[Peace] NOT IN OUR NAME signatures sought

[Marianne Brun]

> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:34:32 -0400
> From: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville <sheila.debretteville at yale.edu>
> To: david.montgomery at yale.edu
> 
> I am sending this on the chance you
> wish to know about it and sign it.
> 
> I am working on designing - with a group
> of not quite like minded people -
> a  full page ad in the NY Times
> to appear in late September.
> Names are requested by 7 September.
> 
> If you know other people who might sign
> or want to see this please forward it.
> 
> To sign this "Statement of Conscience"
> send your name to
> nionstatement at hotmail.com
> 
> Below is text of the Statement
> of Conscience and a recent list
> of some of the signers.
> 
> >
> 
> 
> 
> >NOT IN OUR NAME
> 
> >
> 
> >Let it not be said that people in the United States did nothing
> 
> >when their government declared a war without limit and
> 
> >instituted stark new measures of repression.
> 
> >
> 
> >The signers of this statement call on the people of the U.S. to
> 
> >resist the policies and overall political direction that have
> 
> >emerged since September 11, 2001, and which pose grave dangers
> 
> >to the people of the world.
> 
> >
> 
> >We believe that peoples and nations have the right to determine
> 
> >their own destiny, free from military coercion by great powers.
> 
> >We believe that all persons detained or prosecuted by the United
> 
> >States government should have the same rights of due process. We
> 
> >believe that questioning, criticism, and dissent must be valued
> 
> >and protected. We understand that such rights and values are
> 
> >always contested and must be fought for.
> 
> >
> 
> >We believe that people of conscience must take responsibility
> 
> >for what their own governments do - we must first of all oppose
> 
> >the injustice that is done in our own name. Thus we call on all
> 
> >Americans to RESIST the war and repression that has been loosed
> 
> >on the world by the Bush administration. It is unjust, immoral,
> 
> >and illegitimate. We choose to make common cause with the people
> 
> >of the world.
> 
> >
> 
> >We too watched with shock the horrific events of September 11,
> 
> >2001. We too mourned the thousands of innocent dead and shook
> 
> >our heads at the terrible scenes of carnage - even as we
> 
> >recalled similar scenes in Baghdad, Panama City, and, a
> 
> >generation ago, Vietnam. We too joined the anguished questioning
> 
> >of millions of Americans who asked why such a thing could
> 
> >happen.
> 
> >
> 
> >But the mourning had barely begun, when the highest leaders of
> 
> >the land unleashed a spirit of revenge. They put out a
> 
> >simplistic script of "good vs. evil" that was taken up by a
> 
> >pliant and intimidated media. They told us that asking why these
> 
> >terrible events had happened verged on treason. There was to be
> 
> >no debate. There were by definition no valid political or moral
> 
> >questions. The only possible answer was to be war abroad and
> 
> >repression at home.
> 
> >
> 
> >In our name, the Bush administration, with near unanimity from
> 
> >Congress, not only attacked Afghanistan but arrogated to itself
> 
> >and its allies the right to rain down military force anywhere
> 
> >and anytime. The brutal repercussions have been felt from the
> 
> >Philippines to Palestine, where Israeli tanks and bulldozers
> 
> >have left a terrible trail of death and destruction. The
> 
> >government now openly prepares to wage all-out war on Iraq - a
> 
> >country which has no connection to the horror of September 11.
> 
> >What kind of world will this become if the U.S. government has a
> 
> >blank check to drop commandos, assassins, and bombs wherever it
> 
> >wants?
> 
> >
> 
> >In our name, within the U.S., the government has created two
> 
> >classes of people: those to whom the basic rights of the U.S.
> 
> >legal system are at least promised, and those who now seem to
> 
> >have no rights at all. The government rounded up over 1,000
> 
> >immigrants and detained them in secret and indefinitely.
> 
> >Hundreds have been deported and hundreds of others still
> 
> >languish today in prison. This smacks of the infamous
> 
> >concentration camps for Japanese-Americans in World War 2. For
> 
> >the first time in decades, immigration procedures single out
> 
> >certain nationalities for unequal treatment.
> 
> >
> 
> >In our name, the government has brought down a pall of
> 
> >repression over society. The President's spokesperson warns
> 
> >people to "watch what they say." Dissident artists,
> 
> >intellectuals, and professors find their views distorted,
> 
> >attacked, and suppressed. The so-called Patriot Act - along with
> 
> >a host of similar measures on the state level - gives police
> 
> >sweeping new powers of search and seizure, supervised if at all
> 
> >by secret proceedings before secret courts.
> 
> >
> 
> >In our name, the executive has steadily usurped the roles and
> 
> >functions of the other branches of government. Military
> 
> >tribunals with lax rules of evidence and no right to appeal to
> 
> >the regular courts are put in place by executive order. Groups
> 
> >are declared "terrorist" at the stroke of a presidential pen.
> 
> >
> 
> >We must take the highest officers of the land seriously when
> 
> >they talk of a war that will last a generation and when they
> 
> >speak of a new domestic order. We are confronting a new openly
> 
> >imperial policy towards the world and a domestic policy that
> 
> >manufactures and manipulates fear to curtail rights.
