[WCUSP] Fwd: [womeninblack] FW: anti-WMD joint statement needs your help

[Carol Urner]

In response to your email, all of these points are consistent with WILPF
positions, most of them long standing.  I would think it could be discussed
at the Congress and I coudl see that it is brought forth inthe Peace and
Security Working Group, but I also think this is the kind of statement that
U.S. WILPF, at least, could readily sign on to with the consent of Mary Day
and one or both of our Presidents.  Kate should be able to help you with
this as a WCUSP Campaign action item.  We do this several times a year in
the DISARM committee and the procedure is fairly simple.

in peace, Carol Urner

On 6/20/07, yvonne simmons <roweenayvonne at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Odile and I met Andrea in Italy at the WIB
> Internatioal severao years ago in Peace Yvonne
> --- Women In Black Frederick
> <wibfrederick at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > From: "Women In Black Frederick"
> > <wibfrederick at earthlink.net>
> > To: <womeninblack at listas.nodo50.org>
> > Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:44:52 -0500
> > CC: lieve snellings <lieve.snellings at pandora.be>
> > Subject: [womeninblack] FW: anti-WMD joint statement
> > needs your help
> >
> > Dear Women In Black Sisters:
> >
> > I received the following request from CASMII
> > (Campaign Against Sanctions and Military
> > Intervention in Iran)for possible endorsement by
> > Women In Black of a statement calling for a
> > Nuclear-Free Middle East.
> >
> > I would appreciate your input on this initiative.
> > If considered appropriate, possibly this could be
> > discussed at the international gathering in August?
> >
> >
> > Andrea Norouzi
> > Women In Black, Frederick, Maryland, USA
> > www.wibfrederick.org
> >
> >
> > CASMII is circulating a statement developed jointly
> > with an Israeli group (that formed originally to
> > agitate against Vanunu's imprisonment) and asking
> > for endorsements - please see the attachment. Can we
> > count on you to bring it to the WIB national?
> >
> > These groups in UK and Israel have signed the
> > statement with CASMII:
> >
> > Stop the War Coalition (This is the big coalition of
> > the antiwar movement which organised the two-million
> > strong demonstration before the invasion of Iraq) ;
> >
> > Campaign for a Nuclear-Free Middle East (UK) ; and
> >
> > The Israeli Committee for a Middle East Free From
> > Atomic, Biological and Chemical Weapons .
> >
> > Statement Text:
> >
> > International Statement for a Middle East free of
> > all Weapons of Mass Destruction.
> >
> > Despite the unfolding tragedy in Iraq and the
> > dangerously spiraling crises in the Middle East,
> > another war of an unprecedented scale, this time
> > against Iran, is looming. The environmental and
> > human cost of this war would, by comparison, dwarf
> > the suffering in Iraq; it would engulf the region
> > and have serious and unintended global consequences.
> >
> >
> > Terrifyingly, even "pre-emptive" nuclear strikes on
> > Iran have not been ruled out. The
> > introduction of the notion of limited "surgical
> > strikes" involving tactical nuclear bunker busters,
> > has not only increased such possibility, it has
> > brought the morally unthinkable into the realm of
> > debatable. The very mention of the idea has begun
> > the process of desensitizing the public to such a
> > horror. The logical outcome of the nuclear threat is
> > undoubtedly a drive to nuclear proliferation in the
> > region, which would then increase the likelihood of
> > the eventual use of nuclear weapons. In this
> > eventuality, there will be no winners.
> >
> > At this perilous time, let us remember the July 1955
> > joint Manifesto by Bertrand Russell and Albert
> > Einstein at the height of the Cold War: "We are
> > speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or
> > that nation, continent, or creed, but as human
> > beings, members of the species, Man, whose continued
> > existence is in doubt ... We shall try to say no
> > single word which should appeal to one group rather
> > than to another. All, equally, are in peril, and, if
> > the peril is understood, there is hope that they may
> > collectively avert it."
> >
> > The question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps
> > can be taken to prevent a
> > military conflict of which the issue must be
> > disastrous to all species?
> >
> > The stakes now are at least equally high. It is with
> > this same spirit of shared humanity that we reach
