> ELECTRONIC DISTURBANCE THEATER > EMERGENCY BULLETIN > Friday, November 13, 1998 > > CLINTON: DO NOT BOMB IRAQ! > > JOIN ONGOING VIRTUAL SIT-IN > ON WHITE HOUSE WEB SITE NOW > http://www.thing.net/~rdom/zapsPublic/ddkfoyer.htm > > The Electronic Disturbance Theater > opposes U.S. plans to bomb Iraq and > urges like-minded people to join > an emergency FloodNet action to send > a message of peace to world leaders. > > EDT encourages people who oppose > a U.S. military strike against Iraq to > participate in an ongoing virtual sit-in > on the web site of the White House > starting at 5:00 p.m. EST today by clicking on > http://www.thing.net/~rdom/zapsPublic/ddkfoyer.htm > and following the instructions and > leaving your browser on. > > EDT neither supports the Pentagon > nor Saddam Hussein, but believes a > U.S. military strike on Iraq will > result in the death of more Iraqi people. > This should not happen. > > The 1991 U.S. driven military assault > on Iraq left tens if not hundreds of > thousands of innocent people dead, > crippled Iraq's infrastructure, devastated > its economy, destroyed the environment, > and caused untold numbers of soldiers > to contract Gulf War 'syndrome' illnesses. > > The U.S. continues to insist on the maintenance > of sanctions against Iraq, another form of deadly > warfare in which basic medicine is unavailable > and malnutrition flourishes. The result: > 1.5 million Iraqis - half of them children > under 5 - have died since 1991. > > During the first Gulf War, hundreds of thousands > of Americans actively resisted Bush's > attack on Iraq. Despite a complete media > white out of real news from Iraq or of news about > protests at home, the Gulf War opposition > spread to cities large and small under > the banner: No War For Oil! > > In 1991, aware Americans knew that > U.S. foreign policy interests in > the Middle East were inextricably > bound to oil production and consumption. > Today, we know the same. U.S. foreign policy > in the Middle East is driven by its desire > to secure and maintain access to and > control over that resource rich region. > > Just as people took to the streets > in 1991, people will do the same now. > But unlike during the first Gulf War we > have the opportunity to express our > opposition in digital forms. > > In its discussion of the evolution > and convergence of computerized activism > and politicized hacking, EDT has > seen potential for the role that Hacktivism > will play in Resistance to Future War, or warfare > dominated by computers and telecommnuications. > > Electronic Disturbance Theater > http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html > > ECD Archive > http://www.nyu.edu/projects/wray/ecd.html > > Next Action: > November 22, 1998 -> School of the Americas > > - END -
