From CIsland at aol.com Mon Sep 3 13:16:21 2001 From: CIsland at aol.com (CIsland at aol.com) Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:16:21 EDT Subject: [saymaListserv] carpooling to Rep Meeting Message-ID: <146.f33ae4.28c514e5@aol.com> Are you expecting to drive through Chattanooga Sixth Day going to Birminham and have space for a carpooler who will share expenses? I am hoping to spend Sixth Day night in Birmingham and return to Chatt. on Seventh Day. William F. "Bill" Reynolds 3529 Dell Trail Chattanooga, TN 37411 e-mail: cisland at aol.com phone: 423-624-6821 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You can also subscribe on the web at http://kitenet.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sayma. ------------------------------------------------------ From freepolazzo at mindspring.com Sun Sep 9 16:44:02 2001 From: freepolazzo at mindspring.com (Free Polazzo) Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 16:44:02 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] Selection of Bumper Stickers Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010909164122.034f4d40@127.0.0.1> Hello Friends, Here is the list of the 12 finalists in the Quaker Outreach's forum's attempt to select a bumper sticker as an outreach tool. I will let you know the results when I hear what that is: Free Polazzo Anneewakee Creek Worship Group Douglas County, GA o Seeking? o Seek The Stillness... Find Yourself o Be Radical... Be A Quaker o Since God Speaks, We LISTEN o Join Us, Change The World o Quakers LISTEN o Quakers Heed The Word o Simple Faith... Radical Witness o Simply Radical.... Radically Simple o Come Worship With Friends o Has Thee Hugged A Quaker Today? o Come Seek The Light With Quakers From freepolazzo at mindspring.com Tue Sep 11 13:19:40 2001 From: freepolazzo at mindspring.com (Free Polazzo) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:19:40 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] Fwd: ISLAM-INFONET: U.S. Muslims Condemn Terrorist Attacks Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010911130206.035d7880@127.0.0.1> Hello Friends, As we hold in the Healing Light all those who are suffering because of this morning's violence, we also need to remember our Muslim neighbors who may be afraid of repercussions against them by hurt and angry people who are looking for outlets for their pain. For those of you who did not hear this message from the American Muslim Political Coordination Council (AMPCC), please read it and pass it on. I just heard, on the TV, two U.S. Senators who are on the Armed Services committee say that even larger amounts of military spending is needed to "protect" the USA from such attacks. Quakers must consider our centuries of active support for the Peace Testimony and continue to speak the unpopular truth that weapons and armies do not provide safety. LIving a life that eliminates the need for war is what it needed. Justice and Peace are what makes for communities that are safe habitats for all and not subject to attack. in Sadness and with hope for justpeace for all, Free Polazzo Anneewakee Worship Group >From: CAIR >Subject: ISLAM-INFONET: U.S. Muslims Condemn Terrorist Attacks > >In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful > >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 9/11/01 > >U.S. MUSLIMS CONDEMN TERRORIST ATTACKS > >(WASHINGTON, DC - 9/11/2001) - The American Muslim Political Coordination >Council (AMPCC)*, today condemned the apparent terrorist attacks in New >York and Washington and offered condolences to the families of those who >were killed or injured. > >The AMPCC statement read in part: > >"American Muslims utterly condemn what are apparently vicious and cowardly >acts of terrorism against innocent civilians. We join with all Americans >in calling for the swift apprehension and punishment of the perpetrators. >No political cause could ever be assisted by such immoral acts." > > - END - > >CONTACT: TEL - 202-488-8787 E-Mail - cair1 at ix.netcom.com > >* The AMPCC consists of American Muslim Alliance, American Muslim Council, >Council on American-Islamic Relations, and Muslim Public Affairs Council. > >----- > >CAIR >Council on American-Islamic Relations >453 New Jersey Avenue, S.E. >Washington, D.C. 20003 >Tel: 202-488-8787 >Fax: 202-4880833 >E-mail: cair1 at ix.netcom.com >URL: http://www.cair-net.org > >----- > > > From moriah at preferred.com Tue Sep 11 17:09:38 2001 From: moriah at preferred.com (Mary Calhoun) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 17:09:38 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] Fw: Response to Events of Sept. 11 Message-ID: <001c01c13b06$2e607340$0500a8c0@oem> Forwarded from the SAYMA office. