How to dismantle an atomic crisis
http://www.enoughfear.org/
Seymour Hersh writes an article in the New Yorker. President George W. Bush makes a statement to the press in Washington. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issues a letter from Tehran. But there is something missing from this debate: the voices of the people with the most to lose.
This is a campaign to bring the voices of Iranians and Americans into a discussion that is being dominated by extremists on both sides and bringing us closer to the unthinkable: nuclear war. Our leaders continue to rattle their sabers and spread fear, but we're ready to talk, and if they won't take that first step, we will take it for them. We've had enough. Enough posturing. Enough threats. Enough fear.
Our campaign begins with individuals willing to stand up and say no. This website will collect and display photos of people from the US and Iran (and other countries as well) holding up a hand in the universal symbol for "stop!"
These photos are the first step in what we hope will become an international campaign in which people from both sides will work together to prevent any attack. These are the people who will suffer if war breaks out.
There is no time to lose. Please join us! Add your photo to the site today, and be sure to join our email list so we can keep you up to date as the campaign develops. Our email list will be the backbone of this campaign - so sign up now!
Once we reach critical mass, we plan to hold actions to call on our leaders to sit down at the negotiating table. It’s time to put a stop to this dangerous cycle of threats and provocation and use diplomacy to avert this crisis. It’s our lives that are at stake.
2 comments:
this is good.
i do not know if the parties you speak of care what these voices have to say or if they can ever be made to listen, no matter how loud the cry. But this is good work; which is what we can do here on the ground.
BTW, is that shiny smile up top, yours......
I agree. It is good stuff.
I am compelled by the simple phenomena of people of different nations speaking directly to each other - as opposed to through governments and media conglomerates.
It is somehow more human.
It is also a good use of this powerful technology now at our fingertips.
Yeah ... that's Snack. ;-}
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