Voices in the wilderness maintains a constant presence in Iraq as they’ve done for years. Many articles are available, including current observations and archives from the last years dealing with the effects of sanctions and secret bombings.
Voices in the Wilderness is a joint US/UK campaign to end the economic sanctions against the people of Iraq. Since March 1996, nearly fifty Voices delegations have traveled to Iraq in open violation of the sanctions. Each small delegation represents thousands of people in America and England who oppose cruel economic warfare. We demand that the UN Security Council and the US government end these immoral and unjust economic sanctions that target the regime of Saddam Hussein but in fact punish millions of Iraqi people, young and old.
We are teachers, social workers, authors, health care professionals, trades people, and church workers, who in the tradition of Mohandas Gandhi, advocate nonviolence as a means for social change. We oppose the development, storage and use by any country of weapons of mass destruction, be they nuclear, biological, chemical – or economic.
US Authorities have warned us that the penalty for traveling to Iraq, in violation of US laws, could be as much as 12 years in prison and over $1 million in fines.
Today, as new threats are made against Iraq by the United States, we are maintaining a constant presence in Iraq to stand in solidarity with the Iraqi people. In the schools and hospitals, on the streets and in the homes of Baghdad, Basra, Mosul and other cities we have seen the effects of more than a decade of economic sanctions and frequent bombings. Now we see the anger and fear caused by new threats of violence.