Rev. Danny Fisher

Just a Buddhist Minister Trying to Benefit Beings
February 15, 2010

An Appeal from the Engaged Zen Foundation

This from our friend and past interviewee Kobutsu Malone at the Engaged Zen Foundation:

Dear Friends and Supporters,

It has been a long time since The Engaged Zen Foundation has put out an appeal for funding.  EZF has been surviving on the donations of a very small number of individuals and frequent infusion of funds from my limited, fixed income.  Since most of the work of EZF now focuses on correspondence practice and providing Buddhist written materials to prisoners there has not been an urgent need for the solicitation of funding.

The EZF book; Prison Chaplaincy Guidelines for Zen Buddhism has been out of print and unavailable for a year now and numerous requests for the volume have gone unfulfilled. At this point in time EZF is determined to raise the necessary funds to reprint the volume and requires an infusion of $1800.00 to enable this endeavor.

We are calling upon our friends and supporters to assist us in raising the funds for a second printing of Prison Chaplaincy Guidelines for Zen Buddhism. Please assist us in this effort to help make this valuable text available to prisoners, volunteers and interested parties.  Tax deductible donations can be made to EZF via credit card or PayPal by clicking here:

Alternately, donations may be made by check to:

The Engaged Zen Foundation
Post Office Box 213
Sedgwick, ME 04676  USA
February 15, 2010

Uganda: Rights Not Repression

CLIMATE OF FEAR: Frank, a Ugandan human rights advocate fighting the bill, has received threats & must protect his identity.

This from Avaaz.org:

Gay Ugandans may be sentenced to death if legislation being debated right now passes.

High level international condemnation has just pushed the President to send the bill for review, but Ugandan allies say only a worldwide outcry could tip Parliamentarians away from discrimination, alarming them with global isolation.

We have just days left — sign the petition to oppose Uganda’s anti-gay law below and send it on to friends and family and it will be delivered to Uganda’s politicians, donors and embassies around the world.

To President Museveni of Uganda, Members of the Review Committee, and donor governments:

We stand with citizens across Uganda who are calling on their government to withdraw the Anti-Homosexual Bill, and to protect the universal human rights embodied in the Ugandan constitution. We urge Uganda’s leaders and donors to join us in rejecting persecution and upholding values of justice and tolerance.

Send your message here.