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5 WAR RESISTERS TO BEGIN 7 DAY JAIL SENTENCE TOMORROW. Support continued resistance to the war.
Five people - Sylvia Metzler, Lou Anne Merkle, Tom Mullian, James Hanlon-Smith, and Marlene Santoyo - headed for jail (expectedly at the Federal Detention Center,located just behind the Federal Courthouse) TOMORROW (December 18) for the Iraq Pledge of Resistance shut down of the Phila. Federal Building, March 20, the day after the U.S. bombardment and invasion of Iraq began.
In support of the five resisters and in support for continued resistance and peacemaking, you are invited to vigil in the spirit of "CARRY IT ON!", 1pm, at the Phila. Federal Courthouse, 6th & Market Streets (between Market & Arch Sts.)
At 5pm - there will be a candlelight vigil beginning at 6th & Market Sts. Please call Francesca 215-677-9020 if you can attend participate in the candlelight vigil. ______
MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR PEACE: Stop Lockheed Martin!
Join us at Lockheed Martin, Mall & Goddard Boulevards, Valley Forge, PA (behind King of Prussia Mall) in December and January 2004.
CHRISTMAS CANDLELIGHT PEACE VIGIL, DECEMBER 22, 7PM - caroling - poetry - community offerings for peace
MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY OF DIRECT ACTION, NOON, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 2004 (those interested in doing civil disobedience, call the Brandywine Peace Community by 1/10/04).
For more information: Brandywine Peace Community, 610-544-1818 [email protected] www.brandywinepeace.com
X-Original-To: [email protected] Delivered-To: [email protected] Subject: revision on FOR Press Release on Saddam Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 13:08:05 -0500 Thread-Topic: revision on FOR Press Release on Saddam Thread-Index: AcPEyLfhHwVwkr8rEcO85ZZEdP5KqA== From: "Richard Deats"
Wendy. We had to make a couple of changes in paragraph 3 of the press release sent out yesterday so would you please discard that one and use this one instead? thanks so much! Richard
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Contact: Ibrahim Abdil Mu'id Ramey December 15, 2003 845.358-4601
Response to the December 13, 2003 Capture of Saddam Hussein
On Saturday, December 13, military forces of the US occupation army in Iraq launched Operation Red Dawn, a coordinated military action that resulted in the capture of Saddam Hussein in a hiding place near the city of Tikrit. The former President of Iraq was taken into custody, apparently without resistance.
In the aftermath of Saddam's capture, jubilant Iraqis poured into the streets of Baghdad and other cities and towns across Iraq to celebrate what is most likely the final chapter in Saddam's three decade long dictatorial rule . The Fellowship of Reconciliation, and all those who support the genuine freedom and human rights of the Iraqi people, certainly acknowledge the genuine joy of those in Iraq who have suffered under the rule of the Ba'ath Party.
We join with others in the international community to demand that Saddam be brought to justice under the rules of international law, and that, because of the international character of his offenses, he be tried by a UN-sponsored international tribunal. Principles of international law must be stringently upheld in all matters related to Saddam's captivity and trial, and these legal principles must be held as more important than any political considerations of the United States occupation authorities. It should be noted that Articles 13 and 14 of the Geveva Convention say that prisoners should be treated with respect and not be subjected to insults and public curiosity.
Yet, though Saddam Hussein has indeed been captured, the Fellowship of Reconciliation believes that even greater dangers and challenges face the 23 million people of Iraq. These challenges include both the continued presence of United States and international military occupation troops in Iraq and the pursuit of strategic, long term interests of transnational corporations that seek to exploit Iraq's vast oil resources, privatize the Iraqi economy for the purpose of extracting profit, and impose "leaders" on the people of Iraq who are more accountable to business interests than to the Iraqi people themselves.
These challenges constitute a continued catalyst for violent resistance in Iraq and an impediment to the development of a culture of nonviolence and respect for universal human rights and true democracy in that nation.