> 
> >
> 
> >There is a deadly trajectory to the events of the past months
> 
> >that must be seen for what it is and resisted. Too many times in
> 
> >history people have waited until it was too late to resist.
> 
> >
> 
> >President Bush has declared: "you're either with us or against
> 
> >us." Here is our answer: We refuse to allow you to speak for all
> 
> >the American people. We will not give up our right to question.
> 
> >We will not hand over our consciences in return for a hollow
> 
> >promise of safety. We say NOT IN OUR NAME. We refuse to be party
> 
> >to these wars and we repudiate any inference that they are being
> 
> >waged in our name or for our welfare. We extend a hand to those
> 
> >around the world suffering from these policies; we will show our
> 
> >solidarity in word and deed.
> 
> >
> 
> >We who sign this statement call on all Americans to join
> 
> >together to rise to this challenge. We applaud and support the
> 
> >questioning and protest now going on, even as we recognize the
> 
> >need for much, much more to actually stop this juggernaut. We
> 
> >draw inspiration from the Israeli reservists who, at great
> 
> >personal risk, declare "there IS a limit" and refuse to serve in
> 
> >the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
> 
> >
> 
> >We also draw on the many examples of resistance and conscience
> 
> >from the past of the United States: from those who fought
> 
> >slavery with rebellions and the underground railroad, to those
> 
> >who defied the Vietnam war by refusing orders, resisting the
> 
> >draft, and standing in solidarity with resisters.
> 
> >
> 
> >Let us not allow the watching world today to despair of our
> 
> >silence and our failure to act. Instead, let the world hear our
> 
> >pledge: we will resist the machinery of war and repression and
> 
> >rally others to do everything possible to stop it.
> 
> >
> 
> >   Kim Abeles, artist
> 
> >James Abourezk
> 
> >Michael Albert
> 
> >Mike Alewitz, Labor Art Mural Project
> 
> >Aris Anagnos
> 
> >Laurie Anderson
> 
> >Edward Asner, actor
> 
> >Russell Banks, writer
> 
> >Rosalyn Baxandall, historian
> 
> >Jessica Blank, actor/playwright
> 
> >Holly Block, director, Art in General
> 
> >Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange
> 
> >William Blum, author
> 
> >Theresa & Blase Bonpane, Office of the Americas
> 
> >Fr. Bob Bossie, SCJ
> 
> >Peter Brach, artist
> 
> >Sheila Levrant Bretteville, art professor, Yale University
> 
> >Leslie Cagan
> 
> >Kisha Imani Cameron, producer
> 
> >Rosemary Carroll, attorney
> 
> >Henry Chalfant, author/filmmaker
> 
> >Bell Chevigny, writer
> 
> >Paul Chevigny, professor of law, NYU
> 
> >Noam Chomsky
> 
> >Jill Ciment, writer
> 
> >Ramsey Clark
> 
> >David Cole, professor of law, Georgetown Univ.
> 
> >Robbie Conal, artist
> 
> >Stephanie Coontz, historian, Evergreen State College
> 
> >Paula Cooper
> 
> >Kia Corthron, playwright
> 
> >Petah Coyne, artist
> 
> >Kimberly Crenshaw, professor of law, Columbia and UCLA
> 
> >Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange
> 
> >Barbara Dane
> 
> >Ossie Davis
> 
> >Mos Def
> 
> >Daniella Dooling, artist
> 
> >Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, professor, California State University,
> 
> >Hayward
> 
> >Bill Dyson, state representative, Connecticut
> 
> >Steve Earle, singer/songwriter
> 
> >Eve Ensler
> 
> >Leo Estrada, UCLA professor, Urban Planning
> 
>    Elizabeth Fentress, archeologist
> 
> >Laura Flanders, radio host and journalist
> 
> >Richard Foreman
> 
> >Geoffrey E. Fox, writer
> 
> >Elizabeth Frank
> 
> >Jeremy Matthew Glick, editor of Another World Is Possible
> 
> >Terry Gilliam, filmmaker
> 
> >Mike Glier, artist
> 
> >Danny Glover
> 
> >John Guare, playwright
> 
> >Jessica Hagedorn
> 
> >Sondra Hale, UCLA professor, anthropology, women's studies
> 
> >Suheir Hammad, writer
> 
> >Nathalie Handal, poet and playwright
> 
> >Christine B. Harrington, Director of the Institute for Law &
> 
> >Society, New York University
> 
>    Lyle Ashton Harris, artist
> 
> >David Harvey, distinguished professor of anthropology, CUNY
> 
> >Graduate Center
> 
> >Tom Hayden
> 
> >Eleanor Heartney, art critic
> 
> >Edward S. Herman, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
> 
> >Susannah Heschel, professor, Dartmouth College
> 
>    Walter Hopps, curator
> 
> >Fred Hirsch, vice president, Plumbers and Fitters Local 393
> 
> >bell hooks
> 
> >Rakaa Iriscience, hip hop artist
> 
> >Alfredo Jaar, artist
> 
> >Harold B. Jamison, Major (ret.), USAF
> 
> >Erik Jensen, actor/playwright
> 
> >Chalmers Johnson, author "Blowback"
> 
> >Casey Kasem
> 
> >Robin D.G. Kelly
> 
> >Martin Luther King III, president, Southern Christian Leadership
> 
> >Conference
> 
> >Barbara Kingsolver
> 
> >Sally Kirkland
> 
> >C. Clark Kissinger, Refuse & Resist!
