102 20 70360 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Dear Media Committee:      Thanks for your help publicizing this resolution!      Here's a possible correction to the text you may have included in a press release.  I just pulled the text off the Common Council agenda for 11/20 (on the city web site http://www.ci.madison.wi.us/council/ccattach/att112001/30696.pdf), and realized that the call to stop the bombing was somehow excised from the version formally submitted by the alders to the city (note in first "BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT" clause, the text about "defering to the judgement of international aid agencies that a cessation in the bombing is necessary..." was deleted).  Brief pause for a moment of profound disappointment.       OK, we still have a very important resolution.       I just wanted to let you know about the correct text.       I will be printing 400 quarter sheets for tomorrow with the alder contact info (Thanks, Lori!).  See you at the Parade! Sincerely, X X home September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Friday, November 16, 2001 5:41 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients X September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-policy] correction on resolution text Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-policy] correction on resolution text 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. I think it's a great idea.  But, I don't think we can have both groups working on specific events needs AND groups working on the other general issues, there will be too much cross purpose work.  As I think the committees who are sponsoring the events are already coordinating the events and asking for help as needed, I would propose the breakout groups work on the general issues: 1) working on the brochure 2) postering for the upcoming planned events only (coordinating to minimize duplicate efforts right now, not the overall plan of how to deal with this in the future) 3) labor caucus - at least show of interest As for website suggestions, the Communications cmte will be meeting shortly, and I would like to see what develops before throwing this out to the gm. We know there are improvements to be made, but it is working as is, and people are posting and finding things.  As always, anyone with strong ideas on the web site can a)join the communications cmte, b)come to the communications cmte meeting, or c)convey their opinions to the communications cmte listserve. peace, X _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ coordination@madpeace.org http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-cc September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Monday, November 12, 2001 7:00 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients coordination@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-coord] X's idea on gm break out groups Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-coord] X's idea on gm break out groups 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. I give up... what are the last four words? -----Original Message----- From: X [mailto:X]On Behalf Of X Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 7:00 AM To: MAPC Announce Subject: [MAPC-discuss] Taliban: terorists or freedom fighters? A reminder from Orwell (fwd) From G. Orwell's 1984 "On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns - after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the negeral hatered of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the two thousand Eurasion war crimilas who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces - at just this moment it had been announced that Oceana was not after all at war with Eurasis. Oceana was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally. There was of course no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy. Winston was taking part in a demonstration at one of the central London squares at the moment when it happened. It was night, and the white square was packed with several thousand people.... ....A little Rumpelstiltskin figure, contorted with hatred, he gripped the neck of the microphone with one hand while the other, enormous at the end of a bony arm, clawed the air menacingly above his head. His voice, made metallic by the amplifiers, boomed forth an endless catalogue of atrocities, masscres, deportations, lootings, rapings, torture of prisoners, bombing of civilians, lying propoganda, unjust aggressions, broken treaties. It was almost impossible to listen to him without being first convinced and then maddened. At every few moments, the fury of the crowd boiled over and the voice of the speaker was drowned by a wild beastlike roaring that rose uncontrollably from thousands of throats. The most savage yells of all came from the schoolchildren. The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty messages when a messenger hurried onto the platform and a scrap of paper ws slipped into the speaker's hand. He unrolled it and read it without pausing in his speech. Nothing altered in his voice or manner, or in the content of what he was saying, but suddenly the names were different. Without words said, a wave of understanding rippled through the crowd. Oceana was at war with Eastasia! The next moment there was a tremendous commotion. The banners and posters with which the square was decorated were all wrong! Quite half of them had the wrong faces on them. It was sabotage! The agents of Goldstein had been at work! There was a riotous interlude while posters were ripped from the walls, banners torn to shreds and trampled underfoot. The Spies performed prodigies of activity in clambering over the rooftops and cutting the streamers that fluttered from the chimneys. But within two or three minutes it was all over. The orator, still gripping the neck of the microphone, his shoulders hunched forward, his free hand clawing at the air, had gone straight on with his speech. One minut more and the feral roars of rage were again bursting from the crowd. The Hate continued exactly as before, except that the target had been changed." .... Anybody remember the last 4 words of the novel? September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:25 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients X September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. RE: [MAPC-discuss] Taliban: terorists or freedom fighters? A Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RE: [MAPC-discuss] Taliban: terorists or freedom fighters? A 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Regardless of whether any other breakouts occur, I'd definitely encourage X to pull together a quick meeting of  the labor folks immediately after the meeting, if only for long enough to set a future meeting date for the labor caucus. We (F&F) might attempt the same thing to try to recruit folks to work on the art auction; I don't think either of those breakouts would take any major effort. I'm not sure if the other proposed breakouts would take great effort or not. Perhaps we should just leave that question to the Working Groups:  If O&E wants a postering or brochure breakout, or if Action wants a Nov. 17 breakout, they can announce it & organize it. Anyhow, that's my two Afghanis ("the currency, not the people") worth. X ----- Original Message ----- From: "X" <X> To: <coordination@madpeace.org> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:04 PM Subject: RE: [MAPC-coord] cc mission for approval, gm agenda > X, > > Good ideas, but I think too difficult to organize for this meeting, given > the packed agenda and potential discussion of CD on Nov 17th. See X's email. I think we need to go with what we decided this time around. > > Peace, > X > > -----Original Message----- > From: X > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 3:56 AM > To: coordination@madpeace.org > Subject: Re: [MAPC-coord] cc mission for approval, gm agenda > > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 20:37:50 -0600  "X" wrote: > > > Here is the CC mission, combining X's original plus what we > added/changed: > > looks great to me. > > > Here is the agenda: > ... > > 4) Announcements > > 5) Optional - Video > > i thought more about the idea of having people who want to work on the > brochure get together for a little bit after the gm.  i started > thinking about all the other tasks we try to coordinate, particularly > things that have a lot of overlap between the different committees.  i > was also thinking about the need to make the general meetings more > productive and worth while for people to come to, since some people > have stopped coming because of their experience with long meetings > that didn't accomplish a whole lot.  i think that's gotten much > better, but our gms still have a reputation which we need to take big, > tangible steps towards overcoming. > > i propose that at the end of the gm we have people split up into > working groups to accomplish specific things that need to be > organized.  we could have our own proposals as the cc and/or during > the meeting, anyone could suggest other topics.  my proposals for this > week: > > 1) working on the brochure >   - already discussed as a good idea > > 2) coordinating putting up posters >   - has lots of overlap between o/e, communications, volunteers, etc; >     it really needs to happen, particularly this week with so many >     events coming up soon... > > 3) coordinating the production of posters >   - has lots of overlap between o/e, arts, communications, action, >     media, etc; there are people not in any committee who are good at >     this who want to help us; it'd be good if there was some more >     consistancy to our publicity (all posters include the mapc logo >     and www.madpeace.org, a .pdf version of all of our posters should >     be posted on the web so anyone can download, print, copy, and hang >     them, etc); it's a lot of work, and it'd be good if there was a >     pool of people who could do it and each committee didn't have to >     find volunteers themselves; etc... > > 4) inital steps towards forming a labor caucus >   - see how many union folks are in the room and if they're interested >     in starting to work towards forming a caucus > > in addition, we could use one of these working groups to coordinate > details of a specific event.  since we have less and less time in the > cc meetings to hash out lots of details, it might be good to have > people from different committees meet to coordinate some of the > details themselves, and get people right there who agree to take care > of certain tasks.  the people from these groups who could then be the > liasons between committees for the planning of the given event.  this > way, things like "who's going to pick up the art props for our demo on > the 17th planned by action?" can be taken care of without using up > time in a cc meeting. > > this is a direct way to involve volunteers from the meeting in the > work of the coalition without them having to join a committee or > caucus.  it drastically cuts down on the time between when a new > person comes to a mapc meeting and when they can start to be involved > in the coalition's work.  it would help the committees get their work > accomplished.  