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Aug-6-2006 15:09

There will be international virgils in many countries on August 7th. They're a call for both Israel and Lebanon.

The aims:
-call for a ceasefire
-demand that all governments stop the supply of arms to the conflict
-stand in solidarity with the victims and survivors on both sides of the Israel/Lebanon conflict.

For more details:
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/lebanonisrael-action-eng

Aug-7-2006 02:06

Thank you for posting this LED.

Who cares about the politics. I'm with oxfam, icrc, human rights watch, and every other neutral human rights ngo in calling for an imediate end to the violence. I just want to see the bloodshed, deaths, and suffering stop ON BOTH SIDES.

After the violence stops, then let the politicians and diplomats hash out the solutions across the tables with pens and ink instead of with bombs and rockets.

Hmmm.. Don't remember left wing 101 in all my IR and PLSI classes... Most everyone I learned from was pretty conservative. Wonder how that explains me? LOL! I don't want to liberalise or conservatise the world, I just want to save it.

Aug-7-2006 02:10

weird. I must be so liberal the computer posted it twice! lmao! I'm not I swear. I'm fiscally conservative. Subscribe to the wall street journal and everything. lol. oh well. sorry about the double post guys

Aug-7-2006 03:06

There were vigils during the war in Croatia and Bosnia, but I don't think they helped much. They are probably good for forming public opinion, and you don't feel alone in the world, but they don't touch the centres of power who are the real war lords.