “use it or lose it” by launching a pre-emptive strategic nuclear attack upon the Continental United States in the event of a crisis or an accident or a computer malfunction or a radar misinterpretation or human error. These phenomena have repeatedly happened before. 17. These actions announced by the Trump administration further violate the international law obligations of the United States under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation (NPT) Treaty which is designed to achieve nuclear disarmament as interpreted by the International Court of Justice Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion, as I discussed in my earlier Declaration and as I discussed in my book THE CRIMINALITY OF NUCLEAR DETERRENCE (Clarity Press 2002). 18. These actions announced by the Trump administration are further violations of the laws of war and international humanitarian law. 19. These actions announced by the Trump administration are further violations of criminal law under U.S. and international laws. They can only result in genocide and are threatening to commit genocide. 20. The Trump administration pulling out of the INF Treaty seriously jeopardizes the renewal of the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) between the United States and Russia that imposes severe constraints on the offensive strategic nuclear weapons systems of these two nuclear superpowers. Non-renewal of the New START Treaty would set off a frantic nuclear arms race between the United States and Russia as well as by the other acknowledged nuclear weapons states such as China, Britain, France, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea. 21. These developments would lead to the unraveling, dissolution, and nullification of the seminal Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty itself and the research, development, testing, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons by every state in the world with a nuclear power plant. Currently 30 countries in the world have operational nuclear power plants – that figure is 31 if Taiwan is considered separately from China. See Operational & Long-Term Shutdown Reactors, Int’l Atomic Energy Agency, https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/OperationalReactorsByCountry.aspx (last updated Oct. 28, 2018). 22. The non-violent symbolic disarmament actions of Defendants in this matter take on greater and compelling urgency in light of the announcement by the United States that it will withdraw from the INF Treaty. 23. I repeat my opinion that the charges against these Defendants should be dismissed. The Court must recognize that the possession, preparation for use, threat of use or use of Trident nuclear weapons at Kings Bay is illegal and criminal. 24. The non-violent, symbolic disarmament actions by Defendants in this matter are in full compliance with the laws, treaties and principles of U.S. and international law and served a lawful purpose: preventing the ongoing commission of genocidal international and U.S. domestic crimes. 25. The very existence of humanity is at risk! 26. I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. I am prepared to testify under oath and answer questions on these and related matters. Signed this ____ Day of __________, 2018 at Champaign Illinois. _________________________________ Francis Anthony Boyle Professor of Law University of Illinois College of Law Massachusetts Bar Number 052540 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From susanroseparenti at gmail.com Fri Nov 9 18:46:57 2018 From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 12:46:57 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Another Public Mosaic-Making: Mon, Nov 12, 3-5:30pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9721F4CD-247A-44D1-8FB1-515D49959A4E@gmail.com> HI friends—this is an event organized by various UIUC women’s groups (also, GEO, YMCA, etc). Taking our cue from Audre Lorde’s writings, we are proposing that women and comrades break something, and then make something, in response to violence against women. Using the medium of mosaics seemed the best illustration of that. Free. Open to all—community, everyone. Susan > On Oct 17, 2018, at 10:24 AM, Susan Parenti wrote: > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Mad creative Mosaic.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1718093 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cgestabrook at gmail.com Sat Nov 10 01:46:26 2018 From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 19:46:26 -0600 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune for November 9, 2018 Message-ID: <0F0E7F55-3973-441D-BA60-6D88BE72B84D@gmail.com> [J. B. Nicholson] Notes on News from Neptune #402 Another "Don't mention the war" edition Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9MEFlfVG2M A list of links to items mentioned on the show. Adolph Reed & Lynn Parramore on "Erasing Economics and Economic Policy from Politics: The Race and Xenophobia Sideshow" https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/…/erasing-economics-economi… Floridian felons can vote now https://www.vox.com/…/florida-amendment-4-felon-voting-righ… https://www.economist.com/…/why-the-restoration-of-felons-v… https://edition.cnn.com/…/pol…/florida-felons-voting-rights/ Related: "More felons regained right to vote in Florida than