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DU Campaign with Doug Rokke -- DEC 10 WMass Actions -- NOV 3 Boston Rally Photo Album --- OCT 26 DC PhotoStory

September 30, 2002: Traprock took the Counter-Dossier, Parts I and Parts II to Washington for Emergency Lobby Day. We had received the final draft of Part II from its author, Dr. Glen Rangwala, Lecturer in politics at Cambridge University on the 28th and rushed it into publication for Lobby Day.Part II is brilliant and serves as the definitive rebuttal to Tony Blair's dossier. As reported by Education for Peace in Iraq Center, "coming from 23 states across the country, 140 concerned citizens came to Washington, DC to participate in Emergency Lobby Day. Advocates met with 102 Congressional offices and urged them to vote against a war resolution on Iraq. Lobbyists reported a mixed picture of Representatives and Senators, many afraid to stand against a war resolution despite a majority of constituent pressure to oppose it. Congressional offices reported getting thousands of letters, emails, faxes and calls in opposition to a war on Iraq.

September 24, 2002 - Sunny Miller and Charlie Jenks made new friends in Washington, D.C. when we brought the Labour Against War Counter-Dossier to 31 members of the US Senate. Upon arrival, we met with Gillian Gilhoul, Legislative Organizer for the Washington office of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and intern Teresa Hansen. Marliese Diaz, our friend wo worked with us on the final event in Baltimore of Scott Ritter's Heartland Swing, had put us in touch with Gillian. Thanks Marliese! The next day, Adele Lehr and Teresa brought the Counter-Dossier to each co-sponsor of Barbara Lee's alternative, non-war resolution, HR 473.(Pictured at right: Teresa, Gillian and Sunny)

We then headed to the Senate office buildings. We visited 31 offices in the Russell and Hart Buildings and we met with Christina Martin, foreign policy aide to Senator Kennedy (D-MA). Charlie later met with Melissa Allen, foreign policy aide toSen. Kennedy. we appreciated the warm reception we received from her. We presented the Counter-Dossier to Ms. Martin, as well as our CD of Scott Ritter's talk in Gloucester, MA on July 2nd and War On Iraq, William Rivers Pitt's book with Scott Ritter. (Pictured at left: Charlie and Christina; photo by Sunny Miller.)

We then headed to The Education for Peace in Iraq Center, where we met with Eric Gustafson, Executive Director, and Chris Fitz, Iraq Speakers Bureau coordinator. We shared our booklet of the Labour (UK) Against War Counter-Dossier; Eric decided to include the Counter-Dossier in their legislative packets for Lobby Day on Sept. 30. We left 85 booklets for lobbyist trainings. Eric asked us to print another 200 copies of the booklet for distribution on Lobby Day.

 

Click Here to go to Traprock's Stop the War Campaign with Scott Ritter

Traprock Peace Center started working with Scott Ritter last Dec, 2001, starting with Sunny Miller's interview with him on WMUA radio at the University of Massachusetts. Since then, we have initiated 10 public speaking events in Massachusetts (7); Wichita, KS, Indianapolis, IN and Baltimore, MD, as well as editorial board interviews with the Greenfield Recorder, Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun and Chicago Tribune. Out of this work has flowed many radio, tv, and newspaper interviews and stories. (We had massive statewide coverage in Indiana, for example; that event led to story in In These Times; the July 23rd event in Boston lead to an explosion of internet activity due to William Rivers Pitt's Truthout article on the talk and to a book - War on Iraq - by William Rivers Pitt that was released last month with a 125,000 distribution.) There have been many requests from groups all over the country that want to sponsor an event. We are not Scott's agent and happily pass on such requests to him and stand ready to assist groups with advice and, if practicable, organization. Schools and university need to work through his agent; please call Lisa Bransdorf at 800-326-4211 for such events. Our page at http://grassrootspeace.org/rittercampaign.html has a chronology (most recent first) of our work with Scott Ritter.

Interfaith Coaltion: On August 13 in Northampton, more than 80 people attended the Interfaith Organizing Meeting, representing a wide range of faith traditions, including Episcopalean, Jewish, Muslim, Roman Catholic, United Church of Christ, Ba'hai, Buddhist, Friends (Quakers), Unitarian Universalists, Unity, and more. The evening was guided and held beautifully by Susan Theberge, Jo Comerford, Sunny Miller, and Andrea Avayzian, among others. Clergy and lay leaders of all faith communities were invited to a program and planning meeting at St. Mary’s Church. This meeting is initiated by the Interfaith Coalition for Peace which has been meeting in Amherst. Jo Comerford, Director of the AFSC/Western Massachusetts, had recently returned from a Quaker delegation to Iraq and shared news. Faith leaders were asked to share thinking about the ways faith will help overcome momentum toward war and the further devastation caused by sanctions. Traprock Peace Center is a member of this Interfaith Coalition. Here is this event's press release.

June 27 - Jo Comerford, Director of the AFSC/Western Massachusetts, came back from a mission to Iraq. She spoke at a Traprock community Pot-Luck and gave an absorbing slide show presentation that demonstrated the human devastation caused by the economic sanctions against Iraq. 28 members and friends of Traprock attended the event. Many wrote fax letters to Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA) urging him to meet with Scott Ritter (see below) and to call for hearing on the plans to start a ground war against Iraq.. As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Kerry can initiate hearings. Help revive the democratic process. Call for Sentate Hearings on proposals to commit 70,000+ ground troops to a war in Iraq. Mail us your letter or FAX direectly: Senator Kerry, fax, 202 224-8525, or your local Senator. For more information on the sanctions and your Congress person's position, visit The Education for Peace In Iraq Center. AFSC is a sponsor of the Campaign of Conscience, co-sponsored by FOR and Pax Christi-USA and endorsed by Traprock and many other peace organizations. (Photo of Jo by© Charlie Jenks, 2001).

June 20-21 - Professors Marc Herold and Connie Chow at Press Conference and Vigil on the Loss of Life in Afghanistan. Follow the above link to his amazing data base and articles on the tragic deaths of civilians in Afghanistan. 3100-3500 were killed directly by the bombing, while eating, sleeping, playing in a park, praying in a mosque, farming, evacuating bombed areas, etc. (Pictured: Sunny Miller, Marc Herold and Connie Chow; photo ©Charlie Jenks, 2002)

Marc Herold will be the keynote speaker at Greenfield Community College at noon on Wednesday, September 11, co-sponsored by the Peace Center. Watch for details on a week full of activities involving music, poetry, visual arts, etc.

Resources Archive

Archive of selected mainstream media resources. (Pictured below: Sunny Miller, Scott Ritter & Alan Berger (the Boston Globe) on July 1; © 2002 Charles Jenks.)