From moriah at preferred.com Tue Apr 2 15:16:49 2002 From: moriah at preferred.com (Mary Calhoun) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:16:49 -0500 Subject: [saymaListserv] Fw: Prayer vigil for Israel & the Palestinians Message-ID: <004501c1da7b$092d97a0$0500a8c0@oem> ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob McGahey Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:45 AM Subject: Fwd: PRAYER VIGIL FOR ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS From: "Bob Jones" Subject: PRAYER VIGIL FOR ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 20:58:29 -0500 Please join us for the month of April in daily prayer and meditation for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. For those interested, we will join for 5 minutes each day and 20 minutes on Saturday April 27th, at the same time all over the world -- At 11p.m in Moscow, 10p.m. in Athens, 8p.m. in London (GMT) and Johannesburg, 3p.m. in New York, 12 p.m. in Los Angeles, 7a.m. Sydney (Sunday a.m.). To find the time in your part of the world, please visit: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock Please let others know about this vigil. Dear God, we pray for healing in the Middle East May Your hand come upon all hearts there, bringing peace to them and to all the world. Amen From bright_crow at mindspring.com Sun Apr 7 22:04:17 2002 From: bright_crow at mindspring.com (Michael Austin Shell) Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 22:04:17 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] "The Apocalypse of Adolescence" an "Kids with Bombs" Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020407220347.009f4ec0@pop.mindspring.com> Dear Friends, I spoke this morning in Meeting for Worship about the disturbing juxtaposition of two articles I had read this past week. <><><><><><><><><><><><><> The first article was "The Apocalyse of Adolescence" by Ron Powers, in the March, 2002, issue of THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY (v. 289, n.3): Powers writes of the January, 2001, murders of Dartmouth professors Half and Susanne Zantop in their home by two Vermont teenagers, Robert Tulloch and Jimmy Parker (both just convicted this month). In the course of investigating the increase in violence by kids, Powers met and interviewed Theo Padnos, who had spent some time teaching boys in juvenile corrections. Padnos' students represented a range of social classes in Vermont. What they had in common was the agenda of achieving "the level of crime that stops the larger world in its tracks." Padnos told him: "The goal for the bright ones is to truly mesmerize the middle class with violence.... They've come to feel that there's nothing out there for them. And so they know exactly the effect they're looking for.... The papers always describe their crimes as 'senseless,' and 'meaningless,' and 'unmotivated,' and these kids themselves always come off as 'cold' and 'distant' to the reporters. The details of their crimes are always covered with the tightest possible focus, as if meaning might be found there. The result is just what they'd been hoping for: mesmerizing violence, and no context." Padnos found that "in a world otherwise stripped of meaning and self-identity, adolescents can come to understand violence itself as a morally grounded gesture, a kind of purifying attempt to intervene against the nothingness.... "[What] unites them are these apocalyptic suspicions that they have. They think and act as though it's an extremely late hour in the day, and nothing much matters anymore.... [They] talk about their crimes almost as if they were acts of faith. Maybe these kids themselves wouldn't use those words. But the things they've done, on some level, strike me as almost ecstatic attempts to vault over the shabby facts of their everyday lives.... "They're drawn to the myths built into... violent movies, not just the violence itself.... Prison life, especially for kids-- maybe life in general for kids-- is soaked in myths about outlaws, self-reliance. People traveling a rough landscape that is their true home. People who mete out justice to anyone who impinges on their native liberties. Post-apocalyptic heroes.... These kids half believe that their destination is the same as these screen heroes'." <><><><><><><><><><><><><> The second article was an Op/Ed piece in the Friday, April 5th issue of the NEW YORK TIMES, "Kids with Bombs," by Nicholas D. Kristof: Kristof had just finished interviewing kids from 8 to 22 in the Jabaliya Refugee Camp, Gaza Strip, about their ambition to become "shahid," martyrs, by attacking and killing Israelis. He writes: "...to travel in Gaza is to be reminded that people here react not so much to speeches by either American or Palestinian leaders, but rather to their own social dynamic and to Israeli actions. "After lots of surreal conversations with aspiring shahid, I believe they're living in a delusional universe shaped in part by the gutlessness of Palestinian leaders and in part by their own rage as Israeli tanks in the West Bank crunch through Palestinian cars, homes and hopes.... I fear that popular support for shahid is so great among Palestinians that the parade of killings will continue.... "In Gaza City, a dozen high school