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Some Good News! The Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace (CCMEP) presented a resolution at the Colorado Democratic Convention last weekend and it was passed by the 1,500-2,500 people there! (see resolution below) About 1,100 flyers were posted to educate. Probably the best part is that the platform chairman, Penn Tate, summarized the resolution with good detail so everyone was educated about some of the effects of sanctions and that DeGette and Udall support the lifting of economic sanctions. The first vote was a tie and then there were comments pro and con. To get it passed it did have an amendment added that takes away some of the wind (first time we have done this, a bit out of our element), but we can now say that Colorado democrats want economic sanctions ended. The resolution will be added to the Colorado Democratic Convention Platform and will go to the National Convention Platform Committee- anyone wanting to work on this to be sure that it gets a reading at the national convention please contact Stephanie at 303-320-5994. The text of the resolution is below (including amendment, ' with the simultaneous implementation of weapons inspections'). Many local representatives/senators were very supportive, including Fran Coleman who wrote back to ask how it went and said she would keep an eye on it at the state level, and gave suggestions for follow-up at the national level. Minority Report- Requires 15 State Platform Committee Members to Approve The following people have agreed to approve the motion for this resolution to be put on the floor (does not imply agreement with resolution): Pamela Bisceglia, Denver Honorable Fran Coleman, Denver Honorable Mike Feeley, Denver Leona Lawrence, Lakewood John M. Lee, Boulder Honorable Bob Martinez, Commerce City Honorable Ed Perlmutter, Golden Honorable Peggy Reeves, Ft. Collins Honorable Dorothy Ruppert, Boulder Honorable William Thiebaut, Pueblo Honorable Frank Weddig, Aurora many more signed the morning of the convention including DeGette! Resolution for Colorado Democratic Convention Whereas the United Nations, led by the U.S., has enforced economic sanctions on Iraq for more than nine years, resulting in the deaths of more than 500,000 children under the age of five due to inadequate water, food, and medicine (according to the latest UNICEF report published August 12, 1999); and Whereas these sanctions, first imposed to force the Iraqi army out of Kuwait, and continued to eliminate a weapons threat and encourage democratic leadership, have instead strengthened Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, created deep-seated resentment, and divided the international community, so as to effectively end weapons monitoring; and Whereas Iraq's biological, chemical and nuclear disarmament is all but Complete (according to former U.N. weapons inspectors Richard Butler (April 12, 1999), Scott Ritter and Richard Zalinkas), but weapons inspections are unlikely to resume while economic sanctions are in place; and Whereas the billions of dollars spent on our present policy toward Iraq has impacted federal, state, and local spending on essential and job-producing programs in health, education and welfare; and Whereas our own U.S. Congressional Representatives Diana DeGette and Mark Udall, the U.S. Catholic Conference (including Archbishop Charles Chaput), the National Council of Churches and other religious organizations, Hans Von Sponek and Denis Halliday (both former U.N. Directors of the Oil for Food program in Iraq), and concerned citizens of Colorado (some of whom have relatives suffering in Iraq) all urge lifting these economic sanctions. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Colorado Democratic Convention urge the lifting of economic sanctions on Iraq, the rebuilding of the Iraqi infrastructure (water purification, sewage treatment, etc.) and the free flow of humanitarian aid into Iraq without threat of prosecution, with the simultaneous implementation of weapons inspections. Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace 901 West 14th Avenue, Suite 7 * Denver, CO 80205 * (303) 320-5994 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Never lose a file again. Protect yourself from accidental deletes, overwrites, and viruses with @Backup. Try @Backup it's easy, it's safe, and it's FREE! 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