grassrootspeace.org November 5, 2007: This
website is an archive of the former website, traprockpeace.org,
which was created 10 years ago by Charles Jenks. It became one of the
most populace sites in the US, and an important resource on the antiwar movement,
student activism, 'depleted' uranium and other topics. Jenks authored virtually all of its web pages and multimedia content (photographs, audio, video, and pdf files. As the author and registered owner of
that site, his purpose here is to preserve an important slice of the
history of the grassroots peace movement in the US over the past decade.
He is maintaining this historical archive as a service to the greater
peace movement, and to the many friends of Traprock Peace Center. Blogs
have been consolidated and the calendar has been archived for security
reasons; all other links remain the same, and virtually all blog content
remains intact. THIS SITE NO LONGER REFLECTS THE CURRENT
AND ONGOING WORK OF TRAPROCK PEACE CENTER, which
has reorganized its board and moved to Greenfield, Mass. To contact Traprock
Peace Center, call 413-773-7427 or visit its site.
Charles Jenks is posting new material to PeaceJournal.org,
a multimedia blog and resource center.
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Re: "Public Seems to Accept War's Death's Toll"
Letters Editor
The New York Times
229 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036-3959
To the Editor:
In "Public Seems to Accept War's Death Toll," one person interviewed said, "I don't look at numbers; I look at names" (news article, April 8th). He was, however, referring only to the American dead. How can we accept the much higher toll on Iraqis when the war has disproved its own thesis, since the Iraqi government either did not have or chose not to use weapons of mass destruction? Can we claim to have liberated a people we do not consider human enough to number, much less name, when we kill them?
The American public deserves part but not all of the blame for this indifference. The Bush administration has sought to keep Iraqi deaths in a fog of ignorance.
After the September 11th tragedy, your newspaper made a great contribution to human understanding by devoting months to printing the biography of each of those killed. You could help the nation grasp the true meaning of "preventive war" by initiating a similar series devoted to all those killed in the current war: American and British soldiers, journalists, Iraqi civilians, and Iraqi soldiers -- who were also brothers, fathers, sons. A sample is not enough. Until America shows the seriousness to care about every individual death it inflicts, it cannot pretend to be the guarantor of individual life or liberty.
Sincerely,
David Keppel
Davidkeppel@earthlink.net
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