Useful Links for the Movement Against War with Iraq
Please keep checking, I will add to this page
frequently--both more links and better explanations. Because the
situation is urgent, I am posting whatever I know as soon as I find out.
Websites of organizations working to prevent war and end
the sanctions:
Iraq
Action Coalition -- A grassroots coalition working against the blockade
of Iraq. The site has lots of information about the destructive, inhumane
effects of the blockade, and the futility of such blockades as instruments
for most foreign policy goals. They also have information about the
Global Movement to End the War Against Iraq.
International
Action Center Homepage--The IAC was started by Ramsay Clark in 1992,
and coordinated an International War Crimes Tribunal. It is connected
to the Workers' World Party, and has links to a variety of other
leftist causes. The Center opposes U.S. military intervention around
the world. Their page also has
information
on planned demonstrations and other activities. National
People's Campaign Boston is their local affiliate (for those of us
in Boston), and has information about activities in the Boston area.
IRAQ
CRISIS ANTIWAR HOMEPAGE is a project of the Nonviolence Web.
It has lots of news about the progress of the crisis and the antiwar movement.
See their excellent article of Monday, February 23, "The
Peace Movement is Stopping this War!" Were you surprised that
strong antiwar sentiments dominated the "town meeting" in Ohio? I
was--then I realized how much I had been taken in by the media's drumbeat
for war. The strong public reaction has been tremendously encouraging
for me. (The above was written in the spring of 1998--today, in December,
we seem to be too distracted by the impeachment process to bring off a
similar mobilization.)
The links above are to organizations responding to Clinton's warmongering.
Click
here for my list of links to other progressive organizations dealing
with U.S.-Iraq policy.
Useful online articles:
Franz
Schurmann, Delenda Est Iraq -- Why U.S. Is On Warpath Against Saddam,JINN,
February 16, 1998, explains the origins of the crisis in the great-power
machinations of U.S. imperialism (what an old-fashioned word!
But nothing else is accurate). The same issue of JINN, the online
journal of Pacific Broadcasting, has several other articles about Iraq.
Foreign
Policy In Focus: Iraq, written by Phyllis Bennis in November of 1997
(v. 2, no. 51 of Foreign Policy in Focus) is an analysis of the
failure of the sanctions against Iraq to achieve their end, and the destructive
impact of these sanctions on the lives of innocent Iraqis.
The people who put out Foreign Policy in Focus (the Institute for Policy
Studies and the Interhemispheric Resource Center) also have a weekly discussion
bulletin for comments, both on FPIF articles and on current foreign policy
issues, the Progressive
Repsonse . Their v2,
n4. has several good articles on Iraq, including Steven
Zunes's "Talking Points" and Roger Normand's "America's Weapons
of Mass Destruction in Iraq;" v2,
n5 has some comments on those articles.
Rich Cowan has distributed a draft
antiwar
flyer on the can-fac list, and invites everyone to adapt and use it.