81 20 70360 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 TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story Toward a More Perfect Union Approximately one year ago, on September 11, 2001, our nation was tested by the evil acts of terrorists hijackers; however, I ask myself, What have we learned about our nation since the tragic events of 9/11?. After the September 11th attacks, I have noticed that they have had a major impact on most people nationally and internationally. The events of 9/11 affected everyone in the nation because we can no longer be sure of how safe our country really is even though it is the most powerful nation in the world. I still can t believe that the terrorist hijackers hijacked four planes on the same day. To make matters worse, they used them on the symbols of our nations economy and on the symbol of our nations military power. The 9/11 events affected other countries as well, such as Afghanistan and France. If it were not for the terrorist attacks, the U.S. wouldnt have attacked Afghanistan, and Afghanistan wouldnt have been freed from Al Qaida rule. France, on the other hand, was affected because ever since the 9/11 attacks, the tourism rate decreased by about 8.6%. Before the attacks tourism was at approximately 11.6 million people, which means that after 9/11, tourism decreased by approximately 1 million people. Our nations largest companies have received the biggest impact because they have either collapsed (like Enron and World.com), gone corrupted, or had to lay off many people to help its business. It is really disappointing that we cant trust our nation s financial leaders because of the fear that even they will collapse and with them would go our money. A year ago we watched these tragic events, and we shall remember that we lived through the worst events in American history. 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 tp132.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story THE AFTERMATH AND THE NATION The continued exploitation of 9/11's tragedy demeans the memory of those who died. One wonders if instead of happening in New York and Washington, D.C., the videotaped events had occurred off-camera to kill 3000 people in (say) Great Falls, Montana. Would the nation have reacted in the same obsessive way? Predictably politicians and advertisers make hay of 9/11 for political and financial gain, endlessly calling up the photographs, sounds, memories and attaching them to everything under the sun. Unaccountable anger was already gnawing at the American public's psyche fueled by vicious talk radio, mocking ""comedians,"" self-centered politicians before the disaster. So when the planes accomplished their evil mission, it gave an excuse to unleash and focus this anger, opening floodgates to set the nation on a Bash Everybody Who Gets In Our Way retaliation. Immediately after President Bush addressed the nation shortly after 9/11, this writer heard a reporter ask an administration spokesman how long the ""war"" on terror would likely last. The response, ""Five years."" Now, invoking the memories of those who perished, the American public is called upon to give up important rights, supposedly the better to fight terrorists. But if the so-called ""war"" is open-ended, then the abrogation of those rights will continue for what? Forever? Did the victims give their lives so America would be less free, made so not by terrorists but by our own fear-mongering ambitious national leaders, assisted by a national press involved in a ratings game? F.D.R. had it partly right: one thing we have to fear is "fear itself." But we should also be afraid of what we're doing to ourselves and our nation. 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 tp196.xml 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource TomPaine.com Stories Description An account of the resource TomPaine.com -- a liberal advocacy organization -- distributed a public call on August 12, 2002 for 300 word "opinion advertisement" similar to those that the organization had been running regularly in the op-ed page of The New York Times. TomPaine.com received hundreds of submissions from the public, most of which the September 11 Digital Archive has preserved here. TomPaine Story TomPaine Story: Story "Toward a more perfect union"," The totality of the thrust of all government and corporate actions since/before 9-11 are not designed to solve foreign or domestic issues but to fight them. I believe that when you fight a problem, you are hiring people and spending money and your fame and fortune grows. If the problem is solved, then you have to fire people; you receive less money; your power and influence diminishes. This one fact alone is the reason fighting the issue takes on a life all its own and becomes self-perpetuating. Therefore, it boils down to: The greatest fortune and the most fame comes NOT from solving problems but from fighting one wee facet of the problem while spreading Hate, Havoc, Hypocrisy and Fear in the aftermath of unresolved issues. ALL governments are control freaks. The appointed bureaucrats/officials are worse than the elected officials. Adding non-accountability to those appointed/elected officials when they wrong the citizen and then not giving the people any recourse against those same officials, is leading this nation to disaster. Case in point: Homeland Defense. Hitler combined the military, the police and the intelligence agency into a Fatherland Defense Force called the GESTAPO. The parallels between these two organizations are more than scary. Summation: The two most powerful and controlling emotions in society are fear and patriotism. Combining these two emotions, we have the media blitz we have today. Two powerful personal emotions are Agony and Despair -- AKA the Gatekeepers Of Hell. When a person has nothing to lose, that person cannot be controlled; therefore, he must be killed or locked up. Homeland Defense will make our constitution stink because it will be used as toilet paper by those in-charge. There is no enemy more tenacious and dedicated to your destruction than the one you make in your own home 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 tp171.xml 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. Senate passed S1510--the USA Act--yesterday 96-1 vote.  Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold was the only dissenting voice... _______________________________________________ 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, October 12, 2001 10:16 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. 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] S 1510 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] S 1510 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. 288 Xs DIRECTIONS: PLEASE COPY this email onto a new message, sign the bottom and forward it to everyone on your distribution list. If you receive this list with more than 300 names on it, please email a copy of it to: > X Even if you decide not to sign, please be considerate and do not kill the petition. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Thursday, November 01, 2001 12:09 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. petition 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 petition 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. I have put the minutes from Sunday on the cc wiki page.  It would facilitate approval next Sunday if everyone could read them and bring corrections/changes with them. exhausted but energized (if that makes sense), X September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:29 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-coord] minutes from Sunday 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-coord] minutes from Sunday 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. 