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Meeting Notes - April 5, 2003
Minutes from North Seattle Snow meeting Saturday April 5, compiled by Brent MacFarlane
Present:
Brent McFarlane, Charles Cressey, Kay Groves, Marty Zupan, Tom Swenson-Healy, Nancy Ito, Marie Guise,
Vicky Brodine, Gunnel Clark and Abe Osheroff.
*Announcements:
Greg Palast, reporter for the Guardian, UK, will be speaking at Town Hall, Tue. April 8th at 7pm.
Tickets available at Elliott Bay Books or at the door.
University Temple United Methodist Church tonight Saturday 5, 7-9pm - forum on Depleted Uranium
and Gulf war Syndrome. Jim McDermott and 3 gulf war veterans, address by army reserve Major Doug Rokke.
*New North Seattle neighborhood contacts:
Broadview - Charles Cressey
Greenwood - Marty Zupan
Northgate - Tom Swenson-Healy
*Our list serve is now moderated and will continue to be limited to postings of actions and events. Tom undertook to moderate the list. North Seattle now has 84 subscribed to the list serve, and another 39 people who are not subscribed, but can be contacted by telephone.
Tom will also look into creating a second list serve that would give the North Seattle group a forum for posting articles, sharing ideas and discussing issues that concern us all. This list would not be moderated, but subscribers would have to adhere to Snow Points of Agreement.*April 12
The Snow coalition voted at last meeting to cosponsor the world wide April 12 Peaceful March and Rally.
Rally will take place in Volunteer Park, starting at 1pm, with march to Westlake and back. Flyers and
posters for the rally can be picked up in Crown Hill from Martha Jackson. Please contact her at
marjackson@juno.com. We need lots of help to make this rally as big as Feb. 15.
*Snow Mother's Day Event
Snow coalition is planning an event around Mother's Day in May. First planning meeting will be Tue. 8th,
7pm in the Social Hall at the University Friends Meeting House, 4100 9th Ave NE (Near the Roosevelt Bridge
in the University District). Open meeting for those who wish to help in the planning of this event.
*We are building a media library. We now have four videos that we will lend out to people who would like to organize a showing for friends and neighbors. Tapes will also be available for individual use. This is an education and outreach campaign. The videos are: Ritter/Sacks on weapons inspections and sanction; Doug Rokke on Depleted Uranium; Paying the Price, Killing the Children of Iraq by John Pilger, on Sanctions and Depleted Uranium; and Dreams and Nightmares, by our homegrown North Seattle lifetime peace activist Abe Osheroff. Information about these tapes and "librarians" with contact information will be posted on our website www.snowcoalition.org/northseattle. Nancy Ito, Marie Guise, Charles Cressey, Tom Swenson-Healy, Marty Zupan, Vicky Brodine and Gunnel Clark will all act as "librarians" and keep track of one set of tapes each.
Charles and Kay Groves have already shown the Ritter/Sacks tape at their church with an attendance of about 20 people.
Nancy and Tom, Gunnel, and Elaine Hickman are planning screenings for neighbors this coming week, starting Sunday. For more information before we have a chance to post this on the web site, please contact gunnel1@w-link.net.
Everybody agreed that we need to put pressure on the media to try to bring about better coverage of the war. Gunnel suggested people join the www.MoveOn.org media campaign.