i hope it would also start to break down the mentality > of "committee turf" which i see as developing into a minor problem > (all the concern over "who's responsibility is this task, committee X > or committee Y?"). > > for this week, if there's still work that needs to be done that we > don't have (enough) people working on, we could have groups to > coordinate that work for: > > - the fast > - the teach-in on thursday > - the peace parade on the 17th > - the dance party at the cardinal > - the school supply event on the 30th > - the art auction > ... > > for each of our propoals, it would be best to find a coordinator or > facilitator ahead of time so at the end of the meeting, we could have > them stand up, announce their location, and have folks who are > interested in working on that go to their part of the room.  if folks > proposed something during the meeting, they could be the default > facilitator, or the chairs could make sure someone volunteers to do it > when the group is splitting up. > > my apologies for not thinking of all of this before/during our meeting > since it would have been easier to discuss in person than over email. > > do y'all think this is worth trying?  if so, let's put it on the > agenda as item #6 (or 5, if the video isn't happening): > > 6) Break up into working groups >  - working on mapc brochure (X) >  - forming labor caucus (X) >  - poster distribution (X) >  - poster production (?) >  ... > > these are just ideas for facilitators (Sarah + Channa were talking > about the brochure at the cc meeting, Tyuet and Mike are mentioned in > the e/o report...)  any volunteers for the others?  do folks think we > need one for any of the events i listed above? > > what'd y'all think? > > >  In solidarity, > > X > International Socialist Organization    (www.socialistworker.org) > United Faculty and Academic Staff, AFT Local 223   (www.ufas.org) > > > _______________________________________________ > coordination@madpeace.org > http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-cc > > > _______________________________________________ > coordination@madpeace.org > http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-cc > _______________________________________________ coordination@madpeace.org http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-cc September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. "Money for schools and the poor, Stop the bombing, stop the war." "Peace Now!" "No More Asian Wars" "No More Blood for Oil!" On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, X wrote: > Folks, > > after browsing the action committee page I realized that I am to lead > the crowd in chants. > > Suggestions needed! > > What should we chant tomorrow? > > let me know asap! > > thanks, > X > > _______________________________________________ > discuss@madpeace.org mailing list > http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Saturday, November 17, 2001 8:22 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients X September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Re: [MAPC-discuss] NEED CHANTS Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Re: [MAPC-discuss] NEED CHANTS 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, November 07, 2001 2:06 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients discuss@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-discuss] N.Y. Times: Torture Seeps Into Discussion By News Media Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-discuss] N.Y. Times: Torture Seeps Into Discussion By News Media 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-11-07 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well, you're probably right about x being a student. As far as "painting ourselves too student-like", I am fully aware of the role students are playing in the movement. I am also all too aware that the media and politicians are attempting to ghetto-ize the peace movement as solely campus based. The bulk of the readership of the WSJ is not on campus. It only makes sense that we attempt to portray the movement as broader than the campus in order to reach out to them. I don't think it will have the same appeal if we let the media slant this as the peace movement being student dominated. In any case, I am certainly not arguing that students aren't well represented, I am just saying we need to be as diverse as possible. - -----Original Message----- From: x [mailto:x]On Behalf Of x Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 12:12 PM To: x; x Subject: Re: [MAPC-coord] Re: [MAPC-media] Fwd: Possible person's name On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 22:50:27 -0500  "x" wrote: > I think we should consider asking x not to speak (even though he > has agreed to), to make room for a non-student. I think x might be a good candidate. He is one of the spokespeople > for the group, and has been active for years in treaty rights and > anti-mining organizing. He actually has a base of support in > upstate and rural Wisconsin. last i heard, x was still a grad student here at UW.  so, even though he doesn't look the part, he's still technically a student. don't get me wrong, i think he'd be a great person to be in on the interview, but that's b/c he knows his shit backwards and forwards, and has experience dealing w/ the media, not b/c he's a non-student. and, regarding painting ourselves as too student-like.... over 600 students came out to a campus rally in mid september.  all of our actions have been attended by a large number of students.  the people who made the trip to DC for the nat'l march against the war were predominantly students.  if this article is about the anti-war movement as a whole, not just about mapc, i think 1/2 student is a very accurate picture of who's been involved.  even mapc has a lot of students involved in its organizing and activities. In solidarity, x International Socialist Organization United Faculty and Academic Staff, AFT Local 223 September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, October 17, 2001 1:28 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients x; x September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. x September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. RE: [MAPC-coord] Re: [MAPC-media] Fwd: Possible person's name Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. X, The Wilmar center has been booked for Oct. 30 at 6:30.  As it turns out, the fee is "donation only" b/c MAPC is/could be a non-profit.  We have the upstairs room and the Monona room for childcare.  I will take care of the key. Re:  other places for next meetings, I'll ask if I can hand this part over to X. I'm not sure what to say about arranging rides there for students.  I unfortunately don't have the time to do that. Is anyone willing to consider changing CC mtgs to later in the day/eve, and trying other places, such as the near east side? X, I'd be glad to take the petitions.  You can give them my contact info: X. Peace, X -----Original Message----- From: X [mailto:X]On Behalf Of X Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:36 PM To: X Subject: Re: [MAPC-coord] GM location update X, Thanks for the update. It looks like WilMar is the only available option for the 30th. My concern with that location is that it's quite far from campus compared to some of the other options, which aren't available. Can we think of any other places? Any other ideas? If we book WilMar, we may want to consider organizing transportation for students. I'd hate to lose or diminish our student involvement as a result of meeting location. One thought--we could advertise free rides on our poster (e.g., for free rides, call xx). X, the La Crosse peace group sent me an email today about the anti-war petitioning that they're doing. They want to know where to send their petitions. Could I tell them to send the petitions to you? Even if we don't have a petition campaign yet, it seems that petitioning would fall under the auspices of the Policy committee. I don't want to leave them hanging because they are a small, but dedicated group and really want to work with us. I would think we could funnel these petitions and any others that are collected in the future to the appropriate governmental officials. What do you think? Peace, X ----- Original Message ----- From: "X" <X> To: <X> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 1:17 PM Subject: RE: [MAPC-coord] GM location update > > Hi folks - Here's the update on the GM 10/30.  All places have a separate > room for childcare.  All are accessible by bus, as far as I can tell. > > Wilmar 257-4576:  $30 per hour for two rooms.  Available all evening. > Holds plenty of people. $25 key deposit. > > Atwood neighborhood ctr, 241-1574: $1 per person suggested.  Holds 99 > people.  Avail. Tues after 7:30, Mondays after 7, Weds after 8:30. $25 key > deposit. > > Neighborhood House, Mills/Park, 255-5337:  Upstairs room only holds 70 - 80 > people.  Gym is taken til 2002.  Said we should come see it.  Free. > > Friends Mtg House, off Monroe St, 256-2249:  Left message.  Said "downstairs > might work".  Need more info. > > Luke House, 310 S. Ingersoll, 256-6325:  Dinner in space til 7:30.  Holds 72 > people at tables.  Parking limited (no lot).  They want a pamphlet to find > out more about us.  Told us to visit.  Ask for X.  Free. > > It appears Wilmar is the only place available before 7:30, and one of the > few with enough space for the 100 - 140 people I've counted at the last > meetings.  While it will probably cost $90 or so, I would suggest this space > for Oct. 30 and we can find a different, free space in the future if people > agree to meet later in the evening AND less people start showing up. > > Shall I book Wilmar, or do people have other ideas? > > Peace, x September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Thursday, October 25, 2001 4:18 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients X September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Dear friends around the world, The events of this day cause every thinking person to stop their daily lives, whatever is going on in them, and to ponder deeply the larger questions of life.  We search again for not only the meaning of life, but the purpose of our individual and collective experience as we have created it -and we look earnestly for ways in which we might recreate ourselves anew as a human species, so that we will never treat each other this way again. The hour has come for us to demonstrate at the highest level our most extraordinary thought about Who We Really Are.  There are two possible responses to what has occurred today. The first comes from love, the second from fear. If we come from fear we may panic and do things-as individuals and as nations-that could only cause further damage. If we come from love we will find refuge and strength, even as we provide it to others. This is the moment of your ministry. This is the time of teaching. What you teach at this time, through your every word and action right now, will remain as indelible lessons in the hearts and minds of those whose lives you touch, both now, and for years to come. We will set the course for tomorrow, today.  At this hour.  In this moment. Let us seek not to pinpoint blame, but to pinpoint cause.  Unless we take this time to look at the cause of our experience, we will never remove ourselves from the experiences it creates.  