[WCUSP] Fwd: Troops Home FAST Breakthrough!

[Tura Campanella Cook]

Good news, in case you have not seen this.  Congratulations to the 
Troops Home Fasters!

Peace,
Tura

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> From: CODEPINK <codepink at mail.democracyinaction.org>
> Date: July 28, 2006 8:04:59 AM CDT
> To: turacc at earthlink.net
> Subject: Troops Home FAST Breakthrough!
> Reply-To: codepink at mail.democracyinaction.org
>
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> Troops Home Fast Breakthrough:
> Fasters invited to Jordan
> to meet with Iraqi Parliamentarians!
>
> To help support this
> ground-breaking trip
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>
> & make a donation to the Troops Home Fast
> Jordan Delegation today!
>
> Call your Congressperson
> at (888) 355-3588
> and urge them to support withdrawal of the troops!
>
> July 28, 2006
>
> Dear Tura,
>
> We have exciting news to share with you today! After being rebuffed in 
> our numerous attempts to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri 
> al-Maliki, including setting up "Camp Al-Maliki" across from the Iraqi 
> Embassy and publishing an open letter to him in one of the largest 
> Iraqi newspapers, we received an amazing invitation: Five members of 
> the Iraqi Parliament who are working on a Reconciliation Plan to end 
> the violence in their country contacted us. Moved by the commitment of 
> the long-term fasters and dismayed by their prime minister?s refusal 
> to meet with us, these parliamentarians asked us to join them in 
> Amman, Jordan next week to discuss their Reconciliation Plan, on 
> condition that we break our long-term fast with them!
>
> We are thrilled. It will be such a breakthrough for the US peace 
> movement to be working directly with Iraqi peacemakers, and what 
> better way to break our fast than with members of the Iraqi government 
> seeking an end to the violence. So next week, we?ll be on our way to 
> Jordan. In addition to a group of long-term fasters, we are inviting 
> Congresspeople, academics, and notable journalists to join us.
>
> This marks a big turning point in the fast, yet we know that we have a 
> long way to go towards bringing the 140,000 US servicemen and women 
> home from Iraq. We strongly encourage our local fasters to continue to 
> do weekly or ongoing fasts, and to make your fasts public by holding 
> actions outside Congressional offices and calling the media. Click 
> here for info about getting involved in the fast locally. We plan to 
> continue the Troops Home Fast campaign as energy builds towards the 
> International Day of Peace, September 21, when Declaration of Peace 
> events will begin around the country.
>
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> The news about the invitation to meet with the Iraqi Parliamentarians 
> comes on the heels of an exhilarating week of actions at our DC fast: 
> Faster and CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin spoke up during 
> al-Maliki?s address to Congress on Wednesday, saying loudly and 
> repeatedly, ?Iraqis want the troops to leave, bring them home now! 
> Listen to the Iraqis!? Medea was cuffed, removed from the Capitol and 
> arrested. Read about this action and see video clips and photos by 
> clicking here.
>
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> Yesterday, Thursday, July 27, two hunger strikers, Gael Murphy and Eve 
> Tetaz, interrupted the long overdue Senate Foreign Relations Committee 
> hearing on John Bolton?s nomination as US Ambassador to the U.N. They 
> wore t-shirts saying ?No Bolton? and urged Senators to reject Bolton 
> as the worst possible choice for the job and for world peace. And 
> today, when George Bush is visited by British Prime Minister Tony 
> Blair, we?ll be there to greet them in true anti-war fashion.
>
> Diane Wilson and other long term fasters are outside the White House 
> each day; see the photos, read the blogs, hear a song written and sung 
> by long-term faster Jesse Dyen, and check out what our local groups 
> are doing.
>
> We thank you for your support of the fast, and for this historic 
> opportunity to link with Iraqi leaders who have a plan to make peace a 
> reality.
>
> Hungry but hopeful,
> Anedra, Allison, Dana, Erin, Farida, Gael, Jodie, Katie, Laura, Medea, 
> Meredith, Nancy, Rae, Sam & Tiffany
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