Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 17:51:26 -0800
From: "J. Michelle Molina" <jmolina-AT-midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: DON'T BOMB IRAQ! VIRTUAL SIT-IN -AT- WHITE HOUSE


Vera --

I would have liked it had your newsletter addressed the issue of
chemical weapons development and the demands of the inspectors as that
is how the media and the government is portraying the issue at hand.
Would you contend that this isn't something we should be concerned
about?  I'm not being antagonistic.  I would like to hear an informed
viewpoint on this topic.

Thanks.

- Michelle

Vera Britto wrote:

> > ELECTRONIC DISTURBANCE THEATER
> > EMERGENCY BULLETIN
> > Friday, November 13, 1998
> >
> > CLINTON: DO NOT BOMB IRAQ!
> >
> > JOIN ONGOING VIRTUAL SIT-IN
> > ON WHITE HOUSE WEB SITE NOW
> > http://www.thing.net/~rdom/zapsPublic/ddkfoyer.htm
> >
> > The Electronic Disturbance Theater
> > opposes U.S. plans to bomb Iraq and
> > urges like-minded people to join
> > an emergency FloodNet action to send
> > a message of peace to world leaders.
> >
> > EDT encourages people who oppose
> > a U.S. military strike against Iraq to
> > participate in an ongoing virtual sit-in
> > on the web site of the White House
> > starting at 5:00 p.m. EST today by clicking on
> > http://www.thing.net/~rdom/zapsPublic/ddkfoyer.htm
> > and following the instructions and
> > leaving your browser on.
> >
> > EDT neither supports the Pentagon
> > nor Saddam Hussein, but believes a
> > U.S. military strike on Iraq will
> > result in the death of more Iraqi people.
> > This should not happen.
> >
> > The 1991 U.S. driven military assault
> > on Iraq left tens if not hundreds of
> > thousands of innocent people dead,
> > crippled Iraq's infrastructure, devastated
> > its economy, destroyed the environment,
> > and caused untold numbers of soldiers
> > to contract Gulf War 'syndrome' illnesses.
> >
> > The U.S. continues to insist on the maintenance
> > of sanctions against Iraq, another form of deadly
> > warfare in which basic medicine is unavailable
> > and malnutrition flourishes. The result:
> > 1.5 million Iraqis - half of them children
> > under 5 - have died since 1991.
> >
> > During the first Gulf War, hundreds of thousands
> > of Americans actively resisted Bush's
> > attack on Iraq. Despite a complete media
> > white out of real news from Iraq or of news about
> > protests at home, the Gulf War opposition
> > spread to cities large and small under
> > the banner: No War For Oil!
> >
> > In 1991, aware Americans knew that
> > U.S. foreign policy interests in
> > the Middle East were inextricably
> > bound to oil production and consumption.
> > Today, we know the same. U.S. foreign policy
> > in the Middle East is driven by its desire
> > to secure and maintain access to and
> > control over that resource rich region.
> >
> > Just as people took to the streets
> > in 1991, people will do the same now.
> > But unlike during the first Gulf War we
> > have the opportunity to express our
> > opposition in digital forms.
> >
> > In its discussion of the evolution
> > and convergence of computerized activism
> > and politicized hacking, EDT has
> > seen potential for the role that Hacktivism
> > will play in Resistance to Future War, or warfare
> > dominated by computers and telecommnuications.
> >
> > Electronic Disturbance Theater
> > http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
> >
> > ECD Archive
> > http://www.nyu.edu/projects/wray/ecd.html
> >
> > Next Action:
> > November 22, 1998 -> School of the Americas
> >
> > - END -