[adcom] From Tennis Lilly

[Colby E. Peterson]

More feedback. She/He (apologies, not sure on the gender) is  
responding to specific conversations on the AdCom list.

- Colby

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Tennis Lilly <trhggr at yahoo.com>
> Date: June 20, 2006 2:02:35 AM EDT
> To: saphron at verizon.net
>
> colby
>
> I've been a member of this party since 1997. I've been
> a candidate for office, as a Green, twice. I've been a
> delegate to the GPUSA. I've volunteered for Nader's
> 2000 campaign, worked as a paid staffer for Jill Stein
> and Jonathan Leavitt when they ran as Greens. I've
> done all the requisite grunt work from phone banking
> to petition drives, fund-raising, sign holding, letter
> writing, etc etc etc. I have earned the right to
> express myself without being dismissed is being
> uneducated about "the truth about Israel". I'm well
> aware of Israel's oppression of the Palestinians, the
> theft of their land, the colonizing of the occupied
> territories. I'm also aware of the brutal slaughter of
> innocent Israeli's by Palestinians who don't want
> peace.
>
> I don't know how things are being run these days but
> if this party is ever to regain any of its hard won
> (and lost) influence we need to start thinking and
> acting like a political party. You don't do that by
> dismissing concerned members. For every one person who
> takes the time to write 5 or 10 just wont bother
> anymore. So 1 person showed up at a meeting. Big
> friggin deal.
>
> DO you understand how our little endorsement is
> perceived? How we hand the mainstream media a club to
> beat us over the head with? And we use the WORST
> language possible! And why...dear god WHY do we align
> ourselves with anti-Semitic fringe groups????
>
> ~~~\|/~~~~~\|/~~~~~~~~~\|/~~~~~\|/~~~
> Tennis W. Lilly
> Lawrence Conservation Commission
> Lawrence, MA
> (508) 451-2967
>
> "Never let them tell you that you're just one person and you can't  
> change the world... Aim high and throw hard."
>
>                         David Rovics
>
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