Conference turris::womannotes-v3

    My favorite charities are...
    
             Pine Street Inn
             Rosies Place
             Jimmy Fund
    
    The cause I am most interested in now is recycling.  I believe that it
    is one of the most important issues of our time.

    
    The Samaritans.....
    
    'gail

Being a good father...helping to raise quality, happy individuals.
Being that good friend as often as I can.

	(When I die, the real value that I'll leave behind will be encompassed
by the first two.)

Working against bigotry (especially my own) whenever, wherever I can.

MAC

    Keeping beer cans off the south trail of Mt Moosilauke!
    
    education (don't get me started...as I've proven before, I can blab
    non-stop verra effectively!)
    
    so many things that I think my attention must get dilluted...
    
    daniel

Art - particularly Shakespeare.
	Mez

    
    The Nature Conservancy - I'm such a believer I became a life member!!
    
    The Nature Conservancy is dedicated to protection of endangered
    animals and plants.  They raise money and use it to buy environmentally
    sensitive land and continue to provide stewardship for it.
    

    My causes include art, theatre, and a very strong desire to create
    beauty and gladness in the world.
    
    I'm also an information/compassion broker, out to solve people's
    problems...or at least help them solve their own....
    
    -Jody
    

    PBS.... Sports.... Nature.... Pro-Choice.... Getting the democrats
    out of office here in Mass before they bankrup the State....
    
    REK

    " I heartily accept the motto,-'That government is best which 
    governs least'; an I should like to see it acted upp to more
    rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts
    to this, which I also believe,-'That government is best which
    governs not at all'; and when men are prepared for it, that
    will be the kind of government which they will have. "
    
    'Civil Disobedience'  Henry David Thoreau

My two main causes are children and rationality.

I feel compelled to help children (last year I was a Big Sister and I
am considering doing it again.)  I consider myself a child advocate,
though my views on the subject differ largely from others who identify
themselves as such.

I feel the need to spread the cause of rationality where-ever I go.
Whatever people are talking about, when I see logic abused, information
misinterpreted and twisted, I feel compelled to insert logic and
facts, no matter what my personal feelings on the subject.  This has
gotten me in trouble in =wn= but I feel strongly about it and will continue.

Hmm, guess I have a third cause and that is the breaking of stereotypes
of whatever kind I can.  Everywhere.  I think the media distorts 
everything, and it is the responsibility of everyone with *real* knowledge
about a subject to pass that knowledge on to others to counteract the
distortion of the media.

D!

    My cause...FAMILY! I'm determined to have the best family I can get and
    constantly work hard at it. Guess what? Boy I am successful!
    I believe that family is the core of society and if we manage to have a
    good family we manage to get a good part of society too! That is my
    goal.  Besides that, when I have the time, I like my job, I like
    painting, sewing, traveling... having parties with friends... etc. etc.
    etc. (I do care for worldwide hunger and am involved in several orgs
    for adopted kids...)
    

    Environmental issues. I've given up on most others. I also support
    civil  liberties,  but  find it depressing to think too much about
    how they've eroded in the last few years. Not that it's easy to be
    optimistic about the environment.

--David

    Gotta stamp out those Guilds and *especially* Gibsons.

	-- Planned Parenthood
	-- Recycling

#1	Family
#2	Assisting & guiding adolescents who are in drug, alcohol, and 
	emotional recovery programs
#3	BIG advocate for non-custodial parents (mothers/fathers/grandparents)
	working with/fighting against the judicial system for equality
#4	Pikes Peak Jaycees
#5	Semi-professional handyman

    I'm a big advocate for formerly battered women and abused children.
    I do seminars professionally as well as "freebies" to help these
    women regain a measure of courage and self-esteem.
    
    Also, a major supporter of Salt Lake Community College and community
    colleges in general; a strong believer in education; a Literacy
    Volunteer of America where I'm currently teaching a Mexican emigree
    to speak English; and, finally, a strong advocate of the rights
    of physically challenged individuals.
    
    Barb

    Feminism - especially reproductive rights and anti-sexism.
    
    Messing with our minds - by pushing limits.
    
    	-- Charles

        The environment - recycling

    Sierra Club, Earthwatch, Greenpeace, National
    Wildlife Federation
    
    I don't actively support Earth First but there have been times I
    thought their guerilla tactics were the only thing to stop some of the
    land rapers in our culture. If we can't save the earth, nothing else
    will matter.

    Choice - Planned Parenthood

    I've never been pregnant and probably won't have kids but the fact that
    others think they should be able to control my choice angers me. liesl

    Feminism:                Recyling:
    NOW                      all my cans, newspapers, bottles     
                             magazines, plastic bottles        
    Pro-Choice:
    RCAR                     Greenpeace
    NARAL
    
    Education:
    Fund a "scholarship" at my alma mater to provide text books for
    scholarship or financial aid students.  (As many of you may recall,
    the initial outlay for text books at the beginning of each semester
    is staggering.)