population of many states" Scott Galloway's tweet: The number of people who just got their voting rights restored in Florida is greater than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine and New Hampshire. https://www.politifact.com/…/more-felons-regained-right-vo…/ Ron Kim and Zephyr Teachout on "New York Should Say No to Amazon" https://www.nytimes.com/…/opi…/amazon-new-york-business.html Brent Taylor's death in Afghanistan https://www.nytimes.com/…/utah-mayor-killed-afghanistan-bre… https://edition.cnn.com/…/polit…/brent-taylor-facebook-trnd/ Tucker Carlson RT points out the Antifa support -- https://www.rt.com/usa/443499-vox-cofounder-defends-antifa/ https://www.vox.com/…/tucker-carlson-demographics-immigrati… https://www.realclearpolitics.com/…/protesters_mob_outside_… Louis Proyect on "Why Democrats Are So Okay With Losing" https://www.counterpunch.org/…/why-democrats-are-so-okay-w…/ Boilerplate nice-sounding text about Tom Steyer and the "Giving Pledge" http://thenextgeneration.org/about/people/tom-steyer Related: Regarding one way in which millionaires keep their money ("what you can do if you're rich" as David put it) reminds me of a recent segment on RT's "Redacted Tonight" based in part on an article from TruthOut.orgcovering money-laundering "charities" in which wealthy people get tax deduction for having given to charities they didn't actually give money to. How does this work? https://truthout.org/…/how-the-rich-exploit-charitable-giv…/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXRKFTbvVpM tells the tale. The wealthier a donor is, the more likely they are to claim a tax deduction for their giving. When they do, the public has a legitimate interest in where their gifts are going. DAFs [donor-advised funds] are financial intermediaries that take in charitable gifts from donors and then grant the money to active charities designated by the donor. Donors claim their tax deduction up front when they donate to the DAF before deciding which public charities the money should go to. Originally a creation of community foundations, DAFs have been adopted with a vengeance by for-profit Wall Street firms like Fidelity Investments, Charles Schwab and Vanguard. And the lax rules around these giving vehicles are leaving DAFs ripe for abuse in this aggressive new market. For every dollar a millionaire or billionaire gives to a donor-advised fund, the US taxpayer provides between 37 and 57 cents of the gift in the form of lost tax revenue, according to Boston College law professor and charitable-giving expert Ray Madoff […] The folks giving to DAFs aren’t middle-income families. The average donor to a DAF makes more than $2 million annually, according to James Andreoni, a professor of economics at the University of California at San Diego. That puts them in the top one-tenth of 1 percent of households. Unlike private foundations, which must distribute 5 percent of their principal assets annually, DAFs can continue to re-invest their funds indefinitely, without ever distributing them to charity. So, by creating their own DAFs, Wall Street investment firms like Fidelity and Charles Schwab are enabling ultra-wealthy clients to collect a charitable tax break without necessarily supporting a charity. Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-first Century" Book: https://dowbor.org/…/w…/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf Tax wealth, not income. Trump calls CNN’s Jim Acosta a "rude, terrible person" https://on.rt.com/9i3z Paul Jay with Daniel Ellsberg Links to part in the series of 8 interviews: https://therealnews.com/…/reality-asserts-itself-daniel-ell… You will need to reload that URL to get the links to the newest parts as they are released. Thomas Pynchon's Proverbs for Paranoids From https://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php… 1. You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures. 2. The innocence of the creature is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master. 3. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. 4.You hide, They seek. 5. Paranoids are not paranoids because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations. -J ### From karenaram at hotmail.com Mon Nov 12 16:06:39 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:06:39 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Worthwhile interview with Ajamu Baraka, specifically in relation to Africa Message-ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfL8MvBp2q8 From karenaram at hotmail.com Mon Nov 12 16:06:39 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:06:39 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Worthwhile interview with Ajamu Baraka, specifically in relation to Africa Message-ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfL8MvBp2q8 From karenaram at hotmail.com Wed Nov 14 14:52:37 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 14:52:37 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Watch the Iran Summit online References: Message-ID: Message from Niloofar: On Saturday, December 1, CodePink will be hosting a day-long Summit on Peace with Iran in Washington, DC, that "will bring together experts and activists to examine ways we can support Iranian civil society, push the US media to do a better job covering this crisis, and pressure Congress for a “no sanctions, no war” agenda." 