[Mb-hair] The HAIR Project...Asheville, NC

[Michael Butler]

Doubtful that Tams will give any deal.
Equity might.
Doesn't hurt to ask them.
Michael
> THANK YOU SO MUCH!
> 
> I have never felt so welcomed on a listserve before.
> 
> I was born in the Philippines (but I'm Irish/Italian/Polish by birth, Asian
> at heart) at the end of the Vietnam war.  My mother was the only female
> liason for the returning P.O.W.s and I believe she was also involved with
> the baby lift operation.   And in 1994 I wen to Saigon while on an
> educational excange.  I have never met a more beautiful people, nor was I
> prepared for my own reaction (especially after going to Cu Chi and then the
> Saigon War Crimes museum- which is the most honest depiction of the war, and
> most objective, I've ever seen).
> Last year I worked on the Kerry campaign and when a local conservative group
> held a showing of the negative Kerry documentary, my parents and I went to
> be the voice of dissent. My father (also a veteran) was basically shouted
> down, they wouldn't let me (or any women) speak, and the veterans for peace
> who were there were not even allowed to finish talking because they were
> booed.  I couln't stop crying when it was over.  I felt like I was in Poland
> and the year was 1939. It was terrifying.  No one would listen.
> but it's so not simple!  A dear friend of ours was a P.O.W. in Laos for FIVE
> YEARS and he hates Kerry and war protesters (doesn't like Bush though).  I
> feel like we are being pulled apart again~
> but since it's not new, my generation is way too apathetic and complacent.
> 
> I think the hardest part is going to be letting go.  I know I can't single
> handedly change the world, but I certainly do believe we will all be changed
> by this project.  Thank you so much for letting me have a safe place to
> speak.
> 
> I've included my first press release~ I haven't sent it out yet.
> And I did have a question:
> If we are going to donate any profit to the Western North Carolina Coalition
> for Peace, would Tams-Whitmark give us a deal, or would Equity let my friend
> who is an actor in NYC come down for free?
> 
> THANK YOU!
> PEACE!
> 
> Love,
> Katie K.
> Asheville
> 
> ALOHA NUI LOA!
> 
> 
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