 Please find below ideas on how you can promote "The War in Iraq Remains a Defeat for Humanity," a sign-on statement to remember the words of Pope John Paul II when he called the Iraq war a 'defeat for humanity.'
For more information on any of these suggestions please contact our office at info@paxchristiusa.org.
Suggestions for Dioceses and Parishes
Leaflet copies of "The War in Iraq Remains a Defeat for Humanity" at your parish after Sunday masses
Leaflet at diocesan events
Send a copy of the statement to your bishop and pastor asking them to individually endorse the statement
Ask your pastor to put statement up on your parish Web site. (They can link to this page, http://www.paxchristiusa.org/news_events_more.asp?id=921)
Ask your pastor to sign the statement as a parish community
Ask your pastor or parish priest to preach on the Iraq war and to inform parishioners of the opportunity to sign the statement – set up a table with signature forms outside of the church or in your parish hall.
Use statement as a reflection piece in bulletin.
Publish the statement in your diocesan paper – always be sure to include Pax Christi USA's web address, www.paxchristiusa.org.
Hold a debate at your parish using PCUSA’s statement as a catalyst.
Put copies of the statement in all of the mailboxes of ministers and ministries at your parish.
Use the sign-on ad to initiate an event at your parish or school on Catholic social teaching and war.
Reach out to your Directors of Religious Education and ask him/her to use the statement in the parish’s various religious education programs.
Suggestions for Peace and Justice Groups
Organize letter-writing campaigns to your elected representatives based on this statement and the Friends’ Committee on National Legislation’s program, The Next Step for Iraq, found at http://www.fcnl.org/iraq/
Plan a protest against the war in Iraq at your elected representatives’ offices and read the statement aloud as part of the witness.
Print part of the sign-on statement on a t-shirt with Pax Christi USA’s web address, www.paxchristiusa.org for more info.
Share statement with all those on your email lists. (You can email them this link, http://www.paxchristiusa.org/news_events_more.asp?id=921)
Promote sign-on statement on your group’s Web site (You can link to this page, http://www.paxchristiusa.org/news_events_more.asp?id=921)
Organize an educational meeting or teach-in at public library or other public location focused on the war in Iraq and make the statement available to all attending.
Suggestions for Campuses
Leaflet on campus
Organize a public speaking event at your college and ask a professor from the college to address some aspect of the letter from his/her specialty (For instance, ask a theology professor to address the war in Iraq from a Just War perspective; ask a historian to speak to the parallels between this occupation and other famous occupations in history; etc.)
Share statement with all those on your email lists. (You can email them this link, http://www.paxchristiusa.org/news_events_more.asp?id=921)
Place statement on your campus ministry Web site and other appropriate campus sites (You can link to this page, http://www.paxchristiusa.org/news_events_more.asp?id=921)
Suggestions for Individuals
Share the statement with family, friends, and co-workers
Send statement to all those on your email lists and ask them to do the same (you can send them this page, http://www.paxchristiusa.org/news_events_more.asp?id=921
Send statement to diocesan and secular newspapers with request that it be published
Use statement as a basis for a letter-to-the-editor – be sure to include a link or information on where to find the whole statement and how to add signatures. (You can refer them to Pax Christi USA's homepage, www.paxchristiusa.org, with instructions to click on "The War in Iraq Remains a Defeat for Humanity")
Use the statement to write an op-ed piece and be sure to include Pax Christi USA’s Web site, www.paxchristiusa.org, where people can sign the statement
For more information on any of these suggestions, please contact info@paxchristiusa.org.
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