Instructions for Gathering Signatures

As you know, this national referendum calls for us to show compassion toward the Afghan people as we pursue the perpetrators of the attack on the U.S. It was co-authored by members of the Christian Community in Central and Southern California, including liberals and a conservative pentagon military analyst from the Reagan Administration.

I appreciate your taking the time to send this on to so many people. This is an update that includes info from my previous e-mail as well as an address to send in the petitions. Thank you again for anything you choose to do. We all have lives and other commitments.

Instructions for Gathering Signatures:
1) To carry legal force, petitions must include signature, printed name and address.

2) If the petition is circulated in a foreign country, please change the first sentence
to read "We the People of the international community..." and write the country of origin prominently at the top. In the future we may set up a separate PO box address for international petitions, so please check the Hopedance.org website for updates.

3)For counting purposes, please have all petitions completely filled before mailing.

4) Mail petitions to:
JUSTICE - NOT WAR
P.O. BOX 399
SANTA MARIA, CA 93456-0399

5) PLEASE CHECK HOPEDANCE.ORG FOR CHANGES OF ADDRESS, WE ARE STILL TRYING TO LINE UP VOLUNTEERS TO EMPTY A PO BOX IN WASH. D.C. AND COUNT PETITIONS. THIS MAY SAVE TIME AND MONEY IF WE NEED TO SHIP THEM LATER.

6) I have received e-mails of support from people all over the country
including some from NY- and not one objection to the referendum. My efforts
to work through the large brokerage firm that had offices at the Trade
Center have bogged down.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS REFERENDUM TO ALL OF YOUR CONTACTS IN NY. WE MUST GET VOLUNTEERS TO CIRCULATE THESE PETITIONS AMONG THE SURVIVORS, GATHER AND COLLECT THEM IN NY, AND SEND A DELEGATION TO CONGRESSMAN SCHIFF'S OFFICE AT THE CAPITOL, THAT HE MAY JOIN THE DELEGATION FOR DELIVERY TO THE PRESIDENT(A FEW THOUSAND SIGNATURES IS PROBABLY SUFFICIENT-THE CRITICAL ISSUE IS TIME) THIS MUST BE ACCOMPLISHED WITHIN THE NEXT FEW DAYS. A HEADLINE SHOULD BE ADDED TO THE TOP OF THE PETITION:"SURVIVORS OF THE TRADE CENTER ATTACK SEND A MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE UN". COPIES SHOULD ALSO BE PRESENTED IN PERSON TO KOKI ANAN. ALL SIGNATURES OF THE SURVIVORS IN NY. SHOULD BE GATHERED BY ONE
INDIVIDUAL THEIR AND NOT MAILED TO CALIFORNIA. PLEASE CONTACT ME AT THE E-MAIL ADDRESS BELOW IF YOU LIVE IN LOWER MANHATTAN.

7) 4) We need volunteers to send their e-mail and phone info to Karen:
spiritus@hotmail.com:
She is our recruiter and is compiling a master list of radio stations
nationwide. She will assign volunteers to:

A) Call music based radio stations and bring their attention to MP3 files
with the Jazz and rock cuts that will refer people to Hopedance.org for a
copy of the referendum.

B) Send MP3 files to radio stations across the country(need volunteers with
high-speed connections)

A Peace Activist's Briefing:
1) Sonya Paz Baron is a Peace activist with a tremendous e-mail peace
network. She is a rock star from Chile and was imprisoned by Pinochet for
her activism. She is recovery from surgery but will be on her feet in a few
days and promises to get Sting and other activist celebrities to help us
get the petitions to the UN.

2) I have two friends in So. Cal. that are sound engineers/ producers with
professional studios. They have agreed to take on the task of writing and
producing an original piece to jazz and possibly hip-hop or rock that
expresses the moral position of the referendum and would refer people to
the Hopedance.org website to download the referendum & website to get
involved.

3) I am in contact with one of Congressman Schiff's top aids(an old friend).
He has been one of the more outspoken dissenters in Congress regarding
compromise of our principles in this crisis. I am asking him directly to
carry signed petitions from survivors that were in or near the World Trade
Center to President Bush.

4)We need all of our fellow Afgan-American friends to contact all of their
friends and family in Afghanistan.
Let us get letters from Afghanistan addressed to both their family members
and to Americans in general posted on several websites nationwide. If the
American People can have intimate contact with these people and come to know
them by name; learn of their desires for freedom and relief; and follow
their plight, we will have nothing but compassion for these so called
enemies.

The power of the internet can spread this quickly, and I am excited about
the prospect of a majority of Americans voting to enact this referendum into
law that will have power over any Act of Congress or the President- This
freedom is why I love America so deeply, and I am confident that the Spirit
of compassion embodied in Christ, Gandhi and Mohamed will unite and prevail.

God Bless America for upholding our principles of peace and goodwill to mankind.
Sincerely, Bruce Severance

Please refer only coordination efforts and letters from Afghanistan to me at the following e-mail address. I have been flooded with e-mail and cannot both read it all and take care of my family, but thank you for the outpouring. mbseverance@mindspring.com