(photo: CPT)

Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Justice Not Vengeance call for bell ringing ceremonies to grieve and protest the deaths of Iraqis in the US/UK war and occupation.

October 24th – 28th

As people opposed to the US/UK war and occupation of Iraq, we act to end the silence about the suffering and death in Iraq and to publicly unlock the grief that it has caused in our communities. On October 24th – 28th, to mark the anniversary of the release of the Lancet Study on 29 October 2004, each sponsoring group will act out our grief by gathering in a public place for a simple and solemn “Bell Ringing” ceremony. We will ring a bell–one ring per minute–1,000 times, each ring symbolizing the death of an Iraqi person as a result of the war and occupation.

We call upon other communities to organize similar bell ringing ceremonies on these days. One hundred communities ringing a bell 1,000 times would equal 100,000 rings, the estimate of the Lancet study.

For complete information about this project visit IraqMortality.org

• IRAQ MORTALITY WEBSITE
• CALL FROM VOICES FOR CREATIVE NONVIOLENCE AND JUSTICE NOT VENGEANCE
• PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR THE 100,000 RINGS PROJECT
• SIGN UP FORM
• POSTCARD
• Also on the wesite, ARTICLES AND ANALYSIS pertaining to the Iraq mortality studies that have been published.