12 20 70359 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. AFGHANISTAN: Annan Wants End To Strikes Soon; More                            Citing the need to move in U.N. relief supplies as winter                            approaches, Secretary General Kofi Annan yesterday said he                            hopes the United States will halt its strikes on Afghanistan                            soon. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, October 31, 2001 9:04 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients X September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-discuss] UN calls for bomb halt Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-discuss] UN calls for bomb halt 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-10-31 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. AFGHANISTAN: Annan Wants End To Strikes Soon; More                            Citing the need to move in U.N. relief supplies as winter                            approaches, Secretary General Kofi Annan yesterday said he                            hopes the United States will halt its strikes on Afghanistan                            soon. _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, October 31, 2001 9:04 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients madpeace-discuss@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-discuss] UN calls for bomb halt Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-discuss] UN calls for bomb halt 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Sunday, November 11, 2001 12:11 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients madpeace-discuss@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-discuss] UN role for democratic Afghan govt urged Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-discuss] UN role for democratic Afghan govt urged 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. The following committees need to update their next meeting on the MAPC Meetings page: http://madpeace.org/Wiki/Meetings Media, Education & Outreach, Policy, Action, Communications I see that some of the committees are putting their meeting announcements on their committee pages, which is great, but don't forget to put it on the meetings page too. Furthermore, it's nice for the committees to put up their minutes so we all can see what's happening.  To do that you can make a new Wiki Page, but don't call it "Minutes" or "Oct17Minutes" because it is not clear which committee that is.  Instead try a name like ComOct17 or PolOct17 or something like that. Great to see people being active!  We need to spark up some discussion about our Nov. 17th Action.  It's not something for the action committee, it's a full mobilization of the MAPC.  What are each of the committees doing to participate?  As a member of the communications committee, I'm going to make this "Editable Page" (or Wiki Page) that the different committees and rogue individuals can centralize discussion: http://madpeace.org/Wiki/November17Action Peace, X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ X Email: X Phone: (XXX) XXX-XXXX Address: X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Thursday, November 01, 2001 2:48 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients discuss@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-discuss] Up Date the Meetings page Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-discuss] Up Date the Meetings page 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-11-01 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. That's the world federalist website, www.wfa.org, the statement I quoted the other day had the word "perhaps" as a compromise between hawks and doves in the association. "WFA is greatly troubled by the fact that innocent civilians were killed here in America on 9-11 and are now being killed in Afghanistan.  We work to make obsolete such crude, reactionary violence.  Since long before 9-11 we have advocated -- and made some important progress towards -- a global intelligence, law enforcement, and court system that would interdict such global criminals before they act, and then arrest and try in a court-of-law those who do manage to carry out such crimes.  Lacking such a structural solution, however, the hastily-formed coalition that has been cobbled together since 9-11 will at best achieve vigilantism (not justice) as it tries to get Bin Ladin dead or alive, killing many more innocents in the process.  Is such vigilantism better than nothing?  Perhaps. Regardless, WFA will continue the fight for real global security and justice. Terrorism is a complex persistent problem, and we need more than an ad-hoc coalition to fight it.  If President Bush and other American citizens sincerely want long-term global security, then we call upon them to join our cause." _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, November 07, 2001 8:44 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients madpeace-discuss@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-discuss] WFA.org Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-discuss] WFA.org 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Washington Post November 11, 2001 A Future Veiled in False Hopes By Nafisa Hoodbhoy Twelve years ago, I was astonished by what I found on a trip from my native Pakistan to Afghanistan. I couldn't have imagined a neighboring Muslim country with so many women in public places. Each morning, the Afghan capital was abuzz with young professionals on their way to work, most dressed in Western clothes and some even in miniskirts and high heels as they vied with their fashion-conscious counterparts in Paris. Kabul University, where I saw more female than male students, was another surprise. But even then, the occasional gunfire and bomb blasts in the city -- ruled by Soviet-supported President Najibullah -- were a reminder that these freedoms could prove elusive. Young women on campus, clutching their notepads in the streaming February sunlight, told me apprehensively, "If the mujaheddin take over, they will force us to veil." The encumbering full-lengthburqasthat women now have to wear have become a symbol for Westerners of the ruling Taliban government's oppressive policies. Even President Bush acknowledged as much last week when he condemned the current regime under which "women are imprisoned in their homes, and are denied access to basic health care and education." But it would be an oversimplification to imagine that simply ousting the Taliban will restore basic human rights to women there. Indeed, in its determination to use whatever means necessary to destroy Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, the administration is in danger of exacerbating the rivalries among Afghanistan's tribes, whose practices are shrouded in traditions few Americans comprehend. Even though there has been much talk in the West about how to establish a broad-based post-Taliban government that would guarantee the rights of women and ethnic minorities, the United Nations has not seriously begun addressing the role of women in any future form of government. If history is any guide, neither a government led by the exiled former king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, nor one dominated by the Northern Alliance would readily grant women freedom. Instead, the dramatic changes in women's fortunes over the past century are testimony to their fragile position in Afghanistan's oft-rent social fabric. I got a clear sense of that during my 1989 visit. Although many Afghan women I spoke with expressed trepidation about a takeover by Islamic fundamentalists, they could not have predicted how oppressive their lot would soon become. After all, they grew up in a relatively liberal Muslim society; many in Kabul and Kandahar had working mothers -- nurses and doctors, engineers, journalists, factory workers and, of course, teachers. Soviet forces had withdrawn from the country just two weeks before my arrival, and the question foremost on everyone's mind was whether the Soviet-backed Najibullah government would survive the onslaught by the Islamist radicals. As if anticipating his eventual death at the hands of Taliban fundamentalists, the embattled Najibullah was clearly taking no chances -- and he was even recruiting women to help him. At a training school in Kabul, I came across a female trainee reserve force engaged in combat exercises. They told me that their job was to arrest and hand over mujaheddin suspects to authorities. They knew full well what a formidable force the mujaheddin had become. With their most radical factions in Northern Pakistan, they were receiving millions of dollars' worth of arms from the United States, funneled through Pakistan's military ruler, all directed at the goal they would accomplish a few years later  -- removing Najibullah from power. I asked Afghan officials then whether such threats of future instability might put women's freedom on the line. The president of the Afghan Women's Council at the time, Massuma Esmaty Wardak, argued that, on the contrary, women's emancipation was deeply rooted in Afghan history. She pointed out that the country's most famous reformer, King Amanullah, who was inspired by Turkey's secular nation builder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, encouraged sweeping changes for women in the early 20th century. He introduced Western dress, she pointed out, sent girls to study abroad, banned the sale of women, raised the marriage age and abolished the tribal custom known as levirate (where a widow is obliged to marry her brother-in-law). What Wardak and others I talked to failed to mention was that King Amanullah was ousted in 1929, after a brief reign, when conservative tribesmen revolted against his liberal policies. Thereafter, King Zahir Shah, Afghanistan's longest-reigning monarch (1933-1973) -- whom the U.N. has now selected to head the post-Taliban government -- slowed down the changes for women. Yes, women came to enjoy greater liberation than in some other Muslim countries, but encouraging freedom also risked provoking a backlash from the conservatives. Ever since, the role of women has continued to reflect the volatile nature of Afghan society -- and of the dangers of trying to alter traditions by imposing outside standards on the people. The Soviet occupation that followed the bloody communist Saur Revolution in 1978 attempted to force top-down changes in Afghanistan. Peoples Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) workers fanned out into the villages to stop Afghans from selling their daughters and coerced the girls instead to go to school. Conservative tribesmen retaliated by murdering PDPA workers. These changes also triggered a vast exodus of Afghan tribes. Some 3 million Afghans fled the country. Many of those who grew up as orphans of war in Pakistan's refugee camps have become today's Taliban; others are that regime's fiercest critics. The most militant Islamist groups who resisted the Soviet influence banded together under mujaheddin leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in Peshawar, northern Pakistan. They objected fiercely to Muslim women not wearing the veil and to their working outside the home. Some of his supporters threw acid on women wearing Western dress in Kabul. When I interviewed Hekmatyar in Karachi in 1986, I was surprised to find a soft-spoken man who was fluent in English. But his supporters included Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami, the radical Islamist party that enforced gender segregation at Karachi University with acid attacks on female students. (This group has now given an ultimatum to the Pakistani government to stop supporting the U.S.