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Events Planned for March 10-19, 2008, to Resist the U.S. Occupation of Iraq, Oppose New Wars, Demand ImpeachmentSubmitted by davidswanson on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 18:47.We are asking congress members and senators to simply do this. MARCH 6, 2008 in Washington, D.C. MARCH 7-9, 2008 in Washington, D.C.: NCOR
To intensify the irony, Congress has condoned a widespread stop-loss policy in the military which requires soldiers to involuntarily extend their tours and prolong the killing. It is time to Stop-Loss Congress!
On Monday March 10, and Tuesday March 11, we will deliver "official" stop-loss notices to all members of Congress in their Capitol Hill offices. These will notify them that all of their LEAVES, VACATIONS and HOME VISITS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED until further notice. Just as they require that active-duty personnel endure involuntary extensions of their tours of duty, we, the people for whom they work, are notifying them that they, too, will have their tours of duty INVOLUNTARILY EXTENDED until every foreign soldier and mercenary is out of Iraq, and home. When all the troops and contractors get home, then Congress can go home, and no sooner. Monday evening March 10, 10 PM: Party at St. Stephen's Church with political HIP HOP performers SON of NUN and HEAD ROC, Admission is by donation. Tuesday evening March 11, 6PM-8PM: Premiere of the documentary film "DAD ON FIRE BLUES" by filmmaker Scott Haman at BUSBOYS & POETS in Washington, D.C. Carlos Arredondo will speak. Rick Burnley will recite poetry. LIVE Music by EMMA'S REVOLUTION. On Wednesday March 12, We will take nonviolent action on Capitol Hill, to ensure that, while thousands of Iraqis, Afghanis, and foreign invaders die and are injured for life, the members of Congress and their staffs do not go home but remain to DO THEIR DUTY, and immediately end the funding of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. No members of Congress goes home until THE TROOPS COME HOME. Participating Organizations: Hip Hop Caucus, AfterDowningStreet.org, Backbone Campaign, Camp Casey Peace Institute, CODEPINK Women For Peace, Common Ground Collective New Orleans, Democrats.com, Global Network, Gold Star Families for Peace, Progressive Democrats of America, Our Spring Break, The Critical Voice, Artists Against The War, Cities for Peace, ConsumersForPeace.org, Grandmothers Against the War, Kennebunks Peace Department, New Orleans Voices for Peace, Daughters of Vietnam Veterans, Why Not News, DC Chapter of IVAW, World Can’t Wait – Drive Out The Bush Regime!, Peace Majority Report, Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, Coalition for the Constitution, Grassroots Impeachment Movement, Florida Peace Action Network, Liberty Tree, Maine Veterans for Peace, Boston IVAW, National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, Washington Peace Center, Delaware Valley Veterans for America, Texans for Peace, North Texas for Justice and Peace, Campus Antiwar Network, Courage to Resist, Action Center for Justice, Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, Watch All the Stop-Loss Action Live on Youtube: Also on Wednesday March 12: Ghosts of War. Also on Wednesday March 12 for those not in DC: A congressional call-in day organized around the theme of "No to War, No to Africom." Let's oppose the militarization of Africa. HERE ARE VIDEOS OF STOP-LOSS CONGRESS ACTION. MARCH 13-16, 2008 (Thursday-Sunday) in Silver Spring, Maryland: Winter Soldier Details. Preview. Bush has been invited. Winter Soldier will be held at the National Labor College, 10000 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20903 Audio and video of panels will be available live online on satelite TV and on Pacifica radio: HOW TO WATCH.
MARCH 16 to 18, 2008 (Sunday, Monday and Tuesday) in Washington, D.C.: Training, Lobbying, Restoring the Constitution PREPARATION FOR MARCH 19: March 17th March 18th March 18th, Tuesday: CODEPINK Action Day to Take Back the Constitution WHEN/WHERE: 11am press conference, National Archives -700 Pennsylvania NW WHEN/WHERE: 12-2pm "Restore the Constitution" parade on Constitution Ave. Participating Organizations: AfterDowningStreet.org, Grassroots America, DC Chapter of IVAW, CODEPINK Women For Peace, Our Spring Break, Democrats.com, Backbone Campaign, Progressive Democrats of America, The Critical Voice, Artists Against The War, Cities for Peace, ConsumersForPeace.org, Replace Pelosi (petition to be delivered), Grandmothers Against the War, Kennebunks Peace Department, Delaware Valley Veterans for America, New Orleans Voices for Peace, Daughters of Vietnam Veterans, Why Not News, Peace Majority Report, Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, Coalition for the Constitution, Grassroots Impeachment Movement, Liberty Tree, Texans for Peace, North Texas for Justice and Peace, Campus Antiwar Network, Courage to Resist, Action Center for Justice, Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, Freeze at Union Station: 5 p.m. on 18th.
