Use Voices in the Wilderness resources to organize a teach-in/vigil at a local education, community or religious center. We can assist by sending speakers, videos, enlarged pictures, articles, brochures, and audiotapes. If you feel more comfortable with organizing smaller, less informal groups, invite your friends and family members and hold a teach-in right in your living room. Or simply distribute to family, friends and co-workers.

Seek venues for speakers that are "outside the choir" - in other words, try to connect with groups that we don’t frequently address, i.e., unions, parent teacher associations, child care networks, groups addressing child abuse, United Nations association.

Develop your own local mailing list for ongoing out reach.

Organize a blood drive, in your area, and donate blood locally, but in memory of Iraqi children who have suffered and died in Iraq. This could be done with a liturgical cast in which each donor makes a brief statement about what he or she is doing and explains their reasoning. Look up Blood Banks in your local yellow pages. Call around and see what it takes to set up a drive. Usually all you need is a minimum number of definite participants (it was 30 in Chicago) and a location. Try to get local community leaders, religious figures, and notables to agree to attend. And of course, as always, invite the media.

Ask doctor or staff of a department of a local hospital to "adopt" a department in an Iraqi hospital, arranging to send medical journals and pertinent articles to the hospital staff. Ask a doctor to present public health crises in Iraq as a teaching issue for Grand Rounds at the hospital. Invite media coverage.

Collect medical journals and send them to the Voices in the Wilderness address for transport to Iraq. Explain to the donors why you are collecting them.

Go to your local post office with 15 ounces of aspirin or vitamin to send to Iraq, addressed to: Iraqi Red Crescent Society, Al Monsour District, Baghdad, Iraq. The Post Office must refuse this package as it is against US law to send any item over 12 ounces or any item of value. Next take the pack to a local legislator’s office and ask for help in delivering these packages. Invite media coverage.

Make a donation to organizations working to end the sanctions.

Add your name and/or your organization’s name to the list of supporters of this campaign, and write a letter to Janet Reno expressing your intention to violate the sanctions by helping us bring medicine to Iraq and send delegations.

Disarmament in Iraq has been substantially achieved. However, the U.S. constantly moves the goal posts, giving Iraq no
incentive to further comply. (For example, ignoring the UN Resolution 687 that lists the conditions under which sanctions will be lifted, the U.S. insists on the removal of saddam Hussein before it would consider lifting sanctions.) Meanwhile, totally innocent
civilians are being killed. Killing innocent civilians is never an acceptable means for achieving a political goal. Instead, let Iraq back
into the world community and help rebuild its infrastructure and social structure by paying a just price for their oil.

Social change happens through properity, growth of a middle-class, measures of increased security, all of which the sanctions
effectively destroyed.

If the U.S. keeps multiplying its enemies, eventually it will have to pay a price.

There should be an embargo on sale of weapons, or of any materials or equipment that are used exclusively or predominantly for
military purposes. We should work towards disarming the entire region, rather than sacrificing an entire civilian population by targeting one country.

From Denis Halliday's address at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, on 11/5/98: