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
567	November 10, 2011	Hope Rehak	, IL, US
566	August 23, 2010	Catharine Hay	, CA, US
565	December 27, 2009	Neelam Sharma	, ON, CA
564	December 24, 2009	Carla Hanson	, CO, US	Peace is the only answer
563	December 08, 2009	Denise Davidsmeier	, IL, United States	We need PEACEFUL solutions. What kind of example are we setting for our children?
562	December 02, 2009	Anonymous	, LA, US
561	December 01, 2009	Anonymous	, MN, US	Don't forget to build relations in every country. Build schools and be sure people have clean water. Show goodness and integrity so the people of each country will want to work with us. Work with the leaders who care about the people.
560	November 24, 2009	J. Steven Livacich	, CA, US
559	November 22, 2009	Mary Lloyd	, GA, US	I have lost confidence in and pride for my country, the USA. Our people are poorly education, I did not say uneducated, and the fundamentalist Christians have been given the idea by our former President Bush that they are right in their narrow minded and rigid ideas. It is ludicrous that Bush and his circle of powerful warriors got away with making him look like a fundamentalist preacher, with implimenting their plans for the war with Iraq and with calling anyone they didn't like a "terroist" including Saddem Hussein who was a dictator, and not being called on the carpet for any of it. Now we have a Congress that represents the confusing results of this terrible mess that our country is now it. Even if Mr Obama wants to put things in order and clean up the mess, there is no help for him, only adversarial good ole boys. Then there are the other battles besides war and potential bankrupty as the Social Security money was robbed from our workers and an expensive health care bill that doesn't really help people is being pushed through. I doubt that women will be heard, but until they are, doubt that things will get any better.
558	November 21, 2009	Claire Crutchley	, AL, US
557	November 20, 2009	Carol 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	March 07, 2010	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!!!!!

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