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                                                            Listen, Ring, 
 Scream - 100,000 Bells Will Toll\n\n     Wednesday, October 26th is the 
 fourth anniversary of the Listening Project, a weekly event, where 
 questions have been raised about September 11th, the government’s 
 response, how to defuse terrorism, and how to create a safer, better world 
 for all children; the questions remain the same, but the answers have 
 changed over time. This Wednesday, in Palo Alto’s Lytton Plaza, in 
 addition to listening, from 10 am until 2:20 pm, a bell will be rung every 
 minute, in memory of the 100,000 Iraqi victims of the current war. There 
 will also be a microphone, and the opportunity to scream or speak loudly, 
 on behalf of the Pakistani victims of the most deadly earthquake in modern 
 times. \n\n    Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Justice Not Vengeance 
 have called for bell-ringing ceremonies to grieve and protest the deaths of 
 Iraqis in the war and occupation.  Bells will be rung in the US, the U.K. 
 and Switzerland.  Locally, bells will also be rung in Oakland, October 
 25th, in San Francisco on October 27th, and on October 28th in Marin.  As 
 people opposed to war, 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. 100 communities, each ringing a bell 1,000 times, would equal 
 100,000 rings, the estimated death toll of Iraqi civilians in the Lancet 
 study.\n\n     Scream for those in Pakistan. 100,000 people may perish, if 
 they do not receive help soon, before the winter sets in.  The death toll 
 continues to rise between 75,000 and 80,000 officially, with over 3 million 
 people facing the winter homeless.  The international community has been 
 slow to respond to the crisis.\n\nUmair Khan wrote:                         
                “Scream.”\n \n“Spare a scream for the 100,000 dead and 
 3 million homeless, muted out of world media. \n \n“Unmourned by the news 
 media, unmarked by the world, Saturday October 22 was the two week 
 anniversary of the 7.6 magnitude earthquake in Pakistan, India, and 
 Kashmir. An estimated 100,000 have been killed and, of the 3 million made 
 homeless, at least another 100,000 are in high peril as winter rolls down 
 from nearby K-2. If they perish, they would surely have been suffocated by 
 the silent air waves.\n \n“For the 3 million homeless the bell tolls 
 noiselessly. Beyond Pakistan's national news media, their coverage is a 
 silent movie playing out on inside pages (if at all). Four more weeks of 
 radio (and print and TV) silence and the region will become as quiet and 
 stone cold as the news media. The news folks whose attention to the tragedy 
 has declined as swiftly as the deaths have mounted, may finally get to 
 report a "frozen" death toll. In four weeks, winter too will white-out the 
 survivors.\n \n“Intense and swift and whole-hearted as the response has 
 been among the compassionate and the aware, it has been far too noiseless. 
 For Pakistanis, for Kashmiris, for South Asians, for Asians, for humans and 
 for humanity everywhere, this is not the time for whispered tears, silent 
 if ardent prayers, mumbled grumblings, and soundless emails. \n \n“This 
 is the time to scream.\n \n“Not in despair, or panic, or anger. But in 
 recognition and in resonance. This is the time to broadcast the 
 unbroadcasted. And this time expires in 4 weeks. There will be little point 
 to being heard after that.\n \n“There have been No vigils to mark the 
 disaster... No minute of silence at 8:51am. No protest march (silent or 
 loud) against NATO's refusal to airlift the injured. No sit-ins to demand 
 of governments the desperately needed helicopters, tents, medicine, 
 monetary aid. And no demonstrations in front of the oblivious offices of 
 world media.”\n \nSponsors- WILPF, American Muslim Voice 
 (http://www.amuslimvoice.org), Voices for Creative Nonviolence 
 (http://vcnv.org/) \nTo Help Earthquake Victims go to- 
 http://www.saquake.org and http://www.opensiliconvalley.com\n\nMore Details 
 at Http://www.communitycurrency.org\n###\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/10/25/77123.php
SUMMARY:Listen, Ring, Scream - 100,000 Bells will Toll
LOCATION:Downtown Palo Alto  University x Emerson  Lytton Plaza
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/10/25/77123.php
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