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From the Guardian:
"Not in their names
The American people are more opposed to their president's war plans than the rest of the world may be aware, says Duncan Campbell
Tuesday September 24, 2002"
"Kelly Campbell, a young woman from San Francisco, lost her brother-in-law, Craig Amundson, in the September 11 attack on the Pentagon. She and around 50 others who lost relatives that day have since formed the anti-war group, September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.
Last weekend in Ojai, a small town in southern California, Ms Campbell addressed a gathering organised at the library by the local People in Black peace group to talk about her work.
She explained that the group wanted their dead relatives remembered in peaceful ways and for this reason they had devoted their energies to working with families of those killed in error by US bomb attacks on Afghanistan and in campaigning against military retaliation.
One of the points that Ms Campbell made was that although both local press and the international media were interested in their work, they had great difficulty in catching the attention of the national US media.
Perhaps for this reason, the most visible signs of opposition to plans for war have come in the form of paid ads at around $100,000 a page, for instance, in the New York Times. Last week there two such whole-page ads."
ppman
"Not in their names
The American people are more opposed to their president's war plans than the rest of the world may be aware, says Duncan Campbell
Tuesday September 24, 2002"
"Kelly Campbell, a young woman from San Francisco, lost her brother-in-law, Craig Amundson, in the September 11 attack on the Pentagon. She and around 50 others who lost relatives that day have since formed the anti-war group, September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.
Last weekend in Ojai, a small town in southern California, Ms Campbell addressed a gathering organised at the library by the local People in Black peace group to talk about her work.
She explained that the group wanted their dead relatives remembered in peaceful ways and for this reason they had devoted their energies to working with families of those killed in error by US bomb attacks on Afghanistan and in campaigning against military retaliation.
One of the points that Ms Campbell made was that although both local press and the international media were interested in their work, they had great difficulty in catching the attention of the national US media.
Perhaps for this reason, the most visible signs of opposition to plans for war have come in the form of paid ads at around $100,000 a page, for instance, in the New York Times. Last week there two such whole-page ads."
ppman