Instead, we will forever live in fear of retribution from those within the human family who feel aggrieved, and, likewise, seek retribution from them. To us the reasons are clear.  We have not learned the most basic human lessons.  We have not remembered the most basic human truths.  We have not understood the most basic spiritual wisdom.  In short, we have not been listening to God, and because we have not, we watch ourselves do ungodly things. The message we hear from all sources of truth is clear: We are all one. That is a message the human race has largely ignored.  Forgetting this truth is the only cause of hatred and war, and the way to remember is simple: Love this and every moment. If we could love even those who have attacked us, and seek to understand why they have done so, what then would be our response? Yet if we meet negativity with negativity, rage with rage, attack with attack, what then will be the outcome? These are the questions that are placed before the human race today.  They are questions that we have failed to answer for thousands of years. Failure to answer them now could eliminate the need to answer them at all. If we want the beauty of the world that we have co-created to be experienced by our children and our children's children, we will have to become spiritual activists right here, right now, and cause that to happen. We must choose to be at cause in the matter. So, talk with God today. Ask God for help, for counsel and advice, for insight and for strength and for inner peace and for deep wisdom. Ask God on this day to show us how to show up in the world in a way that will cause the world itself to change.  And join all those people around the world who are praying right now, adding your Light to the Light that dispells all fear. That is the challenge that is placed before every thinking person today. Today the human soul asks the question: What can I do to preserve the beauty and the wonder of our world and to eliminate the anger and hatred-and the disparity that inevitably causes it - in that part of the world which I touch? Please seek to answer that question today, with all the magnificence that is You.  What can you do TODAY...this very moment?  A central teaching in most spiritual traditions is:  What you wish to experience, provide for another.  Look to see, now, what it is you wish to experience-in your own life, and in the world. Then see if there is another for whom you may be the source of that.  If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.  If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe.  If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance at this hour.  Most of all, they are looking to you for love. -- My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. Dalai Lama September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, October 10, 2001 5:57 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients mapc@yahoogroups.com; X; X; X; X; X September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X [mailto:X] September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC] Something from the Dalai Lama to appeal to your "inner Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC] Something from the Dalai Lama to appeal to your "inner 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Hi Everyone,    The Policy Committee continues to push to get a peace resolution debated in the Common Council, but will not have concrete progress to report tomorrow night.    We have been very actively contacting the progressive alders, but now we need to step back for a day or two (again) to give them a chance to respond.    A common reaction from the alders is that it is problematic to introduce a resolution that gets only a few votes.  This could send the message that the city isn't for peace, or jepardize future resolutions on the same issue.   So our proposed resolution may end up being debated after Thanksgiving if at all--we'll know soon.    It's interesting.  One school of thought seems to be that even introduction of a resolution is positive since it generates debate.  Another school is that some collegiality among progressive alders must be preserved, divisiveness must be avoided, and you don't want to waste political capital on something that has no chance of passing.    What do you think?    Should we do a County resolution, too? Regards, X, Policy Committee XXX-XXXX (day) 242-9232 (evening) _____________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Monday, November 12, 2001 2:35 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients discuss@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-discuss] city peace resolution Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-discuss] city peace resolution 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. X and I have found an experienced art hanger who is enthusiastically ttaking tthis up.  I'll be speaking with her upon her return to Madison tomorrow. Barbara X wrote: > Needed for Dec. 2 Silent Art Auction:  One (possibly with a helper) > EXPERIENCED art hanger. The management of Mother Fools requests that > we provide someone - their staff cannot do it for us.  Someone who > has worked with hanging art by filament (fishing line?) before is > needed - it should only take about 2 hours if you know how to do it... > > thanks! > rebekah > > _______________________________________________ > discuss@madpeace.org mailing list > http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Friday, November 16, 2001 9:07 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients X September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Re: [MAPC-discuss] Art Hanger Needed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Re: [MAPC-discuss] Art Hanger Needed 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. I am hereby requesting the media committee to send a letter to the Editor to Isthmus on behalf of the MAPC. The letter (or e-mail) should go out in time to get in the next issue. Perhaps e-mailing this Monday or Tuesday would work. Draft Letter Text Suggestion: " Dear Editor:      Alexander Cockburn (11/02/01 'U.S. eyes sheer torture') notes that the United States government has sheltered torturers around the world.  One way the government has done this is through the Army School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia, long a U.S. military training school for torture techniques.  The School's graduates have gone on to mastermind torture and death squads in their home countries in Latin America.  In fact, the alumni form a who's who of notorious human rights abusers in the region.  For ten years, American citizens have protested the School of the Americas outside Fort Benning on a Saturday in November.      This year Madisonians can join in a Peace Parade in solidarity with the eleventh annual School of the Americas protest.  It is being held at MATC Truax at noon on Saturday, November 17th.  For more information call 835-7501 or go to www.madpeace.org. Sincerely, Madison Area Peace Coalition Media Contact:  X, etc." _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Saturday, November 03, 2001 1:30 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients discuss@madpeace.org; media@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-discuss] Isthmus Letter to the Editor Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-discuss] Isthmus Letter to the Editor 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. interesting info From: x Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 22:33:05 -0400 To: x Cc: x Subject: Fwd: [UIBLSAAlumni] The Most Wanted Man in the World I certainly don't want to fuel the hysteria - but this is a good write-up on bin Laden, from a Time magazine reporter.  Gave me more info than I knew before.  Better to be informed than not.  I hold no claims or assumptions to this piece, just thought it informative... From: x Reply-To: x To: x Subject: Fwd: [UIBLSAAlumni] The Most Wanted Man in the World Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 08:46:25 -0400 ----Original Message Follows---- From: x Reply-To: x To: x Subject: x The Most Wanted Man in the World Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:09:37 -0500 The Most Wanted Man in the World He lives a life fired by fury and faith. Why terrors $250 million man loathes the U.S. BY LISA BEYER http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010924/wosama.html Things might have turned out differently for Osama bin Laden -- and for the denizens of southern Manhattan -- if the tall, thin, soft-spoken 44-year-old hadn't been born rich, or if he'd been born rich but not a second-rank Saudi. It might have bee n another story if, while studying engineering in college, the young man had drawn a different teacher for Islamic Studies rather than a charismatic Palestinian lecturer who fired his religious fervor. Things might have been different if the Soviet Union hadn't invaded Afghanistan, if Saddam Hussein hadn't stolen Kuwait, or if U.S. forces hadn't retreated so hastily after a beating in Somalia, giving bin Laden the idea that Americans are cowards who can be defeated easily. Of course, Osama bin Laden wouldn't buy any of that. For him, life is preordained, written in advance by God, who in bin Laden's view must have delighted in the deaths of all those infidels in Manhattan last week. Still, those are among the seminal detail s that shaped the man U.S. officials believe to be not only capable but also guilty of one of the worst single massacres of civilians since Hitler's camps were shut down. How does any one man, and an intelligent man, come to be so angry? And so callous? B in Laden has considered himself at war with the U.S. for years, even if the U.S. is getting there only now. Still, how does one man come to be so comfortably certain in the face of responsibility for so many devoured lives? Last week's deadly operation took planning, patience, money, cool, stealth and extraordinarily committed operatives. It was a measure of the sophistication of the complex network of devout, high-spirited Islamic militants whom bin Laden has been assemblin g for almost 20 years. The big challenge here was will. Whence did the will grow to do something so atrocious? In many ways, bin Laden's story is like that of many other Muslim extremists. There's the fanatical religiosity and the intemperate interpretation of Islam; the outrage over the dominance, particularly in the Arab world, of a secular, decadent U.S.; the i ndignation over U.S. support for Israel; the sense of grievance over the perceived humiliations of the Arab people at the hands of the West. But bin Laden brings some particular, and collectively potent, elements to this equation. As a volunteer in the war that the Islamic rebels of Afghanistan fought against the Soviets in the 1980s, bin Laden had a front-row seat at an astonishing and empowe ring development: the defeat of a superpower by a gaggle of makeshift militias. Though the U.S., with billions of dollars in aid, helped the militias in their triumph, bin Laden soon turned on their benefactor. When U.S. troops in 1990 arrived in his sac red Saudi homeland to fight Saddam Hussein, bin Laden considered their infidel presence a desecration of the Prophet Muhammad's birthplace. He was inspired to take on a second superpower, and he