tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95724912024-03-13T17:48:56.218-04:00East End ReportNews and Events for Peace and Justice on Eastern Long IslandTony Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137206936079263032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1002125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572491.post-64960650734619474972012-04-12T08:46:00.003-04:002012-04-12T09:10:03.051-04:00<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SUSTAINABLE EAST END ON WPKN 89.5 FM and streaming live on wpkn.org </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Debuts April 12 at 12 Noon:</strong> This monthly program will look at issues of land use, water resources, transportation and the farming and fishing industries on the north and south forks of Long Island with host<strong> Francesca Rheannon.</strong> Today Francesca talks with <strong>Scott Chaskey</strong>, director of the <strong><a href="http://www.peconiclandtrust.org/">Peconic Land Trust’s Quail Hill Farm</a></strong>, a community supported agriculture (CSA) farm.</span><br />
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<strong>Everyone desires to stand out.</strong> No matter the
profession they wish to pursue, the effort they put into their
reputation, or the reasons that motivate them to do so, succeeding is
always the main goal. When I was young, I loved the idea of being
someone unique. A girl who stands out against the crowd, and whose work
and ideas can count for something in the future. I studied, I
researched, I experienced the world as best as I could, and yet, there
was a barrier. I never thought about my race as something that defined
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<strong>I once belonged to a wonderful religion.</strong> I belonged
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security, self-pity, self-proclaimed intelligence and perfect moral
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</div>Tony Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137206936079263032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572491.post-79796374266457817532012-01-16T12:44:00.000-05:002012-01-16T12:44:14.258-05:00Benjamin Todd Jealous:Uphold Voting Rights<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">Each year on this day, we commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – a hero to generations of Americans.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">As I prepare to speak today at an NAACP rally in front of South Carolina's state capitol, I reflect on how Dr. King risked everything to advance civil and human rights in America.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">Despite repeated threats against his life, he spread the message of non-violent civil disobedience against unjust laws throughout the Jim Crow South and our nation as a whole.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">His leadership has inspired Americans to win big victories that have moved our nation closer to the long-expressed, but yet-unrealized ideal that our school children repeat every day: we are "one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all".</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">Today, one of the greatest victories Dr. King helped win during his lifetime is under withering attack: The Voting Rights Act and the rights it protects – for all Americans to be able to participate in free and fair elections.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">South Carolina has become ground zero in this battle that is taking place in state capitols across the nation.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">On one side, you have civil rights activists and the U.S. Department of Justice fighting on behalf of thousands upon thousands of voters who would be disenfranchised by laws that introduce the first new financial and literacy-based obstacles to voting since we eliminated the poll tax and voting tests. Fighting on behalf of Americans like the students at South Carolina’s Benedict College, whose student identification cards have been deemed insufficient for use as voter ID. And we are fighting on behalf of senior citizens like Larry Butler, born here in 1926 when blacks often were not issued birth certificates. Now, for the first time in his life, if Mr. Butler wants to vote it will cost him $150 to obtain the documents required by South Carolina's voter suppression law.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">On the other side, you have governors like South Carolina's Nikki Haley suing to gut the Voting Rights Act after the Justice Department blocked the state’s discriminatory voter ID law. I am proud to stand alongside Attorney General Eric Holder today in front of the South Carolina State House and recommit to protecting the right to vote.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">Read the speech that I will give today in front of the State House, then share with us how you will help uphold voting rights in 2012:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://action.naacp.org/page/m/474a348a/79945db9/7ce916ad/2f6177e5/4263819116/VEsE/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #00264c; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1326734857_0">http://www.naacp.org/KingDay</span></a></strong><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">Today, NAACP State Conference presidents who are leading battles to defend voting rights in South Carolina and several other southern states will lead this march.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">We march today to defend our right to vote and to defend our nation’s dream of America as a place where everybody works, everybody contributes, and everybody counts.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">We march today for good jobs that can support our families, and an education for our children that will pave the way for them to do the same.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">We march today to declare our intent to defeat the deeds of any Governor who would deify our great dreamer, but desecrate his dream.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">Join us in making Dr. King's dream a reality– again, please take a moment read today’s speech, then share your plan to help us uphold voting rights in 2012.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><strong id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326718232502618" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://action.naacp.org/page/m/474a348a/79945db9/7ce916ad/2f6177e5/4263819116/VEsF/" id="yui_3_2_0_1_1326718232502617" rel="nofollow" style="color: #00264c; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><br />http://www.naacp.org/KingDay</a></strong><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">Thank you,</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">Ben</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">Benjamin Todd Jealous</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">President & CEO</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px;">NAACP</span>Tony Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137206936079263032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572491.post-22139658334437930552011-12-04T12:01:00.002-05:002011-12-04T13:13:43.691-05:00December events<br />
Friday, December 9 - <a href="http://eastendrep.blogspot.com/2011/12/hayground-forum-bread-and-poetry.html">Hayground Forum: Bread and Poetry</a><br />
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Saturday, December 10 - <a href="http://eastendrep.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-10-winter-fest-at-shinnecock.html">Shinnecock Museum Winter Fest</a><br />
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Saturday, December 10 - <a href="http://eastendrep.blogspot.com/2011/12/march-rally-to-protect-voting-rights.html">March & Rally in NYC to Protect Voting Rights </a><br />
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Thursday, December 15th at 8pm - <strong>Caroline Doctorow</strong> with <strong>Job Potter</strong> and friends perform Folk/Roots music at Ashawagh Hall; Springs Fireplace Road, East Hampton<br />
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local food pantries need help with the ever increasing demand from those
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Montauk: Montauk Food Pantry at St Therese of Lisieux, 55 South Etna Avenue</h3>
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East Hampton / Amagansett: East Hampton Food Pantry, <a href="http://www.easthamptonfoodpantry.org/">www.easthamptonfoodpantry.org</a> 631-324-7195, 219-50 Accabonac Road East Hampton Food Pantry hours: Tuesdays 2–6 pm Amagansett Satellite hours: Tuesdays 4–6 pm</h3>
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Sag Harbor: Sag Harbor Food Pantry: Old Whalers (First Presby.)
