U.N.C.O.I.L. (United Napans Concerned Over Iraq Lunacy) was co-founded in early 2004 by Napa businessman, John Sensenbaugh and physician, Dr. Eric Khoury, as a way of protesting the United States’ questionable preemptive entry into war with another sovereign nation. In addition to its founders, its current board consists of Napa residents John Stephens, Summer Mondeau, Sybil Hinkle, and its current chair, Napa educator Joanne Gifford. It includes a working membership of well over 200 others. The group has sponsored a number of peaceful, orderly community events aimed at raising public awareness about the war since its inception. In addition to two memorial services honoring the war dead, one of which was a dramatic lofting of names of fallen U.S. soldiers propelled by helium balloons over the Napa River, U.N.C.O.I.L. co-sponsored and planned the two-day UNWELCOME BUSH PROTEST EVENT in St. Helena (in the Napa Valley), California in April of 2006. It has also conducted sidewalk parades, post office handouts, and written scores of letters and opinion pieces that have appeared in our local newspaper and others. All of U.N.C.O.I.L.'s events to date have proceeded without incident or opposition confrontation.
Based in Napa, California, U.N.C.O.I.L. continues to follow its three-year tradition of promoting peace through responsible grassroots activism. For further information, please click HERE to send us an email inquiry.
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(Note: This project is also sometimes referred to as as Crosses 4 Peace.)