>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "International" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 14:36:58 -0500 > > > >The Iraq Sanctions Challenge IV: > > >Leaves New York City January 11, 2001, for Iraq and returns to New >York on January 19. We will be in Iraq for the Tenth Anniversary of the >beginning of the bombing phase of the Gulf War. > > ><bold>Deadline for application: December 1, 2000</bold> > > >What does it mean to be an Iraq Sanctions Challenge delegate? > > >The Iraq Sanctions Challenge is a combination fact-finding mission, >grassroots organizing opportunity, and people-to-people foreign >policy initiative. > > >It continues to be very important to keep educating the people of the >countries whose governments enforce the anti-human sanctions >about the real costs of this deadly policy. By participating in the >Challenge, you have a way to talk to people in your community about >your reasons for going and, on your return, to tell them what you saw. > This aspect of the Challenge enables you to reach far more people >than will ever personally travel to Iraq and help them understand what >this U.S. foreign policy means for the people living in countries the >U.S. decides to attack. > > >The work you put into speaking and organizing about sanctions >multiplies your own experience many times and will be very important >at this critical time. > > >As a delegate you will want to develop <bold>media opportunities</bold> to > >explain the trip and why you are part of it. Sendoffs, letters from >Iraq, airport welcoming events, regional press conferences, and >report backs are all possible press and public opportunities you will >want to explore. > > >As Challenge delegates, you will bring millions of dollars worth of vital >medicines and medical supplies to deliver to the hospitals you visit. To > enable people you reach to participate themselves, you<bold> </bold>can ><bold>fundraise for medicine</bold>. We ask that each delegate have a goal >of >raising $2000 towards the medicine that is brought. With the trip >going in January, you can fundraising at a time of year when many >people are looking for ways to make charitable contributions. > > ><bold>Involve</bold> <bold>groups in sponsoring </bold>your travel expenses. >This enables >more people to be a part of the Challenge. Organizations that get >involved make a commitment to help continue publicizing sanctions >and raising funds for medicine. > > >These are just a few examples of the kinds of activities that Iraq >Challenge participants have done to carry out grassroots education >on sanctions: > > >*A seventeen year old student who participated in 1998 contacted all >the local radio stations and regional newspapers in her Western >Massachusetts area insisting that they cover her participation in the >first Iraq Sanctions Challenge. They all carried either pre- or post- trip >interviews. > > >*A retired teacher in Minnesota wrote a letter to 200 friends and >associates asking for donations, raising several thousand dollars for >medicine while educating people about the disastrous effect of >sanctions in Iraq. > > >*Many people have held video showings using materials produced by >earlier fact-finding trips to Iraq. > > >*An activist in Philadelphia contacted school children who then >became involved in collecting medicine and school supplies for the >children of Iraq. > > >Contact the Iraq Sanctions Challenge to share organizing ideas and >strategies. <italic>Challenge to Genocide</italic>, the book written by >participants on > the first Iraq Sanctions Challenge, has many ideas for grassroots >organizing around sanctions. It is available from www.leftbooks.com > Check out the International Action Center's website at >www.iacenter.org for reports and photos from previous delegations. > > >The pressure to end the unpopular and murderous policy of sanctions >is mounting every day. It is a moral outrage that the U.S. has forced >this brutal policy on the people of Iraq. Together we can bring about its > final end. > > >The possibilities are open. The need is enormous. You can >participate yourself or help someone you know in this grassroots >work to end sanctions. > > ><bold>Let Iraq live!</bold> > > > > ><nofill> >International Action Center >39 West 14th Street, Room 206 >New York, NY 10011 >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >web: http://www.iacenter.org >CHECK OUT SITE http://www.mumia2000.org >phone: 212 633-6646 >fax: 212 633-2889 >*To make a tax-deductible donation, >go to http://www.peoplesrightsfund.org > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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