please sign this petition
Dear friends, Right now a tragedy is unfolding in the Middle East. Thousands of innocent civilians have been killed or wounded in the bombings in Lebanon, Palestine and Israel and the death toll is rising every day. If the US, Syria or Iran get involved, there is a chance of a catastrophic larger war. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for an immediate ceasefire and the deployment of international troops to the Israel-Lebanon border, and been strongly supported by almost every world leader. This is the best proposal yet to stop the violence, but the US, the UK, and Israel have refused to accept it. I have just signed a petition calling on US President Bush, UK Prime Minister Blair, and Israeli Prime Minister Olmert to support Kofi Annan's proposal. If millions of people join this call, and we advertise our views in newspapers in the US, UK, and Israel, we can help pressure these leaders to stop the fighting. Go to the link below and sign up now! http://www.ceasefirecampaign.org
the above is a form e-mail from the website where I just signed their petition. In a time where it's the criminals who remain silent on issues like war and the ever widening circles of violence and repression I feel obliged by my concience to share this with you who read this and to encourage you to take this small step. I'm not always sure that signing these things is making any real change in the world around me, and I would not want to try and prove that it is; however I will say this: I find that the more I act from my concience the easier it becomes to do it again, and again, and as the urge to work for justice becomes stronger inside me it also becomes harder to imagine living a life where I put my principles aside for the sake of expediency or for anything. Sign this petition, please but do it not because you believe that it can't fail in it's goal. Rather, do it because there's hope in even a single act of concience, and that if you are doing something that's right for its own sake then you are never acting alone.
I really believe that the world can become nonviolent and that real peace is not only possible but that it is already on it's way and every act of concience taken for its own sake brings it that much closer to us.
in all Love,
Chris
the above is a form e-mail from the website where I just signed their petition. In a time where it's the criminals who remain silent on issues like war and the ever widening circles of violence and repression I feel obliged by my concience to share this with you who read this and to encourage you to take this small step. I'm not always sure that signing these things is making any real change in the world around me, and I would not want to try and prove that it is; however I will say this: I find that the more I act from my concience the easier it becomes to do it again, and again, and as the urge to work for justice becomes stronger inside me it also becomes harder to imagine living a life where I put my principles aside for the sake of expediency or for anything. Sign this petition, please but do it not because you believe that it can't fail in it's goal. Rather, do it because there's hope in even a single act of concience, and that if you are doing something that's right for its own sake then you are never acting alone.
I really believe that the world can become nonviolent and that real peace is not only possible but that it is already on it's way and every act of concience taken for its own sake brings it that much closer to us.
in all Love,
Chris
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