Sign the Petition to Help Exiled Natives of Diego Garcia/Chagos Archipelago
_http://wh.gov/Xbb_ (http://wh.gov/Xbb) The Chagos Islanders are an indigenous population that lived peacefully for generations in the Chagos Archipelago (located in the Indian Ocean). They were forcibly expelled from their homelands in the 1960s and 1970s so that the United States could build a military base on Diego Garcia. Both the United Kingdom, which controls the island, and the United States, which operates the military base, have refused to allow the Chagossians to return or to offer any just form of redress for the harm they have caused. The small community of Chagossians that are still alive reside in nearby islands of Mauritius and the Seychelles -- mostly in poverty and at the fringes of society. (Some background information is available here: _http://valtinsblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/sign-petition-to-repatriate-chagossians.html_ (http://valtinsblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/sign-petition-to-repatriate-chagossians.html ) and _http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/03/2012314114930627518.html_ (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/03/2012314114930627518.html) ) Please sign this White House petition (_http://wh.gov/Xbb_ (http://wh.gov/Xbb) ), asking the Obama administration to remedy the harms that the Chagossians have been suffering. The petition needs to get 25,000 signatures by April 3rd in order for the White House to issue some response. -- Elena Landriscina Student Attorney* UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation Clinic JD Candidate 2012, American University Washington College of Law *Practice supervised by a member of the D.C. Bar ================================================================= Peace NO War Network War is NOT the Answer! _http://www.PeaceNOWar.net_ (http://www.peacenowar.net/) National Immigrant Solidarity Network _http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/) Action LA Network _http://www.ActionLA.org_ (http://www.actionla.org/) Peace NO War Network _http://www.PeaceNOWar.net_ (http://www.peacenowar.net/) Activist Video Service _http://www.ActivistVideo.org_ (http://www.activistvideo.org/) New York: (212)330-8172 Los Angeles: (213)403-0131 Washington D.C.: (202)595-8990 Chicago: (773)942-2268 Please join the Peace NO War news litserv, send e-mail to: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Please consider making a donation to the important work of Peace NO War Network, Action LA Network, National Immigrant Solidarity Network Send check pay to: Action LA Network/AFGJ Action LA Network P.O. Box 751 South Pasadena, CA 91031-0751 (All donations are tax deductible) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
