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>Subject: NY / Statement from the War Resisters League
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>http://www.warresisters.org/attack9-11-01.htm
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>                 Statement from the War Resisters League
>
>                 New York, New York
>                 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>                 September 11, 2001
>
>As we write, Manhattan feels under siege, with all bridges, tunnels, and
>subways closed, and tens of thousands of people walking slowly north
>from Lower Manhattan. As we sit in our offices here at War Resisters
>League, our most immediate thoughts are of the hundreds if not
>thousands of New Yorkers who have lost their lives in the collapse of the
>World Trade Center. The day is clear, the sky is blue, but vast clouds
>billow over the ruins where so many have died, including a great many
>rescue workers who were there when the final collapse occurred.
>
>Of course we know that our friends and co-workers in Washington, D.C.
>have similar thoughts about the ordinary people who have been trapped
>in the parts of the Pentagon which were also struck by a jet. And we
>think of the innocent passengers on the hi-jacked jets who were carried
>to their doom on this day. We do not know at this time from what
>source the attack came.
>
>We do know that Yasser Arafat has condemned the bombing. We
>hesitate to make an extended analysis until more information is
>available but some things are clear. For the Bush Administration to talk
>of spending hundreds of billions on Star Wars is clearly the sham it was
>from the beginning, when terrorism can so easily strike through more
>routine means.
>
>We urge Congress and George Bush that whatever response or policy
>the U.S. develops it will be clear that this nation will no longer target
>civilians, or accept any policy by any nation which targets civilians. This
>would mean an end to the sanctions against Iraq, which have caused
>the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians. It would mean not only
>a condemnation of terrorism by Palestinians but also the policy of
>assassination against the Palestinian leadership by Israel, and the
>ruthless repression of the Palestinian population and the continuing
>occupation by Israel of the West Bank and Gaza.
>
>The policies of militarism pursued by the United States have resulted in
>millions of deaths, from the historic tragedy of the Indochina war,
>through the funding of death squads in Central America and Colombia,
>to the sanctions and air strikes against Iraq. This nation is the largest
>supplier of "conventional weapons" in the world—and those weapons fuel
>the starkest kind of terrorism from Indonesia to Africa. The early policy
>support for armed resistance in Afghanistan resulted in the victory of the
>Taliban—and the creation of Osama Bin Laden.
>
>Other nations have also engaged in these policies. We have, in years
>past, condemned the actions of the Russian government in areas such
>as Chechnya, the violence on both sides in the Middle East, and in the
>Balkans. But our nation must take responsibility for its own actions. Up
>until now we have felt safe within our borders. To wake on a clear day to
>find our largest city under siege reminds us that in a violent world, none
>are safe. Let us seek an end of the militarism that has characterized
>this nation for decades.
>
>Let us seek a world in which security is gained through disarmament,
>international cooperation, and social justice not through escalation and
>retaliation. We condemn without reservation attacks such as those
>which occurred today, which strike at thousands of civilians—may these
>profound tragedies remind us of the impact U.S. policies have had on
>other civilians in other lands. We also condemn reflexive hostility
>against people of Arab descent living in this country and urge that
>Americans recall the part of our heritage that opposes bigotry in all
>forms.
>
>We are one world. We shall live in a state of fear and terror or we shall
>move toward a future in which we seek peaceful alternatives to violence,
>and a more just distribution of the world’s resources. As we mourn the
>many lives lost, our hearts call out for reconciliation, not revenge.
>
>                                         ****************
>
>This is not an official statement of the War Resisters League but was
>drafted immediately after the tragic events occurred. Signed and issued
>by members of the staff and Executive Committee of War Resisters
>League at the national office, September 11, 2001:
>
>                 asif ullah
>                 Carmen Trotta
>                 Chris Ney
>                 David McReynolds
>                 Joanne Sheehan
>                 Judith Mahoney Pasternak
>                 Melissa Jameson
>
>                 Contact: David McReynolds, 212-674-7268
>                 Joanne Sheehan, 860-889-5337
>                 War Resisters League, 212-228-0450
>
>
>
>                                         War Resisters League
>                                          339 Lafayette Street
>                                          New York, NY 10012
>                                            (212) 228-0450
>                                           fax (212) 228-6193
>                                          wrl at warresisters.org
>
>Believing war to be a crime against humanity, the War Resisters
>League, founded in 1923, advocates Gandhian nonviolence as the
>method for creating a democratic society free of war, racism, sexism,
>and human exploitation.
>_____
>
>Shekhar Krishnan
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