V-Day's mission is to end violence against women and girls worldwide.
We oppose War with Iraq. We urge the American government to remember the Iraqi women and children who make up the majority of the country.
As such, we stand in opposition to war. We ask all political leaders to break the old paradigm of responding to violence with more violence. Instead we urge them to seek more sophisticated solutions that work to reveal the root causes of violence and transformation of violence rather than the escalation of it.
We have seen the effects of war first hand in Bosnia, Kosova, Palestine, Israel and Afghanistan where devastation to innocent people is rampant and the cycle of violence perpetuates in daily lives. We have seen for example how in Afghanistan the terror and conflict lives on even as the American troops remain.
We oppose War with Iraq. We urge the American government to remember the Iraqi women and children who make up the majority of the country. If bombs fall on Iraq, they will be the ones to either die or suffer the consequences. We urge the American government to heed the call of the rising global movement to end violence, to stand as a moral world leader, acting with the world for peace rather than dominating and dividing the world and moving it towards destruction.
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