Dear Friends of Every Church a Peace Church (ECAPC),

 

Please advertise this event at your church.

 

 

Monday, November 14, 2005 at 6:30 PM
St. Joan of Arc Church
4537 - 3rd Avenue South, Minneapolis
     (exit 35W at 46th Street; 1 l/2 block east to 3rd Avenue; 1/2 block south on 3rd)
In Hospitality Hall in the basement of the church

 

The topic for this peace gathering will be depleted uranium, commonly referred to as DU.  We will view a video documentary entitled POISON DUST which features a cross-section of people who have suffered severe medical problems following exposure to depleted uranium munitions.

 

While the Pentagon continues to deny that DU is linked to the serious medical problems experienced by many soldiers who were exposed to DU during the 1991 war in Iraq and the 1999 Balkan war, independent experts such as Dr. Helen Caldicott, Dr. Rosalie Bertell and health physicist, Doug Rokke, insist otherwise.  They remind us that depleted uranium is still 60% as radioactive as natural uranium and that it is a heavy metal, 1.7 times as heavy as lead, and therefore a chemically toxic metal. They show evidence that exposure to DU is the cause of serious medical problems such as cancer, leukemia, and birth defects in children whose parents have been exposed to DU.  Reporter, Dave Lindorff, warns in a recent article on DU (In These Times, September 19, 2005) that “Even harder evidence may soon arise.”

 

In the most recent war, DU munitions were used in heavily populated urban areas of Iraq, exposing huge numbers of Iraqi civilians and American soldiers to this lethal weapon. 

We believe the use of these munitions should raise serious ethical questions for Christians.

 

We hope you will join us.

Sincerely,

St. Joan of Arc/WAMM Peacemakers

Have a discussion with your clergyperson.  Ask them "What do you tell youth that ask you about Conscientious Objection?" 

 

We hope to have people share the responses they recieve to this question as a conversation topic at the October potluck.