2001-10-30 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. Either way works for me on the first paragraph. The other paragraph you quoted seems to have a redundancy: "The Coordinating Committee is empowered to make emergency decisions for MAPC." and "The Coordinating Committee has the right to make emergency decisions when necessary." X ----- Original Message ----- From: "X" <X> To: <coordination@madpeace.org> Cc: <X>; <X> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 10:14 PM Subject: RE: [MAPC-coord] cc mission for approval, gm agenda > X, > > Thanks for doing this. I would change the first paragraph to the following > for readability: > > The main decision-making body of MAPC is the General Meeting. (moved this > next sentence forward from end of paragraph; seemed to flow better) The > Coordinating Committee ensures that the decisions of the General Meetings > are implemented. The General Meeting sets the politics and the overall > direction of MAPC.  The Coordinating Committee takes its direction from the > General Meeting, and is accountable to the (deleted general) membership. All > decisions made by the Coordinating Committee are subject to discussion and > review by the General Meeting. > > - The Coordinating Committee is empowered to make emergency decisions for > MAPC.  An emergency decision consists of responding appropriately to rapidly > changing current events, or of initiating the coordination of plans that are > under time constraint. The Coordinating Committee has the right to make > emergency decisions when necessary.  Emergency decisions will be reported > back to the General Meeting > > I'll print, but would need to know tonight about content so that I can do it > between work tomorrow & the meeting. I'll be in a time crunch, especially > with getting Jesse to a friend's house before the meeting. > > X > > > -----Original Message----- > From: X > Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 8:38 PM > To: coordination@madpeace.org > Cc: X; X > Subject: [MAPC-coord] cc mission for approval, gm agenda > > Here is the CC mission, combining Rae's original plus what we added/changed: > > - The main decision-making body of MAPC is the General Meeting.  The General > Meeting sets the politics and the general direction of MAPC.  The > Coordinating Committee takes its direction from the General Meeting, and is > accountable to the general membership.  All decisions made by the > Coordinating Committee are subject to discussion and review by the General > Meeting.  The Coordinating Commitee ensures that the decisions of the > General Meetings are implemented. > > - The Coordinating Committee is the central orgainizing body of MAPC.  It > ensures that the work of the committees is coordinated.  It evaluates > ongoing work to make sure that MAPC is not missing opportunities for > outreach, growth, and political impact. > > - The Coordinating Committee is responsible for facilitating development of > overall strategy for the coalition, subject to General Meeting approval, and > for providing recommendations to ensure that the work of the committees is > coordinated in a matter consistent with that strategy. > > - The Coordinating Committee is empowered to make emergency decisions for > MAPC.  An emergency decision consists of responding appropriately to rapidly > changing current events, or of initiating the coordination of plans that are > under time constraint. The Coordinating Committee has the right to make > emergency decisions when necessary.  Emergency decisions will be reported > back to the General Meeting. > > - The Coordinating Committee is responsible for establishing policy on and > making decisions regarding disbursement of funds by the coaltion. > > - The Coordinating Committee is responsible for orgainizing the General > Meetings.  It will develop agendas for General Meetings.  It assures that > General Meetings are organized so that critical discussions are held and > important decisions are made in a timely fashion. > ========================================= > > THis was a little more difficult than it seemed, since not all sentences > flowed well with what was sandwiched in.  The first paragraph is funky with > using "general meeting" and "general membership" but I think it's probably > ok. I did some minor editing to make everything fit together. We agreed to > give 24 hours for corrections and feedback. X and X will present. > X, will you be printing for distribution at the meeting? > > Here is the agenda: > > GM meeting agenda > > 1) Welcome > 2) committee reports > - action > - outreach > - Student Youth > - Arts > - media > - policy > - fundraising > - labor movement report > 3) Proposals (new business) > - CC mission proposal > - Action committee vigil proposal > - SYC logo proposal > 4) Announcements > 5) Optional - Video > > I'll get the meeting notes out as soon as I can clean them up, probably > tomorrow evening. > > X > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > _______________________________________________ > coordination@madpeace.org > http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-cc > > > _______________________________________________ > coordination@madpeace.org > http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-cc > _______________________________________________ coordination@madpeace.org http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-cc September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Monday, November 12, 2001 10:51 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients coordination@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. Re: [MAPC-coord] cc mission for approval, gm agenda 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 Re: [MAPC-coord] cc mission for approval, gm agenda 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. Policy Folks -    I'm leaving multiple messages for X, in various media.  I am asking for a brief sit-down meeting with us before 11/14 (deadline to file resolution for debate on 11/20).    I will talk to X tonight, and perhaps try for the same thing there, since the progressive caucus chose him Friday to be the contact for this issue with me.    I will get back to you as soon as I have place and time. --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. Thursday, November 08, 2001 9:29 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. 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] face-to-face meetings in works 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] face-to-face meetings in works 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. I will add it to the agenda. >--- Original Message --- >From: "Sarah Coyle" <sarah@arccommserv.com> >To: <coordination@madpeace.org>, <announce@madpeace.org> >Date: 10/29/01 10:04:47 AM > Hi, > >I totally forgot that the policy committee wants something on the >"proposals" agenda:  we have a proposal that the city alders vote for a >resolution that condems bombing (in different language than that) in >Afganistan.  The resolution will be posted on "discuss" for all to read & >give feedback, to make changes before Tuesday.  X has been >heading it up.  Could we put it on the agenda for Tuesday? Thanks. > >Sarah > > September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Monday, October 29, 2001 10:21 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients sarah@arccommserv.com 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. RE: [MAPC-coord] city policy 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 RE: [MAPC-coord] city policy 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. I remember is well.  The time was Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 01:21:57PM -0600, and X whispered: > > What do you think?  