[Reader-list] Fwd:Urgent - sign the petition

[iram at sarai.net]

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Subject: Urgent - sign the petition
To:      reader-list at sarai.net
From:    faizan ahmed <sayyadain2000 at yahoo.co.in>
Date:    Sat, 09 Jul 2005 07:50:40 +0200


Dear all

Please sign the petition below.
<http://www.petitiononline.com/aman/petition.html>

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Hello Again,

Thank you for your very encouraging response to the statement sent out
yesterday. I am now writing to tell you what we have done/intend doing
with the statement to which you have lent your support and your name.

The initial idea was to urgently start an exercise in
opinion-building. To build a consensus on where we stood. But, more
importantly, to reach out to those who hadnt yet formed an opinion and
who could be encouraged to view it in a manner compatible with
progressive ethics.I think, all of us have together managed to achieve
that by mailing it hundreds of people.

As the emails traveled through the day, peace-workers in Ahmedabad
also took print-outs of the statement - updating it every few hours as
new signatures arrived - and distributed it in colleges, among the
youth and among people of different communities. I have to apologize
and admit, though, that not all signatures/names could be included in
the print-outs.

I am pleased to announce that the response that we got was wonderful
and people pledged to keep the peace.

Finally, the statement has now been posted on this site:

<http://www.petitiononline.com/aman/petition.html>

May I request you, once again, to go to this site and sign our
statement? The plan is that after we collect a significant number of
signatures, we will post it - as our pledge for peace and justice - to
all the Indian political parties.

In solidarity,
shahrukh

P.S. THANKS TO MONICA, FRIEND AND COMRADE, FOR POINTING OUT THAT THE
SIGNATORIES TO THE STATEMENT DESERVE TO KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH
IT.







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