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ACTION ALERT * UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
United for Peace and Justice {click here} | 212-868-5545
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Speak Out Against the Imminent Assault on Falluja!
* contact your local media outlets to denounce the planned attack
* call the White House to express your outrage: 202-456-1111
* get ready for street protests should the full-scale assault begin
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Does the Bush administration plan to destroy Falluja in order to save it?

News reports indicate that the Bush administration will soon launch a major military assault on Falluja. More than 10,000 U.S. soldiers are amassing on Fallujah‚s outskirts, and U.S. warplanes are already bombing neighborhoods around the city.

If the U.S. carries out this assault, it will dramatically increase violence and chaos in Iraq. It will not bring about the peace and security that Iraqis greatly desire. The military occupation has already fueled anger and resentment against the U.S. and swelled the ranks of terrorist groups. We need to bring the troops home now and adopt a new approach that will move us toward peace, sovereignty, and security.

Military officials believe Falluja is the home of the nation-wide insurgency. Their goal in this assault is to induce other insurgent-held cities to capitulate before scheduled elections in January, and send a message to all Iraqis that opposition to the occupation has a high price.

U.S. officials and U.S.-installed Prime Minister Allawi say their only goal is „to liberate the people and to bring the rule of law to Falluja.‰ But when the U.S. military besieged Falluja last April, at least 600 Iraqis were killed, most of them civilians. Given the scale of the threatened assault, far more Iraqi civilians could be killed this time around, as well as many U.S. and Iraqi soldiers.

We will be sending you more information, resources, and calls to action should Falluja in fact suffer a major attack. But in the meantime, we urge you to begin raising a loud public outcry against the Bush administration‚s planned assault.

TAKE ACTION!

* CONTACT YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS
Flood your local media outlets with messages of opposition to the impending assault on Falluja. Write letters to the editor and send in opinion pieces. Call in to your local talk radio stations. Ask reporters if they would like to interview an anti-war activist.

* TELL PRESIDENT BUSH YOU OPPOSE THE ASSAULT ON FALLUJA
- Call the White House switchboard at 202-456-1111. The switchboard operator will likely forward you to the White House comment line, but you can only leave a message there Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm. If you can‚t get through, leave your message with the operator. It‚ll make it to the President.
- Leave a webmail message at https://sawho14.eop.gov/PERSdata/intro.htm . Be sure to select „write a differing comment,‰ „National Security,‰ and „Iraq.‰

* GET READY FOR STREET ACTION
If the assault on Falluja or any other major military escalation takes place in Iraq, we will need to be as visible and vocal as possible with our antiwar message. Make sure your group or organization is aware of what's happening; start planning local protest activities and post them on our calendar: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/calendar_gxinput.php

If you are not already in a group, visit the UFPJ web site to locate an organization near you: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?list=type&type=27

* KEEP ABREAST OF DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAQ
Get up-to-date news from Iraq at http://www.occupationwatch.org/ . Be sure to join Occupation Watch‚s email list.

For more information on the Falluja build-up, see these articles:
http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=7608
http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=7534

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