-led anti-terrorist coalition or be overthrown.) Hekmatyar has refused to join the Northern Alliance now backed by the United States in its battle with the Taliban. But many other mujaheddin leaders are members of that alliance, and even less radical ones than Hekmatyar punish women who refuse to wear a burqa. The tribal beliefs in the submission of women go far beyond the Taliban. The stability that the Taliban offered when it snatched power from the warring mujaheddin in 1996 came at a further cost to women. Made up of ethnic Pashtuns, the Taliban enforced the strict Pashtunwali code of honor that requires women to be treated as the property of their men. The militia barredwomen from working in the professions. Without female teachers, schools soon closed. The Taliban issued a decree that forbade all girls from going to school. Women who organized the early protests against the ragtag militia were beaten back. Only two ways of earning a living were left open to them -- beggary and prostitution. Last week I spoke with two Afghan women who have been helping refugees as U.N. staff. They told of women's isolation, cowering in their houses behind darkened windows so that they cannot be seen from the street. Few can read. Many are depressed. Nafisa Nezam, who was in Northern Afghanistan until last month, said that the Taliban have "brought about a new interpretation of 'jihad' to mean fighting women who wear lipstick, nail polish and jewelry." Some have reputedly had their fingers cut off for painting their nails. There have been some brave voices of dissent. Afghan women in Pakistan have banded together as the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). The group's members told me in Islamabad in 1999 that they lived in mortal fear of being discovered. They know how the extremists treat women who dissent. RAWA's founding president, Meena, was murdered in 1987 -- allegedly by the mujaheddin -- for speaking out against the fundamentalists. About half of the 4 million or so people who fled Afghanistan over the past 20 years are women, and many of them would love to return to their home country once the Taliban is overthrown. Among them, Tahira Shairzai, a former schoolteacher in Kabul who now works in the United States, told me she favors the U.N. choice of an interim government headed by King Zahir Shah. The 86-year-old exiled monarch shares Pashtun ethnicity with the Taliban, but he is popular because he treated ethnic groups even-handedly during his 40-year rule of Afghanistan. Tahira also holds out hope that the Northern Alliance, which allows girls' schools to remain open in the area it controls, will take a positive attitude toward working women. However, the past behavior of the Alliance leaders offers little indication that women's rights will be taken seriously under the next regime. A mishmash of conservative and more moderate tribal leaders, the Alliance is united for the sole purpose of combating the Taliban. A recent meeting ofanti-Taliban leaders in Peshawar demonstrated that women's rights do not figure in their deliberations. What's more, as U.S. bombs hit civilians, the Pashtuns are becoming even more radicalized. The United States has had little success in wooing moderate Pashtuns away from the Taliban -- a move that the administration recognizes is necessary not only to win the current war but because Afghanistan's future stability depends upon cooperation among tribal factions. As the U.S. bombing continues, thousands of armed Pashtun tribesmen are gathering on the Pakistan-Afghan border to fight alongside the Taliban.Political analysts I have spoken with in Pakistan predict that even if the Taliban is routed, it will likely withdraw into the hills and fight the new government. Moreover, the Northern Alliance could plunge into internecine strife. So although there is no doubt in my mind that women will fare somewhat better if the Taliban is overthrown, I wonder what comes next. Unless there is a means of ensuring durable peace, women's rights do not have a fighting chance in Afghanistan. Nafisa Hoodbhoy, a journalist who worked for 16 years for Dawn newspaper in Karachi, Pakistan, taught as a Ford Fellow at Amherst College this year, with a focus on women and politics in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. © 2001 The Washington Post Company _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:53 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients discuss@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-discuss] What next for Afghan women? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-discuss] What next for Afghan women? 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. forwarded Xsubject=PleaseNoMoreMail From: Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory [mailto:toplab@toplab.org] Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 Subject: The Cost of Warfare: Some Useful Figures Headline: Lockheed-Martin wins $200bn fighter contract (Financial Times, October 26, 2001) The US Gross Domestic Product is $10,202.6 billion ($10,202,600,000,000 or $10.202 trillion) (1). The cost of those fighters is almost 2% (1.96%) of the entire US GDP. It is 5 times the annual operating budget of New York City ($40.586 billion)(2). The cost of those fighters is almost 10 times the GDP of Afghanistan ($21 billion) (3).It is almost equal to the entire GDP of Pakistan ($282 billion). It is 3.5 times higher than the GDP of Iraq ($57 billion). The cost of those fighters is more than one-fourth of the GDP of Canada ($774.7 billion). It equals almost one-fifth of the annual GDP of Brazil, Latin America's largest economy ($1.13 trillion). It exceeds one-fifth of the annual GDP of Mexico ($915 billion). It exceeds the GDP of all the countries of Central America combined ($128 billion). The cost of those fighters is more than 10% of the entire GDP of every country of Africa combined ($1.921 trillion). (1) US Bureau of Economic Analysis, September 28, 2001 (2) NYC budget for 2001; Analysis of the Mayor's Preliminary Budget for 2002: New York City Independent Budget Office (3) All foreign GDP figures from Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook 2001; figures for year 2000 Bill Koehnlein NY Transfer News _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. via http://www.kuro5hin.org/ http://insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=143236 [Rep. Ron]  Paul [of TX] confirms rumors circulating in Washington that this sweeping new law, with serious implications for each and every American, was not made available to members of Congress for review before the vote. "It's my understanding the bill wasn't printed before the vote at least I couldn't get it. They played all kinds of games, kept the House in session all night, and it was a very complicated bill. Maybe a handful of staffers actually read it, but the bill definitely was not available to members before the vote." ---------------- also... http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/11/14/83952/307 The President of the United States, having "determined that an extraordinary emergency exists" has signed an executive order which allows for secret trials, by military tribunals, of captured terrorists.  The trials could be held in the US or abroad, and there is to be no judicial review of the convictions or sentences.  The order was signed by President Bush in his capacity as the Commander in Chief. specifically: http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/nati onal/14DTEX.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ X ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, November 14, 2001 2:43 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients discuss@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-discuss] Who read PATRIOT? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-discuss] Who read PATRIOT? 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-11-14 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, November 16, 2001 CONTACT: X Wisconsin Green Party Opposes Patriot Bill The Wisconsin Green Party wishes to express its unequivocal opposition to current attempts to undermine civil liberties in the United States since the Sept. 11th attacks in New York and Washington. It's highly disturbing and downright dangerous that our own elected officials have now become so willing to compromise our nation's democratic freedoms in the supposed interest of waging war against global terrorism. Specifically, the Wisconsin Green Party strongly objects to the recently enacted Patriot Bill and related activities at both the state and federal level. Among these concerns are: 1.) The U.S. Attorney General assuming the power to incarcerate or detain non-citizens based on mere suspicion, and to deny re-admission to the U.S. of non-citizens (including lawful permanent residents) for exercising their free speech rights; 2.) Expansion of telephone and internet surveillance by federal law enforcement agencies in counter-terrorism investigations AND in routine criminal cases unrelated to terrorism with minimal judicial oversight; 3.) The WI Attorney General's "Domestic Security Plan" against "general terrorist threats" that enables judges to issue a 48 hour "temporary order" for wiretapping without any evidence beyond mere suspicion; 4.) Expanded "sneak and peak" searches of personal homes and offices by federal agents - without a warrant - for both counter-terrorism investigations AND in routine criminal cases unrelated to terrorism; 5.) The U.S. Bureau of Prisons decision that allows federal authorities to "eavesdrop" on private conversations between defendants and their lawyers as part of "counter-terrorism" activities in blatant violation of "attorney client privilege." 6.) The U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Secretary of State expanding their power to declare organizations "terrorist" and to block any non-citizen who belongs to such groups from (re)entering the country; 7.) The U.S. Attorney General reserving the right to use payment of membership dues to particular political groups determined to engage in or assist "terrorism" as sufficient criminal evidence for federal deportation; 8.) The CIA, FBI, and INS assuming broad "search and seizure" rights to private medical, financial, mental health, and educational records without having to show prior evidence of a crime and without a court order - this would include the power to subpoena customer databases from booksellers. Such court orders would be issued "ex parte" (ie. without any chance for legal objection) and the subject of the search falling under "gag rules" to not publicly disclose their investigation; 9.) The CIA, FBI, and INS being allowed to pursue coordinated large-scale investigations of citizens for "intelligence" purposes. These agencies would be allowed to supercede normal "probable cause" requirements. The CIA Director now has the unilateral power to identify priority targets for intelligence surveillance; 10.) The recent White House executive order creating U.S. military tribunals for trying and convicting those accused of "terrorist activities" both domestically and overseas. Such tribunals were last employed during WW II against suspected Nazi saboteurs; 11.) A broader vaguer definition of "terrorism" that would include a wide array of political activities currently protected under the First Amendment, violators being subject to enhanced penalties. In Wisconsin, this definition of "terrorism" now includes any crime "dangerous to life, limb or property;" 12.) Expansion and enforcement of various "patriotic" requirements for citizenship. In WI this includes mandated recital of the pledge and/or anthem in state public schools, proposed state-issued ID cards for voting, and draft registration as a prerequisite for employment within state higher educational institutions beginning in Feb. 2003. These measures have only exacerbated an already hostile fearful climate that is now stifling freedom of expression, freedom of movement, freedom of association and other political activities essential to a democracy. Nancy Oden, a Green Party activist was recently harassed by law enforcement agents at the Bangor, ME airport and was eventually denied travel. Greens in Hartford, CT were attacked, pepper-sprayed and arrested by police officers for peaceful protest activities. Even in WI, Greens and other social justice activists have not been safe. At UW-Madison, campus activists have noted increased police surveillance of one of their offices, while at UW- Stevens Point a student peace camp endured several nights of rightwing harassment and outright attacks (with fireworks, eggs, homemade bombs) before local police finally intervened. Throughout the nation several murders, hundreds of hate crimes and other racial profiling incidents, as well as over 1500 detentions of suspected "terrorists" have been reported since the Sept. 11th attacks. Such acts - whether instigated or tolerated by the state - are simply unacceptable in a free democratic society, and must be challenged. The Wisconsin Green Party urges all citizens to not be intimidated by these clearly illegitimate counter-terrorism measures and to continue to exercise their hard-won constitutional freedoms. Those who suffer violations of their civil liberties are encouraged to immediately publicize their experiences and contact the National Lawyers Guild, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and other legal advocacy groups for assistance. Furthermore, the Wisconsin Green Party pledges to support anyone who is willing to resist these unjust laws in a nonviolent manner. For further information: www.wigp.org September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Saturday, November 17, 2001 6:10 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients X September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. "WFA is greatly troubled by the fact that innocent civilians were killed here in America on 9-11 and are now being killed in Afghanistan.  