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I think it's an important action to respond promptly to these articles and get letters published. I've had at least two letters published in the Guardian after these alerts. I think they respond to 1) the volume of letters all on the same subject and 2) the well-informed nature of the letters that we list-members can write. If 20 letters arrive all saying ``the weapons inspectors were not expelled by Iraq in 1998'' it has an effect. Also it is relatively easy -- a quick pithy email letter takes a few minutes (though sometimes it's hard to limit oneself to a single point when the whole article is a mess of lies and immoral and racist assumptions, it makes publication more likely if one can). So please keep doing these alerts! best wishes, Fay Dowker On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Voices uk wrote: > I've been unable to download Peter Brooke's summaries for quite some time so > maybe there's been a large overlap there with stuff that I've posted. The > rationale behind my recent posts (which have been confined to the British > broadsheets) has been to encourage people to act by writing to the papers. > Here time is of the essence and a delay of 2-3 days would render this > material useless *for this purpose.* However, if there's a consensus amongst > list members that they don't want this, I'm happy to stop these posts. > > Best wishes, > > Gabriel > voices uk > PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF MY EMAIL TO: f.dowker@qmul.ac.uk ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Fay Dowker Physics Department + + Queen Mary, University of London + + E-mail: f.dowker@qmul.ac.uk Mile End Road, + + Phone: +44-(0)20-7882-5047 London E1 4NS. + + Fax: +44-(0)20-8981-9465 + + Homepage: http://monopole.ph.qmw.ac.uk/~dowker/home.html + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk