[WCUSP] WiB Flyer 4/6/07 looking for hope

[yvonne simmons]

Our WIB flyer today for our vigil opposite Portland's
Federal Building. In Peace Yvonne, Pat and I feel that
too often we are giving info about the horrors, the
working against, and that what we are working for
should be a major part of our message. It is difficult
but working for something helps.
>  
> "Societies and  economies can be destroyed by bombs.
> Societies can also be 
> destroyed by locking  every aspect of life like
> provision of food and water 
> through an economic war."  
> Vandana  Shiva 
> 
> “..what we have seen -- and it’s extremely clear
> if  we track the numbers -- 
> is that the worse things get in Iraq, the more 
> privatized this war becomes, 
> the more profitable this war becomes for companies 
> like Lockheed Martin, 
> Bechtel, and certainly Blackwater. There is  a
> steady mission creep in Iraq, where 
> the more countries pull out, the more  contractors
> move in.., What are the 
> stakes here? The stakes could not be higher.  What
> we are losing is the 
> incentive, the economic incentive, for peace, the 
> economic incentive for stability. 
> When you can create such a booming economy  around
> war and disaster, around 
> destruction and reconstruction, over and over  and
> over again, what is your peace 
> incentive?”                                       
>                            
>                                                     
>                   Naomi  
> Klein 
> Palestinian  hope held hostage..Economic sanctions
> are keeping Palestinians 
> from building  a  life.  By  Salam Fayyad, SALAM
> FAYYAD is the minister of 
> finance in   the  Palestinian unity government.
> 
> The U.S. has  long acknowledged, as has the entire
> world  community, that the 
> formation  of a viable, independent Palestinian
> state on  the West Bank 
> (including  East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip is
> the way  out of this nearly  
> 60-year-old conflict. But until the  international
> community demonstrates the 
> political will to help bring  about  a comprehensive
> settlement one that will 
> grant Palestinians the  freedom to build our own
> economy and institutions in our 
> own land we will  all  continue to pay the price.
> Despair will continue to 
> erode hope. And,  lest we  forget the words of
> Jefferson,  "If we are to dream, 
> the flatteries  of  hope are as cheap, and
> pleasanter, than the gloom of  
> despair." 
> Portland  Women In Black weekly vigil Friday at noon
> at 3rd &  Madison 
> Contact: Yvonne Simmons  503-288-8958; Pat
> Hollingsworth 503-289-2097         
>                        4-6-07 
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