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> -----Original Message-----
> From: awaskow18 <Awaskow at aol.com> [mailto:Awaskow at aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:39 AM
> To: ShalomCenterME at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ShalomCenterME] 2/26: Ben Cohen does more than Ice Cream!
>
>
> Remember the kids' chant -- "I scream, I scream, I scream for Ice
> Cream"? Ben Cohen, who co-founded Ben & Jerry's, is helping us all
> shout out for peace, not just for ice cream. Please read the letter
> from him, below. And please also check my own brief note on this,
> below Ben's.
>
> L' Shalom, Arthur
>
> Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Director
> The Shalom Center <www.shalomctr.org>
>
> http://www.truemajority.com/index.asp?action=2467&ms=virtb1&ref=38451
>
> Last week a coalition of groups sent out an email urging people to
> join
> a "Virtual March on Washington" on February 26, when we will
> flood the
> Senate
> with free faxes, emails, and phone calls. The response has been
> overwhelming.
> 150,000 people have already signed up to send faxes, emails, or to
> make a call
> on that day. Now we need your help. We are trying to get another
> 50,000 people
> to sign up before the end of the day on Wednesday bringing our total
> to 200,000.
>
> If you've already signed up to take action, great. Now please forward
> this
> message to anyone else who might want to protest the rush to
> war right
> from
> their desk. If you haven't registered yet, do it now. If you want to
> send free
> faxes sign up now and we'll send them on the 26th for you. Here's
> where you go
> to send your free faxes:
>
> http://www.truemajority.com/index.asp?action=2467&ms=virtb1&ref=38451
>
> To learn about all the ways you can "march", including how to
> join the
> 85,000
> people who are promising to make sure every Senator gets at least one
> call
> every minute, click this link:
>
> http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/
>
> And thanks to the tens of thousands of you who have made this
> our most
> successful action yet.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ben Cohen
> I am writing this email on my own and not on behalf of Ben & Jerry's,
> which is
> not associated with the TrueMajority campaign.
>
> Here's a copy of the letter we'll send to your Senators:
>
> Dear Senator:
>
> I am a constituent of yours and I write today as a participant in Win
> Without
> War's Virtual March. I am one of the majority of Americans concerned
> that
> President Bush's rush to war is dangerous and unnecessary.
>
> Our nation needs to support tough United Nations inspections.
> Going to
> war with
> Iraq will kill thousands of civilians and soldiers, create an
> atmosphere that
> breeds terrorists, and divert money from programs that can really
> create a
> safer and more just society.
>
> Please do everything you can to support the inspections process and
> resist our
> nation rushing to war.
>
> Sincerely,
> (We'll add your name and address here)
> **********************
> Some people have asked whether a flood faxes matter, on the one hand,
> or infuriate Members of Congress, on th other.
>
> I spent 2 years as a legislative asst inn the uS House of
> Representatives, and another 21years in Washington in severla
> "thought/action centers" close to the Hill. I saw what happened on
> those rare occasions when constituents really focused on letting
> Members know what they thoiught:
>
> 'A flood of mail brought t to the question, often changed the
> members'
> minds. They might have wished the flood wasn't discombobulating their
> offices and their minds, but they paid very serious attention.
>
> A special note to tghose of you who are distressed that I have been
> sending so much Email about danger of a self-destructive war on Iraq:
>
> In the present crisis, I have written often because so much
> information and action has seemed urgent to avert the dangers that
> may be brought on by this war.
>
> But we are now reorganizinfg the Shalom Center's Website and Email so
> that we can send you less Email with more depth.
>
> What we are shaping is a true weekly letter of news & thought, with
> the Website for backup to pursue specific thoughts in greater depth.
>
> Shalo
>
>
>
> Please feel free to invite as subscribers to this list others
> who want to explore how to bring about peace between a
> life-giving, secure Israel and a life-giving, secure
> Palestine. They can subscribe by writing:
> ShalomCenterME-subscribe at yahoogroups.com
>
> This thought-letter flows from the work of The Shalom Center,
> a North American network committed to draw on Jewish wisdom, old and
> new, and to learn from other wisdom traditions and
> communities, in order to pursue peace, justice, and the
> healing of the earth. For more information about The Shalom
> Center, go to http://www.shalomctr.org.
>
> The Shalom Center is a division of ALEPH: Alliance for
> Jewish Renewal (see http://www.aleph.org). The views
> expressed in the thought-letter above may not be the views of
> ALEPH as a whole.
>
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