[Peace] anti-racism (Action Requested)

[Peter Rohloff]

Howdy all.

As mentioned briefly by Carol at last night's AWARE meeting, the  
anti-racism discussion held on Friday was full of interested ideas and  
discussion. So as not to clog up the peace list, I am posting the  
detailed minutes only to those who were at the meeting. However, the  
brief summary and action requested from all of you is as follows:

1. One clear theme emerging from the discussion was that AWARE needs to  
stick at what it is good at. We need to keep doing 'peace' work and  
deal with racism issues as they relate to issues of violence and  
warfare. This will provide some continuity to our work.

2. The primary need we felt AWARE needed to address is that of  
'coalition building.' To begin this task, we want to pull together a  
list of all the resources present within the group:  AWARE members work  
on many things and know many people, but these resources are not always  
communicated to the group. So the ACTION requested is that each of you  
would make a list of potential resources  and contacts: community  
leaders, friendly churches and ministers, neighborhood organizations,  
university faculty, student organizations, etc. Email these to me at  
rohloff at uiuc.edu and I will compile them for our next meeting. This  
list will form a working database of 'experts' on racism and violence  
that AWARE can use for self-education as well as contact points for  
coalition building and cooperative efforts.

Thanks, Peter

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"He tried to sing, singing
not to remember
his true life of lies
and to remember
his lying life of truths."

		-- Octavio Paz
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