was funded to do so: by a fortune inherited from his contrac tor father, by an empire of business enterprises, by the hubris that comes from being a rich kid whose commands had always been obeyed by nannies, butlers and maids. Though bin Laden grew up wealthy, he wasn't entirely within the charmed circle in Saudi Arabia. As the son of immigrants, he didn't have quite the right credentials. His mother came from Syria by some reports, Palestine by others. His father moved to Saudi Arabia from neighboring Yemen, a desperately poor country looked down on by Saudis. If bin Laden felt any alienation or resentment about his status, it was good preparation for the break he would ultimately make with the privileged and bourgeois life that was laid out for him a t birth. The family's wealth came from the Saudi bin Laden Group, built by Osama's father Mohamed, who had four wives and 52 children. Mohamed had had the good luck of befriending the country's founder, Abdel Aziz al Saud. That relationship led to important govern ment contracts such as refurbishing the shrines at Mecca and Medina, Islam's holiest places, projects that moved young Osama deeply. Today the company, with 35,000 employees worldwide, is worth $5 billion. Osama got his share at 13 when his father died, l eaving him $80 million, a fortune the son subsequently expanded to an estimated $250 million. At the King Abdel Aziz University in Jidda, bin Laden, according to associates, was greatly influenced by one of his teachers, Abdullah Azzam, a Palestinian who was a major figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that has played a large role in the resu rgence of Islamic religiosity. Bin Laden, who like most Saudis is a member of the puritanical Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam, had been pious from childhood, but his encounter with Azzam seemed to deepen his faith. What's more, through Azzam he became steeped not in the then popular ideology of pan-Arabism, which stresses the unity of all Arabs, but in a more ambitious pan-Islamicism, which reaches out to all the world's 1 billion Muslims. And so bin Laden at age 22 was quick to sign up to help fellow Muslims in Afghanistan fight the godless invading Soviets in 1979. For hard-liners like bin Laden, a non-Muslim infringement on Islamic territory goes beyond the political sin of oppression; i t is an offense to God that must be corrected at all costs. At first, bin Laden mainly raised money, especially among rich Gulf Arabs, for the Afghan rebels, the mujahedin. He also brought in some of the family bulldozers and was once famously using one to dig a trench when a Soviet helicopter strafed him but miss ed. In the early 1980s, Abdullah Azzam founded the Maktab al Khidmat, which later morphed into an organization called al-Qaeda (the base). It provided logistical help and channeled foreign assistance to the mujahedin. Bin Laden joined his old teacher and became the group's chief financier and a major recruiter of the so-called Arab Afghans, the legions of young Arabs who left their homes in places like Egypt, Algeria and Saudi Arabia to join the mujahedin. He was instrumental in building the training camps that prepared them to fight. Bin Laden saw combat too; how much is in dispute. During the same years, the CIA, intent on seeing a Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, was also funneling money and arms to the mujahedin. Milton Bearden, who ran the covert program during its peak years -- 1986 to 1989 -- says the CIA had no direct dealing s with bin Laden. But U.S. officials acknowledge that some of the aid probably ended up with bin Laden's group anyway. In 1989, the exhausted Soviets finally quit Afghanistan. With his mentor Azzam dead at the hands of an assassin and his job seemingly done, bin Laden went home to Jidda. The war had stiffened him. He became increasingly indignant over the corruption of th e Saudi regime and what he considered its insufficient piety. His outrage boiled over in 1990. When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia, bin Laden informed the royal family that he and his Arab Afghans were prepared to defend the kin gdom. The offer was spurned. Instead, the Saudis invited in U.S. troops for the first time ever. Like many other Muslims, bin Laden was offended by the Army's presence, with its Christian and Jewish soldiers, its rock music, its women who drove and wore p ants. Saudi Arabia has a singular place among Islamic countries as the cradle of Islam and as home to Mecca and Medina, which are barred to non-Muslims. When bin Laden began to write treatises against the Saudi regime, King Fahd had him confined to Jidda. So bin Laden fled the country, winding up in Sudan. That country was by then under the control of radical Muslims headed by Hassan al-Turabi, a cleric b in Laden had met in Afghanistan who had impressed him with the need to overthrow the secular regimes in the Arab world and install purely Islamic governments. Bin Laden would go on to marry al-Turabi's niece. Eventually the Saudis, troubled by bin Laden's growing extremism, revoked his citizenship. His family renounced him as well. After relatives visited him in Sudan to exhort him to stop agitating against Fahd's regime, he told a reporter, he apologized to them because he knew they'd been forced to do i t. In Sudan, bin Laden established a variety of businesses, building a major road, producing sunflower seeds, exporting goatskins. But he was seething. He was also gathering around him many of the old Arab Afghans who, like him, returning home after the war, faced suspicion from, if not detention by, their governments. In 1993, 18 U.S. soldiers, part of a contingent sent on a humanitarian mission to famine-struck Somalia, were murdered by street fighters in Mogadishu. Bin Laden later claimed that some of the Arab Afghans were involved. The main thing to bin Laden, howev er, was the horrified American reaction to the deaths. Within six months, the U.S. had withdrawn from Somalia. In interviews, bin Laden has said that his forces expected the Americans to be tough like the Soviets but instead found that they were "paper ti gers" who "after a few blows ran in defeat." Bin Laden began to think big. U.S. officials suspect he may have had a financial role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center by a group of Egyptian radicals. This may have been bin Laden's first strike back at the entity he believed to be the sourc e of so much of his own and his people's trouble. That same year, U.S. officials now believe, bin Laden began shopping for a nuclear weapon, hoping to buy one on the Russian black market. When that failed, they say, he started experimenting with chemical warfare, perhaps even testing a device. Then, in 1995, a truck bombing of a military base in Riyadh killed five Americans and two Indians. Linking bin Laden to the attack, the U.S. -- along with the Saudis -- pressured the Sudanese to expel him. To hi s dismay, they did. With his supporters, his three wives (he is rumored to have since added a fourth) and some 10 children, bin Laden moved again to Afghanistan. There he returned full time to jihad. This time, instead of importing holy warriors, he began to export them. He turned al-Qaeda into what some have called "a Ford Foundation" for Islamic terror organizations, building ties of varying strength to groups in at least a few dozen places. He brought their adherents to his camps in Afghanistan for training, then sent the m back to Egypt, Algeria, the Palestinian territories, Kashmir, the Philippines, Eritrea, Libya and Jordan. U.S. intelligence officials believe that bin Laden's camps have trained tens of thousands of fighters. Sometimes bin Laden sent his trainers out to , for instance, Tajikistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, according to the State Department. As a result, U.S. officials believe bin Laden's group controls or influences about 3,000 to 5,000 guerrilla fighters or terrorists in a very loose o rganization around the world. Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian who was arrested entering the U.S. from Canada in December 1999 with a carful of explosives, has told interrogators that his al-Qaeda curriculum included lessons in sabotage, urban warfare and explosives. He was trained to attack power grids, airports, railroads, hotels and military installations. Visitors to al-Qaeda camps say that students receive instruction not only in using intricate maps of U.S. cities and targeted venues but also in employing scale models of potential site s for strikes. A 180-page al-Qaeda manual offers advice to "sleepers" (agents sent overseas to await missions) on how to be inconspicuous: shave your beard, wear cologne, move to newly developed neighborhoods where residents don't know one another. Bin Laden's far-flung business dealings have been a tremendous asset to his network. U.S. officials believe he has interests in agricultural companies, banking and investment firms, construction companies and import-export firms around the globe. Says a U .S. official: "This empire is useful for moving people, money, materials, providing cover." Though American authorities did break up two al-Qaeda fund-raising operations in the past year, they have been mostly unsuccessful in finding and freezing bin Lad en's assets. As he built his syndicate, bin Laden also became more open about what he was up to. In 1996 he issued a "Declaration of Jihad." His stated goals were to overthrow the Saudi regime and drive out U.S. forces. He expanded the target with another declaration in early 1998 stating that Muslims should kill Americans, civilians included, wherever they could find them. Later that year, his operatives used car bombs against the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224, mostly Africans. Those blasts provok ed a U.S. cruise-missile attack on an al-Qaeda base in Afghanistan that missed bin Laden and only burnished his image as an authentic hero to many Muslims. Bin Laden has spoken out against Israel, which he, like many Muslims, regards as an alien and aggressive presence on land belonging to Islam. Lately, he has lauded the current Palestinian uprising against Israel's continued occupation of Palestinian terri tories. But his main fixation remains the U.S. Officially, he is committed to preparing for a worldwide Islamic state, but for now he focuses on eradicating infidels from Islamic lands. Bin Laden's precise place in the terror franchise he's associated with is somewhat nebulous. Certainly, he is its public face. But Ressam has told interrogators that bin Laden is only one of two or three chieftains in al-Qaeda. Many bin Laden watchers and even ex-associates have observed that bin Laden appears to be a simple fighter without a brilliant head for tactics. His lieutenant, Ayman al Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician who heads the Egyptian al Jihad, which took credit for the assassination of Egyp tian President Anwar Sadat in 1981, is often mentioned as the brains behind the operations. U.S. federal prosecutors have asserted in court filings that al Jihad "effectively merged" with al-Qaeda in 1998. Mohamed Atef, al-Qaeda's military commander, is a lso a powerful figure. He is said to be a former Egyptian policeman who joined the Arab Afghans in 1983. His daughter recently