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From: Tim Sheridan [mailto:timmy.sheridan@virgin.net]
Sent: 06 March 2003 23:36
To: everybody
Subject: just a moment of your time....

I am boycotting America and particularly, the Miami winter music
conference and something happened the other day that led to this mail
to you...

After I told a friend I couldn't play for him at the Miami conference
he proposed that if I really believed in a boycott, I should broadcast
it in some way. At the great risk of appearing pompous or superior (I
certainly hope I am not) I am e-mailing everyone I know and talking to
people like yourself to explain why I am doing it and demanding no-one
do anything except listen if they see fit.

After following America's foreign policy all my adult life, I have
gone from being completly oblivious to their motives and actions, to
suspicious through incredulous to downright livid. I have gone from
being a willing and happy consumer of all things glossy and U.S of A
to being unable to watch a film or television programme from there
without at least once shuddering at some propaganda, some history
re-write or worst of all, yet another utterly gratuitous flag-shot.

During the London peace march on 15th feb I couldn't help but feel
while walking and looking around that lots of good people were
spreading lots of good feeling and 48 hours later the world would
forget it. The politicians would turn around and get on with what they
were up to while history blinked.

The day after the march my flatmate asked what I would do if the
American Goverment carried on unilaterally. I said something like I
don't know but I will have to do something. I'm not having it.

So, I said all this to a witness! so this is what, I'm sending this to
everyone I know saying; I will no longer frequent American businesses
or buy American products (which is harder than it appears,
particularly records in my case)
Since the American Goverment has recently become more aggressive I am
boycotting the Miami winter music conference despite the necessity of
being there as I cannot, with any conscience set foot on American soil
due to the outrageous behavior of the American Goverment.

As a footnote I beg the understanding of my American friends and say
with some seriousness, the American people are no different from us
and only they can stop their own goverment. I love my friends over
there and hope they understand.

I urge you to think about how you feel about the current situation,
which more than anything to me is this; That our goverments have lost
touch with us and no longer do our bidding. Regardless of details
regarding the political landscape, I cannot help but feel the will of
a handfull of obscenely rich men, driving our lives and destroying
others and I must do something however small or personal. I will not
visit American franchise fast food, go to see Hollywood flims or buy
or rent them. When an American t.v show is on I will turn over (except
the Simpsons, it's the only satirical voice) I won't buy anything made
in-or that will profit America. I won't go dance to American djs
(though I will gladly shake their hand and share a drink with them if
they are strangers, or invite them to my home if they are friends) and
I will actively seek and encourage any further demonstration to my own
goverment of the will of people who like me, will simply not have it
anymore.

If you feel like it why not pass this on or better still, tell your
own message if you agree. I will send a version of this as personal as
I can to 142 people. If only half pass it on and you work it out, it
balloons to quite a lot of people quite quickly.
Thanks for listening.

Tim.

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