Is Bush Guilty Of Crimes Against Humanity?

Please distribute: IS BUSH GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES ANDCRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY? THE EVIDENCE IS IN... THE FINALVERDICT WILL BE RELEASED SOON...

The Bush CrimesCommission is launching a nation-wide campus tour this week,starting at UC Berkeley Speaking the Unspeakable: Is theBush Administration Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes AgainstHumanity? This is a tour of prominent whistleblowers,eye-witnesses, victims and experts, including excerpts oftestimony on video that reveal the stark reality of the BushAdministrations' war crimes and crimes against humanity acts that, by their scale or nature, shock the conscience ofhumankind.

This is a tour of truth tellers. To quoteMichael Ratner from this second session: "And so, as[Bertrand] Russell said then, we say today: we are puttingthe Bush administration on trial. We investigate in order toexpose; we document in order to indict; we arouseconsciousness in order to create mass resistance. ... Ourcountry and our world are at a tipping point. Tipping towardpermanent war, the end of human rights, and theimpoverishment and death of millions. We still have achance, an opportunity to stop this slide into chaos. But itis up to us."

It IS up to us. Your assistance is needed tomake this tour possible. This spring we are focusing on theBay Area, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, DC and possibly theAtlanta area. This is an opportunity to bring this evidenceto an audience that urgently needs to be part of thisdiscussion.

* HELP BUILD THIS TOUR. Send in or write toyour contacts in colleges and universities. * Help withpublicity for this tour. * If you can type, contact theNational Office (commission@nion.us or 212-941-8086) to helpwith transcription of the first session of the Commission. * If you can edit video, please contact us. * Andespecially, make your financial contribution on line atwww.nion.us/NSOC/sign.htm or send your check payable to NotIn Our Name SOC and mail to Not In Our Name SOC, 305 WestBroadway #199, NY, NY 10012. We need $2,000 right away tofinish producing DVDs of the testimony.

Thank you.

JanetYip for The Bush CrimesCommission

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Belowis a sample of the powerful testimony presented at theCommission. This is an excerpt from Vanessa Brocato'stestimony on Indictment #4 Global HIV/AIDS and ReproductiveRights policies, especially the genocidal effects ofimposing abstinence-only in the midst of an AIDS pandemic.Vanessa is an International Policy Associate for SIECUS andauthor of SIECUS PEPFAR [the President's Emergency Plan ForAIDS Relief] Country Profiles: Focusing In on Prevention andYouth:

"Though the abstinence-onlyuntil marriage programs have been funded in the U.S. since1981, and have been the focal point of domestic policy, since Bush entered office in 2000, the Bush Administrationhas the gall to claim in the media and in policy documents,that the PEPFAR prevention strategy is based on the Ugandamodel. Uganda saw a significant decline in HIV preventionrates and many people are interested in replicating andscaling up this successful approach to prevention. Unfortunately, whatever that approach may have been has beenobscured by ideological and political battling. By claimingthe approach is based on the Uganda model, theAdministration is attempting, of course, to avoid criticismthat this is his western initiative being foisted upondeveloping nations.

"But interestingly, under thisostensibly indigenous approach, funds to deliverabstinence-only until marriage programs go to mainly U.S.based conservative organizations or local organizations withties to U.S. groups or ties to the U.S. Government. I don'twant to misrepresent, there are some local organizationsreceiving funds, and some HIV/AIDS organizations that usedto do comprehensive prevention work, but are now turning toan abstinence-only approach just to receive really badlyneeded funds. In other cases, the Bush Administration isable to tap into local Christian fundamentalist movements toboth implement and support an abstinence-only policy.

"The few organizations with contracts with USAID thatpredate PEPFAR, which are trying to maintain theircomprehensive programming, are now coming under attack bythe most conservative elements of our Congress. Theirfunding is threatened, even if they follow abstinenceguidelines, because they are not considered morally capable,sufficiently ideologically in sync, to provide whatproponents call, authentic abstinence education.

"PEPFAR has the ominous potential of making large scaleimpact. And we already have evidence of the U.S.Government's influence derailing good public programming andpolicy. In Uganda, the Bush Administration has played amajor role in reversing the country's HIV preventionapproach. The main program for information on sexuality andHIV prevention in Uganda is the Presidential Initiative onAIDS Strategy for Communication to Youth, also calledPIASCY, which was launched in 2002. With the President'sleadership, a team of stakeholders created educationalmaterials for youths in elementary schools that promotedconcepts, such as basic information about sexual health,information on resisting peer pressure to engage in sexualactivity, condom use, and human rights. The materials werethe basis for monthly HIV/AIDS related assemblies inUganda's primary schools. PEPFAR support for PIASCY nowincludes assistance with the development, revision, anddistribution of the PIASCY materials. But U.S.support

Read Vanessa's full testimony on line at www.bushcommission.org/Text/Brocato.htm.

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