Invitation to the Campaign for Equity-Restorative Justice ( CERJ) List

I would like to invite you or anyone at your organization to join the
global Campaign for Equity-Restorative Justice (CERJ) email distribution
list, which is described below.  If you choose not to respond, you will not
be added to this list.

I'd also like to get the CERJ list known among your own networks;
especially among dedicated, reform-minded people who care about peace,
justice, and conflict resolution -- among activists, advocates and
professionals alike.  This list exists for YOU to co-opt it -- CERJ is an
non-partisan organization dedicated almost exclusively to coalition-building.

There is no charge, fee, or obligation for this non-profit service.
However, the list carries 20-30 messages a week, so be prepared for that
volume.

Though it is of modest size at around 700 voluntary subscribers, the CERJ
email distribution list is the tool of a mature network of activists.  In
the field(s) of justice and conflict resolution, it is one of the most
influential email bulletin and distribution networks on the Internet today.

One unusual feature of this manually-maintained international non-profit
email distribution list -- unique to our knowledge -- is that it is
segmented by jurisdiction for organizing purposes.  That is, we can and do
'target' messages to our groups of voluntary email subscribers in any
state, province, or country -- or even globally!  There are currently about
80 states, countries, or other jurisdictions represented on the list,
including over 45 of the United States and all Canadian provinces,
separately 'targetable'.

What about volume?  The CERJ list currently carries about 20-30 plain-text
email posts per week (no attachments) -- every one of them manually edited
or approved (no viruses!), and about evenly divided between (1) publicity
and events about radical justice reform methods and strategies, and (2)
news and alerts about the terrible problems inherent in today's criminal
INjustice system.  We also increasingly 'visit' the subject area of
international and inter-ethnic conflict resolution.

Please visit our web site at <http://www.cerj.org> for more information on
who we are and what we're 'up to'!  You can also see the transcript of a
recent CERJ address given at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government
at the following URL address:
<http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/hri/jwilm.htm>

A major part of CERJ's mission is to elevate the scholarly, intellectual,
and moral levels of the Internet's various public crime and justice policy
colloquia -- we have been engaged for several years in some very effective
Internet-based advocacy for Equity-Restorative Justice.

In our educational efforts, CERJ stresses the fact that vengeance and
retribution are not justice at all -- are in fact deeply destructive of the
'fabric' of society, and that in order to achieve authentic justice, public
policies must instead manifest those noble, humane, and constructive
qualities traditionally associated with justice.

By the way, if you decide to write and ask to be subscribed, please include
your state or province (or country) of residence in your message.  You see,
our list is broken down into local jurisdictions to facilitate
correspondence with specific local groups of the Campaign.

"What you cannot do is accept injustice -- you must make the injustice
visible.  The function of a civil resister is to provoke a response, and we
will continue to provoke until they respond or they change the laws.  It
will not be over if they arrest me, or if they arrest a thousand people ...
it is not only generals who know how to run campaigns!  They are not in
control -- we are.  That is the strength of civil resistance." -- Mohandas
K. 'Mahatma' Gandhi (paraphrased)

An inCERJent for justice,
John Wilmerding

P.S.: In particular, you may be interested in the CERJ Justice List of
Lists -- a compendium of some thirty or so email discussion and bulletin
lists that we have compiled to aid activists and advocates for radical
justice reform.  We re-post this List of Lists every three months or so.
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To subscribe to the CERJ E-Mail distribution list, simply send
an E-mail message to <cerj@cerj.org>. Please include your name
and your state, province, or country of residence.  Thank you!