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Peace concerns are being expressed |
| Peace groups plan rallies
[10-5-01]
Gustav Niebuhr reports in today's New
York Times that a number of peace organizations, including the
American Friends Service Committee, Pax Christi USA, the War Resisters
League and others, are encouraging members and others to join in local
rallies around the country this Sunday, October 7.
While the groups are expressing their opposition to
war, they are also condemning the terrorist acts, calling for the
protection of civil liberties, and rejecting bias against Arabs, Muslims
and immigrants. They are also insisting that action for economic and
social justice must be a part of any real effort to end terrorism. The
War Resisters League states these views on its
web site.
Niebuhr also describes some of the thinking being set
forth by proponents of the classic "just war" theories, which
lead them to view war as an appropriate act of defense against an act of
war. The peace groups, on the other hand, are viewing the terrorist
attacks of September 11 as crimes against humanity, which should be
answered not by acts of war, but by a judicial process in some kind of
international tribunal.
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