Church – 44 Union St. 631-725-0437 provides basic provisions
10:30am-1pm Tuesdays – Donations accepted at the Church.</h3>
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Bridgehampton: Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center – 551 Sag Harbor Turnpike, 631-537-0616</h3>
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Southampton: Human Resources at Sacred Heart Church, 168 Hill St. 631-283-6415</h3>
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Island Wide: Island Harvest with HQ in Nassau County <span style="text-decoration: underline;">is looking for East End Volunteers</span>. They supply local food pantries. <a href="http://www.islandharvest.volunteerhub.com/">www.islandharvest.volunteerhub.com</a> to register and help with local food collection/distribution. </h3>
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also: Long Island Cares/ The Harry Chapin Food Bank: <a href="http://www.licares.org/">http://www.licares.org/</a></h3>
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</div>Tony Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137206936079263032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572491.post-81078892631175098602011-12-04T08:57:00.000-05:002011-12-04T13:03:10.392-05:00March & Rally to Protect Voting Rights - Saturday Dec. 10<strong style="background-color: #dce7ed; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">local bus to this rally has been arranged by </strong><br />
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Native American artists will be our vendors with craft exhibits of paintings, photography, carvings, crochette. Wonderful Christmas gifts will be available from their booths.</div>
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The Museum is located on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation on <b>Montauk Highway at West Gate Road</b>(west of Southampton village).</div>
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The Museum’s phone number is 631-287-4923</div>Tony Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137206936079263032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572491.post-37212830329012604732011-03-11T19:44:00.002-05:002011-03-11T19:49:43.477-05:00Right Wing Radio Duck<object height="390" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/HfuwNU0jsk0?fs=1&hl=en_US">
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<br />Tony Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137206936079263032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572491.post-49479869886870794182011-03-03T07:07:00.002-05:002011-03-03T07:21:25.115-05:00Bill McNulty: some questions<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"> that this is a classic example of dividing the population?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that the power structure thrives on such division?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1299153740_0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Wisconsin</span> is the test case for this kind of action throughout the Country?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that deficits have been created to enable this kind of action? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">that what's left of the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1299153740_1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">New Deal</span> is at stake?</span> </li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that the Obama Deficit Commission played right into this on a National level? </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that the current financial atmosphere was the result of criminality on <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1299153740_2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Wall Street</span>?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that what is good for Wall Street is not good for <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1299153740_3" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Main Street</span>?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that a union is a union, public or private?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that war-making is a means of making money for the same class that just got the massive tax break?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that tax breaks for some are the name of the game all of the time?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that rapacious capitalism depends on war-making?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that there are still unanswered questions regarding 9/11?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that Wisconsin is an extension of Reagan and the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1299153740_4" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Air Traffic Controllers</span>?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that Democrats along with Republicans cooperated in deregulating us to the point they did?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that all the Trade Agreements have only the well being of capital as their concern?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that An\America has no friends, only interests?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that we are at the mercy of the Complex Eisenhower described?</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that we better all work together or we will all sink together? </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">that this list is not complete and that you can add much more to it?</span></li>
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Bill McNulty is heard every Thursday from 11 am to 1 pm on WUSB 90.1 FM Stony Brook and on line at www.wusb.fm<br />
He can be reached at <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #343434; font-family: verdana; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">wmcnult@verizon.net</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On </span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Sunday February 27</span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> the
Eastern Long Island Branch of the NAACP presents an Afro-American Art
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Featuring
African American literature with Carol Spencer and historical
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<u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At 3PM</span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Wednesday, February 23 6:30 pm and <a href="http://eastendink.blogspot.com/"><u style="color: blue;">archived</u></a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">On </span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Sunday February 27</span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> the Eastern Long Island Branch of the NAACP presents an Afro-American Art and History program at the Riverhead Library, 333 Court Street Riverhead. </span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></u></h3>