We work to make obsolete such crude, reactionary violence.  Since long before 9-11 we have advocated -- and made some important progress towards -- a global intelligence, law enforcement, and court system that would interdict such global criminals before they act, and then arrest and try in a court-of-law those who do manage to carry out such crimes.  Lacking such a structural solution, however, the hastily-formed coalition that has been cobbled together since 9-11 will at best achieve vigilantism (not justice) as it tries to get Bin Ladin dead or alive, killing many more innocents in the process.  Is such vigilantism better than nothing?  Perhaps.  Regardless, WFA will continue the fight for real global security and justice.  Terrorism is a complex persistent problem, and we need more than an ad-hoc coalition to fight it.  If President Bush and other American citizens sincerely want long-term global security, then we call upon them to join our cause." _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. On Friday, November 16 at 12 noon-1 pm on WORT's A Public Affair, Zoltan Grossman will again have as his guest Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent of The Independent (London).  Fisk's war dispatches from Islamabad, Pakistan , can be seen at http://www.independent.co.uk . The interview will take place live from Beirut. Robert Fisk was the first western journalist to interview Osama Bin Laden, and one of the first to warn of the consequences of the West's tilt toward Islamist militants in the region.  Fisk's harsh assessment of the new/old rulers of Kabul, the Northern Alliance, can be seen below, as can a similar new statement from the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). Tune in to 89.9fm, and call 256-2001 on Friday to ask questions. ++++++++++++++++ Published on Tuesday, November 13, 2001 in the Independent/UK No Surprise at Rumors of New Atrocities by Our 'Foot-Soldiers' by Robert Fisk The Northern Alliance's sudden victories in Afghanistan may be good news for the West but the bad news is not far behind. The Uzbek, Tadjik and Hazara gunmen who make up this rag-tag army have a bloody reputation for torturing and executing prisoners which ? if resumed in the coming days ? will plunge America and Britain into a moral abyss. Chilling stories of more than 100 pro-Taliban Pakistani fighters shot dead after their surrender in Mazar-i-Sharif ? and of Alliance gunmen "roaming the streets'' of the abandoned city ? will not come as a surprise to those who are aware of the atrocities committed by America's new allies during the 1992-96 fighting in Kabul. For the Americans ? and for the minuscule British component of the West's military forces inside Afghanistan ? the behavior of the Northern Alliance presents a grave problem. As our "foot-soldiers" are in Afghanistan, we cannot disclaim responsibility for human rights abuses by the Alliance's gunmen; yet neither the Americans nor the British appear to have tried to control the army they are now helping. Indeed, it seems they may not even be able to prevent the Alliance from entering Kabul. The massacres committed by malicious fighting in the name of outside powers have regularly brought shame upon their more powerful allies. The Contras in Nicaragua and the Phalangist militiamen in Lebanon contaminated their respective American and Israeli masters ? the latter in the notorious Palestinian camp massacres of Sabra and Chatila in 1982. A glance at the Alliance's track record of rape, pillage and street executions in Kabul between 1992 and 1996 suggests that the so-called Allies ? America, Britain and just about anyone else who wants to join in ? have good reason to exert their influence over the newly victorious militiamen from the north of Afghanistan. In Mazar-i-Sharif and Herat there are comparatively few Pashtun communities, which traditionally favor the Taliban. A bit further south the Alliance will find itself among its ethnic enemies. In 1997, Mazar's Hazara defenders killed more than 600 Taliban militiamen who had taken over the city and then massacred dozens of Pakistani students who had accompanied the Taliban into the region. In later bloodbaths, thousands of Taliban prisoners were shot into mass graves, with dozens more Pakistanis. A Northern Alliance turncoat, General Pahlawan Malik, subsequently executed 2,000 Taliban prisoners of war who had been tortured and starved before being put to death. Many were drowned in wells. Others met a more carefully planned death. One of General Malik's generals recalled: "At night when it was quiet and dark we took about 150 Taliban prisoners, blindfolded them, tied their hands behind their backs and drove them in truck containers out to the desert. We lined them up 10 at a time, in front of holes in the ground, and opened fire. It took about six nights.'' On other occasions Taliban prisoners were locked inside containers in mid-summer; 1,250 were deliberately asphyxiated in this way, their corpses dragged from the containers, blackened by the heat. Could it happen again? There is no reason to believe the Alliance has been taking lessons in human rights. It has been receiving ammunition from Russia and logistics from the United States. Photographs in yesterday's Pakistani papers showed Alliance gunmen leading a small party of Western troops through the terrain of northern Afghanistan. But our soldiers are highly unlikely to have been distributing copies of the Geneva Convention to their new friends. ++++++++++ Robert Fisk: Our friends are killers, crooks and torturers 07 October 2001 The Independent (London) www.independent.co.uk Almost four weeks after the crimes against humanity in New York and Washington, we are playing politics on the hoof and allying ourselves to some of the nastiest butchers around. Mr Blair may believe that "the values we believe in should shine through what we do in Afghanistan" but few of our "friends" in the region have many values, and some of them have a lot of blood on their hands. For as we search for facilities and jumping-off points and air space and access -- and we are now creating policies by the day -- we are being asked to forget a lot of recent history. First out of the memory goes Chechnya. The savage repression of this Muslim republic -- complete with mass executions, mass rape and mass graves -- was the brainchild of Vladimir Putin, the former serving KGB officer into whose soul Mr Bush believes he peered in Slovenia. Mr Putin's assault on Grozny was timed to bring him the Russian presidency, and within weeks his indisciplined troops had turned the rubble of Chechnya into something approaching Afghanistan. Mr Putin now seems our strongest ally in the "war against terror". And why not, when he is himself such a master of terror? Second out of the memory goes the nasty little dictatorship run by the Saudi royal family whose religious "mouttawa" police taught the Taliban how to run their Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue. We should forget that women are not even allowed to drive a car in Saudi Arabia, we must ignore the weekly head-choppings outside mosques, the country's disgraceful and unfair judicial system -- everything, in fact, which might remind us of Saudi Arabia's carbon copy, the Taliban, whose destruction we are now seeking. Then we must turn our attention away from the not terribly democratic regime of General Pervez Musharraf. Only a little while ago, the general was the Pakistani army commander who overthrew the democratically elected -- though corrupt -- government of Nawaz Sharif. Indeed, General Musharraf was rather keen to hang Mr Sharif until President Clinton dropped by Islamabad early last year to condemn Osama bin Laden and appeal for Sharif's life. Only a few weeks ago, the general appointed himself president. And while the world tut-tutted then, it now respectfully accords General Musharraf the title of "president" too. Fourth down the memory hole goes our new friend Uzbekistan whose President Islam Karimov currently holds 7,000 political prisoners in his jails. There is no free press, no political opposition. Mikhail Ardzinov, one of the few human rights activists in Uzbekistan -- who was brutally beaten by Karimov's secret police two years ago -- now says that although America had promised not to sell out human rights to get Karimov's friendship, "We know that the tone will change now". Too true. Karimov has promised that his air space can be "used in the fight against terrorism for humanitarian and security aims". And this is not the moment to remind anyone that Uzbekistan has its own reasons to destroy the Taliban -- not just because the Taliban has been exporting its revolution over the Afghan-Uzbek border, but because President Karimov wants to run an oil pipeline through Afghanistan to a Pakistani port, a project that will help to fund his bankrupt police state (as well as a few American oil companies). One of Karimov's allies is the anti-Taliban war criminal Abdul Rashid Dustum whose men went on a rampage of rape in Kabul in the early Nineties and who, for several months, went to fight for the Taliban after receiving a massive bribe for his change of allegiance. So it's amnesia too for the anarchy and mass human rights abuses perpetrated when the Northern Alliance -- our friends in northern Afghanistan -- ruled Kabul. We must remember with sorrow its former leader, Ahmed Shah Massoud, a genuine patriot murdered by Arab suicide bombers on 9 September, but we must forget his colleague Rasoul Sayaf whose men used Shia women as sex slaves in the early Nineties. Now it's true that Churchill, when told in 1941 that Germany had invaded the Soviet Union and that Stalin was now his ally, announced that if Hitler invaded Hell, he would at least make "a favourable reference" to the Devil in the House of Commons. But we're not making any references at all to our "friends" in the region. We have drawn the shining bright sword and have no time to worry if the hands we shake are covered in blood. This is a war of democracy versus evil, according to President Bush. It's just that there's not an awful lot of democracy around. +++++++++++ >Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) >RAWA's appeal to the UN and World community > >The people of Afghanistan do not accept domination of the Northern >Alliance! > >Now it is confirmed that the Taliban have left Kabul and the Northern >Alliance has entered the city. > >The world should understand that the Northern Alliance is composed of some >bands who did show their real criminal