From freepolazzo at comcast.net  Mon Oct 13 18:24:00 2003
From: freepolazzo at comcast.net (free polazzo)
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 18:24:00 -0400
Subject: [saymaListserv] Bogus Letters sup Writing Campaign Reported
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20031013181817.02fde108@POP.Business.Earthlink.net>

Hi Friends,

My son Justin sent me this link to a newspaper report about letters being 
sent to hometown newspapers across the country from US soldiers stationed 
in Iraq and they are ALL THE SAME LETTER!!!

See the link below.


> > 
> http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20031011/frontpage/121390_Printer.shtml


Free Polazzo
Anneewakee Creek Worship Group
Douglasville, GA


"In times of change, learners inherit the world, while the learned remain 
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer 
exists"  (Philosopher and author Eric Hoffer) 




From susan at read-the-bible.org  Tue Oct 14 08:09:42 2003
From: susan at read-the-bible.org (Susan Jeffers)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 07:09:42 -0500
Subject: [saymaListserv] Quaker Theological Discussion Group
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20031014070637.00bd5ea0@mail.read-the-bible.org>

Please announce in your Meetings -- it would be great to have a significant 
number of SAYMA Friends in attendance!

The Quaker Theological Discussion Group will meet in Atlanta, Friday 
evening November 21 and Saturday morning November 22.  The sessions are 
free and open to anyone interested; no advance registration is 
needed.  This year, our Friday evening session will feature reviews of 
Arthur Roberts' two new books, Exploring Heaven: What Great Christian 
Thinkers Tell Us About Our Afterlife with God, and Prayers at 
Twilight.  Saturday morning's program is titled "Martin Luther King, Jr. 
and the Quakers" and will include presentations and discussion.  For 
details, visit http://theo-discuss.quaker.org/.

In addition to the actual QTDG sessions, Steve Angell of the Earlham School 
of Religion will present and lead discussion at Atlanta Friends Meeting 
Sunday morning; Steve's topic will be "A Quaker Historian's Research on 
Atlanta's Bishop Henry McNeal Turner."

Susan Jeffers
Quaker Theological Discussion Group


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EMail: susan at read-the-bible.org
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From hblack at twlakes.net  Thu Oct 16 21:27:57 2003
From: hblack at twlakes.net (Hector Black)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:27:57 -0500
Subject: [saymaListserv] Fw: Fw: How to Make Friends & Influence People: US
 Soldiers Bulldoze Farmers' Crops]
Message-ID: <002001c3944e$259fb790$38da90cf@HECTOR>

I thought this would be of general interest.   Hector Black
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Johnston" <srj5 at earthlink.net>
To: "Blake Gentry" <guamap at theriver.com>; "Jeff" <jrcranial at earthlink.net>;
"Lee Ferguson" <lafever at sisna.com>; "Magdalena" <MCAIZ_apsa at yahoo.com>;
"fairfairorg" <fair at fair.org>; "President" <president at whitehouse.gov>;
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"Cook Jeanne" <JCookCook at aol.com>; "Fitzgerald Nina" <ninaf at redrock.net>;
"Fogarty Mark" <mark.fogarty at thomsonmedia.com>; "Horton Jane"
<hibite1 at bellsouth.net>; "Hutchison Callie" <c.hutchison at attbi.com>; "Jacobs
Kent and Cindy" <jacobskent at earthlink.net>; "Johnston Elizabeth"
<candel at hiwaay.net>; "Johnston Russell" <russell at sharpfour.net>; "Johnston
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"Tucson Arts Brigade" <ArtBrigade at aol.com>; "wallin shura"
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Walter" <pineboy at direcway.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 7:08 PM
Subject: [Fwd: Fw: How to Make Friends & Influence People: US Soldiers
Bulldoze Farmers' Crops]




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Fw: How to Make Friends & Influence People: US Soldiers
Bulldoze Farmers' Crops
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:48:55 -0700
From: "KEITH  SCHAEFFER" <kschaeff at theriver.com>
To: "Steve Johnston" <srj5 at earthlink.net>


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mid-Missouri Peaceworks" <peacewks at coin.org>
To: "Activist Contacts" <peacewks at coin.org>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 7:55 AM
Subject: How to Make Friends & Influence People: US Soldiers Bulldoze
Farmers' Crops


