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Post by anni on Feb 21, 2009 15:41:28 GMT -8
As for restaurants, I'll plug Art's Deli -- not just for the pastrami-eating people, but for its entire menu. Anni knows an excellent Greek place that's also nearby. It's called the Great Greek, still on Ventura, futher West, nearer to Woodman, I think... I'll look it up on Mapquest???
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Post by anni on Feb 21, 2009 15:56:49 GMT -8
So I printed out 2 copies for the "Sunday Excursioners"....love that Google... ;D
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Post by Brian on Feb 23, 2009 0:27:06 GMT -8
I'm going to write a report and keep it short, but I'd love to discuss more if anyone's interested: Paige, Jeanne, Roberta, Anni and I were inspired by all of the speakers at Sunday's event sponsored by the Valley Interfaith Council, "Peacemaking: An Interfaith Imperative" -- as much as were are challenged by all the urgent human needs that must be addressed. Having no official religious affiliation, I went seeking ways to help. After a rabbi, Episcopal minister and representative of the Islamic Center of Southern California outlined the theological foundations of peacemaking, we heard from a panel on "Confronting the Casualties of War in Our Community." For now, I'll focus on two of the four, Constitutional lawyer and author Stephen Rohde and Rev. Pam Tyler, executive director of Interfaith Refugee Immigration Services. Rohde urged us to remember the nameless victims, many innocent, and not forget the names of those representing us who tortured them, a policy that continues under our new president. We cannot have peace without justice. Although motivating people to act might be harder with Obama, he says "we all must join the accountability movement." His organization, the Interfaith Communities United for Peace and Justice, will hold a symposium May 3 at USC. One of the refugees Tyler met at IRIS' Atwater Village office was a 105-year-old man who had witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915. The State Department has the means and the mandate to admit more than last year's 13,000, according to Parade Magazine. But four million have been displaced, and it doesn't have the resources or the funding. We need to advocate for more. Also, IRIS is seeking donations of household goods like blankets, kitchenware and clothes -- here's their website: www.iris-la.org/It was a little unsettling at my advanced age, 50, to be among the youngest in the packed church assembly room in Studio City. The median age was nearly a generation older. Only two cellphones rang in two and a half hours. I was surrounded by centuries of activism and experience, but wonder how we can reach the kids and those in their 20's.
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Post by Brian on Mar 7, 2009 23:45:43 GMT -8
The first follow up to the sheets we filled out at the Interfaith Peacemaking Forum two weeks ago was an e-mail Anni and I received today from Virginia Classick, directing us to a page on the National Religious Campaign Against Torture's website and saying she'll call us to see what else we want to do: www.nrcat.org/:%20http://www.nrcat.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=277&Itemid=198The national coalition has been trying to stop torture for three years so they're pretty well organized. Just this one page is packed with links to information and action. I signed the call for a commission of inquiry. The e-mail to Conyers on HR 104 must be my third or fourth. But both links to the petition didn't work for me. Can anybody else see the Word and pdf files?
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Post by Jeanne on Mar 8, 2009 12:53:49 GMT -8
I couldn't get the no torture petition to print, either, Brian.
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Post by anni on Mar 8, 2009 16:42:19 GMT -8
Me to as well also, Mummy. -John Lennon ...and anni, too.
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Post by Brian on Mar 8, 2009 23:03:09 GMT -8
I couldn't get the no torture petition to print, either, Brian. Thank you for the confirmation, Jeanne. I'm ignorant enough about computers to always wonder if something's wrong with mine. I replied to Virginia's e-mail, telling her about us and giving links to this thread and the homepage. I said that if I can print the petition before next Friday's vigil, we'll start circulating it on the corner.
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Post by Brian on Mar 9, 2009 23:10:04 GMT -8
Virginia from the Los Angeles Region Religious Campaign Against Torture answered my e-mail this morning and sent a pdf file of the petition calling for a Commission of Inquiry.
I'll make copies and bring them to the corner this Friday. We'll have plenty of sunlight until 7 p.m., which will make it easier to circulate. (That's the first and probably the last good thing I will ever have to say about Daylight Savings Time.)
I don't know how to print or link a pdf file here -- maybe there isn't a way. The layout is good, sideways on a letter size sheet, with generous rectangles to write your name, e-mail and city along with your phone number if you want. There are two versions: one with five paragraphs of copy and room for only four signatures, the other with space for eight just saying "Yes, I endorse the appointment of an independent commission of inquiry to investigate U.S. torture policies and practices."
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Post by anni on Mar 16, 2009 16:54:24 GMT -8
I've taken the petition, from the Los Angeles Region Religious Campaign Against Torture, to school and almost all the teachers and staff are signing it! WHOOOOOOHOO!
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