| The Collateral Repair Project in affiliation with the International Humanities Center Endorser Statements |
While the Bush administration’s policies create thousands of Iraqi refugees every week, CRP reaches out to help. While
the Bush administration’s policies create anger and blowback against Americans, CRP creates friendships and
understanding. It might be a drop in the bucket in terms of repairing the immense damage our government has caused,
but CRP represents the soul of the American people.
Medea Benjamin
The government of the United States has been responsible for creating immense suffering for Iraqis. In 1991, the
bombing of virtually all of the Iraq's electrical plants shut off water and sewage processing and lead to epidemics of
disease. The 2003 invasion of Iraq made the basic condition of Iraqis even much worse. CRP is a small but important
way for individuals to do something to alleviate the suffering that's been created.
Bert Sacks - anti-sanctions activist Bert's blog: BertOnIraq
The attacks on Al-Qaim were appalling and under-reported - towns are being besieged and ambulances are being shot
at in collective punishment in several towns in Iraq.
The compensation system is deliberately vague with many families denied any assistance at all after the wage earner is
killed at the fault of occupying forces. Even those judged deserving of compensation are often given sheep or bricks
rather than cash to use as needed. We need to put coherent and sustained pressure on the authorities to pay reparations
to individuals and families bereaved or injured and alsoto Iraq as a nation, as Iraq is still being forced to pay for the
invasion of Kuwait.
But alongside that, mutual aid is vital, person to person, family to family, in solidarity with the communities ravaged, micro-
level repair - in direct opposition to the big contracts given to multinational companies.
Jo Wilding
The Collateral Repair project, both in name and deed, addresses the horrifying dehumanization of a wonderful, gracious
people that occurs when they are described by a technical term instead of as unique and irreplaceable individuals. They
are the global neighbors, unjustly and opportunistically attacked, whom we are all responsible to help.
The Project seeks to assist them in becoming once more self-sufficient. As each person and family achieves this, the
society which was destroyed is rebuilt. I was in Iraq for only a brief three weeks but my heart is torn apart because I know
that so many of the people I met, and their children, must now be dead, or mutilated, or crazy with despair. Yet no
situation is impossible to change and everyone can help make a difference. I am honored to be an endorser of this project.
Judith Karpova, Writer -- Kerhonkson NY
This war is more than embedded journalists and the evening news. One has to know this slaughter from the ground up.
When thousands of miles from Iraq, the Pentagon orders brutal aggressions such as Operation Iron Fist and the collateral
damage that devastates families like the Chiads, we have a responsibility to be there to try and repair what damage our
government has done to them. This has to become as much a part of our daily resistance to this evil war as expressing
our outrage in the street.
John Ross -- author, correspondent, poet, and human shield in Baghdad
The people of Iraq live in fear of being killed. Every service is suffering: food, water, electricity, health care, education - all
services that were in high function prior to 1991. The decade plus of economic sanctions heaped misery and death on
the majority of the people of Iraq. Now the population lives under collective punishment and constant attack. The billions of
dollars now flowing to private corporations could be utilized for reparations - this is not happening and must be the source
of national shame for the United States.
Gerri Haynes -- Palliative Care Consultant, Chair, 2006 Veterans for Peace Convention,
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Texans for Peace
the Bush administration’s policies create anger and blowback against Americans, CRP creates friendships and
understanding. It might be a drop in the bucket in terms of repairing the immense damage our government has caused,
but CRP represents the soul of the American people.
Medea Benjamin
The government of the United States has been responsible for creating immense suffering for Iraqis. In 1991, the
bombing of virtually all of the Iraq's electrical plants shut off water and sewage processing and lead to epidemics of
disease. The 2003 invasion of Iraq made the basic condition of Iraqis even much worse. CRP is a small but important
way for individuals to do something to alleviate the suffering that's been created.
Bert Sacks - anti-sanctions activist Bert's blog: BertOnIraq
The attacks on Al-Qaim were appalling and under-reported - towns are being besieged and ambulances are being shot
at in collective punishment in several towns in Iraq.
The compensation system is deliberately vague with many families denied any assistance at all after the wage earner is
killed at the fault of occupying forces. Even those judged deserving of compensation are often given sheep or bricks
rather than cash to use as needed. We need to put coherent and sustained pressure on the authorities to pay reparations
to individuals and families bereaved or injured and alsoto Iraq as a nation, as Iraq is still being forced to pay for the
invasion of Kuwait.
But alongside that, mutual aid is vital, person to person, family to family, in solidarity with the communities ravaged, micro-
level repair - in direct opposition to the big contracts given to multinational companies.
Jo Wilding
The Collateral Repair project, both in name and deed, addresses the horrifying dehumanization of a wonderful, gracious
people that occurs when they are described by a technical term instead of as unique and irreplaceable individuals. They
are the global neighbors, unjustly and opportunistically attacked, whom we are all responsible to help.
The Project seeks to assist them in becoming once more self-sufficient. As each person and family achieves this, the
society which was destroyed is rebuilt. I was in Iraq for only a brief three weeks but my heart is torn apart because I know
that so many of the people I met, and their children, must now be dead, or mutilated, or crazy with despair. Yet no
situation is impossible to change and everyone can help make a difference. I am honored to be an endorser of this project.
Judith Karpova, Writer -- Kerhonkson NY
This war is more than embedded journalists and the evening news. One has to know this slaughter from the ground up.
When thousands of miles from Iraq, the Pentagon orders brutal aggressions such as Operation Iron Fist and the collateral
damage that devastates families like the Chiads, we have a responsibility to be there to try and repair what damage our
government has done to them. This has to become as much a part of our daily resistance to this evil war as expressing
our outrage in the street.
John Ross -- author, correspondent, poet, and human shield in Baghdad
The people of Iraq live in fear of being killed. Every service is suffering: food, water, electricity, health care, education - all
services that were in high function prior to 1991. The decade plus of economic sanctions heaped misery and death on
the majority of the people of Iraq. Now the population lives under collective punishment and constant attack. The billions of
dollars now flowing to private corporations could be utilized for reparations - this is not happening and must be the source
of national shame for the United States.
Gerri Haynes -- Palliative Care Consultant, Chair, 2006 Veterans for Peace Convention,
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Texans for Peace
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