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From: "Robert S. Ireland" <>
Subject: [MDCAROLI] Fw: Join our national leafleting campaign.
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 04:53:32 -0500


----- Original Message -----
From: "Zack Exley, MoveOn.org" <>
To: "Robert S. Ireland" <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 12:13 AM
Subject: Join our national leafleting campaign.


> Dear MoveOn Member,
>
> This week we're launching our nationwide anti-war leafleting project,
> a key part of our grassroots PR campaign. MoveOn volunteers have
> already formed over 400 leafleting teams in 44 states. Join or create
> a leafleting team in your area today, and help us build even more
> momentum against the war:
>
> http://moveon.org/leaflets?id=1051-79375-hJ9gMXZ2Y9._F1K7s63d.g
>
> This is a very hopeful moment: this weekend the world definitively
> said "No" to war. There were massive protests on every continent.
> London's was the largest in that city's history. In America, over one
> million people said "No" to war at dozens of demonstrations despite
> snow and bitter cold in many cities. And this time, the media noticed.
> Pundits are even beginning to ask if war is possible in the face of
> such strong opposition. (See below for an example.)
>
> Polls have shown that when people have the facts, they oppose the war.
> Our leafleting project is designed to give people the facts, person to
> person, in hundreds of cities and towns. A majority of Americans
> support giving the inspections time to work. Nevertheless, many have
> accepted key false claims of the Administration's case for war.
>
> To debunk those claims, MoveOn members are handing out fact-sheets in
> hundreds of communities this week. On our Web site, you can locate and
> join leafleting groups near you. Or you can create your own, and allow
> other MoveOn members in your area to join.
>
> There are already over 400 leafleting meet-ups scheduled -- and we
> haven't even really gotten started. Please join or create a leafleting
> team today:
>
> http://moveon.org/leaflets?id=1051-79375-hJ9gMXZ2Y9._F1K7s63d.g
>
> Suggestions and resources for leafleting are available on the Web
> site.
>
> If 10,000 people participate, we'll be able to distribute up to a
> million leaflets. More importantly, we will be showing others in our
> community that they are not alone in their opposition to the war. This
> will have an enormous impact.
>
> See you leafleting!
>
> Sincerely,
> --The MoveOn Team
> Carrie, Eli, Joan, Peter, Wes, Zack
> February 17, 2003
>
>
> PS: Here's an update on how our grassroots PR campaign is unfolding
> nationwide...
>
> 1) A Million Signs -- ACTIVE NOW
> Go to http://www.moveon.org/inspectionswork/
> (Volunteers have pledged to post 57,000 signs and placards so
> far.)
>
> 2) Leafleting -- ACTIVE NOW
> Over 400 leafleting teams already formed.
>
> 3) Billboards and Buses -- SUCCESS
> We raised enough money to put up billboards and bus ads in several
> cities. Viacom at first refused to place our ad, but calls from
> MoveOn members convinced them otherwise.
>
> 4) Ads in 100+ Newspapers -- STAY TUNED
>
> 5) A Really Cool Coalition Effort -- TO BE ANNOUNCED FEB 18TH
>
> ---
> Here's a great example of the impact of this weekend's protests:
>
> "A New Power in the Streets"
> By PATRICK E. TYLER
> New York Times, Feb. 17 2003
>
> http://nytimes.com/2003/02/17/international/middleeast/17ASSE.html
>
> "WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 - The fracturing of the Western alliance over
> Iraq and the huge antiwar demonstrations around the world this weekend
> are reminders that there may still be two superpowers on the planet:
> the United States and world public opinion."
>
> "...In his campaign to disarm Iraq, by war if necessary, President
> Bush appears to be eyeball to eyeball with a tenacious new adversary:
> millions of people who flooded the streets of New York and dozens of
> other world cities to say they are against war based on the evidence
> at hand."
>
> "...War, like politics, is affected by psychology and momentum. The
> strong surge in momentum the Bush administration felt after Secretary
> of State Colin L. Powell's Feb. 5 presentation to the Security Council
> on the case for war has been undermined by at least four converging
> negatives.
>
> "The most obvious is the rupture in relations between Mr. Bush and
> some of his principal partners in Europe: France and Germany, now
> joined by Russia, China and a growing list of other countries. Just
> weeks ago, it seemed that Mr. Bush was successfully coaxing France and
> Germany into the war camp, especially after one of the chief United
> Nations weapons inspectors, Hans Blix, delivered a negative report on
> Jan. 27 on Iraqi compliance.
>
> "But the swell of popular opposition to war across Europe, the second
> negative, plus the corrosive effects of the hawkish jibes that Defense
> Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and others have hurled across the
> Atlantic, have only roiled the waters further. Washington discovered
> just how deeply Western unity had been sundered when it asked for
> defensive NATO deployments to Turkey to protect that front-line state
> from Iraqi intimidation - a request that brought opposition and
> contentious debate that were resolved today."
>
> "...Mr. Powell promised new intelligence on connections between Iraq
> and Al Qaeda, but then did not provide it, at least within public
> view. And he did not respond to Mr. Blix when the arms inspector
> challenged one point of the American intelligence briefing of Feb. 5."
>
> "...an exceptional phenomenon has appeared on the streets of world
> cities.... politicians and leaders are unlikely to ignore it."
>
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