[Peace-discuss] AWARE Meeting Minutes Sunday, 29 June 2003

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Racism:

Linda Evans talked about the anti-racism meeting at her house on Friday, 27 
June. From that meeting, the ARE (Anti-Racism Effort) Group was thought of as a 
working group to fulfill the mission of AWARE. This group will be involved in 
outreach and network with other groups such as the NAACP, Urban League, etc., 
and report to AWARE.

Mike Simon presented to the group a passionate argument that international 
and domestic war are inseparable, that AWARE has not lived up to its name, and 
that a working group to address racism is not enough. Some members took umbrage 
to Mike's statements.

Jeff Sowers was concerned that dealing with anti-war and anti-race 
simultaneously would shift the focus of AWARE. Others also agreed with Jeff. 

A proposal was made to change the name of AWARE to an anti-war effort (ARE). 
Another proposal was made to keep the acronym and include racism in the 
mission statement. 

Mission Statement:

The current mission statement does not include racism. Morton Brussel had 
written a revised mission statement with racism included (Refer to Peace-Discuss 
Archive to read Morton's mission statement).

Even though the mission statement was the topic of discussion, people still 
wanted to talk about the racism issue.

One person suggested that a mission statement cannot be composed save an 
agreement is made on AWARE's aim. 

Process:

An agreement was made that consensus is not always needed. 

The group also agreed that policy is not more important procedure.

Ninety percent approval is sufficient in a group decision.

There was talk on when a vote becomes final. Answer: Read meeting minutes and 
any objections should be raised at the next meeting.

Announcements:

Jeff Sowers distributed twelve video tapes on DU and Gulf War Syndrome.
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