Greetings,

This past spring Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange in San Francisco came
for a day to UW.  He spoke in the evening at a public NIHAC and
UW-sponsored event.  In case you missed him in May, a recording of his
very dynamic presentation was aired this afternoon on NPR (KUOW, 94.9) and
will be played again on Sunday night at 11 PM, same station.

Mary Anne
(who modestly admits to being the recording technician for this program)

FYI--



-----Original Message-----
From: Global Health Council [mailto:jlozman@...]
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:41 AM
To: brivin@...
Subject: GHAN Newsletter, Issue # 14


Letter from the Grassroots Coordinator:

After a long August recess, Congress has returned to finish the
appropriations process and other pending business. This is a critical
time for global health funding. At this point, funding for global AIDS
is particularly undecided. Currently, the House has appropriated $2
billion for 2004. We are hoping to see the Senate raise that amount to
$3 billion, BUT we need your help to do that! Please see the text that
is written below about the national campaign to call the White House. A
simple phone call can make a huge difference.

Every person has the capacity to make a difference. Whether it is a
quick phone call to the White House, telling others about your interest
in global health, or working in the field, your efforts make a
difference. To learn more about how to get involved, please feel free to

contact us at the Global Health Council at any time.

Josh


Hill Happenings:

The appropriations process is continuing in full force after the August
recess.  The Senate is currently considering the Labor, Health and Human

Services spending bill and several HIV/AIDS related amendments are
planning to be offered:

Senator Durbin (D-IL) will offer an amendment for emergency funding in
the amount of $936million, to bring up our spending for HIV/AIDS from
around $2 billion to the full $3 billion authorized in the Global AIDS
bill that was signed into law in May.  This amendment is expected to be
offered sometime tomorrow, and will require 60 votes to pass.  We will
be making calls to key Senate offices to support this amendment, as well

as activating our grassroots to call their Senators.

Senator DeWine (R-OH), along with Senator Santorum (R-PA), will be
offering an amendment for emergency funding in the amount of $60 million

to the Mother and Child Prevention of HIV initiative.  If it passes, the

amendment will bring the total amount for the initiative within HHS to
$150 million, which was what the President requested for the FY04
budget.  We will also be placing calls in support of this amendment.

The Foreign Operations spending bill is not expected to be considered by

the Senate until late this month or in October.  An amendment by Senator

Feinstein would soften the "33% of prevention funds for abstinence until

marriage programs" included in the Global AIDS bill.   It would provide
more flexibility in implementing HIV/AIDS prevention programs, as well
as to interpret what "abstinence until marriage" means.

Grassroots Tip:

What is emergency spending?

You may have heard this term used in the past week in reference to the
debates about funding for global AIDS in the Labor Health and Human
Services committee. Emergency spending is when expenses come up that
were not budgeted for.  The government can find this money in one of two

ways: by finding an "offset," or by approving a waiver to allow
"emergency spending." An offset is when the appropriators in Congress,
who make decisions on funding issues, decide to take the money from
another budget. This can be a good thing, but we must be careful when
talking about global health issues that we are not taking money to fund
an AIDS program from a child survival program. The other way to find
this funding is for Congress to approve a waiver, which allows for
emergency spending basically allowing Congress to appropriate more money

than is in the budget. In order to get this waiver approved, the Senate
must pass the waiver with at least 60 of the 100 Senators approvals.

National Call-In Day: Tuesday, September 16:
Join thousands of AIDS activists across the country by calling the White

House to support increased funding for Global AIDS.

We must tell President Bush to urge Congress to support $3billion
dollars for Global AIDS in 2004, including $1billion for the Global
Fund.  Using targeted actions in states that are key to the Presidential

election, we will make a statement that this issue of global health is
an important platform issue.

OUR MESSAGE:  Tell the President that you want him to support $3billion
this year in funding for global AIDS, including $1billion for the Global

Fund, without taking money from other global health or development
programs.

National Call-In day is Tuesday, September 16th.  Call 202-456-1111 and
a White House operator will answer. Please visit www.data.org/callinday
If you cannot call on Tuesday, call later this week!

Global Health Council News:

In August 2003, six congressional staff joined by Global Health
Council's President and CEO Nils Daulaire, Director of Government
Relations Michele Sumilas, and Public Outreach Special Events Manager
Jim Wiggins participated in a Congressional Study Tour to Haiti.  During

the trip, congressional staff were introduced to various health care
programs in the world's third poorest country.  The goal of the trip was

to educate staffers about actual programs being implemented, and allow
them to meet the affected individuals.  During their visit, staffers
visited programs funded by USAID, private donations, other governments,
and faith-based organizations.  One highlight of the trip was a visit to

Grace Children's Hospital Pediatric Tuberculosis Ward, where staffers
met twenty children who were receiving TB treatment.  Another day the
group visited an in-patient care facility run by Partners in Health,
where they saw first hand and heard the personal stories of three women
regarding the impact of what anti-retroviral HIV/AIDS treatments can do.

  In January 2004, the Council will organize another trip to India.
Congressional staffers advise their bosses, the Senators and
Representatives, on issues of global health.  They also advise them how
to vote on proposed legislation.  It is critical to educate the staffers

about these issues in order to get the members themselves to vote in the

right way.

Featured Articles:

1.  Alma-Ata Revisited
by David A. Tejada de Rivero
The first International Conference on Primary Health Care, held in 1978
in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, in the former USSR, pledged to achieve "Health
for All by the Year 2000." Now, a quarter-century later, a key
participant looks back at the accomplishments of the historic
conference...and at what went wrong. [Read Article
<<http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/Number17_article1_1.htm>>] [Print
Version <<http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/Number17_article1_4.htm>>]
2.  An Act of Love: Vaccination Week in the Americas
Text by Manuel Calvit, photos by Armando Waak
Health professionals and volunteers in 19 countries of Latin America and

the Caribbean joined forces in early June for the first regionwide
Vaccination Week in the Americas. The goal: to immunize children no
matter where they live, no matter how hard to reach, leaving no child
behind. [Read Article
<<http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/Number17_article3_1.htm>>] [Print
Version <<http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/Number17_article3_6.htm>>]
3.  Community-based efforts key to child survival
UNICEF chief says | Strengthening efforts in primary care at the
community level and getting life-saving commodities into t...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0309/S00172.htm

Internship Opportunities:

The Global Health Council offers a variety of Internship opportunities
in their offices in Washington, DC and in White River Junction, VT.
The Council is currently accepting applicants for the Winter Semester,
which runs from Jan 1 through March 30.  The application deadline for
this semester is October 1.  For more information on these positions or
to complete an online application go to www.globalhealth.org/ghcjobs.


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A perspective on this week's trade talks in Cancun - from BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3188411.stm

Mary Anne

Trade must serve the poor

By Adriano Campolina Soares Food Rights Campaigner, ActionAid, Brazil

Third world campaigners are dismayed that the 'Olympics' of world trade
talks in Cancun are turning into a win-win situation for the traditional
trade superpowers, the EU and US, at the expense of the poorest people on
earth.

All the rhetoric from the last big World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting
in Doha in 2001 was that reducing poverty would be at the heart of the
current round of trade talks.

This was supposed to be the Doha 'Development Round'.


TRADE AND GLOBALISATION

Key issues at the trade talks


Quick guide

But what have the poorest gained since Doha?

Virtually nothing. Take the key issue of agriculture (which is vital to
the livelihoods of three quarters of humanity).

Rich countries promised to cut the $330bn in subsidies they lavish on
their farmers.

These subsidies destroy local markets and put farmers out of business in
developing countries; they are flooded with cheap imports such as wheat,
maize, milk and sugar, and they drive down world prices for exporters.

But instead of slashing subsidies, the US ramped up its support by $175bn
over 10 years and the EU has fudged reform of the Common Agricultural
Policy, putting off any real cuts until 2013.

'Dirty deal'

And then the gloves really came off.

In August the EU and US did a dirty deal at the WTO that will see them
making only modest concessions to poorer nations on cutting subsidies and
other farming issues.

They hailed it as a breakthrough, but it was nothing of the sort.

It was a classic stitch up that ignored the interests of the vast
majority.

Developing countries - like India, Brazil and China - have clubbed
together and vowed to stand up against the superpowers in Cancun.

Other pledges to combat poverty have also been delayed.

For two years, the US blocked a deal to relax the rules to allow access to
cheaper drugs for diseases like malaria, TB and HIV.

It's a criminal delay when we know 28m Africans suffer from HIV and only
60,000 of them currently have access to the right HIV medicines.

Multinationals

But there's worse to come in Cancun. The EU is pushing for a dangerous set
of new rules - known as the 'new issues', or 'Singapore issues' - that
would greatly expand the WTO's powers into new areas such as competition
law and rules on foreign investment.

The investment rules are the 'hottest' topic and are highly controversial;
multinationals could gain sweeping new freedoms to set up and invest in
poorer countries at the expense of the rights of local communities.

ActionAid has experience of the misery caused to local people when
multinational investors are poorly regulated.

We're working with communities where villagers have been kicked off land,
water supplies hijacked, and local food markets taken over.

In my country, Brazil, big food multinationals have squeezed thousands of
small scale farmers out of their traditional diary and milk markets.

The new WTO investment plans blatantly favour multinationals and will make
corporate abuses more likely.

Poor countries say they don't want them, but is anyone listening?

