[Peace-discuss] Re: humanitarian drive ideas

[patton paul]

On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 peace-discuss-request at lists.cu.groogroo.com wrote:

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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: More thoughts on Proposal for Humanitarian Drives--text (with footnotes) (Linda Evans)
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> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 06:39:21 -0800 (PST)
> From: Linda Evans <veganlinda at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] More thoughts on Proposal for Humanitarian Drives--text (with footnotes)
> To: Ken Urban <kurban at parkland.edu>, peace-discuss at lists.groogroo.com
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> Ken (and all),
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> I really love all these ideas about community outreach
> and I think this is really important.  Since we don't
> have a lot of time in our Sunday meetings to discuss
> this and put these ideas into action, I would be more


While humanitarian drives to help local poor or needy people would
certainly be a worthy endeavor, it seems to me that we could best express
our view of a more compassionate and humane world order by directly
helping the people of Iraq.  There are now a number of humanitarian
assistance agencies, including Oxfam, the International Red Cross/Red
Crescent, and UNICEF that are conducting fund drives for humanitarian
assistance to the people of Iraq.  I think a good goal for a humanitarian
drive would be to raise money to donate to these organizations.  If the
pro-war people really mean what they say about wanting to liberate and
help the people of Iraq, then we should challenge them to join us in such
an effort.
-Paul P.
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