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Posted 9:00 PM by The Moderator

Antiwar Activists Plan to Stay The Course:Women Settling In For Four-Month Vigil
by Nancy Trejos, Nov 18, 2002, Washington Post

Women from the Washington area and across the country gathered in front of the White House yesterday to kick off a four-month, 24-hour vigil to protest the possible war with Iraq.

"We feel that this is a time when our country is in great danger," said organizer Medea Benjamin, 50, of San Francisco. "The Bush administration has begun a course of militarism and violence that will beget more violence."

At least 30 women and a few men attended the rally, which started at Lafayette Square and moved along Pennsylvania Avenue NW -- a small presence compared with the tens of thousands who converged upon Washington last month to protest any military action against Iraq. Commondreams

Posted 4:07 PM by The Moderator

ABC NEWS
Carter calls on US to destroy own weapons arsenal
Former US president Jimmy Carter, this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, says the United States would do well to destroy its own weapons of mass destruction. Describing US foreign policy as arrogant, Mr Carter says the United States Government has not tried to comply with, or enforce, international efforts to prohibit the arsenals of biological weapons that the US itself is holding.

The former Democrat president says the major powers need to set an example. He says there is a sense around the world that the United States has become too arrogant, too dominant, too self-centered, and too proud of its wealth.

Posted 8:43 AM by The Moderator

Lannan.org
"Come September", Presented in Santa Fe, New Mexico at Lensic Performing Arts Center September 18, 2002 Copyright 2002. Sponsored by the Lannan Foundation
Forthcoming in Arundhati Roy, War Talk , (Cambridge: South End Press, 2003).
See the pdf link to the important address Arundhati made in Santa Fe. Extensive footnotes, elegant and powerful language.

Posted 10:37 AM by The Moderator

Dear Cebo: After the Peace Rally in Washington last Saturday, October 26, I was given a card with your email address and was told that the person who gave it to one of our workers was at the UN and wanted to know more about our campaign to wear blue ribbons (color of the UN) as a sign of being against attack on Iraq.We would greatly appreciate anything you can do to help spread the word. Thank you, --Tony Junker






RIBBON CAMPAIGN: NO ATTACK ON IRAQ

The ribbon campaign to speak out against attack on Iraq began with a poster and a few hundred light blue ribbons (the color of peace for many, and also the color of the UN) being handed out an interfaith memorial service in Philadelphia on 9/11, 2002. The poster said, Preserve America's Soul / No Attack on Iraq / Wear a Ribbon of Commitment, and the ribbons were given out free. The response has been tremendously encouraging. Wearing a simple ribbon to speak out on this urgent life and death issue seems to be a helpful answer for many.

Please lend your effort in advancing the No Attack on Iraq ribbon wearing campaign. Spread this message through your friends and organizations at the local level and beyond. Wear a ribbon, and carry some in your pocket along with some pins, to give out when asked. The attached file allows you to reproduce the original poster message as a leaflet or poster.

Suggested ribbon: light blue, ¼" to ½" wide, 4" to 6" long, ends cut on a bias.
Suggested arm band: light blue, ¾" to 1" wide, 14" to 16" long.
No Attack on Iraq - Ribbon Campaign, Philadelphia, PA

Posted 12:47 PM by The Moderator

Mary, Margaretha and Beth: "Humanists Support the United Nations" -- "Pre-emptive strike violates International Law". Washington DC, Oct. 26, 2002





Bread and puppet theatre: Iraqi women and children





Here is the UN flag at the Washington Rally Oct 26