The cost of a human life is too expensive. Marist College students offer their emotional and physical support as activists all over the world are hard at work to end the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United Nations. Brooke Beltran, a senior international business major, said she believes change can only come from a movement of the people.
Advocacy groups claim the situation in Iraq becomes increasingly urgent with each passing day.
Unicef estimates that 1.5 million children will suffer malnutrition and imminent death as a result of the sanctions. Rabia Harris, coordinator of the Muslim Peace Fellowship in Nyack, NY, said that the economic sanctions being imposed on Iraq are futile as well as disastrous. In addition to being inconsequential. Voices in the Wilderness is another activist organization based in Chicago, Illinois and is made up of teachers, social workers, parents, church workers and authors. The group has launched a campaign to break the immoral sanctions against the people of Iraq.