– 2006-05-30 07:51:15
ORGANIZATIONS ALREADY TAKING ACTION ON IRAN
Bush and the neocons could attack Iran very soon; or they may wait until closer to the elections, to try to rally voters to keep the Republicans in power in congress. If your group is not working on this issue, hopefully you will be soon!
Even a conventional attack on Iran, if resisted by Iran, could spiral into regional or even world nuclear war.
This poses the most serious crisis since Russian leaders repeatedly threatened the United States with possible nuclear war during the 1999 US/NATO attacks on Serbia.
(See relevant quotes at http://carolmoore.net/nuclear war)
ACTIVIST GROUPS
(Does not include many member groups of United for Peace and Justice)
• Antiwar.Com
http://www.antiwar.com
**daily news about and opinion pieces against US attack on Iran
• After Downing Street.Org
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/iran
** organized widely publicized and endorsed petition vs. strike on Iran
which Cindy Sheehan and others will deliver to White House on May 18th
• Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII)
http://www.campaigniran.org/
**International group of peace and Iranian activists working against attack
• Don’t Attack Iran
http://dontattackiran.org
• Friends Committee National Legislation
http://fcnl.org
http://www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=1687&issue_id=45
** Issued statements against an attack
• Peace Action
http://peace-action.org
** front page link to strong statement for nuclear free Middle East, including Israel
• Don’t Attack Iran Petition
• Stop the War Now
http://StopTheWarNow.Net
Working against attack on Iran for almost 2 years
• United for Peace And Justice
http://unitedforpeace.org
** Statement vs. Iran war
http://unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3240
** Legislative Lobbying during May probably will include against attack
on Iran
• World Can’t Wait
http://www.worldcantwait.net/
POLICY ORGANIZATIONS
• British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
http://www.basicint.org/countries/iran/statement.htm
Iran ** State of December 2005
• Institute for Policy Studies
http://ips-dc.org
Phyllis Bennis and Stephen Zunes peices against attacking Iran.
• Physicians for Social Responsibility
**Statement against the attack
http://www.psr.org/documents/psr_doc_0/program_4/iran_attack.pdf
**Will soon make available signon petitions for physicians and for general public
• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
http://www.ippnw.org/
**Front page statement vs. strike on Iran
• Union of Concerned Scientists, USA
http://ucsusa.org
** Video and statement vs. Iran nuclear war, though video does show how conventional strikes would be sufficient for military needs.
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/commentary/administrations-nuclear.html