married bin Laden's eldest son Mohamed. Speculation that bin Laden is in poor health -- he sometimes walks with a cane and is rumored to have kidney problems -- has focused succession discussions on these two men. It's not clear that any of the three key figures actually issues specific attack orders to adherents. Ressam told investigators the al-Qaeda operatives are rarely given detailed instructions. Rather, they are trained and then sent out to almost autonomous cells to act on their own, to plan attacks and raise their own funds, often using credit-card scams to load up on money, despite the Islamic prohibition against theft. Bin Laden, whose general practice is to praise terror attacks but disclaim any direct connection to them, has said, "Our job is to instigate." If his current hosts, the radical Islamic Taliban regime in Afghanistan, are to be believed, that's about the maximum bin Laden can personally do now. Under heavy international pressure to give their guest up, the Taliban claims to have denied him phone a nd fax capabilities. (He had already quit using his satellite phone because its signal can be traced.) Bin Laden has been forced to rely on human messengers. He leads a spartan life; he no longer has a comfortable camp. U.S. officials believe he lives on the move, in a sturdy Japanese pickup truck, changing sleeping locations nightly to avoid attempts on his life. He's still able to get out his message, though, through interviews and videotapes produced for his supporters. A tape of his son's wedding last January features bin Laden reading an ode he'd written to the bombing by his supporters of the U.S.S. Cole in Y emen, an attack that killed 17 service members. "The pieces of the bodies of the infidels were flying like dust particles," he sang. "If you had seen it with your own eyes, your heart would have been filled with joy." What would he say about the civilian men and women, the moms and dads, the children who died in New YorK City on Sept. 11? He might say, as he said to abc News in 1998, "In today's wars, there are no morals. We believe the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets." With reporting by Hannah Bloch/Kabul, Massimo Calabresi/ Washington, Bruce Crumley/Paris, Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi, Scott MacLeod/Cairo, Simon Robinson/Nairobi, Douglas Waller/ Washington, Rebecca Winters/New York and Rahimullah Yusufzai/Peshawar September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Thu, 20 Sep 2001 23:47:28 EDT September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients xxx September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. x September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. The Most Wanted Man in the World Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. From: X Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 2:05 PM To: XXX Subject: Did you all see this? Dear Friends, Forwarded to me as I forward it to you. X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CNN:  AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN Explosive New Book Published in France Alleges that U.S. Was in Negotiations  to Do a Deal with Taliban Aired January 8, 2002 - 07:34 ET PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Time to check in with ambassador-in- residence, Richard Butler, this morning. An explosive new book published in France alleges that the United States was in negotiations to do a deal with the Taliban for an oil pipeline in Afghanistan. Joining us right now is Richard Butler to shed some light on this new book.  He is the former chief U.N. weapons inspector. He is now on the Council on Foreign Relations and our own ambassador-in-residence -- good morning. RICHARD BUTLER, FMR. U.N. WEAPONS INSPECTOR: Good morning, Paula. ZAHN: Boy, if any of these charges are true... BUTLER: If... ZAHN: ... this... BUTLER: Yes. ZAHN: ... is really big news. BUTLER: I agree. ZAHN: Start off with what your understanding is of what is in this book --  the most explosive charge. BUTLER: The most explosive charge, Paula, is that the Bush administration -- the present one -- just shortly after assuming office, slowed down FBI investigations of al Qaeda and terrorism in Afghanistan in order to do a deal with the Taliban on oil -- an oil pipeline across Afghanistan. ZAHN: And this book points out that the FBI's deputy director, John O'Neill, actually resigned because he felt the U.S. administration was obstructing... BUTLER: A proper... ZAHN: ... the prosecution of terrorism. BUTLER: Yes, yes, a proper intelligence investigation of terrorism. Now, you said if, and I affirmed that in responding to you. We have to be careful here. These are allegations. They're worth airing and talking about, because of their gravity. We don't know if they are correct. But I believe they should be investigated, because Central Asian oil, as we were discussing yesterday, is potentially so important. And all prior attempts to have a pipeline had to be done through Russia. It had to be negotiated with Russia. Now, if there is to be a pipeline through Afghanistan, obviating the need to deal with Russia, it would also cost less than half of what a pipeline through Russia would cost. So financially and politically, there's a big prize to be had. A pipeline through Afghanistan down to the Pakistan coast would bring out that Central Asian oil easier and more cheaply. ZAHN: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) as you spoke about this yesterday, we almost immediately got a call from "The New York Times." BUTLER: Right. ZAHN: They want you to write an op-ed piece on this over the weekend. BUTLER: Right, and which I will do. ZAHN: But let's come back to this whole issue of what John O'Neill, this FBI agent... BUTLER: Right. ZAHN: ... apparently told the authors of this book. He is alleging that -- what -- the U.S. government was trying to protect U.S. oil interests? And at the same time, shut off the investigation of terrorism to allow for that to happen? BUTLER: That's the allegation, that instead of prosecuting properly an investigation of terrorism, which has its home in Afghanistan as we now know, or one of its main homes, that was shut down or slowed down in order to pursue oil interests with the Taliban. The people who we have now bombed out of existence, and this not many months ago. The book says that the negotiators said to the Taliban, you have a choice. You have a carpet of gold, meaning an oil deal, or a carpet of bombs. That's what the book alleges. ZAHN: Well, I know you're going to be doing your own independent homework on this... BUTLER: Yes. ZAHN: ... to see if you can confirm any of this. Let's move on to the whole issue of Iraq. The deputy defense secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, at one time was considered one of those voices within the administration... BUTLER: Yes. ZAHN: ... that was pushing for moving beyond Afghanistan. He seemed to back off a little from that yesterday. BUTLER: Yes. ZAHN: What do you read through the tea leaves here? BUTLER: A very interesting report that the administration will focus on the Philippines, Yemen, Somalia as places where there are al Qaeda cells. But the word Iraq wasn't used by the man who was the chief hawk -- used as a, you know, as a future target. So what I interpret from that is this: That very likely our allies have been saying to us, this is too hard. This is really serious. Be careful. Saddam is essentially contained at the moment. Don't start, you know, a bigger problem either in the Arab world or in the coalition by going after him. And Wolfowitz, it seems, has probably accepted that. ZAHN: A quick thought on the Israelis intercepting this latest armed shipment? What that means? You've got to do it in about 15 seconds. BUTLER: It's extraordinarily serious, because it seems to have been tied to Yasser Arafat himself. It needs to be further investigated, but you know, Paula, the potentiality that this could once again prove an impediment to resume peace negotiations is really quite serious. ZAHN: Thank you as usual for covering so much territory. Richard Butler, see you same time, same place tomorrow morning. BUTLER: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). ZAHN: We appreciate your insights. *************** "Who are we calling terrorists here?  Outsiders can destroy airplanes and buildings, but it is only we, the people, who have the power to demolish our own ideals." --Barbara Kingsolver **************** September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:27:42 EST September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients XX September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. I will be happy to go there.  Where will it be? -----Original Message----- From: X [mailto:X]On Behalf Of X Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 8:42 PM To: X Subject: [MAPC-coord] action comm meeting X, the action comt meeting is Tuesday at the same time as OE, Policy, and Communications.  That leaves X, X, X, or X to be able to show up to explain our vote.  X was a nay, X was abstain, and X has work conflicts, leaving X.  X, are you up for it? Otherwise, perhaps a document or email listing the points would help???? X September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Monday, October 22, 2001 7:53 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients X September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. RE: [MAPC-coord] action comm meeting Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RE: [MAPC-coord] action comm meeting 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Possibly we need a name... There are currently 9 prospective members and 3 folks who asked to be kept informed.  We are meeting Tuesday 11/20 at 6:45 at a place to be determined. Our agenda will consist of naming ourselves, selecting an outie and innie, and setting up a workplan for ourselves.  Many of the prospective members (including myself) are parents, and have expressed cautiousness about our ability to commit to too many meetings.  We might be an unusual group.  I think we might be a email-based working group. I have a concern for discussion by the CC.  Since joining the MAPC, I scarcely have time for peace work.  I am not alone in expressing this. Between email overload, the general meeting, committee meetings, and CC meetings for outies, it's a lot.  I know that some of you are doing it, and doing it incredibly well.  And I understand and support the need for a great deal of communication and process in a new organization.  But we need structural niches persons with less time available.   I don't have a solution to suggest just yet, and I will keep thinking about this, but I wanted to bring this up for discussion as well. Finally, I am very pleased to see the push for outreach.  I think this the most critical thing for us right now - for all the right political reasons, but also because I am beginning to get faint wiffs of toast at every level in the organization.  Which is not to say we are not doing absolutely amazing things - the fast, the rallies, the art stuff, the teach-ins and tabling, the policy and website development, the fact the we already have a budget and money to fund it - it's all pretty astonishing.  