[WCUSP] Response Requested from WCUSP/WILPF

[Linda B. Belle]

Hi all,

I think this discussion is being held in very many
places in the WILPF world.  It is the 'canary in the
mine' and we ignore it at WILPF's peril.

Linda




-----Original Message-----
>From: Joyce McLean <jmclean at jps.net>
>Sent: Dec 3, 2006 2:33 PM
>To: Libby or Mort Frank <lmfrank1 at verizon.net>, JoanWDrake at aol.com, marlsan at cavtel.net, cjminster at gmail.com, wcusp at wilpf.org
>Cc: rbirchem at a1usa.net, afg at mcli.org, dannpowers at bellsouth.net, marie.boroli at wilpf.ch, Brcadwallader at earthlink.net, edibal at bluewin.ch, mduckles at uclink.berkeley.edu, susi.snyder at wilpf.ch
>Subject: Re: [WCUSP] Response Requested from WCUSP/WILPF
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>I cannot help but feel that chastizing previous boards etc. and defending or not defending past actions is simply not productive and is perhaps a result of our understandable frustration at being unable to change our country's horrible foreign policy....as Kay Camp often said "we're not very good at raising money"....so will this discussion actually help us get richer or more effective (which means it must not demean anyone (there are too few of us) 'cause if not let's end it......
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Libby or Mort Frank 
>  To: JoanWDrake at aol.com ; marlsan at cavtel.net ; cjminster at gmail.com ; wcusp at wilpf.org 
>  Cc: rbirchem at a1usa.net ; afg at mcli.org ; dannpowers at bellsouth.net ; marie.boroli at wilpf.ch ; Brcadwallader at earthlink.net ; edibal at bluewin.ch ; mduckles at uclink.berkeley.edu ; susi.snyder at wilpf.ch 
>  Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 8:03 AM
>  Subject: Re: [WCUSP] Response Requested from WCUSP/WILPF
>
>
>  I agree with just about everything you wrote, Joan.  
>
>  It was at a national WILPF Board meeting in Miami, many years ago, that the Board agreed to sell the D.C. building.
>  I opposed it, but that was the same meeting when I resigned from being WILPF national  Executive Director, so my support of Yvonne and the D.C. office didn't much matter.
>
>  Glad you wrote,
>
>  Libby 
>    ----- Original Message ----- 
>    From: JoanWDrake at aol.com 
>    To: marlsan at cavtel.net ; cjminster at gmail.com ; wcusp at wilpf.org 
>    Cc: rbirchem at a1usa.net ; afg at mcli.org ; dannpowers at bellsouth.net ; marie.boroli at wilpf.ch ; Brcadwallader at earthlink.net ; edibal at bluewin.ch ; mduckles at uclink.berkeley.edu ; susi.snyder at wilpf.ch 
>    Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 10:55 AM
>    Subject: Re: [WCUSP] Response Requested from WCUSP/WILPF
>
>
>    I agree with Marla -- WILPF cannot downsize its own operations while yet pledging financial support to other organizations. As much as we would like to be members of worthy causes & projects such as, in this case, the Social Forum, our treasury must not be tapped to support others as our own organizational operations go begging for funds. I am particularly concerned that WILPF's Capitol Hill Legislative Office in Washington, DC, has been shut down for more than two years, despite the fact the Yvonne Logan's mother left a bequest to WILPF during the 1980's to purchase a building in which to permanently locate that important program -- what ever happened to the proceeds from the sale of the building on D Street Southeast, funded by that bequest, in which WILPF's Legislative Office was located? There has been very poor oversight of the US WILPF treasury through the years at the management level and an uninformed board has had the power to make poor financial decisions that have squandered substantial resources. It is a pity that we have violated a major rule of economic survival by operating on our principal rather than on our interest. 
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Linda B. Belle
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Jane Addams Peace Association
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