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Volume 4, Number 4
April 1994

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ANNUAL PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION
SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1994

7:30 AM - 10:00 AM
HOLIDAY INN

33 Nationwide Blvd
Columbus OH

We are holding this peaceful demonstration at the same time as the OEA will be holding its annual NEA delegate briefing. This briefing takes place at the Holiday Inn beginning at 8 AM.

Mark your calendars now! Your help is needed not only to stage our annual pro-life peaceful demonstration, but also to help spread the word.

The hour is early, but the sacrifice will never be too great for the lives of the unborn who will be saved!


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MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD!

Judy Bruns, 6th Grade Teacher, Coldwater Elementary

OEA Resolution I-3 paragraph 2 states: "The Association supports the United States Supreme Court decisions that guarantee reproductive freedom. The Association urges all branches of Federal, state, and local governments to give high priority to complying with these Supreme Court decisions..."

When the annual OEA-EPAC/NEA-PAC contribution form arrived in my mailbox, I almost threw it out as a matter of habit. After all, OEA, and certainly the NEA, had not been representing my views on abortion since the 1980s. I had, also, become disgusted with the fact that my professional organization was taking stands on issues outside the realm of education, areas where, I believed, the OEA and NEA had no business treading. As I looked at that PAC form daily for about a week, more and more it became a symbol of abortion advocacy and far-left stands on non-education issues. I wondered what I, one person, could possibly do that could influence an organization that was so immense. Then it all started to come together...

I decided to send my PAC form in, address filled out, with a "stick-em" note attached that expressed my opposition to the OEA and NEA view on abortion. I would insist on NEUTRALITY on abortion, as a non-education issue, before I would contribute to my professional organization. How could the OEA and the NEA assume that its membership agreed on such an issue anyway, since abortion has been widely disputed throughout the nation for years? The only safe way to respect and recognize the various views of its membership would be through NEUTRALITY.

Soon I told my colleagues about the PAC form idea. Support was even more overwhelming than I had anticipated. I found that the majority of my cohorts had been pitching their PAC forms, too, and many for the same reasons as I. Within a couple days teachers from other area schools began implementing the protest concept among their friends. Perhaps together our opinions would count.

Then came the final, most effective step in the PAC plea. While I was at church for a communion service, the Bible reader made a comment that we needed to place our confidence in God. She said that we should reflect on the words written on every penny we hold - "In God we trust". That was it! The OEA-EPAC was asking for contributions, but, as far as I was concerned, it was no longer representing the trust in God our forefathers had stamped on the coins begin contributed. A simple penny would be the ideal symbol for the PAC plea, also, because it meant "poor service" when given as a tip in the business world. Pro-life, pro-neutral teachers could send in penny contributions to OEA-EPAC to make sure their protest forms would be processed!

At our school, in one week's time, protest PAC forms more than doubled the average number of PAC contributions. Again, I say, together our plea for OEA neutrality on abortion, a non-education issue, will be heard! Thanks! May God help our efforts!


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IMPORTANT
SURVEY INFORMATION NEEDED

If you are an NEA member, your help is needed immediately. Enclosed with this newsletter you'll find a survey which Life Issues Caucus would like to have conducted in as many school districts as possible. Please help by following the instructions listed below:

  • Find out the number of members in your local's association.
  • Use this number to determine the number of copies you will need to conduct the survey. Copy the survey and keep the original to tally the results.
  • Give the copies of the survey to your local president or an OEA delegate. Request them to distribute the survey and then return all ballots to you.
  • Tally the results. On the tally sheet, note the name of your local association, the number of members in your local association, the number of ballots sent out, the number of ballots returned, and the totals of the survey.
  • Mail a copy of the survey results by April 29th to: Survey Results, PO Box 125, Damascus, OH 44619.

    Thank you for your help in this important matter.


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    LIFE ISSUES CAUCUS

    When the Ohio Education Association (OEA) convenes for its spring meeting, Life Issues Caucus will once again be there to do its bidding on behalf of life. The mission of Life Issues Caucus is to help channel resources into those avenues dealing with education and its improvement, and to move OEA away from non-educational issues. We will be looking at resolutions and new business items with an eye for adding and deleting those things which are in keeping with our purpose.

    We're in the process of developing some new ideas and strategies which we are very excited about. We will once again be meeting in caucus Thursday, May 5, 1994, which is the evening immediately preceding the general meetings. During this caucus meeting we will be finalizing our strategies for the spring assembly.

    For more information on participating with Life Issues Caucus, please contact Gary Winney at 216-944-4409.


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    WHO WILL REPRESENT YOU AT THE NEA?

    The 1994 NEA Convention will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 1 through July 6. It is vital that you contact your delegates to the convention, letting them know your philosophy on various issues.

    If you have a delegate(s) from you local attending the NEA convention, contact should be very easy. However, many locals do not or can not send delegates to the NEA. Therefore, state at-large delegates need to be contacted. All local association presidents were notified of the at-large NEA delegate election results in early April. These results were to be posted in each building of the local. If these results were NOT posted, then contact your local president and find out who your delegates are.

    Get involved by contacting your NEA delegates! They are your representatives!


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    ATTENTION: NEA DELEGATES

    Anyone attending the NEA Representative Assembly this summer in New Orleans needs to contact Educators for Life. This is a caucus working at the NEA Assembly whose purpose is to promote the civil rights of ALL human beings. Educators for Life promotes change within the NEA through members becoming involved as delegates and representatives on all levels. They are wanting to make contact with anyone who will be attending the NEA Assembly this summer so that everyone concerned about the abortion issue can work together as a team. Please contact Don Curry, PO Box 6689, Yuma AZ 85366-6689 (602-726-1289). It is suggested that you call so that you will be definitely aware of all the arrangements.


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    TSC PUBLIC RELATIONS

    We continually need your help in getting information about TSC out to as many people as possible. We continue to work with other pro-life organizations in a variety of ways. We would like to be able to include our literature at Right to Life county fair booths again this summer. If you have contacts with local Right to Life Chapters or other pro-life organizations and want to help out in this way, please contact TSC for more detail. Also, if you have any ideas or suggestions as to how we can inform people about our organization, please let us know.


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    PRIMARY ELECTION DAY - MAY 3, 1994

    The primary election process is just as important as the November general election. It is important for all registered voters to go to the polls this May and express their freedom of choice through voting. Please find out about the candidates from your area and of your party. The biggest reason people give for not voting is that they do not know enough about the candidates and the issues. Get informed and make your mark in Ohio this spring.

    REMEMBER:  Responsible citizenship is no accident!
    Get informed and vote on May 3, 1994.


    For more information contact: tsc-life@juno.com
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