File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1995/f_Sep.95, message 32


Date: Sat Sep  9 08:20:02 1995
From: Tom Blancato <tblancato-AT-envirolink.org>
Subject: Eyes on Violence request



 
Eyes on Violence
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There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.
 
 
 
 
Greetings,
 
I'm writing to ask for you help. An associate and I have 
been invited to represent the organization of which we are 
core group members, Eyes on Violence, to participate in a 
violence-prevention project in Haiti. We have been invited 
by a recently elected senator in Haiti, Jean Daniel, who is 
also a member of this project. 
 
Eyes on Violence promises to be among the most innovative 
nonviolence work to date. The project attempts to develop a 
highly responsive and advanced approach to our three main 
goals of human rights monitoring, project facilitation and 
violence prevention. We feel that our uniqueness lies in a 
flexible integration of a wide range of analyses and 
rubrics, ranging from standard literature and philosophy, to 
participatory action research, polemology and communication 
theory and facilitation.
 
Would you like to contribute to this project? Our current 
need is to pay for travel expenses for myself and  one other 
member in the United States. We have, of course, the usual 
needs of any beginning organization of covering various 
expenses and financing initiatives in Haiti and in the 
United States. We are currently applying for 501(c)3 
nonprofit status for the US component of the project.
 
Our call for participation is enclosed with this mailing. If 
you would like to participate via a financial contribution, 
please bear in mind that we have not yet officially obtained 
non-profit status, though we expect to shortly and expect 
that our status will be retroactive to January of 1995. Upon 
obtaining such status, we would gladly mail information to 
this effect for your records.
 
If you would like to participate in the project at any 
level, you are invited to exchange preliminary dialogue to 
that end. We have a very wide range of possible projects, as 
we have an open directive to facilitate other projects in 
Haiti. Of particular interest is facilitating the legal 
system in Haiti and raising important concerns pertaining to 
the much discussed issue of justice in Haiti. We are also 
interested in introducing Grameen bank style micro-credit, 
and perhaps to develop a Grameen replication in conjunction 
with the Grameen bank. Likewise, the project basis, as noted 
above, uses a wide range of rubrics and researches and can 
accomodate participation by a wide variety of expertise and 
interests. Thus, if you have a particular interest and feel 
ready to take some initiative, we could integrate your 
possibilities into our plans.
 
As a financial contributor, you would be listed as  "friend 
of the project" on our contributors list. Please feel free 
to contact me for more in formation.
 
Thank you for your help and consideration. Any and all 
contributions will be used strictly for the work of Eyes on 
Violence.
 
Regards,
 
Tom Blancato
Eyes on Violence
E-mail: tblancato-AT-envirolink.org
2359 W. Ingomar Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15237-1625
 
Tom Blancato (US)
Senator Jean Daniel (HAITI)
Mongesly Clervil (US)
Myanthon Poisson (HAITI)

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There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.

Tom Blancato
tblancato-AT-envirolink.org
Eyes on Violence (nonviolence and human rights monitoring in Haiti)
Thoughtaction Collective (reparative justice project)


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There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.

Tom Blancato
tblancato-AT-envirolink.org
Eyes on Violence (nonviolence and human rights monitoring in Haiti)
Thoughtaction Collective (reparative justice project)



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