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ellen Helmuth Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 4:22 PM Subject: Response to Events of Sept. 11 | TO: Members of FGC's Central Committee | Clerks of Yearly Meetings | All FGC staff | | Responding to the tragic events of early today, I helped to convene | a meeting of the heads of the | American Friends Service Committee, Friends General Conference, | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and | Friends World Committee for Consultation. | We agreed to do two things immediately: 1) issue a public | statement, and 2) call a Public Meeting | for Worship for Thursday evening, September 13th, 7:30 PM, at the Fourth | and Arch Street | Meetinghouse in Philadelphia.. | In taking these initial steps, we shared an understanding that our | country has been shaken by terrible | acts of violence, and that many will call for violent retaliation. We | believe that Friends are called to | witness again to the continuing power of God's love in our violent and | suffering world, and to work for | peace, justice and reconciliation. | Our joint statement, which is being released to the press today, | follows: | | Statement Regarding the Tragic Events of September 11 | | As organizations of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and as | members of the human family | and children of God, we are profoundly grieved at the loss of life, the | suffering, and the sorrow that | result from today's tragic events. The God of love and mercy whom we | worship and serve surely | grieves too in the face of these acts of anger and hatred and the | suffering they cause. We pray | earnestly for comfort and strength for those who are injured and | grieving. So too we hope with all our | hearts that, in responding to today's tragic events, all persons will | find ways to end the violence that is | consuming our world. | | We offer our gratitude and prayer to those who are responding to this | tragedy, rescuing and caring for | those who are injured, comforting those who are grieving, and working | for peace and reconciliation. | | The Religious Society of Friends, since its inception in the 1650's has | been led to eschew war and | violence for any end whatsoever. Time and again we have ministered to | the victims of war and | violence. We believe that the challenge before us all is to break the | cycle of violence and retribution. | | Seeking God's love and light at this time, we will be holding a public | Meeting for Worship at Arch | Street Meetinghouse, 4th and Arch Streets, in Philadelphia, PA, on | Thursday, September 13th, at 7:30 | p.m. All are welcome. | | | In God's Love, | | Bruce Birchard, Friends General Conference | | Cilde Grover, Friends World Committee on Consultation | | Thomas Jeavons, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting | | Mary Ellen McNish, American Friends Service Committee | | -- | Bruce Birchard | General Secretary | Friends General Conference | 1216 Arch Street, 2-B | Philadelphia, PA 19107 | 215-561-1700 | http://www.fgcquaker.org | | | -- | | Ellen Helmuth | Ellenh at fgcquaker.org http://www.fgcquaker.org | Telephone (215) 561-1700 Fax (215) 561-0759 | Friends General Conference, 1216 Arch Street, 2B, Philadelphia, PA 19107 | | | From bsan at usit.net Tue Sep 11 22:59:33 2001 From: bsan at usit.net (sharon and brian) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 22:59:33 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] Response to Events Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.20010912025933.006b97a0@pop.usit.net> Dear Friends Many of you will have received the message from FGC and other Quaker Organizations regarding the Events of today. As the Clerk of SAYMA I am asking that we share this concern and statement with our Meetings and Pray with other Friends on Thrusday Evening. A constant presence of peace and call to act in Love not retaliation will be harder than ever to explain to others. We can only hold our Faith and Belief by our actions. In Prayer with Saddness and Grief Sharon Annis SAYMA Clerk From moriah at preferred.com Wed Sep 12 18:26:39 2001 From: moriah at preferred.com (Mary Calhoun) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 18:26:39 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] '1071 Fw: our prayers are with you Message-ID: <02a401c13bda$2c5594c0$0500a8c0@oem> Forwarded from the SAYMA office. ----- Original Message ----- From: salfejo at prodigy.net.mx Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:24 PM Subject: RV: our prayers are with you Dear Friends: At this time of pain and sorrow we offer our prayers asking God will grant you all peace, strength, and