{"article":{"id":33197,"heading":"WED. MARCH 5, NATIONAL NO WORK NO SCHOOL IN PROTEST AGAINT THE WAR","author":"http:\/\/www.iacenter.org","created":"2003-03-06 00:31:51","modified":"2003-03-06 00:31:51","last_modified":"Thu, 06 Mar 2003 07:31:51","article":"

No School, No Work, No Business as Usual \r\n\r\n-- The Next Phase of Conscience and Resistance -- \r\nTO STOP THE WAR, BEFORE IT STARTS \r\n\r\nOn March 5… \r\n\r\nYou could call in sick. \r\n(sick of war, sick of militarism…) \r\n\r\nYou could close your business. \r\n\r\nProfessors could cancel classes. \r\n\r\nStudents could plan citywide high school walkouts and other campus actions, joining with student strikes being organized across the country. \r\n\r\n\r\nCity councils and county boards that have passed resolutions against the war could mark the day with town hall meetings, teach-ins or other ways. \r\n\r\n\r\nUnions that have passed anti-war resolutions could call job actions. \r\n\r\n\r\nYou could stand for peace at the nearest post office or government building. \r\n\r\n\r\nYou could begin a campaign of bold letters to legislators, the president and his secretaries. \r\n\r\n\r\nYou could establish “no war zones” with signs and banners at strategic intersections (as they are doing in Atlanta). \r\n\r\n\r\nYou could hang banners from major overpasses (as they are doing in Chicago). \r\n\r\n\r\nYou could bring your protest to a military facility, with acts of civil disobedience “supporting” the soldiers by attempting to stop the U.S. military machine from sending them off to war. \r\n\r\n\r\nHouses of worship could call for special services that day; could call their congregations to protest at military recruiting offices or elsewhere; could open their doors to conscientious objectors. \r\n\r\n\r\nYou could engage in nonviolent direct action at appropriate locations. \r\n\r\n\r\nYou could begin a dialogue on how to bring about a peaceful and just world. \r\n\r\n\r\nAfternoon or evening convergences could bring together everyone who’s acted earlier in the day to voice opposition in the streets and at community gatherings. Sponsors | Events\/Ideas | Resources | Statements | Home \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHELP STOP THIS WAR ON IRAQ \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe possibilities are endless, collective and individual. \r\nLay something important in your life on the line, \r\nAlong with hundreds of thousands of others \r\nOn the same day. \r\n\r\n........ Whoever you are. Wherever you are. \r\n\r\n\r\nWhat’s that line you haven’t crossed yet to show your determination to stop this war? \r\n\r\n\r\nThe line may be different for everyone. But whatever it is, prepare to cross it on March 5, in large and small acts of courage, singly and together... \r\n\r\n\r\n“One day in March the Air Force and Navy will launch between 300 and 400 cruise missiles at targets in Iraq…more than the number that were launched during the entire 40 days of the first Gulf War…‘so that you have this simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, not taking days or weeks but in minutes. \r\n(CBS News, Jan. 27, 2003) \r\n\r\n\r\nIf you had known about Hiroshima in advance, what would you have done to stop it? Today’s war-makers are telling us what they plan to do, including the possible use of nuclear weapons. This war will visit unspeakable terror and suffering on the people of Iraq, in the name of “liberating” them. It will put people all over the planet at risk, in the name of protecting them. It will, no doubt, be accompanied by even more severe repression within the U.S. against immigrants and against resisters. \r\n\r\nAnd it will mark another terrible step – the most horrific one yet – into a future of endless war and severe repression. \r\n\r\n\r\nDespite huge outpourings of protest around the world, including here in the U.S., the war-makers refuse to listen. We must build on everything that’s been done to date and intensify our work to stop them. \r\n\r\n\r\nWe must act on our conscience and resist as if the future depends on it – because it does. We must inspire, organize and expand political resistance throughout society – where we live and where we work, where we go to school and where we raise our children, where we play and where we pray. Students have called for March 5 as a day to walk out of class. We are calling on all groups and all people to expand the day to one of society-wide resistance – a day to act together to manifest opposition to this shameful, unjust and racist war and our determination to stop it. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- \r\n\r\nMoratorium to Stop War \r\nis a project by a coalition of organizations working \r\nto oppose a war on Iraq. \r\n<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.iacenter.org\/","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"On Wed. March 5… You could call in sick. \r\n(sick of war, sick of militarism…) \r\n","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/03\/33197.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}