The FOR supports true peace and freedom for the suffering people of Iraq. We believe that this will only happen when Iraq is free from all foreign occupation and from the imposition of any economic or political agenda from the outside. We join with Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) in demanding that, since the currrent administration's objective of regime change in Iraq has finally concluded, the U.S. (and all allied nations) must immediately end the military occupation of Iraq.
Further, the United States, in cooperation with the international community of nations, should (1) facilitate the establishment of international peacekeeping forces in Iraq, with the cooperation and consent of the Iraqi people; (2) fully commit to the necessary resources to rebuild and rehabilitate the Iraqi infrastructure decimated by thirteen years of war and economic sanctions; (3) allow for true, democratic elections in Iraq without any undue interference ir influence from external parties; (4) grant relief to Iraq from the crushing burden of international debt incurred by the regime of Saddam Hussein; and (5) embargo the sale or trade of all military weapons to Iraq and Iraq's neighboring states, withing the framework of regional security agreements and the respect for the political and human rights of the peoples of the region.
The rule of Saddam Hussein is over. Now, the people of Iraq themselves, joined by the international community of nations and forces of peace and justice, must insure the establishment of a new era in Iraq of peace, democracy, economic justice, and human rights, and for an Iraq free from both internal dictatorship and external military occupation and oppression.
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Richard Deats Editor, Fellowship magazine Box 271 Nyack, NY 10960 845.358-4601. Fax 845-358-4924 www.forusa.org
Books of interest:
Peace is the Way. Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Walter Wink Editor. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 295 pp. $20.00 (available from the FOR). An 85th Anniversary book of the Fellowship of Reconciliation: 60 articles from Fellowship magazine by Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Maurice Friedman, Muriel Lester, Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Martin Niemoeller, Richard Deats, John Swomley, Jo Anna Macy, Thich Nhat Hanh and many others.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Spirit-led Prophet. By Richard Deats with foreword by Coretta Scott King who says this book "brings a perspective heretofore missing from books about Martin Luther King." 160 pages, with photos. 2nd printing. $11.95 (to order in the US, see below. In Manila: New City Press, 4800 Valenzuela, Sta. Mesa, 1008. In London: New City Press, 57 Twyford Ave., London W39P, 0181-993.6944). German edition also available.
2)How to Keep Laughing Even Though You've Considered All the Facts, an enlarged second edition, 121 pages. $9.50. Says Archbishop Tutu, "Thank goodness for Richard Deats, who helps to keep us sane by makng us laugh and not take ourselves so seriously."
3)Ambassador of Reconciliation: A Muriel Lester Reader, edited by Richard Deats. 225 pages. Special price, $7.95. Of this travelling secretary of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, Gandhi said, "The value of Muriel Lester's conversation lies in the fact that she endeavors every moment of her life to practice what she professes and preaches in her writings."
$2.75 postage for one; $4 for two books. Order from [email protected] or FOR, Box 271, Nyack, NY 10960. Pay by check, Visa or MasterCard
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X-Original-To: [email protected] Delivered-To: [email protected] Subject: The Capture of Saddam Hussein: Statement of the Fellowship of Reconciliation Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:43:20 -0500 Thread-Topic: The Capture of Saddam Hussein: Statement of the Fellowship of Reconciliation Thread-Index: AcPDVF7eHwVv7L8rEcO85ZZEdP5KqA== From: "Richard Deats"
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Response to the December 13, 2003 Capture of Saddam Hussein
On Saturday, December 13, military forces of the US occupation army in Iraq launched Operation Red Dawn, a coordinated military action that resulted in the capture of Saddam Hussein in a hiding place near the city of Tikrit. The former President of Iraq was taken into custody, apparently without resistance.
In the aftermath of Saddam's capture, jubilant Iraqis poured into the streets of Baghdad and other cities and towns across Iraq to celebrate what is most likely the final chapter in Saddam's three decade long dictatorial rule . The Fellowship of Reconciliation, and all those who support the genuine freedom and human rights of the Iraqi people, certainly acknowledge the genuine joy of those in Iraq who have suffered under the rule of the Ba'ath Party.