wisdom to join with others, wherever you are, seeking light and forgiveness amidst yesterday´s tragic events. We grieve with you, and encourage you as we all hold to God´s promises of peace and love. In God´s Peace, on behalf of Latin American Friends, Loida Fernández, Executive Secretary From jhminshall at mindspring.com Wed Sep 12 18:42:45 2001 From: jhminshall at mindspring.com (Janet Minshall) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 18:42:45 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] A Message of Peace Message-ID: Dear Friends, I received this from a member of the Jewish Friends list and thought it might help us all. Love, Janet The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate...Returning violence for violence multiples violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that. Martin Luther King, Jr. From bettina at blueridge.net Fri Sep 14 12:19:51 2001 From: bettina at blueridge.net (Bettina Wolff) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 12:19:51 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] Response to International Terrorist Threat Message-ID: <009801c13d39$31d5a600$daf83dd0@default> Dear Senator Edwards: In thinking about what might be an appropriate national response to the incomprehensible and thoroughly unsettling destruction of the Twin Towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington I noted the following in my National Geographic Atlas of the World under Afghanistan: " Since antiquity invasions and peaceful migrations have brought diverse peoples such as (lists 5 groups). Although the nine-year Soviet occupation ended in 1989, it took Muslim rebels until April 1992 to topple the communist regime, after which rival groups vied for power. The war's legacy includes at least a million Afghans killed, 500,000 maimed, and eight million--half the prewar population-- displaced internally or living as refugees in neighboring Pakistan and Iran. Much of landlocked Afghanistan's livestock and forests and more than half its 34,000 villages were devastated. Also destroyed were irrigation systems, crucial to the agricultural-based economy. In fertile valleys, former orchards and wheat fields lie barren, littered, as are the mountain passes of the mineral-rich Hindu Kush, with millions of land-mines." Just what do we think any level of military response could accomplish in such an environment? I urge you to speak out for a more reasoned method of bringing these criminals, once identified, to a system of justice within the bounds of international law. Your constituent, Bettina H Wolff 171 Ridgeview Circle Lake Lure, NC 28746 September 14, 2001 although the -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bright_crow at mindspring.com Fri Sep 14 19:47:55 2001 From: bright_crow at mindspring.com (Michael Austin Shell) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:47:55 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] Vengeance Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20010914194755.0079f880@pop.mindspring.com> Friends, Last night I could not sleep. In writing to a dear circle of online Pagan friends, I finally found words to express part of the distress with which I am struggling. (If you are uncomfortable with Goddess language, please understand that to me God is Mother-and-Father, and that you may use your own language in prayer.) Blessed Be, Michael. <><><><><><><><><><><><><> Thursday, 13 September, 2001 (around midnight) Dearest Dark and Bright Ones, I am holding all of you in the Light. I am holding in the Light all of those striken by Tuesday's terrorist attacks. Each moment that I ponder what was done, my horror increases. There is no justification for the evil these people have done, and the Divine One will convict them. But I am also holding in the Light all of the world, which now awaits in dread the unholy vengeance which we, the most powerful and self-indulgent people on earth, are working ourselves up to unleash. Those of you who know of my Quaker convictions will perhaps understand... even if you are angry against me... that I cannot and will not share in the nationalist rhetoric, warmongering and language of retribution which is flooding the airwaves in the wake of these crimes. "Nations" are a lie we tell each other in order to perpetuate a false hierarchy of deserving and undeserving peoples. There are no nations. There is only humankind, together with all the other life which lives upon the Mother's breast. Innocents suffer and die all over the world for the sake of this nation or that nation. But there are no nations. There are only people, choosing daily, by commission or omission, who they believe deserves the