<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Coming soon . . .</div><div><br></div><div>M1 Abrams Tank</div><div><img src="cid:E2396AFA-46CB-46D1-85B5-76D054612D20" alt="image.jpeg" id="E2396AFA-46CB-46D1-85B5-76D054612D20" width="640" height="318"></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Multi-Rocket Launcher System</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:3066D7F2-EB8A-4F04-98D3-772A92255833" alt="image.jpeg" id="3066D7F2-EB8A-4F04-98D3-772A92255833" width="500" height="342"></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:578587EB-D790-46C7-AAC3-FBEAE360EA06" alt="image.jpeg" id="578587EB-D790-46C7-AAC3-FBEAE360EA06" width="640" height="370"></div><div><br></div><div>And starting in Fall 2015, following successful completion of a 30-minute online safety class, you can drive these vehicles to class.</div><div><br></div><div>I feel safer already.<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">  </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">  </span></div></div><div><br>On Aug 25, 2014, at 12:40 PM, "Saundra Lund" <<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Paul wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">While I'm in a condemning mood, I would also like to condemn the people involved in the looting that has occurred.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Me as well.  Two (or more) wrongs don’t make a right, but again, I think there’s a world of difference between a handful of thugs acting badly and State agents acting really, really badly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And, I’ll just add a bit.  I realize that I’m just as privileged as everyone else who was fortunate enough to be born white in this country with the protection of the US Constitution.  That said, there is something soul-changing -- at least there was for my daughter and me and many, many others on our train -- that happens when encountering a militarized police presence on domestic soil.  There is something terrifyingly soul-changing when one – even in a crowd -- is surrounded and held captive by a militarized police presence with assault rifles trained on the crowd, bellowed threats for doing nothing wrong, surrounded by big military vehicles, and helicopters swirling overhead.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">While watching live coverage of the protests, I was reminded – again – that our Constitutional rights don’t matter one bit in the face of militarized police forces (and other instances of LE abuse of power).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And, I was incredibly sad that many of those hundreds and hundreds of protestors who did absolutely nothing wrong have now had that soul-changing experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Finally, as the survivor of a violent crime, I can tell you that my first-person experience that really terrible things do, indeed, happen to good people at the hands of criminals pales in comparison to the soul-changing experience of being surrounded and held captive by a militarized police force.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Saundra<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them.   That's the essence of inhumanity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">~  George Bernard Shaw<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Paul Rumelhart [<a href="mailto:paul.rumelhart@gmail.com">mailto:paul.rumelhart@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 25, 2014 10:48 AM<br><b>To:</b> Saundra Lund<br><b>Cc:</b> Moscow Vision 2020<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] FW: Solidarity with Ferguson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I did not realize that this event was to protest the way the police had handled the protests in Ferguson.  I had assumed that the event was to protest the killing of Michael Brown, which is what I was talking about when I said I didn't have enough information to know whether or not to be enraged over this.  That was my mistake.  My apologies for not reading the entire message.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I wholeheartedly think the cops in Ferguson went overboard in how they handled this entire event, from the first press conferences to the curfews to the way they have handled the crowds and journalists.  The way they have handled journalists is exceptionally bad and at complete odds with the First Amendment.  Even third-world countries are smart enough not to do that.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">While I'm in a condemning mood, I would also like to condemn the people involved in the looting that has occurred.  <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">Paul<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Saundra Lund <<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm" target="_blank">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Are you saying, then, that the domestic militarization of police in this country is OK in some places/situations but not in others?  Did I completely misunderstand your previous posts about police militarization?  “</span><span style="color:black">I really think the militarization of the police is a bad idea.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You do understand, don’t you, that with respect to Ferguson, the topic of police militarization refers to the LE response to unarmed non-violent protestors exercising their Constitutional rights & journalists covering the police response and not to Darren Wilson’s shooting of unarmed Mike Brown, Jr., right?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">What facts are you waiting for before you decide whether <b>those</b> actions are OK with you?  Did not scene after scene after scene of LE pointing assault rifles at unarmed and non-violent citizens reinforce the position you’ve taken about the militarization of police being a bad idea?  Did it not concern you that journalists and civilians were ordered to stop filming LE response over and over and over again?  Did not the targeted deployment of tear gas canisters and concussion grenades at a news crew with no protestors nearby concern you?  There’s the now infamous incident of that unhinged St. Ann cop who pointed a loaded semi-automatic assault weapon at unarmed protestors, some of whom had their hands up, and journalists and announced, “I’ll f*cking kill you,” but that’s certainly not the only unhinged cop I saw or heard during the protests.