Protests

The peasants and farmers' movements will march on Mexico and the streets
of Cancun to protest against the human costs of the WTO's version of
globalisation.

If the superpowers run off with all the spoils and Cancun fails to deliver
urgent reforms, many more will question the WTO's commitment to putting
poverty reduction at the heart of global trade.

Brazilian Adriano Campolina Soares is head of ActionAid's International
Food Rights Campaign.

Most of us are dismayed to see chaos growing in Iraq, and now many of the
"aid" agencies leaving.  EPIC is a good group that recommends here a
couple of ways that we can contribute in at least a small way to improving
the humanitarian and political situation there.

Mary Anne

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 14:39:10 +0200

Update from EPIC's Humanitarian Campaign

The recent deadly attack on UN headquarters in Baghdad could disrupt
humanitarian work as fears grow that aid workers have become targets
in a guerrilla war against the U.S.-led occupation.

EPIC has learned that both the UN and International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) have significantly reduced their staff in Iraq. A
number of relief groups, including World Visions and OxFam, have
pulled their international staff out of Iraq. While the scaling back
of staff marks a disturbing trend, the UN has no plans to suspend its
UN assistance mission in Iraq. Relief organizations have also vowed
to keep up their fight to help Iraqis (AP 8/21/03). They are pressing
the U.S. and UN to do more to restore security.

Electrical shortages remain among Iraq's biggest problems. After the
war, bombing and looting reduced electrical supplies by about 30%
(BBC 8/27/03). Electricity has been restored somewhat in the past few
months, but only to about 50% of the capacity needed to keep power on
24 hours. Currently, power runs for a few hours each day.

Water supplies remain below pre-war levels, with either no available
access to water or access to polluted water only. Although Iraq
relies on both the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the lack of
electricity prevents large-scale pumping and purification (BBC
8/27/03). Hospitals are suffering from lack of clean water and
consistent electricity. Equipment and supplies have been heavily
looted.

Iraq's poorest and most vulnerable, especially the nation's 11
million children, remain in constant need of food, medical supplies,
clean water, and basic aid. Child mortality resulting from
malnutrition and disease remain extremely high (possibly double
pre-war levels).

HOW YOU CAN HELP: an EPIC APPEAL for CARE

CARE is among a handful of relief organizations in Iraq that have
chosen to remain and not reduce staff, despite the risks. CARE is the
only international NGO to have maintained a continuous presence
throughout Iraq since the beginning of the humanitarian crisis
following the 1991 Gulf War. Over the past 12 years, CARE's programs
have benefited more than 7 million Iraqis.

Currently, CARE's emergency focus is primarily in the areas of health
and water and sanitation. This includes work to provide nutritional
supplements for children and restore several clinics. Tragically, one
of the restored clinics, a special center for spinal injuries, was
located next to the UN headquarters in Baghdad and completely
destroyed by last monthís bombing.

As part of EPIC's Humanitarian Campaign, consider supporting CAREís
efforts in Iraq. You can support CARE by making a donation via their
website. To help EPIC track the success of this appeal, take the
following three steps (optional).

(1) Check the appropriate box 'to make the donation in honor or in
memory of someone.' This will take you to a second page.
(2) Dedicate your donation as a tribute to the memory of 'Sergio de
Mello' or 'the children of Iraq.'
(3) Have CARE send an acknowledgement card to EPIC, 1101 Penn. Ave.
SE, Washington, DC 20003.

To learn more about CARE or to 'donate now' go to:

<http://epicalert.c.tclk.net/maaboAMaa0jN2bdH35Ke/>www.careusa.org/iraq/iraq-war\
.asp



TAKE ACTION! - Call the State Department at 202-647-5291

Urge Secretary of State Colin Powell to end U.S. control of Iraq and
allow genuine Iraqi and UN leadership over the political, economic,
and security transition in Iraq.

Call your Senators and Representative via the Capitol switchboard at
202-225-3121 or 202-226-3121.

Urge them to call on the President and Secretary of State Powell to
support a UN resolution that establishes a fixed time-line for Iraqi
self-governance and the withdrawal of U.S. and foreign forces from
Iraq.

Urge your representatives to demand that President Bush play straight
with us and do what is necessary -- end U.S. control of Iraq and
allow genuine Iraqi and UN leadership over the political, economic,
and security transition in Iraq.

To add urgency to your message, raise the 17 Iraqis killed outside
the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, the bombing of the UN headquarters
in Iraq, and the murder of more than 100 worshipers and Ayatollah
Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim in Najaf. Discuss the over 140 U.S. troops
killed since the President landed on the USS Abraham on May 1st.

Conclude your phone call by politely letting your Member of Congress
or their staffer know that you will be calling again to follow up on
their response.

Find contact info for Elected officials at:

<http://epicalert.c.tclk.net/maaboAMaa0jN6bdH35Ke/>www.congress.org



Education for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC)
1101 Pennsylvania Ave SE
Washington DC 20003
Tel. 202.543.6176 - Fax 202.543.0725
  <http://epicalert.c.tclk.net/maaboAMaaZ8IzbdH35Ke/>www.epic-usa.org

Indeed, such a posting is right on point.  Death of innocent civilians
is in fact, a health, and of course, human rights issue.  NIHAC's
mission is to educate and advocate about health issues locally and
internationally.  I believe NIHAC members are interested in this timely
and critical health issue.  Health professionals should be involved in
preventing morbidity and mortality, whatever the cause.

Beth





-----Original Message-----
From: Amineh Ayyad [mailto:amina@...]
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 11:33 AM
To: Nadia J. Nijim
Cc: Beth Rivin; nihac@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [nihac] FW: Suicide Bombings/Petition


i believe NIHAC is not for such postings, however:

i agree with beth and nadia.  i would like to add one little detail to
what beth said, Sharon and those like him, who inspire terrorist acts
against humanity, should be treated as war criminals by international
law as well. another detail, is a nation, a whole population, could not
be denied its legitimate right to defend itself, to be free to live,
work, go to school and just be.  peace, Amineh.

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Nadia J. Nijim wrote:

> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 05:31:57 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Nadia J. Nijim <nnij@...>
> To: Beth Rivin <brivin@...>
> Cc: nihac@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [nihac] FW: Suicide Bombings/Petition
>
>  Civilians injured or killed in any act of warfare is inhumane and
  wrong, however...
>  It seems necessary to make Countries hold to current UN resolutions
> and
  international Law.  With Israel being the provocation of the bombings
with their violations of international law, I do not think it is right
to persecute people for trying to defend their lives which are being
squashed by illegal settlers.
>
> Nadia
>
> On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Beth Rivin wrote:
>
> > Suicide bombings are clearly acts of desperation.  They are also
> > crimes against humanity.  Leaders of groups who inspire these acts
> > against humanity should be treated as war criminals by international

> > law.  This is certainly a reasonable approach to our current world
> > situation.
> >
> > Please see the weblink below, and please forward.
> >
> > Beth
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Bob Balogh <mailto:bbalo@...>
> > To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
> > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:04 PM
> > Subject: Suicide Bombings
> >
> > After signing the petition pass it along.
> >
> > Subject: Help make suicide bombing a war crime
> >
> > This petition asks the United Nations to treat suicide bombings as
> > war crimes and that those who inspire them be prosecuted by the
> > International War Crimes Tribunal.
> >
> > The Call for UN & World Leaders to Prosecute Organizers of
> > Suicide/Homicide Bombings, performing acts of terror against
> > Civilians, as War Criminals, was initiated by Scholars for Peace in
> > the Middle East and written by Dr. Edward S. Beck.
> >
> > 1 [one] million signatures are being sought for this petition. Click

> > on the following and please take 10 seconds to sign.
> >
> >
> >  <http://www.petitiononline.com/bombings/petition.html>
> > www.petitiononline.com/bombings/petition.html
> >
> > If you can, please cut and send this message to other friends, of
> > whatever faith, who might also agree to sign the petition.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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Amineh Ayyad

Nadia,

Thanks for your response.  Let me remind you that this petition relates
to setting up norms and standards for global conflict
behavior--international law.  It is not only about the Palestinian-
Israeli conflict.  I hear what you are saying.  I also believe that we,
as a global community, must look into the future and begin to set up new
standards.  I, like many, many others want peace in the Middle East and
in the world.  We must begin to create solutions for prevention, as well
as norms and standards in the form of legal documents for redress, if
prevention fails.

Beth

-----Original Message-----
From: Nadia J. Nijim [mailto:nnij@...]
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 5:32 AM
To: Beth Rivin
Cc: nihac@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [nihac] FW: Suicide Bombings/Petition


Civilians injured or killed in any act of warfare is inhumane and wrong,
however... It seems necessary to make Countries hold to current UN
resolutions and international Law.  With Israel being the provocation of
the bombings with their violations of international law, I do not think
it is right to persecute people for trying to defend their lives which
are being squashed by illegal settlers.

