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From: "Not In Our Name-Seattle" <seattle_notinourname@...>
To: <notinourname_seattle@...>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 7:44 PM
Subject: March 5-Nat'l Moratorium to Stop the War on Iraq


> Hello Everybody,
> Off of the tremendous success of worldwide protests on Feb 15th (Yeah!!!!
> A huge thank you to everyone who volunteered and turned up to voice your
> conscience at the Feb 15 Coalition protest in Seattle!!), many people are
> asking, "What's next?" Wednesday, March 5th is intended to be an
> emergency response BEFORE all-out war on Iraq--with our sights set on
> preventing it. So far, the day is being sponsored nationally by
> Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, Middle East
> Children's Alliance, Not in Our Name Project, Southern Christian
> Leadership Foundation, and International A.N.S.W.E.R.
> Seattle Not In Our Name is calling a convergence in downtown
> Seattle--details to be announced. We encourage all other groups and
> individuals to organize actions, large and small, on March 5th. There
> will be a March 5th website for people to publicize their plans. Respond
> to this email to sign on as a participant and let us know what YOU decide
> to do on March 5th. If we all do what we feel is needed to stop the war,
> it will be a beautiful day on which "We pledge to make common cause with
> the people of the world to bring about justice, freedom and peace."
>
> March 5 - National Moratorium to Stop the War on Iraq
>
> The Next Phase of Conscience and Resistance
> To Stop the War before it Starts
>
> No School, No Work, No Business as Usual
>
> "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.'" (CBS News, Jan. 27,
> 2003)
>
> If 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. 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. And it will mark another terrible step - the most
> horrific one yet - into a future of endless war and severe repression. It
> is up to the people to stop it.
>
> We must act on our conscience and resist as if the future depends on it -
> because it does. We must inspire and organize 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.
>
> On Wednesday, March 5, we are calling on all groups and all people to
> come together to manifest their opposition to this shameful and unjust
> war and their determination to stop it. And if it looks like the
> war-makers are going to launch their massacre missiles before March 5,
> the Moratorium date will be moved up.
>
> Whoever you are.
> Wherever you are.
> What's that line you haven't crossed yet to show your determination to
> stop this war?
> Prepare to cross it, in large and small acts of courage.
>
> On March 5...
> * You could call in sick.
> * You could close your business.
> * Professors could cancel classes.
> * Students could plan citywide high school walkouts and other campus
> actions (and they are!).
> * City councils and county boards that have passed resolutions against
> the war could mark the day in appropriate ways.
> * Unions that have passed anti-war resolutions could call job actions.
> * You could stand for peace at the nearest post office or government
> building.
> * You could begin a campaign of boldly-worded letters to legislators, the
> president and his secretaries.
> * You could establish "no war zones" with signs and banners at strategic
> intersections (as they are doing in Atlanta).
> * You could hang banners from major overpasses (as they are doing in
> Chicago and Washington).
> * You 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.
> * Houses 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.
> * Afternoon or evening convergences could bring together everyone who's
> acted earlier in the day.
>
> The possibilities are endless, collective and individual.
> Lay something important in your life on the line,
> Along with hundreds of thousands of others
> On the same day, on March 5
> TO STOP THIS WAR ON IRAQ.
> _______________________________
>
> A national Moratorium planning committee is in formation. For more
> information and to add your name as a Moratorium sponsor, contact:
>
> Rev. Dr. George Regas, Interfaith Communities United for Justice and
> Peace,
> icujp@..., phone 626-683-9004;
> Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children's Alliance
> Rev. Peter Laarman, religiousforum@..., ph 212-477-0351;
> Not in Our Name Project, info@..., ph 212-969-8058
> (www.notinourname.net for information and updates);
> Southern Christian Leadership Foundation, SCLfoundation@..., ph
> 404-659-7253;
> International A.N.S.W.E.R., ph 212-633-6646, www.internationalANSWER.org
>
>
>
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