Message from Bridges of Encouragement:

February 19, 2005

Dear friends and colleagues

With this email, we are sending you the first issue of Peace Across the Atlantic, a monthly news-sheet about peace and human rights groups working in the United States, which is intended for activists outsidethe U.S. We are also sending you a promotional announcement, which we hope you will share with your members.
The goal of this publication is to inform people outside the United States about the extensive network of grassroots peace and human rights groups that are currently active in the United States, despite the conservative right-wing government. Many of these groups are actively organizing and campaigning, but they get very little international media coverage.
Peace Across the Atlantic will be distributed by email monthly, with different themes and current campaigns highlighted in each issue. It is currently available in English and in German, but we eventually hope to provide other language translations as well.
This new publication is part of our Bridges of Encouragement project to build stronger links between European and U.S. peace and human rights activists and to increase international support for grassroots activists in the U.S.
We hope you find this publication informative and interesting.
We would like to ask you to pleas! e share t! his issue and the promotional announcement with other groups, organizations, and networks that you work with. You can also send us your recommendations of other people to whom we should send it. We welcome your suggestions and ideas for further distribution.
If you individually, or as an organization, would like to receive Peace Across the Atlantic regularly, please fill out the form below and send it as a reply to this message.
Peace and good wishes,
Dorie and Eric

Dorie Wilsnack and Eric Bachman
Bridges of Encouragement
Milchstr 83, D-32120 Hiddenhausen, Germany
Tel: ++ 49-5221-689708, Fax: ++ 49-5221-689741
Email: transnationalbridges@gmx.net