[Peace-discuss] Fwd: No Torture! Contribute to Publish NION SOC in USA Today

[Alfred Kagan]

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> From: Belden Fields <a-fields at uiuc.edu>
> Date: June 10, 2005 4:27:59 PM CDT
> To: akagan at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
> Cc: j-mohraz at staff.uiuc.edu
> Subject: No Torture! Contribute to Publish NION SOC in USA Today
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>> Subject: No Torture! Contribute to Publish NION SOC in USA Today
>> To: a-fields at uiuc.edu
>> From: "Not In Our Name" <nion at cloud9.net>
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>> $126,000 needed ASAP! Contribute today to publish the Not In Our Name 
>> Statement of Conscience in USA Today on the occasion of the Amnesty 
>> International Day of Action Against Torture
>> Donate here: http://www.refuseandresist.org/nion/index.html
>>
>> "In our name, the Bush government holds in contempt international law 
>> and world opinion. It carries out torture and detentions without 
>> trial around the world... We must change the political reality of 
>> this country by mobilizing the tens of millions who know in their 
>> heads and hearts that the Bush regime's reality is nothing but a 
>> nightmare for humanity."            Excerpts from 2005 NION Statement 
>> of Conscience
>>
>> Funds are urgently needed to publish the NION Statement of Conscience 
>> (NION SOC) on June 24 in USA Today. This will be in conjunction with 
>> Amnesty International's important call for the June 26th Day of 
>> Action Against Torture. 
>> [http://www.amnestyusa.org/stoptorture/eventplanning.html]
>>
>> USA Today is the country's largest newspaper. Weekend circulation is 
>> 2.6 million and it is read from Fri-Sun. USA Today reaches a broad  
>> audience, including people traveling for business or vacation. It 
>> gets out in 60 countries and is read by American soldiers overseas. 
>> The Statement of Conscience needs to reach them all, speaking out 
>> against the regime's blatant use of torture, and the whole direction 
>> of the Bush Administration. The Statement is a powerful moral compass 
>> and guide for millions to step forward and stop what's happening. 
>> Think about what people are forced to endure right now in Guantanamo 
>> and what our responsibility is to stop it. We will not become, or 
>> stand aside as others do, like those who learned how to walk by 
>> concentration camps and ignore the screams. We have a voice, and 
>> voices of conscience with the NION Statement. Let's blanket the 
>> country with it!
>>
>> $126,000 can be raised in a short time:  If 630 people reading this 
>> email each donated $200 right now, or if 1260 people donated $100 
>> each, it would be raised instantly.
>> Donate here: http://www.refuseandresist.org/nion/index.html Or write 
>> your check to Not In Our Name and mail to: NION SOC, 305 West 
>> Broadway #199, NY, NY 10013.
>>
>> There are many ways money could be raised: Take up a collection at 
>> houses of worship, at union meetings, ask your neighbors, co-workers, 
>> family members. Circulate this appeal on email lists, web sites and 
>> blogs. Call into radio talk shows urging people to donate online at 
>> http://www.nion.us.
>>
>> We will speak out ... for Dilawar, the 22-year-old cab driver 
>> tortured to death by US forces in Afghanistan who knew he'd done 
>> nothing... and for the countless unnamed people "rendered" by the US 
>> to who knows where but we all know what they face. No torture, Not In 
>> Our Name!
>>
>> ALSO, we encourage everyone to email, post, print and distribute the 
>> Statement of Conscience now, getting it up in schools, workplaces, 
>> houses of worship, libraries, movie theaters, supermarkets -- 
>> everywhere literature is displayed.
>>
>> AND, we are actively working to expand our already great email list. 
>> We ask you to post the NION web site [http://www.nion.us] to every 
>> email list you think is appropriate, asking people to sign the NION 
>> Statement and be added to our email list.
>>
>> The 2005 Statement of Conscience is available at our website in a 
>> large PDF format [new design to come out soon]for you to copy and 
>> distribute: http://www.nion.us/NSOC/NION-LAT.pdf
>>
>> Send us photos of displays of the NION SOC and your comments at 
>> nion at cloud9.net and we'll post them.
>>
>> From Janet & Sherry - on the NION SOC Staff
>>
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801

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