CODEPINK : Women Say No To War

Afghan Women Say NO to the Surge—Stand with Them:

Sign this petition and stand in solidarity with the women of Afghanistan as they speak out against the surge.

“To fight is not the solution. We have a mouth and a brain, we should talk.” --Dr. H.B. Ghazanfar, Women’s Affairs Minister (Translated by Fawzia Habibi, Director of Coordination & International Relations for the Ministry of Women’s Affairs)

The petition has already been signed by:

Uzma Noorani	Pakistan	Human Rights Commission in Pakistan
Baela Raza Jamil	Pakistan	ITA Public Trust
Dr. K. Lalita	India	Chair, Yugantar NGO
Dr. Kawsar Salehi	Afghanistan	MOPH
Surya Parlika	Afghanistan	Afghan Women’s Network
Najia Zewari	Afghanistan	Gender & Justice Officer, UNIFEM
Noojris Nehan	Afghanistan
Dr. Alema	Afghanistan	Afghan Women’s Network
Zoya Hassan	India	Professor, Center for Political Studies, Jawarharlal Nehru University
Dr. Roshanak Wardak	Afghanistan	Gynecologist and Member of Parliament
Leeda Yqoobi	Afghanistan	Deputy Director, Afghan Women’s Network
Sheila Samimi	Afghanistan	Advocacy Director, Afghan Women’s Network
Wazhma Karzai	Afghanistan	Sister-in-Law of the President

President Obama,

We, the women of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and the United States, implore you to refrain from sending more United States military forces to Afghanistan.

We encourage you to work quickly for a political solution in Afghanistan that will lead to a reconciliation process in which women will fully participate and a withdrawal of foreign military forces.

Sending more military forces will only increase the violence and will do further harm to women in children. Instead, the funds should be redirected to improving the health, education and welfare of the Afghan people.

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Number	Date	Name	Location	Add your message for Congress
557	November 20, 2009	Jan Garrett	, AL, US	Please don't sacrifice thousands of lives for political ambition. Peace = prosperity; war = ruin.
556	November 20, 2009	Rev. Diana Allende	, AL, US
555	November 20, 2009	Christine Kennedy	, AL, US
554	November 20, 2009	Ruth Busch	, AL, US
553	November 20, 2009	Jean Scott	, AL, US	Please end the US slaughter of Afghanistan.
552	November 20, 2009	Caryl Lloyd	, GA, US	Send no more forces to Afganistan. Let us use the more suasive power of aid: food, medical supplies.
551	November 20, 2009	Judy Collins	, AL, US	And in our own country the astronomical amounts spent on war should be immediately redirected toward our own healing---of the environment where King Coal must be unseated and replaced by safe solar. Greening the economy will create desperately needed jobs. Redirect funds to education of our people, to health care, to education--building the WELL fare of our country instead of further preparation for and administration of wars, destroying our own sons and daughters as well as those of the Afghans and Iraqis , also Palestinians, and Israelis and all others killed through our funding of weapons and military forces.
550	November 19, 2009	mike hunt	, AP, US	These code pink people are traitors that should be investigated,tried, and imprisoned at the least. they are breaking the LAW by going to foriegn countries and consorting with the enemies of the U.S.
549	November 16, 2009	Irene Hanssen	, ON, CA
548	November 15, 2009	Darcy Sweeney	, MA, US
547	November 14, 2009	Tusi Gastonguay	, MA, US	Please listen to the people!
546	November 06, 2009	Jodi Rose	, CA, US
545	November 02, 2009	Anonymous	, CA, US	What do women of the world have to do to have their voices rise above the profiteering warmongers wo are sacrificing lives to fund an unsustainable war-driven society? Albert Einstein is quoted as having said that repeating the same process over and over again and expecting a different outcome each time is insanity. Military force has not succeeded in doing more than destroy human lives-- American and Afghani. When does this insantity end and responsible government begin?
544	November 02, 2009	Anonymous	, CA, US	What do women of the world have to do to have their voices rise above the profiteering warmongers wo are sacrificing lives to fund an unsustainable war-driven society? Albert Einstein is quoted as having said that repeating the same process over and over again and expecting a different outcome each time is insanity. Military force has not succeeded in doing more than destroy human lives-- American and Afghani. When does this insantity end and responsible government begin?
543	October 30, 2009	Marisol Solares	, CA, US	STOP THE WAR!!!!!
542	October 29, 2009	Chloe Fulton	, CA, US
541	October 25, 2009	Angeline johnson	, WA, US
540	October 21, 2009	walter howard	, MI, US	HEALTHCARE NOT WARFARE!!!!!!!
539	October 21, 2009	Doris Rowe	, NY, US	I voted for you Mr. President to STOP the WAR in Afghanistan. Why are you holding back on your promises? None of my business? As a woman, I speak for other women who find more troops repugnant. Send 40,000 women to talk their way through this mess. Something is not working there. More troops will not do it. More talks. More posters. Mail flown in from planes advertising the freedom and lives of women (with children, mind you) in Afghanistan to be freed of the fear of being killed by more bombing. Send 40,000 women .. it'll knock their socks off. The Woman Brigade! Think about it, Michelle!
538	October 21, 2009	carl murray	, NY, US
537	October 21, 2009	maryann delany	, FL, US
536	October 20, 2009	Sarah Mills	, CA, US	'"Withdraw troops and empower disarmament and democratic groups. We are not free; we are not liberated." ~Afghanistan native Zoya
535	October 20, 2009	Richard Van Aken	, PA, US	Listen to the people they know what they need it's their country. Stop the needless deaths of civilians and focus on improving the lives of the people. We and the people of Afghanistan will benefit immensely from a change to our approach.
534	October 20, 2009	Brianna Rigg	, CA, US	Perhaps we should spend our dollars on infrastructure and education in Afghanistan, rather than on increased troops. Who are we really trying to help?
533	October 20, 2009	Sheila Michaels	, MO, US	Sending more troops, sending people trained to kill, misuses the tax money I pay for a government of the people, here & abroad.

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