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Thought for First Month, 2010 |
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Why All This Talk?
Why all this talk of the Beloved,
Music and dancing,
And
Liquid ruby-light we can lift in a cup?
Because it is low tide,
A very low tide in this age
And around most hearts.
We are exquisite coral reefs
Dying when exposed to strange
Elements.
God is the wine-ocean we crave—
We miss
Flowing in and out of our
Pores.
—Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz (c.1320-1389)
translated by Daniel Ladinsky
The Subject Tonight is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz
North Myrtle Beach, SC: Pumpkin House Press, 1996, p.7
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What's NEW: Events of Concern & New Links
Help Haiti
- NEW
AFSC Haiti Update from
Mary Ellen McNish, General Secretary (1/30/10)
- AFSC Responds to Haiti Earthquake
- On Tuesday, January 12, a large earthquake, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale,
struck Haiti. Those who survived the earthquake are in need of clean water,
medical attention, shelter, and other basic necessities.
- InterAction Members Respond to the Earthquake in Haiti
- InterAction is the largest coalition of U.S.-based international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) focused on the world’s poor and most vulnerable people
- NY Times: Haiti Disaster Relief Organizations
- FCNL: Haiti: Humanitarian Help, Stop Deportations
- Write President Obama and to your representative, urging immediate action to grant Temporary Protected Status to Haitian
immigrants
- Bill Quigley: 10 Things the U.S. Can and Should Do for Haiti
- Legal Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights and law professor at Loyola University, a Katrina survivor, and
an activist with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
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- NEW FCNL E-News
- After Massachusetts and Good News for Haitian Immigrants (1/21/2010)
- NEW Equality Florida Lobbying Week 2010 - Efforts in Tallahassee, March 15-17, on behalf of gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgendered citizens of Florida
- FCNL: Gaza - The Silent Crisis - One year after the Gaza
war's end, the ongoing Israeli blockade prevents Gazan parents from keeping their
children warm and well-fed. No one talks about this humanitarian crisis.
Reps. Jim McDermott (WA) and Keith Ellison (MN) wrote a letter to their colleagues in the House of
Representatives to invite them to sign on to their letter asking President Barack Obama to
work to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
As the one-year anniversary of the Israeli
military operation in Gaza approaches, FCNL is pleased to support this letter
in hopes of ending the blockade of Gaza. Urge your representative to sign this letter.
- Lambda Legal eNews, December 2009
- Lambda Legal in Fort Lauderdale
March 28, 2010 | 5:00 pm 7:30 pm
Bonnet House Museum & Gardens, 900 North Birch Road, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Please join South Florida board members and supporters for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres to celebrate the work of Lambda Legal at the historic Bonnet House Museum and Gardens. For more info, contact Rick Hill at 786-473-6126.
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