corny? a bit. ricey? very much so.
anyway, it's worth a shot...

(i'll try anything that goes against the grain...)

(ouch.)

d



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THE RICE PROTEST

1) Place 1/2 c. uncooked rice in a small plastic bag (a snack-sized
bag or sandwich bag works fine).
2) Squeeze out excess air and seal the bag.
3) Wrap it in a piece of paper on which you have written: "If your
enemies are hungry, feed them. (Romans 12:20) Please send this rice to the
people of Iraq; do not attack them."
4) Place the paper and bag of rice in an envelope (either a letter-sized
or small padded mailing envelope - both are the same cost to mail) and
address it to:
President George Bush
White House - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500
5) Make a second package and mail it to (you don't need to affix postage
if mailing within Canada):
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A2

* Feel free to apply this to your own government!

Drop this in the mail TODAY. It is important to act NOW so that
President Bush and Prime Minister Chretien get our letters as soon as
possible!

In order for this protest to be effective, there must be hundreds
of thousands of such rice deliveries to the White House and Parliament
Hill. We can do this if we all forward this message to our friends and
family. If we get the message out, there will be packets from hundreds of
thousands of people!

There is a positive history of this protest! Read on!

In the mid 1950s, the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation, learning of
famine in the Chinese mainland, launched a "Feed Thine Enemy"
campaign. Members and friends mailed thousands of little bags of rice to
the White House with a tag quoting the Bible, "If thine enemy hunger, feed
him." As far as anyone knew for more than ten years, the campaign was an
abject failure. The President did not acknowledge receipt of the bags
publicly; certainly no rice was ever sent to China.

"What non-violent activists only learned a decade later was that the
campaign played a significant, perhaps even determining role in
preventing nuclear war. Twice while the campaign was on, President
Eisenhower met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to consider US options in the
conflict with China over two islands, Quemoy and Matsu. The generals twice
recommended the use of nuclear weapons. President Eisenhower each time
turned to his aide and asked how many little bags of rice had come in. When
told they numbered in the tens of thousands, Eisenhower told the generals
that as long as so many Americans were expressing active interest in having
the US feed the Chinese, he certainly wasn't going to consider using nuclear
weapons against them."

People Power: Applying Non-violence Theory by David H. Albert, p. 43, New
Society, 19.

Thank you all for being people of hope.




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"It's a mistake to think it's the small things we control and not the large,
it's the other way around! We can't stop the small accident, the tiny detail
that conspires into fate: the extra moment you run back for something
forgotten, a moment that saves you from an accident - or causes one. But we
can assert the largest order, the large human values daily, the only order
large enough to see."

Anne Michaels, _Fugitive Pieces_


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