[Budderfly]

...forwarded from a friend. It's a little wacky, but I like it.
~BUdderfly



"We can do no great things,
We can only do small things with great love."


1) Place 1/2 c. uncooked rice in a small plastic bag (a snack-sized
bag or sandwich bag works fine).
2) Squeeze out excess air and seal the bag.
3) Wrap it in a piece of paper on which you have written: "If your
enemies are hungry, feed them. (Romans 12:20) Please send this rice to
the people of Iraq; do not attack them."
4) Place the paper and bag of rice in an envelope (either a letter-sized or small padded mailing envelope - both are the same cost to mail) and address it to:

President George Bush
White House - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500

5) Make a second package and mail it to (you don't need to affix postage if mailing within Canada):

Prime Minister Jean Chrétien
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A2

* Feel free to apply this to your own government!

Drop this in the mail TODAY. It is important to act NOW so that
President Bush and Prime Minister Chretien get our letters as soon as
possible!

In order for this protest to be effective, there must be hundreds
of thousands of such rice deliveries to the White House and Parliament
Hill. We can do this if we all forward this message to our friends and
family. If we get the message out, there will be packets from hundreds of thousands of people!

There is a positive history of this protest! Read on!]\

In the mid 1950s, the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation, learning of
famine in the Chinese mainland, launched a "Feed Thine Enemy"
campaign. Members and friends mailed thousands of little bags of rice to
the White House with a tag quoting the Bible, "If thine enemy hunger,
feed him." As far as anyone knew for more than ten years, the campaign was an abject failure. The President did not acknowledge receipt of the bags publicly; certainly no rice was ever sent to China.

"What nonviolent activists only learned a decade later was that the
campaign played a significant, perhaps even determining role in
preventing nuclear war. Twice while the campaign was on, President
Eisenhower met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to consider US options in the conflict with China over two islands, Quemoy and Matsu. The generals twice recommended the use of nuclear weapons. President Eisenhower each time turned to his aide and asked how many little bags of rice had come in. When told they numbered in the tens of thousands, Eisenhower told the generals that as long as so many Americans were expressing active interest in having the US feed the Chinese, he certainly wasn't going to consider using nuclear weapons against them."

People Power: Applying Nonviolence Theory by David H. Albert, p. 43, New
Society, 19.


Thank you all for being people of hope.

[electricbuford]

EXCELLENT IDEA , I just wonder if Bush - wacked would be willing to put his money where his mouth is on this subject since he is supposedly so god fearing - or at least thats what he says in public . I don't know much about Cray - tee - yan , maybe canadians should just send him a note reminding him that Canada is a sovereign nation that should decide what is best for it's own foreign policy interests , rather than those of the u.s.

[RoyalHighlander]

electricbuford electricbuford:

EXCELLENT IDEA , I just wonder if Bush - wacked would be willing to put his money where his mouth is on this subject since he is supposedly so god fearing - or at least thats what he says in public . I don't know much about Cray - tee - yan , maybe canadians should just send him a note reminding him that Canada is a sovereign nation that should decide what is best for it's own foreign policy interests , rather than those of the u.s.

Buddy yur almost a CAnuck already ............