> Hello friends,
>
> U.S. occupation forces seem determined to turn Iraq into one giant West
> Bank; collective punishment, bulldozing orchards. What's next? maybe house
> demolitions?
>
> Please friends, keep raising voices against the insanity of this
occupation.
>
> Peace,
> Mark Haim
>
> Mid-Missouri Peaceworks
> 804-C E. Broadway
> Columbia, MO 65201
> 573-875-0539
>
> E-mail: peacewks at coin.org <mailto:peacewks at coin.org>
> Web site: http://peaceworks.missouri.org <http://peaceworks.missouri.org/>
>
> "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" --Thomas Jefferson
>
>
> Published on Sunday, October 12, 2003 by the lndependent/UK
> US Soldiers Bulldoze Farmers' Crops
> Americans accused of brutal 'punishment' tactics against villagers
> http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1012-01.htm
> by Patrick Cockburn in Dhuluaya
>
> US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have
> uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in
> central Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment of farmers
who
> do not give information about guerrillas attacking US troops.
>
> The stumps of palm trees, some 70 years old, protrude from the brown earth
> scoured by the bulldozers beside the road at Dhuluaya, a small town 50
miles
> north of Baghdad. Local women were yesterday busily bundling together the
> branches of the uprooted orange and lemon trees and carrying then back to
> their homes for firewood.
>
> Nusayef Jassim, one of 32 farmers who saw their fruit trees destroyed,
said:
> "They told us that the resistance fighters hide in our farms, but this is
> not true. They didn't capture anything. They didn't find any weapons."
>
> Other farmers said that US troops had told them, over a loudspeaker in
> Arabic, that the fruit groves were being bulldozed to punish the farmers
for
> not informing on the resistance which is very active in this Sunni Muslim
> district.
>
> "They made a sort of joke against us by playing jazz music while they were
> cutting down the trees," said one man. Ambushes of US troops have taken
> place around Dhuluaya. But Sheikh Hussein Ali Saleh al-Jabouri, a member
of
> a delegation that went to the nearby US base to ask for compensation for
the
> loss of the fruit trees, said American officers described what had
happened
> as "a punishment of local people because 'you know who is in the
resistance
> and do not tell us'." What the Israelis had done by way of collective
> punishment of Palestinians was now happening in Iraq, Sheikh Hussein
added.
>
> The destruction of the fruit trees took place in the second half of last
> month but, like much which happens in rural Iraq, word of what occurred
has
> only slowly filtered out. The destruction of crops took place along a
> kilometer-long stretch of road just after it passes over a bridge.
>
> Farmers say that 50 families lost their livelihoods, but a petition
> addressed to the coalition forces in Dhuluaya pleading in erratic English
> for compensation, lists only 32 people. The petition says: "Tens of poor
> families depend completely on earning their life on these orchards and now
> they became very poor and have nothing and waiting for hunger and death."
>
> The children of one woman who owned some fruit trees lay down in front of
a
> bulldozer but were dragged away, according to eyewitnesses who did not
want
> to give their names. They said that one American soldier broke down and
> cried during the operation. When a reporter from the newspaper Iraq Today
> attempted to take a photograph of the bulldozers at work a soldier grabbed
> his camera and tried to smash it. The same paper quotes Lt Col Springman,
a
> US commander in the region, as saying: "We asked the farmers several times
> to stop the attacks, or to tell us who was responsible, but the farmers
> didn't tell us."
>
> Informing US troops about the identity of their attackers would be
extremely
> dangerous in Iraqi villages, where most people are related and everyone
> knows each other. The farmers who lost their fruit trees all belong to the
> Khazraji tribe and are unlikely to give information about fellow tribesmen
> if they are, in fact, attacking US troops.
>
> Asked how much his lost orchard was worth, Nusayef Jassim said in a
> distraught voice: "It is as if someone cut off my hands and you asked me
how
> much my hands were worth."
>
> © 2003 lndependent Digital (UK) Ltd
>
>
>
>





From Evdavwes at aol.com  Sat Oct 18 09:52:25 2003
From: Evdavwes at aol.com (Evdavwes at aol.com)
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:52:25 EDT
Subject: [saymaListserv] Weekend Workshop with Vanessa Julye
Message-ID: <f4.324a2708.2cc29f99@aol.com>

To Friends in Asheville and surrounding areas,

You are invited to join Asheville Friends Meeting for 

A Weekend with Vanessa Julye.

