The Ban Bus

November 10-1 1, 1997) The Ban Bus visited the Windy City for two days, including Veterans Day. The hubcaps from the Ban Bus were stolen, which surprised the Chicago natives playing hosts. The Ban Bus spoke to 250 students at Whitney Young High School, a magnet school in the Chicago Public School system. Next, the group presented to an intimate group at Northwestern University. Showing tremendous flexibility on the part of the Ban Bus and Francis Parker High School the next presentation was to the seventh through twelfth grades at the Parker School, a private school that emphasizes hands-on learning. For the final presentation Michael, Petter, Dalma and John were joined at Northern Illinois University by Philip Winslow, the author of “Sowing the Dragons Teeth- Landmines and the Global Legacy of War”, about the human impact of landmines in Angola.
The Ban Bus thanked Illinois Senators Richard Durbin and Carol Moseley-Braun for their support of the Landmine Elimination Act and also thanked Representatives Bobby Rush, Jesse Jackson, Jr., William Lipinski, Luis Gutierrez, Rod Blagojevich, Danny Davis, Sid Yates, John Porter, Jerry Weller, Jerry
Costello, Harris Fawell, Ray LaHood, Glenn Poshard, and, of course, Lane Evans for their support. The Ban Bus asked Representatives Henry Hyde, Philip Crane, Dennis Hastert, Thomas Ewing, Donald Manzullo and John Shimkus for their support.

Special thanks from the Ban Bus to Whitney Young High School, especially Dr. Alvin Williams, Northwestern University’s Peace Project, especially Rebekah Frederick, Northern Illinois University’s law school, Susan Walker, mother of Elizabeth Walker Jackson of the Wornens’ Commission on Women and Children Refugees and Kathy Wiard of the United Nations Association. An extra special thanks goes to Prexy Nesbitt dean of students at the Francis Parker School.