[Peace-discuss] what next?

[Carol Inskeep]

folks,

i've been thinking quite a bit about what's next for us.  it seems to me
that AWARE is in a very strong position right now as an organization - we
have some money (yeah!), we have good turnouts to our events, we have
strong organizers in our group, and we get more media coverage these days.

on the other side, there seems to be concensus that things are bad and
getting worse - the war is soon to expand, civil liberties restrictions 
and harassment of groups like ours are likely to increase, and there is
always the possibility of more 9/11 style terrorism that would dramatically 
inflame the situation.

are there some ambitious plans we could make?  could we organize a
regional event, for example, that would promote alternative media -
perhaps try to bring amy goodman of democracy now and - a concerted effort to
expose folks to a range of alternate sources for news?  or could we use
some of our money to send someone to afghanistan and organize widely
around that trip?  

these are just ideas that i pose in effort to get a discussion going about
what to do with this chunk of money and with the great energy we have
going right now...

carol