WILPF invites me to Aspen Institute training

by **AnnaLivia** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:27 am

i'm not a member, but i email back and forth some with the local (pure-of-heart but still somewhat unawares) president of WILPF - womens international league for peace and freedom. i think maybe i pushed her too hard toward the reality of the full meaning of full 9/11 truth yesterday, when we exchanged a little about it and i sent her that letter i wrote (in my put options thread) to our senators. she sent me this today in answer...an invite to free activist workshop training - including how to write better letters - heavily based around a guide published by - wait for it - the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and The Aspen Institute. they just don't understand at WILPF, how deep the corruption and scheming run...sigh. they don't see the size of the machine. and i don't like seeing them played and their energies mis-spent...and i don't know how to, yes, get them to "GO THERE". everything in this invite sounds so "on the side of good". who would question any of this? ('cept that crazy fringy cindy lady) i'll put the info from the invitation i got below, and i searched and found the board members of Aspen, too. Learn how to communicate effectively on global issues that matter to you! -------------------------- Our Partners The Stanley Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, private operating foundation. Foundation programming is focused on promoting and building support for principled multilateralism in addressing international issues. The Center for Global Citizenship educates students to function effectively in different cultural contexts, and to see their own culture from the perspective of others. The Center also works to ensure that global perspectives and issues are an integral part of the intellectual and cultural experience of all members of the Drake [local university] community. Foreign Policy Communications Workshop: U.S. in the World: Talking Global Issues With Americans As part of the Connecting Global to Local initiative, community activists and educators have the opportunity to attend a free workshop on how to use U.S. in the World: Talking Global Issues With Americans, an innovative, new toolkit designed to make foreign policy issues clearer and more compelling to Americans. The workshop provides necessary background on how Americans think about global issues, explores the wide applicability of the guide’s recommendations, and can help you translate specific foreign policies into publicly understandable language. U.S. in the World supports the work of advocates of pragmatic, principled, effective, and collaborative U.S. engagement in the world. -------------------------------------------------------------- How Can This Workshop Help You? You will learn how to: • Engage your community effectively on global issues. • Write better and more influential letters and articles to publications in less time. • Educate the American public on why foreign policy choices matter to them. A communications specialist can help you reach out to the “persuadable middle” of the U.S. public, offering new and research-tested ways to open (or “frame”) your argument, weave in solutions, and present facts and arguments. The training is fun, interactive and practical. You’ll leave with insights and techniques that you can put to immediate use to hone your core messages and answer tough, frequently asked questions on global issues. -------------------------------------------------------------- About Citizens for Global Solutions: Citizens for Global Solutions is a grassroots membership organization working to build political will in the United States to achieve our vision – one of a future in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no one nation can solve alone. We do this by educating Americans about our global interdependence, communicating global concerns to public officials, and developing proposals to create, reform and strengthen international institutions such as the United Nations. -------------------------------------------------------------- About the Guide: Our workshops focus on the solidly research-based communication advice outlined in U.S. in the World: Talking Global Issues with Americans – A Practical Guide, co-published in July 2004 by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and The Aspen Institute’s Global Interdependence Initiative (GII). The guide was developed by a task force of over 200 top communication and issue-area experts to help issue advocates, experts, journalists, policymakers and others get more Americans talking about the U.S. role in response to global issues like poverty, health, trade, climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the future role of the United Nations. now here's the board at Aspen Board of Trustees William E. Mayer, Chairman, Partner, Park Avenue Equity Partners Henry E. Catto, Vice Chairman, Former Ambassador to Great Britain; Chair, Atlantic Council of the United States Lester Crown, Vice Chairman; Chairman, Material Service Corporation Mervyn L. Adelson, Chairman, East-West Capital Associates Madelaine K. Albright, Principal, The Albright Group LLC Paul F. Anderson, Senior Vice President, Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc. Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States Mercedes Bass, Sid R. Bass, Inc. Berl Bernhard, Partner, Piper Rudnick LLP Stephen L. Carter, Professor of Law, Yale University Law School F. Peter Cundill, President, Cundill Investments Research Andrea Cunningham, Chief Executive Officer, Citigate Cunningham, Inc. Tarun Das, Director General, Confederation of Indian Industry William L. Davis, Chairman and COO, WLD Davis Holdings, LLC James L. Ferguson, Retired Chairman, General Foods Corporation Jack D. Furst, Partner, Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst David Gergen, Prof/Pol Sci, John F. Kennedy School of Government; Editor-at-Large, US News & World Report Alma L. Gildenhorn, Hon Trustee, Kennedy Center; Chairman, National Campaign, Univ MD Ctr/Performing Arts Gerald Greenwald, Managing Partner, Greenbriar Equity Group Patrick W. Gross, Chairman, The Lovell Group Sidney Harman, Chairman and CEO, Harman International Industries, Inc. Nina R. Houghton, Chairman, Wye Institute Ann Frasher Hudson, Partner, Javelina Partners David H. Koch, Executive Vice President, Chemical Technology, Koch Industries, Inc. Ann McLaughlin Korologos, Former U. S. Secretary of Labor Timothy K. Krauskopf, Principal, Round Lake Designs, LLC Leonard A. Lauder, Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. Gerald M. Levin, Retired CEO, AOL Time Warner, Inc. Frederic V. Malek, Chairman, Thayer Capital Partners Robert H. Malott, Retired Chairman and CEO, F M C Corporation John P. Mascotte, Former President and CEO, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City Karlheinz Muhr, Chairman, Volaris Advisors Clare Munana, Ancora Associates, Inc. Elinor Bunin Munroe, President, Elinor Bunin Productions, Inc. William A. Nitze, President, Gemstar Group Inc. Olara A. Otunnu, Under-Sec Gen, Spec Rep to UN Sec Gen for Children and Armed Conflict Elaine Pagels Greenawalt, Professor of Religion, Princeton University Thomas R. Pickering, Senior Vice President, Int'l Relations, The Boeing Company Lord Charles Powell, Sagitta Asset Management Limited Lynda Resnick, Co-Owner and Vice Chairman, Roll International Corporation Ann W. Richards, Former Governor of Texas; Senior Advisor, Public Strategies, Inc. Roy S. Roberts, Managing Director, Reliant Equity Investors Johnathan Rodgers, President, Discovery Networks, U.S. Lloyd G. Schermer, Retired Chairman & CEO, Lee Enterprises Albert H. Small, President, Southern Engineering Corp. Andrew L. Stern, International President, Service Employees International Union Jack Valenti, Chairman and CEO, Motion Picture Association Frederick B. Whittemore, Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. Alice Young, Esq., Chair, Asia Pacific Practice (U.S.) Kaye Scholer LLP Nine New Members, April 2003 (See announcement (<a href="http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/qtr2_2003/0407-134.html))">www.usnewswire.com/topnew...134.html))</a> L. John Doerr, general partner, Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Sylvia Earle, marine biologist; explorer-in-residence at National Geographic Society since 1998 Michael Eisner, established/funded the Eisner Foundation, philanthropic organization headed by his wife, Jane Henry Louis Gates Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Prof of Humanities, Harvard University; Dir, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research Bonnie Palmer McCloskey, vice president, Aspen Center for New Medicine Peter Reiling, president and CEO of TechnoServe, Inc. Roderick K. von Lipsey, vice president at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Private Wealth Management, Investment Management Division Vin Weber, partner with Clark & Weinstock, management consulting firm Mortimer Zuckerman, chairman/editor-in-chief, US News & World Report; publisher, New York Daily News William H. Donaldson, resigned January 2003; nominated chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission Henrietta Holsman Fore, "leave of absence"; Chairman & CEO, Holsman International; Director, U.S. Mint Philip Merrill, "leave of absence"; Chairman, Capital-Gazette Communications; appointed head of U.S. Export-Import Bank Honorary Trustees: See web site for list (<a href="http://www.aspeninstitute.org).">www.aspeninstitute.org).</a> Trustees Emeritus: See web site for list (<a href="http://www.aspeninstitute.org).">www.aspeninstitute.org).</a> shouldn't it really be pretty easy for the wilpf'ers to see that these type people are the problem, not the solution???? Goldman Sachs, Booz-Allen Hamilton, and Maddie Albright are going to lead us to peace and freedom? hello? god i'm tired.