It's later than we had hoped to have it introduced, but > it sounds like we'll have a better chance of passing the resolution then > (given council dynamics), and we'll also have more time to mobilize the > community in support of the resolution.  It's true that this puts the > resolution passing just after the timeline humanitarian groups have put on > needing to start land convoys of aid, but I'm thinking that this is OK for > two reasons:  First, it's not like the U.S. federal gov't will immediately > stop bombing because of a Madison city council resolution - this is one > effort in a much bigger movement that will contribute to opening up dialogue > on the issue.  Second - this is tragic and I hope it doesn't come across as > insensitive - if there are increased reports of Afghani civilians starving > just before the council vote, it will make it really hard for alders not to > support the resolution (and we should submit copies of any articles like > this to the alders just before the Dec 4 vote). > Actually, I'm getting pretty concerned that recent events in Afghanistan are working against the strategy of our resolution.  Humanitarian aid is going (I predict) to turn from the big weakness of the administration's position to a propaganda coup. I predict a *massive* effort will be undertaken (not least because Bush's indifference to the humanitarian situation was starting to bother even British hawks). Now that the NA controls most of Afghanistan, this will be at least mostly feasible. Which is a great thing, because I was really starting to despair over the lives that seemed doomed to be lost. I can't come to the meeting tonight, but I think it is important to consider how to adapt our policy to counter the possibility. If we could have gotten this passed sooner, we could have indeed gained an important rhetorical advantage, but I don't think Dec. 4 will do us much good. It's not that there still won't be a humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan. But Bush now has the opportunity to appear to be making "all possible effort" to fix the situation (which I actually hope he does).  Since most of the dying will be happening in the Taliban-controlled south (assuming they stop running near Khandahar), you can bet they'll be blamed for the starvation. The Bush team may have dodged the bullet on this.  If they don't, of course, we must howl bloody murder and put all our weight behind it--or we will be talking about genocide next spring.  I'd really prefer not to.  Let's hope they do the (only) moral thing, and think of other ways to make our points. I'd suggest alternative lines of argument would include urging the administration not to consider expanding the scope of the war to include other countries, such as Iraq.  We can also stress the need for immediate negotiations over a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.  Other ideas? Or am I off base?  I'm just concerned that if this resolution, as written, is voted on Dec. 4, it may be in the middle of a *super* publicized humanitarian effort, and thus appear almost discredited.  Maybe the administration will blow this crucial moment and fail to support a massive aid push.  I don't think even Bush is that stupid, however. My .02$, for what they're worth. X _______________________________________________ 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 3:08 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. Re: [MAPC-policy] X willing to cosponsor! 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 Re: [MAPC-policy] X willing to cosponsor! 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. Hi all! Just a heads up that the MAPC logo will be on the agenda for Tuesday night's general membership meeting, and a few comments (okay, I lied - lots of comments) since I may not be able to attend the whole meeting. While (AFAIK) we've never voted on this, the peace sign wrapped around the globe has become the de facto MAPC logo.  (IIRC the general membership referred the logo question back to the Arts & Culture WG, and they couldn't come up with anything better.) The Student/Youth Caucus has objected to this logo, and designed a new one, which will be presented on Tuesday.  (As I understand it, the problem is that the peace sign is tied to a particular historic era, and carries baggage which is too hippie-ish -- as opposed to activist.  There is also concern that the grey-scale of the logo does not reduce or reproduce well.) Their proposed logo has a half-globe, without peace sign, with paler images of the globe radiating out from it.  (Lousy description, I know.) I sympathize with the S/YC's objections, but I like their proposed graphic even less than the one we've been using.  To me, it's not particularly distinctive, and a globe alone just doesn't say "peace" to me.  It could just as easily be the logo graphic for a global telecommunications corporation. Then again, I'm not sure that any graphic we pick to represent "peace/anti-war" will be acceptable to and truly representative of the whole Coalition.  The Vietnam-era peace sign is, well, Vietnam era, and doesn't represent the new generation of activists.  The dove has a longer history, but strikes me as a bit too "Pacifist" in image, as does the rifle with a flower in its barrel, broken rifle, broken bomb, and a few others.  The other predominant image from the Vietnam era, the clenched fist, of course, has the opposite connotation.  We've already been through the discussion of incorporating the symbolism of the American flag; some of us think "peace is patriotic" and others of us think U.S. nationalism is part of the problem. And while the globe could well be something that none of us object to, it really doesn't symbolize anything that distinguishes us from the other side. "Madison area" is tough to symbolize graphically.  The most identifiable symbols are architectural (the State Capitol), and we have nothing to do with state government.  Doing something with the outline of the state and highlighting the Madison area really doesn't work graphically.  And I doubt that anyone would recognize that a satellite view of the Four Lakes was anything other than a Rorschach inkblot test. We could try to have a symbol for everyone, incorporating lots of different images in the logo, but the result would likely be an unwieldy mess. My personal opinion at this point is that we should either (1)come up with a graphic that is brand new -- no baggage from past movements or ideologies -- (and I have no earthly idea what this would be); or (2) just go with a "words-only" logo, using a very distinctive typestyle and arrangement of the words in our organization name.  If the typestyle and arrangement are distinctive enough, IMO the logo will be recognizeable and identifiable, and would avoid the symbolism & baggage problems inherent in selecting any graphic image for a diverse coalition. 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. Monday, November 12, 2001 8:51 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] MAPC Logo Design -- Graphics, Symbolism, and 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] MAPC Logo Design -- Graphics, Symbolism, and 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. Hello members and friends of U.S. Out Now. The next U.S. Out Now meeting is: Thursday, October 25th 6:00 PM Kabul's restaurant 541 State St. The purpose of this meeting is to: - Get together and enjoy each other's company - Celebrate our hard work with the "Life Under Siege" Tent encampment and the Madison Area Peace Coalition. - Meet X, from the Chicago-based, Voices in the Wilderness (VitW). VitW is a leading peace organization in the U.S. that organizes to stop the bombs and sanctions on Iraq. X went to Iraq this past August with a VitW delegation. He will join us for dinner on Thursday night, October 25th and speak at the MATC International Peacekeeping and Peacemaking conference on Friday, October 26th, 3:00-4:30 PM. For more information about the conference, see http://www.wisconsin-institute.org. Hope to see you at Kabul's on the 25th! X X September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Sunday, October 21, 2001 10:55 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 [mailto: 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. [al-awda-wi] U.S. Out Now Meeting, Thurs, 10/25, 6pm, Kabul's 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 [al-awda-wi] U.S. Out Now Meeting, Thurs, 10/25, 6pm, Kabul's 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. Sorry if this is a duplicate.  