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,    I'd like to help arrange letter-writing on the 11/6-7, if you think that's a good idea.    I'm on the MAPC Policy Committee, and I wonder if it would be appropriate to have letter-writing to Congress people as a companion activity at any of the Student/Youth Caucus campus events on these days?    Mailing letters per se might not be feasible.  Today I called Feingold's and Kohl's offices, and that's what they said.  Fax, phone messages, and e-mail are acceptable though.  I thought we could take resulting letters and hand-carry them to the local Congressional Rep. offices.  Or we could fax all the letters.    We would keep count of the letters and post that number on the MAPC web site, to help us feel the strength of our movement.    The reason I like letters is because people can put their feelings into their own words, and that sends a powerful message to Congressional reps about how their Constituents want them to vote.    If we ask people to go home and e-mail their Reps, they might forget.    If practical, I'd also like to have a cell phone on hand, or a pay phone with phone card available for people to phone Reps on the spot.  We would keep count of these calls too.    I can assist in the following ways:  preparing sample letters, preparing posters and labels, labeled boxes for each Rep, bringing envelopes, paper, and arranging to get the letters to the Reps afterward.  Since there's no "Stop the War" bill that I know of yet (I'll check), we'll be asking people to write that general message in their own words.  We'll supply several sample phrasings of course.    Unfortunately, I work during the day and probably will be tied up on the evening of 11/6.  So we'd need to designate other individuals to announce the letter-writing at each event, be there to keep track of everything, and round up the letters as people leave.    The way I imagine this is that even short letters that people dash off right before the lecture begins, or just as they leave can get their point across.    The people who attend these events are already pretty motivated.  We're just helping to turn this into political impact.    Let me know what you think of this idea.    If so, please provide feedback on the number of people expected at each event, proximity of pay phones, etc.  Also, do you know anyone who has a cell phone, from whom we could economically buy local minutes?  Similarly, fax (perhaps UW Greens has one?).    I'll talk with the Policy committee Sunday night to see if we can't come up with some sample letters. Regards, X XXX-XXXX X _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ 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. Friday, November 02, 2001 4:56 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients stopwaryouth@yahoogroups.com; policy@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-policy] letter-writing, 11/6-7 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] letter-writing, 11/6-7 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. 2001-11-02