and inhuman nature when they were >ruling Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996. > >The retreat of the terrorist Taliban from Kabul is a positive development, >but entering of the rapist and looter NA in the city is nothing but a >dreadful and shocking news for about 2 million residents of Kabul whose >wounds of the years 1992-96 have not healed yet. > >Thousands of people who fled Kabul during the past two months were saying >that they feared coming to power of the NA in Kabul much more than being >scared by the US bombing. > >The Taliban and Al-Qaeda will be eliminated, but the existence of the NA as >a military force would shatter the joyful dream of the majority for an >Afghanistan free from the odious chains of barbaric Taliban. The NA will >horribly intensify the ethnic and religious conflicts and will never >refrain >to fan the fire of another brutal and endless civil war in order to retain >in power. The terrible news of looting and inhuman massacre of the captured >Taliban or their foreign accomplices in Mazar-e-Sharif in past few days >speaks for itself. > >Though the NA has learned how to pose sometimes before the West as >"democratic" and even supporter of women's rights, but in fact they have >not >at all changed, as a leopard cannot change its spots. > >RAWA has already documented heinous crimes of the NA. Time is running out. >RAWA on its own part appeals to the UN and world community as a whole to >pay >urgent and considerable heed to the recent developments in our ill-fated >Afghanistan before it is too late. > >We would like to emphatically ask the UN to send its effective >peace-keeping >force into the country before the NA can repeat the unforgettable crimes >they committed in the said years. > >The UN should withdraw its recognition to the so-called Islamic government >headed by Rabbani and help the establishment of a broad-based government >based on the democratic values. > >RAWA's call stems from the aspirations of the vast majority of the people >of >Afghanistan. > >Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) > _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. I have mixed feelings about this approach.  What do you think? >  Only Poetry Can Address Grief: >  Moving Forward after 911 >  By X > > >  In the middle of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence march in >Washington DC last month, I found myself nose to nose with a line of >police attempting to push the crowd back.  I was facing an angry but >very short policewoman so in my case it was actually nightstick to >bosom. "Get back, get back!" she was shouting, but our line was not >giving ground.  I explained to her, calmly and I thought, quite >reasonably, that we were not going to get back, because there was >nowhere for us to go. I think of that moment now as a metaphor for >where what I like to call the Global Justice movement is today.  We >are facing an array of forces telling us to get back, to disperse, >to leave the scene.  The forces of the state, the media, all the >powers that support global corporate capitalism would like to see us >go away. > >  But we have nowhere to go. > >  We have nowhere to go because the conditions we have been fighting >have not gone away.  The disparity between rich and poor has not >grown less, the attempts of the corporate powers to consolidate >their hegemony have not ceased, the environment has not miraculously >repaired itself, and our economic and social systems have not >suddenly become sustainable.   We're on the Titanic; our efforts to >turn the course of the ship have just been hijacked, and we're >churning full steam ahead into the iceberg. > >  We don't have the luxury of defraying action to a more favorable >moment.  We need the movement to keep moving forward. How do we do >that in the face of increased repression and much potential public >opposition? > >  I.  Stand our ground: > >  First, we don't panic, and we stand our ground.  Fear is running >rampant at the moment, and every effort is being made by the >authorities to increase and play upon that fear.  While the general >public may fear more terrorist attacks, we in the movement are >equally or more afraid of what our governments may do in restricting >civil liberties and targeting dissent.  But either way, fear is the >authorities' greatest weapon of social control.  When we are in a >state of fear, we're not taking in information, we're unable to >clearly see or assess a situation, and we make bad decisions.  We're >more easily controlled. > >  We can learn to recognize fear, in our own bodies, in our meetings, >in our interactions.  When fear is present, just stop for a moment, >take a deep breath, and consciously set it aside.  Then ask, 'What >would we do in this situation if we weren't afraid?'  From that >perspective, we can make choices based on reasonable caution but >also on vision. > >  II.  Acknowledge the grief: > >  911 threw us as collectively into a deep well of grief.  We have >had to face the awful power of death to intrude on our lives, to >sear us with pain and loss, to reorder all our priorities and >disrupt all our plans, to remind us that we walk the world in >vulnerable, mortal flesh. > >  The political task that faces us is to speak to the depth of that >grief, not to gloss it over or trivialize it or use it to further >stale agendas.  If we simply shout at people over bullhorns, >recycling the politics, the slogans, the language of the sixties, we >will fail.  The movement we need to build now, the potential for >transformation that might arise out of this tragedy, must speak to >the heart of the pain we share across political lines. > >  A great hole torn has been torn out of the heart of the world. >What we need now is not to close over the wound, but to dare to >stare more deeply into it. > >  To comprehend that grief, we must look at the possibility that it >was present within us before the 11th, that the violence and death >of that day released a flood tide of latent mourning.  On one level, >yes, we mourned for the victims and their families, for the >destruction of familiar places and the disruption of the patterns of >our lives.  But on a deeper level, perhaps many of us were already >mourning, consciously or not, the lack of connection and community >in the society that built those towers, the separation from nature >that they embodied, the diminishment of the wild, the closing off of >possibilities and the narrowing of our life spaces.  This frozen >grief, transmuted into rage, has fueled our movements, but we are >not the only ones to feel it. > >  With the grief also comes a fear more profound than even the terror >caused by the attack itself.  For those towers represented human >triumph over nature.  Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they >were the Titanic of our day.  For them to burn and fall so quickly >means that the whole superstructure we depend upon to mitigate >nature and assure our comfort and safety could fall.  And without it >most of us do not know how to survive. > >  We know, in our bones, that our technologies and economies are >unsustainable, that nature is stronger than we are, that we cannot >tamper with the very life systems of the earth without costs, and >that we are creating such despair in the world that it must >inevitably crack open, weep and rage.  The towers falling were an >icon of an upcoming reckoning we dread but secretly anticipate. > >  The movement we need to build now must speak to the full weight of >the loss, of the fear, and yet hold out hope.  We must admit the >existence of great forces of chaos and uncertainty, and yet maintain >that out of chaos can come destruction, but also creativity. > >  III.  Develop a new political language: > >  Faced with the profundity of loss, with the stark reality of death, >we find words inadequate.  "What do I say to someone who just lost >his brother in the towers?" a hard core New York activist asks me. >"How do I talk to him?" > >  The language of abstraction doesn't work.  Ideology doesn't work. >Judgment and hectoring and shaming and blaming cannot truly touch >the depth of that loss. Only poetry can address grief. Only words >that convey what we can see and smell and taste and touch of life, >can move us. > >  To do that we need to forge a new language of both the word and the >deed.  We on the Left can be as devoted to certain words and >political forms as any Catholic was ever attached to the Latin Mass. >We incant "imperialism" or "anti-capitalist" or "non-violence" or >even "peace" with an almost religious fervor, as if the words alone >could strike blows in the struggle. > >    Those words are useful, and meaningful.  But they're like the >cliché that the bad poet turns to.  They are the easy first answer >that relieves us of the work of real expression. > >  Lately I'm hearing some of my most political friends say, "I can't >go to another rally.  I can't stand hearing one more person tell me >in angry tones what the answers are." > >  What if we stopped in the middle of our rallies and said, "But you >know, these issues are complex, and many of us have mixed feelings, >and let's take some time for all the people here to talk to each >other instead of listening to more speeches." > >  If we could admit to some of our own ambiguities, we might also >find that we are closer than we think to that supposed overwhelming >majority of war supporters, who in reality may have deeply mixed >feelings of their own. > >  IV.  Propose our own alternative to Bush's war: > >  Defining the September attacks as an act of war rather than a >criminal act has only dignified the perpetrators.  Going to war has >turned us into Bin Laden's recruiting agency, rapidly alienating the >entire Muslim world.  Bombing Afghanistan has made us look like >thugs to the Muslim world, (and to everyone else with a heart and >sense) and bred thousands of new potential ready-to-die enemies. >The bombing, by preventing relief trucks from delivering serious >food supplies before winter, now threatens to impose starvation on >up to seven million Afghanis. > >  In spite of what the polls and the media tell us, I don't >necessarily believe that the bulk of the U.S. population is frothing >at the mouth with eagerness for Afghani blood. The phrase I keep >hearing is a plaintive "We need to do something."   Bush's program >is the only one laid out for us.  The attacks are real, and >devastating; simply calling for 'peace' and singing "Where Have All >the Flowers Gone?" does not address their seriousness.  If we oppose >Bush's war, we need a clear alternative. > >  Diplomacy does not mean weakness.  It means being smarter than the >opposition, not just better armed.  Diplomacy also does not mean >simply issuing ultimatums backed by bombs.  It means actually >understanding something of the culture of the people you're >negotiating with.  It means actually negotiating, offering a carrot >as well as a stick, being willing to let the other side come out >with something less than total humiliation.  If the goal of the war >is truly to get Bin Laden, well, the Taliban just offered to deliver >him to a third country. > >  This could be a moment to switch our policy, to negotiate, to work >with and strengthen international institutions and the U.N., to >begin to deliver massive and meaningful humanitarian aid to the >region.  Any or all of those acts would increase our long term >security far more than our present course. > >  V.  Expose the real aims of the war: > >  We have about as much chance of doing any of the above as I have of >being offered a post in the current Administration.  All the >indications are that Bush wants a war, to establish U.S. hegemony in >Central Asia and the East, to forestall an Asian alliance that might >oppose our vested interests with interests of their own, to take >control of rich oil resources of Central Asia and provide a safe >passage for an oil pipeline across Afghanistan, to deflect from the >illegitimacy of his own presidency, to implement the entire right >wing agenda.  