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Reis statt Bomben via bizstoneSubject: RICE INSTEAD OF BOMBS
Date: Thu, Jan 30, 2003, 9:45 AM
There is a grassroots campaign underway to protest war in Iraq in a
simple, but potentially powerful way.
Place 1/3 cup uncooked rice in a small plastic bag (a snack-size bag or
sandwich bag work fine). Squeeze out excess air and seal the bag. Wrap
it in a piece of paper on which you have written, "If your enemies are
hungry, feed them. Romans 12:20. Please send this rice to the people of
Iraq; do not attack them." (or, of course, whatever you wish to write.)
Place the paper and bag of rice in an envelope (either a letter-sized or
padded mailing envelope--both are the same cost to mail) and address
them to:
President George Bush
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500
Attach $1.06 in postage. (Three 37-cent stamps equal $1.11)
Drop this in the mail. It is important to act NOW so that President Bush
gets the letters ASAP. In order for this protest to be effective, there
must be hundreds of thousands of such rice deliveries to the White
House. We can do this if you each forward this message to your friends
and family.
There is a positive history of this protest! In the 1950s, Fellowship
of Reconciliation began a similar protest, which is credited with
influencing President Eisenhower against attacking China. Read on:
"In the mid-1950s, the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation, learning
of famine in the Chinese mainland, launched a 'Feed Thine Enemy'
campaign. Members and friends mailed thousands of little bags of rice
to the White House with a tag quoting the Bible, 'If thine enemy hunger,
feed him.' As far as anyone knew for more than ten years, the campaign
was an abject failure. The President did not acknowledge receipt of the
bags publicly; certainly, no rice was ever sent to China. What
nonviolent activists only learned a decade later was that the campaign
played a significant, perhaps even determining role in preventing
nuclear war. Twice while the campaign was on, President Eisenhower met
with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to consider U.S. options in the conflict
with China over two islands, Quemoy and Matsu. The generals twice
recommended the use of nuclear weapons. President Eisenhower each time
turned to his aide and asked how many little bags of rice had come in.
When told they numbered in the tens of thousands, Eisenhower told the
generals that as long as so many Americans were expressing active
interest in having the U.S. feed the Chinese, he certainly wasn't going
to consider using nuclear weapons against them."
Reis statt Bomben via bizstoneSubject: RICE INSTEAD OF BOMBS
Date: Thu, Jan 30, 2003, 9:45 AM
There is a grassroots campaign underway to protest war in Iraq in a
simple, but potentially powerful way.
Place 1/3 cup uncooked rice in a small plastic bag (a snack-size bag or
sandwich bag work fine). Squeeze out excess air and seal the bag. Wrap
it in a piece of paper on which you have written, "If your enemies are
hungry, feed them. Romans 12:20. Please send this rice to the people of
Iraq; do not attack them." (or, of course, whatever you wish to write.)
Place the paper and bag of rice in an envelope (either a letter-sized or
padded mailing envelope--both are the same cost to mail) and address
them to:
President George Bush
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500
Attach $1.06 in postage. (Three 37-cent stamps equal $1.11)
Drop this in the mail. It is important to act NOW so that President Bush
gets the letters ASAP. In order for this protest to be effective, there
must be hundreds of thousands of such rice deliveries to the White
House. We can do this if you each forward this message to your friends
and family.
There is a positive history of this protest! In the 1950s, Fellowship
of Reconciliation began a similar protest, which is credited with
influencing President Eisenhower against attacking China. Read on:
"In the mid-1950s, the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation, learning
of famine in the Chinese mainland, launched a 'Feed Thine Enemy'
campaign. Members and friends mailed thousands of little bags of rice
to the White House with a tag quoting the Bible, 'If thine enemy hunger,
feed him.' As far as anyone knew for more than ten years, the campaign
was an abject failure. The President did not acknowledge receipt of the
bags publicly; certainly, no rice was ever sent to China. What
nonviolent activists only learned a decade later was that the campaign
played a significant, perhaps even determining role in preventing
nuclear war. Twice while the campaign was on, President Eisenhower met
with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to consider U.S. options in the conflict
with China over two islands, Quemoy and Matsu. The generals twice
recommended the use of nuclear weapons. President Eisenhower each time
turned to his aide and asked how many little bags of rice had come in.
When told they numbered in the tens of thousands, Eisenhower told the
generals that as long as so many Americans were expressing active
interest in having the U.S. feed the Chinese, he certainly wasn't going
to consider using nuclear weapons against them."
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