I'm a little worried that X might not reach you.  Anyway, here is the resolution I drafted.  Your comments would be appreciated. ====================================================================== A RESOLUTION regarding the urgent need to provide emergency humanitarian assistance and development assistance to civilians in Afghanistan, including Afghan refugees in surrounding countries. SPONSORS: [Alders names here.] 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, food aid shipments have been disrupted due to security concerns around U.S. military actions in Afghanistan; and WHEREAS, Madison supports 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 Common Council deplore their participation in actions that cause mass starvation; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Mayor and Common Council urge a resolution to the situation that minimizes loss of life; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT humanitarian concerns must be a top U.S. priority for action in 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; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT Afghanistan's neighbors should reopen their borders to allow for the safe passage of refugees, and the international community must be prepared to contribute to the economic costs incurred by the flight of desperate Afghan civilians; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT as the United States engages in military action in Afghanistan, it must work to deliver assistance, particularly through overland truck convoys, and 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 United States should 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. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Thursday, October 25, 2001 6:08 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. Barbara Smith [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. copy of proposed city 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 copy of proposed city 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. Folks, after browsing the action committee page I realized that I am to lead the crowd in chants. Suggestions needed! What should we chant tomorrow? let me know asap! thanks, X September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Friday, November 16, 2001 1:13 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] NEED CHANTS 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] NEED CHANTS 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. 2001-11-16 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. 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. 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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. As X stated, the first paragraph was the toughest to write. I think the following text flows the best, using X's edits and mine. Any feedback? The main decision-making body of MAPC is the General Meeting. The General Meeting sets the politics and the overall direction of MAPC. The Coordinating Committee ensures that the decisions of the General Meeting are implemented. The CC takes its direction from the General Meeting, and is accountable to the membership. All decisions made by the CC are subject to discussion and review by the General Meeting. _______________________________________________ coordination@madpeace.org http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-cc September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:08 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients coordination@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-coord] First paragraph of CC mission statement 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-coord] First paragraph of CC mission statement 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. ----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Paynter To: coordination@madpeace.org ; X Cc: X Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 10:02 PM Subject: RE: [MAPC-coord] PROPOSAL: MAPC/SWAIG Joint Newsletter If you would like to change your proposal to the publication of a joint newsletter next month, I would approve.  But commiting to a regular monthly publication, welllll...   I'm a little shy about approving this proposal and the reasons are a combination of fiscal and political caution.  If MAPC formally produces a newsletter, how will we assure a continuing commitment to appeal to a broad base of peace oriented people?  If we commit to supporting $500 publication costs, then we're also talking about that plus an occasional $400 or $500 distribution costs to get those 10,000 8 pagers folded into the Isthmus and we're up to $1000 a month.  Sounds like a good agenda item for the General Membership meeting.  I would prefer occasional ad hoc efforts rather than a joint commitment to publish a regular periodical.    Incidentally, the anti war movement may be a minority, but it remains to be seen how small it is.  I've talked and talked and can't find many people who are for the war. X ps I think we could hit a higher energy level, save 95% of that money and diseminate more and better information by saving those trees and going straight to a blog format.      -----Original Message----- From: madpeace-cc-admin@lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com [mailto:madpeace-cc-admin@lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com]On Behalf Of X Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 6:36 PM To: coordination@madpeace.org Subject: [MAPC-coord] PROPOSAL: MAPC/SWAIG Joint Newsletter Educating the public needs to be our number one priority right now, given just how small a minority the anti-war movement is.  MAPC should be disseminating information and analysis on the widest possible basis, and using that information to help bring people into the organization and establish our identify in the community.  As X said at the student teach-in, we need to be thinking in terms of 10,000 copies of our literature, not a few hundred.   Following discussions with the South West Asia Information Group, I am proposing that MAPC & SWAIG publish a joint monthly newsletter.   The newsletter would be published as an 8-page newsprint tabloid.  MAPC would be responsible for content of pages 7 and 8, plus about a quarter of page one.  SWAIG would be responsible for the remaining content.    SWAIG's content would be similar to what was contained in its initial tabloid -- anslysis of the region, the war, and U.S. foreign policy.  MAPC's content would be a calendar of events, information from the various Working Groups on their upcoming activities, reports on past activities, and other content designed to motivate readers to get involved.  Solicitation of donations would also be included.   Approximately 10,000 copies of each issue would be published, requiring a major effort at distribution through literature tables, bundles left at stores, co-ops, etc., passing out at events or to pedestrians, and perhaps even door-to-door distribution in selected neighborhoods.   The printing cost for 10,000 copies of a 8-page tabloid would be approximately $500.00, using the non-union printer that SWAIG used for its tabloid.  (I would prefer to transfer the project to a union shop, preferably Port Publications in Port Washington; this may require an adjustment in either the budget or number of copies.)  This cost would be covered by MAPC.   I would expect that the newsletter would generate $100 to $200 per month in new donations, based on people clipping a donation request coupon.  Another option would be to sell advertisements in the newsletter to supportive businesses, co-ops, and organizations.  (SWAIG opposed this option, based on possible conflicts with the Madison Insurgent.  I will be meeting with the Insurgent collective to discuss whether they would in fact have objections to this.)   If finances do not permit monthly publication, Plan B would be for alternating between the tabloid and a 2-page, 8.5 by 11, smaller circulation, newsletter containing only MAPC organizational info.   Because MAPC's contribution to the content would reflect the activities of all of the Working Groups, I believe that the newsletter should be coordinated at the CC level.  (I ran this past O&E, who agreed.)  Options for filling the newsletter editor position would include:   (a)  One of the existing CC members could take on this project.   (b)  A new at-large CC position could be created   (c)  A Newsletter Working Group could be created; or   (d)  A volunteer who is not officially on the CC. but is willing to attend CC meetings, could be located.   X September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Friday, November 09, 2001 10:22 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients coordination@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. Re: [MAPC-coord] PROPOSAL: MAPC/SWAIG Joint Newsletter 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 Re: [MAPC-coord] PROPOSAL: MAPC/SWAIG Joint Newsletter 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. This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by x hi there special ones, i don't know if you all had a chance to read the sunday times-- so i'm e-mailing this article-- please pass it on to people if you think they might be interested. xxoo - x This Is a Religious War October 7, 2001 By ANDREW SULLIVAN Perhaps the most admirable part of the response to the conflict that began on Sept. 11 has been a general reluctance to call it a religious war. Officials and commentators have rightly stressed that this is not a battle between the Muslim world and the West, that the murderers are not representative of Islam. President Bush went to the Islamic Center in Washington to reinforce the point. At prayer meetings across the United States and throughout the world, Muslim leaders have been included alongside Christians, Jews and Buddhists. The only problem with this otherwise laudable effort is that it doesn't hold up under inspection. The religious dimension of this conflict is central to its meaning. The words of Osama bin Laden are saturated with religious argument and theological language. Whatever else the Taliban regime is in Afghanistan, it is fanatically religious. Although some Muslim leaders have criticized the terrorists, and even Saudi Arabia's rulers have distanced themselves from the militants, other Muslims in the Middle East and elsewhere have not denounced these acts, have been conspicuously silent or have indeed celebrated them. The terrorists' strain of Islam is clearly not shared by most Muslims and is deeply unrepresentative of Islam's glorious, civilized and peaceful past. But it surely represents a part of Islam -- a radical, fundamentalist part -- that simply cannot be ignored or denied. In that sense, this surely is a religious war -- but not of Islam versus Christianity and Judaism. Rather, it is a war of fundamentalism against faiths of all kinds that are at peace with freedom and modernity. This war even has far gentler echoes in America's own religious conflicts -- between newer, more virulent strands of Christian fundamentalism and mainstream Protestantism and Catholicism. These conflicts have ancient roots, but they seem to be gaining new force as modernity spreads and deepens. They are our new wars of religion -- and their victims are in all likelihood going to mount with each passing year. Osama bin Laden himself couldn't be clearer about the religious underpinnings of his campaign of terror. In 1998, he told his followers, ''The call to wage war against America was made because America has spearheaded the crusade against the Islamic nation, sending tens of thousands of its troops to the land of the two holy mosques over and above its meddling in its affairs and its politics and its support of the oppressive, corrupt and tyrannical regime that is in control.'' Notice the use of the word ''crusade,'' an explicitly religious term, and one that simply ignores the fact that the last few major American interventions abroad -- in Kuwait, Somalia and the Balkans -- were all conducted in defense of Muslims. Notice also that as bin Laden understands it, the ''crusade'' America is alleged to be leading is not against Arabs but against the Islamic nation, which spans many ethnicities. This nation knows no nation-states as they actually exist in the region -- which is why this form of Islamic fundamentalism is also so worrying to the rulers of many Middle Eastern states. Notice also that bin Laden's beef is with American troops defiling the land of Saudi Arabia -- the land of the two holy mosques,'' in Mecca and Medina. In 1998, he also told followers that his terrorism was ''of the commendable kind, for it is directed at the tyrants and the aggressors and the enemies of Allah.'' He has a litany of grievances against Israel as well, but his concerns are not primarily territorial or procedural. ''Our religion is under attack,'' he said baldly. The attackers are Christians and Jews. When asked to sum up his message to the people of the West, bin Laden couldn't have been clearer: ''Our call is the call of Islam that was revealed to Muhammad. It is a call to all mankind. We have been entrusted with good cause to follow in the footsteps of the messenger and to communicate his message to all nations.'' This is a religious war against ''unbelief and unbelievers,'' in bin Laden's words. Are these cynical words designed merely to use Islam for nefarious ends? We cannot know the precise motives of bin Laden, but we can know that he would not use these words if he did not think they had salience among the people he wishes to inspire and provoke. This form of Islam is not restricted to bin Laden alone. Its roots lie in an extreme and violent strain in Islam that emerged in the 18th century in opposition to what was seen by some Muslims as Ottoman decadence but has gained greater strength in the 20th. For the past two decades, this form of Islamic fundamentalism has racked the Middle East. It has targeted almost every regime in the region and, as it failed to make progress, has extended its hostility into the West. From the assassination of Anwar Sadat to the fatwa against Salman Rushdie to the decadelong campaign of bin Laden to the destruction of ancient Buddhist statues and the hideous persecution of women and homosexuals by the Taliban to the World Trade Center massacre, there is a single line. That line is a fundamentalist, religious one. And it is an Islamic one. Most interpreters of the Koran find no arguments in it for the murder of innocents. But it would be naive to ignore in Islam a deep thread of intolerance toward unbelievers, especially if those unbelievers are believed to be a threat to the Islamic world. There are many passages in the Koran urging mercy toward others, tolerance, respect for life and so on. But there are also passages as violent as this: ''And when the sacred months are passed, kill those who join other gods with God wherever ye shall find them; and seize them, besiege them, and