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A little correction Johannes Limberger, is not from germany, rather upstate NY. I do not know how or why my name was circulated mentioning that I was/am from Germany. Thanks Sincerely Johannes Limberger PS Upstate New York near Albany NY >From: Marc Azar <marca@arobas.net> >Reply-To: lifetoiraq_canada@yahoogroups.com >Subject: CANESI: 40 day fast against sanctions: please send postcard of >support >Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 20:12:38 +0000 > >Dear friends, > >As you may know, on August 6th, 12 members of Voices in the Wilderness US >began a 40 day liquids-only fast against the sanctions on Iraq outside the >US Mission to the UN in New York (see press release below for more info). > >If you would like to send them a message of support you can write to them >c/o St Vincent Ferrer Church, >1603 Brooklyn Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11210 > >Their names are: > >Cynthia Banas, Vernon, NY >Lorie Blanding, Easthampton, MA >Felton Davis, New York, NY >Joan Gregory, Marlboro, NY >Brian Kavanagh, Hartford, CT >Kathy Kelly, Chicago, IL >Johannes Limberger, Germany >Ceylon Mooney, Memphis, TN >Joe Morton, Baltimore, MD >Mark Paye, Chicago, IL >Henry Williamson, Charleston, SC >Jerry Zawada, Hammond, I > >Best wishes, > >Gabriel >voices in the wilderness uk > >********************************************* >Breaking Ranks: >A Fast to End the Siege of Iraq > >August 6th - September 14th >Tel: 646-208-2098 > >Voices in the Wilderness, a Chicago-based campaign to end the economic >sanctions on Iraq, today announces ėBreaking Ranks: A Fast to End the Siege >of Iraq.î Fast members will gather in New York City August 6th through >September 14th. > >The fast will begin on Monday morning, August 6th, with a Press Conference >at 10:00 a.m. at ėThe Isaiah Wall,î E. 43rd Street and 1st Avenue, across >from the UN Building. After the press conference, the fasters will process >to 45th St. and 1st Avenue, across from the US Mission to the UN, where >they >will return to demonstrate and fast every day for forty days. > >ėWe are trying to encourage the member states of the UN to ëbreak ranksí >with the US in its insistence on endless sanctions for Iraq,î said Kathy >Kelly, co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness [VitW] and twice nominated >for >the Nobel Peace Prize. ėThe more ësmartí they try to make the sanctions, >the more adept they are at killing the Iraqi people.î > >Former Under-Secretary General of the UN, Denis Halliday, will join in >the f >ast on August 6, and will be available for interviews. Halliday is also a >Nobel nominee. > >August 6th, the fifty-sixth anniversary of the US atomic attack on >Hiroshima, Japan, also marks eleven full years of the US-led embargo on >Iraq. In 1999, UNICEF estimated that the sanctions had contributed to the >deaths of half a million Iraqi children under the age of five. > >Most of the fasters have been to Iraq, and they will use the time of >fasting >to tell UN representatives and the general public what they have seen and >heard about the effects of the sanctions. > >Besides fasting, participants will vigil and leaflet across the street from >the UN (the corner of 45th Street and First Avenue), perform street >theater, >attend Arabic lessons, and hold nightly public discussions on the >effects of >the sanctions. They will seek meetings with UN and US representatives. >Additionally, group members will consider breaking the fast if staff from >the US Mission to the UN will, on occasion, share with them a meal of >cooked >lentils and rice, representative of the food >distributed to Iraqis through the ėoil-for-foodî program. > >In early September, VitW, in conjunction with local activists across the >U.S., will organize ėLife Under Siegeî tent encampments in numerous >communities and on college campuses. The encampments, envisioned to last >three (or more) days, will attempt to depict living conditions forced upon >Iraqis by eleven years of unrelenting economic sanctions. > >For further information on either the fast or in a ėLife Under Siegeî >encampments, contact: > >* G. Simon Harak, S. J. Contact on 917-662-5790, Breaking_Ranks@yahoo.com, ><mailto:Breaking_Ranks@yahoo.com>, Efax: 801-907-7260 > >* Voices in the Wilderness, 1460 W. Carmen Avenue, Chicago, IL 60640, >773-784-8065; kkelly@igc.org; > > >-- >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq >For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk >Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: >http://www.casi.org.uk _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Post a message, send it to: <lifetoiraq_canada@eGroups.com> To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: <lifetoiraq_canada-unsubscribe@eGroups.com> Your use of Yahoo! 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