I second that. Amineh

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Beth E. Rivin wrote:

> I believe that NIHAC must support this effort.
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> Beth
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> Beth E. Rivin, M.D., M.P.H.
> Research Associate Professor
> Global Health and Justice Project, School of Law
> Office: William H. Gates Hall, room 421
> Phone: 206-616-3674; Fax: 206-543-5671
> www.law.washington.edu/HealthLaw/GHJ
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Anne Mercer [mailto:mamercer@...]
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 11:19 AM
> To: NIHAC
> Subject: [nihac] Urgent call for human rights in the US
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> Greetings,
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> NIHAC has been active in support of international human rights in various
> venues. The message below describes a movement in support of human rights
> in the US, which I would like to propose that NIHAC endorse - let me
> know your thoughts.
>
> Mary Anne
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:22:53 EDT
> From: SAULELYDIS@...
> To: SAULELYDIS@...
> Subject: KWRU: Urgent call from the USA
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> Dear Friends in the International Community:
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> We, the movement of the poor in the United States, known as the Poor
> People's
> Economic Human Rights Campaign, are in an increasingly dangerous struggle
> for humna rights under the government of Geroge W. Bush. We need the support
> of
> the international community! Please support us as we fight for an
> alternative
> to this nightmare that we, and all of you, are living under Bush.
>
> We ask that:
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> 1) Your organization or movement endorse our March for Our Lives and
> Bushville in August (see below). Letters of solidarity would be great and/
> or you can
> fill out the form at www.marchforourlives.org ("Get Involved" section) and
> send it to us.
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> 2) Your organization or movement send representatives to be humanrights
> observers in August and/ or accompany us in some other way from where you
> are.
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> Thank you. Please contact us to see how we can work together for "another
> world."
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> Jen Cox
> International Relations Coordinator
> Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
> ______________________________________________________________________
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> AN URGENT CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS OBSERVERS
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> From August 23 to August 30, poor and homeless families from across the
> United States, led by the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, will
> set up
> a tent city called BUSHVILLE in the New York City area. On August 30, 2004,
> thousands of poor and homeless families and others from across the United
> States will peacefully march on opening day of the Republican National
> Convention
> from New York City's United Nations at 45th and 1st Avenue through downtown
> Manhattan to the site of the RNC at Madison Square Garden.
>
> The MARCH FOR OUR LIVES: STOP THE WAR AT HOME will show for the world the
> miserable conditions and human rights violations being suffered by people in
> the
> United States, as both parties have abandoned the poor. We will march
> because,
> as poverty, hunger, unemployment and homelessness grow throughout this
> country, we have been abandoned by our political leaders from both parties,
> and we
> cannot afford to be silent. We cannot afford to be "disappeared" from the
> public eye and the political debates as our families suffer.
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> We send out an urgent call to the international community to send HUMAN
> RIGHTS OBSERVERS to Bushville and to the March for Our Lives: Stop the War
> at Home.
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> NOW MORE THAN EVER, we need the eyes of the international human rights
> community to be on the United States, to ensure that we are able to get our
> message
> out to the nation and to the world about the suffering of the poor in the
> richest country in the world.
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> While the US government continues to make war and hurt people around the
> world, it is committing grave human rights violations against its own people
> as
> well, implementing economic policies that impoverish and kill people across
> the
> US (homelessness, unemployment, denial of health care, water and heat, food,
> education), while at the same time limiting and repressing efforts of the
> poor
> and others to speak out on the human rights situation in the US. The real
> WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION are the policies which have left millions
> without
> housing, food, water, heat, health care and education in our own country and
> around the world.
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> The PPEHRC is organizing Bushville and the March for Our Lives to make
> visible the suffering and struggle of the poor in the US. Our lives depend
> on our
> speaking out and telling our story to the world: yet when we speak out we
> are
> jailed, threatened, our families are attacked and our children are taken
> away by
> the government. Our families and lives are at risk either way, but all we
> have left is our voice, and so we appeal to the world community at this
> dangerous
> time in history.
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> During the week-long Bushville, we will be highlighting the WEAPONS OF MASS
> DESTRUCTION which exist in our country, and which are being used to violate
> human rights in this country and around the world. At Bushville, we will be
> taking international observers on a special "Reality Tour" in which we will
> expose
> these true WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION to be documented by the international
> human rights community.
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> Please see www.kwru.org or contact Jen Cox at kwru@... for more
> information on being an human rights observer at Bushville and the March for
> Our Lives
> this August in New York City.
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