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Peace Pledge Update 3 1/2 - March 25, 2002
IRAQ: Peace Pledge in the Congressional Record
Good News:
The 'Campaign of Conscience Peace Pledge' has been entered into the Congressional Record. We faced a five-page limit on the number of pages we could submit. In coordination with the Congressman Kucinich's (D-OH) office we decided to feature the names from his state and a numerical breakdown for all the other states.
A full listing of the names would have been 60 pages.
I would recommend that you focus on the entry of the peace pledge into the record, and continue to encourage people to keep pushing for the May event. So far, over 3500 people signed the Peace Pledge either through FOR or AFSC.
Thanks to all who gathered names and forwarded the message.
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The full list ran more than 60 pages. To see the Peace Pledge in the Congressional Record on-line, visit the Thomas link below, go to the extension of remarks for March 21, and look at item 113. http://thomas.loc.gov/r107/r107.html
RECOGNIZING THE MANY INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE SIGNED A ``PEACE PLEDGE'' TO STOP THE SPREAD OF WAR TO IRAQ -- HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH (Extensions of Remarks - March 21, 2002) [Page: E434]
HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH OF OHIO IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, March 20, 2002
* Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, more than 3,000 individuals from 40 countries and 48 states have signed the Campaign of Conscience Peace Pledge.
``I support peace for Iraq. I grant permission to use my name and city publicly as an opponent of the ongoing economic and bombing war on Iraq, and of any escalation of that war.'' This Peace Pledge has been endorsed by the American Friends Service Committee, Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Education for Peace in Iraq Center, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Lutheran Peace Fellowship, Voices in the Wilderness, and Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility.
* A state breakdown of signatories is below with a representative sample from Ohio.
Priscilla Smith, Akron; Helen Thompson, Akron; Gary Blaine, Akron; Sara Cutlip, Akron; Tom Gentry, Jr., Akron; John Howell, Athens; Lynda Nyce, Bluffton; Jean Temple, Brunswick; Amy Spangler, Chillicothe; William Joiner, Cincinnati; Cynthia Maxey, Cleveland; Patti Flanagin, Cleveland Heights; Brenda Joyner, Cleveland Heights; Francis Chiappa, Cleveland Hts.; Mark Chupp, Cleveland Hts.; Melissa Bragg, Columbus; Connie Hammond, Columbus; Morton Saunders, Jr., Copley; Nathan Ruggles, Cuyahoga Falls; Robert Williams, Cuyahoga Falls; Christina Irene, Dayton; Jana Schroeder, Dayton; Ramona Nash, Dublin; Marion Kim, East Canton; Sarah Ile, Eaton; Joan Slonczewski, Gambier; Margaret Banning, Gambier; Susan Klein, Girard; William Nichols, Granville; Mike Pesa, Kent; Russell Andrews, Jr., Kent; Brad Clinehens, Maplewood; Michall Zabib, Massillom; Susan Mcgarvey, Nashport; Jane McCullam, Newbury; Diana Roose, Oberlin; Sadie Taylor, Oberlin; Richard Taylor, Oberlin; Geraldine S. McNabb, Oberlin; Ryan Van Lenning, Oxford; Patrick G. Coy, Peninsula; Erin Nash, Shade; Lydia Kuttab Brenneman, St. Marys; Donna Schall, Stow; Sharon Havelak, Sylvania; Matthew Wallace, Toledo; Nandor Szentkiralyi, Toledo; Robert Gibson, Warren; Elizabeth Gibson, Warren; Heather Brutz, Warrensville Heights; Kyle Kunst, Wooster; Rev. Richard Judy, Youngstown.
STATE BREAKDOWN
Alaska--8,
Alabama--8,
Arkansas--3,
Arizona--49,
California--236,
Colorado--73,
Connecticut--34,
District of Columbia--20,
Delaware--5,
Florida--66,
Georgia--26,
Hawaii--4,
Idaho--8,
Illinois--115,
Indiana--32,
Iowa--39,
Kansas--11,
Kentucky--13,
Louisiana--7,
Maine--20,
Maryland--74,
Massachusetts--160,
Michigan--61,
Minnesota--38,
Mississippi--2,
Missouri--46,
Montana--7,
North Carolina--86,
North Carolina,
North Dakota,
Nebraska--12,
New Hampshire--30,
New Jersey--62,
New Mexico--18,
Nevada--9,
New York--214,
Ohio--91,
Oklahoma--7,
Oregon--32,
Pennsylvania--213,
Puerto Rico--1,
Rhode Island--18,
South Carolina--9,
South Dakota--4,
Tennessee--11,
Texas--74,
Utah--4,
Virginia--35,
Vermont--20,
Washington--402,
Wisconsin--56,
West Virginia--1,
Unspecified--92.
This short update was written by
Hossein Alizadeh, Fellowship of Reconciliation. Web posted May 1, 2002, by Jean Buskin, WWFOR, bb369@scn.org.back to
WWFOR Iraq Interest Network page