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