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. Hi, all, I finally got in touch with X, and she's willing - actually, eager - to cosponsor the resolution!  She really likes the resolution and thinks it has a good chance of passing the council. Her one reservation about the resolution as currently written is the last clause (below).  She feels it's out of tone with the rest of the resolution and insinuates the U.S. is indifferent to the plight of the Afghanis (no comment).  She suggested we try to re-write it to make the same points in a different way, and said she'd also give some thought to it. > BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Madison Common Council on behalf of the > people of Madison, in solidarity with the international community and in > their capacity as citizens of the United States, urges the federal > government to put humanitarian concerns first and will consider the > Government of the United States responsible for both the direct consequences > of its military actions in Afghanistan and for the results of its > indifference to the priority of humanitarian concerns in Afghanistan and the > surrounding region. About the timing of the resolution - X strongly suggests we introduce the resolution on Nov 20, which means it will be voted on at the Dec 4 council meeting.  She said doing anything else at this point would necessitate a suspension of the rules, which people don't like to do.  She also said that, especially with this resolution, alders would want time to read it over carefully and get feedback from constituents.  To follow this timeline (with normal procedure), we need to have a final text introduced by noon this Thursday.  Since we're only looking at reworking the last clause, I said I thought we'd be able to come up with a revised version tonight, which I'd pass on to her tomorrow morning. What do you think?  It's later than we had hoped to have it introduced, but it sounds like we'll have a better chance of passing the resolution then (given council dynamics), and we'll also have more time to mobilize the community in support of the resolution.  It's true that this puts the resolution passing just after the timeline humanitarian groups have put on needing to start land convoys of aid, but I'm thinking that this is OK for two reasons:  First, it's not like the U.S. federal gov't will immediately stop bombing because of a Madison city council resolution - this is one effort in a much bigger movement that will contribute to opening up dialogue on the issue.  Second - this is tragic and I hope it doesn't come across as insensitive - if there are increased reports of Afghani civilians starving just before the council vote, it will make it really hard for alders not to support the resolution (and we should submit copies of any articles like this to the alders just before the Dec 4 vote). See y'all tonight, X ____________________________________________ X East Timor Action Network field organizer   ETAN field office X Check out these internet sites! the East Timor Action Network/US http://www.etan.org Madison, WI - East Timor projects http://www.aideasttimor.org Madison's Social Justice Center http://www.socialjusticecenter.org "We struggled for more than 24 years for independence. We've learned the lesson that even small people have a voice."     -East Timorese leader Mari Alkatiri, during the August 30, 2001 Constituent Assembly vote _______________________________________________ policy@madpeace.org http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-policy September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:22 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] X willing to cosponsor! 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] X willing to cosponsor! 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. 2001-11-13