At the Funeral
JOKE OF THE WEEK, 28 Jan 2019
Phoebe Anne Thomas Sorgen – TRANSCEND Media Service
Viewing his serene face prior to his open casket funeral, three TRANSCEND members chatted softly, sharing fond memories of their beloved Dietrich Fischer.
Ingrid Kepler May mused, “I wonder what mourners will say about me as they view my corpse. I hope they’ll remember me as a skilled mediator who helped many people.”
Phoebe added, “I hope to have made a big impact on THE issue of our era, wresting democracy from corporate rule which is running and ruining our world. Will mourners recall that, as a Peace and Justice Commissioner, I wrote the Resolutions that made Berkeley the 1st city to challenge corporate personhood and, years later, the first to oppose Citizens United v FEC? Other cities followed. State legislatures passed similar measures. By 2019, there’ll be over 65 co-sponsors in the US Congress for Move to Amend‘s We the People Amendment . Forgive my horn-tooting.”
Marilyn, what would you like admirers to say as they see you lying in state? Marilyn Langlois reflected, “Mmmm. I hope they’ll say, ‘Look! She’s moving!'”
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Phoebe Anne Thomas Sorgen is a Green Party USA Delegate and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment.
Marilyn Langlois is a member of TRANSCEND USA West Coast. She is a volunteer community organizer and international solidarity activist based in Richmond, California. A co-founder of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, member of Haiti Action Committee and Board member of Task Force on the Americas, she is retired from previous employment as a teacher, secretary, administrator, mediator and community advocate.
Ingrid Kepler May is a member of TRANSCEND USA West Coast, a Compassionate Family Therapist, and Creative Mediator.
Dietrich Fischer (1941-2015) from Münsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. 1986-88 he was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University. He has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities and been a consultant to the United Nations. He was co-founder, with Johan Galtung, of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment in 1993. Dieter wrote, Stories to Inspire You – TRANSCEND University Press-TUP.
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