Coastal  Convergence  Society Huntington  Beach, CA  EST. November 2000 We support the following organizations:  Amnesty International Earth First Food  Not Bombs Green Party Greenpeace November Coalition Orange Country Alliance Orange County Peace Coalition Organic Consumers Association Veterans for Peace     All living things  depend upon one another for their very survival.

Those that would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.  - Benjamin Franklin   "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have too much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."     - Franklin Delano Roosevelt    Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed those who are cold and are not clothed.  This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense.  Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.  - Dwight David Eisenhower   The greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my own government.  - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." - Pastor Martin Niemoller The exploitation of the poor  can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to noncooperate with the exploiters.  - Mohandas Gandhi     When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.   - Ethiopian Proverb