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Just Curious,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Saundra</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Moscow, ID</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Paul Rumelhart [mailto:<a href="mailto:paul.rumelhart@gmail.com" target="_blank">paul.rumelhart@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 25, 2014 7:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> Saundra Lund<br><b>Cc:</b> Moscow Vision 2020</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] FW: Solidarity with Ferguson<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt">Paul's waiting for  more actual facts before he gets enraged over this.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Paul<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Saundra Lund <<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm" target="_blank">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Glad to see you're sticking to type, Scott, with your predictable denial that race has anything to do with anything.  I put that in the same category as the idiotic comment you made that felons don't have problems finding jobs & housing.  Just plain ignorant and living in some imaginary World According to Scott that has no connection to reality.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">For me, there are lots of things that concern me about Ferguson, and yes, race is one of the things, although not necessarily with respect to the actual killing of Mike Brown Jr.  That's a question I don't think will ever be answered.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">But, the fact of the matter -- for me -- is I think anyone who isn't concerned when police shoot & kill unarmed people is an idiot.  That concern doesn't necessarily mean that the killing was dirty, but to not concerned?  Idiotic.  I actually think gun-wielding agents of the State have a higher duty to preserve life than do thugs.  Go figure.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I also think Ferguson gave the whole country -- at least those not living under rocks --  a good picture of the real life consequences of the militarization of the police.  Paul, I think, has posted on that topic a few times, so it's . . . curious to me he didn't bring up the topic with such a great real world example.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">There are several other significant concerns, but I really don't see much reason to engage in discussion with you since you predictably want to boil everything down to "race baiting."<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#888888"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#888888"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#888888">Saundra</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Sun, Aug 24, 2014, at 01:50 PM, Scott Dredge wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I'd guess they will show up in droves. Race baiting and anti-establishment sentiment are effective in mobilizing young people who are more driven by peer pressure and emotion in jumping to conclusions rather than rationally waiting for all for the facts surrounding this tragic event to emerge and coming to an informed opinion.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">As for me, I'll keep an open mind that this could be 'racist cop shoots and kills black kid minding his own business', but until I'm convinced beyond a reasonable doubt I won't be rendering a verdict.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">-Scott<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Aug 24, 2014, at 3:12 PM, "Saundra Lund" <<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm" target="_blank">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Here’s hoping our local college students make me proud  </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">  I’ve given my hubby a head’s up to be aware & hopeful that some of his students walk out tomorrow morning and to not take it personally  </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">J</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m curious:  is anyone here planning on going to Spokane Tuesday to participate in the rally?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Saundra</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> Amnesty International USA [<a href="mailto:alerts@takeaction.amnestyusa.org" target="_blank">mailto:alerts@takeaction.amnestyusa.org</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 24, 2014 9:59 AM<br><b>To:</b> <br><b>Subject:</b> Solidarity with Ferguson</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="650" style="width:487.5pt;background:white"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><div align="center"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="650" style="width:487.5pt;background:white"><tbody><tr><td width="25" style="width:18.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:0%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><img border="0" width="25" height="104" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/action.retrievefile.do?ea.client.id=1839&ea_filename=etem-top_mobile_01.gif" alt="template image"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width="242" style="width:181.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:0%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=273186&ea.campaigner.email=BAD5ZdktWlKbKzOfDY5p9fmkGi65H1302t8RM2eLScw=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="242" height="104" id="_x0000_i1026" src="https://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/action.retrievefile.do?ea.client.id=1839&ea_filename=etem-email_logo_mobile.jpg" alt="Amnesty International USA Action Alert"></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width="358" style="width:268.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:0%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><img border="0" width="358" height="104" id="_x0000_i1027" src="https://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/action.retrievefile.do?ea.client.id=1839&ea_filename=etem-top03.gif" alt="template image"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width="25" style="width:18.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><td width="25" rowspan="2" style="width:18.