boys interrupted their soccer game to tell me that they all wanted to attack Israeli civilians and become shahid. I asked the boys what kinds of targets they would choose to bomb. For example, would they feel comfortable blowing up a group of Israeli women? "'That's O.K.... They all fight in their army. There's no distinction." Kristof runs through such targets as an Israeli girls school, the American Embassy, a crowd of Israelis with a few Muslims as well. The only demur he gets is in this final exchange: "What about bombing an Israeli nursery school? " 'No, no, no.' All the boys drew the line at infants. They beamed in pride at their humanitarianism, as I ached at their lack of it." <><><><><><><><><><><><><> Though these stories are far apart in almost every possible way, what I recognized they share is a core biological reality. This is that adolescents, especially adolescent boys, are readily moved to see violence-- motivated either by a "just cause" or by nihilism-- as a quasi-spiritual, cathartic answer to whatever they believe most profoundly stands in their way. "Let's go out in a blaze of glory." This is at its root an animal thing. As we debate the pros and cons of warfare or nonviolence, I believe we need also to be asking ourselves: What is moving the whole human race in the present age to believe it "needs" ruthless violence on such a scale in so many places across the globe? (The twentieth century was the most violent century in the history of the race.) And, as we deal with the young people with whom we can interact directly, I believe we need to be asking ourselves: What would convince them of the meaningfulness of channeling this drive into survival and creative innovation, instead of glorious vigilantism and destruction? Blessed Be, Michael. From kcarlyle at juno.com Thu Apr 11 12:37:40 2002 From: kcarlyle at juno.com (Kim Carlyle) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:37:40 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] Tax resistance movement Message-ID: <20020411.130032.-389545.13.kcarlyle@juno.com> Dear Friends, Please help Margaret Banks from the Greensboro (NC) News & Record if you can. Thanks. --Kim ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: MBanks at News-Record.com To: kcarlyle at juno.com Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:26:41 -0400 Subject: Telephone tax resistance movement Kim: Hey Kim. Margaret Banks here. Here's a more detailed explanation about what I'm looking for for my article in the Greensboro News & Record: Members of the peace movement have long refused to pay the federal excise tax tagged onto their phone bills each month. Since 1990, the tax has held firm at 3 percent, but has been as much as 15 percent in the past. The tax came about in 1898 to fund the Spanish American War. Most of the 3 percent tax goes into the General Fund, the pool of money that funds, among other things, the military. Several members of our Quaker community here in Greensboro decline to pay the tax. I'm checking with Bell South to see just how common it is. So I'm looking for people who decline to pay this tax. I also wouldn't mind talking to people who decline to pay other taxes based on nonviolent principles. My telephone number is (800) 553-6880. My email is mbanks at news-record.com Unfortunately, the editors want the story to run on Monday, which gives me a pretty tight deadline. 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URL: From moriah at preferred.com Tue Apr 16 21:02:10 2002 From: moriah at preferred.com (Mary Calhoun) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:02:10 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] aa>> Invitation to submit FGC workshop proposal Message-ID: <02cf01c1e5c0$e23fd440$0500a8c0@oem> The SAYMA office has received -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Invitation to submit workshop proposals ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- from Barbara Luetke-Stahlman co-clerk, 2003 Gathering Workshop Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- FGC Gathering: Johnston, PA -- week ending 7-5-03 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Proposal are due by about Labor Day, 2002. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (from a message from Barbara Leutke-Stahlman) April 14, 2002 Dear Friends, Workshops are the heart of the Gathering! As co-clerk of the 2003 Gathering Workshop Committee (to be held in Johnston, PA, about three hours from Pittsburgh) I ask you or someone in your group/organization/committee to consider sponsoring/submitting a workshop proposal by early September. One does not need to be a seasoned presenter to facilitate an interactive and satisfying workshop that is planned and offered in the manner of Friends. People of color and AYFs are especially encouraged to submit. First timers and co-leaders are encouraged. Topics for which we especially welcome proposals include: Basic Quakerism for those who are new to the Gathering or to Friends Clerking Pastoral Care Interactive economics sessions Peace Knitting (sewing, or quilting) in Quiet (participatory arts) Walking and Worship (modeled after the current biking workshops) Simplicity Equality Environmental Care For Gays and Lesbians (e.g., Love makes