Nadia

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Beth Rivin wrote:

> Suicide bombings are clearly acts of desperation.  They are also
> crimes against humanity.  Leaders of groups who inspire these acts
> against humanity should be treated as war criminals by international
> law.  This is certainly a reasonable approach to our current world
> situation.
>
> Please see the weblink below, and please forward.
>
> Beth
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Balogh <mailto:bbalo@...>
> To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:04 PM
> Subject: Suicide Bombings
>
> After signing the petition pass it along.
>
> Subject: Help make suicide bombing a war crime
>
> This petition asks the United Nations to treat suicide bombings as war

> crimes and that those who inspire them be prosecuted by the
> International War Crimes Tribunal.
>
> The Call for UN & World Leaders to Prosecute Organizers of
> Suicide/Homicide Bombings, performing acts of terror against
> Civilians, as War Criminals, was initiated by Scholars for Peace in
> the Middle East and written by Dr. Edward S. Beck.
>
> 1 [one] million signatures are being sought for this petition. Click
> on the following and please take 10 seconds to sign.
>
>
>  <http://www.petitiononline.com/bombings/petition.html>
> www.petitiononline.com/bombings/petition.html
>
> If you can, please cut and send this message to other friends, of
> whatever faith, who might also agree to sign the petition.
>
>
>
>
>
>

i believe NIHAC is not for such postings, however:

i agree with beth and nadia.  i would like to add one little detail to
what beth said, Sharon and those like him, who inspire terrorist acts
against humanity, should be treated as war criminals by international law
as well. another detail, is a nation, a whole population, could not be
denied its legitimate right to defend itself, to be free to
live, work, go to school and just be.  peace, Amineh.

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Nadia J. Nijim wrote:

> Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 05:31:57 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Nadia J. Nijim <nnij@...>
> To: Beth Rivin <brivin@...>
> Cc: nihac@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [nihac] FW: Suicide Bombings/Petition
>
>  Civilians injured or killed in any act of warfare is inhumane and
  wrong, however...
>  It seems necessary to make Countries hold to current UN resolutions and
  international Law.  With Israel being the provocation of the bombings
with their violations of international law, I do not think it is right to
persecute people for trying to defend their lives which are being squashed by
illegal settlers.
>
> Nadia
>
> On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Beth Rivin wrote:
>
> > Suicide bombings are clearly acts of desperation.  They are also crimes
> > against humanity.  Leaders of groups who inspire these acts against
> > humanity should be treated as war criminals by international law.  This
> > is certainly a reasonable approach to our current world situation.
> >
> > Please see the weblink below, and please forward.
> >
> > Beth
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Bob Balogh <mailto:bbalo@...>
> > To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
> > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:04 PM
> > Subject: Suicide Bombings
> >
> > After signing the petition pass it along.
> >
> > Subject: Help make suicide bombing a war crime
> >
> > This petition asks the United Nations to treat suicide bombings as
> > war crimes and that those who inspire them be prosecuted by the
> > International War Crimes Tribunal.
> >
> > The Call for UN & World Leaders to Prosecute Organizers of
> > Suicide/Homicide Bombings, performing acts of terror against
> > Civilians, as War Criminals, was initiated by Scholars for Peace in
> > the Middle East and written by Dr. Edward S. Beck.
> >
> > 1 [one] million signatures are being sought for this petition.
> > Click on the following and please take 10 seconds to sign.
> >
> >
> >  <http://www.petitiononline.com/bombings/petition.html>
> > www.petitiononline.com/bombings/petition.html
> >
> > If you can, please cut and send this message to other friends, of
> > whatever
> > faith, who might also agree to sign the petition.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
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>

Amineh Ayyad

Civilians injured or killed in any act of warfare is inhumane and wrong,
however...
It seems necessary to make Countries hold to current UN resolutions and
international Law.  With Israel being the provocation of the bombings with their
violations of international law, I do not think it is right to persecute people
for trying to defend their lives which are being squashed by illegal settlers.

Nadia

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Beth Rivin wrote:

> Suicide bombings are clearly acts of desperation.  They are also crimes
> against humanity.  Leaders of groups who inspire these acts against
> humanity should be treated as war criminals by international law.  This
> is certainly a reasonable approach to our current world situation.
>
> Please see the weblink below, and please forward.
>
> Beth
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Balogh <mailto:bbalo@...>
> To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:04 PM
> Subject: Suicide Bombings
>
> After signing the petition pass it along.
>
> Subject: Help make suicide bombing a war crime
>
> This petition asks the United Nations to treat suicide bombings as
> war crimes and that those who inspire them be prosecuted by the
> International War Crimes Tribunal.
>
> The Call for UN & World Leaders to Prosecute Organizers of
> Suicide/Homicide Bombings, performing acts of terror against
> Civilians, as War Criminals, was initiated by Scholars for Peace in
> the Middle East and written by Dr. Edward S. Beck.
>
> 1 [one] million signatures are being sought for this petition.
> Click on the following and please take 10 seconds to sign.
>
>
>  <http://www.petitiononline.com/bombings/petition.html>
> www.petitiononline.com/bombings/petition.html
>
> If you can, please cut and send this message to other friends, of
> whatever
> faith, who might also agree to sign the petition.
>
>
>
>
>
>

This DC-based group seems really ready to hire some new public health
staff.  A recent UW MPH graduate just joined them and sent this on.

Mary Anne

***********************************************************************

The International Health Group at Chemonics International is recruiting
three, DC-based Technical Specialists, one in each of the following
technical areas: HIV/AIDS, Child Survival/Nutrition, and Infectious
Diseases.  The specialists will participate in technical assignments and
new business development, and serve as project manager of USAID-funded
projects.   We are seeking candidates with:

* MPH degrees (or equivalent)
* 7-10 years experience in international programs addressing
HIV/AIDS, and/or Child Survival/Nutrition, and/or Infectious Diseases.
* Significant knowledge and understanding of USAID practices,
especially project management
* Ability to conceptualize, perform, and direct technical
assignments and write technical documents/proposals
* Experience introducing private sector approaches to the delivery
of health services and/or multi-sectoral experience (such as HIV/AIDS
and Agriculture) is desirable
* French or Spanish language fluency preferred

If interested, please send your resume and letter of interest to
health@... (add position title in subject line) by October
15th, 2003.

Urgent matter...........................

Beth

-----Original Message-----
From: HRNETNEWS-owner@...
[mailto:HRNETNEWS-owner@...] On Behalf Of Human Rights
Education HRERN Research Network
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 12:00 PM
To: Human Rights Network News
Subject: [ETAN Key List] call your Rep. to sign urgent letter on Acehn
ese refugees asap (fwd)


From: frankz [mailto:frankz@...]
------------------------------------------------
If you can, give your congressperson (e.g. Jim McDermott, 202-225-3106)
a call within the next few hours, to urge them to sign on to P.
Kennedy's leter to the Malaysian Ambassador. Thanks,
- Frank

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:24:38 -0400
From: Karen Orenstein <etanorganize@...>
To: Key Listserv <etansclistserv@yahoogroups.com>,
ian-discuss@...
Subject: [ETAN Key List] call your Rep. to sign urgent letter on
Acehnese
     refugees asap

Friends - Congressman P. Kennedy will be sending the following letter to
the Malaysian Ambassador very soon, perhaps at the end of the end of the
day given that Malaysian authorities have stated their intention to
deport all Acehnese in detention to Indonesia (article follows letter
below).  If you can call your Representative in Congress this afternoon,
please do so to urge them to sign on at this late hour. Brian Vigue is
handling the letter in Mr. Kennedy's office. If you have any questions,
please feel free to contact me.

Sorry for the late notice, but I just got a copy of this letter 20
minutes ago.

Thank you very much,
Karen Orenstein


September 3, 2003

Dato Ghazzali Sheikh-Abdul-Khalis

Embassy of Malaysia

3516 International Court, N.W.

Washington DC 20008

Dear Mr. Ambassador:

We are writing to express our concern that 12 asylum seekers from Aceh
who have sought protection in Malaysia reportedly have been forcibly
returned to Indonesia in and apparent violation of the principle of
non-refoulement. We are equally concerned about the uncertain fate of
several hundred asylum-seekers who remain in Malaysia. Return of these
asylum seekers to Aceh, when military operations are underway and where
there are reports of widespread human rights violations, would be
unacceptable. We urge that your Government's authorities abide by
international law and not forcibly return any additional Acehnese to
Aceh.

Additionally, as you know, International refugee law prohibits countries
from penalizing asylum seekers for illegal entry, and United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) guidelines on detention stipulate
that, as a general rule, asylum seekers should not be detained. At a
minimum, we would request that authorities ensure that those detained
are treated humanely and that they are held in conditions which meet
international standards. We would also ask that you strongly consider
allowing full access to representatives of the UNHCR to enable them to
apply for asylum if they wish to do so, and also encourage the
authorities should respect protection documentation issued to refugees
and asylum seekers by the UNHCR. Thank you for your attention to these
concerns.

Sincerely,



****************************************

URGENT ALERT: Deportation of Acehnese Asylum seekers
> Tuesday: 2nd of September 2003
>
> It is reported that the Government of Malaysia is planning to deport
> ALL the Acehnese who were currently detained at Langkap

(PERAK) somewhere soon this week. The action taken by the Malaysian
government is feared to cause further hardship and subject the detained
persons to unknown fear of persecution and torture should the
deportation takes place. The action is being planned despite various
protest and concern expressed by various groups and concern parties.

>>
>> According to the UNHCR office in Kuala Lumpur, of the original 254
>> asylum seekers and refugees taken into detention last week,
>
>
12 chose to return with the assistance of relatives in Malaysia, 44 have
opted to return but remain in the camp. There are currently 182 acehnese
verified by the UNHCR as being

>> non-combatants from Aceh, and therefore issued with UNHCR temporary
>> protection letters, in detention in Langkap immigration
>
>
detention camp in Perak. The detainees were arrested outside the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Liaison Office
(UNHCR) on 19 and 26 August 2003.