lay wait for them with every kind of ambush.'' And this: ''Believers! Wage war against such of the infidels as are your neighbors, and let them find you rigorous.'' Bernard Lewis, the great scholar of Islam, writes of the dissonance within Islam: ''There is something in the religious culture of Islam which inspired, in even the humblest peasant or peddler, a dignity and a courtesy toward others never exceeded and rarely equaled in other civilizations. And yet, in moments of upheaval and disruption, when the deeper passions are stirred, this dignity and courtesy toward others can give way to an explosive mixture of rage and hatred which impels even the government of an ancient and civilized country -- even the spokesman of a great spiritual and ethical religion -- to espouse kidnapping and assassination, and try to find, in the life of their prophet, approval and indeed precedent for such actions.'' Since Muhammad was, unlike many other religious leaders, not simply a sage or a prophet but a ruler in his own right, this exploitation of his politics is not as great a stretch as some would argue. This use of religion for extreme repression, and even terror, is not of course restricted to Islam. For most of its history, Christianity has had a worse record. From the Crusades to the Inquisition to the bloody religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries, Europe saw far more blood spilled for religion's sake than the Muslim world did. And given how expressly nonviolent the teachings of the Gospels are, the perversion of Christianity in this respect was arguably greater than bin Laden's selective use of Islam. But it is there nonetheless. It seems almost as if there is something inherent in religious monotheism that lends itself to this kind of terrorist temptation. And our bland attempts to ignore this -- to speak of this violence as if it did not have religious roots -- is some kind of denial. We don't want to denigrate religion as such, and so we deny that religion is at the heart of this. But we would understand this conflict better, perhaps, if we first acknowledged that religion is responsible in some way, and then figured out how and why. The first mistake is surely to condescend to fundamentalism. We may disagree with it, but it has attracted millions of adherents for centuries, and for a good reason. It elevates and comforts. It provides a sense of meaning and direction to those lost in a disorienting world. The blind recourse to texts embraced as literal truth, the injunction to follow the commandments of God before anything else, the subjugation of reason and judgment and even conscience to the dictates of dogma: these can be exhilarating and transformative. They have led human beings to perform extraordinary acts of both good and evil. And they have an internal logic to them. If you believe that there is an eternal afterlife and that endless indescribable torture awaits those who disobey God's law, then it requires no huge stretch of imagination to make sure that you not only conform to each diktat but that you also encourage and, if necessary, coerce others to do the same. The logic behind this is impeccable. Sin begets sin. The sin of others can corrupt you as well. The only solution is to construct a world in which such sin is outlawed and punished and constantly purged -- by force if necessary. It is not crazy to act this way if you believe these things strongly enough. In some ways, it's crazier to believe these things and not act this way. In a world of absolute truth, in matters graver than life and death, there is no room for dissent and no room for theological doubt. Hence the reliance on literal interpretations of texts -- because interpretation can lead to error, and error can lead to damnation. Hence also the ancient Catholic insistence on absolute church authority. Without infallibility, there can be no guarantee of truth. Without such a guarantee, confusion can lead to hell. Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor makes the case perhaps as well as anyone. In the story told by Ivan Karamazov in ''The Brothers Karamazov,'' Jesus returns to earth during the Spanish Inquisition. On a day when hundreds have been burned at the stake for heresy, Jesus performs miracles. Alarmed, the Inquisitor arrests Jesus and imprisons him with the intent of burning him at the stake as well. What follows is a conversation between the Inquisitor and Jesus. Except it isn't a conversation because Jesus says nothing. It is really a dialogue between two modes of religion, an exploration of the tension between the extraordinary, transcendent claims of religion and human beings' inability to live up to them, or even fully believe them. According to the Inquisitor, Jesus' crime was revealing that salvation was possible but still allowing humans the freedom to refuse it. And this, to the Inquisitor, was a form of cruelty. When the truth involves the most important things imaginable -- the meaning of life, the fate of one's eternal soul, the difference between good and evil -- it is not enough to premise it on the capacity of human choice. That is too great a burden. Choice leads to unbelief or distraction or negligence or despair. What human beings really need is the certainty of truth, and they need to see it reflected in everything around them -- in the cultures in which they live, enveloping them in a seamless fabric of faith that helps them resist the terror of choice and the abyss of unbelief. This need is what the Inquisitor calls the ''fundamental secret of human nature.'' He explains: ''These pitiful creatures are concerned not only to find what one or the other can worship, but to find something that all would believe in and worship; what is essential is that all may be together in it. This craving for community of worship is the chief misery of every man individually and of all humanity since the beginning of time.'' This is the voice of fundamentalism. Faith cannot exist alone in a single person. Indeed, faith needs others for it to survive -- and the more complete the culture of faith, the wider it is, and the more total its infiltration of the world, the better. It is hard for us to wrap our minds around this today, but it is quite clear from the accounts of the Inquisition and, indeed, of the religious wars that continued to rage in Europe for nearly three centuries, that many of the fanatics who burned human beings at the stake were acting out of what they genuinely thought were the best interests of the victims. With the power of the state, they used fire, as opposed to simple execution, because it was thought to be spiritually cleansing. A few minutes of hideous torture on earth were deemed a small price to pay for helping such souls avoid eternal torture in the afterlife. Moreover, the example of such government-sponsored executions helped create a culture in which certain truths were reinforced and in which it was easier for more weak people to find faith. The burden of this duty to uphold the faith lay on the men required to torture, persecute and murder the unfaithful. And many of them believed, as no doubt some Islamic fundamentalists believe, that they were acting out of mercy and godliness. This is the authentic voice of the Taliban. It also finds itself replicated in secular form. What, after all, were the totalitarian societies of Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia if not an exact replica of this kind of fusion of politics and ultimate meaning? Under Lenin's and Stalin's rules, the imminence of salvation through revolutionary consciousness was in perpetual danger of being undermined by those too weak to have faith -- the bourgeois or the kulaks or the intellectuals. So they had to be liquidated or purged. Similarly, it is easy for us to dismiss the Nazis as evil, as they surely