Message from Meg from the other side
01/17/2006 18:46
Found
this among some old email forward's from Elaine. Some
of Meg's
words should be posted to her memorial page (is there such a thing?). I
highlighted the quotable section in red.
-Pete
Hello my dearly beloved fellow volunteers from the Gulf Coast! I know that you all got that big email from Lee the other day about a contact list, just like I did. I wrote back to him and told him about the trip that I've been organizing since I got back to Maine. See, there's this big, green bus with a couch, bench, kid's area, free box, library, kitchen and rooftop stage. Her name's the Frida Bus and I hang out with her a lot at home in Portland, Maine. The People's Free Space (who own the bus) conspired with me on a plan to fill up our mobile community space with volunteers and supplies and come back home to Mobile and all of you. Now here comes the sad part of my tale. When I got a response from Mr. Lee, he was talking about the whole crew and spirit that I experienced down south in the past tense! I ain't seen no fat lady singin'! Ain't nothin' over. I came home to get a whole new big wonderful crew together... y'all can't all go and leave! I'm bringing back some of my favorite people to meet my new family in Mobile and my favorite bus too. Please come back! I talked to a lot of people down south who said that they were coming back. I hope that you all do. There's gonna be no lack of love in Theodore. It's not like the work there is done, you know that. And it's one thing to just go and feed people when they're hungry and take away the most dire immediate need, but what about all the infrastructure that was destroyed? It'll be too easy for the dominant, corporate infrastructure to take back over stronger than before. These people need advocates and alternatives. It just doesn't seem fair to take someone who's lost everything, give them food, water, diapers and hope and then leave them as poor and forgotten as before. We're not done helping. Please come back. love, -Meg
words should be posted to her memorial page (is there such a thing?). I
highlighted the quotable section in red.
-Pete
Hello my dearly beloved fellow volunteers from the Gulf Coast! I know that you all got that big email from Lee the other day about a contact list, just like I did. I wrote back to him and told him about the trip that I've been organizing since I got back to Maine. See, there's this big, green bus with a couch, bench, kid's area, free box, library, kitchen and rooftop stage. Her name's the Frida Bus and I hang out with her a lot at home in Portland, Maine. The People's Free Space (who own the bus) conspired with me on a plan to fill up our mobile community space with volunteers and supplies and come back home to Mobile and all of you. Now here comes the sad part of my tale. When I got a response from Mr. Lee, he was talking about the whole crew and spirit that I experienced down south in the past tense! I ain't seen no fat lady singin'! Ain't nothin' over. I came home to get a whole new big wonderful crew together... y'all can't all go and leave! I'm bringing back some of my favorite people to meet my new family in Mobile and my favorite bus too. Please come back! I talked to a lot of people down south who said that they were coming back. I hope that you all do. There's gonna be no lack of love in Theodore. It's not like the work there is done, you know that. And it's one thing to just go and feed people when they're hungry and take away the most dire immediate need, but what about all the infrastructure that was destroyed? It'll be too easy for the dominant, corporate infrastructure to take back over stronger than before. These people need advocates and alternatives. It just doesn't seem fair to take someone who's lost everything, give them food, water, diapers and hope and then leave them as poor and forgotten as before. We're not done helping. Please come back. love, -Meg