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Action AlertsIran War Resolution!Please help pass this message far and wide: ACTION: PROTEST MURRAY AND CANTWELL FOR SUPPORTING LEGISLATION TO BLOCKADE IRAN
WED., JUNE 25, 12:00 NOON
FEDERAL BLDG. 915 2nd AVENUE, DOWNTOWN SEATTLE
Friends,
Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell have cosigned bills that open the door to a blockade of Iran. That would be considered an act of war by Iran, and sets the precedent for dangerous escalation. We will urge Patty and Maria to change their minds. This is urgent, since the vote could occur any day now.
Please join Washington For Impeachment, Eastside Fellowship of Reconciliation, The Backbone Campaign, World Can't Wait, Code Pink, and others. We will deliver a "SPINELESS CITATION," to their offices, and gather outside to leaflet, banner, and inform the public.
We cannot allow Bush and Cheney to launch an attack on Iran!
Hope to see you there,
Linda Boyd
Washington for Impeachment
Eastside FOR
P.S. If you cannot join us, please sign the petition listed below, and call their offices to demand that they remove their names from this dangerous legislation.
All local Senators co-sponsored.
In Washington:
PATTY MURRAY:
Phone: (206) 553-5545
Toll Free: (866) 481-9186
Fax: (206) 553-0891
MARIA CANTWELL:
206-220-6400
206-220-6404 - FAX
In Oregon:
Submitted by AIFC on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 9:18am.
IRAN CRISIS SUMMARYPresidential elections were held in Iran on June 12, 2009, following a campaign in which opposition candidate Mir Houssain Moussavi was able to mobilize large crowds. On June 13 the current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that he won his reelection with well over 60% of the votes. Voter turnout was at a record high with above 80%. Studies such as one conducted by professors at Chatham House and the Institute of Iranian Studies at University of St. Andrews, Scotland found major discrepancies in the elections, forcing the government in Iran to acknowledge that voter participation was above 100 % in some communities. International observers were not allowed and domestic observes were very limited. There was no breakdown of the vote by province and the voting patterns were identical everywhere, which is an impossibility. Neither Moussavi nor the other candidate Mehdi Karoubi accepted the official election results. Iran scholar Gary Sick talks about a “political coup” and writes in his blog Gary’s Choice: “The willingness of the regime simply to ignore reality and fabricate election results without the slightest effort to conceal the fraud represents a historic shift in Iran’s Islamic revolution. All previous leaders at least paid lip service to the voice of the Iranian people. This suggests that Iran’s leaders are aware of the fact that they have lost credibility in the eyes of many (most?) of their countrymen, so they are dispensing with even the pretense of popular legitimacy in favor of raw power.” In an environment where phone text messaging was disabled, cell phones only work sporadically, phone connections to other countries are blocked, many internet websites are filtered, parasite signals interfere with certain satellite TV channels, journalists were arrested and foreign journalists are not allowed to report from inside Iran, the citizens of Iran became journalists by posting videos, photos and news on social networking sites, using the high-tech skills of a population whose majority is very young and media savvy. Iranian American scholars like Reza Aslan and Hamid Dabashi have warned the US government to not get involved directly, given a history that includes a CIA coup against a democratically elected government in Iran and the US support for Iraq during a 9 year Iran/Iraq war. Direct US meddling will fuel the eagerness of the Iranian regime to find outsiders to blame. Dabashi wrote on 6/30 for CNN that US government funds for Iran will be abused by and benefit only “expatriate and entirely discredited opposition groups such as monarchist supporters of Reza Pahlavi and the Mohajedin Khalk organization” and that a movement that has been in the making for decades does not need American money or military operations to sustain itself. Citizen to citizen solidarity can be very helpful. Here are a few things you can do: - Stay informed. Go to blogs such as http://niacblog.wordpress.com for the latest updates. - Become active with Iranian Americans in your community. In Portland you can connect with http://portlandstandswithiran.org Print the “Portland Stands with Iran” poster from this site and display it in your house, your car and your favorite stores! - Support international campaigns such as those conducted by Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/iran
Submitted by gabi_ross on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 10:27pm.
NO WAR WITH IRAN - Call To Action July 19-21
Submitted by AIFC on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 10:08am.
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