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"></td><td width="600" style="width:6.25in;background:#A00A32;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"><p><b><span style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:white">Solidarity with Ferguson, Missouri</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width="25" rowspan="2" style="width:18.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in"></td></tr><tr><td width="600" style="width:6.25in;padding:11.25pt 0in 7.5pt 0in"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellpadding="0" align="right" width="210" style="width:157.5pt;margin-left:11.25pt"><tbody><tr><td style="background:#F2F0F0;padding:0in 0in 3.75pt 0in"><p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><img border="0" width="210" height="40" id="_x0000_i1028" src="https://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/action.retrievefile.do?ea.client.id=1839&ea_filename=etem-getinvolved2.jpg" alt="Get Involved"><br><a href="http://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=273187&ea.campaigner.email=BAD5ZdktWlKbKzOfDY5p9fmkGi65H1302t8RM2eLScw=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="175" id="_x0000_i1029" src="https://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/action.retrievefile.do?ea.client.id=1839&ea_filename=email-ferguson.jpg"></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#999999">Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">A police officer in Ferguson, Missouri fatally shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown on August 9.<br><br>This week, the Ferguson community is asking us to take to the streets.</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Dear Saundra & Bill,<br><br>On August 9, Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year old, was shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. It’s moments like this that draw us in, and that demand solidarity, because all lives matter and human rights are at stake. <br><br>You have taken action online. Now, the Ferguson community is asking for us to take to the streets: </span><o:p></o:p></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">On Monday, August 25, Mike Brown's family is laying him to rest. <b>Ferguson community members are asking college students to <a href="http://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=273188&ea.campaigner.email=BAD5ZdktWlKbKzOfDY5p9fmkGi65H1302t8RM2eLScw=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" target="_blank">walk out of their classes at 1pm EST/10am PST</a> and assemble in solidarity with victims and survivors of police brutality. <a href="http://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=273189&ea.campaigner.email=BAD5ZdktWlKbKzOfDY5p9fmkGi65H1302t8RM2eLScw=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" target="_blank">Will you join them?</a></b></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For the rest of the week, people around the world are rallying at U.S. federal buildings and U.S. embassies to <b>call on the Department of Justice to create policies that respect human rights</b>. We'll be joining, and we want you to stand with us and with the people of Ferguson in your own communities. <b><a href="http://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=273190&ea.campaigner.email=BAD5ZdktWlKbKzOfDY5p9fmkGi65H1302t8RM2eLScw=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" target="_blank">Find a rally here!</a></b></span><o:p></o:p></li></ul><p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Since arriving in Ferguson, we have witnessed hundreds of people take to the streets daily to demand human rights. We have also seen law enforcement use tear gas in the crowd, and arrest protestors. There have been blockades on West Florissant Street for days; journalists have been cleared from the area, and we’ve been kept from full access to protestors at times. Throughout all of this, we’ve been in awe of the power and resilience of community organizers on the ground who have refused to have their fundamental human rights restricted, and have dedicated themselves to sharing Mike Brown’s story and to demanding change. <br><br>Now is the time for us to join in raising concerns about race and policing, and the impact of militarization on the fundamental right to peacefully assemble. Now is the time to bring together your community to participate in the movement to bring human rights home. <br><br>In Solidarity,<br><br>Kalaya'an Mendoza, Senior Organizer<br>Noor Mir, Associate Field Organizer<br>Amnesty International USA Delegates in Ferguson, MO </span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 0in"><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/broadcast.response.do?ea.url.id=273191&ea.campaigner.email=BAD5ZdktWlKbKzOfDY5p9fmkGi65H1302t8RM2eLScw=&ea_broadcast_target_id=0" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#A00A32;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="109" height="46" id="_x0000_i1030" src="https://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/action.retrievefile.do?ea.client.id=1839&ea_filename=etem-donatebtn.jpg" alt="Donate Now!"></span></b></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><img border="0" width="650" height="50" id="_x0000_i1031" src="https://www.e-activist.com/ea-campaign/action.retrievefile.do?ea.client.id=1839&ea_filename=etem-footer-image.jpg" alt="Amnesty International USA"></span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:7.5pt 0in 7.5pt 0in"><p align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">© 2014 Amnesty International USA | 5 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001 | <a href="tel:212.807.8400" target="_blank">212.807.8400</a> </span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="background:#F2F0F0"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">=======================================================<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">List services made available by First Step Internet,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://www.fsr.net" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">=======================================================<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">=======================================================<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">List services made available by First Step Internet,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://www.fsr.net" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bot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