    Working with my wife to raise our son.
    and currently.. helping to inform people in Mass. the need for the
    C.L.T. partition. ( Citizens for Limmited Taxation )
    

    MSPCA and other animal protection agencies
    National Wildlife Federation
    

    Eating, paying the rent & keeping my car running!
    
    Lorna
    

    raising my kids
    recycling
    speaking out 

    Amnesty International (surprise!)
    Hunger, Homelessness, and Poverty in America
    Stopping the Death Penalty
    The Audubon Society (largest private environmental organization in Mass.)
    WGBH-TV Channel 2
    Feminism

    Get rich.
    
    Alf

	You won't guess what my cause is????

	

	Nope

	

	Not even close...

	
	


	Okay I will tell you, since you asked so nicely.


	


	To have a 1985 Red Porshe 911 with black interior to drive
	all year round.


	Told you you wouldn't guess it.

	The second impossible cause is world hunger, then comes
	peace and justice for everyone and then a 1984 944 deep 
	blue Porshe, then religious freedom (as long as it hurts
	no one and is extended to everyone), then elimiation of
	multi-national economic oppression, then 1965 black MG.

	Any questions????


	_peggy

		(-)
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			The above is for today only,
			Tomorrow the order my vary.

    Peggy, one of the women in my department has one of those. Her husband
    gave her a ruby and diamond necklace for her 40th birthday and he
    wrapped it in the Porsche. Some people have all the luck. It's nice to
    get jewelry cheap because you have relatives living in a country where
    these jewels are mined and you can getthem to send them over. Bet the
    car wasn't cheap. Hope it didn't ruin your day as that was not my
    intent.
    
    Phil

    I have been carrying a small cotton tote in my purse for the past few
    months...it is rather non-descript and doesn't take much space.  When
    I go to places like CVS or a card store it is right there and I use 
    it and forego the plastic or paper bag that the store offers.  The tote
    is washable and I even press it with the iron...
    
    I like this as opposed to most of the ones that are made of a heavier
    material and our bulky and awkward to carry around.
    
    I have been searching for a place to purchase a similar one for my
    family members for Christmas (we are all into recycling) and have 
    finally found something appropriate.  If any of you are interested
    let me know and I will tell you how you can get one.  It will be
    printed with a message...but I am sure you will love it.  ;-)
    
    J

Over the weekend, I didn't feel very well, so I decided to go shopping.
After a long trip and $70 poorer, I brought back the CD sets of 
both Verdi and Britten's Requiems.  The weekend was subsequently
drown out and just disappeared.

Jane Pauley told a story tonight about a homeless man in New York city.
For the last ten years, Eddie lives on the street sleeping
in a cardboard box the type that is not very different from the ones
used to pack my huge stereo speakers.  Outside of a high fashion shop
is a heat exhaust where Eddie places his box at night and if it rains,
he will put a plastic cover on top of it.  Before dawn, he will get
up and wash himself and prepare for another day.  When we see him on the
street, he looks like an ordinary citizen minding his own business.
One day a jogger run into him in the early morning.  Katherine is an
accountant and she decided to become Eddie's friend.  During the 
interview, Eddie said he would not accept charity, and would never go
to a shelter which in his mind is not a good place.  But he would
accept help from his friend.  When asked why he always get up early and 
move away from the fashion shop, he said, it wouldn't be good to the 
business of the shop.

He goes to a restaurant for his meal every day, and the owner said
that Eddie is nice and he is clean.  Late in the afternoon, when
everyone is going home after work, Eddie goes back to his box and
eat his supper while watching thousands of people rushing pass him.  

On his sixties' birthday, Katherine brought him a jacket (Eddie
does like to dress well), and Eddie thanked her graciously.
Right now, Katherine is making an effort to get him some money 
from the social security, and he still remembers his social
security number after all those years.  Katherine hopes that Eddie
will eventually get a room of his own.

Sometime, Eddie behaves strangely as Pauley commented, perhaps
is because he has all the time of the day with nothing to do
and no one to talk to.

I don't remember the detail of the interview with Katherine, but
when asked what she saw in Eddie, Katherine said grace.  That some 
how made much sense to me.  She then said that he survived.

Eddie survived, not just in the sense that he is still alive and
healthy, but that his moral, his character, dignity and human
decency too endured under such recalcitrant circumstance.  To me this 
is a true miracle--a triumph of human spirit under extreme suffering.  
When he said that what he wants is what everyone wants and that is to live 
well in a calm and serene voice and a face of almost Socratic grace, 
it was as if he was singing the Requiem of Verdi and Britten.  One can
only imagine the kind of Requiem he has been singing to himself for the last 
ten years.

God have mercy on us.    

Eugene

    ref. .-1
    I saw that interview also.  Your words are beautiful.  I was wishing
    the "Eddies" fo the world could read them but I'm stuck with the fact
    they probably already know them.
    
    This might have impacted me more because I just came back from "The
    City" and I saw so many "Eddies".