[Seattle-editorial] RE: Seattle-editorial digest, Vol 1 #769 - 1 msg

[Gentry Lange]

I give it a thumbs up, but could use shortening for the front page, then
link to the full story.

Good job!

Gentry

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   1. Press Release: Peace Workers Arrive in Baghdad (Brandon Faloona)

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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 03:32:57 -0800 (PST)
From: "Brandon Faloona" <brandon at faloona.net>
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Subject: [Seattle-editorial] Press Release: Peace Workers Arrive in Baghdad

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:
Steven Shults
steven at inlet.org
www.inlet.org/wade
www.iraqpeaceteam.org

Peace Workers Arrive in Baghdad

Seattle, WA, March 13 — Wade Hudson arrived in Baghdad today with six
other members of the Iraq Peace Team (IPT), a project of Voices in the
Wilderness. The delegates of IPT do not consider themselves to be 'human
shields' but intend to stay in Baghdad in the event of an attack. There
they will participate in vigils and other demonstrations to protest the
war, provide support and assistance to the Iraqi people and witness,
listen, observe, and report back on their experiences.

The twelve hour bus ride to Baghdad follows five days in Amman, Jordan
where the delegates had waited for problems with their requested visas to
be sorted out. Acquiring visas for travel to Iraq is known to be a
cumbersome and unpredictable process under the best of circumstances, but
the looming possibility of war further complicated the process.

Hudson, a resident of Boulder Creek, is a writer, anti-poverty worker,
former mental health counselor, and lifelong community organizer. He has
initiated a number of grassroots organizations including the Network
Against Psychiatric Assault, Muni Coalition, Bay Area Transit Coalition,
District Eleven Residents Association, Bay Area Committee for Alternatives
to Psychiatry, Tenderloin Self-Help Center, Tenderloin Jobs Coalition, and
the 509 Cultural Center. In 1989, after spending a year in Washington DC
doing research on national economic policy, he founded the Solutions to
Poverty Workshop, which developed a ten-point program for ending poverty,
and organized the Campaign to Abolish Poverty, which persuaded Congressman
Ron Dellums to introduce the Living Wage Jobs For All Act. Wade then wrote
Economic Security for All: How to End Poverty in the United States and
organized the Economic Security Project, which opened the Internet
Learning Center as a place for low-income people to improve their computer
skills. He also served on the national governing board for the Alliance
for Democracy and initiated the San Francisco Progressive Challenge, which
supported the Progressive Challenge organized by the Institute of Policy
Studies.

Regarding his reasons for going to Iraq, Hudson said "With my tax dollars,
my government is preparing to inflict untold death and suffering on Iraqi
civilians even though most of the world opposes this war. This rush to
war, based on bribery and threats designed to overcome the will of the
people, is a challenge to democracy worldwide. So I am compelled to say
'not in my name' as strongly as I can."

"I've known about the work of the peacemaker community for some time,
primarily through the work of David Hartsough. I just think that building
a large peace force that could go into situations to help defuse and/or
mediate or otherwise discourage violence is a great possibility. On a
small scale, in places like villages in Columbia, there have been
successes already."

Hudson will be available for comment via land and satellite telephone
while such services remain operational. Updates from Wade’s journey,
including entries from his Baghdad Journal mailing list, are available at
http://inlet.org/wade/index.htm






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