[Peace-discuss] what next?

[Alfred Kagan]

I think the idea of bringing a big name speaker is terrific.  Of 
course, it may take awhile to schedule something like this.

>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
>
>
>
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