[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] NEED ONE MORE PERSON: National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation

[Karen Medina]

John W., we are all assets and liabilities. But mostly assets. I think Carl would be 
one of the first to recognize that we are all assets. 

This brings me back to a discussion that was attempted during the AWARE 
meeting.

The conference in Cleveland is about the one issue of Iraq. All other issues are 
separated from this. 

While some see the focus on Iraq as a way to unite the largest number of 
people, others see this as a failure to see how it is all part of the WAR -- 
including Afghanastan, Pakistan, Israel, Palestine, Iran, control of oil resources, 
sanctions, and US foreign policy that started many presidents ago and continues 
on the same wrong track. 

I would like to see a bit of discussion on this particular issue -- whether it is 
better for the Cleveland conference to focus on Iraq or whether it should have 
gone broader. I am particularly interested in such a discussion because I believe 
both Ghandi and ML King were criticized for focusing on one issue and not 
always taking a stand on related issues or timely issues where leadership were 
sought. ML King did, after some time, take a very strong stance against the 
Vietnam War, but he at first declined. 

-karen medina
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>   This is nice, Carl.  You finally seem to be
>   acknowledging my uniqueness as an asset to the
>   community, rather than some sort of liability. 
>   Thank you.
>
>     John W. wrote:
>
>       This sounds like one of those convoluted
>       questions on the LSAT (Law School Aptitude Test,
>       for the uninitiated).  :-)
>
>       On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Randall Cotton
>       <recotton at earthlink.net
>       <mailto:recotton at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
>          At last Sunday's AWARE meeting, funds were
>       approved to send up to 4
>          AWARE
>          folks to this weekend's gathering of the
>       "National Assembly to End the
>          Iraq War and Occupation". Details of my
>       proposal on this are in this
>          week's minutes (near the bottom of the post)
>       at:
>
>        
>        http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/archive/peace/2008-
June/021403.html
>
>          And we have 4 folks who are interested in
>       going - myself included (on my
>          own dime). The other three folks are:
>
>          1. David Harley
>          2. Mort Brussel
>          3. Roger Epperson
>
>          HOWEVER, Mort may not be able to go because
>       of a physical injury.
>          FURTHERMORE, if Mort can't go, we may only be
>       able to send ONE person
>          (David). Since I would only go at my own cost
>       (on principle, since I'm
>          proposing all this), I won't be able to go
>       unless at least TWO other
>          folks
>          go (I just couldn't afford it otherwise). In
>       addition, Roger said he'd
>          only go as the 4th person. Yes, it's a little
>       convoluted, but the upshot
>          is:
>
>          *** WE NEED A SECOND PERSON ***
>
>          so that the third person (me) and fourth
>       person (Roger) can go. Mort
>          would
>          really like to go as the second person, but
>       just may not be able to
>          because of his injury (and it will definitely
>       be a physical hardship for
>          him if he does go). He plans to make a call
>       on this tomorrow night.
>
>          So we're in serious need of an AWAREista to
>       commit to joining us (or at
>          least be an alternate for Mort in case he
>       can't make it), pulling
>          everything together so we can send a full
>       contingent of 4 folks (the max
>          we can put in one hotel room).
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