> > out to all peace loving people in the world to
> > subscribe to the following steps to reduce the risk
> > of a nuclear confrontation.
> >
> > With this aim in mind, we, the undersigned:
> >
> > 1. Call for the Middle East to be a zone free from
> > nuclear and other weapons of mass
> > destruction.
> >
> > 2. Call upon Israel, as the only Middle Eastern
> > state with an atomic arsenal, to join
> > the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and become
> > fully transparent by opening its
> > clandestine nuclear facilities to international
> > inspections and supervision by
> > International Atomic Energy Agency. Nuclear weapons
> > or facilities not approved
> > under the NPT must be dismantled.
> >
> > 3. Call for the dispute about Iran's nuclear
> > program, to be resolved through
> > peaceful means and dialogue and in accordance with
> > the nuclear Non-
> > Proliferation Treaty, of which Iran is a current
> > signatory.
> >
> > 4. Whilst welcoming Iran's declaration of the
> > peaceful nature of its nuclear
> > program, we urge Iran's full co-operation with the
> > International Atomic
> > Energy Agency to avoid suspicion and
> > misunderstanding.
> >
> >
> > > International Statement for a Middle East free of
> > all Weapons of Mass Destruction.
> >
> > Despite the unfolding tragedy in Iraq and the
> > dangerously spiraling crises in the Middle
> > East, another war of an unprecedented scale, this
> > time against Iran, is looming. The
> > environmental and human cost of this war would, by
> > comparison, dwarf the suffering in
> > Iraq; it would engulf the region and have serious
> > and unintended global consequences.
> >
> > Terrifyingly, even  pre-emptive  nuclear strikes on
> > Iran have not been ruled out. The
> > introduction of the notion of limited  surgical
> > strikes  involving tactical nuclear bunker
> > busters, has not only increased such possibility, it
> > has brought the morally unthinkable
> > into the realm of debatable. The very mention of the
> > idea has begun the process of
> > desensitising the public to such a horror. The
> > logical outcome of the nuclear threat is
> > undoubtedly a drive to nuclear proliferation in the
> > region, which would then increase the
> > likelihood of the eventual use of nuclear weapons.
> > In this eventuality, there will be no
> > winners.
> >
> > At this perilous time, let us remember the July 1955
> > joint Manifesto by Bertrand Russell
> > and Albert Einstein at the height of the Cold War:
> >  We are speaking on this occasion,
> > not as members of this or that nation, continent, or
> > creed, but as human beings, members
> > of the species, Man, whose continued existence is in
> > doubt     We shall try to say no
> > single word which should appeal to one group rather
> > than to another. All, equally, are in
> > peril, and, if the peril is understood, there is
> > hope that they may collectively avert it.
> >   The question we have to ask ourselves is: what
> > steps can be taken to prevent a
> > military conflict of which the issue must be
> > disastrous to all species?
> >
> > The stakes now are at least equally high. It is with
> > this same spirit of shared humanity
> > that we reach out to all peace loving people in the
> > world to subscribe to the following
> > steps to reduce the risk of a nuclear confrontation.
> >
> >
> > With this aim in mind, we, the undersigned:
> >
> > 1.
> > Call for the Middle East to be a zone free from
> > nuclear and other weapons of mass
> > destruction.
> > 2.
> > Call upon Israel, as the only Middle Eastern state
> > with an atomic arsenal, to join
> > the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and become
> > fully transparent by opening its
> > clandestine nuclear facilities to international
> > inspections and supervision by
> > International Atomic Energy Agency. Nuclear weapons
> > or facilities not approved
> > under the NPT must be dismantled.
> > 3.
> > Call for the dispute about Iran s nuclear programme,
> > to be resolved through
> > peaceful means and dialogue and in accordance with
> > the nuclear Non-
> > Proliferation Treaty, of which Iran is a current
> > signatory.
> > 4.
> > Whilst welcoming Iran s declaration of the peaceful
> > nature of its nuclear
> > programme, we urge Iran s full co-operation with the
> > International Atomic
> > Energy Agency to avoid suspicion and
> > misunderstanding.
> >
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in peace, Carol Urner
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