October 31, 6-9 pm and November 1, 9-5, at Asheville Friends Meeting House, 
227 Edgewood Road in Asheville.

Vanessa is a Quaker minister from Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.  She 
has a special interest in the experiences of people of color within Friends.  
I have attached at the end of this email information from her web site, <A HREF="vanessajulye.quaker.org">
vanessajulye.quaker.org</A>.  Vanessa will be traveling with her husband Barry Scott as 
elder.

The fee for the workshop is $30.  There are unlimited scholarship funds for 
Friends from any Meeting to participate by paying what they choose.  We will 
collect the fee at the workshop-- no need to pay in advance.

The schedule for the weekend is as follows:

October 31 6 pm potluck dinner, followed by introductory session until about 
9 pm.

November 1, 9-5, with lunch break probably 12-2.  Brownbag lunch (bring your 
own).  Participants will be asked to bring some snacks to share with others.  
We will be in touch in the week before the workshop to confirm your 
registration and let you know what to bring.  Coffee and tea will be provided.

Please notify David Clements if you are interested in attending.  Call 
828-280-4431 or send an email to evdavwes at aol.com.  Because of the size of the 
Meeting House, we have to limit participants to 30.  We have about 20 as of this 
writing.  We may be able to arrange housing for those from out of town.  
Childcare will be offered if  requested by October 24.

In Peace,

David Clements, for the organizing committee:

Joan MacKenzie, Ursula Scott, Evan Richardson, Margaret Farmer, Mark Cobb, 
David Clements

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&


All About the Ministry of Vanessa Julye

Vanessa's journey has been to listen to members of the Religious Society of 
Friends, especially people of Color (past and present.)  She shares the 
experiences of people of Color with The Society of Friends to help Quakerism become a 
 whole blessed community.  A large part of her ministry is to hear that 
people of Color often do not feel welcomed and included in the Religious Society of 
Friends.  Vanessa's ministry involves a combination of visiting, writing, 
speaking, and traveling to provide witness and education.  She also provides 
leadership on a number of committees and concern groups in the wider Quaker 
community that have grown out of her ministry. Vanessa responds to requests for 
visits from Friends schools, organizations, yearly, quarterly and monthly 
meetings.  This ministry is well-rooted in the Quaker Testimony of Equality and is a 
concern that needs lifting up in the Religious Society of Friends at this time. 
 

The ministry has been tested over a period of eight years, and has gradually 
grown, not only as a result of Vanessa's inward leading, but as a response to 
her outward practice of visitations and other work. All indications are that 
there is a readiness for her ministry, an opening that seems of the Divine.

Called to do this work in 1994, one of the ways Vanessa started answering 
this call was by serving as the convener of a worship group for people of color 
at Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting 1996. She continues this work in the 
present, also providing pastoral care for individuals of color.  She clerked the 
Fellowship of Friends of African Descent from 1996 to 2002. In June 2000, she 
received a minute for religious service from her meeting, Central 
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (CPMM).  This minute has since been endorsed by Philadelphia 
Yearly Meeting's Interim Meeting.  

Vanessa has given numerous workshops and written several articles about her 
experience as a Friend of Color in the Religious Society of Friends.  These 
have been published in The Canadian Friend, CPMM's newsletter, FGC Connections, 
Friends Journal, Quaker Life and Westtown in Word and Deed.  Vanessa and her 
ministry were the focus of an article in the December 2000 issue of Essence 
Magazine (a popular magazine for African American women).  

She travels in the ministry to monthly meetings as a participant in Friends 
General Conference's Traveling Ministry Program.  Vanessa travels specifically 
sharing her concern about racism within the Religious Society of Friends and 
to nurture isolated Friends of Color.  Nurturing Friends of Color includes 
visits to meetings that have one or a few people of Color as members or attenders.

As a part of her ministry Vanessa is researching and co-writing a publication 
about the historical and present day relationship of Friends and people of 
African descent.  This book will include biographies of specific Friends of 
Color.  Unacknowledged racism in the Religious Society of Friends is one of the 
historical factors that make it difficult for African Americans to join and 
remain in our society.  