a family) Your Money or Your Life Decision-Making Issues for Older Friends For People of Color See the FGC website (www.fgcquaker.org) for the Workshop Form by May, 2002. Proposal are due by about Labor Day, 2002. I'd be pleased to assist you or your group as you develop your ideas. Please contact me at barbls at nc.rr.com. You can also help ensure a good selection of workshop proposals by placing this announcement in your MM newsletter, talking to Friends you feel could lead a good workshop, and facilitating the leadings of Friends who are new to this process and need your encouragement and guidance. Thank you. Barbara Luetke-Stahlman barbls at nc.rr.com 3653 Longleaf Drive Elm City, NC 27822 252 243 2620 ~~~end~~~ ______________________________________________________ To receive aa>> messages forwarding announcements from wider Quaker organizations (WQOs), subscribe to the free list server, sayma at kitenet.net. You can e-mail to sayma-request at kitenet.net, writing only the word subscribe in the body of your e-mail message. You can also subscribe on the web at http://kitenet.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sayma. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mc\aa From moriah at preferred.com Fri Apr 19 15:47:13 2002 From: moriah at preferred.com (Mary Calhoun) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:47:13 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] IMP^o^ 141 artist needed - SAYMA logo Message-ID: <02df01c1e7db$1e762d80$0500a8c0@oem> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IMP ^o^ Bulletin 141 Artist Needed for SAYMA Logo please contact Carol Lamm -- .................................................................... -- by May 15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (from a 4/13 message from Carol Lamm, ad hoc logo committee) <|> Please spread the word about the SAYMA logo process. <|> SAYMA is looking for an artist to design a SAYMA logo. If you might be the artist we seek -- -- please contact Carol Lamm clamm at chpl.net, 859/ 986-9256 -- by May 15 <|> We will need samples of your work and references. See more details below. <|> At yearly meeting in June there will be a chance for SAYMA Friends to gather to discuss and discern what we would like a SAYMA logo to communicate. <|> If you're coming to yearly meeting, watch for information about when and where. <|> Why is SAYMA working on a logo? -- Our current clerk, Sharon Annis, found that she didn't know which of several versions of letterhead to use! A variety of images have been used over the years, but none has ever been formally adopted. -- A logo would solve the letterhead problem, and it could do much more: -- Some Friends involved in wider Quaker organi- zations report that SAYMA does not have a clear identity in the wider Quaker com- munity; a logo would help people who remember things visually to make a better connection to SAYMA. -- Within SAYMA, a logo used on various communi- cations would help Friends identify SAYMA as the common source. -- The process of developing a logo opens up possibilities for sharing our insights into the essence of SAYMA and what we want to communicate to the world about ourselves. <|> An ad hoc logo committee consisting of Carol Lamm, Susan Carlyle, and Mary Calhoun was appointed at December Rep Meeting. They have developed technical criteria, and criteria for selecting an artist to develop the logo. They are also coordinating the discernment process for what the logo should communicate. Their hope is to have a design ready to recommend to the September 2002 Rep Meeting. <|> On April 6, Rep Meeting approved spending up to $300 on the logo process. The committee hopes to find a suitable volun- teer artist within SAYMA, but if needed some of the money can be used to pay the artist. <|> Technical criteria for the logo are (in abbreviated form): -- reproducible by low-resolution media -- black-and-white -- adaptable to being combined with other images for use by various branches of SAYMA -- combines well with words on letterhead using a font built into Microsoft Word and WordPerfect -- works well reduced and enlarged on computers and ordinary copiers <|> Criteria for selecting an artist are: -- samples of work (logos or other images) done for SAYMA or other organizations that the logo committee finds attractive and communicative -- references who give positive accounts of working with the artist, including communication skills and ability to meet deadlines -- ability to attend discussion/discernment session at yearly meeting -- willingness to produce several images for the committee's feed- back and work with the committee on a collaborative basis -- affordability, preferably a volunteer <|> Help us find an artist, and join us at yearly meeting to consider what the logo should communicate! If you have ideas to share or would like more information, please contact Carol Lamm at clamm at chpl.net, 859/ 986-9256. ~~~~~~ end ^o^ ~~~~~~ 1stpost 041902 ~~~~~~ _______________________________________ IMP ^o^ ... "Information Made Present" is a bulletin service of the SAYMA office to provide practical details to our geographically-challenged Yearly Meeting via our free list-server: semi-official information, bulletins that you can print, post, announce, publish, or pass around. Please address questions, corrections and additions to AdminAsst at sayma.org, 540-628-5852 (machine), or SAYMA Admin. Asst., PO Box 2191, Abingdon, VA 24212-2191. Thank you! ^o^ ----------------------------------------------------- To receive IMP^o^ bulletins, subscribe to the free list server, sayma at kitenet.net. You can e-mail to sayma-request at kitenet.net, writing only the word subscribe in the body of your e-mail message. You can also subscribe on the web at http://kitenet.