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| An early edition of "Nonviolence Web Upfront," which debuted December 29, 1997. |
I think is less a coincidence than a confirmation that many of us were trying to figure out a format for sharing the web with others. Below is an excerpt from the email announcement for "Nonviolence Web Upfront." The reliable Archive.org has index of Upfront's second week, whose feature was a guest piece by John Steitz, Is the Nonviolence Web a Movement Half-Way House that sounds eerily similar to recent discussions on Quaker Ranter.
Here's the email announcement that coincided with Upfront's debut:
NONVIOLENCE WEB NEWS, by Martin Kelley Week of December 29, 1997
CONTENTS
Introducing "Nonviolence Web Upfront"
New Procedures
New Website #1: SERPAJ
New Website #2: Stop the Cassini Flyby
Two Awards
Numbers Available Upon Request
Weekly Visitor Counts
With my travelling and holiday schedule, it's been hard to keep regular NVWeb News updates coming along, but it's been a great month and there's a lot. I'm especially proud of the continuing evolution of what I'm now calling "Nonviolence Web Upfront," seen by 1800-2200 people a month!
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INTRODUCING "NONVIOLENCE WEB UPFRONT"
The new magazine format of the NVWeb's homepage has been needing a name. It needed to mentioned the "Nonviolence Web" and I wanted it to imply that it was the site's homepage (sometimes referred to as a "frontpage") and that it contained material taken from the sites of the NVWeb.
So the name is "Nonviolence Web Upfront" and a trip to http://www.nonviolence.org will see that spelled out big on top of the weekly-updated articles.
There's also an archive of the weekly installments found at the bottom of NVWeb Upfront. It's quite a good collection already!
Now that this is moving forward, I encourage everyone to think about how they might contribute articles. If you write an interesting opinion piece, essay, or story that you think would fit, send it along to me. For example, "War Toys: Re-Action-ist Figures" FOR's Vincent Romano's piece from the Nov. 27 edition, was an essay he had already written and made a good complimentary piece for the YouthPeace Week special. But don't worry about themes: NVWeb Upfront is meant not only to be timely but to show the breadth of the nonviolence movement, so send your pieces along!
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Hi Martin,
I love the nonviolence.org website. However, why it is that I searched it in vain for the article that appeared in last Saturday's Inquirer:
Peace churches plan alternatives to military draft
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/11924892.htm
Martin, I have mostly stayed out of the Christocentric vs Universalist, strong Christian identity vs open-arms-to-all discussions that have been going on here and on blogs of other Quakers. Frankly, I find it all very hard to relate to. But don't Friends --however traditionalist/modernist/whatever they happen to be-- don't they care about issues such as the military draft anymore? No need for the Quaker representative from Washington, D.C., to say that Quakers move "at a glacial pace." Two years at my meeting (which I love) clued me into that.
War had already begun Iraq when I came to Quakerism, but that was not what drew me there. It had more to do with issues that, if I had to explain them in Quaker terms, would be related to the testimony of Integrity. But when the director of the Selective Service System meets with representatives of the historic Peace Churches and advises them to start organizing opportunities for alternative service, isn't it time to --if you'll pardon the expression-- mobilize? Isn't it time to tell our elected officials that they don't have the right to look upon the youth of the nation as pieces in a grandiose Stratego game?
Or maybe it's because my sons are 15 and 17...
--Barbara
Hi Barbara,
To be frank, I think a lot of the draft talk is opportunistic day-dreaming by activists who dream about the good old days. The Quaker representive quoted in that article gives workshops every year at the FGC Gathering and the description always claims that a draft is only five to eight months away. The next year comes and there's still no draft, but the "Quaker leader" still claims it to be five to eight months away. I'd be embarrased by such inaccuracy.
If you want to worry about your sons, forget the draft and teach them how to be faithful Christians. The workshop Zac Moon and I are leading at this year's Gathering, Strangers to the Covenant, is far better preparation for a draft than any C.O. workshop.
On Nonviolence.org, I have a whole list of "resources on conscientious objection":http://nonviolence.org/issues/conscience.php which includes commentary and an article about "why I mistrust the whole draft hoopla among some peace church activists":http://www.nonviolence.org/articles/000424.php.
Thanks for the parenting advice, Martin! :-)
We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. But I still love your rant!
All the best to you, Julie, Theo, and the cute little mystery.
Affettuosamente. (I only write Italian to those I really love!)
--Barbara
Dear Barbara,
I did put a Nonviolence.org link to the Inquirer article you referred to (I hadn't seen it) along with my disclaimer. There's also some interesting articles about the sophisticated PR/data mining the military is undertaking to get more recruits; I started writing an article about this on the train this morning.
Your Friend,
Martin