Fwd: [Seattle-editorial] feature proposal

Fri Aug 30 18:27:00 PDT 2002

Great work Ngaio -- and congratulations on doing your first indymedia 
feature!!  I hope there'll be many more to come!

If you have a chance, you might want to do a quick search on the seattle 
site for previous links related to the ICC. I remember seeing a few posts 
when the court was first instituted.  As for an image?  ...  hmm, I wonder 
if the ICC has a logo we could grab off the Web (google 'image' searches 
can be great for this type of thing).

But thumbs up as is!!

- Susan

At 04:22 PM 8/30/02, jonathan lawson wrote:
>Very good! I give this thumbs up.
>
>The first step to your good idea will just be to post the longer version 
>to the newswire. Then once your feature proposal gets athe needed 
>additional approval, it can be linked to your newswire article..make sense?
>
>many thanks
>Jonathan
>
>So,At 11:51 AM 8/30/2002 -0700, Ngaio Robertson Halsey wrote:
>
>>Alright.
>>
>>I still like all the information I have below.  REgardless if it is too 
>>long, I
>>think it's important and I would like to include it on the newswire (the
>>posting bit to the left) and have a link at the bottom of the feature that
>>leads to it.  Here is a shorter re-write.
>>What do you think?
>>
>>Ngaio Halsey
>>ngaio at riseup.net
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Title: East Timor and US sign treaty
>>Subtitle: US Government Attempts to Further Undermine Global Justice with
>>Article 98
>>
>>On August 26th, East Timor became the third country, after Israel and Romania
>>to sign Article 98, a treaty with the United States pledging that neither 
>>will
>>prosecute each other’s soldiers in the International Criminal
>>Court<www.globalpolicy.org/wldcourt/> in The Hague.
>>
>>The US government disputes the impartialness of the court with claims that
>>other countries, envious of the United States’s power, will attempt to abuse
>>the ICC and unfairly target US soldiers for prosecution of war crimes.
>>Supporters of the ICC, claim that the guidelines drawn up for the ICC will
>>prevent this from happening.
>>
>>The International Criminal Court was born July 1st, 2002.  So far, 76 of the
>>original 139 signees<www.iccnow.org/html/country.html>, have ratified their
>>memberships.  The ICC is similar to, but a permanent replacement of,
>>international tribunals<www.hrw.org/wr2k1/intro/intro15.html>, meant to try
>>genocide and other crimes against humanity.  The ICC intends only to try
>>individuals when their home states fail to take adequate disciplinary actions
>>themselves.
>>
>>To read more, go to

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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Forwarded message from Ngaio Robertson Halsey <ngaio at riseup.net> -----
>>Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:57:46 -0700
>>     From: Ngaio Robertson Halsey <ngaio at riseup.net>
>>Reply-To: Ngaio Robertson Halsey <ngaio at riseup.net>
>>  Subject: [Seattle-editorial] feature proposal
>>       To: editorial at seattle.indymedia.org
>>
>>
>>
>>Hello IMC
>>
>>This is my first time proposing a feature..so please be patient.
>>Unfamiliar with how to create links, I simply left the websites in bracketts.
>>Also, I didn't attach a picture..I just remembered now that I might want one.
>>Suggestions on a graphic would be welcome.  I am not sure if I am still 
>>on the
>>editorals list, so if you wish to respond, include my e-mail address as well.
>>Thank you.
>>
>>Ngaio Halsey
>>ngaio at riseup.net
>>
>>- 
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>Title: East Timor Signs Treaty with US
>>Subtitle: US Attempts to Furthur Undermine Global Justice
>>
>>On August 26th, East Timor became the third country, after Israel and Romania
>>to sign
>>Article 98, a treaty with the United States pledgng that neither will 
>>prosecute
>>each other’s soldiers in the International Criminal
>>Court<www.globalpolicy.org/wldcourt/> in the Hague.
>>
>>Though once a proponent for the ICC, the United States, now under the Bush
>>administration, has “un-signed” a 
>>treaty<www.iccnow.org/html/icc19990712.html>
>>that signals an intention to ratify the US’s membership into the 
>>International
>>Criminal Court.  The US government defends itself with claims that other
>>countries, envious of the United States’s power, will attempt to abuse 
>>the ICC
>>and unfairly target US soldiers for prosecution of war crimes.  Supporters of
>>the ICC, claim that the guidelines drawn up for the ICC will prevent this 
>>from
>>happening.  Suspicions have arisen that the US is more fearful of their 
>>leaders
>>being prosecutable for war crimes than actual soldiers.
>>
>>Still wary of the possibilty that US soldiers may be tried under the newly
>>formed International Criminal Court, the US government jeopardized dozens of
>>peace-keeping missions<www.globalpolicy.org/security/peacekpg> by threatening
>>to withdraw all US support unless the ICC granted special immunity from
>>prosecution to all US militray personnel.
>>
>>In mid-July, after three weeks of negotiations, the US and the UN agreed to
>>suspend any action on either side for a year.  But since then, the US has
>>actively persued countries internationally with a treaty pledeging that 
>>neither
>>country will send each other’s soldiers to the ICC.    Countries, refusing to
>>sign, declare their intention to stand firmly behind the ideal of equal
>>treatment under global law.
>>
>>The International Criminal Court was born July 1st, 2002.  So far, 76 of the
>>original 139 signees<www.iccnow.org/html/country.html>, have ratified their
>>memberships.  The ICC is similar to, but a permanent replacement of,
>>international tribunals<www.hrw.org/wr2k1/intro/intro15.html>, meant to try
>>genocide and other crimes against humanity.  The ICC intends only to try
>>individuals when their home states fail to take adequete disciplinary actions
>>themselves.
>>
>>
>>
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