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Title: Women's Action & CD Against the War
START DATE: 4/2/2003
START TIME: 8:30 AM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: federal bldg downtown
Location Details:
Los Angeles St. & Temple
Event Topic: War Is Not Good for Children & Other Living Things
Event Type: Women's Anti-war Action & CD
Contact Name: Women of Conscience & The Global Women's Strike
Contact Email: la@crossroadswomen.net
Contact Phone: 213-381-2649 or 323-292-7405
DESCRIPTION:
"Every Casualty, Every Collateral Damage, Some Mother's Daughter, Some Mother's Son"

WAR IS NOT GOOD FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER LIVING THINGS.

INVEST IN CARING NOT KILLING.

Join Women of Conscience and the Global Women's Strike on Wednesday April 2, at

8:30am at the Downtown Federal Building (Los Angeles St & Temple), for a women's

action, including a civil disobedience against war. The action will happen during the

regular Wednesday protest time set aside by the Interfaith Communities United for

Justice and Peace, and is also supported by International ANSWER/LA. Other endorsers

are welcome. Men are encouraged to come out in support. The event will include a

women's speak out and music performances. The civil disobedience, following the

tradition of Martin Luther King and Gandhi, will be done in a peaceful way only by those

committed to doing it. The organizers cannot promise to post bail or to provide legal

assistance to all those arrested. Others can support the event and participate in other

ways without fear of arrest. Lawyers and other legal observers will be on hand.

As the intense bombing of Iraq continues, causing loss of life and destruction of the

environment, women, young people and men are invited to stand against war. The event

will recognize the women and children of Iraq who have paid the highest price for a decade

of economic embargoes and now have bombs falling on them. We will also recognize

other women around the world, in particular grassroots women of color and other no and

low income women, who suffer the most as a result of money going to military spending

instead of going to care for people and the environment.

Women, the first carers and the poorest of the poor everywhere, struggle to make up for

the devastation, the loss of welfare and other benefits, healthcare, education-cut or

privatized to pay for war. However governments justify war, women point to the suffering

and the tragic loss of lives, in whatever country, of whatever race or religion.

As Dr. Martin Luther King said about the Vietnam War on April 4, 1967, a

year to the day before his murder:

"I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energy in

rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to

draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.

So I was compelled to see war as an enemy of the poor."

For information about your rights and the legal process when doing a civil

disobedience check out the National Lawyers Guild Website at www.nlg-la.org

and go to the protesters page.

For more info on the action and for info on civil disobedience training

contact: Women of Conscience at 213-381-2649 or the Global Women's Strike

at 323-292-7405.
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