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Objet: Oct. 6, 2002 - "To The People Over There" - publicity assistance needed
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 22:55:48 -0400
De: "Nisi Jacobs" <nisijacobs at hotmail.com>
A: info at art-action.org

Not In Our Name is at http://www.nion.us or http://www.notinourname.net
....On Oct. 6, 2002, Not In Our Name organization put together an enormous
30-40,000 strong demonstration in Central Park resisting the imminent invasion of
Iraq by our US govt. Yesterday the Times ran a tiny and patronizing, meager
article in the Metro section, not on the front page or first two sections, and
The Daily News ran a small blurb on their front page, "Thousands Stage Anti-War
Protest in Central Park" with small photo, and inside page 9, a pict of the huge
amount of people that showed up over a huge bolded title for another article:
"Daschle tips W on Iraq, Says Congress set to back Prez on disarming Saddam". The
News is lying to the world, and ignoring stark opposition to this war on
humanity, 'for humanity's sake'. Don't let it happen.

To Everyone,
I am looking for ANYONE with any connection to news or public access, to
documentary circuits, or screenings at Univerities, public forums, or any public
venue possible which can air "To The People Over There", publicizing the actual
turnout and the real speakers present on October 6, 2002, at New York's anti-war
rally in Central Park. I have a one-hour long piece that has got to get aired
nationally and in Europe to show what children and college students, as well as
thousands if not millions of adults, are thinking and feeling about putting Iraq
into a war.

Women and men from Iraq were there to speak about what their country is like,
now. It is horrifying. But to hear what it will be like when we invade is
paralyzing; we will invade and conquer, rape, and kill children, to divert this
American numbed out highly unemployed society from the actuality of our problems
here. It is Denial on the largest scale, and we can not sacrifice other lives for
our own troubles, nor can we demand regime change when we have a self-appointed
president in an imperialist regime ourselves. We have no right to do this, and it
is largely to do with OIL and diversion, as well as Bush's personal vendetta
against Saddam, who tried to kill his daddy. The repercussions will be horrifying
if we don't do something now, ourselves. Please help resist.

The fact that there was not a single network present to cover the event, and a
minimum of coverage in the papers, means that there is no one out there who will
accurately present the dissenting voice that is strong and growing in America,
but not visible in the media; this makes it increasingly dangerous for Americans
to go abroad where that dissenting voice is nearly deafening. Don't let others or
yourselves be the next innocent casualities of foreign terrorist attacks against
the U.S. government's policies. We can communicate abroad that We Are Not With
Us, on this issue, and we must communicate it with and to "The People Over There"

"IF YOU ARE NOT WITH US, YOU ARE AGAINST US." This unilateralist alienating
cockiness does not represent Americans nor many of those people who lost
relatives at WTC. They were there speaking and they do not want a war on Iraq In
The Names of Their Deceased Husbands, Wives, Parents, etc., or in their names.
This is not honest nor is it a revenge that will work or create any peace, but
peace's opposite. The Bush Administration is using their grief to push their own
materialist aggression, and will to dominate the world; they are using this
catastrophe here in New York, for which they have withheld millions of dollars
that were meant to fund better forms of commmunication among emergency workers in
the case of another attack. There is no funding for this and we are here sitting
like helpless ducks. But this war is being fought for "our security," they say.
Bush WENT AWOL. Dick Cheney was MISSING IN ACTION in Vietnam. Richard Pearl
didn't return the call. Limbaugh got out with a medical exemption. 25% of the
homeless in this country are veterans. And Bush just cut pay to those that are
being asked to fight Bush's war. They are abusing these families of innocent
victims as well as everyone else for their own war and their own greed.

I am appealing to you now to put "To The People Over There" in contactwith anyone
with the means for publicity for this historic event. It was both beautiful and
startling in its power to illuminate how WE have been suckered and misled, and
nothing speaks louder then the people that should be the most vindictive and
spiteful, for their personal losses, if there were anyone that had the right to
be so.

Please help in any way you can. Any email contacts, phone numbers, or addresses,
give me places to send the tape and it will go. I'm sending it to Europe to air
as soon as I hear back from peopple I know there. Don't sit idle until we are
having a full-scale war with casualties of American Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and
poor White men and women that are being fed into this present war machine as
human fodder, or until the mass murders of innocent people in Iraq are on our
front pages. They are just like us and 'population control' is nothing but a
supremely racist rationalization (I have heard this from those who have succumbed
to inertia and apathy, ie, the Depressed and the Repressed).

Thank you, Love, and Peace.

Nisi Jacobs

for any information email to Nisi Jacobs at: nisijacobs at hotmail.com
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