[Peace] My letter to NG

[karen]

 I love Champaign Urbana, after living in as many as seven states and three Asian nations. I settled here little over ten years ago to be near my daughter in grad school at the U of I.

There are many reasons to love this city, a politically active community is one. The many trees and parks another.

Most of all is the people, rich with diversity, and a strong community sense one doesn’t find everywhere. 

I was thinking about all of this when stuck in traffic recently, as I watched a gaggle of geese crossing the road at Market Square. Adults and babies taking their rightful place in nature. So many cars stopping patiently to allow them to pass. I almost forgot the senseless slaughter at Crystal Lake Park last year, when one hundred seventy five were mercilessly gassed. There are more humane ways of dealing with over population.

Today I heard of another geese slaughter, horrifying many residents in the Beringer Commons.

Just as our bombs continue to drop across the globe killing and horrifying, we continue the needless slaughter of both geese and people.

Saturday, July 3 at 10-11am protest the slaughter. At the entrance gates to Beringer Commons—East Main/Rt. 150 & High Cross Road, Urbana 61801.