You can sign an online petition to support the Beslan women here:
http://beslan.shamin.ru/
About 1/5th down the page are four blocks to input your data. The first space is for your last name and first name. The second space is for your country and city. The third and fourth spaces are optional, for job/activity and organization, respectively.
http://befree77.livejournal.com/8514.html
befree77 wrote @ 2006-02-17 14:38:00 (finally corrected her calendar)
'United Russia' voted against the hunger strikers in Beslan
On February 17th independent member of the Russian parliament Vladimir Alexandrovich Ryzhkov brought up a proposal for a commission connected with the continuing hunger strike by members of the by the 'Voice of Beslan' committee. The commission was put up to a vote. All factions except for 'United Russia' voted 'aye'. Thus, due to the votes of 'United Russia' the proposal did not pass.
Below is the text of the proposed commission.
Introduced by member of parliament V.A. Ryzhkov
PROPOSED COMMISSION
In connection with the hunger strike by mothers who lost children in the terror act in Beslan, now in its eighth day, to commission a committee of the Russian Parliament to look into the problems of the North Caucasus and question organs of the government in the Republic of North Osetia - Alania about measures being undertaken to solve the situation, and to distribute this information among members of the Russian Parliament.
V. A. Ryzhkov
The above blog or 'Live Journal' is being written by a young lady who is staying with the women in Beslan. She shares articles and letters with them from her laptop, and they occasionally write something for her to post.
She goes to an Internet cafe to post her observations and download letters.
Her last posting was about the Russian parliament not supporting a motion to support a motion to support a motion (bureaucrats!):
http://befree77.livejournal.com/8514.html
On her site the commentary was as follows:
juliabogun
2006-02-17 11:48 am UTC
Nothing surprising there. It would have been strange if 'United Russia' supported it. But it's nice that Ryzhkov introduced it anyway.
allaya
2006-02-17 12:13 pm UTC
Lena, do you know how Sveta Margiyeva is doing right now? I saw that he was doing bad, but I couldn't get through to Valiko yesterday. How is she?Ella Kesayeva
befree77
2006-02-17 02:48 pm UTC
She's in the hospital. She says she is in satisfactory condition, but we're more worried about Emilia Bzarova who they took to the hospital yesterday. She is very weak, and still won't eat. She refuses... We can't talk her into it right now.Olga, Moscow
(Anonymous) 2006-02-17 03:11 pm UTC
We've got to initiate a recall of such members of parliament!
'Voice of Beslan' is a nongovernmental organization
That would be the same as signing a petition to support 9/11 Families, Jersey Girls.
Or a group of Cathy Sheehan's.