Meetings & Events
Upcoming Meetings & Events
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GPoWS CC Meeting Info (Nov 16)
Sign On for Peace
Anacortes Peace Vigil (Ongoing)
The Green Party of Washington State
Coordinating Council
held its November meeting
Saturday November 16, 2002
Minutes will be available when completed
Click here for the Agenda
The CC’s next meeting TBA
For October’s Minutes
Click here
For more information email:
info@wagreens.org
Join others pledging opposition to a war against Iraq in a powerful, pro-active nonviolence movement, promoting a more peaceful and just global community.
Many people are feeling isolated and heart sick about our government’s violent and repressive response to the September 11 attacks. Growing talk from Washington of widening the war to Iraq deepens our fears that the US is taking the world down in a tragic path. Are we to wait for this escalation to happen and then hold up our well-worn “Stop the bombing” signs - or can we take pro-active steps to prevent the escalation?
PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE TO PEACE
We encourage the Seattle community to ’sign on’ to a Peace Pledge. The Friends of Reconciliation and the American Friends Service Committee have gathered 10,000 forms already! Let’s continue to support this growing movement for nonviolent foreign policy! *Bring your well-worn signs PROMOTING PEACE. This will attract bystanders who we need signing our Pledge Forms!
PEACE PLEDGE FORMS
Single Person Petition (letter)
Single Person Petition (legal)
Peace Community Links
(see more Peace Links on the upper left)Please print these forms and circulate them widely to your family, friends and in your community!
BACKGROUND
The Bush Administration is considering pursuing military action against as many as 40 countries suspected of harboring terrorists. Iraq remains a prime target. In the past 11 years the US has led a devastating economic and air assault on that country in an effort to weaken Saddam Hussein. This war has - according to UN estimates - killed over a million people (including and estimated average of 150 children a day).
The US rationalizes the escalation of the war against Iraq as part of a general war on terrorism although no links to the Sept 11 attack have been disclosed, nor are they likely. And outgoing Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, told incoming President George bush in January, 2001: “Iraq no longer poses a military threat to its neighbors.” Iraq is willing to let weapons inspectors return if the bombing and economic sanctions are lifted according to the Iraqi Ambassador to UN al-Douri, recorded on BBC Nov. 29, 2001, a solution that would promote international security and the welfare of the Iraqi people.
MORE BACKGROUND AND GREAT RESOURCES
SEND your Senators/Representatives the
Fellowship of Reconciliation Talking Points
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather
an irate tireless minority to set brush fires in people’s minds.”More Meetings to Pre-empt War with Iraq
SEATTLE: NO WAR AGAINST IRAQ - for list of endorsing groups and individuals and for more information, call 206.292.8809
BELLINGHAM: Vigil every Friday from 4 - 5 pm in front of the Federal Building
BELLINGHAM: “Peace Zone” meeting every Friday from 5:15 - 6 pm, Stuarts Coffeehouse, sponsored by FOR
BELLINGHAM: Peace and Justice Center to open soon; visit www.bellinghampeace.org for more into and to join the email lists (see also www.endthewar.org and www.SaveAGeneration.org)
Anacortes Peace Vigil
(Ongoing)
Anacortes - every Sunday
Noon to 1 pm
12th and Commercial
Sponsored by “Women in Black”
(Welcoming men who stand for peace, too)