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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><BR><B>Subject:</B> FW: Responding to September
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<P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#990000
size=3>ACTFORCHANGE UPDATE: September 13, 2001</FONT></B></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#990000
size=2><B>IN THIS BULLETIN:</B><BR></FONT>
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<LI><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000
size=2>SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM ACTFORCHANGE: <BR>Letter from Michael
Kieschnick, President of Working Assets</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000
size=2><A href="#help">WAYS THAT YOU CAN HELP: </A><BR>Aid for Victims
and Relief from the September 11 Attacks <BR>Middle East Peace, Justice
and Reconciliation</FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000
size=2><A href="#action">URGENT ACTION:</A> Call on Mr. Bush to Show
Restraint</FONT>
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<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#990000
size=3><B><FONT size=4>A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM
ACTFORCHANGE</FONT></B></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000
size=2>Dear Friends,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000
size=2>It is a time of intense emotion and a desire to do something.
Working Assets has attempted not to add to the noise of rapid fire
reporting on casualties, costs, threats and the like as we know you are
already being overwhelmed with such information.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000
size=2>As with any national tragedy, the September 11 terrorist attack has
become a touchstone or a filter through which everyone with a point of
view seeks to justify it. More military spending (as if the Pentagon did a
good job). Fewer civil rights. An aggressive military response (against
whom?). Justice in the Middle East. A call to remember the list of U.S.
transgressions against others (the list is long and continues). Asking why
the mainstream media keep asking the same questions of the same generals
and pundits, with no time for those with alternative insights. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000
size=2>For me, since it is unclear at this moment who ordered, funded,
orchestrated and benefited from these attacks, I am simultaneously enraged
at those who actually committed them, profoundly sad at all of the
innocents who died and whose lives go on but are shattered, and afraid
both for my children and for the path my country may choose. Nearly 90%
want war, the surveys say.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000
size=2>So the question always comes back "what should we do?" That is
always the question and the American way. Working Assets will eventually
call for action, but much depends on eventually learning more clearly who
did what — and we have to recognize we may never know. In the meantime, we
urge the Bush Administration to show restraint and to show leadership in
opposing hate and vengeance (<A
href="http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=hCgb0BBn3A0BC40QMW0A2">click
here</A>). We will oppose any attempt by the Bush Administration to use
the deaths of our citizens to justify policies that made no sense before
or after. And we will continue to oppose US policies, like the sanctions
against civilian trade with Iraq that made so sense before or after. And
we have identified ways for individual citizens to give, donate, and help
with the immediate needs of the victims and survivors. Many special funds
are springing up already, so <A href="#help">see below for how to
help</A>. And we will continue to use our citizen action programs and
donation programs to fight for a more just world.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000
size=2>But we will have no illusions that each of those actions, if taken
earlier, might have prevented the despicable mass murders of September 11.
We are periodically reminded that profound evil walks among us. Once we
know who and why, we can debate and ponder the ifs — what if the US had
not done that, what if the Soviets had not invaded Afghanistan, what if
paranoid near fascists were not trained in the U.S. army, what if the
Colombian drug cartels did not make billions off of American drug use,
what if religious leaders ceased to use God to justify unspeakable acts,
what if security was higher . . . if, if, if.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000
size=2>Until then, we will condemn the murderers, honor the dead, comfort
the victims, defy those who argue for premature conclusions and a quick
violent response, and attend to our own grief so that we have strength for
the never ending journey toward justice to which we have committed
ourselves.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000
size=2>Michael Kieschnick<BR>President <BR>Working Assets</FONT></P>
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<P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#990000
size=4>WAYS THAT YOU CAN HELP</FONT></B>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=3><B><FONT
color=#cc6600>Aid for Victims and Relief from the September 11
Attacks</FONT></B></FONT>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Many
organizations are collecting funds for use in supporting the relief
efforts now going on and in assisting the victims in rebuilding their
lives. The need is so new that there is little detail on precisely how the
funds will be used. Here are a few organizations which have mobilized
already.</FONT>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A
href="http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=hCgb0BBn3A0BC40QMX0A3">International
Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Charity Fund</A><BR><A
href="http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=hCgb0BBn3A0BC40QMY0A4">Americares
- Aid for Terrorist Attack Victims</A><BR><A
href="http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=hCgb0BBn3A0BC40QMZ0A5">Second
Harvest</A><BR><A
href="http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=hCgb0BBn3A0BC40QMa0AD">The
Red Cross</A><BR><A
href="http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=hCgb0BBn3A0BC40QL80AV">The
September 11th Fund</A></FONT>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#990000
size=3><B><FONT color=#cc6600><BR>Middle East Peace, Justice and
Reconciliation</FONT></B></FONT>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Some of our
members have asked us for suggestions of groups that are working for
peace, justice and reconciliation in the Middle East. Recognizing that
nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the terrorist attacks on
September 11, 2001, these seven groups all do important work that deserve
your consideration. Please note that all work in this area is risky and
controversial. All are working on long term efforts that hold some
promise. Working Assets does not specifically endorse the precise approach
of each of the groups — indeed, some are in conflict with each other. May
peace and compassion be our watchwords in the difficult days, weeks and
months ahead. </FONT>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A
href="http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=hCgb0BBn3A0BC40QMb0AE">Grassroots
International</A><BR><A
href="http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=hCgb0BBn3A0BC40QMc0AF">New
Israel Fund</A><BR><A
href="http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=hCgb0BBn3A0BC40QMd0AG">MADRE</A><BR><A
href="http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=hCgb0BBn3A0BC40QMe0AH">Global
Exchange</A><BR><A
href="http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=hCgb0BBn3A0BC40QMf0AI">American
Friends Service Committee</A><BR><A
href="http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=hCgb0BBn3A0BC40QMg0AJ">Mercy
Corps International</A><BR><A
href="http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=hCgb0BBn3A0BC40QMh0AK">Middle
East Research Information Project</A><BR><A
href="http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=hCgb0BBn3A0BC40QMi0AL">Americans
for Peace Now</A> </FONT>
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<P><B><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#990000
size=3>URGENT ACTION: Call on Mr. Bush to Show Restraint</FONT></B>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>We condemn
without limit the cowardly terrorist attacks that claimed thousands of
innocent lives on September 11. No cause, however noble or sustained, can
possibly justify such actions.</FONT>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>But what
happens now is up to the United States. Already there are demands for war
against unnamed enemies, for funding of missile defense systems that do
not work and for imposition of strict limits on hard-earned civil
liberties. Already we see the unveiling of ugly prejudice against anyone
of Arab origin or against followers of Islam.</FONT>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>How Mr. Bush
reacts is critical, and the first signs are not encouraging. <A
href="http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/flo?y=hCgb0BBn3A0BC40QMW0A2">Click
here to take action</A> by calling on Mr. Bush to show restraint in the
decisions he makes in the coming weeks.</FONT>
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