Change your facebook photo: URGENT Online Action Alert for Peace in Korea - Sun 11/28/10 and Wed 12/1/10
Juyeon JC Rhee
Pls circulate the attached factsheet as well as the following action alert on all your listserves and social networking sites!
Please let us know if you are participating! We will come up with ways to communicate online while online action is on!
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Action Alert – ONLINE RALLY for Peace in Korea - Sun 11/28 and Wed 12/1
President Obama is sending the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS
George Washington (carrying 75 warplanes and a crew of over 6000) and
other warships for additional war-games with the South Korean military
beginning this Sunday, November 28.
This only escalates the already tense situation on the Korean
peninsula and brings us dangerously closer to an all-out war.
And the blogosphere is already full of hate-mongering rhetoric calling
for “retaliation” after the tragic incident on Yeonpyong Island earlier this week.
Two civilians and two South Korean soldiers have died. We say NO MORE LOST LIVES.
We need all those who stand for peace to call for de-escalation on the
Korean peninsula and an immediate end to the U.S.-South Korean war
games.On Sunday, November 28, from 12 noon to 3 pm EST (9 am to 12 noon PST)
and Wednesday, December 1 from 7 pm to 10 pm EST (4pm to 7 pm PST)
Join the National Campaign to End the Korean War (www.endthekoreanwar.org) in a coordinated "online demonstration" -
1. Barrage the White House and State Department with emails and urge
President Obama and State Secretary Clinton to immediately stop the
joint U.S.-South Korean war maneuvers, and sign a Peace Treaty to end
the state of war that has existed for sixty years on the Korean
peninsula-
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
http://contact-us.state.gov
2. Post replies on online media sites and blogs where they are
discussing the issue and beat back the war-mongering rhetoric with
calls for de-escalation and a peaceful resolution. Refer to the
attached factsheet for talking points. Some suggested sites are-
www.cnn.com
www.nytimes.com
www.washingtonpost.com
www.huffingtonpost.com
www.npr.org
www.bbc.co.uk
www.news.yahoo.com
www.voanews.com
www.abcnews.go.com
www.foreignpolicy.com
3. Post links to articles calling for diplomacy on listserves, blogs, facebook-
• "North Korea's Consistent Message to the U.S."
By former President Jimmy Carter in the Washington Post, November 24, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/23/AR2010112305808.html
• “Retaliation, Retaliation"
by Paul Liem of the Korea Policy Institute, Nov 25, 2010
http://www.kpolicy.org
• "Crisis in Korea?"
by John Feffer, Co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus in the
Huffington Post, Nov 23,2010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-feffer/crisis-in-korea_b_787639.html
• Tim Shorrock
Posted on the Daily Beast.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-24/korea-standoff-barack-obama-only-has-one-choice/?cid=hp:mainpromo1
• Tim Shorrock
on Democracy Now
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/24/tim_shorrock_direct_talks_with_north
• “A Return Trip to North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Complex”
By Siegfried S. Hecker
http://www.nautilus.org/publications/essays/napsnet/reports/a-return-trip-to-north-korea2019s-yongbyon-nuclear-complex
• “Review U.S. Policy toward North Korea”
Bob Carlin and John Lewis
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/21/AR2010112102276.html