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</div>Tony Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137206936079263032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572491.post-70020579580037971032011-02-15T21:35:00.002-05:002011-02-16T21:47:53.229-05:00Ken Dorph: The View from the Arab World<br />
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<span style="color: #163c47; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">I heard the news about Mubarak from a friend and turned on Al-Jazeerah. An Egyptian woman was being interviewed and was weeping with joy; she could barely get her words out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #163c47; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">I hadn’t realized how much tension I’d been holding, worrying about Egypt. I really believed that if he didn’t leave quickly, things could descend into bloodshed, and who knows where that would go. Now there is hope for a peaceful transition to a new world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #163c47; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">I started to write the below a few days ago. I have been overwhelmed with work and exhausted, so having trouble keeping up, but I want to send something tonight, with my mind so alive with hope.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #163c47; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">This morning I read in the Arab News something that stayed with me. A young Egyptian said for the first time in his memory, it was cool to be Arab. I think he hit at something deep. I have felt for years that the Arabs have suffered from a great loss of dignity. Emerging from centuries of Ottoman rule, they had great hopes for freedom and a new future. But the Europeans had different plans, dismembering the Arab world to fit their needs. Then came Israel, and a series of humiliating defeats. Remember, Egypt had not been a truly independent state since the time of Cleopatra and was thrust into war with a far superior adversary within less than a generation of independence.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #163c47; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">For the past forty years, signed in blood on September 11<sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">th</sup>, the Arabs have been the west’s Bad Guys, seen to a person as violent and ignorant, far from the historical self-image (and reality) of the region’s peoples. They have grown poorer each day under dictatorships, often in collusion with our own government, while watching their erstwhile backwards cousins in Arabia grow rich beyond imagination thanks to the accident of geography and our unquenchable thirst for oil. The People Power revolutions in Tunisia then Egypt have given people, especially young people, hope that a turning point may be afoot.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">I sit here in Arabia, a Red Sea away from Egypt, wondering how this story will unfold.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">I am writing some thoughts about both Tunisia and Egypt, two countries I know well and hold dear. Feel free to let me know what you think.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">I spent three wonderful years of my life in Tunisia, and another two fascinating years in Egypt. The news from each has both thrilled and worried me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Kerkenna made me realize that I wanted to live in a small town by the sea (hey, Sag Harbor!). Sometimes I think if I had been rather more heterosexual, I would have converted to Islam and married Zeinab, the modest, beautiful Arabic teacher. Life was that good and Tunisian values, strangely, seemed not far from my own. For someone with my, ahem, strong social needs I loved the sense of <i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">community</i>. There are <i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">so many</i> social glue phrases in Tunisian Arabic. I recall <i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">‘an-nas-bik’</i> – meaning ‘may people be with you’ – that a pair or group would say as an evening greeting to anyone walking alone. It is telling that ‘alone’ and ‘lonely’ in Arabic are the same word.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">My third year I woke from my Avatar trance and went off to the capital to help Tunis Air transform to English, working with a fabulous team. I lived in a house on the beach in the beautiful jasmine-scented northern suburb of Salaambo, next to Carthage. I would take the little wooden train across Tunis bay, flamingos arising in front of the volcano Bou Kornine. In the evening, Tunisian men would wear small bouquets of jasmine tucked behind the ear – they were sold on street corners – giving a delightful scent to evening walks [Hence the Jasmine Revolution - although Tunisians prefer “the Tunisian Revolution”].</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">But Ben Ali turned out to be a Ferdinand Marcos, with a greedy nouveau riche wife to boot. Over thirty years after overturning Bourguiba, he was still raiding the kitty, under no pressure from France or the US since he was “pro-Western” – meaning liberal economically and uncomplaining on Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">On the economically liberal front, I have been an agent, and a believer, in economic liberalism for years, what with my work fixing banks and financial systems. But I have also come to believe that the greatest risk of globalism is that, in countries such as Tunisia and Egypt (and increasingly the US) where the political means do not exist to spread the wealth, global capitalism can make a small group exceedingly rich while the rest, especially the less educated, are left behind. Tunisia at least is relatively middle class, with few billionaires outside the ruling family and a generally educated population. Educated also means more secular – the two are closely aligned – and Tunisia is exceedingly unlikely to become a theocracy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">In fact, I was delighted to learn yesterday that my old friend and Peace Corps roommate, Jaloul, has been appointed finance minister. I recently saw Jaloul and his wife Cynthia (our Peace Corps nurse!) in Morocco, where he had lived as a banker for many years – he and I both ended up joining Citibank after the Peace Corps. His appointment speaks volumes for the positive direction Tunisia is likely to go.