I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully

<sub>To: Every American

We the undersigned will fast on Thanksgiving Day as a protest against the U.S. occupation of Iraq. We will spend the fast with like-minded friends and family discussing the suffering of the people of Iraq, and how we are complicit as taxpayers and citizens of the United States of America in maintaining the war and occupation. We will use this time to write letters to members of our Congress, Senate, and the White House, expressing our demands.

We will refuse to consume and/or purchase food items traditionally associated with Thanksgiving Day: turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, etc., and will instead (resources permitting) donate the funds for this celebration to a local homeless shelter, or relief fund for Iraqi citizens, or some other fund which provides resources for those in need. ...

In solidarity with those who oppose the United States of America's war against the people of Iraq, occupation of their land, and theft of their natural resources ... we are the undersigned ...</sub>

Humanitarian poet/activist C.A. Conrad proposes a Thanksgiving Day fast supporting peace in Iraq. "What's life like in Baghdad on Thanksgiving Day," he writes, "when Americans are busy feasting on pumpkin pie and turkey breast?"

I don't think we really want to know.