We need to continue educating the public about those >aims and about the real consequences of the war.  To do that, we >need to talk to people-not just at rallies and teach-ins, but in our >neighborhoods, our workplaces, our schools, on the bus, in the >street, on talk shows, with our families.  It can be easier to march >into a line of riot cops than to voice an unpopular opinion where we >live, but we've got to do it and to learn to do it calmly and >effectively. > >  And while we're talking about the war, we need to make the >connections to the broader issues we were working on before the >eleventh of September.  The war can be an opening to challenge >racism, and to spotlight the U.S.'s historic role of training, >arming, and supporting terrorists-including Bin Laden and the >Taliban in previous years. In an age of terrorism, does an economy >entirely dependent on oil-based long distance transport really make >sense? (Especially as it didn't make sense before, but never mind >that.) The Anthrax scares are a perfect opportunity to push for true >domestic security in the form of a well-funded, functioning public >health system, availability of hospital beds and medical care, >support for local food producers, development of alternative energy >resources, etc.  The right wing has used the attacks and the war to >justify their agenda, but with a little political jujitsu we can >redraw their picture of reality. > >  VI.  Develop our vision: > >  Despair breeds fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism. > >  A world of truly shared abundance would be a safer world. > >  The policies of global corporate capitalism have not brought us >that world.  They've been tried-and found wanting.  We need to >replace them with our own vision. > >  The global justice movement has often been accused of not knowing >what it wants.  In reality, we know clearly the broad outlines of >what we want even though we have a multiplicity of ideas of how to >get there.  I can lay it out for you in five short paragraphs: > >  We want enterprises to be rooted in communities and responsible to >communities and to future generations.  We want producers to be >accountable for the true social and ecological costs of what they >produce. > >  We say there is a commons that needs to be protected, that there >are resources that are too vital to life, too precious or sacred to >be exploited for the profit of the few, including those things that >sustain life:  water, traditional lands and productive farmland, the >collective heritage of ecological and genetic diversity, the earth's >climate, the habitats of rare species and of endangered human >cultures, sacred places, and our collective cultural and >intellectual knowledge. > >  We say that those who labor are entitled, as a bare minimum, to >safety, to just compensation that allows for life, hope and dignity, >and to have the power to determine the conditions of their work. > >  We say that as humans we have a collective responsibility for the >well being of others, that life is fraught with uncertainty, bad >luck, injury, disease, and loss, and that we need to help each other >bear those losses, provide generously and graciously the means for >all to have food, clothing, shelter, health care, education, and the >possibility to realize their dreams and aspirations.  Only then will >we have true security. > >  We say that democracy means people having a voice in the decisions >that affect them, including economic decisions. > >  VII.  Develop our strategy: > >  We might begin by acknowledging that we have had a highly >successful strategy for the past two years.  Since Seattle, what >we've done is to oppose every summit, as a means of focusing >attention on the institutions of globalization that were functioning >essentially in secret, and delegitimizing them.  Systems fall when >they hit a crisis of legitimacy, when they can no longer inspire >faith and command compliance.  Our strategy should continue to work >toward creating that crisis for the institutions of global corporate >capitalism.  In the meantime, in spite of all appearances the >government may already be creating that crisis for itself.  For >ultimately, nothing delegitimizes a government faster than not being >able to provide for the physical or economic security of its people. > >  Now our strategy needs to broaden and become more complex. > >  Contest the summits when and where we can, but perhaps with some >new tactics that clearly embody the alternatives we represent. > >  Turn more of our attention to local organizing, bringing the global >issues home and making organizing and activism an ongoing, sustained >process.  And find ways to make that process as juicy and exciting >as some of the big, global actions. > >  Find ways to link local issues and actions regionally and globally. > >  Start to build the alternatives:  alternative economic enterprises >on new models, directly democratic systems of governance such as >neighborhood or watershed councils or town meetings, everything from >alternative energy co-operatives to community gardens to local >currencies.  Look for ways to let those alternatives delegitimize >the status quo. > >  VIII.  Organize openly: > >  In times of increasing repression, the strongest way to resist is >not to hide, but to become even more open in our organizing and our >communications.  The more out there we are, the harder we'll be to >brand as terrorists.  The more faces they photograph at rallies and >marches, the less meaningful any single face will be.  The more >information they collect, the less they'll be able to collate, >analyze and make sense of it all.  And if they read my email-they're >welcome to read my email.  Somebody ought to, and I don't have time >to read it all myself.  Maybe I could pay one of them a small extra >fee to sort it for me and send me a summary of the high points. > >  Security culture either has to be so good you can outspook the CIA, >or it simply makes you look like you have something to hide and >attracts the attention of the authorities.  And it makes it >extremely difficult to mobilize, educate and inspire people.  Yes, >there are actions that depend on surprise, but with a little >cleverness we can figure out how to do that in a basically open >setting.  "And tonight, each affinity group spoke receives a sealed >envelope-open it at five A.M. tomorrow and it will give you two >alternative beginning points for your march.  Flip a coin to decide >which one to go to" > >  IX.  Make our actions count: > >  Political action may well become more costly in the next months and >years.  That simply means we need to be more clear and thoughtful in >planning and carrying out our actions.  Most of us are willing to >take risks in this work and to make sacrifices if necessary, but no >one wants to sacrifice for something meaningless or stupid.  We can >no longer afford vaguely planned, ill considered actions that don't >accomplish anything-and believe me, I've done more than my fair >share of them. > >  We should never carry out an action that involves significant >risks, unless the following five points are addressed: > >  1.  We know what our intention is-are we trying to raise public >awareness, delegitimize an institution, influence an individual, end >an immediate wrong? > >  2.  We have a clear objective and know what it is--are we trying to >close down a meeting, deliver a petition, pressure an official to >meet with us, provide a service?  What are we trying to communicate, >to whom, and how?  What would victory look like? > >  3.  We make sure the acts we take, the symbols we use, the focus we >choose and the tactics we use reflect our intentions and objectives. >We resist the temptation to do extraneous things that might detract >from our focus. > >  4.  We have an exit strategy.  How are we going to end the action? >How are we going to get out once we get in? > >  5.  We have ongoing support lined up for afterwards-legal, medical, >political support, people willing to offer solidarity if needed. > >  X.  Use tactics that fit the new strategy and situation: > >  All of us are rethinking our tactics in the light of the current >situation.  We often argue tactics on the grounds of morality-is it >right or wrong, violent or nonviolent, to throw a tear gas canister >back into a line of police?  To break a window?  We might do better >to ask, "Do these particular tactics support our goals and >objectives," and "Are they actually working?" > >  Those who advocate highly confrontational tactics, such as property >damage and fighting the cops, are generally trying to strike blows >against the system.  But at the moment, the system has been struck >harder than we could have imagined, and is reeling toward fascism, >not liberation.  In the present climate, such tactics are most >likely to backfire and confirm the system's legitimacy. > >  Many classic nonviolent tactics are designed to heighten the >contrast between us and them, to claim the high moral ground and >point out the violence of the system.  But many of those tactics no >longer function in the same way. Static, passive tactics become >boring and disempowering.  Symbolic, cross-the-line arrests don't >seem to impress the public with our nobility and dedication any >more, even when they are noticed at all.  Mass arrests may be used >to justify police violence, even when the arrestees were completely >peaceful.  When the police cooperate in making the arrest easy and >low risk, the process confirms rather than challenges the power of >the state.  When they don't, even symbolic actions are costing >heavily in jail time or probation.  The price may well be worth it, >but there's only so many times in a lifetime we can pay it, so our >choices need to be thoughtful and strategic. > >  We need a new vocabulary of tactics, that can be empowering, >visionary, confrontational without reading as proto-terrorist, and >that work toward a crisis of legitimacy for the system.  We also >need tactics and actions that prefigure the world we want to create, >but that do so in a way that has some edge and bite to it. > >  Here are a few we are already using that could be further developed: > >  Mobile, fluid street tactics:  Groups like Art and Revolution, >Reclaim the Streets, the Pink Blocs of Prague and Genoa and the >Living River in Quebec have brought art, dance, drums, creativity >and mobility to street actions, and developed mobile and fluid >street tactics.  Such actions are focused not on getting arrested >(although that may be a consequence of the actions) nor on >confrontations with the cops, but on accomplishing an objective: >claiming a space and redefining it; disrupting business as usual, >etc., while embodying the joy of the revolution we are trying to >make. In Toronto on October 16, snake dancing columns of people >managed to disrupt the financial district in spite of a very tense >police presence.  The Pink Bloc has snake danced through police >lines.  The Pagan Cluster in Quebec City and DC was able to perform >street rituals in the midst of dangerous situations, in ways that >allowed participation by people with widely varying needs around >safety.  The Fogtown Action Avengers in San Francisco combined an >open, public ritual which distracted the police from a surprise >disruption of the stock exchange carried out by an affinity group >dressed as Robin Hood. > >  Claiming space:  Reclaim the Streets takes an intersection, moves >in a sound system and couches, and throws a party.  A Temporary >Autonomous Zone is a space we take over and then exemplify the world >we want to live in, with free food, healing, popular education, a >Truly Free Market where goods are given away or traded, workshops, >conversations, sports, theater. > >  Street services and alternative services:  Groups like Food Not >Bombs have been directly feeding the homeless for decades.  One of >the most successful direct actions I've ever been involved with was >a group called Prevention Point that pioneered street based needle >exchanges for drug users to prevent the spread of AIDS.  