LOS ANGELES (AP - 9 Dec) -- Mike Farrell and Anjelica Huston will release a letter Tuesday signed by a hundred celebrities who want President Bush to stop his war rhetoric toward Iraq.

The letter reportedly is signed by stars including Kim Basinger, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Lange and Martin Sheen, publicists for the event said Monday.

Details of the letter weren't released.

Bush has threatened military force against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, saying the dictator has amassed weapons of mass destruction that pose a danger to the United States.

United Nations weapons inspectors are searching the Middle Eastern country for such devices but have turned up little so far.

Farrell, who plays a veterinarian on the NBC drama ``Providence,'' previously compiled a celebrity-endorsed letter in June asking U.S. senators to vote against a plan to bury the nation's nuclear power waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain.

Co-signers of that letter included Alec Baldwin and Tim Robbins, Rob Reiner, Barbra Streisand and Harry Belafonte.

On July 9, senators voted 60-39 in favor of the Yucca Mountain project.

The antiwar movement is gearing up for a series of events nationwide December 10 to coincide with International Human Rights Day. There are more than 120 events and marches currently planned in thirty-five states from Spokane,Washington to Washington, DC.

The activities are being coordinated via unitedforpeace.org, sponsored by a coalition of more than seventy social justice and peace groups: http://unitedforpeace.org

Tomorrow also marks the launch of a campaign of nationally coordinated civil disobedience called the Iraq Pledge of Resistance. More than 5,000 people coast to coast have already taken the pledge to engage in nonviolent civil disobedience in order to prevent or halt the death and destruction that US military action will likely bring to the people of Iraq.

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Source: http://www.middleeast.org/articles/2002/12/781.htm