DISCUSSION/Iraq and domestic protest

["Melynda Huskey" <mghuskey@hotmail.com>]

Dear Community,

I, too, have a personal request:  let more people speak, rather than 
fewer--about the impending war, about our community, about what we value, 
about ourselves and our experiences.

This list exists precisely because we agree that other people *do* have 
ideas and points of view worth listening to, no matter how distant they are 
from our own.

Or am I making an unwarranted assumption?  Do we have that common 
understanding?

Melynda Huskey


"Generally speaking, the first nonviolent act is not fasting, but dialogue. 
The other side, the adversary,is recognized as a person, he is taken out of 
his anonymity and exists in his own right, for what he really is, a person. 
To engage someone in dialogue is to recognize him, have faith in him. At 
every step in the nonviolent struggle, at every level we try tirelessly to 
establish a dialogue, or reestablish it if it has broken down. When I say 
'the other side,' that could be a group of persons or a government."  
Hildegard Goos Mayer, International Fellowship of Reconciliation.

"The things that make us happy make us wise."  John Crowley


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