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">And my dear friend Jerry Sorkin – a Jewish Philadelphian who is a great advocate for Arab-Jewish relations – is in Tunisia assuring everyone that his amazing tours are in session. See Jerry’s article in the National Review:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">I am very proud that my beloved Tunisia was the spark for the paroxysms of change that are sweeping the Arab world. Having started in Tunisia, the spark so far seems to have a liberal, secular streak, driven by the young who simply want a better, freer life.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">And yet we had an amazing experience, living in the ruins. Citibank put us up in a spectacular two-story penthouse apartment overlooking the Nile in Garden City, near Tahrir Square and a block from the office (ah, the corporate life, so not Peace Corps). The apartment belonged to a famous Egyptian movie actress, Nadia Lotfy. Well, she didn’t actually <i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">own</i> it but given Cairo’s insane Nasserist rent control laws, we (or Citibank) paid her an exorbitant rent and she paid the actual building owner a few guineas a month. And so, of course, nothing worked. But it sure was classy, in a 1960’s Egyptian movie sort of way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">In Cairo we knew religious scholars at Al-Azhar, Egyptologists at the Cairo Museum, movie people, and, of course, bankers. Our neighbor Farouk, a scion of a well-known Christian political family, became a dear friend. I recently saw him and his wife – who is Jewish – in Cairo, where they have an amazing house and gardens up in Muqattam, the hills to the east of the city. I also caught up with Farouk’s sister Mona. Mona was in the Egyptian parliament for some time when it was more representative. Here is an interview that Mona gave to NPR after 9/11 gives some sense of the growing disillusionment with the US:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Egypt is not Tunisia and I am far more worried about its future. The population is huge – more than half of all Arabs are Egyptian – and largely poor and uneducated. Mubarak obliterated any opposition so there is no natural leader to take the reins.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">I have been back to Egypt several times since we left, including last year, and have been struck by how little reform and development have taken hold, despite the billions the US has poured in. Egypt is, after Israel, the largest recipient of American aid. This is essentially a wily bribe that Sadat won in exchange for making peace with Israel. He knew that Israel got the lion’s share of US foreign aid (about a third, more than all of Africa and Latin America combined) so if Egypt’s formula were half of Israel’s, they’d be in clover.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Of course, most has been in military aid, and Egyptians in Tahrir Square have pointed out how many of the weapons used against them are stamped Made in USA. On recent trips I felt Egypt was becoming like Pakistan (also a US client): A highly militarized state that is unwilling to make change and bleats at the Americans about Islamic terrorists to justify oppression, thereby in fact generating terrorists.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The 9/11 planes had no Iraqis on them – contrary to what the majority of Americans were led to believe before the Iraq invasion – but the two best-represented nations were…. our allies Saudi Arabia and Egypt! Perhaps if Egypt had had a democracy back in 1990, with religious Muslims given a fair voice, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Al-Qa’ida mastermind, and Muhammad Al-Atta, who flew into the North Tower, might instead have been shouting their views in an opposition party.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">It is very likely that the Muslim Brotherhood will have a fair share of the new government in Egypt if it is indeed democratic. I of all people am not fond of conservative religious parties (yo Huckabee!) but I sure do think that they have a right to exist, if voters vote for them. Certainly the US has no problem with Shas, the Orthodox party in Israel, having such a powerful voice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Egypt is no Iran. The Shah was put into place by a CIA coup after Mossadegh nationalized the Anglo-Iranian oil company (ah yes, oil). The Shah, of humble origins, became the self-styled emperor, trying to convince himself and the world that Iran was now Persia, forgetting centuries of Islamic history and deeply insulting many of his people.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The chaos unfolding in Egypt is laying bare a stark fact, Middle East experts say: In the Arab world, American words may not matter, because American deeds, whatever the words, have been pretty consistent. Ever since that March morning 31 years ago, when Anwar el-Sadat reached out to clasp hands with Menachem Begin on the North Lawn of the White House after signing the Camp David peace treaty with Israel, the United States government has viewed the Egyptian government, no matter how flawed or undemocratic, as America’s closest ally in the Arab world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">In the longer run, the change in Egypt could be good news for the Israelis. After a year or two, if Egypt settles into relative normalcy and democracy and the Israelis realize that the end is not nigh, Egypt could re-emerge as the Arab leader it has always been. In recent years, Egypt has been seen as so toothless as to be ineffectual, with most peace initiatives in fact emanating from Turkey or the GCC. American patience with Israel will undoubtedly fray, with American Jews increasingly moving towards progressive groups like J Street, while Americans on both sides of the political spectrum wonder what the enormous aid to Israel is buying them. I was struck that Rand Paul, the libertarian Republican, dared to propose eliminating aid to Israel and is still standing. This could lead Israel to feeling cornered, which would never be good for peace. Or, on the contrary, if the big boys Egypt and Turkey act like grown-ups, Israel might feel inclined to join the neighborhood, with peace with the Palestinians the entry fee.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Turkey in fact is a powerful model. The Turkish military has allowed democracy to flourish, including with Islamic parties. Turkey is no political paradise, but it is certainly increasingly a thriving Muslim democracy (and a fabulous place to visit, if you’ve never been). Of course, ever since the Israeli attack on the Turkish ship on its way to Gaza, Israel is not popular there, either. But few Turks are talking about wiping Israel off the map. Eventually Israel will learn that weapons will not secure its future, but strong relations with thriving democracies will.