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Wed Nov 14 17:17:19 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:17:19 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Free 6.5 Birchwood, artificial Xmas tree Message-ID: If anyone is interested, please let me know. From karenaram at hotmail.com Wed Nov 14 17:17:19 2018 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:17:19 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Free 6.5 Birchwood, artificial Xmas tree Message-ID: If anyone is interested, please let me know. From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Wed Nov 14 18:14:43 2018 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:14:43 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Win Without War: Call Rep. Davis Now: House votes TODAY on Yemen war! In-Reply-To: References: <4f770-b4b-5bec0f3f@list.winwithoutwar.org> Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kate Kizer Date: Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 6:04 AM Subject: Call Rep. Davis Now: House votes TODAY on Yemen war! To: Robert R Naiman BREAKING: the House will decide TODAY whether to allow a vote to end U.S. support for the war in Yemen. We need to flood Congress with calls NOW! [image: Win Without War] BREAKING: the House will decide TODAY whether it will vote to end U.S. support for the war in Yemen. Call now and urge Rep. Rodney Davis to keep this vote on the table >> *Robert: This is our chance to make sure the House gets to vote on ending the starvation of millions in Yemen.* Champions in the House are pushing through a resolution that could end U.S. support for Saudi Arabia and the UAE’s bloody war and man-made famine. *But we have a major problem. Paul Ryan is trying to prevent a vote through a backdoor maneuver to squash this resolution — and the House will decide today whether to let him strangle our vote on Yemen.* The tide is turning on Yemen in a big way. If we can get the House to take a real vote on ending this war, *we* *could actually win the vote.* *But I’m not gonna lie: We’re facing an uphill battle to defeat this backhanded move and keep this Yemen vote on the House’s agenda. So we’ve * *got** to step on the gas and drive major grassroots pressure if we're going to beat** today’s underhanded maneuver.* Call Rep. Davis and demand he vote NO this afternoon, then keep pushing to finally end U.S. support for the war >> *Congress must vote to force Trump's hand and end U.S. support for this brutal war before it's too late.* Thousands have already died because the Saudi-UAE coalition is bombing hospitals and school buses, and blocking lifesaving food and medicine — all with U.S. support. Now, the United Nations is warning that half of Yemen's population - *14 million people* - could die of starvation by the end of the year. All because the U.S. refuses to rein in Saudi war crimes. *We absolutely cannot let powerful war hawks stop us from getting a real vote to end U.S. support of this brutal war.* In March, our grassroots activism nearly passed a resolution to end this war in the Senate, against all odds. Then, last month, the terrifying murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudi government threw an international spotlight on Saudi Arabia’s horrible civilian bombing campaign in Yemen. And just days ago, the Trump administration made the jaw-dropping announcement that they intend to stop refueling Saudi coalition jets — a complete 180 from earlier this fall when they straight-up lied that the U.S. was not helping bomb Yemeni kids. *We have the momentum to win votes in the House AND the Senate in the coming weeks — but only if we can defeat today’s underhanded attempt to shut us up. Our representatives need to hear from us immediately about this surprise trick.* Call now and urge your rep to vote no TODAY on squashing a vote on Yemen >> Thank you for working for peace, Kate, Cassandra, Tara, and the Win Without War team *Donate * [image: Like on Facebook] [image: Follow on Twitter] Win Without War is a project of the Center for International Policy. 1 Thomas Circle NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005 (202) 656-4999 | info at winwithoutwar.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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G., > > Tell Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff to end the war in Yemen. > > Men Call Schiff > Women Call Pelosi > > Pelosi: (415) 556-4862 > > Schiff: (323) 315-5555 > > Report your call > Let’s try something new. > > We want Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff to step up to end the Saudi war and famine in Yemen. > > We want Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff to co-sponsor the House Yemen War Powers Resolution, so that when it’s re-introduced, every single House Democrat will vote for it. > > On Tuesday afternoon, there’s going to be “street heat” at the San Francisco office of Pelosi and the Hollywood office of Schiff. > > 48 people are signed up to go see Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon. > > End the War in Yemen: Rally at Pelosi's Office (San Francisco) > > https://www.facebook.com/events/747486705644101/ > 18 people are signed up to go see Adam Schiff in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon. > > End the War in Yemen Rally at Rep Adam Schiff's