FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Re: Banners for Recommitment for Torture Awareness Month, June 2008

[Barbara Weatherhead (barbweather]

I can get the banners made for a little less than the NRCAT price...
2' x 6' black banner - $60 or 3' x 9' - $125.

Barbara Weatherhead
barbweather [at] comcast.net  

-----Original Message-----
From: Rev. Kendyl Gibbons [mailto:uukendyl [at] interaccess.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 4:08 PM
To: Barb Weatherhead
Subject: [sa-talk] Banners for Recommitment for Torture Awareness
Month,June 2008

Check out the web site: www.tortureisamoralissue.org 

I would love to get these banners and be part of this, at least for the
summer.  Can Social Action afford one or two of the banners?
Personally, I
like the 'torture is wrong' one, but I'm open to what the committee
prefers.
I could buy them out of my discretionary fund if I have to, but I think
this
is an issue that we have a collective investment in.  What say you?

Kendyl




-----Original Message-----
From: jojane [at] juno.com [mailto:jojane [at] juno.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 11:19 AM
To: Kendyl Gibbons
Subject: [sa-talk] Fw: Fw: Prayer of Recommitment for Torture
AwarenessMonth, June 2008





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To: jojane [at] juno.com
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 09:14:19 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Prayer of Recommitment for Torture Awareness Month, June 2008
Message-ID: <612461783.-612764261 [at] org.orgdb.mail.democracyinaction.org>


TORTURE IS A MORAL ISSUE
 
Dear Friends:

Please join us in an interfaith prayer during religious services the
weekend of June 6-8 to observe the first full weekend of Torture
Awareness Month.  

Two months ago, President Bush vetoed legislation that would have banned
the use of torture by US intelligence services.  We worked hard to win
passage of that legislation by both houses of Congress.  This June we
will publicly recommit ourselves, as people of faith, to continuing the
struggle to end US-sponsored torture.

NRCAT is organizing a number of ways that you and your congregation can
mark Torture Awareness Month.  More than 150 congregations across the
country have already committed to displaying a banner as part of our
Banners Across America project.  By June 1, we will have bumper stickers
available for purchase on our website.

In addition, we are collaborating with Rabbis for Human Rights to
encourage faith communities to incorporate a Prayer of Recommitment into
religious services during the weekend of June 6-8 (and throughout the
month). Offering a prayer is a simple but very important way to ask God
to help us be faithful in this work, to raise awareness within our
congregations and to join our voices with others all across the country.

We offer this prayer as our government continues to assert the right to
use interrogation tactics that torture other human beings. 

As religious people, we must recommit ourselves to the important work of
healing the soul of our nation and healing the wounds inflicted on those
who have been tortured. 

Click here for further information about the Prayer of Recommitment and
plan to join faith communities across the country in this important
witness during the weekend of June 6-8.

Sincerely,

Linda Gustitus, President
Rev. Richard Killmer, Executive Director
 
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