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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:12:37 +1000 From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net> Subject: Back to Madness - Informed protest This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_G4AXp1CK3rsjsftTYLhM6A) The quote is from a rather long article, but it gets the substance. Click on Korten to reach his web page. HB ~^*~^*~^*~^~^*^^*~**~^ Dr. David C. Korten is the author of When Corporations Rule the World,. He is also a former Harvard Business School Professor, a former Captain in the United States Air Force, and a veteran of the Vietnam War. He is the president and founder of the People-Centered Development Forum, a global alliance dedicated to the creation of just, inclusive and sustainable societies through voluntary citizen action. He was previously a Ford Foundation project specialist in Manila and an Asia Regional Advisor on Development Management for the US Agency for International Development. During his military service he held assignments as an instructor in the Special Air Warfare School at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and as staff to the Secretary of the Air Force and the Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon. For most of his adult life he worked as a development worker in Africa, Asia, and Latin America seeking to eliminate poverty and the roots of violent conflict. He is presently board chair of the Positive Futures Network, which publishes Yes Magazine. www.yesmagazine.org SEATTLE DAY AFTER PEACE VIGIL March 21, 2003 - Federal Building, Seattle David C. Korten I stand before you today as a patriotic American, a former Captain in the United States Air Force, a veteran of the Vietnam War, This day, Friday March 21, 2003, will go down in history as one of America's darkest hours. Our brave sons and daughters have been ordered onto the battle field to risk the ultimate sacrifice and American planes and missiles have been launched in a campaign of "shock and awe" against the Iraqi people, possibly the most brutal air assault in history short of dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It is a war most of the world considers unnecessary, immoral and illegal. On this same day the Republicans who control the House of Representatives have used the cover of war and the nation's willingness to sacrifice for the sake of the troops to approve a massive tax cut for the wealthiest Americans and cut disability benefits for military veterans - thus setting a new standard for political hypocrisy. --Boundary_(ID_G4AXp1CK3rsjsftTYLhM6A)

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Dr. David C. Korten is the author of When Corporations Rule the World,. He is also a former Harvard Business School Professor, a former Captain in the United States Air Force, and a veteran of the Vietnam War. He is the president and founder of the People-Centered Development Forum, a global alliance dedicated to the creation of just, inclusive and sustainable societies through voluntary citizen action. He was previously a Ford Foundation project specialist in Manila and an Asia Regional Advisor on Development Management for the US Agency for International Development. During his military service he held assignments as an instructor in the Special Air Warfare School at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and as staff to the Secretary of the Air Force and the Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon. For most of his adult life he worked as a development worker in Africa, Asia, and Latin America seeking to eliminate poverty and the roots of violent conflict. He is presently board chair of the Positive Futures Network, which publishes Yes Magazine. www.yesmagazine.org

SEATTLE DAY AFTER PEACE VIGIL
March 21, 2003 =96 Federal Building, Seattle
David C. Korten

I stand before you today as a patriotic American, a former Captain in the United States Air Force, a veteran of the Vietnam War,

This day, Friday March 21, 2003, will go down in history as one of America=92s darkest hours. Our brave sons and daughters have been ordered onto the battle field to risk the ultimate sacrifice and American planes and missiles have been launched in a campaign of =93shock and awe=94 against the Iraqi people, possibly the most brutal air assault in history short of dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. It is a war most of the world considers unnecessary, immoral and illegal. On this same day the Republicans who control the House of Representatives have used the cover of war and the nation=92s willingness to sacrifice for the sake of the troops to approve a massive tax cut for the wealthiest Americans and cut disability benefits for military veterans =97 thus setting a new standard for political hypocrisy.

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