[Peace-discuss] cosponsorship? Tue 2/28 Muslim American Society event

[Carl G. Estabrook]

(90% of the words in the flyer are Bill Blum’s and John Pilger’s…)


> On Feb 11, 2017, at 10:13 AM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I support Carl’s suggestion, and he who wrote the flyer should read the flyer.
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>> On Feb 11, 2017, at 08:09, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
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>> What is their position/platform? 
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>> It seems like we should "(a) cosponsor and (b) speak briefly” on anti-war themes.
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>> If we were to speak for a minute or two, we could read our flyer from last week’s demonstration (appended).
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>> —CGE
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>>> On Feb 11, 2017, at 9:55 AM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
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>>> Heard from Ahmed Taha of Muslim American Society: on Tuesday, Feb. 28th, for Black History Month, they're doing an event - two speakers including sociologist Evelyn Reynolds, and someone coming down from Chicago, and an award to Rebecca Ginsburg for her Education Justice Project work.
>>> 
>>> They are inviting activist groups around the area to (a) cosponsor and (b) speak briefly, for a minute or two, to let community members know what they're up to and encourage them to join in.
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>>> Cosponsorship wouldn't involve money, just encouraging our members to come to the event.
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>>> AWARE is invited.   Should we agree to cosponsor - and offer to speak?   
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>>> I think this could be a good bridge-building thing to do.
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>>> They'd like to know by this weekend, since they're drawing up the flyer now, which will list cosponsoring groups.   Maybe we can talk about this at Sunday's AWARE meeting.
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>> <flyer-201702.rtfd.zip>
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