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Hi All, Here is a great tactic that we borrowed from elsewhere. In Austin yesterday, we sat in front of a cooperative food store with a table with four plates with the daily ration of an Iraq family, small child's partly filled milk bottle, and pictures of Iraqi's. There was additional literature on a nearby bench. We signed up 48 people in two hours to call our congressman today with a one sentence message about the Conyer and Campbell letter being distributed today for signatures. Most of the people who agreed to make calls tomorrow were people who haven't been active before on this issue. They will call every 10 minutes all day long. We did this on Thanksgiving eve when there was lots of last minute buying. In two hours, we got 96 people(again mostly people new to being active on this issue) to call every 10 minutes for two full days saying that "In the last 10 minutes one Iraqi child has died as a result of the sanctions and today around 200 will die". Jere from Austin -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Full archive and list instructions are available from the CASI website: http://welcome.to/casi