[JPI] Preparation for Sat Peace March and Vigil

[Cecelia Hawkins]

JPI friends:

Some of you may not be on the Brazos Progressives listserv so I wanted to 
pass this along to you about the plans for a peace march and vigil on 
Saturday, May 1 at Veterans Park.  E-mail Ray White for details.

Cecelia
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>From: "Doc White" <docwhite at cox-internet.com>
>Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:01:49 -0500
>
>I'm really pumped about Saturday, May 1.  Our friends in Austin are coming 
>and bringing banners, flags, a wall with all Iraq coalition casualties, 
>audio CD's, flag draped coffins, just lots and lots of stuff for both the 
>march and the vigil.  We are constructing a symbol to represent the 
>thousands of Iraqi civilian casualties as well.  Dick Underhill VFP Austin 
>is coming in Friday morning to help us prepare.  We could use some help!!!  
>Who is available Friday...morning, afternoon, or evening or Saturday to 
>help us put this thing together?
>
>Thursday the Eagle is running our press release PLUS an article about the 
>vigil and VFP.  We're actually getting some PSA's run on local radio and we 
>may even get some TV coverage.  Woody Powell, President of VFP national has 
>pledged his support for our efforts here in the Brazos Valley.  This is a 
>real opportunity to build on all the hard work so many of you have done to 
>raise awareness and promote peace in the past.  Folks from Austin, Houston, 
>and VFP National are doing their part.  We need to become energized to 
>educate or friends and neighbors, to promote thinking, and to bring the 
>peace movement home in a big way.
>
>Let me know if you can help on Friday or Saturday.  I'd also like to get an 
>idea of how many of you are going to attend the march and/or the vigil.  We 
>have coffins and flags to carry so we need a lot of folks.  Send me a 
>return email if you will participate in one or both events.
>
>It may just be me but life just doesn't have the same flavor it did before 
>the war.  Everyday I think about the death and destruction going on in 
>Afghanistan and Iraq.  It is important for those of us who support peace to 
>stand up and be counted.  Especially here in one of the most 
>conservative/apathetic places on earth.  Please take a bit of time our of 
>your life to make a statement by attending one of the events.
>...the citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes 
>are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, 
>is disloyal; he is a traitor.
>- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain
>
>
>Wage Peace Brothers and Sisters
>Ray White

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