>>
>> The asylum seekers were seeking registration and Temporary Protection

>> (TP) letters, which states that they should not be
>
>
arrested or deported for a period of 6 months respective to the period
of Martial law in Aceh. The majority of those arrested were Acehnese but
persons of Burmese and other nationalities were also arrested. According
to UNHCR in Kuala Lumpur, there is an informal agreement with Malaysian
immigration that people with UNHCR documents will not be deported

--
Karen Orenstein
Washington Coordinator
East Timor Action Network: 12 Years for Self-determination and Justice
tel: 202-544-6911; fax: 202-544-6118
karen@...; www.etan.org



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NIHAC has sponsored events on Burma in the past and thought you might be
interested in this update and fundraiser by the Seattle Burma Roundtable:

Dear Friends,

The situation in Burma is dire. Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been under
house arrest since a violent attack by pro-government thugs on May 30th.
Military
action by government forces continues against civilian hilltribe populations,
creating
up to 1 million internally displaced people and more than 500,000 refugees and
asylum seekers. As a result, Burma's infant mortality rates are among the
highest in
southeast Asia, and Burma remains one of the most heavily mine affected
countries in
the world.

Against this backdrop the Seattle Burma Roundtable is holding its third annual
raffle
to provide funding for basic education for children of internally displaced
people
(IDPs) near the Thai-Burma border.  In two previous years the raffle provided
over
$5000 to support small, grass-roots projects.  100% of the money raised is
passed
through to the border.  The Seattle Burma Roundtable thanks World Aid, Inc., a
501(c)(3) non-profit organization for helping with sponsorship, and the donors
of
prizes.

Each $2 raffle ticket pays for almost a year of school in the jungle and lunch
rice for a
child displaced by Burma's ongoing civil war. (Ten tickets supports about 9
children.)
There are some fabulous raffle prizes: A digital camera, a night at a Whidbey
Island
B&B, gift certificates to local eateries and stores, professional quality power
sander
and hand saw, stationery and more, including a $200 cash prize. The kids, of
course,
are the big winners. Their schools are simple, but the teachers and lessons give
them
hope amidst all the chaos. Please email burma@... with how many
tickets you'd like, and mention that you are a NIHAC member. Checks for tax-
deductible donations are to be made to World Aid. Drawing on September 30.
Tickets
come with the new postcard of kids.  Thanks!

Again, make checks to World Aid, and send to the address below.  Please feel
free to
forward this email to those whom you feel may want to support basic education
for
IDP children.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                             BURMA  ACTION GROUP
SAO Box 119, HUB
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195

http://students.washington.edu/burma/

The Bush administration has made unprecedented efforts to suppress,
distort, and interfere with science and population health for political
gain.  Please read the paper prepared for Rep. Henry Waxman,  on the
topic of Science and Politics.

http://www.house.gov/reform/min/

Beth

FYI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org" <moveon-help@...>
Subject: Reminder: Inslee Panel on Iraq


> Dear MoveOn member in Washington,
>
> Last week we invited you to a public forum on Thursday, August 21st
(tomorrow)
> that will examine whether the President mislead the country on Iraq.
> The response was overwhelming.
>
> It is anticipated the attendance at this event will exceed capacity.
>
> There will be overflow rooms set up to substantially expand the seating
> capacity for those who cannot fit into the main hall. No reserved seating
> system will be used. It is first come-first seated. Parking is limited,
> so carpooling is strongly suggested.
>
> Doors will open at 11:15 a.m.
>
> Due to greater than expected response, the opportunity for the public
> to provide verbal testimony during the forum will be extremely limited.
> However, they will accept written testimony.  You may bring written
testimony
> to the forum or submit it via e-mail at InsleeIraqForum@...
> (please be sure to include your name and address with all written
testimony).
>
> If you signed up for the event, you will have received a confirmation
already.
> If you didn't sign up, but are interested in learning more, on Friday,
August 22nd,
> the Inslee Forum entitled "U.S. Intelligence on Iraq: Is There a Need for
a
> Congressional Investigation?" will be web cast at:
>
> http://www.house.gov/inslee/iraq_forum.htm
>
>
> Sincerely,
> --Eli Pariser
>   MoveOn.org
>   August 20th, 2003
>
> __________
> This is a message from MoveOn.org.  To unsubscribe yourself from this
> list, please visit our subscription management page at:
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>

Rep. Inslee's invitation follows:

-----------------------------

You are invited to U.S. Representative Jay Inslee's forum on

U.S. INTELLIGENCE ON IRAQ:
IS THERE A NEED FOR A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION?

A look at the information given to the
American people that led to the war in Iraq

SPECIAL GUESTS:
Ambassador Joseph Wilson
Admiral Bill Center
Professor Brewster Denny
(Brief biographies of each below)

Rep. Inslee will lead a panel discussion by policy experts, to be
followed by citizen comments.  The panel discussion will focus on how
intelligence agencies investigated and interpreted the intelligence on
Iraq, and the extent and manner to which such information was shared
with the American people.

Rep. Inslee will then welcome comments and testimony from the public
on all aspects of this matter, including comments on the advisability
of a bipartisan Congressional commission to investigate intelligence
failures.  Rep. Inslee is currently a cosponsor of legislation to
create a bipartisan independent commission to conduct an inquiry about
intelligence failures on Iraq (HR 2625).

For those unable to attend, written comments are welcomed and will be
presented at the forum. Please send your comments to
InsleeIraqForum@... (please be sure to include your name
and home address).

Thursday, August 21, 2003
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Shoreline Conference Center
Shoreline Room
18560 1st Avenue NE
Shoreline, WA 98155

R.S.V.P., including your name and how many people you'll be bringing
with you, to:

    InsleeIraqForum@...

For more information visit:
http://www.house.gov/inslee/meetings.htm

BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF PANELISTS
------------------------------
AMBASSADOR JOSEPH WILSON
Ambassador Wilson was a member of the American Foreign Service for 23
years.  He was Deputy Chief of Mission, the acting Ambassador at the
U.S. Embassy in Iraq 12 years ago during the lead up to the first Gulf
War, and he was the last American diplomat to meet with Saddam
Hussein.  He served as the political advisor to the Commander in Chief
of U.S. forces in Europe, and was our ambassador to two African
countries.  He served as Special Assistant to President Clinton in
charge of African affairs at the National Security Council, and was
the principle architect of President Clinton's 11 day trip to Africa
in 1998.  He is now head of his own international business firm, and
is adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC.

In January, President Bush cited in his State of the Union Address a
British report accusing Iraq of trying to obtain uranium from an
African country.  Former ambassador Wilson recently announced that he
was asked by the CIA to investigate that report almost a year before
the president's statement, and found it inaccurate.

ADMIRAL BILL CENTER
Admiral Center served the U.S. Navy for 35 years.  He commanded three
ships and served in a wide variety of assignments at sea and ashore.
In his final Navy tour, from May 1996 to May 1999, he commanded the
Navy's third largest fleet concentration area, Navy Region Northwest.
He served as a senior advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on arms
control, non-proliferation, environmental matters, and international
agreements. He was General Colin Powell's deputy Director for
international negotiations and served in the same role for General
John Shalikashvili.

PROFESSOR BREWSTER DENNY
Professor Denny is the founder and first Dean of the University of
Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs.  Also at the University
of Washington, he served as Chairman of the Marine Affairs Board
(which is now the college of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences) and lead
the Foreign Policy Professionals program from 1967-1990.  His service
to our country includes: naval service in WWII and the Korean War
period, eight years as a Supervisory Intelligence Research Analyst for
the Department of Defense assessing Soviet weapons of mass destruction
capabilities and intentions, United States Representative to the
General Assembly of the United Nations, and representative of the US
National Academy of Sciences to help on science policy in Thailand,
Korea, the Philippines and Jordan.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:13:34 -0700
From: "Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org" <moveon-help@...>
To: Donna Denno <ddenno@...>
Subject: You're Invited: Inslee Panel on Iraq

Dear MoveOn member in Washington,

On behalf of the office of U.S. Rep Jay Inslee, you're invited
to a public forum next Thursday that will examine whether the
President mislead the country on Iraq.  Along with Rep. Inslee,
a panel including Ambassador Joe Wilson, who debunked the
President's Niger uranium claim in a New York Times editorial,
will discuss the intelligence situation.  It should be a
fascinating and powerful event.

Details are below.  If you're interested in attending, please
RSVP by email to:

    InsleeIraqForum@...

If you're not able to come, but would like to include your
comments, you can send them to that email address as well.

I hope you can make it.

Sincerely,
--Eli Pariser
   MoveOn.org
   August 14th, 2003

Rep. Inslee's invitation follows:

-----------------------------

You are invited to U.S. Representative Jay Inslee's forum on

U.S. INTELLIGENCE ON IRAQ:
IS THERE A NEED FOR A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION?

