But I suppose that getting plenty of people to write goes beyond
infdividual action - it isn't exactly collective, but it's somewhere on
the way. Ask your non-psychologist friends to write too!
On 18 Nov 2004, at 17:33, pennypriest wrote:
> Yes I guess so.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul@home" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 5:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: ANNOUNCEMENT]
>
>
> > is that the point at which it's time for collective rather than
> > individual action....
> >
> > p
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of pennypriest
> > Sent: 18 November 2004 16:37 To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] [Fwd: ANNOUNCEMENT]
> >
> >
> > I have not yet received any reply, apart from the usual post card
> > acknowledgement (for this and the draft MH bill - although I
> > received an email about the latter). It worries me that my MP will
> > just consider these things as junk mail if I write too often. I feel
> > like I am slipping wildly between passion and paralysis... Penny
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul@home"
> > <[log in to unmask]> To:
> > <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004
> > 1:18 PM Subject: Re: [Fwd: ANNOUNCEMENT]
> >
> >
> > After I wrote to my MP (Tom Levitt - Labour) stating my concern over
> > the civilian deaths in Iraq following the report in the Lancet that
> > estimated there to be 98,000 civilian deaths, he replied stating
> > that he had more confidence in the figures reported on web sites
> > than in the academic paper published in a peer reviewed medical
> > journal ... interesting.... He's
> exact
> > words are:
> >
> > "This report has to be put in context. Over the last 12 months there
> > have been a number of websites, updated daily, by those who oppose
> > the war.
> These
> > websites have claimed to have authoritative figures on the number of
> > dead and wounded. By and large, it is the view of those websites
> > that the
> actual
> > figures is around 30,000. The 'official' figures, based on the
> > actual
> number
> > of deaths and injuries reported to actual hospitals and medical
> > facilities throughout Iraq is half that number, around 15,000. I am
> > inclined to discount The Lancet figure, which is the only survey
> > which has reached a figure of anything like that number."
> >
> > Has anyone else had any similar bilge come through their letter box
> > after writing to their MP? If you do, I recommend you reply asking
> > for the government to release all the data collected by the military
> > that they
> have
> > on civilian deaths in Iraq since March 2003.
> >
> > Incidentally, you can find websites that report the Jewish Holocaust
> > never happened, should we believe those sites too?
> >
> > Here is a paragraph from a paper I have submitted to a US CP journal
> >
> > "The first scientific survey of civilian deaths in Iraq since the
> beginning
> > of the military action by coalition forces in March 2003 was
> > recently published in The Lancet (Roberts et al., 2004). The survey
> > reported 100
> 000
> > excess deaths or more had occurred since the 2003 invasion of Iraq
> > with violence accounting for a majority of those deaths and with
> > over half of those who had died violently being women and children.
> > An author of the study, Dr Les Roberts of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
> > School of Public Health
> in
> > Baltimore, stated this to be a rather conservative figure and that
> > the
> death
> > toll could be considerably higher. Unsurprisingly, the Pentagon in
> > the USA and Downing Street in the UK were quick in their attempts to
> > discredit the survey. However, previously the total death toll
> > (civilians and
> combatants)
> > of the 'war on Iraq' between March 20th and October 20th in 2003 was
> > estimated to be between 21,700 and 55,000 (MEDACT, 2003). Thus, such
> > death toll figures are not without precedent."
> >
> > MEDACT (2003). Continuing collateral damage: The health and
> > environmental costs of war on Iraq. MEDACT. Retrieved from
> > http://www.medact.org.
> >
> >
> > p
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Mark Burton
> > Sent: 17 November 2004 18:05 To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] [Fwd: ANNOUNCEMENT]
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------- Original Message
> > ---------------------------- Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT From:
> > "Ignacio" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, November 17,
> > 2004 3:29 am To: "Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@cariari.ucr.ac.cr
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ------
> >
> > En blanco
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > From Mark Burton
> > Manchester UK
> >
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