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Responded as a poet might, FWIW. http://copia.posterous.com/open-letter-to-the-ambassador-of-the-state-of (E-mailed same to the Embassy) --Uche On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask] > wrote: > Dear Friends, > POETS MUST HELP POETS! > > Please join Alice Walker, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Sam > Hamill, Philip Levine, Naomi Shihab Nye, Carolyn Forch?, Jerome > Rothenberg, Pina Piccolo, Jack Hirschman, Sarah Browning, Ron > Silliman, PEN America Center, Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion > co-founders of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Rootsaction.org, Split > This Rock, Code Pink, and many more of our dear friends in this > important campaign to free the Qatari poet Mohamed Ibn Al Ajami who > has been sentenced to life in prison for reciting a poem extolling > the > courage and values of the popular uprisings in Tunisia. > > So far over 12,000 people have signed this petition, generating over > 60,000 letters to the Qatar embassy requesting the release of Qatari > poet Mohamed Ibn Al Ajami In ten days Mohamed Al Ajami will appeal > the verdict. Please sign this petition and send a letter to Qatar and > let the government there know that Mohamed Al Ajami should be > released. > > POETS MUST HELP POETS! > > We can do this! > > > http://act.rootsaction.org/o/6503/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=136398 > > Thanks for your support. > > Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion > 100 Thousand Poets for Change > > > -- Uche Ogbuji http://uche.ogbuji.net Founding Partner, Zepheira http://zepheira.com http://wearekin.org http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/author/uogbuji/ http://copia.ogbuji.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/ucheogbuji http://twitter.com/uogbuji