When will it be acceptable to care about the people of Iraq?
As the occupation of Iraq continues to take a toll on the lives of Iraqis, the US and UK governments continue to make no effort to do a properly funded and comprehensive study of a count of Iraqi deaths. Brazenly, the US and UK refuse to commit to an assessment of their own while rejecting the sound research of The Lancet and Iraq Body Count. This website is provided to help dispel the myths surrounding these and other mortality studies that have been published. IraqMortality.org provides a compilation of analysis of the mortality studies, articles, and resources for activists.
100,000 Rings
Voices for Creative Nonviolence and Justice Not Vengeance call for bell ringing ceremonies to grieve and protest the deaths of Iraqis in the US/UK war and occupation.
October 24th – 28th
As people opposed to the US/UK war and occupation of Iraq, 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. On October 24th – 28th, to mark the anniversary of the release of the Lancet Study on 29 October 2004, each sponsoring group will act out our grief, our anger, and our solidarity by gathering in a public place for a simple and solemn “Bell Ringing” ceremony. We will ring a bell 1,000 times, each ring symbolizing the death of an Iraqi person as a result of the war and occupation.
We call upon other communities to organize similar bell ringing ceremonies on these days. One hundred communities ringing a bell 1,000 times would equal 100,000 rings, the estimate of the Lancet study.