> 
> >Yuri Kochiyama, activist
> 
> >Annisette & Thomas Koppel, singers/composers
> 
> >David Korten, author
> 
> >Joyce Kozloff, artist
> 
> >Max Kozloff, critic
> 
> >Barbara Kruger, artist
> 
> >Tony Kushner
> 
> >James Lafferty, executive director, National Lawyers Guild/L.A.
> 
> >Ray Laforest, Haiti Support Network
> 
> >Jesse Lemisch, historian
> 
> >Zoe Leonard, artist
> 
> >Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, TIKKUN magazine
> 
> >Les Leveque, video artist
> 
> >Barbara Lubin, Middle East Childrens Alliance
> 
> >Staughton Lynd
> 
> >Jack Macrae, publisher
> 
> >Dave Marsh
> 
> >Arnold Mesches, artist
> 
> >Anuradha Mittal, co-director, Institute for Food and Development
> 
> >Policy/Food First
> 
> >Malaquias Montoya, visual artist
> 
> >Bridget Moore, art dealer
> 
> >Tom Morello
> 
> >Robert Nichols, writer
> 
>    Linda Nochlin, Professor of Art History, NYU Institute of Fine Arts
> 
> >Kate Noonan
> 
> >Rev. E. Randall Osburn, exec. v.p., Southern Christian
> 
> >Leadership Conference
> 
> >Ozomatli
> 
> >Grace Paley
> 
> >Michael Parenti
> 
> >Jeremy Pikser, screenwriter
> 
> >Jerry Quickley, poet
> 
> >Juan Gómez Quiñones, historian, UCLA
> 
> >Margaret Randall
> 
> >Michael Ratner, president, Center for Constitutional Rights
> 
> >Adrienne Rich
> 
> >David Riker, filmmaker
> 
> >Boots Riley, hip hop artist, The Coup
> 
> >Martha Rosler, artist
> 
> >Edward Said
> 
> >Susan Sarandon
> 
> >Saskia Sassen, professor, University of Chicago
> 
> >Miriam Schapiro, artist
> 
> >Jonathan Schell, author and fellow of the Nation Institute
> 
> >Carolee Schneemann, artist
> 
> >Ralph Schoenman & Mya Shone, Council on Human Needs
> 
> >Pete and Toshi Seeger
> 
> >Mark Selden, historian
> 
> >Peter Selz, art historian
> 
> >Alex Shoumatoff
> 
> >John J. Simon, writer, editor
> 
> >Kiki Smith, artist
> 
> >Michael Steven Smith, National Lawyers Guild/NY
> 
> >Norman Solomon, syndicated columnist and author
> 
> >Starhawk
> 
> >Bob Stein, publisher
> 
> >Gloria Steinem
> 
> >Oliver Stone
> 
> >Susana Torre, architect
> 
> >Marcia Tucker, founding director emerita, New Museum of
> 
> >Contemporary Art, NYC
> 
> >Gore Vidal
> 
> >Anton Vodvarka, Lt., FDNY (ret.)
> 
> >Edith Vonnegut
> 
> >Kurt Vonnegut
> 
> >Alice Walker
> 
> >Rebecca Walker
> 
> >Naomi Wallace, playwright
> 
> >Immanuel Wallerstein, sociologist, Yale University
> 
> >Kevin Walz, designer
> 
> >Rita & Francois de Watteville, architects
> 
> >Rev. George Webber, president emeritus, NY Theological Seminary
> 
> >Leonard Weinglass, attorney
> 
> >Haskell Wexler
> 
> >John Edgar Wideman
> 
> >Saul Williams, spoken word artist
> 
> >S. Brian Willson , activist/writer
> 
> >Martha Wilson, founding director, Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
> 
> >Krzysztof Wodiczko, artist
> 
> >Jeffrey Wright, actor
> 
> >David Zeiger, filmmaker
> 
> >Howard Zinn
> 
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >Organizations for identification only (partial list as of
> 
> >7/22/02)
> 
> >For more complete listing of signers, see: www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm
> 
> >
> 
> >Contact the Not In Our Name statement at:
> 
> >nionstatement at hotmail.com
> --
> Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
> 
> Professor, School of Art, Yale University
> Yale mailing address: PO Box 208339,
> New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8339
> phone 203 432 2623, fax 203 432  7158
> 
> 
> Public artist, @ the Sheila Studio
> 146 Deepwood Drive, Hamden, CT 06517
> telephone 203 498 2104,
> fax 203 498 2850
> 




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