A look at the information given to the
American people that led to the war in Iraq

SPECIAL GUESTS:
Ambassador Joseph Wilson
Admiral Bill Center
Professor Brewster Denny
(Brief biographies of each below)

Rep. Inslee will lead a panel discussion by policy experts, to be
followed by citizen comments.  The panel discussion will focus on how
intelligence agencies investigated and interpreted the intelligence on
Iraq, and the extent and manner to which such information was shared
with the American people.

Rep. Inslee will then welcome comments and testimony from the public
on all aspects of this matter, including comments on the advisability
of a bipartisan Congressional commission to investigate intelligence
failures.  Rep. Inslee is currently a cosponsor of legislation to
create a bipartisan independent commission to conduct an inquiry about
intelligence failures on Iraq (HR 2625).

For those unable to attend, written comments are welcomed and will be
presented at the forum. Please send your comments to
InsleeIraqForum@... (please be sure to include your name
and home address).

Thursday, August 21, 2003
12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Shoreline Conference Center
Shoreline Room
18560 1st Avenue NE
Shoreline, WA 98155

R.S.V.P., including your name and how many people you'll be bringing
with you, to:

    InsleeIraqForum@...

For more information visit:
http://www.house.gov/inslee/meetings.htm

BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF PANELISTS
------------------------------
AMBASSADOR JOSEPH WILSON
Ambassador Wilson was a member of the American Foreign Service for 23
years.  He was Deputy Chief of Mission, the acting Ambassador at the
U.S. Embassy in Iraq 12 years ago during the lead up to the first Gulf
War, and he was the last American diplomat to meet with Saddam
Hussein.  He served as the political advisor to the Commander in Chief
of U.S. forces in Europe, and was our ambassador to two African
countries.  He served as Special Assistant to President Clinton in
charge of African affairs at the National Security Council, and was
the principle architect of President Clinton's 11 day trip to Africa
in 1998.  He is now head of his own international business firm, and
is adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC.

In January, President Bush cited in his State of the Union Address a
British report accusing Iraq of trying to obtain uranium from an
African country.  Former ambassador Wilson recently announced that he
was asked by the CIA to investigate that report almost a year before
the president's statement, and found it inaccurate.

ADMIRAL BILL CENTER
Admiral Center served the U.S. Navy for 35 years.  He commanded three
ships and served in a wide variety of assignments at sea and ashore.
In his final Navy tour, from May 1996 to May 1999, he commanded the
Navy's third largest fleet concentration area, Navy Region Northwest.
He served as a senior advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on arms
control, non-proliferation, environmental matters, and international
agreements. He was General Colin Powell's deputy Director for
international negotiations and served in the same role for General
John Shalikashvili.

PROFESSOR BREWSTER DENNY
Professor Denny is the founder and first Dean of the University of
Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs.  Also at the University
of Washington, he served as Chairman of the Marine Affairs Board
(which is now the college of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences) and lead
the Foreign Policy Professionals program from 1967-1990.  His service
to our country includes: naval service in WWII and the Korean War
period, eight years as a Supervisory Intelligence Research Analyst for
the Department of Defense assessing Soviet weapons of mass destruction
capabilities and intentions, United States Representative to the
General Assembly of the United Nations, and representative of the US
National Academy of Sciences to help on science policy in Thailand,
Korea, the Philippines and Jordan.

__________
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Voices in the Wilderness has provided a non-violent, humanitarian
connection between Americans and Iraqis during the years of Economic
Sanctions.  Please read below about the US Justice Department suit.

Beth





-----Original Message-----
From: info@... [mailto:info@...]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 6:07 PM
To: B. Rivin
Subject: A Call for 20,000 Voices


Dear Friends,

The US Justice Department is suing Voices in the Wilderness.  Over the
past seven years,
Voices in the Wilderness has organized over 65 delegations to Iraq.
Comprised of teachers,
veterans, social workers, artists, health care professionals, trades
people and people of faith,
these delegations brought symbolic amounts of medicine to the people of
Iraq.  We are
asking for 20,000 people to raise their voices against the injustice and
hypocrisy of this
lawsuit.  Read more about our call for 20,000 voices at:
http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/pages/newPages/SBsummons_call_for_voices
.html

We ask that all who have opposed the devastating effects of years of
economic sanctions
and bombings come forward and express their opinion demanding that the
Department of
Justice drop all charges and penalties brought against Voices in the
Wilderness.  We pledge
to raise $20,000 in new donations and once again carry relief aid to the
Iraqi people in protest
of the continuing US sanctions on Iraq.  (Yes, US sanctions are still in
place against Iraq;
check the web: http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/080203I.shtml).

On August 21st John Farrell, Kathy Kelly, Ed Kinane and Cathy Breen will
travel to Iraq.  Please
submit donations for humanitarian aid before August 19th.  To donate:
http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/pages/newPages/SBdonate.html

The Justice Department is choosing to launch an attack on Voices in the
Wilderness at a time
when Iraqi people and US soldiers are being routinely killed. The
occupying forces have
failed to provide security and basic humanitarian needs for the citizens
of Iraq.  As a response
to Mr. Ashcroft, please sign on to our letter asking him to drop the
lawsuit  against Voices in the
Wilderness: http://www.petitiononline.com/usvvitw/petition.html

Voices in the Wilderness is an unincorporated entity.  We consider all
people who share our
philosophy of nonviolence and our concern for the people of Iraq to be a
part of Voices in the
Wilderness.

We invite you to:
1) Write or fax Attorney General John Ashcroft  by August 18th. Please
cc Voices in the
Wilderness by e-mail (info@...) or fax (773.784.8837).
2) Donate your war tax refusal or other donation.
3) Consult our website for suggestions about nonviolent direct action
and civil disobedience
that help dramatize our challenge to the Justice Department.
4) Organize a local media event, fundraiser, or symbolic event of
solidarity with VitW.
5) Write an op-ed for your local paper.
6) Offer your time, media savvy or legal expertise.
7) Arrange a speaking event for Voices in the Wilderness (contact
laurie@...).

For complete details about how you can raise your voice, please visit:
http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/pages/newPages/SBsummons_what_you_can_do
.html

Sincerely yours,
Voices in the Wilderness

Here is a very important discussion of "what to do now" for those
concerned about the US's deepening quagmire in Iraq.  It is worth reading,
and then - join your favorite activist group to implement!  Paul Loeb
is a local writer and activist.

************************************************************************

http://www.presentdanger.org/papers/hope2003.html

FPIF Discussion Paper
July 2003

Hope out of Quagmire: Iraq and Peace Movement Opportunities

By Paul Rogat Loeb
(Paul Rogat Loeb (www.soulofacitizen.org) is the author of Soul of a
Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time and board chair of
Peace Action of Washington State. He wrote this contribution for
Foreign Policy in Focus (online at fpif.org). To receive Loeb's
articles directly, send a blank message to
paulloeb-articles-subscribe@....)

Project Against the Present Danger
www.presentdanger.org

In the glow of the Iraq war's initial military success, most American
peace activists felt profoundly demoralized. Between the war being
portrayed as a glamorous spectacle and Bush's seemingly overwhelming
popular support, many who'd recently marched by the millions felt
isolated, defensive, and powerless, fearing their voices no longer
mattered.

Now, as Bush's occupation faces a deepening quagmire, shifting public
sentiment opens up major new opportunities for activism. Just two
months ago, the national mood felt so resistant that it was hard to
raise the most cautious dissenting questions. But polls now suggest
the beginning of a very different national mood, where large numbers
of Americans are having significant doubts. This gives us a chance to
challenge the core fallacies of Bush's foreign policy, revitalize
peace movement activism, and perhaps change some of our national
directions. We can do this by launching a grassroots campaign to
replace the U.S. control over Iraq with an international transitional
authority under United Nations command--an authority that would
control not only military operations, but also Iraq's political and
economic affairs, including its oil-fields. We can work to transform
a beachhead for American empire into an interim government that would
actually have a shot at bringing democracy.

The recent shifts in the polls are staggering. They open up major
opportunities, even if most peace activists haven't yet recognized
this. Driven by the steady U.S. casualties in Iraq and continuing
chaos, a late June Gallup poll found 42% of Americans now believing
things are going badly in Iraq, up from just 13% in early May. Only
56%, according to the same poll, now believe it was worth going to
war in the first place, down from 73% in April. In a Washington
Post-ABC News poll taken in mid-July, six in ten said the war damaged
the image of the United States abroad, half said the conflict caused
permanent damage to U.S. relations with key allies, and 52%
considered the level of U.S. casualties "unacceptable." All this was
before Congress finally began acknowledging the occupation's
political, economic, and human costs.

Before the war, we had something we could fight for--trying to stop
it. When it finally began, this radically limited the peace
movement's immediate possibilities. There was little we could do to
influence its immediate outcome. All we could do was bear witness for
the future. But now the landscape has shifted once again, to one far
more hospitable toward dissenting views. Americans are developing
significant reservations despite scant critical media coverage, no
major peace actions since the end of February, and minimal
questioning by Democratic leaders. If we can begin coalescing public
concern around an alternative to U.S. troops remaining indefinitely
in Iraq, we have a real chance to influence national debate.


Moving Beyond "I told you so."

Although the war has created precisely the kind of mess we predicted,
we need to do more than just repeat, "I told you so," as the
casualties continue to mount. Or gloat about how Bush's imperial
dream is unraveling. We need to offer our own vision of what needs to
be done, supporting the Europeans in pushing to end the current U.S.
control of Iraq, and instead placing the country under UN charge,
policing it with a multinational force that would include significant
Islamic representation. If the U.S. were no longer calling the shots,
this might even allow a process like that which occurred when UN
forces finally ended the East Timor carnage and supervised that
country's transition to democracy.

