University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 4, 1991
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Coalition for Peace holds final protest, vows to continue fight for world peace
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice conducted its last protest against the Persian Gulf War yesterday.
The coalition conducted the rally at 12 p.m. on Massachusetts streets.
The event, which attracted about 150 war protesters, was the coalition's 21st peace rally since the gulf crisis began.
Allan Hanson, coalition member and a speaker at the rally, said the push for peace would continue even though the war with Iraq had ended.
"We want people to know that the euphoria of blood lust and killing does not sweep the entire country," she said, but there still is an opposition to war."
Louise Hanson, coilition president, said the group had failed to get its peace message across to the public.
"We attempted to make clear the fundamental idea that we cannot solve international problems by international agreements." "We still believe in that message."
Hanson said the group would not disband but would instead focus on other world events now that the war with Iraq had ended.
Cindy Bachofer, Salina graduate student, said that the rally was a closure to the war against Iraq and has been used by the fight for peace needed to continue.
In contrast to the peace demonstrators, there were about 50 war supporters on the west side of Massachusetts Street.
stood in the back of his pickup truck playing "God Bless America" and wearing a yellow ribbon around his cowboy hat.
"Those guys over there have just as much right to stand out here as I do," he said. "Both sides accomplished something by coming out here, because we are all Americans, and we have that right."
Thomas Nau, Lawrence resident.
Nau said he planned to rally for the troops until they came back from the Middle East.
He said the war was not truly over until the troops came home.
Frankie Watkins, Lawrence resident, taped a sign on her Dodge minivan that quoted William Jenny Bryan. "What have you done for Liberty? If nothing, what can freedom mean to you?" Watkins.
who has a nephew in the Persian
Gulf, said she used quotations on all
of her rally sighs.
"I am here to support what I believe in, which is for everybody to believe what they want to," she said.
Jewel West, Merriam resident, said he had come to the park to look for buried valuables with his metal detector. He arrived at the rally while he was searching. He said he had listened to the groups on both sides of Massachusetts Street.
"I'm more for fighting and dying," he said, pointing to the west side of the street, where the war supporters were fighting. "I'm not so much for whiming."
"We need people for peace, but we also need people who are strong," he said. "We need a balance."
Student peace groups form united movement Campuses plan joint forum March 23-24 to study effects of war on Middle East
By Nedra Beth Randolph Kansan staff writer
Student peace groups from Kansas and Missouri have joined forces.
The Midwest Student Coalition for Social Responsibility includes students from peace groups at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, the University of Missouri at Kansas City and the Kansas City Art Institute. The group met yesterday at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave., to discuss coming events for peace.
Voice member Scott MacWilliams,
Lawrence senior, said it was important
for campuses to join together in the
fight for peace.
"The really hard part of the peace movement starts now that the war is over," he said.
MacWilliams said there were many important peace issues that needed to be addressed, such as violence against Arabs and the environmental effect of the Persian Gulf War.
Dan McCloskey, Iowa City, Iowa, junior, said the group was planning a peace forum on campus in conjunction with a peace forum that will be conducted by Out Now! at UMKC March 23 and 24. The focus of the weekend will be the effects of the war on the Middle East.
"It will be a celebration of learning," he said. "People need to take education into their own hands, and this way, with the peace forum, they can."
McCloskey said the forum would show that the peace movement would not stop because the war had ended. The unification of separate peace groups into a larger unit proves that, he said.
Marcie Wilson, K-State sophomore, said it was important to have a cohesive peace group that extended beyond campus boundaries.
"The student coalition is kind of a support network for separate peace groups," she said. "We want to change what's going on, people to change what's going on."
Ammon Dowons, Kansas City Art Institute student, said he wanted to pull people from the Art Institute into the coalition.
"I want them to be more active," he said. "They don't have to stay in their own little world."
Although Hafiza Capehart, Kansas City, Mo., resident is not a student, she said she was very interested in education and the student coalition.
"There seems to have been a breakdown in communication between universities since the '60s," she said. "This group is providing an opportunity for people to be friendly and to learn."
Fiddlin' around
Mark Peskanov, New York City resident, plays a Gypsy song at the Goodtime Radio Revue. The Revue was Saturday night at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St. Peskanov's appearance with his accompanist, Rita Sloana, begins their 1991 Swarthout Society residency at the University of Kansas. The Revue also featured the imagination Workshop, a comedy routine featuring sound effects imitating those used in old radio programs.
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