But we could certainly use more person-power. PeaceLoveDove, (an old hippee) Norah _______________________________________________ coordination@madpeace.org http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-cc September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:38 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients coordination@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Re: [MAPC-coord] International/National Solidarity/Networking Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Re: [MAPC-coord] International/National Solidarity/Networking 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. This is a very useful Q & A series from ZNET. "The average American is not surprised that corporations and the government seek to use fear of terror to redistribute funds upward by means of regressive tax reforms and boondoggle military spending, to gut public programs, to stifle public debate by calls for patriotism from the media, and to restrict rights by draconian legislation. But not as commonly understood is that active dissent can curb these trends and can foster opposite ones on behalf of the poor, of those who work, and of those who need civil liberties. And dissenters continuing to dissent and to make known the power of dissent, are thus absolutely essential, in this, now as at any other time." Eight Questions on the Direction the US "War on Terror" is Taking More Q & A On Terror and War By Michael Albert & Stephen R. Shalom 1. You have expressed skepticism that Osama bin Laden was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks. Are you still skeptical? Actually, what we and other advocates of democratic judicial values argued was not bin Laden's innocence, but that evidence regarding his involvement was not presented. On November 14 -- more than five weeks after the bombing began -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared that the evidence "now leaves no doubt whatever" that bin Laden was responsible. But isn't the evidence supposed to precede, not follow, the punishment? In any event, however, Blair's evidence even at this point is not decisive -- the only real addition to Blair's earlier dossier are quotes from an unpublicized bin Laden video -- that Britain doesn't have a copy of, but has knowledge of, reports the Los Angeles Times (15 Nov. 2001) -- that are not given in context and fall short of an admission. Bin Laden's guilt seems very likely, but the point is not to convince Blair or one allied government or another or even us, but public opinion in the Muslim world. Despite Washington's initial promise to present evidence publicly, it has yet to do so. Not only did we never dispute the possibility that bin Laden was involved in some way, we instead offered an explanation of why he might very well have been involved, what he was seeking, etc. We suggested that his motive, were he responsible, was probably to draw the U.S. into a massive response, destabilizing the region, a result that still may occur. More to the intent of the question, if, when a vigilante mob tries to lynch someone, it turns out that their suspect actually was guilty, that doesn't make the mob's actions any less vigilante. And this is true even if the mob doesn't kill a great many people (mostly victims, not culprits) in the process of going after their suspect, as has been occurring in Afghanistan. 2. Critics of the war have warned about mass starvation, genocide, and catastrophe. Weren't these warnings exaggerated? No. Opponents of U.S. policy, ourselves included, indicated that human rights and aid organizations warned that the bombing could lead to a million or even millions of deaths. And we pointed out that ignoring this warning, regardless of whether the horror came to pass or not, was an absolutely devastating commentary upon our ruling and media elites, and on others as well. That remains exactly the case. We also urged that it was a priority to pressure the U.S. to stop the bombing, stop the war, and aid in averting this catastrophe. That is still the priority, in fact. As to what damage has already been done, no one knows. What has happened, for example, to the large fraction of the population that has fled to the heavily-mined countryside? And many harmful consequences of U.S. policy will not be felt until later. What will be the future effects, for example, of losses in grain planting that was disrupted in October? When eyes turn away, who will be there to assess it? That a country embarks on a policy that puts a million or more innocent civilians at risk for political purposes is mass-scale terrorism. If -- and it remains a big if, regrettably -- the catastrophe is averted that will certainly be a reason to celebrate, but it will not be not reason to laud those who aggravated the prospects of disaster in the first place. Playing Russian Roulette is stupid -- even if you don't end up blowing your head off. Shooting a gun with a bullet in a random chamber at someone else is immoral, whether or not you end up committing murder. At the current time prospects are still very unclear. Yes, the U.S. could cease hostilities and assist food distribution, thereby reducing the prospect of catastrophic starvation. But the U.S. seems intent on rejecting any military let-up, and any pressure we can bring to bear urging this course of action is no less a priority now than it was yesterday or last week. Aid agencies warned that the crucial factor was how much food could be gotten in place before the winter snows and that the bombing interfered with getting the food in. Whether enough time now remains and whether the necessary effort is made before the snow arrives remains the critical question. 3. Some have been critical of the U.S. food drops. But weren't these helpful until the war provided a means to get food in by land? No. The food drops were pure PR, perhaps doing more harm than good. And while left critics of the war certainly argued this, they did so by quoting the World Food Program, the Red Cross, and others aid agencies, and even the Financial Times, all of whom issued scathing denunciations of this propaganda tool. Nothing has changed about that. What has now occurred is that the Northern Alliance has occupied Kabul, and what's left of the Taliban has retreated, it appears, to the mountains, virtually without a fight, under the weight of the most powerful non-nuclear bombs ever created, perhaps with the intention of waging an ongoing guerilla war from outside the main cities. The end to major fighting in the north may well have welcome humanitarian consequences. But what does that lead us to conclude about the morality of U.S. actions? Suppose the Taliban were to release, tomorrow, a proclamation declaring "we left the cities for the mountains so that the bombing would halt -- not having us as a target -- and the way would be clear for food aid to get to our fellow citizens. We have sacrificed our hold on power, to avert starvation among our people." Would we take that seriously? It would be true that their having left the field of battle created the conditions mentioned in the question. It would be true that it was a choice on their part, and that they could have instead fought on, leading into the winter, etc. Nevertheless, we would deduce based on our knowledge of their past policies that they made the choice out of their own strategic concerns, not out of concern for those suffering hunger. When the U.S. claims to care about the Afghan poor, we should not relinquish our critical faculties, just as we wouldn't were the Taliban to make the claim. Note, incidentally, that it was not the case that U.S. planners "knew" they could force the Taliban out of the northern cities before winter. Every indication suggests that the Taliban retreat was as much a surprise to the Pentagon as to everyone else. Just two days ago Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld was warning that though victory wouldn't take years, it would take months (which, he observed, meant that he had 23 months in which to operate). 4. Do you still think we're targeting civilians in our bombing? We never thought or stated that the bombing was targeting civilians per se. We did say that the direct violent affects on civilians were predictable. U.S. military planners know how often their smart bombs, not to mention their dumb bombs, miss, and how often their cluster bombs fail to detonate, thereby spewing future death traps across the land. But the real issue, from the beginning, was not the hundreds of civilians killed by bombs, horrible as that is, but the tens or hundreds of thousands, or maybe more, who might succumb quietly out of camera range. Some will be victims of the destruction of what little civilian infrastructure there is in the country: for example, electrical transmission from the power station at the Kajaki Dam has been knocked out, creating (according to UN officials) the risk of massive flooding and crop failures (Independent, 8 Nov. 2001). Some will be driven into the landmine-infested countryside. But the potentially most disastrous effect of the bombing -- as we always maintained, and as various aid agencies have warned -- has been to put huge numbers of people at risk of starvation. And this remains the case. And we said that the latter was the most abominably heinous aspect of the project -- beyond that it [the War] was undertaken outside the law, indeed specifically to delegitimate the law, and to maintain military credibility, and to propel a "war on terrorism" whose purpose to no small degree is to organize domestic fear in pursuit of elite agendas of financial redistribution from poor to rich and draconian social reaction against civil liberties. 5. There's been lots of criticism of the Northern Alliance. But haven't they proven pretty effective? Criticism of the Northern Alliance has been not that they are incompetent soldiers, but social monsters, slightly different in kind from the Taliban, but small improvement morally. Nothing in the past few days changes the historical record of the Northern Alliance, and indeed, the first sketchy reports of executions and looting in cities newly fallen under their control suggests that their thuggish practices continue. As RAWA, perhaps the foremost organization fighting for the rights of women in Afghanistan, announced as the Northern Alliance entered Kabul, "The retreat of the terrorist Taliban from Kabul is a positive development, but the entering of the rapist and looter Northern Alliance in the city is nothing but dreadful and shocking news for about 2 million residents of Kabul whose wounds of the years 1992-96 have not healed yet. Thousands of people who fled Kabul during the past two months were saying that they feared coming to power of the NA in Kabul much more than being scared by the US bombing." Moreover, while they are no doubt capable warriors, what has occurred has little or perhaps even nothing to do with their battlefield abilities, since there was no battle. The Taliban essentially withdrew without a fight, apparently choosing to cede the cities to continue the struggle from the mountains, depending on how much there is left to them, under the onslaught of the bombing. 