Chicago's city council today voted and passed an anti-Iraq war resolution making Chicago the 42nd American city to pass similiar resolutions. Other cities include:


Seattle
New Haven
San Francisco
Ann Arbor
Oakland
Detroit
Baltimore
Santa Fe
Madison
Philadelphia
Evanston
Des Moines
Albuquerque
Washington DC.

For more information concerning the list of cities that have passed (or are mounting a compaign to pass) anti Iraq war resolutions (or to learn how to mount a campaign), go to:

http://www.citiesforpeace.org

Hey...
We are attempting get this thing through the LA City Council, too! Go to the link to get your petition and read the resolution.

Let's make it happen here! If cities like DC and Detroit and now Chicago are on record to be against this war, now is the time for LA to do the same.

See if you can follow this:

CNN reports the Chicago City Council passed a resolution "against a unilateral military attack on Iraq."

But the resolution also calls Saddam Hussein "a tyrant who should be removed from power."

But it also says: "It not at all clear that a unilateral U.S. military action would result in the installation of a free and democratic Iraqi government."

But it also gives, in CNN's words, "unconditional support to U.S. military personnel."

No wonder the council passed the resolution 46-1. Everybody can agree with *some* part of it.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/16/antiwar.vote.ap/index.html

Rev. Cecil Murray, pastor of First African Methodist Episcopal Church, supports our antiwar petition efforts. We are invited to collect signatures at their church at this Sunday's 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon services. It is Martin Luther King weekend, a most appropriate time to engage in action devoted to peace.


We are still seeking volunteers to collect signatures there. We need three more volunteers for each service.

If you can assist at one or both of these services, please reply directly to this email or telephone me at 323.550.1878

Thank you.

Bob Squires

I contacted members of my town council (L.A. county area) about passing an anti-war resolution and they shot me down. They said that they have more important things to do and I should do some community service if I wanted to make a difference. Oh, they said that there was no use in trying to stop a war that can't be stopped! As*holes!

Make a point to remind them, politely, mind you, that theyare your elected officials. They represent you, not the other way around. Gather some signatures from people in your community in regards to your opinions on the war. Bring it to them, e-mail them, direct mail them, mail copies to your local paper as well as the LA Times. Make it a point to be cordial and polite in all your dealings. And also remind them that they are bound to enact the will of the electorate, which is you and all the people who sign the petition. Remind them that people have memories and that those who have signed the petition will actively pursue alternate candidates in the next election. Maybe even include that last in your petition to let them know you mean business.
As Hunter S. Thompson said "Don't take any guff from these Swine!"

check out this:
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/01/26615_comment.php#26616

Call back, get their names and tell them that you are going to publish their names and comments here (and do it)! . The community will take care of the rest.

Good one, John! That's the spirit!

Get your friends together and go to the next council meeting. Take signs. Do theather. Do druming. Chant. Read West Hollywoods statement to your City Council. Whoopee! No doesn't cut it.

Word has it Vancouver is going to pass a resolution in the next couple weeks. (we're hard at work north of the border too! We had 20 000 at our march on Saturday)

Keep the fight going

This is a cross post - seems like there's a little more activity here.

The irony is amazing.

L.A., a city that had the best public rail transportation in the world many years ago, and sacrificed it for car culture.

A city that is defined by its outstretched suburbs and massive freeway system.

The leading city in the U.S. as far as oil consumption.

The city where public transportation is a joke, and owning a car is a necessity, not a luxury.

Where parking enforcement is extremely effective, and the police are not.

What a cruel joke it would be for the city of Los Angeles to pass such a "resolution".

The City of Los Angeles has more pressing and relevant things to do. This "resolution" is meaningless especially in Los Angeles. It resolves nothing.

Sorting out its issues with transportation is a start.