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Meeting Notes - July 12, 2003
Present: Kiwi Bob, Janet, Kay, Charles, Tim, Eric, Judy, Tom, Katherine, Abe, Gunnel and special guest Charlie from Cleveland
1. Announcements
-Sister Jackie presentation: SISTER JACKIE HUDSON, NUKE RESISTER Tomorrow! July 13th noon- 2 p.m. at University Baptist Church, 4554 12th Ave NE, Seattle, parking available; Sister Jackie Hudson, a Dominican nun who faces a lengthy federal prison term (5+ years) for nonviolent resistance to nuclear weapons, will speak on 'Responsible Citizenship in a Nuclear Age.' She is one of three Dominican sisters who exposed andsymbolically disarmed a Minuteman III nuclear missile silo innortheastern Colorado on October 6, 2002
-Kathy Kelly at the University Methodist Church Also Tomorrow! July 13th at 7PM. Hear from Kathy Kelly -- three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and co-founder of Voices in the WIlderness -- what Baghdad was like, before, during and after the war. Kathy Kelly was a member of the Iraq Peace Team, a group of international citizens who stayed in Baghdad to offer witness to the people of Iraq during the war. She will be joined by Gerri Haynes, past president of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility.
-Congressman Jay Inslee's office just confirmed his visit at 9:00 am on Saturday, July 26, at the Richmond Beach Congregational Church. Rep. Inslee will be guest at a neighborhood coffee hour.
-War Without End? The Israeli - Palestinian ConflictÊ July 29, 7-9 p.m. Olympic View Community Church425 NE 95th Street (5th Ave NE @ 95th St) Seattle (Maple Leaf - just off I-5 N) A presentation by Tom Swenson-Healey and Abe Osheroff followed by an open discussion. Eric has put a copy of the flyer on our website. Members of the group will post them in the neighborhood as they did last month. Abe expressed interest in getting this event posted in the local papers. Kiwi Bob offered to connect with Sharon Heber from the Mapleleaf group to help us with publicity.
-August 2nd, there will be a SNOW workshop to help involve minorities in SNOW. It will be held in the U. District but at an, as yet, undetermined location.
2. Kiwi Bob proposed a local candidates forum before the upcoming primary which could be organized and attended by North Seattle SNOW members. It was agreed this would be a good effort, but it was suggested it be limited to City Council and County Council candidates that have officially filed for office. It was suggested Voter Registration could also take place at this event. Questions related to peace and justice could be posed to the candidates, such as police accountability and the Patriot Act. The primary is September 16 and a time in early September seemed appropriate. Kay, Judy, Gunnel, Erica and Tom agreed to have a planning meeting for this event with Kiwi Bob, on Tuesday at 6:30 P.M. Eric will post this to the SNOW general list. bout the Patriot Act.
3. Gunnel talked about our upcoming Patriot Act educational event. She has arranged it to be held at the Trinity United Methodist Church in Ballard, 6512 23rd Avenue NW. We set a date of September 9th at 7PM. At this time three speakers are available:Ê Doug Honig, Public Education Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington (ACLU) talking about the affect of the Patriot Act on Civil Liberties. Rita Zawaideh, of the American Arab Community Coalition in Seattle will speak about how the Act has affected the local immigrant population. Lourdes Fuentes, an immigration lawyer with MacDonald, Hoague, and Bayless, discussing the shrinking rights and growing risks for non-citizens.
4. Tom talked about his involvement in formation of a group that hopes to educate the public about Ariel Sharon's Separation Wall in the West Bank. Reportedly, the Wall is to be completed by the end of this year and it will dispossess many tens of thousand of Palestinians from their land. The website for this group will be up in about a week: www.stopthewall.US
5. Kay reported on two events she attended in the past week. One was a film about how the former School of the Americas at Fort Benning Georgia, which is still in business under the new name 'Western Institute for Security.' The other event was about the structure of the Democratic Party and how to become involved at the local level.
6. Tim attended the meeting of Mercer Island SNOW. They are becoming involved in the upcoming elections and this weekend had planned a booth with the environmental youth organization "Committee to Save the Earth.". A member or members of Mercer Island SNOW will attend the Abe and Tom presentation.
Tim told us he is working to compile stories from each neighborhood SNOW group and will put these together in a book he will publish this Fall.
7. We discussed future goals/ things to focus on. The following ideas were proposed and endorsed by the group: 1. Concentrating on education about the Patriot Act, with the possibility of working on a county/statewide resolution to oppose the Patriot Act. 2. Educating ourselves and others about the upcoming elections. 3. Asking Seattle city government to adopt a Sister city in Iraq and maybe setting up micro loans to help citizens/businesses in our Sister city.