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Monday. October 22. 1990/ University Daily Kansan
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'Voice' supports peace in gulf
By Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
A new Voice has been created on campus.
Voice, a campus peace group,
became an official student organization
earlier in the month when it
finally entered organizations and
activities center.
Tim Reummel, secretary of Voice, said the organization's purpose was to raise public awareness of the costs of war and support peaceful resolutions to international conflicts, focusing on the Persian Gulf crisis.
"We believe that the (Bush) administration's stance right now leaves very little room for a peaceful solution," he said. "We want to prevent a war that could be much worse than Vietnam."
"We wanted a name that would be as inclusive as possible," he said. "We didn't want to exclude anyone."
The group is planning a peace rally at 11:30 a.m. Friday in front of the Kansas Union, he said. The featured speaker will be Tom Berger, a Vietnam veteran and vice president of national chapter of Veterans for Peace.
Reumelm said the organization, which has about 20 members, was named Voice because it was intended to create a series of concerns of a wide variety of groups.
Reummel said the organization planned to communicate with other
KC protesters want troops out of gulf
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - About 40 area protesters joined a national wide demonstration this weekend, calling for the United States to withdraw its troops from the Middle East.
The Associated Press
Many who met for the demonstration Saturday near the Country Club Plaza placed sign readings. "How many deaths to the Gallon?" and "No Body Bags for Oil."
"The U.S. government is lying when it says that this is for democracy," said Bob Kuchko, a spokesman for the OU.N. outlaw coalition protest.
"There are sheikdoms and monarchies in the Middle East that don't even allow their women to vote on monolithies – are those democracies?"
"We think the troops are there basically to maintain control over the oil fields," he said.
Vicky Combs, member of the Greater Kansas City Greens, her group was as concerned with changing the nation's energy policies as it was with military intervention in a foreign country.
"We've got to wean ourselves off fossil fuels," said Combs, of Kansas City.
campuses. The membership of Voice includes members of Environs, the Women's Student Union and KU Democrats.
"We want to get a lot of viewpoints from people who are from the Mid-East," he said.
"One of the things we focus on is that all of the issues are becoming interrelated now, so all of the groups should support each other." he said.
"This conflict is not a matter of international law as we have been made to believe," he said. "We are involved in the Persian Gulf situation of the mistakes of our energy policy for the past several decades."
Reummel said that Aida Dabbas, the president of Voice, was from Jordan.
Wendell Wiebe-Powell, member of Voice, said the organization was formed as a result of a peace rally held in late September at Potter Lake.
"Right after the rally, there was a lot of energy and enthusiasm, so we called an organizational meeting," he said.
Thousands protest U.S. role in gulf
The Associated Press
Anti-war activists mobilized their own troops across the nation Saturday in demonstrations demanding that U.S. soldiers get out of the Persian Gulf region before blood is shed.
The protests, organized by groups including labor unions, veterans associations and church organizations, were conducted in at least 19 cities from New York to Los Angeles to Honolulu.
In New York City, protesters said
A demonstration in Atlanta was met by flag-waving members of a soldiers' support group.
The protests came on a day lacking in unexpected military or diplomatic moves in the Persian Gulf region. In Paris, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney met with his French counterpart and said U.N. sanctions against Iraq to work to work and eventually would hamper Iraq forces occupying Kuwait.
they had 15,000 people at their rally. Police estimated the crowd size at 5,000.
In San Francisco, about 1,500 people gathered for their rally against the U.S. presence in the Middle East, police said.
A protest in Seattle brought out about 400 people carrying signs such as "No Blood for Oil" and "Fill Stomachs Not Body Bags."
About 200 people gathered for a 1968-style rally on Boston Common. The protest was organized by the New England Coalition to Stop U.S. Intervention in the Middle East, an umbrella group including labor unionists, peace activists and church leaders.
Some protesters wore the long hair and army fatigues familiar during
"We're doing it because we don't want to see another war, another Vietnam in the Middle East," said organizer Mareen Skehan, a 29-year-old mental health worker. "We feel the money being used to sustain the troops, the planes, the ships, is desperately needed here at home."
the protests of 20 years ago when demonstrations demanded a withdrawal from Vietnam. A loudspeaker played peace songs as activists self-organized the "Militant Workers" and "The Militant" magazines worked the crowd.
Protesters carried signs and banners that read "Defeat U.S. Imperialism," and "Read My Lips — No War For Oil."
Those sentiments were echoed in Cleveland, where more than 200 people rallied outside the headquarters of Cleveland-based British Petroleum America to condemn U.S. involvement in the Gulf standoff.
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