by **bvonahsen** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:32 am

I doan see much wrong with larning to write more better. Us po' folk, we'z gots ta no how ta co-moon-e-kate w' them fancy media types. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"> -- Take a copy of Madea's Family Reunion with you and show it to them. Then sit back and watch their heads explode.

by **Gouda** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:21 am

...and there's Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States. Selling his house near aspen though. <a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm42.showMessage?topicID=255.topic">p216.ezboard.com/frigorou...=255.topic</a>

by **Dreams End** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:39 am

Elaine Pagels? that's interesting.... Tragicomic. Someone once posted an article here about how all of a sudden in 1968 "professional activists" backed by these sorts of foundations began taking over the peace movement. And I'm sadly reminded of the local Peace and Justice organization here in Nashville which accepted some money, not long ago, from the Frist foundation. Yeah...THAT Frist.

by **starroute** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:14 pm

Aspen is certainly part of the puzzle. Internationalists, basically, of both parties. A significant overlap with groups like the Atlantic Council and the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as connections to various NGO's with obscure agendas. For starters, there's this: <blockquote>Quote:<hr><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Transatlantic_Policy_Network">www.sourcewatch.org/index...cy_Network</a> The Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN) is a US organisation dedicated to influencing EU policy while described as a 'partnership'. For example, the document "The new trans-Atlantic agenda of December 1995" states "The Agenda's content reflects input from TPN's report "A European Strategy to the US" - the network's concise analysis of what Europeans needed to do to put relations with the US on a new, stronger footing". . . . The TPN website also lists "cooperating institutions" as being a part of the "TPN network" as ... * Aspen Institute - Berlin * Aspen Institute - Italy * The Atlantic Council of the United States * Brookings Institution * Carnegie Endowment for International Peace * Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) * Congressional Economic Leadership Institute (CELI) * Council on Foreign Relations * Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) * European Policy Centre (EPC) * The European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT) * European-American Business Council * EC Committee of the American Chamber (Brussels) * European Institute (Washington) * German Marshall Fund of the United States * Institut Francais des Relations Internationales (IFRI) * Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) * UNICE * U.S. Chamber of Commerce * US Council on Competitiveness<hr></blockquote> If there really is a high-level Anglo-American conspiracy (as opposed to all the other conspiracies out there), Aspen has to be very close to the heart of it.

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:43 pm

"Please allow the CIA to train you in how to better co-opt the American middle-class and the seven people who still might read instead of watching TV sports and sit-coms." "You'll be trained by people who have already successfully killed our planet, trained dictators how to torture, and looted national treasuries thus validating their embrace of social Darwinism." "Crime pays and it can be fun. Join us."

by **thurnandtaxis** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:55 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>"Please allow the CIA to train you in how to better co-opt the American middle-class and the seven people who still might read instead of watching TV sports and sit-coms." "You'll be trained by people who have already successfully killed our planet, trained dictators how to torture, and looted national treasuries thus validating their embrace of social Darwinism." <hr></blockquote> <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"> Right On, Hugh!

by **AnnaLivia** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:33 pm

i am in a serious mail exchange with this woman right now. hugh, she is probably reading that bit of brilliance of yours as i type. (i hope you don't mind me not asking first?!) it's an uphill battle, for sure. she has sadly responded with a lame "well, i sent the invite letter but it wasn't meant as an endorsement. we have nothing to do with the workshop" excuse me?? i said "but will you be sending out a caveat?" i am VERY rushed at the moment..irons melting in the fire left and right. please know i am at loss for words to give deepest thanks to all who are helping fill me in with more details! for now, namaste, anna bvon...madea fam reunion is completely unknown to me. got a bit more on that? been discussed here? i can google, but heaven knows not just now...