office! > > https://www.facebook.com/events/1217655668374730/ > How could we invite everyone who can’t be there in person to participate in the “street heat” a little bit? > > Let’s ask women to call Nancy Pelosi. Let’s ask men to call Adam Schiff. > > Pelosi’s office number in San Francisco is (415) 556-4862 . > > Schiff’s office number in Hollywood is (323) 315-5555 . > > When you reach a staffer or leave a message, you could say something like: > > “I urge you to step up to end the Saudi war and famine in Yemen. Co-sponsor the House Yemen War Powers Resolution now.” > > When you’ve made your call, you can report it here . > > > > > > Thank you for all you do to help make U.S. foreign policy more just, > > Robert Reuel Naiman > Just Foreign Policy > > > > If you think our work is important, please support us with an $18 donation. > > http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/donate > > > > > > > > > > > © 2018 Just Foreign Policy > > Click here to unsubscribe > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The alternative is already before us: "Vast popular hardship and suffering, on the one hand, and almost indescribable wealth and social indifference, on the other. Two parties of the corporate oligarchy, dedicated to war and political reaction. The impossible economic and political conditions must produce sooner rather than later the greatest social upheavals in American history." By David Walsh* * * * * WSWS.ORG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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ANSWER chapters in San Diego and Los Angeles mobilized fully for the pro-migrant, pro-refugee demonstration at the Tijuana border crossing. Responding to a Call to Action issued just days before, ANSWER chapters across the country sprung into action and helped organize rallies, marches and other events in 25 cities. Actions spanned far and wide, from in front of a Border Patrol station in Baton Rouge to a federal building in Salt Lake City, from the Mission District of San Francisco to a T station in Boston, from the border crossing at El Paso to a major thoroughfare in Springdale, Arkansas. All this work, and the expanding reach of ANSWER into cities and towns across the country, is possible because of supporters like you! There are no multi-million dollar foundations that keeps the organizing going year after year. This "Giving Tuesday" we ask for your support in continuing to build the movement against war and racism! [https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/answercoalition/mailings/2608/attachments/original/46679866_1993864154245843_3698833484651954176_o_-_Bryan_Ellis.jpg?1543298352]Bradenton, Fla. [https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/answercoalition/mailings/2608/attachments/original/20181125_130037_-_John_Peter_Daly.jpg?1543298379]Baton Rouge, La. [https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/answercoalition/mailings/2608/attachments/original/PSL_rally2.jpg?1543298593]El Paso, Tex. While Trump continues to play to the most racist and right-wing elements in his base, stirring up a frenzy against the struggling migrants as “invaders” and “criminals,” more working-class people in the U.S. are fighting back and saying, "No!" ANSWER, as one of the few stalwart anti-war forces that for 17 straight years has stood up against U.S. interventions, coups and wars has an important role to play in this movement. To those who want to resist Trump's reactionary domestic program we offer an international perspective that links the injustices at home with the Empire's abuses abroad. In all 25 actions in which we participated two days ago, we emphasized that U.S. foreign policy created the crisis in Central America that gave the impetus to the caravan. ANSWER has been mobilizing, educating and organizing ever since we formed three days after the September 11, 2001 attacks to oppose the coming war on Afghanistan. Your contribution helps build and grow the most reliable and consistent anti-war organization in the country. Now, even as the Pentagon sends troops to the border, the changes of another major war are still looming. The Pentagon adopted recently a new national security doctrine that targets both Russia and China for "major power conflict." The idea of a war with such huge countries may seem unimaginable, but that is what they're preparing for in practical terms, and Donald Trump would be at the helm. This challenge can be met, but only with your support. ANSWER organizers are building their networks and organizations in cities throughout the country. But we count on the financial support of you and other people of conscience to help fund this effort. We know your share the same values and commitment to rid the world of the scourge of war and racism. Like you, we know these are perhaps the most pressing and urgent needs of our time. Your support for this movement has never been more important. Together we are building this movement for justice! [https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/answercoalition/mailings/2608/attachments/original/donatebutton.png?1543292366] ANSWER Coalition · United States This email was sent to karenaram at hotmail.com. To stop receiving emails, click here. 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References: <1271064085.329008.1543590528155.