[Peace] civilians killed

[parenti susan rose]

Paul your idea sounds good. I've been asking a small group of people to
come prepared to make a 1/2 minute statement about why they're at the
vigil---I've asked as many high school students as I know, and various
other people of assorted ages and backgrounds--so that we'll have some
'planned' statements. So I think the mixture of what you're suggesting,
plus these prepared statements, will be good---AND of course, leaving
lots of time for any of the assembled group to speak up for why they're
there.

Do check into the colored graphics.

And pursue any other ideas you have---we need them!
Susan
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, patton paul wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Al Kagan wrote:
>
> > Professor Marc W. Herold's article, a Dossier on civilian victims of
> > United States' aerial bombing of Afghanistan is at:
> >
> > http://www.cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm
> >
> > He counted 3767 through Dec. 6th.  There are some names of people
> > here, but not as many as I thought.
> >
> > The Howard Zinn article, "The Otehrs," has lots of names.  It is in
> > the Feb. 11th The Nation, page. 16-20.
> > --
> >
>
> I read both the Zinn and the Herold articles, and I don't think they
> contain enough names of Afghan victims to compile an impressive name list
> to read at the candlelight vigil.  I also think it would be a bad idea to
> commemorate the Afghan victims by using ficticious names, because that
> would hurt our credibility.  I would like to propose, that instead of
> listing either American or Afghan names, that we take turns reading some of the
> first hand accounts of civilian casualties compiled in the Zinn and Herold
> articles, perhaps interspersed with brief readings about the American
> tragedy on Sept. 11.  The Herold article in cursor contains lots of good
> color graphics.  Here at Beckman, we have large format color printers.
> I don't know if they are available for non-work related uses, but I could
> check into it, as a way of making a large poster to display at the vigil.
> -Paul P.
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