Peace postcards aimed at officials

URBANA – Local peace activists are flooding the post-Christmas mail with calls for withdrawal from Iraq.

A coalition that includes church groups like the Quakers and political forces like the Anti-War, Anti-Racism Effort coordinated sending more than a thousand postcards bearing peace messages to Illinois senators Barack Obama and Dick Durbin, both Democrats, as well as Urbana Republican U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson.

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