were. It is harder for us to understand that in some twisted fashion, they truly believed that they were creating a new dawn for humanity, a place where all the doubts that freedom brings could be dispelled in a rapture of racial purity and destiny. Hence the destruction of all dissidents and the Jews -- carried out by fire as the Inquisitors had before, an act of purification different merely in its scale, efficiency and Godlessness. Perhaps the most important thing for us to realize today is that the defeat of each of these fundamentalisms required a long and arduous effort. The conflict with Islamic fundamentalism is likely to take as long. For unlike Europe's religious wars, which taught Christians the futility of fighting to the death over something beyond human understanding and so immune to any definitive resolution, there has been no such educative conflict in the Muslim world. Only Iran and Afghanistan have experienced the full horror of revolutionary fundamentalism, and only Iran has so far seen reason to moderate to some extent. From everything we see, the lessons Europe learned in its bloody history have yet to be absorbed within the Muslim world. There, as in 16th-century Europe, the promise of purity and salvation seems far more enticing than the mundane allure of mere peace. That means that we are not at the end of this conflict but in its very early stages. America is not a neophyte in this struggle. the United States has seen several waves of religious fervor since its founding. But American evangelicalism has always kept its distance from governmental power. The Christian separation between what is God's and what is Caesar's -- drawn from the Gospels -- helped restrain the fundamentalist temptation. The last few decades have proved an exception, however. As modernity advanced, and the certitudes of fundamentalist faith seemed mocked by an increasingly liberal society, evangelicals mobilized and entered politics. Their faith sharpened, their zeal intensified, the temptation to fuse political and religious authority beckoned more insistently. Mercifully, violence has not been a significant feature of this trend -- but it has not been absent. The murders of abortion providers show what such zeal can lead to. And indeed, if people truly believe that abortion is the same as mass murder, then you can see the awful logic of the terrorism it has spawned. This is the same logic as bin Laden's. If faith is that strong, and it dictates a choice between action or eternal damnation, then violence can easily be justified. In retrospect, we should be amazed not that violence has occurred -- but that it hasn't occurred more often. The critical link between Western and Middle Eastern fundamentalism is surely the pace of social change. If you take your beliefs from books written more than a thousand years ago, and you believe in these texts literally, then the appearance of the modern world must truly terrify. If you believe that women should be consigned to polygamous, concealed servitude, then Manhattan must appear like Gomorrah. If you believe that homosexuality is a crime punishable by death, as both fundamentalist Islam and the Bible dictate, then a world of same-sex marriage is surely Sodom. It is not a big step to argue that such centers of evil should be destroyed or undermined, as bin Laden does, or to believe that their destruction is somehow a consequence of their sin, as Jerry Falwell argued. Look again at Falwell's now infamous words in the wake of Sept. 11: ''I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the A.C.L.U., People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.''' And why wouldn't he believe that? He has subsequently apologized for the insensitivity of the remark but not for its theological underpinning. He cannot repudiate the theology -- because it is the essence of what he believes in and must believe in for his faith to remain alive. The other critical aspect of this kind of faith is insecurity. American fundamentalists know they are losing the culture war. They are terrified of failure and of the Godless world they believe is about to engulf or crush them. They speak and think defensively. They talk about renewal, but in their private discourse they expect damnation for an America that has lost sight of the fundamentalist notion of God. Similarly, Muslims know that the era of Islam's imperial triumph has long since gone. For many centuries, the civilization of Islam was the center of the world. It eclipsed Europe in the Dark Ages, fostered great learning and expanded territorially well into Europe and Asia. But it has all been downhill from there. From the collapse of the Ottoman Empire onward, it has been on the losing side of history. The response to this has been an intermittent flirtation with Westernization but far more emphatically a reaffirmation of the most irredentist and extreme forms of the culture under threat. Hence the odd phenomenon of Islamic extremism beginning in earnest only in the last 200 years. With Islam, this has worse implications than for other cultures that have had rises and falls. For Islam's religious tolerance has always been premised on its own power. It was tolerant when it controlled the territory and called the shots. When it lost territory and saw itself eclipsed by the West in power and civilization, tolerance evaporated. To cite Lewis again on Islam: ''What is truly evil and unacceptable is the domination of infidels over true believers. For true believers to rule misbelievers is proper and natural, since this provides for the maintenance of the holy law and gives the misbelievers both the opportunity and the incentive to embrace the true faith. But for misbelievers to rule over true believers is blasphemous and unnatural, since it leads to the corruption of religion and morality in society and to the flouting or even the abrogation of God's law.'' Thus the horror at the establishment of the State of Israel, an infidel country in Muslim lands, a bitter reminder of the eclipse of Islam in the modern world. Thus also the revulsion at American bases in Saudi Arabia. While colonialism of different degrees is merely political oppression for some cultures, for Islam it was far worse. It was blasphemy that had to be avenged and countered. I cannot help thinking of this defensiveness when I read stories of the suicide bombers sitting poolside in Florida or racking up a $48 vodka tab in an American restaurant. We tend to think that this assimilation into the West might bring Islamic fundamentalists around somewhat, temper their zeal. But in fact, the opposite is the case. The temptation of American and Western culture -- indeed, the very allure of such culture -- may well require a repression all the more brutal if it is to be overcome. The transmission of American culture into the heart of what bin Laden calls the Islamic nation requires only two responses -- capitulation to unbelief or a radical strike against it. There is little room in the fundamentalist psyche for a moderate accommodation. The very psychological dynamics that lead repressed homosexuals to be viciously homophobic or that entice sexually tempted preachers to inveigh against immorality are the very dynamics that lead vodka-drinking fundamentalists to steer planes into buildings. It is not designed to achieve anything, construct anything, argue anything. It is a violent acting out of internal conflict. And America is the perfect arena for such acting out. For the question of religious fundamentalism was not only familiar to the founding fathers. In many ways, it was the central question that led to America's existence. The first American immigrants, after all, were refugees from the religious wars that engulfed England and that intensified under England's Taliban, Oliver Cromwell. One central influence