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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Citizens Against Terror, or CAT, is an alliance of citizens and citizens’ groups from across the world working to build and support effective civic responses to the threat of terror. <BR>
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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?<BR>
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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 ‘war on terror,’ 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.<BR>
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The CAT initiative grew out of civil society’s participation in the Madrid summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security, March 8–10, 2005, and was inspired by the response of the Spanish people to the M11 attacks.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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And we have the backing of influential figures such as Kofi Annan:<BR>
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<I>‘I 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.’<BR>
<B>UN Secretary General: Uniting against terrorism: recommendations for a global counter-terrorism strategy: 27 April 2006<BR>
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At our founding meeting members agreed that CAT’s first aim should be to:<BR>
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<B>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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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@gmail.com<BR>
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Thank you so much,<BR>
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Chloe Davies<BR>
Director of Citizens Against Terror<BR>
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