U.S. troops are now symbols of empire, colonialism, and chaos. The
longer they stay, the more they become targets, and the more Iraqis
will resent the U.S. for imposing our will while failing to secure
the basics of survival, like electricity, clean water, and physical
safety. By contrast, administration by the United Nations--which
represents the entire international community, including eighteen
Arab states--is less likely to be seen as a foreign military
occupation but a transitional administration and is therefore less
likely to encourage armed opposition. Although the new forces will
probably still face some opposition, they won't be tarred with the
same neocolonial agenda. Iraqis won't view them as simply in it to
control the oil or project American domination. Without the
disruption of a growing armed insurgency, efforts at restoring basic
services, maintaining stability, and setting up a democratic and
representative Iraqi government would be far easier.

A shift away from unilateral U.S. control already has broad potential
support. In a late-June Knowledge Network poll, 64% of Americans
wanted the UN to take a leadership role in Iraq, up from 50% in
April. Pushing for such a shift will also let us reach out to
American soldiers who are increasingly frustrated at being given a
mission with no defined end and no clear boundaries between friend
and foe. And to military families angry that they see no clear
timetable for the return of their loved ones. We might even work to
replace Bush's chickenhawk bluster of "Bring them on," with our own
call to "Bring them Home," so long as we make clear that we're
arguing for something more than just abandoning Iraq to chaos.

Ideally, this campaign would be a broad-based effort through which
citizens would reach out both in their communities and to elected
officials. Citizens could gather petitions, write letters to local
papers, meet with editorial boards and congressional representatives,
table, canvass, and vigil in local neighborhoods, pass resolutions in
local governmental and civic groups, and build toward major marches
and rallies. In short, we can reach out through the same kinds of
civic networks that were beginning to foster so much national
dialogue on the eve of the war. We'd work to make sure Iraq stays a
front-and-center issue, in a way that builds on Bush's newfound
vulnerability.

Once citizen groups got moving, they could then pressure key elected
officials to take a stand, including Democratic presidential
candidates and independent-minded Republicans. It will take work to
get the more conservative Democratic presidential candidates and
elected representatives to embrace this demand. But given the
shifting polls, if we muster enough citizen pressure, at least a few
will decide that the call to pull U.S. troops out is popular enough
to risk embracing. We'd want to offer even the more conservative
candidates and elected officials the opportunity to say: "I supported
Bush in good faith, assuming the intelligence reports were correct,
and that he would go in good faith to enlist a broad coalition of
support. I'm glad Saddam Hussein is out, but now that the evidence on
the WMD's still hasn't surfaced, we're alienating the rest of the
world, and the Iraqis want us out. It's time to stop putting our
brave young soldiers at risk."

Could this campaign actually succeed in getting Bush to turn Iraq
over to the UN? Assuming that the situation continues to be a morass,
Bush will face increasing pressure to cut his losses, declare
victory, and leave. Although some in his administration are
ideologically opposed to any key UN role whatsoever, with enough
citizen pressure and media debate the pragmatist wing might actually
view withdrawal as politically preferable to being stuck with an
increasingly unpopular occupation and daily death tolls. Republican
leaders don't want to face an election year with American soldiers
coming home from Iraq in body bags, week after week with no clear end
in sight.


Trade-offs in the Campaign

This raises a difficult question. Is it the job of the peace
movement--or the global community--to help Bush clean up the mess
that he's created? Shouldn't we simply let him stew in it?

If we do succeed in convincing the Bush administration to immediately
let the United Nations administer Iraq, it might increase his
re-election prospects and those of members of Congress who supported
the war. However, it's extremely unlikely that the administration
will instantly accede to these demands. Powerful economic, strategic,
and ideological motivations led to them to attack this oil-rich
nation to begin with. These motivations make it extremely unlikely
that they'll give up the opportunity to try to control Iraq's
political and economic future without a fight. And the more they dig
in their heels and resist, the more time the peace movement will have
to expose the ways in which the U.S. invasion of Iraq was not about
bringing freedom and democracy to a long-oppressed people, but about
controlling the country and its natural resources, and exerting our
unilateral will on the world. Forcing the U.S. to genuinely release
its control over Iraq would be a major setback for the politics of
empire.

While arguing to bring the troops home, we'll also have a chance to
address related questions, like the missing WMD's, America's long
tradition of arming dictators, the key role of oil politics, and the
lies and manipulations that fueled our rush to war--like the
magnification of Saddam Hussein's threat, the notion that we'd be
universally hailed as liberators, and the attacks on generals who
accurately warned of massive post-war troop deployments. Raising
these issues will lead to larger questions about the dangers of
Bush's belligerent unilateralism, and the contrast between the $4
billion a month he's spending in Iraq and his total neglect of a
sinking domestic economy. The more we succeed in this task, the more
we have a chance to breach Bush's image as a national protector.

In response to our arguments, the administration and its supporters
will first insist that things are proceeding fine as they are, and
then probably attack the very idea that the United Nations could to a
better job. Such attacks against the UN will likely further alienate
much of the UN membership, including key American allies, and
embolden them to pursue more independent foreign policies. This
tactic is also likely to backfire here at home, given that public
opinion polls suggest the U.S. still has broad support among U.S.
citizens, and that increasing majorities lean toward exactly the
solution we'll be pushing.

If Bush does eventually withdraw after sustained citizen pressure,
his administration will have been significantly tarnished. And we'll
have a major peace movement victory, which will itself empower
further action. A key value of this campaign would be its ability to
help recover activist momentum and morale--giving people concrete
tasks where they feel their voices can be heard. This is critical.
There's a huge reservoir of citizens who became active in the
opposition to the war, but who've since melted back to private life.
If we can get them re-engaged at this point, they have a chance to
become long-term activists. They may not yet have taken up the
particular issue of troop withdrawal, but that's because most were so
demoralized by the war's quick initial progress and seemingly
overwhelming support that they felt that what happened in Iraq was
totally out of their hands. Now it isn't. Citizens once again can
begin to have a voice, but in a far more potentially receptive
environment.


Activists not Spectators

During the countdown to the war, the clock was running against us.
Our movement grew at an amazing pace, but ran out of time before we
could become powerful enough to reverse the administration's course.
Now time should work in our favor. Unless Iraq suddenly becomes
miraculously pacified, the longer our troops are in there, the more
casualties they will take, and the stronger the case for withdrawal.
Iraqi resistance is unlikely to die down, since the more houses we
raid and civilians we round up the more resentment we stoke--which in
a country as heavily armed as Iraq means more attacks on our
soldiers. Bush is already calling for increased military deployments.
Because the pressure should get greater the longer our troops stay as
occupiers, time is on our side now in a way that it wasn't during the
period leading up to the war. We would want to start such a campaign
quickly, however, because once we approach the 2004 elections much of
the citizen energy we need to draw on will necessarily be diverted
toward defeating Bush in the November election. But if we begin now,
we can erode his standing enough to significantly increase our
chances of doing this.

Finally, working to replacing U.S. control with a UN mandate is a
sufficiently mainstream demand that it should allow us to reassemble
the powerful coalitions created on the eve of the war. It will also
exclude some of the crazier fringes who reject the United Nations as
much as do the neoconservatives. Whether or not we can actually
convince the administration to pursue a wiser course, taking up this
issue gives us the chance to get people moving again, challenge the
core politics of empire, and support policies that would actually
make for a safer world. It gives us the chance to do far more than
watch from the sidelines as passive spectators.

Please pass on the following job description if you know of anyone looking
for this type and level of work (however it is NOT meant for a student, as
we will be looking for a long-term commitment).  The position is available
immediately.

Mary Anne

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			 Job available:
		        Office Assistant
	       Health Alliance International, Seattle

The Office Assistant is a new .50 FTE position with benefits.  This person
should have good office skills, be comfortable working in a small office
setting, and be willing to provide general office support in a variety of
areas.  Work includes assisting with accounting tasks, ordering supplies,
travel arrangements, and developing a procedures manual for office forms,
as well as general clerical tasks like filing, typing forms, and answering
the phones.

Must have good and accurate typing skills, good computer skills,
familiarity with standard office equipment, good organizational skills,
and good business communications skills.

Helpful, but not required:  1) Previous work experience related to public
health and/or international affairs.  2) Language competency in Portuguese
or Spanish.

Salary range:  $11.00 - $13.25 per hour, plus benefits

For more information please contact us at hai@... or visit
our Web site at http://depts.washington.edu/haiuw/

To apply, please send a current resume with a cover letter summarizing
your experience and other qualifications to:

Loreen Lee
Health Alliance International
1107 NE 45th Street, Suite 427
Seattle  WA 98105

Seattle's Post Intelligencer reporter, Larry Johnson, took another trip
to Iraq.  He once again has written a good piece on the health
consequences of war in Iraq.  This is worth reading................

