We would like to invite you, your family, friends and co-workers to a anti-war mass meeting, organized by the Not In Our Name Progect. At that meeting, we will brainstorm about ideas for fall actions, in particular a day of mass resistance on October 7th, the one year-anniversary of the U.S. attack on Afghanistan. Anybody's input and ideas for such events are very welcome and needed. We plan to invite all Peace groups of the Los Angeles area to this meeting, in an effort to strategize for unified peace action in the future. We will also provide workshops and training sessions for those who may be interested to learn a little more about being an activist, or to get informed on backgrounds regarding current/and past U.S. military involvements abroad. All are welcome, no activist experience is required! If you would like to contribute to build a mass movement for Peace, against immigrant detentions and round-ups and against Police State Restrictions, this is the starting place for you to be. When?: Sunday, July 14th, 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Where?: Japanese American Cultural Center, 244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles (between 1st and 2nd St.) We hope to see you there! Volunteers are needed!
The Pledge to Resist
We believe that as people living in the United States it is our responsibility to resist the injustices done by our government, in our names
Not in our name will you wage endless war there can be no more deaths no more transfusions of blood for oil
Not in our name will you invade countries bomb civilians, kill more children letting history take its course over the graves of the nameless
Not in our name will you erode the very freedoms you have claimed to fight for
Not by our hands will we supply weapons and funding for the annihilation of families on foreign soil
Not by our mouths will we let fear silence us
Not by our hearts will we allow whole peoples or countries to be deemed evil
Not by our will and Not in our name
We pledge resistance We pledge alliance with those who have come under attack for voicing opposition to the war or for their religion or ethnicity
We pledge to make common cause with the people of the world to bring about justice freedom and peace Another world is possible and we pledge to make it real
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