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Statement of Opposition to the War against Iraq: Environmental Justice and Peace
By Asian Pacific Environmental Network
March 2003
The Asian Pacific Environmental Network opposes the United States-led war against Iraq. We declare that this war is racist and unjust, and that this war is driven by a United States political and corporate agenda that seeks global economic control at the cost of human suffering and environmental damage. Our opposition to this war reflects our deep commitment of developing community-based leadership and power to counteract and ultimately to transform the structures and processes that continue to promote militarization and violence in its many forms in our communities.
The Asian & Pacific Islander communities that we organize understand deeply the costs and impacts of war led by the U.S. The scars of war live in our current and historical memory-from Japanese internment in World War II to the Vietnam War that expanded to Laos. As immigrant and refugee communities in this country, we have experienced first-hand war that tears apart our families, our homeland countries, our cultures and our livelihoods. Many of us who fled our homeland countries did so to find refuge from the terrors of war. Many in our communities face fear, confusion, and intimidation as we try to understand and act upon the U.S.'s escalating war in Iraq. Despite this fear and confusion, many know that this is an unjust and unfair war. We do not want to relive those memories of war, nor experience again its detrimental impact on our communities.
