[Peace] Fwd: Holiday Blitz for Not In Our Name

[Belden Fields]

>Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:10:34 -0600 (CST)
>From: maria isabel silva <mi-silva at students.uiuc.edu>
>X-X-Sender:  <mi-silva at ux8.cso.uiuc.edu>
>To: <a-fields at uiuc.edu>
>Subject: Holiday Blitz for Not In Our Name
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>   Belden could you please forward thisto the list?
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>The government has stepped up its moves toward war on Iraq while domestic
>spying has taken a giant leap with the new "Total Information Awareness,"
>a program recently unveiled by the Defense Department which is aimed at
>amassing computerized dossiers on the private lives of millions of U.S.
>citizens.
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>Accordingly, we are stepping up the publication of the Not In Our Name
>statement of conscience and resistance.
>In the next few weeks, our statement will be published in the largest
>Spanish-language daily newspaper in the country, La Opinion in LA,
>two of the major African-American newspapers (the Chicago Defender and
>the Amsterdam News in NYC), The Nation, the New York Review of Books,
>and the Seattle Times and Post-Intelligencer.
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>Please help make all this happen by sending your contribution to
>Not In Our Name, 158 Church Street, PMB 9, New York, NY 10007,
>or by contributing by credit card at our web site www.nion.us.
>
>Finally, December 10 in International Human Rights day. We urge you
>to join in antiwar actions all over the country that day.
>Our website (www.nion.us) can direct you. In NYC, people will gather
>at 10 am at the United Nations (1st Avenue and 47th Street) for a
>clergy-led event followed by nonviolent civil disobedience.