by **AnnaLivia** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:45 pm

a quick thought: homer simpson is much brighter than most people. he at least has had "doh!" moments when he realised that he was being stupid. not many in the world today are capable of having a "doh!" moment horrors and terrors culminating in extinction, and the present destruction of 99+% of their birthright happiness, because the 99% suffer from an utterly mysterious inability to have a "doh!" moment

by **havanagilla** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:45 pm

and god said "if you can't win them join them", or something like that. truth is, if PTB's want someone/group to "join them", they will do that, this way or the other, or the target will vanish. -- I would not recommend to scold orgs/activists for being co opted this way, unless you can offer alternative means for finance/survival.

by **starroute** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:58 pm

The Aspen Strategy Group is the part of the Aspen Institute where you get the really heavy hitters (including far too many former CIA directors): <blockquote>Quote:<hr><a href="http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/c.huLWJeMRKpH/b.612047/k.1222/Aspen_Strategy_Group.htm">www.aspeninstitute.org/si..._Group.htm</a> Group Chairmen * Joesph S. Nye, Jr. * Brent Scowcroft Director * Kurt M. Campbell Associate Director * Willow Darsie Group Members * Madeleine Albright * Michael Armacost * Richard Armitage * Zoë Baird * Stephen Biegun * Lael Brainard * Samuel Brownback * Ashton B. Carter * Eliot A. Cohen * Susan Collins * Kenneth W. Dam * Richard Danzig * John M. Deutch * Thomas E. Donilon * Richard A. Falkenrath * Dianne Feinstein * Michèle A. Flournoy * Robert M. Gates * Richard Haass * Chuck Hagel * Margaret Hamburg * Jane Harman * Robert Kagan * Arnold Kanter * Nicholas D. Kristof * David Lipton * Richard G. Lugar * Jane Holl Lute * Sylvia Mathews * Sam Nunn * Thomas O'Gara * William J. Perry * Jack Reed * Mitchell Reiss * Susan Rice * Dennis Ross * David Sanger * Wendy Sherman * Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall * Anne-Marie Slaughter * James B. Steinberg * Marin Strmecki * Strobe Talbott * Christopher Williams * Fareed Zakaria Emeritus Members Judith H. Bello Richard B. Cheney Richard N. Cooper Stephen Friedman David Gergen Albert Gore, Jr. Jim Hoagland Kay Bailey Hutchison David C. Jones Jan Lodal Jessica Mathews Janne Nolan William Owens Condoleezza Rice Alice Rivlin Walter Slocombe John W. Warner William Webster Paul Wolfowitz R. James Woolsey Philip Zelikow Robert B. Zoellick<hr></blockquote> There's one strange thing about that list of emeritus members. I saved a copy of this page about a year ago, and there was just one name in the list that's missing now: Judith Miller. (Is it possible to defrock an emeritus member?)

by **FourthBase** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:06 pm

Gore being a member is pretty weird, too.

by **stickdog99** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:27 pm

Yeah, just like it's weird how Gore has positioned himself as the champion of and apparent heir to Howard Dean's brand of angry moderate activists and their internet generated millions.

by **bvonahsen** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:23 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>bvon...madea fam reunion is completely unknown to me. got a bit more on that? been discussed here?<hr></blockquote> Oh, I was making a joke about class differences and how this very <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0455612%2F&ei=-TPuRLyMCJXKwQKAhuyXBA&sig2=ZcCbkoZFzD9Jk3LzfzZ0Tw">ethnically black movie</a> would be almost uninteligible to the lily white Aspen Inst. Blame it on <a href="http://www.timwise.org/">Tim Wise</a>, I have been listening to a bunch of mp3's of talks by him.

by **AnnaLivia** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:01 am

madam president to me: "then you should go to the conference and confront them" my reply: "if i told you to go insert yourself between the jaws of the lion that wishes to eat you, would you think me your friend?" she can't even hear the clue phone ringing, and is incapable of picking it up. pisses me off she won't take reasponsibility for what she did. she'll be sending out that caveat, only in my dreams.

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