Democracy Now? - email to Amy Goodman

Dear Amy Goodman,

I hope you are well.

On March 20, 2006 Democracy Now! unsubscribed from my Newsletter

FROM: Democracy Now!
DATE: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:33 PM
TO: info@thecatsdream.com
SUBJECT: Unsubscribe

Obviously, I did unsubscribe you.

It would be interesting and useful though to know the reason, since Democracy Now! has been receiving my newsletter for the past two years.

Your request came after I had written:

1) “The Insane Society” (Tuesday, March 14, 2006) where I wrote: “Since Hiroshima Day 1990, for the past fifteen years and with the complicity and silence of most of the so-called “international community”, Washington and London have waged a war against the people of Iraq that has slaughtered over 2,000,000 people. Most of them women and children. Proportionally to its population, it’s as if a war against the United States had killed 23 million of innocent Americans. Freedom! Freedom! Democracy! Democracy!”

2) Iraq: “Why is the Left Understating the Carnage?” (March 15, 2006) where I wrote to Mountain View Voices for Peace, to United for Peace and Justice and to Danny Schechter of MediaChannel about their use of the Mountain View Voices for Peace’s poster for the March 2006 third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq that states (about Iraqi civilian deaths) “30,000 Iraqis”

About this last correspondence, I have received a reply from Mountain View Voices for Peace’s Lenny Siegel with whom I disagree deeply and a reply from my friend Danny Schechter of MediaChannel, who agreed with my concerns over the use of that poster and withdrawn it from Media Channel’s website.

I have not received any reply from United for Peace and Justice, even though I have written to them repeatedly.

Of course, your request to unsubscribe just after I wrote about this issue can simply be a coincidence. I would like to know the reason then, since I have always thought that as an international movement, we should side together and listen to each other. Democracy Now!, remember?

Best wishes,
Gabriele Zamparini