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The Saudis I’ve spoken with about Egypt fall into two camps; the more working class who are simply happy that the Egyptians are getting rid of a leader they don’t like, and the elite, who view Mubarak’s downfall with concern. A young Saudi from a wealthy family told me that if democracy came to Saudi Arabia, the disenfranchised Bedouin classes would descend on the ruling elite (all from the old settled tribes) ‘like flies on meat.’ King Abdullah raised the salaries of government workers this past week.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">I am very hopeful that the events in Tunisia and Egypt will be a watershed in this region, perhaps rivaling 9/11. Democracy may be messy and the worst form of government, as Winston Churchill noted, but democratic nations in the long run make better partners and do better by their people. I care very much about the people in this region and we would <i style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">all</i> benefit from their success.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">One last thing, from over here the best reporting through this all has been Al-Jazeera, in both English and Arabic. They have reporters on the ground and really seem to be listening, rather than talking (hooray Qatar!). It amazes me that the US is still the only country in the western world where Al-Jazeera English cannot broadcast, which speaks volumes, no? During the unfolding events in Egypt, I would occasionally switch away from Al-Jazeerah or BBC (which can also be quite good) to see how the Americans were doing. CNN had great pictures but not much intelligent to say, while Fox was downright pathetic. During the height of demonstrations in Tahrir Square, Fox had a long series on Ronald Reagan’s birthday. Then yesterday, Fox had a truly strange episode where Glenn Beck, noted authority on the Arab world, spent several minutes on camera ranting incoherently about the NY Times. I actually never figured out what the point was, but it was truly strange and made me wonder about my brethren in the US who choose, in droves, to watch such stuff to learn about the world. Yikes! No wonder we are in trouble on the global stage.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">I am here in Riyadh till February 16<sup style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">th</sup> working with the central bank, back for a week or so in New Orleans with the family, then off to Ramallah and Jerusalem to help the Palestinians draft a strategy for their financial sector, which promises to be exceedingly interesting, and right at the heart of it all. Al-Jazeera was showing ecstatic demonstrations all over the Arab world and I noticed big crowds in Ramallah. Through it all, none of it seemed anti-American or anti-Israeli or anti-anything, but rather pro-Arab. And what could be wrong with that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Please call me if you have men's winter coats or other warm winter clothing you are not using.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I have info for donating this for day-laborers in the Southampton area.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Tony Ernst</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">631-259-2482</span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://eastendrep.blogspot.com/2010/11/conversation-with-elizabeth-haile-rev.html">A Conversation with Elizabeth Haile, Rev. Holly Haile Davis and Rev. Alison Cornish </a></span></i><br />
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WPKN News, Friday January 14, 2011<br />
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Eastern Long Island Democratic Congressman Tim Bishop says he will continue having public meetings with his constituents despite the events in Tucson, Arizona last weekend. He was speaking at a meeting on the steps of Town Hall in Southampton today. <br />
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Bishop, New York’s First District Representative says that threats to members of Congress are not part of a campaign of intimidation. He says they are an expression of extreme anger. <br />
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"I think it is a reflection of a level of anger that exists in this county that is not only unproductive, it is destructive."<br />
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Congressman Bishop who had already scheduled a series of public meetings with his constituents says he wil continue with the meetings.<br />
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"I'm doing one at the end of January at the Rogers Memorial Library here in Southampton.<br />
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I'm doing community office hours tomorrow in downtown<br />
Patchogue at the office of the Mayor of the Village.<br />
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In order to do my job properly I have to stay connected to the<br />
people I represent so I'm going to continue to do them."<br />
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During his campaign for re-election last summer Bishop was confronted by members of the Tea Party who tried to shout him down at public meetings. Police were called in to protect Bishop. In a statement published in the Suffolk Times of Southold, Suffolk County 9-12 Project, a tea party organization, condemned the horrific attack in Tucson.<br />
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For WPKN’s East End News Team this is Henry Letcher.<br />
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<br />Tony Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137206936079263032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572491.post-71657474931542545102011-01-13T07:01:00.000-05:002011-01-13T14:23:57.558-05:00CITIES OF PEACE FESTIVAL: DREAMING PEACE<br />
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Honoring Martin Luther King's world changing speech "I have a dream" that inspired and galvanized the civil rights movement.<br /><br />
1:00 pm Gilding Workshop: A participatory workshop using Egyptian papyrus,
gilder's clay, glue and 22 karat gold leaf! For parents and children as
well as serious artists. Led by Artist Ellen Frank with intern Emily
Deutchman.<br /><br />
2:00 pm Film: "The Making of Cities of Peace": Academy Award Winning Filmographer Don Lenzer with Eric Glandbard Editor.<br /><br />
2:15 - 3:00 Poetry Jam: With Danny Simmons creator of Def Poetry Jam,
Chairman of NYSCA, and co-founder with his brother Russell Simmons of
Rush Arts.<br /><br />
3-4:00 Peace Music Jam: Anna Barie and Pat Noecker with Brooklyn-based
band These Are Powers and Mike Garcia, lead singer from Flaming Pink
with peace inspired acoustic set with guitar.<br /><br />
4:00 pm Special Cities of Peace Tour: Led by Ellen Frank, the visionary
artistic director of the Cities of Peace project now at Guild Hall.