We join with others in the international community to demand that Saddam be brought to justice under the rules of international law, and that, because of the international character of his offenses, he be tried by the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Principles of international law must be stringently upheld in all matters related to Saddam's captivity and trial, and these legal principles must be held as more important that any political considerations of the United States occupation authorities.
Yet, though Saddam Hussein has indeed been captured, the Fellowship of Reconciliation believes that even greater dangers and challenges face the 23 million people of Iraq. These challenges include both the continued presence of United States and international military occupation troops in Iraq and the pursuit of strategic, long term interests of transnational corporations that seek to exploit Iraq's vast oil resources, privatize the Iraqi economy for the purpose of extracting profit, and impose "leaders" on the people of Iraq who are more accountable to business interests than to the Iraqi people themselves.
These challenges constitute a continued catalyst for violent resistance in Iraq and an impediment to the development of a culture of nonviolence and respect for universal human rights and true democracy in that nation.
The FOR supports true peace and freedom for the suffering people of Iraq. We believe that this will only happen when Iraq is free from all foreign occupation and from the imposition of any economic or political agenda from the outside. We join with Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) in demanding that, since the currrent administration's objective of regime change in Iraq has finally concluded, the U.S. (and all allied nations) must immediately end the military occupation of Iraq.
Further, the United States, in cooperation with the international community of nations, should (1) facilitate the establishment of international peacekeeping forces in Iraq, with the cooperation and consent of the Iraqi people; (2) fully commit to the necessary resources to rebuild and rehabilitate the Iraqi infrastructure decimated by thirteen years of war and economic sanctions; (3) allow for true, democratic elections in Iraq without any undue interference ir influence from external parties; (4) grant relief to Iraq from the crushing burden of international debt incurred by the regime of Saddam Hussein; and (5) embargo the sale or trade of all military weapons to Iraq and Iraq's neighboring states, withing the framework of regional security agreements and the respect for the political and human rights of the peoples of the region.
The rule of Saddam Hussein is over. Now, the people of Iraq themselves, joined by the international community of nations and forces of peace and justice, must insure the establishment of a new era in Iraq of peace, democracy, economic justice, and human rights, and for an Iraq free from both internal dictatorship and external military occupation and oppression.
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Richard Deats Editor, Fellowship magazine Box 271 Nyack, NY 10960 845.358-4601. Fax 845-358-4924 www.forusa.org
Books of interest:
Peace is the Way. Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Walter Wink Editor. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 295 pp. $20.00 (available from the FOR). An 85th Anniversary book of the Fellowship of Reconciliation: 60 articles from Fellowship magazine by Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Maurice Friedman, Muriel Lester, Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Martin Niemoeller, Richard Deats, John Swomley, Jo Anna Macy, Thich Nhat Hanh and many others.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Spirit-led Prophet. By Richard Deats with foreword by Coretta Scott King who says this book "brings a perspective heretofore missing from books about Martin Luther King." 160 pages, with photos. 2nd printing. $11.95 (to order in the US, see below. In Manila: New City Press, 4800 Valenzuela, Sta. Mesa, 1008. In London: New City Press, 57 Twyford Ave., London W39P, 0181-993.6944). German edition also available.
2)How to Keep Laughing Even Though You've Considered All the Facts, an enlarged second edition, 121 pages. $9.50. Says Archbishop Tutu, "Thank goodness for Richard Deats, who helps to keep us sane by makng us laugh and not take ourselves so seriously."
3)Ambassador of Reconciliation: A Muriel Lester Reader, edited by Richard Deats. 225 pages. Special price, $7.95. Of this travelling secretary of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, Gandhi said, "The value of Muriel Lester's conversation lies in the fact that she endeavors every moment of her life to practice what she professes and preaches in her writings."
$2.75 postage for one; $4 for two books. Order from [email protected] or FOR, Box 271, Nyack, NY 10960. Pay by check, Visa or MasterCard
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