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Thanks
from the Partnership for Onondaga Creek
Many thanks to SPC staff Jessica Maxwell
and Carol Baum and SPC long-time activist
Rae Kramer for recently helping the Partnership for Onondaga Creek discern and
problem solve difficult issues. With their skilled facilitation at meetings
and at a Saturday retreat, the Partnership was able to work constructively towards
group cohesion, empowerment and future direction. Besides thanking SPC,
the Partnership for Onondaga Creek wants the community to know about this collaboration
between these two local groups fighting for justice.
Aggie Lane
A
Forthright Fund Appeal
I just received the fall fundraising appeal. To the staff and finance committee,
let me say thank you for the demonstration of integrity, a value that
has lost its place in the larger culture.
Most organizations and individuals would not be so forthcoming as you have been
in advising us of the receipt of a very large bequest (thanks to the generosity
of the late Norma Bentley) while making the annual plea for monetary support.
You tell us that you do not want to use this money for operational expenses
and therefore ask supporters to give what they can, as you normally do, so SPC
can continue its many activities for peace and justice.
Ive spent enough time at the Peace Council to know how tight the financial
situation generally is, to know that the staff and workers go to great lengths
to conserve the money that comes in, and to know that this bequest represents
literally years of budgeted expenses. I also understand the importance of reserving
this found money for purposes like a safer, more efficient office
space and for a critically needed reserve fund.
This year I will make my regular donations to SPC
as I hope all the readers will and applaud the activists who struggle
daily to keep our organization working with a constant eye to the honorable
path. To those readers who can do more financially, consider increasing your
donation by 10%. Invest in peace.
Chris Riley
The Peace Newsletter is your publication. We welcome letters to the editor. Letters may be edited for length, but only with permission of the author. Thanks from the Partnership for Onondaga Creek Many thanks to SPC for recently helping the Partnership for Onondaga Creek discern and problem solve dif.cult issues. With their skilled facilitation at meetings and at a Saturday retreat, the Partnership was Graphic: www.poetsagainstthewar.org Submissions Welcome If you have been moved by this unjust war to write a poem, or poems, please consider submitting work care of Stephen Thorley at thorleyp1@yahoo.com. Any work that speaks to themes of war, the war economy, oppression and political injustice, and/or which celebrates more positive hopes and visions for our country and the world, will be considered. Whatever you can do will go a long way.
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