We have a process for new volunteer orientation and assignment, as well as a vast list of ideas about what we wish we could do. Respected community leaders will break sanctions law in Seattle. More than 130 community leaders and citizens of Seattle have committed to publicly break US sanctions law. Senator Craig said of US sanctions policy towards Iraq, 'The use of food as a weapon is wrong. International law prohibits using food as a weapon - withholding food from civilians is a crime against humanity.
Polluted water is the 'prime killer' of Iraqi children.
Whether or not you can be with us in person, adding your name is a public statement that you're willing to oppose and break an immoral law - a law which withholds food, medicine, and safe drinking water from civilians in order to coerce a foreign government. The sanctions have been widely condemned as a form of warfare, a 'weapon of mass destruction', directed against the civilian population. Nonetheless, sanctions are being sustained at the insistence of the U.S. government.