[Peace-discuss] Lawyer redux

[jencart]

Hi Folks,

Sounds like Sunday's meeting was like one I attended a year or two ago where free speech meant, You're free to say what I want to hear.... We aren't big enuff or strong enuff for factions.  There are plenty of issues we can support or oppose as a united group making an anti-war-anti-racist effort.   Those w/ differing views are free to also join and support groups that promote these views...... Greens, NARAL, Democrats, Right-To-Life, Animal Rights'/Save the Whales, Socialist Forum, etc.   No shortage.....

Attorneys listed from p 23 thru 68 in yellow pages..... Let's find one we can all trust, respect and support, not a loose cannon...  And one that others -- judges, lawyers, police officers, jury members -- also can take seriously.  If our group finds Gerstein controversial, imagine how the world @ large views him..... Be realistic, folks, this kind of thing matters -- it doesn't do our cause one bit of good to have a person like Gerstein represent us, we've lost points before we even present our case.....

Any other  recommendations ?  Any sources we can tap into for  recommendations?  Let's get going on this!

Jenifer C.
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Seems a little odd that 2 critical emails have come from women who were  not at last week's mtg. I drafted a note to you all after the mtg as  well, but ended up not sending it. As I said that evening I, too, feel  strongly that we shouldn't get involved with this mixed bag of a lawyer.  But mostly I left Sunday feeling pretty alienated from our group, which  I care about a great deal, and confused. It seems to me that if some of  the people who have given an awful lot to the organization express such  strong reservations, and say they find this man sexist and are  personally offended as well as politically put off by him, it should be  enough to have us all change gears and look for a mutually satisfying  solution. There was an undertone to the meeting that if we were REALLY  radical, we would see that his bad language is appropriate and the  professional reprimands a badge of honor, considering the system in  which we exist. But to turn it around 
and have US willing to defend HIM  would mean we all found him worthy, and that is obviously not the case.  (And please stop conflating the arguments that we need to have a lawyer  on our side, which we are all in agreement on, vs. it has to be THIS  lawyer.)  If the group continues to come down on the side of ignoring  what some have taken very serious issue with, there is a risk of deeply  dividing our group. I think at moments like this we should show that we  are willing to defend each other, and that this would be far more  meaningful in the long run... 

Lisa


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