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- From: jcl4@cec1.wustl.edu (Jeffrey C Lerman)
- Subject: Rally/Vigil re: Bosnia-Hervcegovina
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.073946.7179@wuecl.wustl.edu>
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- Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:39:46 GMT
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- Hi. Last semester here at Washington University, I co-founded a group called
- the Washington University Coalition to End the Killing In Bosnia. Last
- semester, we held a candlelight vigil to raise awareness of the atrocities
- beigng committed in Bosnia-Hercegovina, as well as distributing factsheets
- and putting together a banner/petition to (then) Pres.-Elect Clinton. We
- collected over 1500 signatures on the petition in a week, and between
- 500 to 600 people attended the vigil. On an "apathetic" campus, mind you.
-
- THis semester, we are organizing several things to educate people about the
- facts and the gravity of the ongoing situation in Bosnia-Hercegovina. One
- of them is a national vigil; we would like to have rallies or vigils similar
- to the one we held last semester on college and university campuses across the
- country all on the same night. We are planning on February 25.
-
- If *you* or someone you know would be interested in helping with or organizing
- a vigil on your campus, or if there is already an organiztion on your campus
- which might be interested in this, then please send me e-mail at
- jcl4@cec1.wustl.edu, or call me at 314-935-2131.
-
- Thanks very much.
-
- --Jeff Lerman, National Vigil Chair, WU Coalition to End the Killing in Bosnia
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