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State News Release - September 26, 2002 |
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Illinois Green Party |
| Anti-War Candidate for Congress to Hold Fundraiser. |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Estabrook, whose name will appear on the ballot on November 5 because volunteers collected more than 7,500 signatures for him this summer, opposes the attack on Iraq that is supported by both Republicans and Democrats. "This proposed war is nothing short of a crime," he says. "It violates international law, specifically the UN charter, and constitutes the sort of aggression for which officials have been condemned by international courts." Estabrook is running for the seat presently held by first-term Republican Timothy Johnson. "Johnson spent the better part of two million dollars to be elected two years ago," Estabrook said. "Most of it came from corporate PACs." Since his campaign doesn't take any money from corporations' political action committees, Estabrook explained, it has to rely on individuals' contributions. "So we're having an auction and fund-raiser on Saturday evening," he said. "People have donated a lot of interesting things -- prints, music, flowers, meals, books -- and they'll be auctioned off by Mr. Brian Hagy, a wonderful entertainer. And there will be music by Brian J. Boyd, Danielle Chynoweth, Kevin Elliott, Paul Kotheimer, The Solips, and Some Velvet Morning." The Bread Company is located at 706 South Goodwin Avenue in Urbana. The fund-raiser will run from 8 PM to 11 PM. "It will also be a chance to talk about the things that the Republicans and Democrats don't want to talk about," says Estabrook, "like a declining economy that's covered over by increasingly hysterical talk of war -- a war that's finally a war for oil." "People are afraid that Saddam Hussein will give biochemical weapons to terrorists," said Estabrook, "but the surest way to encourage that is to invade his country and announce that your goal is 'regime change.' In fact, Iraq has said that it has no such weapons and has invited UN inspectors to come and look, unconditionally. And this is a country in which our sanctions have killed a half million children." More information can be found on the campaign
web-site, <www.carlforcongress.org>.
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