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Iraq 2003, Iran 2006 - Notice Anything Different...?
Listening to the posturing and denunciations over the supposed global threat posed by Iran that we're hearing almost daily from the US and UK governments, I feel like I'm listening to a re-run of old TV and radio shows from 2003. The language being used is almost identical - threats to national/global security, the need for Iraq/Iran to clarify its intentions and so on - and yet again the power and might of the big Western nations is being exerted on a nation far smaller and far weaker, isolating and persecuting it on the grounds of military security and masking the real agenda of political security for precious oil reserves.
I received this email yesterday regarding a new citizens' peace initiative focussed on the rising tensions over Iran called Negotiate Peace - www.negotiate-peace.org.
Following a meeting in London, they launched a "unique citizens' peace initiative - Negotiate Peace. They want this campaign to be the 2006 version of Make Poverty History using the internet to spread the message around the world that we, the citizens, demand that our governments use proven non-violent conflict transformation methods to resolve this and all future international conflicts.
They have created a new website for this Negotiate Peace campaign, www.negotiate-peace.org
On the website there is:
- the Statement from the Peoples' Initiative for Departments of Peace - please print it off and send to your MP, to Tony Blair, to local newspapers
- On-line petition - please ask all your networks to circulate the url www.negotiate-peace.org and go along and sign online.
- a downloadable petition - please print off and take it to all the local places that allow petitions, health food shops, libraries, your workplace, friends and family
- There are lists of other activities you could consider
- There are stories about successful conflict prevention for those people who don't believe conflict prevention is possible
- There are daily stories from the alternative press about the Iran/US situation
- There is a Persian (Farsi) section because we want to reach out to Iranians in the diaspora and in Iran and show them that we support a peaceful resolution of
Negotiate Peace want to reach out as broadly as possible in building a representative citizens' initiative for peace. Please visit the site, sign the petition if you feel it is appropriate, and publicise the initiative as you see fit.
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