Beth E. Rivin, M.D., M.P.H.
Research Associate Professor
Health and Human Rights Project
School of Law,
Adjunct Research Associate Professor,
Health Services
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Office: Condon Hall, Rm 630
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone:  206-616-3674

"Victory depends not on the power of weapons but on awakening the
consciousness of man........."
Anna Louise Strong,
1956,  Peking


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*******************

  Monday, August 4, 2003

War's unintended effects
Use of depleted uranium weapons lingers as health concern

By LARRY JOHNSON
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER FOREIGN DESK EDITOR

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The ideal legacy of the war in Iraq is a free and
democratic society, but a sinister legacy of another kind is possible as
well -- cancers and birth defects.

Depleted uranium weapons used by the U.S.-led forces in the war have
left battle sites throughout Iraq contaminated with abnormally high
levels of radiation.
   A war-damaged Iraqi tank near a school in Baghdad
   Zoom Dan DeLong / P-I
   A war-damaged Iraqi tank rests along the highway next to a school on
the outskirts of Baghdad. Depleted uranium weapons were used in
populated areas in Iraq.

Although there is no firm consensus, nuclear experts and laymen alike
generally agree that depleted uranium, which is toxic as well as
radioactive, is at the very least a potential cause of cancers and birth
defects. Some Iraqi physicians and others blame depleted uranium weapons
used in the 1991 Gulf War for a major increase of cancers and birth
defects that occurred a few years later. It is also a prime suspect for
the Gulf War Syndrome that has sickened and killed thousands of U.S.
veterans.

The Pentagon and United Nations estimate that U.S. and British forces
used 1,100 to 2,200 tons of armor-piercing shells made of depleted
uranium during attacks in Iraq in March and April -- far more than the
estimated 375 tons used in the 1991 Gulf War.

U.S. tanks, Bradley fighting machines, A-10 attack jets and Apache
helicopters routinely used depleted uranium rounds, but in the recent
war, the ammunition was used in and near heavily populated areas, not
just in the desert.

There are some studies under way that could shed more light on the
effects of depleted uranium, a highly complex and poorly understood
subject. Critics say DU shouldn't be used until the studies have been
completed, while supporters, primarily the military, say it is critical
to success on the battlefield.

Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., has introduced legislation requiring the
U.S. government to conduct studies of DU's effects on health and the
environment, and cleanup of DU contamination in the United States. The
bill, co-sponsored by 23 other Democrats, remains in committee.

He said DU may well be associated with increased birth defects.

"We continue to get these sporadic reports of various places where a lot
of people are getting sick, and nobody is willing to connect the dots
yet," he said. "I'm afraid we're going to have a lot of people get sick
before they finally admit that depleted uranium really causes a problem
for us (U.S. veterans and their families) as well as for the Iraqis."

After NATO's use of DU weapons in Kosovo in 1999, the Council of Europe
parliamentarians called for a worldwide ban on the manufacture, testing,
use and sale of weapons using depleted uranium, asserting that NATO's
use of DU weapons would have "long term effects on health and quality of
life in South-East Europe, affecting future generations." The call went
unheeded.

An independent policy analyst on the use and effects of DU, in a June 24
report, was critical of both the British and the Americans for not doing
more to protect their troops and civilians from DU in Iraq. But the
report held criticism for those on all sides of the DU issue.

"What is clear ... is that elements of the U.S. government will
manipulate information and even lie about the health of U.S. combat
veterans to avoid liability for DU's health and environmental effects,"
said Dan Fahey, who has testified on DU at a number of congressional
hearings. "Equally as clear is the willingness of some anti-DU activists
to promote theories as fact, fabricate data and manipulate statistics,
and exploit the suffering of people to further political or financial
interests."

'A well-established risk'

In June, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer conducted tests at six sites
from Basra to Baghdad, and found elevated levels of radiation at all of
them. One destroyed tank near Baghdad was 1,500 times more radioactive
than normal background radiation. Another was 1,400 times more
radioactive than background.

To get additional evidence that DU was used on these tanks, the P-I used
swabs of cloth to gather samples of residue from the blackened bullet
holes on two tanks on the outskirts of Baghdad, and from the black ash
on a tank in Kut.

Bruce Busby, radiation safety officer for Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center in Seattle analyzed the swabs. Although stressing that
far more sophisticated equipment and tests are required to positively
identify DU and precisely measure contamination levels, he was able to
determine that the swabs had elevated levels of radioactive
contamination, consistent with DU. Still, Busby is not convinced it is a
severe problem in Iraq. " ... Considering all the other hazards those
people are exposed to, this is a small risk," he said.
   A tank outside Kut in southern Iraq
   Zoom Dan DeLong / P-I
   Outside Kut in southern Iraq, two young Iraqi men remove parts from
one of the many tanks in the area.

Others were more alarmed by the P-I findings.

"... if you found it (DU), it's possible kids could get it on their
hands by playing on tanks, and adults could inhale re-suspended dust if
salvaging equipment," Fahey said.

Tedd Weyman, deputy director of the Uranium Medical Centre, an
independent research group in Canada and Washington, D.C., was also
concerned about DU in Iraq.

"... Alpha emitters -- DU is one -- are carcinogenic and . . .
inhalation exposure of low quantities of low-level radioactive material
is a well-established risk," Weyman said. "Externally, the radioactivity
travels a very short distance -- centimeters -- before fully releasing
all its energy and disintegrating, (But) if inhaled and lying adjacent
to cells in the body, it is a serious hazard."

Although the Pentagon has said depleted uranium is the material of
choice because its density allows it to slice through heavy tank armor,
the Army is currently looking at an alternative. A Florida company,
Liquidmetal Technologies, says it can get comparable performance from
ammunition using an exotic alloy of tungsten, and if the Army decides to
switch, the new rounds could be in service within two years.

The Pentagon has sent mixed signals about the effects of depleted
uranium, saying there have been no known health problems associated with
the munition. At the same time, the military acknowledges the hazards in
an Army training manual, which requires that anyone who comes within 25
meters of any DU-contaminated equipment or terrain wear respiratory and
skin protection, and says that "contamination will make food and water
unsafe for consumption."

According to the Army Environmental Policy Institute, holding a spent DU
round would expose a person to about 200 mrem per hour. That's a level
of radiation equivalent to receiving eight chest X-rays per hour, said
Tom Carpenter, director of the Government Accountability Project's
Nuclear Oversight Campaign. That's also twice the annual radiation
exposure limit allowed by the Washington state.

The Environmental Protection Agency Web site says, "There is no firm
basis for setting a 'safe' level of exposure (to radiation) above
background. Most regulatory and advisory bodies around the world
(including EPA) assume that any exposure carries some risk and that the
risk increases as the exposure increases."

The April issue of New Scientist magazine reported that Alexandra
Miller, a radiobiologist with the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research
Institute in Bethesda, Md., has discovered the first direct evidence
that radiation from DU can damage chromosomes. "The chromosomes break,
and the fragments reform in a way that results in abnormal joins. Both
the breaks and the joins are commonly found in tumor cells," the article
says. The implication is that it could cause cancer.

Miller's work suggests that the toxic nature of DU, combined with its
radioactivity, could produce effects more dire than either of those
characteristics acting alone.

"I think that we assumed that we knew everything that we needed to know
about uranium. (But) This is something we have to consider now when we
think about risk estimates," the article says.

Cancer on the rise

Researchers aren't the only ones concerned.

The U.S. and British use of DU during the latest conflict, also alarms
doctors in Iraq. Cancer had already increased dramatically in southern
Iraq. In 1988, 34 people died of cancer; in 1998, 450 died of cancer; in
2001 there were 603 cancer deaths. The rate of birth defects also had
risen sharply, according to doctors in Iraq.

Now, doctors in Iraq say, the number of cancers and birth defects may be
"devastating."

"This is the right time for active support to help prevent the
catastrophic effects of the bombing," said Dr. Alim Yacoub, on his last
day as dean of the Al Mustansiriya Medical School in Baghdad.

"It is the right time for our U.S. friends to alleviate the consequences
of depleted uranium and dirty weapons," he said.

"If there isn't a centralized health plan soon, the consequences could
be devastating," said Yacoub, the foremost Iraqi authority on the
effects of DU. Yacoub has tracked the rise of cancer in Iraq for years,
and places the blame squarely on DU.

"For the past 12 years, we have only been able to watch what's going on
in this country, now it is time for a comprehensive health plan for
cleaning up DU and for treating cancer," he said. Yacoub has carefully
preserved his studies and is eager to present them to other researchers.

From the cancer ward at the Mother and Child Hospital in Basra, Dr.
Janan Ghalib Hassan has also tracked the rise in cancer in Iraq,
primarily in the south, for years. It is a phenomena that she also says
is most likely caused by the DU used by U.S. forces in the Gulf War in
1991.

"I worked here in this hospital in 1980 and never saw so much cancer,
but after 1991, I started to see many more cancer cases," Hassan said.

She said that because the incubation period for cancer is about five
years, the effects of the latest war should start showing up in 2008. "I
think the number of cancer cases will be as much as 10 times or more
higher," she said. "It is a crime; a crime."

FOR MORE INFORMATION
DEPLETED URANIUM

WHAT IT IS:

Depleted uranium is a highly dense, toxic and radioactive metal that is
the byproduct of the process during which fissionable uranium used to
make nuclear bombs and reactor fuel is separated from natural uranium.
The U.S. uses it for bullets and shells.

WHAT IT DOES:

Depleted uranium contains the highly toxic U-238 isotope, which has a
radioactive half-life of about 4.5 billion years. As U-238 breaks down,
an ongoing process, it creates protactinium-234, which radiates potent
beta particles that may cause cancer as well as mutations in body cells
that could lead to birth defects.

