Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 16:53:00 -0800
From: Sara Smith <duchamp-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: Fwd: Protest Iraq sanctions, Breaking News


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>Subject: Protest Iraq sanctions, Breaking News
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>For your immediate attention... PLEASE FORWARD
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>Bernie
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>Al Gore and Bill Bradley will be in San Jose this Saturday (2/12).
>Let's try to get the Iraq sanctions on the agenda! In this message:
>
>1. Protest Iraq sanctions at vigil outside of Democratic Convention.
>2. Breaking News: Current UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq condemns
>sanctions, calls for lifting.
>
>1. Vigil Against Iraq Sanctions to Coincide with visits by Gore and
>Bradley.
>Saturday, February 12, 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
>McEnery Convention Center, S. San Carlos & Market Street, San Jose
>All Gore and Bill Bradley will be addressing the state Democratic
>convention on Saturday. We will hold a vigil and leafletting outside
>the convention center to protest the Iraq sanctions and to try to get
>the media to raise the issue in the campaign. Bring signs (some
>provided) and try to wear black. Sponsored by Peninsula Peace and
>Justice Center (650) 326-8837, San Jose Peace Center (408) 297-2299 and
>Interfaith Peace Coalition.
>
>2. Breaking News: Reuters wire service is reporting that the current
>administrator of the UN humanitarian program in Iraq has called for the
>immediate lifting of the sanctions. Hans von Sponeck called the
>sanctions and their effects, "a true human tragedy." The response from
>Washington and London was to call for von Sponeck's immediate
>dismissal. In reply, von Sponeck said, "I CANNOT REMAIN SILENT. The
>very title that I hold as a humanitarian coordinator suggests that I
>cannot be silent over that which we see here ourselves." [The full text
>of the Reuters story will be posted on our website shortly. See link
>below.]
>
>Von Sponeck's immediate predecessor in the position, Irish diplomat
>Denis Halliday, resigned the post in 1998 in protest of the devastating
>effects of the sanctions on the civilian population.
>
>SUGGESTED ACTION: Phone the White House and the Gore and Bradley
>campaigns, urging an immediate end to the sanctions. Tell them that
>this is an important campaign issue for you.
>
>The White House: (202) 456-1111 email: president-AT-whitehouse.gov
>Al Gore Campaign: (615) 340-2000 email: vice.president-AT-whitehouse.gov
>Bill Bradley Campaign: (888) 643-9799 or (973) 731-2100
>
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