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1271064085.329008.1543590528155@mail.yahoo.com> Dear Prof. Boyle:   I recall that you once mentioned that Alan Dershowitz cut his teeth as a lawyer defending pornographic clients.  It looks like the zebra hasn't lost his stripes, as he is named in the Miami Herald article 11/28/18 as one of the lawyers (along with Kenneth Star) for Jeffery Epstein, the notorious Palm Springs sex abuser of underage girls 2001-05, who is named a friend of none other than Bill Clinton, D. J. Trump and Prince Andrew.  He received a plea deal on a charge of prostitution and a 13 month sentence from Miami U.S. Attorney appointed by Pres. George W. Bush, and now Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta, of recent notoriety.  The article, "How a future Trump Cabinet Member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime" by investigator Juli K. Brown (referenced below) is an expose of the coverup of crimes of the serial sex abuser hedge fund manager who was given special treatment by Acosta, who is said was at one time considered by Trump for Attorney General.  The article is compelling reading. Midge O'Brien  -----Original Message----- From: Shaunna Thomas, UltraViolet Action To: Midge O'Brien Sent: Thu, Nov 29, 2018 5:37 pm Subject: Over 80 girls were abused. He made a deal with their abuser. #yiv6860675047 body, #yiv6860675047 td, #yiv6860675047 font {font-size:10pt;} #yiv6860675047 #yiv6860675047 td p {margin:0em;} #yiv6860675047 p {margin:1em 0em;} #yiv6860675047 td div p {margin:1em 0em;} #yiv6860675047 #yiv6860675047 .yiv6860675047X0uMP p {margin:1em 0;} Dear Midge, News just broke that Trump's Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta, set up a deal for a multimillionaire sexual predator who abused dozens of teenage girls to serve almost no jail time. Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused and trafficked at least 80 girls as young as 14 years old. As U.S. Attorney in Miami in 2008, Acosta showed a total disregard for survivors by offering a plea deal for a mere 13-month sentence, ignoring most of Epstein's crimes, and stopping an FBI probe from helping more survivors and possibly finding more powerful people involved in Epstein's trafficking ring.1 Now, as Secretary of Labor, Acosta is in charge of protecting workers across the country and stopping human trafficking.2 With a past like this he cannot be trusted to uphold our laws. Acosta needs to go. Immediately. Congress has the power to hold public hearings and remove Acosta, but they will likely only act if this story generates enough outrage in the media and in each Representative's home district. That's why your representative, Rep. Rodney Davis, needs to hear from you right away. Will you sign the petition to Rep. Davis demanding he impeach Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta NOW? | Tell the House of Representatives: "Alexander Acosta cannot be trusted to enforce our laws. Impeach Acosta now." | | | Sign the petition | | Epstein preyed on vulnerable girls, often between the ages of 14 and 16, many homeless without a support system. He coerced them into sexual acts and forced them into recruiting more girls.3 The girls Epstein abused were failed by a criminal justice system that too often sides with powerful abusers over survivors of sexual abuse. Epstein was trafficking girls as young as 14 but only had to plead guilty to prostitution charges. This is a travesty of justice, because when girls are under the age of consent, they cannot give consent and are by definition being trafficked. Epstein used his vast resources and connections to manipulate our broken criminal justice system and to protect other powerful men. Some of the survivors have continued to speak out about the abuse they endured and the lasting impact it's had on their lives--abuse Epstein has never been held accountable for.4  Trump's now labor secretary actively worked with Epstein's lawyers to cut this deal. A man like that should not hold any position of power, let alone oversee our country's labor laws.  If we generate enough public outrage we can make sure Congress holds hearings on Acosta and ultimately force him out of office.  Will you sign this petition to hold Acosta accountable and make sure these survivors see justice? Thanks for speaking out! -- Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Holly, Kathy, Susan, Anathea, Audine, Emma, Pilar, Natalie, Melody, Pam, Lindsay, Ryan, and Sonja, the UltraViolet Action team   Sources: 1. How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime, Miami Herald, November 28, 2018 2. Trump’s Labor Secretary Struck a Deal With a Serial Sex Offender. Democrats Want to Know Why., Mother Jones, November 29, 2018 3. How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime, Miami Herald, November 28, 2018 4. Ibid. Want to support our work? UltraViolet is funded by members like you, and our tiny staff ensures small contributions go a long way. Chip in here. You can unsubscribe from this mailing list at any time. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kmedina67 at gmail.com Fri Nov 30 23:48:01 2018 From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:48:01 -0600 Subject: [Peace] peace demonstration tomorrow, Saturday, December 1, 2018; 2pm-4pm, downtown Champaign, Main and Neil streets Message-ID: 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.