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Christina Strassfield<br />
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<br /></div>Tony Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137206936079263032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572491.post-87421157503520304402011-01-13T06:58:00.001-05:002011-01-15T09:32:31.355-05:00Friday Jan 14: "Coming Together for Civility" - Invitation from Anna Throne-HolstApproximately 75 citizens and public officials attended a meeting convened by Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst and Congressman Tim Bishop (NY 1st CD) Friday morning on the steps of Southampton Town Hall. Speaking were Mr. Bishop, Unitarian Pastor Allison Cornish, Assemblyman Fred Thiele, local school officials and civil rights activist Dr. Bob Zellner. Mr. Zellner<br />
was credited by the Supervisor with conceiving this event. His talk was cut short when a Fire District Commissioner succumbed to the 25F cold and passed out. <br />
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Members of all of Southampton's diverse communities were present although on the eve of the Martin Luther King holiday weekend no people of color were invited to speak.<br />
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The following sent by Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst describes the event:<br />
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"In light of the tragic event that took place in Arizona over the weekend and the discussion that has ensued regarding the current “tone” of public discourse throughout the country, communities nation-wide are responding with commitments to be more respectful and civil in expressing their opinions and in their treatment of others. <br />
In support of this important movement to shine a light on our own actions and make a conscience effort to wield our treasured freedoms with more tolerance and grace, you are invited to participate in a “Coming Together for Civility” event Friday, January 14 at 9:00 a.m. on the steps of Southampton Town Hall.<br />
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The goal of the event is two fold:<br />
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(1) To express our sympathies together as one community regarding the tragic events that took place over the past weekend in Arizona and;<br />
(2) To make a public commitment to civility within our own community regardless of personal beliefs or party affiliation.<br />
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A wide spectrum of community leaders will attend including elected officials, fire and police chiefs, EMS leaders, VFW leaders, local ministers, school representatives and more. The event will also be open to the public, so please share this invitation with your memberships, friends and neighbors.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
Anna Throne-Holst<br />
Supervisor<br />
Town of Southampton<br />
116 Hampton Rd<br />
Southampton, NY 11968<br />
Ph: (631) 283-6055Tony Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137206936079263032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572491.post-42124735819808103482011-01-13T06:55:00.001-05:002011-01-13T07:26:07.408-05:00Bob Zellner: Violence in Arizona and the South<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px;">The attempted assassination of Arizona Congresswoman <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1294919165_9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Gabrielle Giffords</span> reminds me of growing up in the South where violence seemed to be as American as cherry pie.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px;">Children in the Bible belt were to be seen, not heard. Our little world was separate from adults for the most part except for the occasional housekeeper or baby sitter.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>When company came for dinner, children sat at a separate table, often waiting for adults to eat before we were fed.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">When chicken was fried, we got necks, backs, the feet and occasionally chicken head.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>Someone somehow ate all parts.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>Depression gripped the South and food was not to be wasted.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>I didn’t know what second-class citizens were but we younguns were definitely that.</span> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Religion, philosophy and politics were discussed, if at all, out of earshot of children because, “Little pitchers have big ears.”<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1294919165_10" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Infidelity</span>, violence, and scandal of any nature were discussed in hushed tones - never in the open, like today.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>Our little ears, however, were full of everyday violence like the public lynching out from nearby <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1294919165_11" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Dothan, Alabama</span>.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>When I was five, special trains brought five thousand whites to watch the murder of a black man.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>Children were encouraged by their parents to stick forks in the charred flesh of the victim after he was dragged through the streets behind a pickup.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px;"><span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px;">Daddy’s “nervous breakdown” became the Zellner’s hushed up scandal.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>Methodist ministers didn’t have emotional problems.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>An “eccentric” bachelor uncle or maiden aunt locked away in Southern attics, wearing Confederate gray or antebellum gowns, ubiquitous in literature, shows that <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1294919165_12" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">mental disorder</span> was something to be ashamed of.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>The prevalence of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1294919165_13" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">mental illness</span> made appearance paramount. <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1294919165_14" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Frantz Fanon</span> explained imperialism and the resulting mental disorder among oppressed people. Thorough study of the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1294919165_15" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">mental illnesses</span> of oppressors has not been attempted.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px;">Dad’s KKK membership was, no doubt, the cause of his breakdown.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>He was trying to be a minister of the gospel while practicing racial discrimination.