(If you've already read this section, page down!)
The Virtual March on Washington demonstrated that we can have an immediate impact by using our own home computers. Together with Indymedia, such action can achieve some specific results.
THIS PROPOSAL ENVISIONS TENS OF THOUSANDS of us checking email and Indymedia sites several times a day over the next several weeks, assessing the best ways to have an impact, and then sending emails, faxes, or making phone calls based on daily information.
The immediate goal is to flood the corporate media with specific requests, demands, criticisms about war coverage, or to ask that friends of peace remain steadfast. If we do this individually it will accomplish little. If we exercise our free speech rights in concert we may have a positive impact at very low cost.
THE PLAN works like this:
Check the newswire of your local or favorite indymedia site for messages with the starting title EMAIL ACTION! Read these specifically, for they will recommend issues on which to act, and perhaps suggest corporate media targets deserving of our attention.
Do this several times a day.
PUBLICIZE THIS EFFORT by distributing this message to organizational lists, friends, family, work associates.
INDYMEDIA WEBSITES are all over the country. Some key ones are:
http://dc.indymedia.org/ http://la.indymedia.org/ http://sf.indymedia.org/ From these sites you may navigate to a site near you.
IF YOU SEE A STORY worthy of email action, post it on the newswire using the EMAIL ACTION! prefix to the title.
Consider these four points:
o Best results may be achieved by posting to ALL Indymedia newswires.
o We cannot publicize and act on everything. Only the best stories that are really worthy of coverage are likely to have a positive result. Please use common sense.
o Our immediate concern is stopping the senseless war on Iraq. For now, other issues will only detract.
o Anyone can post to Indymedia newswires. Exercise judgment about what you read there.
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URGENT ACTION NEEDED!!
Below is a listing of key UN Missions, Embassies, and Consulates for countries that the Bush administration is leaning heavy on to secure a UN resolution. We need to make visible gestures of support early this week and encourage these countries to remain firm in their opposition to a US/UK UN resolution that would lead to war.
We urge folks to:
- Set up meetings with UN missions, the embassies and the consulates of Chile, Mexico, Pakistan, Guinea,Cameroon, and Angola early this week (Monday if possible)if you are in any of the cities where they are based (see list below).
- If you can't get a quick meeting scheduled we urge you to bring or send flowers or other tokens of support to the embassies along with notes of support. Alert the press of the outpouring of support to these countries from
your city.
- At the very least we should all try to fax and e-mails strong letters of
support asking them to hold firm and not cave to the U.S.' coersive tactics.
Remind them that the world is on the side of peace and justice.
- At the very end of this e-mail is a listing of all the Security Council
Members' e-mails. At the very least please send a note to each member urging
them not to support a US/UK Resolution.
Rosalie Hoffman in NY is tracking folks' meetings or other
activities with reps from the key countries who need to be supported. Send her
the details of your meetings or activities. Her number is 718-522-4558 and her e-mail is
rosaliefreepace@aol.com IPS's new report Coalition of the Coerced may help you draft your letters of support or offer talking pts for your meetings.
http://www.ips-dc.org/coalition.htm KEY EMBASSIES, UN MISSIONS, and CONSULATES:
1. Mexico
Mexico UN Mission
Two United Nations Plaza 28th floor, New York, NY 10017.
Tel: (212) 752.0220 / Fax (212) 688.8862
mexico@un.int Embassy of Mexico; 1911 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006
Telephone: (202) 728 - 1600;
mexembusa@sre.gob.mx Mexican Consulates:
ARIZONA (Mexico)
1201 F Avenue
Douglas, AZ 85607
tel. (520) 364-3142
fax 364-1379
571 N. Grand Ave.
Nogales, AZ 85621
tel. (520) 287-2521
fax 287-3175
1990 W. Camelback, Suite 110
Phoenix, AX 85015
tel. (602) 242-7398
fax 242-2957
553 S. Stone Ave.
Tuscon, AZ 85701
tel. (520) 882-5595
fax 882-8959
CALIFORNIA (Mexico)
331 W. Second St.
Calexico, CA 92231
tel. (760) 357-3863
fax 357-6284
830 Van Ness Ave.
Fresno, CA 93721
tel. (209) 233-9770
fax 233-5838
2401 W. Sixth St.
Los Angeles, CA 90057
tel. (213) 351-6800
fax 389-9249
Homepage
201 E. Fourth St., Suite 206-A
Oxnard, CA 93030
tel. (805) 483-4684
fax 385-3527
1010 8th St.
