Re inflate Iraq's economy march on sunday against sanctions, with 1000 balloons
voices in the wilderness, women in Black, Act | 02.08.2001 16:54
march against 11 years of sanctions, 1pm, meet temple place, embankment (nearest open tube embankment).
Talk in the evening in Picadilly- The Grotto Club, downstairs from 23 Golden Square, 7.30pm- the effects of 11 years of sanctions, with Richard Byrne, Voices in the Wilderness (visited Iraq jan 2001)
Talk in the evening in Picadilly- The Grotto Club, downstairs from 23 Golden Square, 7.30pm- the effects of 11 years of sanctions, with Richard Byrne, Voices in the Wilderness (visited Iraq jan 2001)
Press release for immediate release Thursday August 2
Contact: Voices in the Wilderness 020 8554 2205/ 0794 783 9992
www.viwuk.freeserve.co.uk
Downing Street 11th unhappy anniversary “Blow Out” planned by anti sanctions groups
Campaigners bearing 1000 balloons from Voices in the Wilderness UK (1), Act Together (2) and Women in Black (3) will float down Whitehall this Sunday August 5th calling for the economic sanctions on Iraq to be lifted immediately, eleven years exactly after they were imposed. The campaigners will gather at 1 p.m. at Temple Place, Embankment and march to Downing Street bearing balloons with the slogans “Re inflate the Iraqi economy” “Lift the sanctions on Iraq” and “Sanctions kill”
Richard Byrne, a vet from east London who visited Iraq with Voices in January said, “In March 1999, a humanitarian panel set up by the UN Security Council concluded that ‘The humanitarian situation in Iraq will continue to be a dire one in the absence of a sustained revival in the Iraqi economy.’(2) That cannot happen while economic sanctions remain in place. By the UN’s own assessment sanctions condemn ordinary Iraqi people to suffer. Iraq needs its economy to re inflate. That can only happen if the UN stops running Iraq like a giant refugee camp. Iraq’s oil revenues must be allowed into its internal economy, Iraq must be allowed foreign credits and loans to rebuild its infrastructure.”
“Ordinary Iraqis need a wage which means something. They need the purchasing power to buy the things all families need. After eleven years of sanctions we must end what Save the Children Fund described as a ‘silent war on Iraq’s children’ (3)”
The march will be followed by a 72 hour, round the clock fast opposite Downing Street.
Contact Voices 020 8554 2205/ 0794 7839992 On the street mobile (Nadje)
07801 931869.
(1) Voices in the Wilderness UK campaigns for an immediate and unconditional lifting of the economic sanctions on Iraq.
(2) Act Together is a London based group of Iraqi and non Iraqi women campaigning to lift the economic sanctions on Iraq.
(3) Women in Black is a worldwide network of women campaigning against violence and for peace with justice.
(4) UN Humanitarian Panel Report March 1999, (5)
http://www.scfuk.org.uk/pressrels/250700.html
Contact: Voices in the Wilderness 020 8554 2205/ 0794 783 9992
www.viwuk.freeserve.co.uk
Downing Street 11th unhappy anniversary “Blow Out” planned by anti sanctions groups
Campaigners bearing 1000 balloons from Voices in the Wilderness UK (1), Act Together (2) and Women in Black (3) will float down Whitehall this Sunday August 5th calling for the economic sanctions on Iraq to be lifted immediately, eleven years exactly after they were imposed. The campaigners will gather at 1 p.m. at Temple Place, Embankment and march to Downing Street bearing balloons with the slogans “Re inflate the Iraqi economy” “Lift the sanctions on Iraq” and “Sanctions kill”
Richard Byrne, a vet from east London who visited Iraq with Voices in January said, “In March 1999, a humanitarian panel set up by the UN Security Council concluded that ‘The humanitarian situation in Iraq will continue to be a dire one in the absence of a sustained revival in the Iraqi economy.’(2) That cannot happen while economic sanctions remain in place. By the UN’s own assessment sanctions condemn ordinary Iraqi people to suffer. Iraq needs its economy to re inflate. That can only happen if the UN stops running Iraq like a giant refugee camp. Iraq’s oil revenues must be allowed into its internal economy, Iraq must be allowed foreign credits and loans to rebuild its infrastructure.”
“Ordinary Iraqis need a wage which means something. They need the purchasing power to buy the things all families need. After eleven years of sanctions we must end what Save the Children Fund described as a ‘silent war on Iraq’s children’ (3)”
The march will be followed by a 72 hour, round the clock fast opposite Downing Street.
Contact Voices 020 8554 2205/ 0794 7839992 On the street mobile (Nadje)
07801 931869.
(1) Voices in the Wilderness UK campaigns for an immediate and unconditional lifting of the economic sanctions on Iraq.
(2) Act Together is a London based group of Iraqi and non Iraqi women campaigning to lift the economic sanctions on Iraq.
(3) Women in Black is a worldwide network of women campaigning against violence and for peace with justice.
(4) UN Humanitarian Panel Report March 1999, (5)
http://www.scfuk.org.uk/pressrels/250700.html
voices in the wilderness, women in Black, Act
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voices@viwuk.freeserve.co.uk