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

[Alfred Kagan]

I would add that there was also general agreement that AWARE should 
include anti-racism work in the general course of its anti-war work. 
A group will be writing a brochure connecting war and racism 
(coordinated by Al).  We agreed that we need to include anti-racism 
concerns generally in our flyers and need to have more diverse 
speakers.


At 8:51 PM -0400 7/2/03, Tchiguka at aol.com wrote:
>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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