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>Although his Klan connection was never mentioned, Dad’s dilemma, like the American one, was professing one thing about race while doing another. Half the population lording over the other half, taking the best of everything while leaving the rest to make do on scraps, was bad business indeed.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>Dad also concluded that holding black people down also impoverished white people.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>Rich people, happy to let poor white trash do the dirty work, laughed at both.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>They had always controlled blacks through terror, slavery being maintained only by a constant state of violence against the enslaved.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>One human enslaving another is an act of war.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px;">The rhetoric and reality of violence and war, consequently, permeates our history and our politics.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1294919165_16" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 2px; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Sarah Palin</span>, however, should apologize for placing crosshairs over the district of Congresswoman Gifford.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>Ms Palin defended herself by saying she is only playing politics as usual.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>Making herself the victim, she claims she suffered a “<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1294919165_17" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">blood libel</span>,” an insult to Jews who actually suffered.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px;">Listen tonight to our great President Obama as he binds the wounds inflicted in Tucson.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>His political style is the opposite of the current crop of rightwing haters.<span style="line-height: 1.2em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"> </span>With real commitment we can all work together to bring peace to politics.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Teacher, activist and author Bob Zellner lives in Southampton. <a href="http://zellnerblog.blogspot.com/"><b>Bob Zellner's Blog</b></a></span>Tony Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137206936079263032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572491.post-34644022828622205762011-01-13T06:45:00.001-05:002011-01-13T09:14:28.879-05:00Martin Luther King Day ObservancesList provided by Eastern Long Island Branch of NAACP:<br />
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</span></span></span>Tony Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137206936079263032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572491.post-5364088667260514302011-01-13T06:08:00.001-05:002011-01-13T08:10:45.454-05:00Winter in the Holy Land<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>How is it possible that our government approves this, or abets it with funding for this same military force?</i></b> That is the case. </span><a href="http://timbishop.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=7&sectiontree=7" style="color: #333399; text-decoration: none;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Tell Congressman Bishop what you think about this</b></span></i></a><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">! And support the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions <b>(</b></span><a href="http://www.icahd.org/" style="color: #333399; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>www.icahd.org</b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>)</b> working to expose the destruction of thousands of homes in the occupied territories and in Israel.</span></i></div>
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<a href="http://sagharboronline.com/sagharborexpress/a-conversation-with/rev-holly-haile-davis-rev-alison-cornish-and-elizabeth-haile-10242"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the Sag Harbor Express</span></a><br />
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A Conversation with the Rev. Holly Haile Davis and her mother, Elizabeth Haile, two prominent members of the Shinnecock Nation who recently took part in “The Accidental and Intentional Neighborness of our Communities” a discussion with Rev. Alison Cornish held at the meetinghouse of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork.</div>
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Holly: I’d like to define discussion. Alison and I decided to begin a conversation last year at this time. It took the form of a dialogue sermon at the meeting house. A conversation between us in a public arena. It was very tentative, opening a door that in my mind has never been opened. What I mean by that is outsiders wanting to have more than a one-way conversation with the Shinnecock. It’s been very one-sided for 370 years. To have a conversation where more than one side’s will was being considered was represented in our dialogue sermon last November. And so this was then part two of that continuing conversation. . <a href="http://sagharboronline.com/sagharborexpress/a-conversation-with/rev-holly-haile-davis-rev-alison-cornish-and-elizabeth-haile-10242"> ..... more </a></div>
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note: Rebecca (Becky) referred to in this article is Rebecca Genia, Rev. Holly Hails Davis' cousin and a member of the Inter-Tribal Historic Preservation Task Force devoted to preservation of ancient native burial sites.<br />
<br /></div>Tony Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137206936079263032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572491.post-77841365594228463622010-11-30T08:19:00.001-05:002010-12-02T20:27:17.092-05:00EAST END FOOD PANTRIES NEED OUR HELP:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As
always our local food pantries need help with the ever increasing
demand from those who just can't afford to feed their families. For example from January 2009 to January 2010 the number of families seeking aid tripled in East Hampton. The
demand is year round but increases at this time of year as one would
expect with the seasonal employment situation.
Here is a list of local food panties:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Montauk</b>: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Montauk Food Pantry at St Therese of Lisieux, 55 South Etna Avenue </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>East Hampton / Amagansett:</b> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">East Hampton Food Pantry </span><a href="http://www.easthamptonfoodpantry.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">www.easthamptonfoodpantry.org</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">631-324-7195
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">219-50 Accabonac Road </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">East Hampton Food Pantry hours: Tuesdays 2:00 – 6:00 pm </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Amagansett Satellite hours: Tuesdays 4:00 – 6:00 pm </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Sag Harbor: </b></span><br />
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Harbor Food Pantry:
Old Whalers (First Presby.) Church - 44 Union St.
