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NEWS & LETTERS, October 2002
Memphis peace vigil
Memphis, Tenn.--On the evening of Sept. 10, about a dozen
activists and community people held a candlelight vigil. It was in commemoration
of all the people who had died since Sept. 11, 2001. We wanted our vigil not
only to be for those who died from the destruction of the World Trade Center and
the other terrorist attacks that day, but also for the innocent people of
Afghanistan who were bombed out of existence by the U.S. We sat in a circle on the lawn of a local church, and we
listened to each other's thoughts. I chose to wear a t-shirt that night
commemorating the Montreal Massacre of 1989 when women engineering students were
separated from the men and gunned down by a man who called them "a bunch of
f------ feminists." I said that I wore that shirt because I wanted us to
remember the women who have died, be that in Canada, the U.S. or the women in
Afghanistan who were killed first by the Russians, then by the Northern
Alliance, then by the Taliban, then by the U.S., and now by the Northern
Alliance again. I said that the proof that Bush cares nothing for these women
was his denial of $34 million to the UN Population Fund, a move that would cause
the death of thousands of women and children, including in Afghanistan. Others spoke about the dangers of Bush's planned war
against Iraq. We also used this occasion to begin planning action against the
next war to come. --Terry Moon |
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