6. Since the anthrax probably has a domestic source and since the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 probably was accidental, don't your concerns about creating more terrorists seem a little alarmist? Not at all -- unfortunately -- since people who are newly pushed to desperation by current policies, by the starvation, by the other continuing policies in the region, all now highlighted and aggravated, do not overnight manifest their commitment via terrorist attack, of course. The assessment of this miserable and depressing prediction against actual outcomes is in the future, not the present. It is not unlike when critics warned back in the 1980s that supporting bin Laden and the Mujahideen would have horrible future blowback ramifications. To say a week or two, or even a year or two after that prediction that it was proved false would have been a bit premature, obviously. 7. And your worries about uprisings throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds (including nuclear-armed Pakistan) -- weren't these too rather exaggerated? We and other critics said that the policies undertaken in Afghanistan and proposed for the rest of the world risked such destabilization. They did, and they still do. Does anyone think that Pakistan's stability is assured as the battle moves to the southern Pashtun region of Afghanistan, a region with many cross-border ties to Pakistan? And if the U.S. decides to expand the "war on terrorism" to some new defenseless venue, say the Sudan, or perhaps a not entirely defenseless venue, say Iraq, the prospects of general social dissolution in the region will enlarge, again. Numerous surveys in Arab and Muslim nations show extremely high levels of opposition to the U.S. war, even in supposedly friendly states. Most people are not inclined to heed bin Laden's call to holy war, but as the U.S. pushes its dictatorial allies to join Washington's holy war, instability is likely to spread. 8. Isn't it time to celebrate the demise of the Taliban and return to healing our country, setting aside all the negative talk about U.S. criminality, and all the opposition to U.S. policies? If the Taliban were finished as a social force, that would be something worth "celebrating" in that the Taliban is a horrendously reactionary and violent organization impeding justice by its very existence and practices. But, regrettably, it is quite possible that they are off planning their next actions, not disintegrating. As to setting aside criticisms of the U.S., nothing could be less constructive. First, to continue to criticize and more importantly raise dissent to pressure an end to bombing and undertaking food aid in all endangered regions is paramount. The alternative is too horrible to even entertain. Second, addressing the just grievances of people throughout the Middle East and the world regarding U.S. foreign policies is necessary both on behalf of those who suffer the impact of those policies, and also to eliminate the cause of support for terrorism against the U.S. And third, the events in NYC, Washington, and Afghanistan, we are told by our government, auger a larger project, a war on terrorism, whose character, as we can already see, is to be quite like that of the Cold War. It will, if it actually transpires as intended, marshal hate and fear through manipulation and misrepresentation into support for policies that further enrich and empower the already rich and powerful. Everyone, at some level, knows this. The average American is not surprised that corporations and the government seek to use fear of terror to redistribute funds upward by means of regressive tax reforms and boondoggle military spending, to gut public programs, to stifle public debate by calls for patriotism from the media, and to restrict rights by draconian legislation. But not as commonly understood is that active dissent can curb these trends and can foster opposite ones on behalf of the poor, of those who work, and of those who need civil liberties. And dissenters continuing to dissent and to make known the power of dissent, are thus absolutely essential, in this, now as at any other time. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Over the weekend, when reporting that the U.S. bombing raids were intensifying support for the Taliban within Afghanistan, CNN repeatedly commented that the Afghan people were not sophisticated enough to blame their own government for the U.S. attacks. Talk about perversion.  More below.... X ----- Original Message ----- From: "X To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:@hera.webcom.com;;;;> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 7:49 PM Subject: !*CNN: Focus on Civilian Casualties Would Be "Perverse" + More > FORWARDED MESSAGES > ==================== > From: "X > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 1:36 PM > >  ACTION ALERT: >  CNN Says Focus on Civilian Casualties Would Be "Perverse" > >  November 1, 2001 > >  According to the Washington Post (10/31/01), CNN Chair Walter Isaacson "has >  ordered his staff to balance images of civilian devastation in Afghan > cities >  with reminders that the Taliban harbors murderous terrorists, saying it >  'seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in >  Afghanistan.'" > >  Post media reporter Howard Kurtz quotes a memo from Isaacson to CNN's >  international correspondents: "As we get good reports from >  Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, we must redouble our efforts to make sure > we >  do not seem to be simply reporting from their vantage or perspective. We >  must talk about how the Taliban are using civilian shields and how the >  Taliban have harbored the terrorists responsible for killing close to 5,000 >  innocent people." > >  The memo went on to admonish reporters covering civilian deaths not to >  "forget it is that country's leaders who are responsible for the situation >  Afghanistan is now in," suggesting that journalists should lay >  responsibility for civilian casualties at the Taliban's door, not the U.S. >  military's. > >  Kurtz also quotes a follow-up memo from Rick Davis, CNN's head of standards >  and practices, that suggested sample language for news anchors: > >  " 'We must keep in mind, after seeing reports like this from >  Taliban-controlled areas, that these U.S. military actions are in response >  to a terrorist attack that killed close to 5,000 innocent people in the >  U.S.' or, 'We must keep in mind, after seeing reports like this, that the >  Taliban regime in Afghanistan continues to harbor terrorists who have >  praised the September 11 attacks that killed close to 5,000 innocent people >  in the U.S.,' or 'The Pentagon has repeatedly stressed that it is trying to >  minimize civilian casualties in Afghanistan, even as the Taliban regime >  continues to harbor terrorists who are connected to the September 11 > attacks >  that claimed thousands of innocent lives in the U.S.' " > >  Davis stated that "even though it may start sounding rote, it is important >  that we make this point each time." > >  The New York Times reported (11/1/01) that these policies are already being >  implemented at CNN, with other networks following a similar, though perhaps >  not as formalized, strategy. "In the United States," the Times noted, >  "television images of Afghan bombing victims are fleeting, cushioned > between >  anchors or American officials explaining that such sights are only one side >  of the story." In other countries, however, "images of wounded Afghan >  children curled in hospital beds or women rocking in despair over a baby's >  corpse" are "more frequent and lingering." > >  When CNN correspondent Nic Robertson reported yesterday from the site of a >  bombed medical facility in Kandahar, the Times reported, U.S. anchors > "added >  disclaimers aimed at reassuring American viewers that the network was not >  siding with the enemy." CNN International, however, did not add any such >  disclaimers. > >  During its U.S broadcasts, CNN "quickly switched to the rubble of the World >  Trade Center" after showing images of the damage in Kandahar, and the > anchor >  "reminded viewers of the deaths of as many as 5,000 people whose 'biggest >  crime was going to work and getting there on time.'" > >  If anything in this story is "perverse," it's that one of the world's most >  powerful news outlets has instructed its journalists not to report Afghan >  civilian casualties without attempting to justify those deaths. "I want to >  make sure we're not used as a propaganda platform," Isaacson told the >  Washington Post. But his memo essentially mandates that pro-U.S. propaganda >  be included in the news. > >  ACTION: Please tell CNN to factually report the consequences of the U.S. > war >  in Afghanistan without editorializing. Including a justification for the >  bombing with every mention of civilian casualties risks turning CNN from a >  news outlet into a propaganda service. > >  CONTACT: >  CNN, Walter Isaacson, Chairman and CEO >  Phone: (404) 827-1500 >  Fax: (404) 827-1784 >  mailto:community@cnn.com > >  As always, please remember that your comments are taken more seriously if >  you maintain a polite tone. Please cc fair@fair.org with your >  correspondence. > >  For further details, see Howard Kurtz's full Washington Post story: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14435-2001Oct30.html > >                                 ---------- > > ACTION ALERT: > Op-Ed Echo Chamber: > Little space for dissent to the military line > > November 2, 2001 > > During the weeks following September's terrorist attacks, two leading > dailies used their op-ed pages as an echo chamber for the government's > official policy of military response, mostly ignoring dissenters and policy > critics. > > A FAIR survey of the New York Times and the Washington Post op-ed pages for > the three weeks following the attacks (9/12/01 - 10/2/01) found that columns > calling for or assuming a military response to the attacks were given a > great deal of space, while opinions urging diplomatic and international law > approaches as an alternative to military action were nearly non-existent. > > We counted a total of 44 columns in the Times and Post that clearly stressed > a military response, against only two columns stressing non-military > solutions. (Though virtually every op-ed in both papers dealt in some way > with September 11, most did not deal specifically with how to respond to the > attacks, with many focusing on economics, rebuilding, New York's Rudolph > Giuliani, etc. During the period surveyed, the Post ran a total of 105 op-ed > columns, the Times ran 79.) > > Overall, the Post was more militaristic, running at least 32 columns > favoring military action, compared to 12 in the Times. But the Post also > provided the only two columns we could find in the first three weeks after > September 11 that argued for non-military responses; the Times had no such > columns. Both dissenting columns were written by guest writers. > > The Times' and Post's in-house columnists provided the bulk of the pro-war > commentary. Two-thirds of the Times columns urging military action were > written in-house, as were more than half of the Post's pro-war columns. This > may say something about which journalists are singled out for promotion to > the prestigious position of columnist. > > In addition, both op-ed pages showed a striking gender imbalance. Of the 107 > op-ed writers at the Post, only seven were women. Proportionally, the Times > did slightly better, with eight female