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Hello all. Glenn from Voices UK here. Just a reminder about the sending rice to Jack Straw action. Although the action asked for letters to be sent in the week beginning 20th January, the important thing was for letters to reach the FCO before a public decision is made about the weapons inspectors report. So there is still time to get your letter in! What better to do on a Sunday afternoon? Text of suggested letter is reproduced again below. Another action next week. Cheers Glenn. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary Foreign & Commonwealth Office Whitehall, London SW1A 2AH Dear Mr Straw I am writing to express my opposition to the likely war with Iraq. I consider it unnecessary, illegal, immoral and inevitably counter-productive. Save the Children, who have long worked in Iraq, predict that a war there will lead to a “humanitarian disaster”. Many thousands of innocent Iraqis suffered and died in the last Gulf War, and in the years of bombing and economic sanctions since then. For their sake, I urge you to pull back from war and instead pursue peaceful means of promoting peace in the Middle East. I enclose a handful of rice as a symbol of the human needs that should be our prime concern especially in time of war. Real people are under these bombs, and real people will die when we destroy the things they need to survive. I welcome your reply. Yours sincerely, _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk