Re: Pax Christi Petition

["Seth Sandronsky" <ssandron@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

PEN-L:

Please pardon the previous incorrect punctuation.  Without question, I did
forward a Pax Christi petition.

:-)
Seth

Below is a Pax Christi Petition against the Iraq sanctions?  The sender,
Leah Wells, just returned from a Voices in the Wilderness delegation to
Iraq.  Leah's article about her visit to Iraq follows the petition.

Thanks,
Seth

From:leah wells <leahvoices@xxxxxxxxx>
CC:meeyga@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:Pax Christi Petition
Date:Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:01:18 -0700 (PDT)

22 August 2001

Dear Friends,

Below is a copy of the Pax Christi petition currently
in circulation.  Please pass it along to as many
people as you are able, as it will be presented at the
end of September.  If you have more questions, please
visit the Voices in the Wilderness website at
www.vitw.org, or call 773.784.8065.  Thank you for
your time and persistence in lifting the sanctions
against Iraq.

Peace,

Leah C. Wells
for Voices in the Wilderness

Pax Christi USA
                NATIONAL CATHOLIC PEACE MOVEMENT

                     532 West 8th Street, Erie,
Pennsylvania 16502-1343
                     Phone: 814/453-4955, fax:
814/452-4784. Email: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx





It is up to the international community in particular
to promote solutions that lead to harmony and renewal
in social life and to take responsibility for avoiding deviations
that could turn populations into innocent victims. ?
Pope John Paul II speaking about Iraq on 12/17/98. Pax
Christi USA urgently appeals to the consciences of all
people of faith and goodwill to support efforts to halt the ongoing
humanitarian devastation in Iraq resulting from ten
years of economic sanctions by calling upon the United Nations to end
these sanctions immediately.

Please sign and return this global petition by:

September 30, 2001

We, the undersigned, compelled by our conscience,
stand firmly opposed to the current policy imposed by
the United Nations against Iraq. According to UNICEF,
children under five years of age are dying at more
than twice the rate than before economic sanctions were
imposed. It is reported that more than one million
people have died as a result of these sanctions.

Believing that these sanctions have become a weapon of
mass destruction, we call upon the United Nations to
acknowledge that the economic sanctions imposed on
Iraq are a failed policy that has caused inhumane
levels of suffering and is totally incompatible with
the spirit and wording of the United Nations? Charter
and the United Nations? Declaration of Human Rights.

As members of the global community, we call upon the
United Nations to immediately end these punitive
sanctions and to develop a meaningful new approach
toward Iraq based on restoring human dignity and
developing relations for a lasting and just peace.

Return petition to: Pax Christi USA?s Local/Regional
Office 442 33rd Street West Palm Beach, Florida 33407
USA Phone/Fax: 561-842-7701;
paxwpb@xxxxxxxx  Also see Pax Christi USA?s Website:
www.paxchristiusa.org

Signed petitions will be presented to the United
Nations in New York, New York, USA by members
of Pax Christi USA and Kathy Kelly of Voices In The
Wilderness on United Nations Day ? October 24, 2001.

Name(Please Print)followed by Signature followed by
City/State/Country and any Affiliation


1.  Leah C. Wells  Ventura, CA  USA
2.  Seth Sandronsky, Sacramento, CA  USA








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