In DC in >September, during the Anti-Capitalist Convergence's Temporary >Autonomous Zone and during the Sunday peace march rally, the Pagan >Cluster set up an Emotional Healing Space that offered informal >counseling, massage, food, water and hands-on healing.  The >IndyMedia Centers provide alternative news coverage and a powerful >challenge to corporate media.  The medical and legal services we >provide during an action could be expanded.  Guerilla gardeners >could be mobilized in new ways.  Imagine a convergence that left a >community transformed by community gardens, with toxic sites >healing, worm farms thriving, and streets lined with fruit trees. > >  Popular education:  One of the values of mass convergences has been >the education and training we've been able to provide for each >other, from teach-ins on the global economy to climbing instruction. >Almost every Summit has had its CounterSummit.  Most of these have >followed the rough format of an academic conference, with presenters >talking to an audience or facilitating a discussion.  But many more >interactive and creative ways of teaching and learning could be >brought into them: role plays, story-telling circles, councils.  We >could hold a giant simulation of a meeting, with people role playing >delegations and grappling with the issues on the table, but from the >starting point of our own values. > >  People are hungry to talk about the war, about their fears and >beliefs and opinions. The Zapatistas give us the example of the >Consulta-a process of going out to the people to both listen to >concerns and mobilize. We might halt the speeches at a rally for ten >minutes to let people talk to each other.  Or do away with the >speeches altogether, and instead ask groups to facilitate >smaller-group discussions on their issues and tactics, run short >training sessions, offer games or dances or rituals.  And we could >develop ways to create instant Public Conversations as actions and >as education.  Caravans can bring discussion and education out of >the urban centers, and could embody alternative energies and >possibilities, running their vehicles on vegetable oil, bringing >solar panels to power sound systems. > >  These are just a few ideas that can stimulate our thinking and >awaken our creativity. > >  XI.  Renew our spirits: > >  These are hard times.  Many of us have been working intensely for a >long time and are now seeing the possibility of our hard won >political gains being swept away.  Fear and loss surround us, and >many forces are at work trying to make us feel isolated, >marginalized and disempowered.  At best, the work ahead of us seems >overwhelming. > >  If we are going to sustain this work and regain our momentum, we >need to allow ourselves time to rest, to go to those places we are >working so hard to save and be open to their beauty, to receive >support and love from the communities we are working for.  We need >to nurture our relationships with each other, to offer not just >political solidarity but personal warmth and caring.  Death and loss >rearrange our priorities, teach us how much we need each other, and >make it easier to drop some of the petty things that interfere with >our true connections. > >  Many activists mistrust religion and spirituality, often for good >reasons.  But each of us is in this work because something is sacred >to us-sacred in the sense that it means more than our comfort or >convenience, that it determines all of our other values, that we are >willing to risk ourselves in its service.  It might not be a God, >Goddess or deity, but rather a belief in freedom, the feeling we get >when we stand under a redwood tree or watch a bird winging across >the sky, a commitment to truth or to a child.  Whatever it is, it >can feed and nurture us as well.  For activists who have some form >of identified spiritual practice, now is a good time to seriously >practice it.  For those who don't, it might still be worth taking >time to ask yourself, "Why do I do this work?  What is most >important to me?  What does feed me?" > >  The answer might be grand and noble, or it might be small and >ordinary, hip hop or sidewalk chalk.  Whatever it is, make it a >priority.  Do it daily, if you can, or at least regularly.  Bring it >into actions with you.  Let it renew your energy when you're down. >We need you in this struggle for the long haul, and taking care of >yourself is a way of preserving one of the movement's precious >resources. > >  The goal of terrorists, whether of the freelance or the state >variety, is to fill all our mental and emotional space with fear, >rage, powerlessness and despair, to cut us off from the sources of >life and hope.  Violence and fear can make us shut down to the >things and beings that we love.  When we do, we wither and die. >When we consciously open ourselves to the beauty of the world, when >we choose to love another tenuous and fragile being, we commit an >act of liberation as courageous and radical as any foray into the >tear gas. > >  There is nowhere left to go, but forward.  If we hold onto hope and >vision, if we dare to walk with courage and to act in the service of >what we love, the barriers holding us back will give way, as the >police eventually did in our Washington march.  The new road is >unmarked and unmapped.  It feels unfamiliar, but exhilarating; >dangerous, but free.  We were born to blaze this trail, and the >great powers of life and creativity march with us toward a viable >future. > > >  X >  (This copyright notice protects me, as this piece will be published >in Spring '02  in a collection of my writings called Webs of Power: >Notes from the Global Uprising.   But please feel free to forward >this, reprint it, translate it, post it or reproduce it for >nonprofit uses.) _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Hi all, just a reminder to meet at 6 pm at Wilmar before the meeting Tues. X, thanks for your message - bringing hard copies for the resolution is a great idea.  X said she will post it on "discuss" for review, which people can subscribe to through the madpeace website. If anyone can come before 6 pm, I will be there and will be setting up chairs for the general meeting.  It would be great to have some helpers for that! Sarah _______________________________________________ policy@madpeace.org http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-policy September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Monday, October 29, 2001 10:29 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients policy@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. madpeace-policy-admin@madpeace.org September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-policy] (no subject) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, October 31, 2001 10:47 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients X September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Hi all, just a reminder to meet at 6 pm at Wilmar before the meeting Tues. X, thanks for your message - bringing hard copies for the resolution is a great idea.  X said she will post it on "discuss" for review, which people can subscribe to through the madpeace website. If anyone can come before 6 pm, I will be there and will be setting up chairs for the general meeting.  It would be great to have some helpers for that! X September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Monday, October 29, 2001 10:29 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients X September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-policy] (no subject) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-policy] (no subject) 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-10-29 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Hi all, I hope you receive this before tonight's meeting.  what do you think? Write back and, if not, perhaps we can talk tonight a bit before tthe meeting or before it comes up on the agenda. From: "X" <bvedder@terracom.net> To: "Olson" <district6@council.ci.madison.wi.us> Subject: Peace/humanitarian aid resolution Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:57:34 -0500 Message-ID: <3BF1A55E.D51D0D2D@terracom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Accept-Language: en X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X, I've been attempting to contact some alder-folk along with the MAPC Policy Committee, which incliudes X who I know got ahold of you. I'm delighted that you're happy/eager to cosponsor the resolution. I also would like to change the wording of the last "Be it furtther Resolved" phrase and we'll have that for all of you by tonight at the end of our MAPC meeting, which will most probably be over before your Budget meeting...which brings me to the part that's different from what you & Diane discussed--the timing. I believe itt's crucially important to have the resolution voted on at the next November 20 meeting and not be put off until two weeks later, December 4. I had suggested earlier that the Policy Committee have it introduced already "By Title Only" for your last CC meeting, but I guess that didn't happen--the timing was tight then for them. However, it still can get to the Clerk's office by 9am tomorrow AM and be voted on at your next meeting of Nov. 20 --after all, it certainly doesn't need to and shouldn't be referred to any committees. I feel this strongly as do others on MAPC simply because the bombing will continue those two weeks longer, all tthe more civilians will be killed during that time while humanitarian aid won't be addressed in a timely fashion either. On the other hand, alders, as well as the Mayor, will havetime to read the resolution over the weekend and they'll be getting email and phone calls from their constituencies during that time. Also, December 4 will already pass the timeline humanitarian groups have put on needing to start land convoys of aid. I know Todd J will be bringing copies of the resolution, plus a substitute which others who are more more reluctant could sign on to as cosponsors if you don';t think you'll pass it. You all can figure out your own stategy regarding whether you have a substitute or not; but if you do, I would suggest not to have it introduced tomorow morning or passed out the night of the meeting, but could be put in alders' boxes enough ahead of time. (And perhaps you'll have enuf votes and won't want tto do the substitute-- it's there just as a possibility for others as you all figure out the votes.) I know Brenda also is willing to cosponsor this with Todd and yourself, but I'm not sure about others. X September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tuesday, November 13, 2001 5:06 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients policy@madpeace.org; X,X September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-policy] [Fwd: Peace/humanitarian aid resolution] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-policy] [Fwd: Peace/humanitarian aid resolution] 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end.                     ~~~ please forward this widely ~~~ *** CONTACT YOUR ALDER & THE MAYOR TODAY - THE VOTE IS NEXT TUES NOV 20! *** A resolution calling on the U.S. federal government to place humanitarian and human rights concerns foremost in its policies and actions in Afghanistan and surrounding regions was introduced this morning to the Madison Common Council (text below).  