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From moriah at preferred.com  Wed Oct 22 14:06:35 2003
From: moriah at preferred.com (Mary Calhoun)
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:06:35 -0500
Subject: [saymaListserv] Fw: Couples Enrichment workshop
Message-ID: <01a101c398cc$b49c5340$b872fea9@Mary>

f/Friends,

This message was received at the SAYMA office.

^o^
\_/
Mary
AdminAsst at sayma.org
276-628-5852
POB 2191, Abingdon VA 24212-2191

----- Original Message ----- 
From: William Penn House 
To: Recipient list suppressed 
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 3:04 PM
Subject: Couples Enrichment workshop


William Penn House
515 East Capitol Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 543-5560          Fax (202) 543-3814
info at WmPennHouse.org      www.WmPennHouse.org


Couples Enrichment Workshop
November 21  23, 2003

You are invited to participate in a Couples Enrichment Workshop, hosted by William Penn House. The workshop is for couples in committed relationships.

There is overnight hospitality for 6 couples at William Penn House. For other couples who can not be accommodated at William Penn House, we will arrange hospitality elsewhere. Commuting couples are invited to participate.

Space is limited to 16 couples. If there is a need for more, we will schedule another workshop at a later date.

Facilitators are Rich and Joan Liversidge of Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting.

The cost for those staying at William Penn House will be $220 per couple. For those staying elsewhere the cost will be $100 per couple.
Registration deadline is November 12

Agenda


        Friday          7:00 to 9:30 PM  Orientation with dessert

        Saturday        7:30 AM         Worship
                        8:00 AM         Breakfast provided by William Penn House
                        9:00    AM to noon      Session one
                        Noon                    Cold cuts provided by William Penn House
                        1:oo to 6:00 PM Session two
                        6:00 PM         Dinner on Capitol Hill
                        7:30 PM         Session three

        Sunday  7:30 AM         Worship
                        8:00 AM         Breakfast
                        9:00 to noon            Final Session
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From moriah at preferred.com  Sun Oct 26 11:34:53 2003
From: moriah at preferred.com (Mary Calhoun)
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:34:53 -0600
Subject: [saymaListserv] IMP^o^ 160  Rep Meeting, all welcome!  
Message-ID: <010301c39bd6$e0d57ce0$b872fea9@Mary>

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
IMP ^o^ Bulletin 0NN
All welcome...
... at SAYMA's Rep Meetings
..............................................................
Next one: December 6 at Atlanta FM
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Please share with your meeting ~

<|>  Winter Representative Meeting will be held Saturday, December 6, at
10:00 am Eastern time, hosted by Atlanta (GA) Friends Meeting.

<|>  Each meeting and worship group is encouraged to send a Representative.
These f/Friends are important channels of two-way communication between
SAYMA and local meetings.  (Presently, SAYMA is comprised of 31 meetings and
worship groups; about two thirds of these groups count themselves as
"up-to-50" f/Friends.)

<|>  Any f/Friend may attend and participate; those gathered represent the
Yearly Meeting.  (Attending without "official" duties can be a delightful
chance for fellowship and taking part in Quaker process.)

<|>  "Representative [no s!] Meeting carries out the ongoing work of the
yearly meeting and acts in the name of the yearly meeting between sessions."
(A Guide to Our Faith and Our Practice)

<|>  "Our name ... in traditional Quaker language indicates that we meet
annually to conduct our business.  The yearly meeting, however, is a
cooperative association and exercises no authority, other than moral and
advisory, over any local meeting or individual Friend."  (Faith and
Practice)

<|>  SAYMA "... is organized ... to provide fellowship and a central
coordinating group of Friends ... through which individuals and Monthly
Meetings are nurtured, and whereby inspiration, spiritual revitalization,
mutual irradiation, exchange of ideas, comparison of problems, and
coordination of spiritual/religious efforts may be accomplished."  (from
"...Articles of SAYMA," an "approved operating description for ... legal and
other purposes.")

<|>  Registration packets will be mailed soon to f/Friends listed in the
SAYMA office as
        -- clerks/contacts for their meetings or worship groups
        -- SAYMA representatives
        -- members of Yearly Meeting Planning Committee,
                and the SAYMA Ministry & Nurture Committee
        -- clerks of SAYMA committees
        -- SAYMA clerks and treasurer
        -- SAYMA staff, web manager, and newsletter editors

<|>  Others wishing to attend may contact their clerk (or visit the web-site
www.sayma.org after registration materials have been mailed).


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