{"id":125948,"date":"2019-01-28T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=125948"},"modified":"2019-01-13T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T13:25:28","slug":"at-the-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/01\/at-the-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Viewing his serene face prior to his open casket funeral, three TRANSCEND<\/a> \u00a0members\u00a0chatted softly, sharing fond memories of\u00a0their beloved Dietrich Fischer.<\/p>\n

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.” \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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. \u00a0Will 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\u00a0Citizens United v FEC<\/a>? \u00a0Other cities followed. State legislatures passed similar measures. \u00a0By 2019, there’ll be over 65 co-sponsors in the US Congress for\u00a0Move to Amend<\/a>‘s\u00a0We the People Amendment<\/a>\u00a0. Forgive my horn-tooting.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Marilyn, what would you like admirers to say as they see you lying in state? Marilyn Langlois reflected, “Mmmm. \u00a0I hope they’ll say, ‘Look! \u00a0She’s moving!'”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Phoebe Anne Thomas Sorgen is a\u00a0Green Party<\/a>\u00a0USA Delegate and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Marilyn Langlois is a member of TRANSCEND<\/a> USA West Coast. She is a volunteer community organizer and international solidarity activist based in Richmond, California.\u00a0 A co-founder of the Richmond Progressive Alliance<\/a>, member of Haiti Action Committee<\/a> and Board member of Task Force on the Americas<\/a>, she is retired from previous employment as a teacher, secretary, administrator, mediator and community advocate.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ingrid Kepler May is a member of TRANSCEND<\/a> USA West Coast, a Compassionate Family Therapist, and Creative Mediator.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em>Dietrich Fischer (1941-2015) from M\u00fcnsingen, 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 <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a> in 1993<\/em>. Dieter wrote, <\/em>Stories to Inspire You<\/a> – TRANSCEND University Press-TUP<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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