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(Fwd) RE: Camb ad for peace
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Catherine B. Hoffman)
Fri Dec 14 10:05:10 2001
From: CHoffman@CI.Cambridge.MA.US (Catherine B. Hoffman)
To: "Aimee L Smith" <alsmith@MIT.EDU>, peace-list@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 09:59:32 -0500
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The newly formed Cambridge United for Justice with Peace group is
gathering signatures for an ad which will appear in the Cambridge
Chronicle before Christmas. (Draft text below) If you would like to be
a signer, please send your name as you would like it to appear and a
contribution ($10 is suggested, more would be appreciated) toward the
cost of the ad to :
Vicky Steinitz, 105-6 Trowbridge St., Cambridge, 02138
For further information, you can E-mail vicky.steinitz@umb.edu.
Please spread the word and help us get additional signatures and
contributions. Thanks. Deadline: December 12th.
NOT IN OUR NAME
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not
fed,those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not
spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius
of its
scientists, the hopes of its children.” President Dwight David
Eisenhower
As Cambridge residents, we join United for Justice with Peace in
calling for an end to the cycle of violence and retaliation. We cannot
abide the killing of more innocent victims nor the lives lost to
starvation,
disease and the destruction of homes and villages in Afghanistan. We are
fearful about the impact on the hungry, homeless and unemployed members of
our
own community whose needs will not be met as long as “the war on
terrorism” is used to justify extraordinary increases in military
spending.
We call for use of our tax dollars to enhance our communities,
rescue oureconomy and promote peace-making.
We are equally appalled by the assault on our constitutional liberties.
We can not tolerate the threats to our system of checks and balances,
to the right to equal protection under the law, and to the right to dissent.
Indefinite detention of non-citizens and military tribunals must not be
allowed to
stand. In the words of Martin Luther King, it is “a time to break silence.”
To join or find out more about Cambridge United for Justice with Peace,
please send an
E-mail to CAMBUJP@yahoo.com or telephone __________________________
For more information on justice, peace, and alternatives to war, visit
www.justicewithpeace.org.