HOW IT SPREADS:

When a depleted uranium round hits a hard target, as much as 70 percent
of the projectile can burn on impact, creating a firestorm of depleted
uranium particles. The toxic residue of this firestorm is an extremely
fine insoluble uranium dust that can be spread by the wind, inhaled and
absorbed into the human body and absorbed by plants and animals,
becoming part of the food chain. Once in the soil, it can pollute the
environment and create up to a hundredfold increase in uranium levels in
ground water, according to the U.N. Environmental Program.
FOR MORE INFORMATION

Dan Fahey report

New Scientist article

Uranium Medical Research Centre

U.S. Department of Defense

National Gulf War Resource Center

A P-I special report on Iraq:

P-I foreign desk editor Larry Johnson can be reached at 206-448-8035 or
larryjohnson@...


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War's unintended effects
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The ideal legacy of the war in Iraq is a free and
democratic society, but a sinister legacy of another kind is possible as
well -- cancers and birth defects.

* Read the full article at:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/133581_du04.html

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Keep track of what's happening around the Northwest, the nation and the
world at http://www.seattlepi.com/ -- updated as news breaks.

IRAQI HUMANITARIAN FUNDRAISER
YOU CAN HELP!
Aug 3, 2-4p  Join us for Appetizers, Conversation and Fundraising
RSVP if you can 206-722-4121 or info@...
For more information including locations or if you cannot make it and
want to donate by mail or online go to www.iraqifundraiser.org

NIHAC is cosponsoring (along with Washington Physicians for Social
Responsibility, Service Employees International Union 1199NW and other
groups) the Iraqi Humanitarian Fundraiser on August 3.

As you know, the humanitarian situation in Iraq is no less than a dire
crisis. As I begin to hear
back from my relatives in Iraq I am saddened to learn the conditions
under which they are living and trying to survive.

But there is something that can be done. There are relief agencies
working in Iraq to restore a destroyed civilian infrastructure.

        UNICEF has been supporting emergency interventions in Iraq since
the start of the 1991 Gulf War and the imposition of sanctions, with a
focus on
        immunization, primary health care, nutrition, water and
sanitation, education, and child protection.
        The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is repairing
hospitals and essential water and sanitation systems. They provided
Iraqis with the only means
        of contacting relatives outside the country when
telecommunications were destroyed. It was through an ICRC cell call
that I learned my family in Iraq had
        survived the war.
        The American Friends Service Committee is working to provide
emergency medications and clean water supplies.

The organizers of this fundraiser chose to raise money for these
particular organizations because they are currently on the ground in
Iraq, have a proven track record there and are working with the Iraqi
people to assess and assist with their needs.

Please join us on SUNDAY Aug 3, 2-4p. Come for all or part of the
fundraiser. Meet Gerri Haynes, past president of Washington Physicians
for Social Responsibility, who was recently in Iraq with the Seattle
PostIntelligencier. If you cannot RSVP to attend
(info@... or 206-722-4121) please consider donating on-
line at http://www.iraqifundraiser.org OR writing a check
to American Friends Service Committee, ICRC, or UNICEF. Please note
"for Iraqi relief" on the memo line of your check and mail to Iraqi
Fundraiser, 4917 South Alaska St, Seattle, WA 98118. Please consider
hosting your own fundraiser for Iraq. The co-organizers are putting
together a fundraiser "kit" to make this easy.

Please join me in helping the Iraqi people get back on their feet
again. I look forward to the day when raising money for the people of
Iraq will again be unnecessary. But in the meantime we can help!

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Donna Denno

Sorry for the technical snafus in distributing the
Iraq Fundraiser flyer, which is attached to this email
(we hope!). You may also download and read the flyer
from our website at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nihac/files/

where it is listed in alphabetical order.

We hope that all of you can come to this important event!

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Please accept my apologies (again) for not sending the attachment in
previous emails.  Here it is.


Remember, there are many ways to participate:
1)RSVP to attend on Aug 3 info@... or 206-722-4121
2)donate (any amount is appreciated) by check (American Friends Service
Committee--Iraqi relief) or UNICEF--Iraqi Relief and mail to Iraqi
Fundraiser, 4917 South Alaska St Seattle, WA  98118
3)donate on line--web site will be operational by 7/11/03
4)Host your own Iraqi relief fundraiser.  We can help.  email
info@...
5)SPREAD the WORD!
6)Volunteer to help w/ the August 3 event (there are many ways you can
help depending on your time availability)

The Iraqi Humanitarian Crisis:  YOu Can Help
Sudnay Aug 3 2-4p
Appetizers, Conversation and Fundraising

1118 18th E
Seattle, WA 98812 in Capitol Hill

www.iraqifundraiser.org

Cosponsors:  Northwest International Action Coalition, Health Alliance
International, Service Employees International Union 1199 NW, Washington
Physicians for Social Responsibility

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

It appears that the flyer for the August 3 Iraq fundraiser may not have
been attached in previous email.  Apologies.
Donna Denno

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

MARK YOU CALENDAR:  NIHAC sponsoring

Fundraiser to benefit humanitarian groups working in Iraq

AUGUST 3  2-4p

Please rsvp to come or (or donate by mail or securely on line). or contact us to
learn how to organize your own community or neighborhood fundraiser to benefit
the people of Iraq.

Please spread the word.  Forward this email far and wide.  Hard copies of flyers
are available too.

We also need volunteers to help put fundraising packets together, set up, clean
up, bring food, publicize.  Please respond if you are able to help.

Donna Denno



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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Below is an "unofficial" description of a position that is opening up this
summer at the international health program (IHP).  The IHP coordinator has
a wide range of rather demanding activities in supporting the IH MPH
program and related programs.  We are looking for someone preferably with
international experience who wants to work in an academic setting and is
willing to make a commitment of at least two years to this job.

If you would like more information you can contact Julie Beschta, the
current IHP coordinator at jbeschta@..., or you can contact
me if you wish.  We are hoping to interview in the next 2 weeks or so.

Mary Anne

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International Health Program Coordinator

Job Description:
This position is responsible for coordinating all activities within the
International Health Program (IHP), a graduate level program in the
SPHCM leading to the MPH degree, and linking it with Health Alliance
International (HAI), a non-profit organization in public health
partnership, and the Population Leadership Program (PLP).


Job Characteristics:
Must maintain effective interpersonal relations with the students,
faculty, staff, associates and visitors of IHP, HAI and PLP.
Independently organizes and prioritizes work. Supervises others as
needed. Job requires specialized technical and experiential knowledge of
Program, Department, School of Public Health, Graduate School and
University policies and practices. Must write documents reflecting
program policies and goals. Must maintain program activities during
Directors international travels. Must use word processing equipment and
provide administrative support for the Director as assigned and needed.

Desired Qualifications
  - Experience working cross-culturally
  - International work experience, preferably in a less developed country

Supervision
Reports directly to Program Director. Supervises other employees as
required.

More details to follow but...
NIHAC's next event is a Fundraiser for health and humanitarian agencies
actively working in Iraq.  Aug 3 from 2-4p.  Conversation, appetizers, and
fundraising!!
For more information contact Donna Denno.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Anne Mercer" <mamercer@...>
To: "NIHAC" <nihac@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 11:34 AM
Subject: [nihac] Kevin Danaher speaks for NIHAC


>
> On May 21 NIHAC sponsored a talk by Global Exchange's co-founder Kevin
> Danaher on "Global Wealth versus Global Health."  The meeting was attended
> by around 75 very enthusiastic participants, was videotaped for the local
> community access TV station, and was audiotaped for likely broadcast on
> David Barsamian's Alternative Radio program this fall.
>
> Danaher is a very widely known speaker and social activist based in San
> Francisco.  He discussed the global divide that "globalization" has
> produced, essentially linking the global elites from rich countries with
> elites from poor countries.  Globalization thus is of mutual benefit to
> those who are already well-off and up to now has put the disadvantaged at
> even greater disadvantage.  However, Danaher's message was not one of
> despair, but rather of inspiration and motivation.  He discussed the ways
> in which those who support the interests of "normal people" can join
> together and re-define what globalization can produce for the world at
> large.  Global Exchange has a number of innovative and successful
> activities along those lines.  Their web site can be found at:
> http://www.globalexchange.org/
>
> Mary Anne
>
>
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> nihac-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>
>

On May 21 NIHAC sponsored a talk by Global Exchange's co-founder Kevin
Danaher on "Global Wealth versus Global Health."  The meeting was attended
by around 75 very enthusiastic participants, was videotaped for the local
community access TV station, and was audiotaped for likely broadcast on
David Barsamian's Alternative Radio program this fall.

Danaher is a very widely known speaker and social activist based in San
Francisco.  He discussed the global divide that "globalization" has
produced, essentially linking the global elites from rich countries with
elites from poor countries.  Globalization thus is of mutual benefit to
those who are already well-off and up to now has put the disadvantaged at
even greater disadvantage.  However, Danaher's message was not one of
despair, but rather of inspiration and motivation.  He discussed the ways
in which those who support the interests of "normal people" can join
together and re-define what globalization can produce for the world at
large.  Global Exchange has a number of innovative and successful
activities along those lines.  Their web site can be found at:
http://www.globalexchange.org/

Mary Anne