We have _less than one week_ before the vote on Tuesday, Nov 20 to let the Mayor and alders know we want our city to go on record in support of peace - ACT TODAY! ** Call or e-mail your alder and the Mayor and ask them to support the resolution (title: Humanitarian Priorities in Afghanistan) TODAY! Mayor Bauman: e-mail sbauman@ci.madison.wi.us  or call 608-266-4611 Alder district and contact info at http://www.ci.madison.wi.us/council Alder e-mails and phone #s also listed at end of this e-mail. ** Attend the Tues, Nov 20 council meeting to register and/or speak in support of the resolution! The Council meeting starts 6:30 pm, Tues Nov 20, in room 201 of the City-County bldg, 210 Martin Luther King, Jr Blvd (just off Capitol Square), but register EARLY (6 pm) to make sure your input is recorded! Title:    Humanitarian Priorities in Afghanistan A RESOLUTION regarding the urgent need to provide emergency humanitarian assistance and development assistance to civilians in Afghanistan, including Afghan refugees in surrounding countries. WHEREAS, a disastrous humanitarian crisis is underway, with an estimated 7.5 million people in Afghanistan facing critical food shortage or outright starvation this winter; and WHEREAS, 70 percent of these people are women and children, and the UN estimates 400,000 children under five will likely die this year, an increase of 100,000 over last year; and WHEREAS, food aid shipments have been disrupted because of U.S. bombing in Afghanistan; and WHEREAS, the aid agencies active in the region, including the Nobel laureate Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Oxfam International and the World Food Program have stated that the U.S. food drops can not meet the increasing and urgent need for assistance; and WHEREAS, Madison now participates directly and indirectly in U.S. military efforts through many channels, including the federal taxes its citizens pay, and through its citizens' participation in the armed forces; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and Madison Common Council are appalled at the mass starvation that will result from these actions to which they are a party if the situation is not speedily addressed; and WHEREAS, the Mayor and Madison Common Council deplore the dishonor such an outcome would be for the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11th; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Mayor and Madison Common Council support a resolution to the situation that minimizes loss of life; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT humanitarian concerns must now be a top priority for U.S. policy toward Afghanistan, especially as there exists a narrow window of opportunity for supplying food to the region's population before winter makes this difficult or impossible.  The Mayor and Madison Common Council call on the federal government to defer to the judgement of international aid agencies that a cessation in bombing is necessary to avoid humanitarian disaster; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Mayor and Madison Common Council call on Afghanistan's neighbors to immediately reopen their borders to allow for the safe passage of refugees, and call on the U.S. federal government and other members of the international community to prepare to contribute to the economic costs incurred by the flight of desperate Afghan civilians; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Mayor and Madison Common Council call on the U.S. federal government to actively support the work of various agencies to deliver assistance in Afghanistan, particularly through overland truck convoys, and to support safe humanitarian access to affected populations, in partnership with humanitarian agencies, in quantities sufficient to alleviate a large scale humanitarian catastrophe; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Mayor and Madison Common Council call on the U.S. federal government to contribute to efforts by the international community to provide long-term, sustainable reconstruction and development assistance for the people of Afghanistan, including efforts to protect the basic human rights of women and children; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Mayor and Madison Common Council call on the international community to support democratic processes in Afghanistan leading to a government which represents all its people, including women. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Mayor and Madison Common Council, on behalf of the people of Madison, in solidarity with the international community and in their capacity as citizens of the United States, urge the U.S. federal government to put humanitarian concerns first in its policies and actions overseas.  Furthermore, the Mayor and Madison Common Council will consider the U.S. federal government responsible for both the direct consequences of its military actions in Afghanistan and for unintended, indirect results of its actions leading to humanitarian crises in Afghanistan and the surrounding region. CITY OF MADISON      COMMON COUNCIL MEMBERS        2001 - 2003 1    Linda Bellman    274-0589    district1@council.ci.madison.wi.us 2    Brenda Konkel    251-2412    district2@council.ci.madison.wi.us 3    Warren Onken     244-7480    district3@council.ci.madison.wi.us 4    Michael Verveer  255-6498    district4@council.ci.madison.wi.us 5    Thomas Powell    347-9300    district5@council.ci.madison.wi.us 6    Judy Olson       245-0557    district6@council.ci.madison.wi.us 7    Cindy Thomas     271-5201    district7@council.ci.madison.wi.us 8    Todd Jarrell     259-1976    district8@council.ci.madison.wi.us 9    Paul Skidmore    829-1921    district9@council.ci.madison.wi.us 10   Ken Golden       238-4370    district10@council.ci.madison.wi.us 11   Jean MacCubbin   238-4863    district11@council.ci.madison.wi.us 12   Dorothy Borchardt  249-7202  district12@council.ci.madison.wi.us 13   Matt Sloan       250-6664    district13@council.ci.madison.wi.us 14   Tim Bruer        298-0060    district14@council.ci.madison.wi.us 15   Kent Palmer      244-7462    district15@council.ci.madison.wi.us 16   Judy Compton     221-2567    district16@council.ci.madison.wi.us 17   Santiago Rosas   244-9197    district17@council.ci.madison.wi.us 18   Paul Van Rooy    663-9500    district18@council.ci.madison.wi.us 19   Steve Holtzman   233-6056    district19@council.ci.madison.wi.us 20   Gary L. Poulson  233-1469    district20@council.ci.madison.wi.us Common Council Office Phone Number:    266-4071 Office E-Mail (goes to all alders):  council@ci.madison.wi.us ____________________________________________ X Check out these internet sites! the East Timor Action Network/US http://www.etan.org Madison, WI - East Timor projects http://www.aideasttimor.org Madison's Social Justice Center http://www.socialjusticecenter.org "There must be no hiding place for political monsters such as unleashed the destruction of East Timor in 1999. These are crimes which are far greater than their immediate victims... They strike at the future as well as the present. They make the world more dangerous for everyone." -Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Bishop of Dili, East Timor and 1996 Nobel laureate _______________________________________________ policy@madpeace.org http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-policy September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:29 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients X September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-policy] ALERT: support Madison Council pro-peace Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-policy] ALERT: support Madison Council pro-peace 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-11-14 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. The House of Representatives is scheduled to consider its anti- terrorism bill, the PATRIOT Act (H.R. 2975), today. [which was Friday - Baldwin voted against it] EPIC Volume 8.20 October 12, 2001 Published by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) Washington, D.C. Senate Approves Broad Anti-Terrorism Legislation The U.S. Senate approved far-reaching anti-terrorism legislation late last night, rejecting efforts to limit the measure's impact on the privacy and civil liberties of American citizens.  The Uniting and Strengthening America Act (S. 1510) was the product of negotiations between the Justice Department and the Senate leadership. In an unusual departure from normal legislative procedure, the bill was sent directly to the full Senate without any debate or consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI) and other colleagues, including Paul Wellstone (D-MI) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA), unsuccessfully attempted to have the Senate vote on three amendments designed to minimize the impact on civil liberties.  "What have we come to when we don't have either committee or Senate deliberation or amendments on an issue of this importance?" Feingold asked.  "Each of us cares as much as anyone in this room about the fight against terrorism, but we want to make sure we don't go beyond that goal and intrude on our civil liberties."  The unamended bill was approved by a 96-to-1 vote, with Feingold dissenting. The Senate bill contains most of the controversial provisions contained in the initial Justice Department anti-terrorism proposal, including: - Expansion of "pen register" authority to Internet communications, permitting law enforcement monitoring of "routing" and "addressing" information upon a mere showing of "relevance" to an investigation with virtually no judicial oversight.  This new authority will likely increase use of the FBI's Carnivore system. - Authorization of "roving wiretaps" for intelligence surveillance, allowing the issuance of "generic" court orders that could be served on any communications facility (including universities and public libraries) that a surveillance target might use. - Approval of government monitoring (without judicial authorization) of the communications of "computer trespassers," even in some circumstances where the affected user has permission to use the computer system. -  Authorization of searches without notification to the targeted individual ("secret searches"), in effect allowing police break-ins to private homes and offices. - Relaxation of existing limitations on the sharing of surveillance and other information between law enforcement and intelligence agencies, removing long- standing protections designed to prevent government investigative abuses. The House of Representatives is scheduled to consider its anti- terrorism bill, the PATRIOT Act (H.R. 2975), today. That measure was approved by the House Judiciary Committee after deliberations that marginally limited some of the most expansive powers contained in the Justice Department proposal. The House bill, for instance, does not contain a "secret search" provision. Significantly, it contains a "sunset" clause that would terminate new surveillance authorities in two years unless they are reauthorized by Congress.  The administration is attempting to have the House consider the Senate bill in lieu of the legislation drafted by the House Judiciary Committee. The Senate anti-terrorism bill (S. 1510) is available at: http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/s1510.html The House anti-terrorism bill (H.R. 2975) (PDF) is available at: http://www.house.gov/judiciary/hr2975terrorismbill.pdf EPIC's analysis of the original Justice Department proposal (the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001) is available at: http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/ATA_analysis.html ____________________________________________ East Timor Action Network field organizer   ETAN field office Social Justice Center office 608-663-5431                         1202 Williamson St cell 608-347-4598                           Madison, WI 53703 home 608-255-4598                           fax 608-227-0141 Check out these internet sites! the East Timor Action Network/US http://www.etan.org Madison, WI - East Timor projects http://www.aideasttimor.org Madison's Social Justice Center http://www.socialjusticecenter.org "Independence is not about having a flag, a president, a parliament, a government. Independence must imply, year by year, gradual change in the life of the entire population of Timor Lorosa'e. If we fail to effect change in the daily life of the people, independence will be a meaningless concept, all our sacrifices throughout the years of the struggle will be in vain. And not one of us will allow this to occur." -Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Saturday, October 13, 2001 7:09 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients x September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. x September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-policy] Anti-Terrorism Legislation Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-policy] Anti-Terrorism Legislation 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-10-13 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. FYI, the resolution that Berkeley's City Council passed yesterday, from http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/citycouncil/2001citycouncil/summary/101601S.htm l It looks like only 1 and 5 of the separated resolution passed, though it's a bit unclear to me (Berkeley has 8 alders and resolutions need a simple majority to pass).  