Friends,
This is an appeal from Stan Goff on behalf of Iraq
Veterans Against the War. It is an appeal for money,
so let me get that right out front.
I am asking you to go to www.ivaw.net, to click on
"Donate Online", and to become a "recurring"
supporter, by providing an automatic monthly deduction
transfered to IVAW of as much as you can afford --
$10, $100, $500... as much as you can afford.
No group of women and men has more credibility with
the public in its opposition to the war than the
people who participated in it, and who are now
speaking out against it. IVAW's membership includes
hundreds of highly-motivated, talented young people,
who have shown a special character. They are now
students, workers, musicians, philosophers,
geographers, playwrights, public speakers, writers,
film-makers, and several have spent time in prison for
their beliefs. People like Camilo Mejia, Stephen Funk,
Kevin Benderman, Charlie Anderson, Mike Hoffman, Kelly
Dougherty, Pablo Paredes, Tim Goodrich, Pat Resta,
Jimmy Massey, Jose Vasquez, Ivan Medina, Tina
Garnanez, Alex Ryabov, Garret Reppenhagen, and many
others. These are the people whose voices are
amplified by contributions to IVAW.
IVAW has never had a lot, but after the expenses
incurred to support Cindy Sheehan, the Crawford to DC
Bus Tour, and the September 24 antiwar demonstration,
there is not enough money in the bank right now to
even make payroll for the part-time staff that keeps
the organization afloat.
The organization needs around $10,000 a month cash
flow to support its recent expansion in membership and
the next year's organizational development and
objectives. Those objectives include organizer
training for members, chapter concentration to develop
local self-sustaining nuclei, Katrina survivor
self-determination support work, and
counter-recruitment initiatives. These are the IVAW
priorities for the next year, in addition to the
primary mission -- to stop the war against Iraq.
IVAW is the only organization of its kind, with its
membership drawn from armed services veterans who were
on duty after September 11, 2001, the day of the event
upoon which the Bush administration built it's
so-called Global War on Terror. IVAW could seek a lot
of foundation money if it were to change one thing in
its mission statement, and that is the demand for
immediate and unilateral withdrawal of all American
forces from Iraq. Calls for indefinite plans of
"phased" withdrawal are much more popular with
foundations who are reluctant to endanger quietly
favored elected officials who have been less than
sterling on the war by confronting them with their
complicity in letting the Bush administration have its
way. IVAW could change that mission and have access to
more money. But it will not.
IVAW will not take money that has these kinds of
unstated strings attached. So it needs the support of
independent antiwar activists who share IVAW's core
beliefs that the occupaiton must leave as a moral
imperative and that the Iraqis will be better off
without the occupation -- that the occupation itself
is the catalyst for most of the violence there,
including attacks by Iraqis against other Iraqis.
The way this movement becomes independent and stays
independent is through the support of people who share
its core mission and values.
Please, please help us build a sustianing financial
floor under this extremely important organization.
They need to be focused on their work, not on
finances.
Thanks so much for your support of my work, and for
whatever you can commit to IVAW.
Yours very sincerely,
Stan Goff
http://stangoff.com
Stan
http://stangoff.com
"When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the
land and the
missionaries had the Bible. They taught us to pray
with our eyes closed.
When we opened our eyes, they had the land and we had
the Bible."
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