Sacramento, CA 95814
Tel: (916) 441-3287
Fax: (916) 441-3176
E-mail:
consulsac1@quiknet.com Web: www.quiknet.com/mexico
532 North D St.
San Bernadino, CA 92401
tel. (909) 889-9837
fax (909) 889-8285
1549 India St.
San Diego, CA 92101
Tel: (619) 231-8414
Fax: (619) 231-4802
E-mail:
info@consulmexsd.org Web: www.sre.gob.mx/sandiego
870 Market St. Suite 528
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel: (415) 782-9555
Fax: (415) 392-3233
Web: www.consulmexsf.com
828 N. Broadway St.
Santa Ana, CA 92701-3424
tel. (714) 835-3069
fax 835-3472
540 North First St.
San Jose, CA 95112
tel. (408) 294-3414
fax 294-4506
COLORADO (Mexico)
48 Steele St.
Denver, CO 80206
Tel: (303) 331-1110
Fax: (303) 331-0169
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (Mexico)
2827 16th. Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C., 20009-4260
Tel: (202) 736-1000
Fax: (202) 234-4498 or 728-1750
FLORIDA (Mexico)
5975 Sunset Drive
South Miami, Florida 33143
Tel: (786) 268-4900
Fax: (786) 268-4895
E-mail:
conmxmia@bellsouth.net Web: www.sre.gob.mx/miami
100 W. Washington St.
Orlando, FL 32801
tel. (407) 422-0514
fax 422-9633
GEORGIA (Mexico)
2600 Apple Valley Rd
Atlanta, GA 30319
tel. (404) 266-2233
fax 266-2302
Homepage
ILLINOIS (Mexico)
300 N. Michigan Ave., 2nd Fl.
Chicago, IL 60651
Tel: (312) 855-1380
Fax: (312) 855-9257
Homepage
LOUISIANA (Mexico)
World Trade Center Building
2 Canal St., Suite 840
New Orleans, LA 70115
tel. (504) 522-3596
fax 525-2332
MASSACHUSETTS (Mexico)
20 Park Plaza, Suite 506
Boston, MA 02116
Tel: (617) 426-4181
Fax: (617) 695-1957
Web: www.sre.gob.mx/boston
MICHIGAN (Mexico)
645 Griswold Ave. Suite 1770
Detroit, MI 48226
Tel: (313) 964-4515
Fax: (313) 567-7543
MISSOURI (Mexico)
1015 Locust St. Suite 922
Saint Louis, MO 63101
tel. (314) 436-3233
fax 436-2695
NEW MEXICO (Mexico)
400 Gold SW, Suite 100
Albuquerque, NM 87102
tel. (505) 247-2139
fax (505) 842-9490
NEW YORK (Mexico)
27 East 39th. St.
New York, NY 10016
Tel: (212) 217-6400
Fax: (212) 217-6493
Web: www.consulmexny.org
NORTH CAROLINA (Mexico)
P.O. Box 19627
Charlotte, NC 28219
tel. (704) 394-2190
OREGON (Mexico)
1234 S.W. Morrison
Portland, OR 97205
tel. (503) 274-1450
fax 274-1540
PENNSYLVANIA (Mexico)
111 S. Independence Mall East
Bourse Building, Suite 1010
Philadelphia, PA 19403
tel. (215) 922-3834
fax 923-7281
TEXAS (Mexico)
200 E. Sixth St., Suite 200
Austin, TX 78701
Tel: (512) 478-2866
Fax: 478-8008
Homepage
724 E. Elizabeth St.
Brownsville, TX 78520
tel. (956) 542-4431
fax 542-7267
800 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Suite 410, North Tower
Corpus Christi, TX 78401
tel (512) 882-3375
fax 882-9324
8855 N Stemmons Freeway
Dallas, TX 75247
tel. (214) 630-7341
fax 630-3511
Homepage
300 E. Losoya
Del Rio, TX 78841
tel. (830) 775-2352
fax 774-6497
140 Adams St.
Eagle Pass, TX 78852
tel. (830) 773-9255
fax 773-9397
910 E. San Antonio St
El Paso, TX 79901
tel. (915) 533-3644
fax 532-7163
Homepage
10103 Fondren Rd., Suite 555
Houston, TX 77096
tel (713) 271-6800
fax 271-3201
Homepage
1612 Farragut St.
Laredo, TX 78040
tel. (956) 723-6369
fax 723-1741
600 S. Broadway Ave.
McAllen, TX 78501
tel. (956) 686-0243
fax 686-4901
511 W. Ohio, Suite 121
Midland, TX 79701
tel. (915) 687-2334
fax 687-3952
127 Navarro St.
San Antonio, TX 78205
tel. (210) 271-9728
fax 227-1817
Homepage
UTAH (Mexico)
230 West 400 South
2nd Floor
Salt Lake City, Utah 84047
tel. (801) 521-8502
fax 521-0534
WASHINGTON (Mexico)
2132 Third Ave.
Seattle, WA 98121
Tel: (206) 448-3526
Fax: (206) 448-4771
Web: www.sre.gob.mx/seattle/
2. ANGOLA
Angolan Mission to UN
125 East 73rd St. New York, N.Y. 10021
Tel: (212) 861-5656 Fax (2l2) 861-9295
ang-un@angolamissionun.org Or
Consulate General - New York
866 UN Plaza, 48th Street
Suite 552
New York, NY 10017
phone: 1 212 223 3588
fax: 1 212 980 9606
The Embassy of The Republic of Angola
2100-2108 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
phone: 202-785-1156
fax: 202-785-1258
angola@angola.org Consulates:
Houston (Angola)
3040 Post Oak Blvd.
Suite 780
Houston, TX 77056
phone: 1 713 212 3840
fax: 1 713 212 3841
3. Cameroon
Cameroon Mission to UN
22 East 73rd Street
New York, NY 10021
info@cameroonmission.org Phone (212)-794-2296
Fax (212)-249-0533
Embassy of the Republic of Cameroon
2349 Massachusetts Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20008 telephone:
(202) 265-8790
Fax: (202) 387-3826
4. Chile
Chilean Mission to UN
305 East 47th Street 10th Floor, New York, NY 10017
Phone (212) 832 3323
Fax (212) 832 0236
email:
chile@un.int Embassy of Chile
1732 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036
Fax: (202) 887-5579
telephone: (202) 785-1746
Boston (Chile)
Email:
conchile@bitwise.net One Bernardo O'Higgins Circle,.
Brighton, MA 02135-7840
Telephone: 617/232-0416
FAX : 617/232-0817
Chicago (Chile)
875 North Michigan Avenue
Suite 3352,. Chicago, IL 60611
Telephone: 312/654-8780
FAX 312/654-8948
Houston (Chile)
1360 Post Oak Blvd Suite 1330
Houston, TX 77056
Telephone: 713/621-5853
FAX : 713/621-5853
Los Angeles (Chile)
1900 Avenue of the Stars, S., Suite 2450
Century City, CA 90067
Telephone: 310/785-0113
FAX : 310/785-0132
Miami (Chile)
800 Brickell Avenue Suite 1230
Miami, FL 33131
Telephone: 305/373-8623
FAX 305/379-6613
New York (NY)
866 United Nations Plaza,. Suite 302
New York, NY 10017
Telephone: 212/355-0612
FAX : 212/688-5879
Philadelphia (Chile)
Public Ledger Building, Suite 1030
6th and Chestnuts Streets, Philadelphia PA 19106
Telephone: 215 – 8299520 and 215 - 8299531
Fax: 215 –8290594
San Francisco (Chile)
870 Market Street,. Room 1058
San Francisco, CA 94102
Telephone: 415/982-7662
FAX: 415/982-2384
San Juan, Puerto Rico (Chile)
American Airlines Building
1509 Lopez Landron, Suite 800
Santurce, PR 00911
Telephone: 809/725-6365
5. Guinea
Representative of the Republic of Guinea to the United Nations
140 East 39th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016
Telephone: (212) 687-8115/8116/8117
Fax: (212) 687-8248
guinea@un.int Embassy of Guinea
2112 Leroy Place NW
Washington, DC 20008
Telephone: [1] (202) 483-9420
FAX: [1] (202) 483-8688
Cleveland, Ohio (Guinea)
1104 Hanna Building
Cleveland, OH 44115
1422 Euclid Av
Cleveland, OH 44115
(216) 621-2227
Jacksonville, FL (Guinea)
24 E. 6th St
Jacksonville, FL 32206.
Philadelphia, PA (Guinea)
1528 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19102.
6. Pakistan
Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations
Pakistan House, 8 East 65th Street, New York, N.Y. 10021
212-879-8600; Fax: 212-744-7348
pakistan@un.int Embassy of Pakistan
2315 MASSACHUSETTS AVE. N.W.
WASHINGTON D.C. 20008
parepwashington@erols.com Fax (202)-387-0484
Boston, MA (Pakistan)
575 Boylston St., 02116.
Telephone: (617) 267-9000, FAX (617) 266-6666
Los Angeles, CA (Pakistan)
10850 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 1100 Los Angeles, CA90024
Telephone: (310) 4415114/4410167
Fax: (310)-441-9256
Email:
pakcomm@aol.com New York, NY (Pakistan)
Pakistan House, 12 East 65 Street
New York, New York 10021
Telephone: (202) 939-6200/6205/6208
Telex: 440058 PRP UR UI
Fax: (202) 387-0484
Email:
parepwashington@erols.com E-mail list for UN Security Council members:
france-presse@un.int rusun@un.int chinamission_un@fmprc.gov.cn uk@un.int bulgaria@un.int info@cameroonmission.org guinea@un.int syria@un.int chile@un.int contact@germany-un.org spain@spainun.org pakistan@un.int Institute for Policy Studies
733 15th St., NW, Suite 1020
Washington, DC 20005
202-234-9382, x238
www.ips-dc.org
www.citiesforpeace.org
www.ips-dc.org/coalition.htm