Lift the Sanctions on Iraq: An Ad in the New York Times, July 28, 2000

[The following advertizement was placed in the New York Times on July 28, 2000 by the Fellowship of Reconciliation. John Dear and Susan Sarandon contacted nationally recognized people to speak out against the economic sanctions on Iraq; those listed each contributed significantly to making the ad possible.]

ARE THE CHILDREN OF IRAQ OUR ENEMIES?

Ten years ago, on August 6, 1990, the U.S. imposed economic sanctions on Iraq. Since then, over one million Iraqis, mostly children under five, have died.

Ten years is enough! The military sanctions on Iraq should continue, but the economic sanctions not only do not work, they are killing innocent Iraqi children.

We say, the time has come to stop killing Iraqi children.

LIFT THE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON IRAQ NOW!

Susan Sarandon
Tim Robbins
Martin Sheen
Rosie O'Donnell
Sr. Helen Prejean
Bonnie Raitt
Mike Farrell
Joan Baez
Rev. William Sloane Coffin
Ed Asner
Jackson Browne
Robert Altman
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
Rabbi Douglas Krantz
Pete Seeger
Liam Neeson
Natasha Richardson
Richard Dreyfuss
Rev. Daniel Berrigan
Jeremy Irons

Sinead Cusack
Casey Kasem
Todd Oldham
Arun Gandhi
Mairead Maguire
Rev. James Lawson
Jose Ramos Horta
John Densmore
Richard Gere
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Sr. Joan Chittister
Noam Chomsky
Howard Zinn
David Dellinger
Ramsey Clark
Philip Berrigan
Dennis Halliday
Dr. Helen Caldicott
Dr. Patch Adams
Elise Boulding
Rev. John Dear
and the Fellowship of Reconciliation