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Date Posted: 16:18:26 12/03/01 Mon
From: Glenn Welker
Dear Friends of 9-11peace.org,
Thank you for being part of our immensely popular online
petition. Over 500,000 of us from 190 countries signed, and
I'll tell you more about how our message was delivered to
world leaders below.
Unfortunately, we need to act again, now. According to the
United Nations, over 900,000 Afghans are starving to death
as we speak. Another 6.6 million are in danger of dying
within the next few months. When winter arrives in under
two weeks, relief organizations will be unable to get aid
to many Afghan refugees. Please, please call on your
country's leadership to do everything in their power to get
aid to the Afghan people NOW. You can do so very easily at:
http://www.9-11peace.org/aid.php3
There's more information about this potential humanitarian
disaster below. But first, if you don't want to hear from
us again, just go to:
http://www.9-11peace.org/optout.php3
WHAT WE'VE DONE
In early October, we delivered over half a million online
signatures from 190 countries to:
* U.S. President Bush;
* NATO Secretary General Lord George Robertson;
* European Commission President Romano Prodi.
In Great Britain, MP Lynne Jones and three other Members of
Parliament delivered the petition by hand to Prime Minister
Tony Blair. Media around the world wrote about our effort,
from the Chicago Sun-Times to the South China Morning Post.
WHAT WE CAN DO NEXT
Call on world leaders to make aid to the Afghan people a
priority:
http://www.9-11peace.org/aid.php3
The prolonged bombing has worsened the plight of the Afghan
people because aid organizations haven't been able to get
food and medicine into the country. The food dropped by the
US is woefully inadequate for the 7 million Afghans who rely
on aid.
With the Northern Alliance's capture of most of Northern
Afghanistan, aid organizations may finally be able to bring
large quantities food and medicine into the country. But
unless the US and its allies facilitate the delivery,
hundreds of thousands of people may die.
It's crucial that world leaders hear from us now. They need
to know that we are counting on them to prevent the imminent
starvation of millions of innocent people, and that this
should be one of the highest priorities for the next few
weeks. They need to know that we don't want to have to
explain to our grandchildren why our countries allowed one
of the largest mass starvations in history to take place.
Tell them now:
http://www.9-11peace.org/aid.php3
Some facts about the aid crisis:
* The UN estimates that 7.5 million Afghan refugees rely on
food and medical aid to survive.
* Of these, 900,000 face imminent starvation.
* Nearly 20% of those struggling to survive are children
under 5.
* Recent bombing attacks have damaged the warehouses of the
International Red Cross as well as the United Nations World
Food Programme. The agencies' staff, laborers and truckers
are now afraid to load, unload or transport food inside
Afghanistan.
* Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam International, and
officials in the UN have all called for a stop in the
bombing so that aid can be delivered before it's too late.
More information about the aid crisis in Afghanistan is
available at the website above.
Thank you. Many lives are at stake, but if we act now, we
can change the face of this conflict.
Sincerely,
Eli Pariser
9-11peace.org
November 14, 2001
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