From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #233 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, August 20 2001 Volume 07 : Number 233 Today's Subjects: ----------------- SONiA: Live at the Down Home [Sherlyn Koo ] Please consider the following [RockChic02@aol.com] Re: Please consider the following [Joseph Zitt ] ectofest: train transportation [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:03:41 -0700 From: Sherlyn Koo Subject: SONiA: Live at the Down Home Hey folks, I just wanted to plug the new live album by SONiA of disappear fear. It's called "Live at the Down Home" and was recorded in Johnson City, Tennessee last November. Looks good, sounds great. Guaranteed to make you a better person! (Just look at what a change it's made in me...) Availale from amazon.com (easiest to find if you search by album title) or at shows... :) sherlyn =-=-=-=-= Sherlyn Koo - sherlyn@fl.net.au =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "We will push on into that mystery And it'll push right back And there are worse things than that..." - Dar Williams ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 20:30:37 EDT From: RockChic02@aol.com Subject: Please consider the following I know this has nothing to do with music, but it is a very important issue. It was forwarded to me by a friend. Please take the time to at least read through it. Thank you. Dear Friends, Please take a few minutes to read and act on this email. On May 23rd 2001 the Taleban authorities in Afghanistan confirmed that all Hindus will be required to wear a strip of yellow cloth sewn onto a shirt pocket in order to identify themselves. They claim that the measure is for their "protection". The world has faced This before, in 1939 the world was required, at great cost, to rid itself of Hitler's tyranny, it is not hard to spot his child. Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to relive it. The Taleban's record on respecting other religions gives great cause for concern that their ultimate aim, upon which they are intent, is "religious cleansing". They have already demonstrated their distain and intolerance for other religions and traditions by the desecration and destruction of the ancient Buddhist statues, our collective heritage, within the Afghanistan. Whatever your religion, or even if you have none, we hope that you will agree that this fundamentally wrong. Remember, "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". Please do not do nothing, add your voice. DIRECTIONS: PLEASE COPY this email on to a new message, add your name and those of your household who wish to participate to the bottom and forward it to everyone on your distribution list. If you receive this petition and you find that you will be the 251st name on it, please e-mail a copy of it to: alastair@om-int.com . It will then be forwarded to the UN. Even if you decide not to sign, please be considerate and do not kill the petition as you will be denying your friends, and theirs, their legitimate voice. Instead return it to alastair@om-int.com To The Secretary General, Security Council and General Assembly of the United Nations. We the undersigned are appalled by the decision of the Taleban government of Afghanistan to require all Hindus to wear a piece of yellow cloth sewn onto a shirt pocket in order to identify themselves. An individual's communion with God, however they find him, is a matter of personal conscience and must not be the subject of intimidation or persecution. The right of everyone to worship as they wish is fundamental and inalienable. The United Nations was founded in order to defeat Hitler and his henchmen who required the same from another religion with all it's horrific consequences. It is completely unacceptable that nearly 60 years later history is repeating itself. We ask the following: 1. That the Taleban government is made aware in the strongest possible terms that the world will not countenance this perversion of human rights. 2. That prior to the United Nations and/or it's constituent members granting recognition of the Taleban government this obscene policy is reversed. 3. That the United Nations widen the terms of the trade sanctions currently in force. 