631-725-0437
provides basic provisions 10:30am-1pm Tuesdays - Donations accepted at
the Church.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Bridgehampton</b>: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">551 Sag Harbor Turnpike
631 - 537 -0616 </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Southampton: </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Human Resources at Sacred Heart Church, 168 Hill St. 631-283-6415 </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Island Wide:</b> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Island Harvest with HQ in Nassau County <u>is looking for East End Volunteers</u>. They supply local food pantries. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">see <a href="http://www.islandharvest.volunteerhub.com/">www.islandharvest.volunteerhub.com</a> to register and help with local food collection/distribution. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">also:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Long Island Cares/ The Harry Chapin Food Bank:
<a href="http://www.licares.org/">http://www.licares.org/</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Tony Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137206936079263032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572491.post-49704933471252180792010-11-18T07:15:00.004-05:002010-11-18T10:05:00.246-05:00Week of November 18<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Following the news</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Votes may be re-counted pending Court decision - 10,100 absentee ballots not counted so far. Elections Board says they made mistake Bishop now trails by 383 votes. Sample machine votes are being checked. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Committee for Peace in Israel / Palestine (COPIP) ... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://copip.blogspot.com/">COPIP blog</a></u></span> has been updated. It is also linked from the blog list on this web site. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As always our local food pantries need help with the ever increasing demand from those who just can't afford to feed their families. The demand is year round but increases at this time of year as one would expect with the seasonal employment situation.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Montauk Food Pantry at St Therese of Lisieux, 55 South Etna Avenue, Montauk </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">East Hampton Food Pantry </span><a href="http://www.easthamptonfoodpantry.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.easthamptonfoodpantry.org</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amagansett Satellite hours: Tuesdays 4:00 – 6:00 pm </span><br />
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Old Whalers (First Presby.) Church - 44 Union St. Sag Harbor 631-725-0437
provides basic provisions 10:30am-1pm Tuesdays - Donations accepted at the Church
We are hoping to give each of our food pantry clients a turkey for their Thanksgiving dinner. If you can donate a turkey, please call 725-0437 or send us an email with your name, address and telephone number. If you can’t deliver the turkey to the pantry on a Tuesday, we will pick it up. Thank you so much for your generosity! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center - </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Human Resources at Sacred Heart Church, 168 Hill St. 631-283-6415 </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Island Harvest with HQ in Nassau County is looking for East End Volunteers. They supply local food pantries. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">see <a href="http://www.islandharvest.volunteerhub.com/">www.islandharvest.volunteerhub.com</a> to register and help with local food collection/distribution. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.guildhall.org/calendar.ihtml"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guild Hall</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> , Main Street in East Hampton is presenting .“Cities of Peace,” by East Hampton artist Ellen Frank through January 16. The exhibition features nine 6- by 8-foot gold-illuminated works on linen that are a visual tribute to people and locations around the world. “Cities of Peace” includes Baghdad, Beijing, Hiroshima, Jerusalem, Kabul, Lhasa, Monrovia, New York and Sarajevo. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gallery Talk Nov 27 3pm - Perspectives on Cities of Peace: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">A Conversation Donny George Youkhanna Now Visiting Professor (Mesopotamian Civilization); Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, SUNY, Stony Brook University Peter Trippi Editor, FineArtConnoisseur: The Premier Magazine for Informed Collectors, on the art historical context for the Cities of Peace paintings Ellen Frank Ph.D., Artistic Director, Ellen Frank Illuminations Arts Foundation, Inc., on “Honoring World Cities Traumatized by War, transforming anguish to beauty” </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alternative radio - media for a democracy: </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.wpkn.org/"><b>WPKN Community Listener Supported Radio</b></a> at 89.5 FM and streaming at wpkn.org has programming produced by east enders and still needs our support.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">email subscribers may un-subscribe by replying with "Don't Send" in the subject line </span>Tony Ernsthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137206936079263032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9572491.post-51368250967660829212010-11-03T07:30:00.015-04:002010-11-17T17:29:38.737-05:00Week of November 11 - Veterans Day<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Palatino, Times, serif; line-height: 20px;">To the Editor,<br /> We are a warrior nation with an obscene military budget. In times of deep recession and millions in economic depression, 59 percent of our taxes relate to war.<br /> The powers that be in Washington often speak of perpetual war as if it was our destiny. A curse upon our children and grandchildren — we have already used their credit cards to sustain our wars.<br /> Has reverence for life been compromised by the gods of war, whether they be oil, money, or to change the hearts and minds of people we don’t even know? Yes, there are lives in the balance.<br /> For a moment, let us reflect on the lives of our young men and women who fight our wars in our name. To do so they had to give up their freedom and have no voice but to follow orders. Little did they anticipate being held hostage in endless wars. Then tours of duty were extended and they returned to combat as many as five times with pockets full of mind-altering drugs to withstand a living hell. Eventually they become victims of post-traumatic stress disorder, a burden they carry the rest of their lives, families included. These are crimes against humanity and no one is held responsible. There are lives in the balance.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Guild Hall , Main Street in East Hampton is presenting .“Cities of Peace,” by East Hampton artist Ellen Frank through January 16. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.guildhall.org/calendar.ihtml?id=1381">Gallery Talk Nov 27 3pm</a></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The exhibition features nine 6- by 8-foot gold-illuminated works on linen that are a visual tribute to people and locations around the world. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Cities of Peace” includes Baghdad, Beijing, Hiroshima, Jerusalem, Kabul, Lhasa, Monrovia, New York and Sarajevo.</span></div>
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