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What You Can Do
1) Get Involved With
Voices
- Come to Voices meetings - email
Voices for details of next meeting.
- Voices has a monthly letter writing group. Please join! Email
Glenn at kcnl@globalnet.co.uk
or write to him at 29 John St, Enfield, Middx, EN1 1LG. Click
here for more
- Buy badges/books/videos etc from the office or distribute
our free literature.
- Join and persuade others to go onto the voices
mailing list and receive the latest campaign news and briefings.
- Join our events!
2) Raise Awareness
- Invite a speaker from voices to a meeting of your group
- Hold a street stall - leaflets and materials available from
voices
- Write letters to local and national papers
- Hold a vigil in a public place
or other kind of action - see here
for inspiration
- Organise a film screening.
- Encourage people to sign the petition on Jubilee
Iraq - A new campaign calling for the Iraqi people to be
freed from Saddam Hussein's debts and reparations, which are
estimated to total almost $400bn. This works out at roughly
$15,000 per Iraqi - many times their yearly income.
3)
Parliamentary Action
- Write to your MP, ask them to sign
an Early Day Motion or occupy
their office!
- Ask your MP to forward your letter
to the Foreign Office for a reply
- Write to Foreign Secretary Jack Straw
(Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall, London SW1A 2AH)
and Secreatary of State for Defence Geoff Hoon (Ministry of
Defence Old War Office Building Whitehall London SW1A 2HB) asking
them to stop this immoral and illegal war and do all they can
to safeguard the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people. More
details.
- If you receive a reply from the Foreign
Office, voices can help you respond to it - send us your letter
for comments
4)
Email Lists
5)
Hold A Vigil
- ARROW (Active Resistance to the Roots
of War) has held a weekly vigil against sanctions on Iraq outside
the Foreign Office in London since July 1991 and would welcome
more vigilers - Mondays, 5.30-7pm, corner of King Charles Street
and Whitehall (info 020 7607 2302). Regular
vigils are being held all over the country against war on
Iraq. Please let us know if you start a new vigil so we can
pass the details on to other people in your area.
6)
Start or join a Group
- Many people have started local groups
to campaign against war and sanctions on Iraq within their own
areas. We can offer advice on how to go about setting up a group.
- See the ARROW
website or Stop the War
website for details of an anti-war group near you.
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voices uk - working in solidarity
with ordinary families in iraq
5 Caledonian Road, King's Cross, London N1 9DX
telephone : 0845 458 2564
voices@viwuk.freeserve.co.uk
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