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  Oggetto: No Torture!

Contribute to Publish NION SOC in USA Today
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Data: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 20:13:01 -0500   
"In our name, the Bush government holds in contempt international law
and world opinion. It carries out torture and detentions without trial
around the world... We must change the political reality of this country
by mobilizing the tens of millions who know in their heads and hearts
that the Bush regime's reality is nothing but a nightmare for humanity."           
Excerpts from 2005 NION Statement of Conscience

Funds are urgently needed to publish the NION Statement of Conscience
(NION SOC) on June 24 in USA Today. This will be in conjunction with
Amnesty International's important call for the June 26th Day of Action
Against Torture.
[http://www.amnestyusa.org/stoptorture/eventplanning.html]

USA Today is the country's largest newspaper. Weekend circulation is
2.6 million and it is read from Fri-Sun. USA Today reaches a broad 
audience, including people traveling for business or vacation. It gets out
in 60 countries and is read by American soldiers overseas. The Statement
of Conscience needs to reach them all, speaking out against the
regime's blatant use of torture, and the whole direction of the Bush
Administration. The Statement is a powerful moral compass and guide for millions
to step forward and stop what's happening. Think about what people are
forced to endure right now in Guantanamo and what our responsibility is
to stop it. We will not become, or stand aside as others do, like those
who learned how to walk by concentration camps and ignore the screams.
We have a voice, and voices of conscience with the NION Statement.
Let's blanket the country with it!

$126,000 can be raised in a short time:  If 630 people reading this
email each donated $200 right now, or if 1260 people donated $100 each, it
would be raised instantly.
Donate here: http://www.refuseandresist.org/nion/index.html Or write
your check to Not In Our Name and mail to: NION SOC, 305 West Broadway
#199, NY, NY 10013.

There are many ways money could be raised: Take up a collection at
houses of worship, at union meetings, ask your neighbors, co-workers,
family members. Circulate this appeal on email lists, web sites and blogs.
Call into radio talk shows urging people to donate online at
http://www.nion.us.

We will speak out ... for Dilawar, the 22-year-old cab driver tortured
to death by US forces in Afghanistan who knew he'd done nothing... and
for the countless unnamed people "rendered" by the US to who knows
where but we all know what they face. No torture, Not In Our Name!

ALSO, we encourage everyone to email, post, print and distribute the
Statement of Conscience now, getting it up in schools, workplaces, houses
of worship, libraries, movie theaters, supermarkets -- everywhere
literature is displayed.

AND, we are actively working to expand our already great email list. We
ask you to post the NION web site [http://www.nion.us] to every email
list you think is appropriate, asking people to sign the NION Statement
and be added to our email list.

The 2005 Statement of Conscience is available at our website in a large
PDF format [new design to come out soon]for you to copy and distribute:
http://www.nion.us/NSOC/NION-LAT.pdf

Send us photos of displays of the NION SOC and your comments at
nion@cloud9.net and we'll post them.

From Janet & Sherry - on the NION SOC Staff

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