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sayma. ------------------------------------------------------ From moriah at preferred.com Wed Apr 24 11:15:06 2002 From: moriah at preferred.com (Mary Calhoun) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:15:06 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] Fw: Peace Rallies Message-ID: <00b001c1eba3$2edb38c0$0500a8c0@oem> a forwarded -- Mary Calhoun Foxfire FM ----- Original Message ----- From: The Nation Magazine To: The Nation Magazine Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:19 PM Subject: Peace Rallies... | Dear EmailNation Subscriber, | | The size of weekend demonstrations -- 75,000 in Washington, 15,000 in San | Francisco and thousands more in other cities -- represented a major step | forward for the peace movement in the US. The numbers and diversity of the | rally in Washington is notable because it came at a time when most | political leaders remain overwhelmingly cautious about criticizing US | policies. | | For more on the marches and the politics underlying their organizing, see | exclusive eyewitness web reports by Liza Featherstone and John Nichols: | | LIZA FEATHERSTONE: Breaking The "Consensus" | http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=featherstone20020421 | | JOHN NICHOLS: Tens of Thousands Protest Bush Administration Policies | http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/ From moriah at preferred.com Wed Apr 24 11:16:17 2002 From: moriah at preferred.com (Mary Calhoun) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:16:17 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] Fw: March on Washington Message-ID: <00b101c1eba3$30eb2d00$0500a8c0@oem> (forwarded -- a Friendly Nuisance list posting) Mary Calhoun Foxfire FM ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 4:51 PM Subject: March on Washington Diane McNaron, who was at the march on Washington this weekend, sent this. She says it's pretty accurate and feels the event was successful. fn, bfm -------------------------------- washingtonpost.com Demonstrators Rally to Palestinian Cause Arab Americans, Supporters Drown Out Other Issues By Manny Fernandez Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, April 21, 2002; Page A01 Tens of thousands converged on downtown Washington yesterday to demonstrate for a variety of causes, but it was the numbers and passion of busloads of Arab Americans and their supporters that dominated the streets. Eager to make their presence felt and their voices heard in the nation's capital as never before, Arab and Muslim families marched and chanted for an end to U.S. military aid to Israel, overwhelming the messages of those with other causes in a peaceful day of downtown rallies and marches. Young men wore the Palestinian flag around their necks like a cape. Arabic was heard nearly as often as English, and cardboard signs held by women and children denounced Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Bush. Protesters rallying against corporate wrongs and the global economy found themselves tweaking Vietnam War-era chants to the Palestinian cause, shouting, "One, two, three, four: We don't want no Mideast war!" "The message here is we must support the Palestinian people against a military occupation and an apartheid state," said Randa Jamal, a graduate student at New York's Columbia University who joined thousands at a pro-Palestinian rally near the White House. She said her cousins were killed in Ramallah, in the West Bank, and her 16-year-old sister has been unable to attend school because of the Israeli occupation. "What they are going through," she said, "is crimes against humanity." Palestinian rights was the theme of two of four permitted marches that merged on Pennsylvania Avenue NW in a loud and colorful procession to the Capitol. The host of other issues -- anti-corporate globalization, antiwar and anti-U.S. policies in several areas -- were boiled down to an essence visible on banners, placards and T-shirts. Banners read: "Drop debt, not bombs" and "Peace treaty in Korea now." Bumper stickers on T-shirts declared: "No blank check for endless war" and "We are all Palestinian." It was possible to stand on the Washington Monument grounds and hear simultaneous speeches from three rallies nearby -- antiwar demonstrators, counter-demonstrators and pro-Palestinian activists -- in a mind-boggling surround-sound mix. Protesters came from the Anti-War Committee in Minneapolis, Middlebury College in Vermont and the D.C. chapter of the International Socialist Organization. There were teenage anti-capitalists with black bandannas over their faces marching alongside Muslim mothers wrapped in traditional headdress and pushing baby strollers. Other