[Reader-list] Worldwide Sisterhood Against Terrorism and War

[Harsh Kapoor]

[Fyi, with well known and famous folks on this one]

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NOT IN OUR NAME!

>Worldwide Sisterhood Against Terrorism and War

>We women who are Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains
>and women of many beliefs  from the countries that lost lives in the terror
>of September 11th, unite on these principles:
>
>We will not support the bombing or U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, for 
>it would only
>punish suffering people, and increase the hatred on which terrorists feed. No
>military action has ever ended terrorism.
>
>We stand with our sisters in Afghanistan who are suffering and dying under
>the gender apartheid and sexual terrorism of the Taliban. The world has
>endangered itself by failing to heed their pleas. We must help them build a
>democracy that includes women.
>
>We believe the mass murders of September 11 were crimes against humanity that
>must be prosecuted. All terrorists must be brought to justice.
>
>We pledge to judge people by their acts, not the group into which they were
>born.
>
>We will boycott financial institutions that refuse to disclose the flow of
>funds to terrorists. We will target and expose political leaders who refuse
>to require disclosure.
>
>To stop the spiral of terror and vengeance, we believe there must be an act
>as positive as the terrorist act was negative.
>
>Therefore:
>
>WE CALL ON THE UNITED STATES, THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE WORLD 
>COMMUNITY, EACH ACCORDING TO ITS ECONOMIC MEANS, TO BEGIN A MASSIVE 
>AND IMMEDIATE AIRLIFT OF FOOD AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE OF 
>AFGHANISTAN.
>
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>
>Because the U.S. has mobilized and may be about to attack Afghanistan, one of
>the most tragic and war-ravaged countries in the world, we send this urgently
>and with only the instruction that, should you agree, you do with this
>statement whatever you do best.

>Send it to your U.S. Congressmember or other Parliamentarian
>
>Talk about it to the media
>
>Plaster copies over your local military base, send it to every person you
>know on the planet, paint it on yourself and sit in silence in a public place
>
>Sing it, shout it, make buttons, circulate it as a petition, organize a rally
>around it, do a teach in about it, translate it into your language, speak it
>from street corners, use it to picket The White House
>
>Send it to George W. Bush's inner circle, send it to the mothers of his inner
>circle, put it inside newspapers, leaflet military recruiting stations, make
>it into a I-won't-pay-war-taxes pledge
>
>And most important, use your own head and heart to prevent a war that can
>only lead to more terrorism.
>
>Gloria Steinem
>Eve Ensler
>Evelyn Rothstein
>Diane de Vegh
>Lisa Gilford
>Sally Fisher
>Vahida Nainar
>Fahima Danishgar
>Jessica Neuwirth
>Zieba Shorish-Shamley
>Mariana Katzarova
>Robina Niaz
>Sheila Dauer
>Paula Allen
>Sunita Mehta
>Jane Fonda
>Claude Servan-Schreiber
>Suj Krishnamurthy
>Zayba Rahman
>Robin Morgan
>Anne Firth Murray
>Catherine Gund
>Asma Sadiq
>Dr. Margaret Abraham
>Mallika Dutt
>Anupama Rao
>Ameena Meer
>Alice Walker
>Dr. Jaskiran Mathur
>Pat Cane
>Purvi Shah
>Gloria Jacobs
>Fahima Vorgetts
>Marti Copleman
>Willa  Shalit
>Sarah Jones
>Hazelle Goodman
>Kathy Najimy
>Noeleen Heyzer

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