on the founders' political thought was John Locke, the English liberal who wrote the now famous ''Letter on Toleration.'' In it, Locke argued that true salvation could not be a result of coercion, that faith had to be freely chosen to be genuine and that any other interpretation was counter to the Gospels. Following Locke, the founders established as a central element of the new American order a stark separation of church and state, ensuring that no single religion could use political means to enforce its own orthodoxies. We cite this as a platitude today without absorbing or even realizing its radical nature in human history -- and the deep human predicament it was designed to solve. It was an attempt to answer the eternal human question of how to pursue the goal of religious salvation for ourselves and others and yet also maintain civil peace. What the founders and Locke were saying was that the ultimate claims of religion should simply not be allowed to interfere with political and religious freedom. They did this to preserve peace above all -- but also to preserve true religion itself. The security against an American Taliban is therefore relatively simple: it's the Constitution. And the surprising consequence of this separation is not that it led to a collapse of religious faith in America -- as weak human beings found themselves unable to believe without social and political reinforcement -- but that it led to one of the most vibrantly religious civil societies on earth. No other country has achieved this. And it is this achievement that the Taliban and bin Laden have now decided to challenge. It is a living, tangible rebuke to everything they believe in. That is why this coming conflict is indeed as momentous and as grave as the last major conflicts, against Nazism and Communism, and why it is not hyperbole to see it in these epic terms. What is at stake is yet another battle against a religion that is succumbing to the temptation Jesus refused in the desert -- to rule by force. The difference is that this conflict is against a more formidable enemy than Nazism or Communism. The secular totalitarianisms of the 20th century were, in President Bush's memorable words, ''discarded lies.'' They were fundamentalisms built on the very weak intellectual conceits of a master race and a Communist revolution. But Islamic fundamentalism is based on a glorious civilization and a great faith. It can harness and co-opt and corrupt true and good believers if it has a propitious and toxic enough environment. It has a more powerful logic than either Stalin's or Hitler's Godless ideology, and it can serve as a focal point for all the other societies in the world, whose resentment of Western success and civilization comes more easily than the arduous task of accommodation to modernity. We have to somehow defeat this without defeating or even opposing a great religion that is nonetheless extremely inexperienced in the toleration of other ascendant and more powerful faiths. It is hard to underestimate the extreme delicacy and difficulty of this task. In this sense, the symbol of this conflict should not be Old Glory, however stirring it is. What is really at issue here is the simple but immensely difficult principle of the separation of politics and religion. We are fighting not for our country as such or for our flag. We are fighting for the universal principles of our Constitution -- and the possibility of free religious faith it guarantees. We are fighting for religion against one of the deepest strains in religion there is. And not only our lives but our souls are at stake. Andrew Sullivan is a contributing writer for the magazine. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/magazine/07RELIGION.html?ex=1003644909&ei=1& en=a390611ff1c7b91c September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 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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. 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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 X. and all, Thanks for all your work on this!  To clarify - who exactly have you been talking to and do you have any sense for how representative their views are (at least for the progressive caucus)?  I realize that you'll know all that better after Thurs night. Ideally, I guess I'd like to see the "stronger" resolution introduced as a communication and have the "weaker" one be introduced by one or (hopefully) more progressive alders.  If that's not going to happen - and it sounds unlikely from what you've sent - I think we need to pressure the alders we've been talking to to introduce the "weaker" one before T'ksgiving.  I have to say I'm really disappointed that they're hesitant to do anything before T'ksgiving.  After all, the reality we're addressing is an impending massive humanitarian crisis.  Jeeeeeeezus.  THEY need a breather???? I don't know anything about resolutions introduced as a communication w/out any alder sponsors, but it seems to me that doing that with our "weaker", more likely to pass resolution will flag it as unacceptable to the council. If I were a middle of the road alder and saw that none of the PD alders had signed on, I sure as heck wouldn't vote for it.  (But I think it'd be fine to introduce the "stronger" one like that, if we do still decide to introduce it.) So, I guess - with the current info we have - I feel ambivalent about the "stronger" resolution.  If it will help the "weaker" one pass to introduce it - by communication or by an alder - then I say we go for it.  But the people we need to talk to for this analysis are the PD alders who are balking at the "weaker" one. I strongly feel that we should have SOMETHING - preferably the "weaker" one unchanged from where we left it (or at least not substantially changed) voted on by Nov 20.  I feel the broader MAPC would agree with this - remember, at the last meeting the 1st vote was unanimous support for us bringing SOMETHING to the council (with a sense of urgency regarding the imminent starvation of millions), and the 2nd was in support of the 2-pronged strategy.  If we have more info now that the 2-pronged strategy won't work, the directive from the 1st vote still stands. That's my rambling input for now. -X > Hi Everyone, > > The progressive caucus thought they would be ready to act on something > AFTER Thanksgiving.  Apparently changing "prayers" to "sympathies" was very > divisive last time, so they needed a breather. > > I still haven't gotten the in-depth feedback on this--Thursday night I > should.  X has been appointed to do this for me. > > X suggested we intro the whole text as a "communication" (no > alder's name attached).  That could be done BEFORE Thanksgiving. > > My first step though will be to call X, to make sure I am > acting on her excellent strategy advice. > > I'd like the Policy Committee's input on something though.  How far do we > pursue the two-pronged approach?  What I'm hearing from the progressive > alders is that they don't want something too "divisive" (presumably to their > own caucus?), which means they want to back the weakest thing we've > presented them with.  If we are going to introduce one final text "as a > communication" I definitely need the Policy Committee's OK on what that > final text should be. > > OK, I'll get back to you when I know more. > > Sorry about all the e-mail. > > --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 ____________________________________________ X East Timor Action Network field organizer   ETAN field office X Social Justice Center office XXX-XXX-XXXX 1202 Williamson St cell XXX-XXX-XXXX                     Madison, WI 53703 home XXX-XXX-XXXX                          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. 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