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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
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Subject: Re: The Emergency Response Network
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 12:17:26 EST
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>> What ever happened to writing your congressperson?

Yes!  Please do!  That, in fact, is a major part of what the Emergency
Response Network is all about.  It is expected that only a small portion of
the people involved with the network will engage in public demonstrations, and
that a much smaller number will do civil disobedience.  One of the first acts
of the ERN here in Austin is going to be a large-scale letter-writing
campaign.  Others will include prayer vigils and press conferences.  Civil
disobedience is a last resort to be used in time of crisis to demonstrate the
seriousness of our commitment to stopping the war.

>> The ERN sounds like another attempt at disrupting the government by a small
>> group of people. Who benefits from this? Certainly not central america, or
>> the people of the united states, it only makes us look bad on international
>> T.V.

Well, I'll leave it to you to judge which looks worse on international T.V.:
the U.S. starting yet another war of intervention in a tiny third-world
country, or a group of American citizens trying to stop that war?

--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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