Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 18:09:06 -0400
From: mittle@watson.ibm.com (Joshua Mittleman)
Message-Id: <9404052209.AA14610@blinn.watson.ibm.com>
To: antir@kwantlen.bc.ca, sca-west@ecst.csuchico.edu,
        carolingia@bloom-beacon.mit.edu, calontir@unl.edu,
        nordmark@ludd.luth.se, northshield@stolaf.edu, e5@uriacc.uri.edu,
        sca-reform@MIT.EDU, jaymin@maths.tcd.ie, lgrant@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie,
        rgoff@mcimail.com, 71233.3035@compuserve.com, MMS6824@tntech.edu
Subject: Your support needed to secure your rights
Comment: Please forward to other SCA bboards; already posted to
	 antir sca-west carolingia calontir nordmark northshield e5
	 sca-reform rec.org.sca
Reply-To: mittle@watson.ibm.com


Good gentles, I give you greetings!

We continue our legal action to secure the rights of the membership to the
financial records of the Society.  The corporation continues to violate its
bylaws in failing to provide access to those records.  It has withdrawn
from a verbal agreement to settle.  It has mis-led us by promising full
disclosure and then fobbing us off with an admittedly meaningless summary.
Its officers and agents have violated federal law.  It has wasted valuable
time and resources -- its own and ours -- by deliberately choosing to
subvert a clearly-stated policy with nonsensical interpretation.  Other
parties have obtained some useful data from agencies of the state of
California, but those data fall far short of the financial openness that is
our legal right under the bylaws and our moral right by all that makes the
Society valuable.  How can we intelligently evaluate the Board's claims of
financial emergency if we cannot see the data they used to reach that
conclusion?  And how could we honorably shirk our duty to share in shaping
the future of our Society?  This action is crucial to successful reform of
the corporation and to healthy survival of our Society.

We need your help.

Justice does not come cheap and we must be prepared to face a strategy of
corporate delay and legal obstruction.  We have every hope that the
directors will recognize their moral and legal obligation to the membership
and guarantee your right as a member to know how your dues are spent.  But
we cannot risk failure from lack of resources.  We need your help.  Some
gentles have given generously, but I fear that not enough have responded.
Our initial costs are in excess of $2500, and they will grow quickly if the
case goes to court.

Contributions are being collected by J. Terry Nutter (Lady Angharad ver'
Rhuawn), 2511 Manchester St., Blacksburg, VA 24060.  She may be reached by
e-mail at jtn@vtopus.cs.vt.edu or by telephone at (703) 552-1598.  Please
make any checks sent payable to J. Terry Nutter/CSOS.  A full accounting of
the use of all donations will be promptly available by request with SASE.

Please help as you can, and please pass this appeal to your fellows in the
Society.


	Arval Benicoeur,
	Companion of the Pelican.