demonstrations are planned today and tomorrow near the Washington Monument grounds and outside the Washington Hilton, the site of a pro-Israel lobbying group's annual conference. District police said the crowds were larger than they had anticipated and put the number at about 75,000. Metro transit officials said ridership increased significantly yesterday, but estimates would not be available until today. Organizers of the Palestinian-rights rally at the Ellipse said the gathering was the largest demonstration for Palestine in U.S. history. "We are here because we want to do something, to send a message," said Amal K. David, a Palestinian American who made a 12-hour trip in a 21-bus caravan from the Detroit area to join the rally organized by International Answer, an antiwar, anti-racism coalition that shifted the theme of its protest as violence in the Middle East escalated. In tears, David spoke of the destruction that U.S.-financed Israeli weapons and tanks have done to Palestinians, saying: "My beloved country is financing such death and destruction. I am so ashamed." Many pro-Palestinian marchers said they learned of the march through their mosques. "All over the U.S., everybody got the word," said Issam Khalil of the Bronx, who traveled in a fleet of 50 buses from New York. Several downtown blocks away, thousands of other pro-Palestinian activists took to the streets for another march to free Palestine. The group was made up mostly of Arab Americans with relatives in the occupied territories and U.S. Jews opposed to the occupation. "The Palestinians here in the crowd look at us mistrustfully at first," said Rabbi Yisroel Weiss, 45, of New York. "But then they speak a few words with us, and they show us respect and friendship." Weiss traveled to Washington with several dozen Orthodox rabbis to join the march, which left the Washington Hilton, joined anti-globalization demonstrators outside the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and continued on the Capitol. He said his group favored dismantling Israel and returning it to the Palestinians. Buses carried Jewish supporters from Boston, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia, among other places. Organizers at the march privately urged participants to strike swastikas from their posters, but few complied. It was a running debate among many participants, though several swastikas appeared on signs in reference to Sharon by day's end. Walking down the sidewalk of Pennsylvania Avenue near the Justice Department as thousands filled the street, D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey praised the decorum of the demonstrations. "The organizers did an outstanding job," said Ramsey, baton in hand. "If it stays this way, it will be the best one we've ever had. . . . This is really what protest ought to be." By about 4 p.m., no major clashes had broken out between police and protesters. The events were a stark contrast to Washington demonstrations in April 2000, when protests against the World Bank and IMF led to a virtual shutdown of the downtown area and sparked clashes between police and demonstrators that ended in mass arrests. D.C. emergency officials said only two people were transported for medical treatment, though neither case was serious. Both were falls, one involving a police officer and the other involving a civilian. Ramsey said that in his view, yesterday's demonstrations went smoothly because organizers worked closely with police. At least three field marshals from the pro-Palestinian side negotiated with Ramsey, then barked instructions into their speaker-phones. Hani Ahmed, 16, of the District was one of them, and he was marching with a pro-Palestinian group that swelled the ranks of the anti-globalization forces across from the World Bank and the IMF. "That kid, he was only 16, and he was working so well with us. That was one of the things that made it work so well," Ramsey said. At one point, the parade got to Dupont Circle, and marchers wanted to go around the circle rather than through the tunnel, where their permit instructed them to go. Tashim Sallah, 45, of Buffalo told Ramsey and Executive Assistant Police Chief Terrance W. Gainer that he was worried that people would suffocate in the tunnel. Gainer grabbed his hand and said, "We're going down with you. There's no danger." The group followed Ramsey and Gainer into the tunnel and delighted in the cool shade and underground echo for their chants. That cooperation was in marked contrast to the first day of demonstrations, when more than three dozen bike-riding protesters were arrested downtown during a Friday evening action at rush hour. All of the 41 people arrested were released, a D.C. Superior Court official said. Yesterday, though, no incidents of that nature occurred. The only arrests came after most protesters had disbanded. Police arrested 24 adults and one juvenile who were found in a parking garage in the 1000 block of 13th Street NW. All were charged with unlawful entry, a misdemeanor, and police said they were scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow. Police said they collected backpacks, a riot helmet and a gas mask from the suspects, who were taken to the D.C. police academy in Southwest Washington. Members