blessings of life and who does not. None of our hands are free of this blood. Now the unrighteous vengeance taken against us as a "nation" by these terrorists is conjuring up among us a call for vengeance on our own part. But vengeance is a double-edged sword blade with two points and no handle. It only destroys; it never protects or heals. Each time the blade is swung in any direction, it claims a higher price than before. The blade we are about to swing was already destroying nations before the Hebrew people thought to tell the stories which their Testament records. I am not preaching idealism. Nationalism is an ideal. Vengeance is an ideal. The reality is that there is one, whole body of life on this planet, and anything we do to lift up or to bring down one part of that body, separate from the others, makes that body bleed. The Goddess knows this. She will use her own cleansing sword of justice, but she will not share in our call for vengeance against her own flesh. In Shadow and in Flame, Blessed Be, Michael. From bonnipeg at bellsouth.net Tue Sep 18 22:56:33 2001 From: bonnipeg at bellsouth.net (Peggy Bonnington) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:56:33 -0500 Subject: [saymaListserv] Fw: Sharing a Sept. 11 story Message-ID: <013c01c140b6$d62bba20$acef3cd0@bonnipeg> OK, time for a bird story I've promised ~ all my other email is too heavy to deal with right now. On the evening of September 12th, Stuart and I went out into my outdoor studio (our carport) ~ basically to get away from the house and the horrific television images and news, almost overpowering. Being in the clear outdoor air with no human or mechanical sound was such a relief. We took our wine / happy hour, and I nipped china plates into tile-size bits for later mosaic work, while Stuart and Quincy sat close by. Stuart and I were talking quietly about events, while Quincy lay on the concrete floor between us, bathing as complacently as cats will do, even in the biggest crisis. Earlier in the season, a Carolina wren had attempted to nest in the studio. I had witnessed the occasional bird flitting in among my hanging pots and cups and assorted junk, without ever fully determining the location of the nest. About a week earlier, when I took down a plastic bucket from a nail to use during a project of making concrete stepping stones, I realized that the mass of straw and debris in the bucket meant that had been the nest. But it was empty, so I unceremoniously dumped the debris, filled it with water, and continued my art project. This may have nothing to do with the story, because there was never a "fuss" made, as Carolina wrens are wont to do when distressed. However, on this evening of perhaps the worst tragedy our generation has known, as we sat sobered and saddened in the dusk of evening, this wren flew to the outskirts of the studio and first lit across the way from us at the most distant edge of the carport. Oddly, it did not fuss the loud protest chatter wrens are wont to do in the presence of cats ~ although Quincy was quite visibly present. The wren flew around without making a sound, from this perch to that, here and there above and about us, until finally entering a small china cup hanging directly over my head. We looked up; the cup swung slightly from the recent "lighting." Occasionally the bird peeked out and down at the three of us, but never with the hint of distress, the slightest sound of discontent. The four of us sat in this close proximity for about 10 or 15 minutes ~ Stuart, myself nipping china tiles, Quincy bathing, and the wren quietly peering out of the cup. We talked quietly; the wren was still in the cup when we turned out lights and went inside. Later, I realized that there wasn't a nest in the cup. I checked the next day to discover that it was completely empty, without a shred of nesting material. It began to seem to me that the bird also had felt a need for closeness and companionship on that terrible evening ~ even companionship that included a cat ~ as if the pain loosed upon our world that day vibrated at the the most basic cosmic level felt by creatures of all kinds everywhere. Somehow this story is comforting to me; I hope others enjoy it. Love, Peggy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From freepolazzo at mindspring.com Thu Sep 20 21:02:28 2001 From: freepolazzo at mindspring.com (Free Polazzo) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:02:28 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] Afghanistan Online Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010920205045.00ae40a0@127.0.0.1> Hi, I found this interesting web site about Afghanistan. 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