writers out of 79. > > When critics argue that U.S. news media have a duty to provide a broad > debate on war, a common response is to ask why-- after all, isn't there a > political and popular consensus in favor of war? > > Perhaps, but there's reason to believe that the extent and nature of that > consensus has been overstated and distorted. > > In polls that offered a choice between a military response or nothing, it's > true that overwhelming majorities chose war. But given the choice between a > either military assault or pressing for the extradition and trial of those > responsible (Christian Science Monitor, 9/27/01), a substantial minority > either chose extradition (30 percent) or were undecided (16 percent). These > people had next to no representation in the op-ed debate; in fact, it's > likely that many people asked to choose whether or not to go to war had > never seen an alternative to war articulated in a mainstream outlet. > > There is also a little-acknowledged gender gap in poll responses about > military action, a fact that lends new significance to the gender imbalance > in Washington Post and New York Times op-eds. In the final two paragraphs of > a 1,395-word story titled "Public Unyielding in War Against Terror " > (9/29/01), the Washington Post pointed out that women "were significantly > less likely to support a long and costly war." According to the Post, while > 44 percent of women would support a broad military effort, "48 percent said > they want a limited strike or no military action at all." > > Similarly, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll (Gallup.com, 10/5/01) showed that 64 > percent of men think the U.S. "should mount a long-term war," while 24 > percent favored limiting retaliation to punishing the specific groups > responsible for the attacks. In contrast, "women are evenly divided-- with > 42 percent favoring each option." Noting that "women's support for war is > much more conditional than that of men," Gallup reports that though 88 > percent of women favored taking retaliatory military action, that number > dropped to 55 percent if 1,000 American troops would be killed (76 percent > of men would support a war under these circumstances). > > Of course, gender equity on the op-ed pages would not guarantee proportional > representation for dissenters-- some of the most virulently pro-war and > anti-Muslim columns have been written by female commentators (e.g., Mona > Charen, who called for mass expulsions based on ethnicity--Washington Times, > 10/18/01). But given the gender differences suggested by polling, more women > on the op-ed pages might well give the lie to the conventional wisdom that > all Americans have no-holds-barred enthusiasm for an open-ended war. > > Even, however, if one accepts the idea that the public overwhelmingly favors > war, the task of journalism is to remain independent and to ask tough > questions of policy makers. After all, American history includes many > official policies that were popular in their time, but which today are > viewed as disasters. Wouldn't the country have been better off if > journalists had provided a stronger, more abiding challenge to the consensus > that supported Vietnam, or the internment of Japanese-Americans? > > More than any other newspapers, the New York Times and the Washington Post-- > with their unmatched influence in the nation's capitol and in U.S. > newsrooms-- have a duty to provide readers with a wide range of views on how > to deal with terrorism, its causes and solutions. If the purpose of the > op-ed page is to provide a vigorous debate including critical opinions, both > papers failed their readers at a crucial time. > > ACTION: Please urge the Washington Post and the New York Times to broaden > the range of debate on their op-ed pages about the U.S. war in Afghanistan. > > CONTACT: > New York Times > Terry A. Tang, Op-Ed Page Editor > mailto:nytnews@nytimes.com > Toll free comment line: 1-888-NYT-NEWS > > Washington Post > Michael Getler, Ombudsman > mailto:ombudsman@washpost.com > (202) 334-7582 > > As always, please remember that your comments are taken more seriously if > you maintain a polite tone. Please cc fair@fair.org with your > correspondence. > >                                ---------- > >                                   FAIR >                              (212) 633-6700 > http://www.fair.org/ >                           E-mail: fair@fair.org > ====================================> > From: X > > 1) Afghan Casualty Image: > http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/28/stiusausa01004.html > > ****************************** > > 2) US attack kills Afghan children in Kabul > > Live television captures scenes of tragedy, and desperation > > by Ali Abunimah > > October 28, 2001 > > American warplanes struck civilian dwellings in the Makrurian neighborhood > of the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday morning killing a number of people > many of them children, Al-Jazeera [Qatar-based cable TV network] reported. > > In a live report from the city moments after the strike, at approximately > 9 AM in Kabul, the television showed residents desperately digging through > the rubble of destroyed houses with small shovels looking for bodies of > loved ones. The television showed several bodies being uncovered from > under rubble, including the bodies of two young sisters. The television > showed their father crying and utterly distraught as his daughters were > pulled from the rubble and laid out on the ground. As people dug for > bodies, American warplanes circled overhead, and some people ran for > cover, apparently in fear of more attacks. > > The television showed, in pictures which were extremely difficult to bear, > bodies of children being laid out inside a building. One of the bodies > visible was missing limbs. Adults gently laid the bodies out and covered > them with sheets. In another shot the camera showed a head being revealed > by a rescuers shovel from a pile of rubble. > > The television showed a teenage boy searching among rubble of a house > possibly for members of his family. > > As the report was live, and the events were still unfolding, it was > impossible to say exactly how many people were killed. The Al-Jazeera > correspondent Taysir Allouni said that one completely destroyed house had > had nine occupants, of whom only one had emerged alive. In addition to the > dead people, the television showed a neighborhood of very simple mud > houses, which are simply pulverized when bombed, and many dazed, injured > and distraught residents. > > These images, perhaps because they were live and unedited, showed in the > most direct and shocking way what high explosives do to human beings and > their homes. These were the most upsetting pictures I have yet seen from > the war, and at times I found myself having to turn away from the screen. > > In other news, Israeli occupation forces have killed at least four more > Palestinians over the weekend, bringing the number Israel has killed since > October 18 to near 50. The Israeli government has announced that it is > postponing indefinitely its announced withdrawal from the towns and cities > it reoccupied since October 18. > > Ali Abunimah > http://www.abunimah.org > ------------------------------------------------ > This article came from > naeem_news@yahoogroups.com > > News/op-eds from alternate/progressive sources-- focusing on South Asia, > Third World. > > http://www.shobak.org > ------------------------------------------------ > > (end) > > _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Sunday, November 04, 2001 9:16 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients discuss@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Sit down.  Take a few deep breaths and relax.  Close your eyes and ask yourself... when is it right to take another person's life?  What did you discover when you listened to that quiet voice within you?  Perhaps vigilantism is as abhorent as the acts that catalyzed it.  Perhaps violence is not a good answer? >--- Original Message --- >From: X <X> >To: madpeace-discuss@madpeace.org >Date: 11/5/01 5:10:49 PM > >...tries to get Bin Ladin dead or alive, killing many more innocents in the >process.  Is such vigilantism better than nothing?  Perhaps. _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Monday, November 05, 2001 5:20 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients discuss@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. RE: [MAPC-discuss] WorldFederalistAssociation(WFA) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RE: [MAPC-discuss] WorldFederalistAssociation(WFA) 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. A rare Chicago appearance of Tahmeena Faryal, a representative of RAWA-the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan-will take place on Friday, Nov. 9, 6 p.m. at Hot House 31 E. Balbo (between Wabash and State St.). The meeting is entitled: "The Other America Welcomes the Other Afghanistan: An Evening of International Solidarity with RAWA-the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan." The meeting is sponsored by News and Letters Committees(list of cosponsors is still in formation). For more information call: 312-236-0799; email: nandl@igc.org Can we oppose both the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 and the U.S. government's war on Afghanistan by turning  a different vision of the future into a reality-a future of freedom, human dignity, cooperation, and genuine safety?  Who are our allies in helping to realize this vision? Come listen to and speak with TAHMEENA FARYAL, representative of RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. RAWA is an independent, all-volunteer, non-violent organization that calls for multilateral disarmament and the establishment of a secular democracy in Afghanistan, where women may once again participate fully in public life. Since 1977, the women of RAWA have stood up to all native and foreigner oppressors with courage and principle. They opposed the Russian occupation of Afghanistan and today they oppose all Islamic fundamentalist forces, including both the Taliban and those in the Northern Alliance. On Sept. 14, RAWA condemned the Sept. 11 attacks as a barbaric act of violence and terror; opposed a U.S. military attack that would kill thousands of innocent Afghans for the crimes committed by the Taliban and Osama bin Laden; and expressed its "sincere hope that the great American people can differentiate between the people of Afghanistan and a handful of fundamentalist  terrorists." While the Taliban have outlawed education for women beyond the second grade, and deny them the few social services that exist in Afghanistan, RAWA secretly-and under the threat of death-provides schooling for girls and boys, as well as medical care and adult education for women. In neighboring Pakistan, it provides Afghan refugees with aid, runs orphanages, and sponsors income-generating projects. _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, November 07, 2001 10:49 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients madpeace-discuss@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-discuss] Friday, in Chicago - RAWA Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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