Imagine inundating Dubya !!!
pass it on!
There is a grassroots campaign underway to protest war
in Iraq in a simple, but potentially powerful way.
Place 1/2 cup uncooked
rice in a small plastic bag
(a sandwich bag works fine).
Squeeze out excess air and seal the bag.
Wrap it in a piece of paper on which you have written,
"If your enemies are hungry,feed them (Romans 12:20).
Please send this rice to the people of Iraq; do not attack them."
Place the paper and bag of rice in an envelope (a
letter-sized or padded envelope cost the same). and
Address them to:
President George Bush White House,
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500
Attach $1.06 in postage. (Three 37-cent stamps equal $1.11.)
Drop this in the mail. It is important to act NOW so th! at
President Bush gets the letters ASAP
In order for this protest to be effective, there must be
hundreds of thousands of such rice deliveries to the White
House. We can do this if you each forward this message to
your friends and family.
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There is a positive history of this protest! In the 1950s,
Fellowship of Reconciliation began a similar protest, which
is credited with influencing President Eisenhower against
attacking China. Read on:
"In the mid-1950s, the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation,
learning of famine in the Chinese mainland, launched a 'Feed
Thine Enemy' campaign. Members and friends mailed thousands
of little bags of rice to the White House with a tag quoting
the Bible, "If thine enemy hunger, feed him." As far as anyone
knew for more than ten years, the campaign was an abject
failure. The President did not acknowledge receipt of the bags
publicly; certainly, no rice was ever ! sent to China.
"What nonviolent activists only learned a decade later
was that the campaign played a significant, perhaps even
determining role in preventing nuclear war. Twice while
the campaign was on, President Eisenhower met with the
Joint Chiefs of Staff to consider U.S. options in the
conflict with China over two islands, Quemoy and Matsu.
The generals twice recommended the use of nuclear weapons.
President Eisenhower each time turned to his aide and asked
how many little bags of rice had come in. When told they
numbered in the tens of thousands, Eisenhower told the generals
that as long as so many Americans were expressing active
interest in having the U.S. feed the Chinese, he certainly
wasn't going to consider using nuclear weapons against them."
--
Anne W. Bunde Birouste
Coordinator, Health Promotion Program
Australian International Health Institute (AIHI)
Tel : 61-2-9351-5048; 5129
Fax : 61-2-9351-52-05
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