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MICHIGAN: SOME THINGS YOU CAN DO See below: Contact Congress Ann Arbor events Protest at SOA Learn about SOA Learn about US policy
There is only one force in the world that can potentially curtail the decision makers in the US military and government, and that is the US people. For more information on the items below contact the Ann Arbor Inter-Faith Council for Peace and Justice (734-663-1870), or a village nonbeliever like me (Eric Lormand, office phone 734-763-3491, email lormand@umich.edu).
1. Please write or call your members of Congress, and ask them to support H.R. 611 and S 980. If they support it, thank them and ask them to cosponsor it. If
you’re from out of state or out of town, even better! (Not sure who your
representative is? I can help, see above to reach me.)
2. Watch this space for information about campus and town events, or email me to join an email announcements group. The next monthly meeting of the ICPJ Latin America group is this Tuesday, 10/13, 7:30pm, at the First Baptist Church on Washington near State, Ann Arbor.
3. Spread the word to your friends. Interfaith Council or I would also be glad to give a talk and/or show a film to your small or large group (dorm, club, ROTC class, etc.).
4. Educate yourself further about the School of the Americas. Web Sites:
5. Join the vigil/protest in Georgia on November 22nd-23rd, 1998. There will be a convoy of vans (looks like 3, maybe 4) leaving from Ann Arbor to Columbus, Georgia on Friday Nov 20th, returning Monday Nov 23rd. Along with people flying down and driving separately. Anticipated Schedule: Please contact the ICPJ office (734-663-1870) if you: Drivers Wanted: We are in need of UM-affiliated people to drive the vans; the more the safer/convenienter/merrier. If you haven't been through one of the van training sessions, you'd need to do that, under the university's insurance deal. (Drivers don't have to shoulder any insurance risk.) I've been trough this training, and the teacher is fun. There's no driving test; it's a film about wearing seatbelts and not driving on sidewalks, about how vans handle, etc. The next scheduled training is: Thurs 10/15 10am-noon, Transportation Services, 1213 Kipke Drive (next to Crisler Arena, where the big blue buses live), 764-3427. Free, but preregistration is required, and slots are filling up. There will be other scheduled times (probably one more in October, and two more in November). I will announce them if I hear of them, or you can call the number above. Please let me (lormand@umich.edu, 734-763-3491) know if we can count on you as a driver.
6. Please help fund the trip (ICPJ, 734-663-1870):. We ain’t too proud …
7. About the larger issue, the ongoing worldwide US efforts to crush democratic self-determination in favor of US multinational business profits: Web Sites:
Most importantly: 8. Don’t be duped in the future when our "leaders" in Washington and our big-business "free press" try to scare you about "insurgents", "communists", "terrorists", "drugs", etc. Clearly nothing going under these names is ideal, clearly much of what goes under these names is ugly, but none of them is on the scale of, and none of them justifies, the hideous crimes perpetrated in the name of "counterinsurgency", "anticommunism", "antiterrorism", "the war on drugs", etc. |