[AEU Announcements] Elliott-Black voting extended to Nov. 30

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To all Ethical Societies, Fellowships and Circles:

I am extending the voting deadline for the 2003 Elliott-Black Award until
November 30. Please send your society's votes to me if it has not already
voted. I have received votes from Baltimore, Boston, Northern Virginia,
Philadelphia, and Chicago.

Societies have three votes (to cast as they wish between the two candidates,
eg all three for one candidate or 2: 1 in favor of one candidate). Circles
and Fellowships have two votes. 

Information on the two candidates (originally circulated in June on this
list and on the dialogue list) follows:

SAM DALEY-HARRIS
Sam Daley-Harris is President and founder of RESULTS Educational
Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to mass educational
strategies to generate the will to end world hunger. RESULTS Educational
Fund
organized the February 1997 Microcredit Summit held in Washington,
DC.  The Summit was attended by more than 2,900 participants from
137 countries and launched a nine-year campaign to reach 100 million
of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those
families, with credit for self-employment and other financial and business
services by 2005.

In 1990 RESULTS Educational Fund organized candlelight vigils
before the 1990 World Summit for Children at which more than a
million people gathered in 75 countries to support goals set at that
Summit.

Mr. Daley-Harris is also founder and President of RESULTS, an
international citizens' lobby dedicated to creating the political will
to
end hunger and poverty.  Mr. Daley-Harris is author of Reclaiming Our
Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government, about
which President Jimmy Carter said, "[Daley-Harris] provides a road
map for global involvement in planning a better future."

Mr. Daley-Harris is a member of the board of RESULTS, RESULTS
Educational Fund, the American Renaissance Alliance, and Stand for
Children.  In 1995, he received The Temple Award for Creative Altruism
from the Institute of Noetic Sciences and, in 1997, he received the
Caring Award from the Caring Institute.

Mr. Daley-Harris lives in Washington, DC with his wife Shannon, who
is a consultant with the Religious Affairs Division of the Children's
Defense Fund.  Their son Micah was born in May 1998 and daughter
Sophie was born in May 2001.

JON HOLMES
Jon Holmes has been educating people about marijuana laws and their
irrational restrictions on liberty; preventing ill people from using
marijuana when it may be useful; and the draconian laws against usage which
have had the effect of filling our jails with offenders serving sentences
longer than those who commit very injurious crimes. 

He is an educator and an activist associated with the American Civil
Liberties Union. No one is more knowledgeable and articulate about the many
issues related to the various states and national efforts 

to reduce use that have backfired. Despite repeated failures the tough on
marijuana efforts persist. 

Jon Holmes received the Humanist of the Year Award from the Boston Society
in 1994.