1. Alastair Mitton - London UK 2. Robert Mitton - London UK 3. Paulette Budd - London UK 4. Andrew Peake - London UK 5. Pippa Howell - London UK 6. Cecile Kusters - Arnhem, the Netherlands 7. Sarah Malpas - London UK 8. Susan Donnelly - Newcastle UK 9. Paul Donnelly - London UK 10. Pauline Bartholomew - London UK 11. Is0bel McMillan London UK 12. Fiona Adamson 13. Minka Emina Kulenovic La Jolla, US 14. Cath Dolan, London, England 15. Liz Murphy, Murcia, Spain 16. William M. Rueter, Wisconsin, US 17. Jaclyn A. Knapper, Tennessee, US 18. Louise Morris, Tennessee, US 19. Joe Stoud, Matsuyama, Japan 20. Keiko Stroud, Matsuyama, Japan 21. Larry Asher, Nepal 22. Phyl Asher, Nepal 23. Reiny de Wit, Nepal 24. Helen Johnston, Nepal 25. Isaac Thompson, Northern Ireland 26. Anne Thompson, Northern Ireland 27. Paul Carter, Vancouver, Canada 28. Lois Carter, Vancouver, Canada 29. Bronwyn Short, Vancouver, Canada 30. David Short, Vancouver, Canada 31. Mark Calder, Sydney, Australia 32. Graham Wintle, Surbiton, UK 33. Geoff Chivers, Surbiton, UK 34. Derek Nathan New Malden UK 35. Mary Nathan New Malden UK 36 Rosalind Preston, London UK 37 Marlena Schmool, UK 38 Ephraim Borowski, Glasgow, UK 39. Ruth Warrens, London, UK 40. Anthony Warrens, London, UK 41. Ian Goodman, London, UK 42. Liz Lightstone, London, UK 43. Elizabeth Simpson, London UK 44. Dimitris Kioussis 45. John_Griffin 46. Hermann Bujard, Heidelberg, Germany 47. Regine Bujard, Heidelberg, Germany 48. Konrad Beyreuther, Heidelberg, Germany 49. Ursula Beyreuther, Heidelberg, Germany 50. Horst Simon, Heidelberg, Germany 51. Michael Brand, Dresden 52. Dorothea Brand, Dresden 53. Christoph Lorra, Dresden 54. Martin Stocker, London, UK 55. Walter Sthmer, Gtttingen, Germany 56. Nathan Dascal, Tel Aviv, Israel 57. Franz Hofmann, Mnchen, Germany 58. Martina Haasemann, MKnchen. Germany 59. Werner Mller-Esterl, Frankfurt, Germany 60. Sandra Christiansen, La Jolla, USA 61. Bruce Zuraw, La Jolla, USA 62. Frank Chisari, Del Mar, CA, USA 63. Linda Chisari, Del Mar, CA, USA 64. Bernard M. Babior, San Diego CA 65. H. Ronald Kaback, Los Angeles, CA 66. David M. Chipman, Beer-Sheva, ISRAEL 67. Leigh Chipman, Jerusalem, ISRAEL 68. Rami Regavim, Tel Aviv, Israel 69. Jade Regavim, Tel Aviv, Israel 70. Gail Kerbel, Port Elizabeth, South Africa 71. Shirley Stamelman, South Africa 72. Sandra Linde 73. David Linde 74. Shayna Sussman, United States 75. Cynthia Rosenberg, United States 76. Diane Wacks, United States 77. Raymond Wacks, United States 78. Aaron Wacks, United States 79. Leah Wacks, United States 80. Nancy McDonald, US ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 19:25:33 -0500 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Please consider the following This petition, laudable as its purpose might be, by its design cannot be effective. Most of the effort and signatures will be lost. From Phil Agre's essential "Designing Effective Action Alerts for the Internet" (http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/alerts.html): DO NOT use a chain-letter petition. A chain-letter petition is an action alert that includes a list of names at the end; it invites people to add their own name to the list, send in the petition if their name is the 30th or 60th etc, and in any case forward the resulting alert-plus-signature-list to everyone they know. This idea sounds great in the abstract, but it really doesn't work. The problem is that most of the signatures will never reachtheir destination, since the chain will fizzle out before reaching the next multiple of 30 in length. What's even worse, a small proportion of the signatures will be received in the legislator's office many times, thus annoying the staff and persuading them that they're dealing with an incompetent movement that can never hold them accountable. On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:30:37PM -0400, RockChic02@aol.com wrote: > DIRECTIONS: > PLEASE COPY this email on to a new message, > add your name and those of your household who > wish to participate to the bottom and forward it to everyone on your > distribution list. If you receive this > petition and you find that > you > will be the 251st name on it, please e-mail a > copy of it to: > alastair@om-int.com > . It will then be > forwarded to the UN. - -- |> ~The only thing that is not art is inattention~ --- Marcel Duchamp <| | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt | | Latest CD: Jerusaklyn http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 21:24:14 -0400 From: meredith Subject: ectofest: train transportation Hi, This is a note for all ectofest attendees who are planning to come by train on Saturday. Please contact Chuck ASAP this week to let him know which train you're coming in on, so he can arrange transportation to Kenosia Park from the Brewster train station. The schedule from Grand Central in NYC is at http://www.ectofest.org/trains.html. If you need help coming from another destination, e-me and I'll see what I can do. (There will also be transportation back to the train station from the park. That may not have been completely clear in the past. :) ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org ======================================= ectofest 2001: August 25, 2001 A benefit for RAINN Kenosia Lake Park, Danbury, CT http://www.ectofest.org ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #233 **************************