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We ask for your Support in 2010

Dear Interfaith Network Friends and Supporters,

Many of us have been working for a more peaceful and just planet for as long as we can remember – and if there is anything that we have learned it is simply this:  the struggle will never end.  Peace and Justice are not steady states.  It’s a constant tug of war between those who truly believe that  justice for all is the only way to achieve meaningful peace and those who believe that life is a zero sum game in which a few must prosper at the expense of many.

Here are some of the things we plan to do in 2010 with your help:

Why we need $5,000 in 2010:

Send  4 participants to School of the Americas  Protest in Nov.:           $1,000

Place an anti-war ad in the newspaper  --                                             $   600

Send 4 high school students to state/local peace events:                     $1,000

Annual Peace Scholarship to High School Senior:                                 $1,000

Speakers’ fees and community education events:                                 $1,000

Admin Expenses   (signs for vigil, etc.)                                                  $   400

TOTAL                                                                                               $5,000

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Or give by mailing your contribution to: The DeKalb Interfaith Network, c/o Henk Hoeve, 1805 Margaret Ln., DeKalb, IL 60115

Thank you for hanging in there with us, for attending programs when you can, for being at vigils when you are able, for writing to the newspaper and your congressional representatives.  Thank you too, for your financial support when you have been able to give it.

We on the steering committee hope that you will work with us in the year ahead on the issues we all care about – ending the current wars; stopping recruitment of our children in high school; preserving democracy through an independent media; improving the wellbeing of people in poverty here and overseas; and reducing and eventually eliminating nuclear weapons.  The list goes on.

As you all know, the Network is an entirely voluntary organization.  We have no staff and no offices.  All the money we raise, we use to support our education programs in the community,  our sister organizations, to lobby and  undertake direct political action, and, in the case of our Central American Fund for Human Development,  to provide direct assistance to poor women and children in Central America.

Our annual budget for the Network’s political activities for 2010 is $5,000  Please help us to raise that amount so that we can be an even more visible presence in the community and a stronger voice for peace, justice and reason.  (For example, one new activity we need to fund is regular announcements on WNIJ to increase awareness of our programs.)

If you are an existing member, please renew at the basic $30 level or more.  If you are a student or retireE, please make a donation in any amount you can.  Or become a supporting member at $100 or more. Click Donate to give on line

Or give by mailing your contribution to:

The DeKalb Interfaith Network, c/o Henk Hoeve, 1805 Margaret Ln., DeKalb, IL 60115

We also invite you to comment on our agenda for the year and add ideas of your own.  Please let us know what particularly interests you and where you would like to see the Network’s emphasis placed.

Please keep abreast of what’s happening in the Network and beyond by bookmarking our website or making it your homepage.

Peace and thanks from us all,

The Interfaith Network Steering Committee:

Dan Kenney,  Mary Ellen Lawrence, Jenny Tomkins, Henk Hoeve, Frances Loubere, Rosemarie Slavenas, Maylan Dunn, Jane Ann Moore, Bill Moore