[Peace] Fwd: War Is Not the Answer

[Jay Mittenthal]

>To: mitten at life.uiuc.edu
>From: Campaign of Conscience <conscience at topica.email-publisher.com>
>Subject: War Is Not the Answer
>Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:46:32 -0700
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>Campaign Update
>  In This Issue: January 15, 2003
>•   Peace Pledge Goes to Washington
>•   Urge Congress to Support Talks
>•   National Actions in Washington, D.C.
>•   UN Report Predicts Crisis
>•   41 Cities Pass Anti-War Resolutions
>•   Health Kits For Iraq
>  Peace Pledge Goes to Washington
>Add your name to the Iraq Peace Pledge and send this plea to at least five 
>others. Pledge signers "grant permission to use their names and cities 
>publicly as an opponent of the ongoing economic and bombing war on Iraq." 
>In other words, you make a public statement, and on January 21st, that 
>statement will be delivered to Congress.
>
>Your names make a difference. Members of Congress will receive a list of 
>Pledge signatories from their state. Your names show the breadth of 
>opposition to war with Iraq and have swelled the ranks of the organized 
>movement to stop it.
>
>We anticipate having 50,000 signers for the Peace Pledge when the names 
>are delivered on Tuesday. If you will be in Washington, D.C., and are 
>interested in helping, send a reply to this e-mail.
>
><http://click.topica.com/maaaLMOaaVobua3FWSZe/>To help us in Washington
>  National Actions in Washington, D.C.
>Support the national march on Saturday, January 18.
>
>Nine days of action will surround the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday. 
>The events, which will oppose a war on Iraq, are also intended to honor 
>the memory of the beloved civil rights leader. The idea is to turn the 
>nation's attention from thoughts of fear and aggression to the 
>possibilities inherent in vision, courage, and nonviolence.
>
>There will be a national rally, a nonviolent civil disobedience based on 
>the Iraq Pledge of Resistance, a faith-based gathering at the National 
>Cathedral, and presentation of the forms and names of the Iraq Peace 
>Pledge. Elsewhere in the country, countless teach-ins, vigils, rallies, 
>and other actions will express local solidarity with the national cause.
>
><http://click.topica.com/maaaLMOaaVoqia3FWSZe/>To see a full schedule of 
>events
>  41 Cities Pass Anti-War Resolutions
>Forty-one U.S. city councils from Baltimore to Detroit, from Philadelphia 
>to Santa Barbara, have passed resolutions opposing war in Iraq. Anti-war 
>resolutions are pending in many more communities. Faced with crushing 
>budget deficits, safety concerns about urban terrorist attacks, and the 
>prospect of their constituents fighting a costly and bloody war, growing 
>numbers of City Councils have passed public resolutions that express 
>mainstream America's concerns about a possible war in the Middle East and 
>its domestic repercussions.
>
><http://click.topica.com/maaaLMOaaVoi9a3FWSZe/>To learn more about passing 
>a resolution
>  Urge Congress to Support Talks
>If you can't visit your senator and representative in person, send them 
>faxes and e-mail messages. Ask them to applaud President Bush for agreeing 
>to talks with North Korea, and urge them to take a similar approach with Iraq.
>
>Congress will play an important role in ensuring that the administration 
>works with the international community in pursuing peaceful alternatives 
>to war on Iraq. You can start with the sample letter posted at the FCNL 
>Legislative Action Center, personalize the language, then send it directly 
>from that site by e-mail or fax. You may also print it out and mail it.
>
><http://click.topica.com/maaaLMOaaVodMa3FWSZe/>View the sample letter
>  UN Report Predicts Crisis
>A "strictly confidential" UN document, written to assist with UN 
>contingency planning in the event of war with Iraq, predicts high civilian 
>injuries, an extension of the existing nutritional crisis, and "the 
>outbreak of diseases in epidemic if not pandemic proportions." The 
>existence of the draft document, entitled "Likely Humanitarian Scenarios" 
>and dated 10th December 2002, was first reported in the Times (London) on 
>23rd December 2002, but this is the first time it has been made publicly 
>accessible.
>
><http://click.topica.com/maaaLMOaaVodma3FWSZe/>To read the report
>  Health Kits For Iraq
>Join us in gathering critically needed health kits for the people of Iraq, 
>who face possible devastation from a U.S. military attack. Assembling kits 
>is a wonderful way to provide a connection, a bridge to Iraq, for your 
>school, association, church, meeting, or community.
>
>We fear there will be a large number of internally displaced persons in 
>Iraq in addition to hundreds of thousands of refugees in neighboring 
>countries. Since June 2002, AFSC, in cooperation with other international 
>aid agencies, has made a contingency plan for Iraq, resulting in shipment 
>of three 40 foot containers to Jordan. The containers are filled with 
>health kits and blankets to be distributed by AFSC regional staff in 
>cooperation with other international and local organizations, if war erupts.
>
><http://click.topica.com/maaaLMOaaVovza3FWSZe/>To learn more
>Campaign Updates are edited by Peter Lems and Melissa Elliott
>AFSC Iraq Peace Building Program
>1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
>phone: 215-241-7170; fax: 215-241-7177
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