[Peace-discuss] Last night's meeting

[Karen Medina]

Al,

You sound very angry and frustrated. Perhaps venting publicly 
helped, but it does make you seem a little less like the 
level-headed, well-meaning person I know you to be, and oddly 
enough, much more like the very characteristics you are 
criticizing. 

We have not dropped the issues, nor will we. 

I was actually glad we got to discuss the issue of putting 
AWARE's name on pamphlets in a real-life situation rather 
than in a completely abstract hypothetical in-a-perfect-world 
kind of way. Over and over again we see events come up rather 
quickly and we rarely have a few weeks in which to put 
something together and get approval from the group. Not doing 
anything is a bad thing too. Yes, saying the wrong thing is 
bad, hurtful, and a lost opportunity to be heard and 
understood. But sometimes we need to get the message out that 
we are frustrated and angry with the war, and the people who 
can take action seem to be putting the issues off. And 
sometimes it comes out wrong.

Peace and all good,
-karen medina