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Link A Family helps establish pen-pal relationships between
families in Irkutsk and the Angarsk region of Siberia and families
in Eugene (and elsewhere in the U.S. and Canada). Started two
years ago as a project of thee Eugene-Irkutsk Sister City
Committee, Link A Family has linked around 200 families.
Periodically project director Jana Nelson sends an advertisement
to friends in Irkutsk via e-mail and they publish it in a local
newspaper. She matches the letters she receives with American
families based on profession, family size, and age.
Initially Nelson tried to establish a regular courier service
between Eugene and Irkutsk but it proved too time consuming. Now
letters are exchanged via the post. She has found that mail
delivery works fairly well if people follow a few guidelines: use
meter mail instead of stamps; don't enclose anything extra with
the letter; and use manilla envelopes--they look more official.
Currently Nelson is looking for more correspondents in Irkutsk and
environs (she has enough American participants). For more
information contact Jana Nelson at: [email protected]
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Subject: News of anti-war activity in Moscow
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The following item is from EXPRESS CHRONICA bulletin # 1480, transmitted
in Russian to Center for Civil Society International. Translation
from Russian was by CCSI.
The e-mail address for EXPRESS CHRONICA is: [email protected]
Tel. (7-095) 264-48-30.
Moscow.
On March 8 at 12:00 p.m. the "Mothers' March for Life--Moscow-Grozny" will
start from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, near the Kremlin Wall. The
march is being organized by the monks of the Buddhist order "Nippodzan
Mekhodzi," members of the organization of Friends (Quakers), the peace
group "Omega," and other members of the anti-war movement. March members
will place flowers at the Eternal Flame (next to the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier) in memory of the victims of the war in Chechnya, read a
declaration, and lead a procession around the Kremlin. As mentioned in an
earlier press release (March 2), "the spirit of this march is in the same
spirit of grief and compassion that was shown by hundreds of mothers who
went to Grozny during the heavy bombing in order to save their sons."
Telephone numbers for additional information:
Coordination Center of the March (095) 291-26-18
Commitee of Soldiers' Mothers (095) 928-25-06
Coordinating Center of Members of the Agreement
on Actions Against the Chechnya war (095) 200-65-06
Buddhist Order "Nippodzan Mekhodzi" (095) 188-32-07
FAX (Re: March) (095) 206-88-53
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