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Hello everyone! I have taken up the post of soc-casi-discuss Letter-to-Editor Co-ordinator (you may remember a mail about this post on 23/12/99 from Colin Rowat - can be viewed at www.ex-parrot.com/casi/discuss/1999/845.html). My job is basically to co-ordinate letter writing so that letters get written! For this I need various willing groups of volunteers: (1) People who are prepared to write letters upon demand - how often is up to you, just tell me how often you will be able to write letters. If sufficient people come forward I will set up two (or more) groups of people. You don't need to have any 'experience' or a great deal of knowledge. All you require is a willingness to try to make a difference and a small amount of time. (2) People with an in-depth knowledge of the situation who can act as advisors for letter writers (via me) by providing key facts and figures as well as general points that should be covered (this is to make the letters look more impressive!). (3) People who will scan the daily and weekend broadsheet newspapers as well as major websites (e.g. bbc online) and magazines (e.g. Time). If you already read any of these either in paper format or electronically all you would need to do is e-mail me with the details of the articles which require 'letter-writing'. If you are reading electronically you need only give a web-link or cut-and-paste the article otherwise give the paper, issue, date, page/section no and headline. How will this work? Well, for example, person A from group 3 who scans newspaper A finds an article related to the sanctions. They will then e-mail me ASAP with the details which I will forward to groups 1 and 2 (or select members of the group). Group 2 are then expected to mail back ASAP and their advice will be forwarded to group 1. If anyone in group 1 has a particular problem or question then they can mail me and I'll consult an advisor on the matter. This will not be done through the discussion list - instead I will setting up mailing lists. If would be helpful, though not necessary, if person A mailed me if a letter was subsequently published. It is vital that members of all the various groups act promptly. Please note that by signing up to be a 'letter-writer' you are not given permission to write on behalf of CASI. Nor are you obliged to only mention those issues that concern CASI or official views of the organisation - you are free to add your own personal perspective and views (it is for this reason that you are not permitted to write as a representative of CASI). This is not a "CASI activity", merely a spin-off activity from the casi-discuss list. Please feel free to forward this on to friends/contacts with an interest in the sanctions even if they are not on the discussion list. You can, of course, join more than one group - in fact if you want sign up for all three! Don't hesitate to e-mail me if you have any queries. Thank you! I hope to hear from many of you soon. Misbah Arif soc-casi-discuss Letter-to-the-Editor Co-ordinator New Hall * Huntingdon Road * Cambridge * CD3 0DF ma262@hermes.cam.ac.uk :0)------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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