Initial Call for a Colorado Statewide Peace Conference to Oppose Attacking Iran
Waltzing To War Again?
(note: This is an initial call for the conference. It is meant mostly for people living in Colorado; but hopefully those of you living elsewhere might do likewise)
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Call for a Statewide Peace Conference to Oppose Attacking Iran
Dear Friends,
The cry for an attack on Iran has reached unprecedented, near-hysterical proportions in certain well known quarters.
Like the period before the attack on Iraq, many of the same themes are at play with many of the same players trying to drive our country to war again: creating or greatly exaggerating a threat; vilifying the country’s leadership to suggest that they are `crazy’ and capable of anything; the pliant media that swallows pro-war propaganda and spit it out as truth.
Far from preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, an attack would justify their pursuit and will in all probability trigger a regional if not world war, in anticipation of which oil prices have spiked and threaten to a global recession if not worse.
Our elected representatives both in the Oval Office and in Congress who succumb to this propaganda are complicit in dragging us once again down the path to death and destruction as they have in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia.
We must stop this madness
With this in mind, the Colorado Coalition Against Attacking Iran was formed recently with representatives from Boulder, Ft. Collins and the Denver Metro Area.
The Coalition is already active:
One of our first steps is to organize a conference on Saturday, May 12, at the First Unitarian Society of Denver Church (14th and Lafayette) in Denver from 9 am to 5 pm. The goal is to organize a Colorado statewide campaign to oppose attacking Iran and for re-orienting our country’s priorities toward rebuilding our fragmented and devastated communities. (Detailed program will follow)
We, the undersigned, long-time Colorado peace activists, endorse this conference and urge you to help build the conference and the campaign to stop yet another insane step toward the abyss. Please contact the Coalition to invite speakers to your area or organization to build the Conference and Campaign.
You can contact the coalition at:
https://sites.google.com/site/cocaati/
or contact:
Tom Mayer: Thomas.Mayer@Colorado.Edu
Ibrahim Kazerooni: mikazerooni@gmail.com
Rob Prince: robertjprince@comcast.net
Yours,
Gary Anderson
Ida Audeh
Bijou Community, Colorado Springs
Citizens for Peace In Space, Colorado Springs
Clair Cafaro
Arnie Carter
Stuart Chase
John Cruikshank
Beth Daoud
Cheryl Distaso
Bill and Genie Durland
Lynn Farquehar
Nancy Fey
Ron Forthofer
Mary Ellen Cuthbertson Garrett
Alan Gilbert
Barbara Hanst
Nader Hashemi
Pat Hewett
Ibrahim Kazerooni
Bob Kinsey
Leslie Lomas
Tom Mayer
Jan Miller
Judith Mohling
LeRoy Moore
Sally Netzl
Elizabeth Ordonez
Peter Peterson
Rob Prince
Michael Rabb
Tom Rauch
Ken and Mag Seaman
Lynn Segal
Cheryl Stevenson
Arnie Voight
Doug Vaughan
Ernesto Vigil
Evan Weissman
Jim Wilkinson
Dan Winters
Phil Woods
from a friend in Tunis:
“Vous avez tout à fait raison, cette guerre si elle est engagée aura des conséquences fâcheuses en coût en vies humaines, en sang et en souffrance ! Peut être elle engendrera une guerre mondiale, elle coûtera aussi cher aux US. Le gouvernement américain devra faire preuve de sagesse et réfléchir avant qu’il ne soit trop tard.”
I’m so sorry that I will be in France on May 12. Good luck all! And I’m pleased that I pretty much understood the post from the friend in Tunis…b’shalom, b’tzedek…Les
Wish I could be there to join you! From over here in the UK, everyone simply feels horror at the unfolding events. No one I have spoken to (several dozen at least) is in favor of any kind of action against Iran.