The figure of 5,000 deaths per month is from the United Nations, so quibble with them artbrooks.

Here is the quote I lifted it from:

"In 1998 the UN reported that about 5,000 children under five were dying every month from the effects of sanctions-water-borne diseases, insufficient medicine, inadequate food."

My source for the information is "The War Times" newspaper. The front page of this new paper, now being carried nation-wide, carries the headline article titled "Bush Plots Military Strikes: 60 Countries Targeted" and an article below the fold titled "Apartheid in the Holy Land".

Their website, which is still under construction, is:

www.wartimes.org

Here is another nonviolent, direct action tactic being promoted in that paper: support for peace activists fined for sanctions violations. Activists have been running medicine to Iraq, defying government sanctions. Pledge funds here:

www.scn.org/ccpi/declaration2002.html

Or support the Iraq Peace Team, sponsored by Voices in the Wilderness. They have led 43 sanctions busting delegations to Iraq:

www.iraqpeaceteam.org