[esocialaction] Citizens Against Terror - needs your support

[Chloe Davies]

Citizens Against Terror, or CAT, is an alliance of citizens and citizens¹
groups from across the world working to build and support effective civic
responses to the threat of terror.
 
We urgently need help developing our website (built with ruby on rails)
which we were hoping to launch on July 7, the anniversary of the London
bombings. We have participants for an important online debate on the UK
definition of terrorism, but no funding to finish the web forums! Please can
anyone help?

 Background 
 
Terrorism kills ordinary people, but ordinary people - citizens - rarely get
a say in how terrorism should be fought. CAT aims to construct an
alternative approach to that offered by the Œwar on terror,¹ and critically,
one that has non-violence and the international solidarity of citizens at
the heart of it, rather than an endless dispiriting vista of war.
 
The CAT initiative grew out of civil society¹s participation in the Madrid
summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security, March 8­10, 2005, and was
inspired by the response of the Spanish people to the M11 attacks.
 
We have an inspiring and committed core network (comprised of human rights
activists, media, academics etc) over fifty of whom took place in our
founding meeting in Barcelona which took place in March 2006.
 
And we have the backing of influential figures such as Kofi Annan:
 
ŒI am heartened by new, transnational initiatives, such as the Citizens
against Terror network, which was born out of civil society participation in
the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security held at Madrid
in March 2005.¹
UN Secretary General: Uniting against terrorism: recommendations for a
global counter-terrorism strategy: 27 April 2006
 
At our founding meeting members agreed that CAT¹s first aim should be to:
 
Build a global public resource and community for understanding terrorism and
security, capable of impacting policy-making and supporting those most at
risk of terror.
 
A mutli-lingual website will play a key role in making this resource and
community accessible to people around the world. But until we win funding we
have no money to build it and it is set to launch on July 7, the anniversary
of the London bombings.
 
We have come some way to building the site but are very keen to locate a
little help to make it fit for public consumption. We need to build an
online forum and other features.

If anyone would like to help create what could prove to be a gathering point
for international civic responses to the threats presented by both terrorism
and counter-terrorism, then please contact me as soon as possible at
citizenscampaign at gmail.com
 
Thank you so much,

Chloe Davies
Director of Citizens Against Terror

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