One important thing we have to decide is what balance to strike between what we'd REALLY like to say and what will possibly pass City Council.  Although we can generate lots of good community discussion by bringing a controversial resolution before the Council we know isn't likely to pass... I left a message for x about a possible Madison resolution today. We'll discuss more at our meeting tomorrow (Tues 10/23, 6 pm, Paul Bunyan room, Mem Union)... See you then! -x Bombing of Afghanistan From:  Councilmember Spring Recommendation:   1) Request the City Manager send letters to our elected national representatives asking them to take whatever action they can to cease the bombing of Afghanistan and to seek a legal, nonmilitary resolution; 2) Endorse and send  to these officials, the attached letter recently presented by Vice Mayor Shirek to the Congressional Black Caucus, which acknowledges and grieves the tragic events of September 11th;  and  3) adjourn this Council meeting in memory of the innocent civilians in Afghanistan being harmed and made refugees due to the bombing. Contact:  Dona Spring, Councilmember District 4, 981-7140   Actions:  Moved, seconded, failed (Armstrong/Olds; Noes - Shirek, Worthington; Abstain - Breland, Hawley, Maio, Olds, Spring, Dean) To commend our elected officials and our President for performing the difficult task of bringing together more than 60 countries to join with us in the fight against terrorism in the world and to ask the City Manager to communicate with our President commending him for refusing to rush into a thoughtless response to the 5000 deaths that occurred on September 11th, but instead taking the time to bring together an international consensus of countries from Cuba to Canada and from Saudi Arabia to Russia all joining with us in our fight to defeat terrorism worldwide.   Moved, seconded, carried (Shirek/Breland) a revised motion presented by Councilmember Spring to adopt Resolution No. 61,310-N.S. consisting of five parts.  The motion was severed and voted on as follows:   1.    Condemn the mass murder of thousands of people on September 11, 2001, and express our profound grief at the atrocities last month that killed thousands of innocent people in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, and acknowledge, honor, and support the heroic rescue efforts on the part of dedicated police and fire departments, and the city, state, and federal governments (Abstain - Armstrong, Hawley, Olds) 2.    Ask our representatives to help break the cycle of violence, bringing the bombing to a conclusion as soon as possible, avoiding actions that can endanger the lives of innocent people in Afghanistan, and minimizing the risk to American military personnel (Abstain - Armstrong, Hawley, Olds, Dean) 3.    Urge our representatives to concentrate all available resources on bringing to justice all of those who were complicit in last month1s violent attack, and work with international organizations toward the same end (Abstain - Armstrong, Hawley, Olds, Dean) 4.    Urge our representatives to devote our government1s best efforts in collaboration with governments throughout the world, to addressing and overcoming those conditions such as poverty, malnutrition, disease, oppression, and subjugation that tend to drive some people to acts of terrorism (Abstain - Armstrong, Hawley, Olds, Dean) 5.    Request that we engage in a national campaign to lessen our dependence on oil from the Middle East and to commit to a nationwide conversion to renewable energy sources such as solar and fuel cells, within five years (Abstain - Armstrong, Hawley, Olds) ____________________________________________ East Timor Action Network field organizer   ETAN field office Social Justice Center office 608-663-5431                         1202 Williamson St cell 608-347-4598                           Madison, WI 53703 home 608-255-4598                           fax 608-227-0141 Check out these internet sites! the East Timor Action Network/US http://www.etan.org Madison, WI - East Timor projects http://www.aideasttimor.org Madison's Social Justice Center http://www.socialjusticecenter.org "We struggled for more than 24 years for independence. We've learned the lesson that even small people have a voice."     -East Timorese leader Mari Alkatiri, during the August 30, 2001 Constituent Assembly vote September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Monday, October 22, 2001 7:41 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients x; x September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. x September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-policy] Berkeley city council resolution on bombing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-policy] Berkeley city council resolution on bombing 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-10-22 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Hello everyone, Following is the text of the humanitarian resolution on Afghanistan which we would like to propose be submitted to the Common Council.  At the Madison Area Peace Coalition meeting earlier tonight, people felt very strongly that this resolution should be voted on as soon as possible - at the Nov 20 Council meeting, if at all possible - since the humanitarian situation it addresses is growing worse by the day.  Please do let me know, by e-mail or by phone (XXX-XXXX day, XXX-XXXX night), if this can still be done.  If it's too late for that, then we would request the resolution be introduced at the Nov 20 meeting and voted on at the Dec 4 meeting. I've talked directly with X, who I know is willing to co-sponsor this, and I've heard from X that X and X are also willing to co-sponsor (and that there may be other alders willing, too).  If someone on the Council could fill us all in on who is willing to co-sponsor and when this can be voted on, we'll swing into action to raise awareness and build support for it. Thanks to everyone for your help and support, and I apologize for any confusion in communications. Best, X Title:    Humanitarian Priorities in Afghanistan A RESOLUTION regarding the urgent need to provide emergency humanitarian assistance and development assistance to civilians in Afghanistan, including Afghan refugees in surrounding countries. WHEREAS,    a disastrous humanitarian crisis is underway, with an estimated 7.5 million people in Afghanistan facing critical food shortage or outright starvation this winter; and WHEREAS,    70 percent of these people are women and children, and the UN estimates 400,000 children under five will likely die this year, an increase of 100,000 over last year; and WHEREAS,     food aid shipments have been disrupted because of U.S. bombing in Afghanistan; and WHEREAS,    the aid agencies active in the region, including the Nobel laureate Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Oxfam International and the World Food Program have stated that the U.S. food drops can not meet the increasing and urgent need for assistance; and WHEREAS,    Madison now participates directly and indirectly in U.S. military efforts through many channels, including the federal taxes its citizens pay, and through its citizens' participation in the armed forces; and WHEREAS,    the Mayor and Madison Common Council are appalled at the mass starvation that will result from these actions to which they are a party if the situation is not speedily addressed; and WHEREAS,    the Mayor and Madison Common Council deplore the dishonor such an outcome would be for the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11th; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Mayor and Madison Common Council support a resolution to the situation that minimizes loss of life; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT humanitarian concerns must now be a top priority for U.S. policy toward Afghanistan, especially as there exists a narrow window of opportunity for supplying food to the region's population before winter makes this difficult or impossible.  The Mayor and Madison Common Council call on the federal government to defer to the judgement of international aid agencies that a cessation in bombing is necessary to avoid humanitarian disaster; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Mayor and Madison Common Council call on Afghanistan's neighbors to immediately reopen their borders to allow for the safe passage of refugees, and call on the U.S. federal government and other members of the international community to prepare to contribute to the economic costs incurred by the flight of desperate Afghan civilians; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Mayor and Madison Common Council call on the U.S. federal government to actively support the work of various agencies to deliver assistance in Afghanistan, particularly through overland truck convoys, and to support safe humanitarian access to affected populations, in partnership with humanitarian agencies, in quantities sufficient to alleviate a large scale humanitarian catastrophe; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Mayor and Madison Common Council call on the U.S. federal government to contribute to efforts by the international community to provide long-term, sustainable reconstruction and development assistance for the people of Afghanistan, including efforts to protect the basic human rights of women and children; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Mayor and Madison Common Council call on the international community to support democratic processes in Afghanistan leading to a government which represents all its people, including women. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Mayor and Madison Common Council, on behalf of the people of Madison, in solidarity with the international community and in their capacity as citizens of the United States, urge the U.S. federal government to put humanitarian concerns first in its policies and actions overseas.  Furthermore, the Mayor and Madison Common Council will consider the U.S. federal government responsible for both the direct consequences of its military actions in Afghanistan and for unintended, indirect results of its actions leading to humanitarian crises in Afghanistan and the surrounding region. ____________________________________________ X Check out these internet sites! the East Timor Action Network/US http://www.etan.org Madison, WI - East Timor projects http://www.aideasttimor.org Madison's Social Justice Center http://www.socialjusticecenter.org "... in '74, after the [Indonesian military] invasion [of East Timor] ... we all fought together, we were united ... and I believe that if we could unite, we can forge another kind of unity, to fight for other things, like fight against poverty, fight against illiteracy, fight against disease, fight against many, many other things." -Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão _______________________________________________ policy@madpeace.org http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-policy September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:51 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients district6@council.ci.madison.wi.us; September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-policy] city council humanitarian resolution on Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-policy] city council humanitarian resolution on 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-11-13