of the group who were not detained said the demonstrators were not sleeping in the garage, as police first said, but had parked two cars there for the day's protests. "They went back to the car to get food because they were tired," said Jacob, 23, who drove from Baltimore for the protests but would not give his last name. "We were going to leave to go home." Earlier, the day was marked only by little dramas on street-corner stages among the tangle of protesters, tourists, police and counter-demonstrators clogging downtown on a humid, sticky afternoon. The atmosphere was mostly civil and occasionally comedic, with brief flashes of arguments or hostility. About 1 p.m. at H and 16th streets NW, a small scuffle broke out between members of the New Black Panther Party and a man intent on disrupting them. A couple of dozen members of the party showed up at the anti-globalization rally wearing black masks and black military-style uniforms. They had swastikas and shouted anti-Jewish slogans. The scuffle amounted only to pushing and angry remarks before members of the crowd broke them up. A short time later, the Patriots Rally for America -- a collection of counter-demonstrators that opposed the United We March antiwar protesters with whom they shared the Washington Monument grounds -- had heated up and was getting protection from 10 police officers on horseback and 13 more on foot. At many points during the afternoon, D.C. police and federal authorities enveloped the marches and rallies with officers on foot and in cars, on horseback and on bicycles. But their presence was less dominating than in previous Washington demonstrations, and most officers were not outfitted in riot gear. More than a few were spotted at downtown intersections yawning or leaning on police gates. "That's the way we like it," Ramsey said. "They ought to be low-key. People have a constitutional right to protest." The effect of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators became evident when their smaller march joined anti-globalization forces outside the World Bank and IMF. The emotion of the Mideast conflict appeared to overpower issues of economic fairness, and many of the signs and chants called for freedom for Palestinians and the end of U.S. sponsorship of Israel. The Mobilization for Global Justice, which played a part in organizing the day's activities, acknowledged that the pro-Palestinian sentiment had overtaken its economic issues. "It seems more important to the safety of the world," said Mark Rickling, a Mobilization organizer. "But we're all united on the issues of oppression. I'm just floored by the amount of people here today." By afternoon, the more militant forces of the pro-Palestinian movement dominated, with swastikas and anti-Sharon and anti-Bush slogans and banners. Aside from handing out signs, organizers seemed to have taken care of nearly every need of protesters, in an ad-hoc way. One all-important telephone number -- 202-462-9627 -- was inked onto many arms; it's the number those arrested are to call. Legal support was being provided at the number by a local law collective, the National Lawyers Guild, and D.C.-based Partnership for Civil Justice. But yesterday, there were no confrontations or trouble during the marches. There was even day care, a service offered for many activist-parents by the Anti-Authoritarian Babysitters Club. A gentle rain started about 2:30 p.m. as marchers walked along Pennsylvania toward the Capitol, but the sun broke through about 3:15. By then, most marchers were at the east end of the Mall, and many had stopped to pray on the puddled ground. Next came speeches and music and, as the light faded, the protesters began drifting away, with only 100 or so still on the Mall as a light rain began to fall at dusk. � 2002 The Washington Post Company ------------------ Send replies to answer at action-mail.org This is the ANSWER activist announcement list. Anyone can subscribe by sending any message to To unsubscribe From tolsen at tusculum.edu Thu Apr 25 13:57:04 2002 From: tolsen at tusculum.edu (taimi olsen) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:57:04 -0400 Subject: [saymaListserv] Re: [ffmListserv] Fw: Peace Rallies References: <00b001c1eba3$2edb38c0$0500a8c0@oem> Message-ID: <3CC8436F.4CE95189@tusculum.edu> Friends, If you are interested, this talk is being held at Tusculum College in Greeneville (TN) in the student "Commons" building. (The college number is 636-7300) A talk by PEACE and SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVIST Clare Hanrahan 3:00 p.m. Monday, April 29 Niswonger 313 Clare was released on January 15, 2002 from Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia after surviving a six-month sentence for misdemeanor trespass on the grounds of the US Army base at Ft. Benning,Ga. In recent years Clare has acted on a particular concern about the U.S. Army School of the Americas, a counter-insurgency training school for Latin American military officers. She has been conscientiously opposed to paying for war since 1981 and lives intentionally with less income as a means of war tax resistance. She serves on the National Committee of the War Resisters League and is a member of the Women�s International League for Peace & Freedom.