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Solidarity with Iranians
Dear colleagues,
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) invites you to join us in a two-part campaign this coming month focused on a tangible act of building peace and solidarity between the people of Iran and the United States. This effort is organized in memory of 290 people who lost their lives on July 3, 1988, when the USS Vincennes, a U.S. navy vessel, shot down an Iranian airliner in the Persian Gulf. (For more information please check our website at www.forusa.org or our blog at www.forpeace.net.)
First, we ask that you participate with us in a national candlelight vigil on July 3, 2009. Through this vigil, we will join Iranians in commemorating this tragic date in history, and call on the U.S. government to offer a formal apology for that action. Also, under a very short timeline, FOR has just been invited to arrange a special civilian diplomacy delegation to Iran to bring U.S. citizens there for this commemoration. On the 3rd of July, our delegation will take a trip to the Persian Gulf and pay respects to those who lost their lives in the attack.
We have received permission from the Iranian authorities to have several dozen Americans on this special trip. We invite you to send one or more members of your organization or coalition as part of this unique act of Civilian Diplomacy. The delegation is tentatively scheduled to leave New York City on Tuesday, June 30, arriving in Tehran on Thursday, July 2; and to depart Tehran on July 14, returning to the U.S. the same day.
The cost of this trip is $4,000, which will cover round-trip air ticket between NYC and Tehran, food, accommodation and domestic transportation in Iran. (Travel within the U.S. to New York City is not included.) The delegation will visit Bandar Abbas, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran. In Bandar Abbas, the American Delegates will join Iranian families of those who died in the 1988 incident and a group of Iranian artists on a boat cruise tour in the Persian Gulf. Together, U.S. and Iranian citizens will join in a ceremony of memory of those who lost their lives on July 3, 1988.
Please join us and spread the word. The deadline for applications is Monday, June 8. We regret the short notice.
If you are interested to this trip please send a short bio as well as an image of the first page of your passport to iran@forusa.org
Peace,
Leila
The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) invites you to join us in a two-part campaign this coming month focused on a tangible act of building peace and solidarity between the people of Iran and the United States. This effort is organized in memory of 290 people who lost their lives on July 3, 1988, when the USS Vincennes, a U.S. navy vessel, shot down an Iranian airliner in the Persian Gulf. (For more information please check our website at www.forusa.org or our blog at www.forpeace.net.)
First, we ask that you participate with us in a national candlelight vigil on July 3, 2009. Through this vigil, we will join Iranians in commemorating this tragic date in history, and call on the U.S. government to offer a formal apology for that action. Also, under a very short timeline, FOR has just been invited to arrange a special civilian diplomacy delegation to Iran to bring U.S. citizens there for this commemoration. On the 3rd of July, our delegation will take a trip to the Persian Gulf and pay respects to those who lost their lives in the attack.
We have received permission from the Iranian authorities to have several dozen Americans on this special trip. We invite you to send one or more members of your organization or coalition as part of this unique act of Civilian Diplomacy. The delegation is tentatively scheduled to leave New York City on Tuesday, June 30, arriving in Tehran on Thursday, July 2; and to depart Tehran on July 14, returning to the U.S. the same day.
The cost of this trip is $4,000, which will cover round-trip air ticket between NYC and Tehran, food, accommodation and domestic transportation in Iran. (Travel within the U.S. to New York City is not included.) The delegation will visit Bandar Abbas, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran. In Bandar Abbas, the American Delegates will join Iranian families of those who died in the 1988 incident and a group of Iranian artists on a boat cruise tour in the Persian Gulf. Together, U.S. and Iranian citizens will join in a ceremony of memory of those who lost their lives on July 3, 1988.
Please join us and spread the word. The deadline for applications is Monday, June 8. We regret the short notice.
If you are interested to this trip please send a short bio as well as an image of the first page of your passport to iran@forusa.org
Peace,
Leila
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Comment by Ramzan Laghari on June 10, 2009 at 11:44am -
Dear Leila,
Thank you very much for your suggestion and advise, I have bee written from couple of decade on different issues, epecialy peace, love and hope, Insha Allah sooner i'll be submitted in english for our universal colleagues and friends espaecially for you.
Thanks
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Comment by Leila Zand on June 9, 2009 at 2:46pm -
looking forward to received them. you also could translate just some of the poetries which basically talk about peace and nonviolence. if you had a chance please check our website at www.forusa.org
peace and pray for peace,
leila
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Comment by Ramzan Laghari on June 9, 2009 at 2:39pm
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Dear Leila Zand,
Thank you very much for your response. No doubt we are facing very critical situation regarding law and order, economics and development. Spider net of different problems are covering us day by day and time to time, please pray for peole of Pakistan. I ahve compiled 4 Books on poetry and litterature on different isues and compiled one Teachers training manual on Sexual and Reproductive Health. All these books are written in our regional languages like Urdu, Siraiki and Sindhi. Insha Allah i`ll send you translate in English as soon.
Thank you for your support
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Comment by Leila Zand on June 8, 2009 at 8:10pm
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Dear Ramzan, thank you very much for your support. I am sorry for what is happening in Pakistan these days, and hopeful one day our people and countries live in peace and happiness.
please e-mail me some of your poetries-if you like-, we would be honored to publish them in our Fellowship Magazine.
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Comment by Ramzan Laghari on June 8, 2009 at 3:05pm
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Dear Leila Zand,
Greetings from Pakistan,
I appriciate your strugle for solidarity of Iranian and neighbours, no doubt we are living between the hope and dispair, and breathing smoke of weapons, and counting fire. I am with you on national national candlelight vigil through my poetry and my prayers.
Accept my participation
Thank you
Ramzan Laghari
LDM Fellow
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