The TrueMajority.org "IranMobile", a Dr. Strangelovian thermonuclear missle/bomb that rises for launch 20 feet in the air with George W. Bush astride, is coming to Washington, DC. It will be at Busboys and Poets on March 16th, 7:00 pm with CodePink; again at Busboys and Poets on March 17th at 6:00 pm with PDA and Jim Hightower for their launch of the Health Care Not Warfare campaign; at the CodePink House for breakfast on March 18th at 9:00 am; Union Station on March 18th at 5:00 pm and at McPherson Square on March 19th at 7:00 am, staging ground for the UFPJ actions taking place all day.
MARCH 19, 2008 (Wednesday) Everywhere and in Washington, D.C.: Nonviolent Resistance
LOCAL EVENTS: Post Yours! Update it. FIND LOCAL EVENTS AT http://5yearstoomany.org AND IN A SEPARATE LIST AT http://worldagainstwar.org WASHINGTON DC EVENTS: Join us! OTHER CITIES: San Francisco, Chicago, College Station, Texas, Denver, Clifton, NJ, Resources for nonviolent activism: HERE. Resources for promoting your event in the media: HERE. Flyers and posters with room for local info: HERE. Ideas for local actions: HERE. DETAILS ON DC EVENTS: *7:30am* - Opening Circle & Press Briefing at McPherson Square, 15th & K St NW *8am* - Separate Oil from State action at the American Petroleum Institute, 13th & L St NW 8am - Blockade the IRS with War Resisters League and friends – Help expose the real cost of war by shutting down the IRS first thing in the morning and making a clear statement to stop FUNDING war! Click here for more details. *9am* - Veterans March for Peace begins on the Mall at 7th St *9:30am* - March of the Dead begins at the Women's Memorial at Arlington Cemetery: Activist Response Team (A.R.T.) and others who join us will imagine what would happen if the dead, civilian and military, return to enter Washington to seek justice for the crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan because of U.S. foreign policy. In death masks, all in black, some wearing the name of someone killed, others with statistics measuring the scale of the tragedy, we will proceed through the city in small groups riding the metro, walking the streets and haunting the periphery of the other actions. We will then converge at a given time all-together to make the long march for justice with stops at the State Department, Justice Department, and Supreme Court culminating with acts of civil resistance. *10:15am* - Veterans ceremony with Buffy Saint-Marie in front of the American Indian Museum *11am* - Public Gathering & Press Briefing at McPherson Square *12 noon* - Funk the War: Student Power Dance Party Against Empire, meet at Franklin Park, 14th & K NW with Students for a Democratic Society 12:30pm - Die In at CAT, 1445 K St, with the Coalition for Justice and Accountability *1:30pm* - Anti-Torture demonstration with World Can't Wait at Lafayette Park *2pm* - Public Gathering & Press Briefing at McPherson Square 3pm - CODEPINK action at the NSA - 725 17th Street NW between Pennsylvania and New York *5pm* - meet at the Reflecting Pool on the west side of the Capitol, march to the Democratic National Committee Headquarters - bring pots & pans, drums, noisemakers, signs, banners Time Unknown: Shut Down the Military Recruiters Office on 14th & L with the Grannies, bring your rocker and knitting needles and prepare to stay for the day! Participating Organizations: AfterDowningStreet.org, Backbone Campaign, Camp Casey Peace Institute, CODEPINK Women For Peace, Common Ground Collective New Orleans, Democracy Rising, Democrats.com, Global Network, Gold Star Families for Peace, Grassroots America, Hip Hop Caucus, Progressive Democrats of America, United for Peace and Justice, Voters for Peace, World Can’t Wait – Drive Out The Bush Regime!, DC Chapter of IVAW, Activist Responce Team (A.R.T), Washington Peace Center, Our Spring Break, The Critical Voice, Artists Against The War, Cities for Peace, ConsumersForPeace.org, Grandmothers Against the War, Kennebunks Peace Department, Delaware Valley Veterans for America, New Orleans Voices for Peace, Daughters of Vietnam Veterans, Why Not News, Peace Majority Report, Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, Coalition for the Constitution, Grassroots Impeachment Movement, Liberty Tree, No War No Warming, Texans for Peace, North Texas for Justice and Peace, Campus Antiwar Network, Courage to Resist, Action Center for Justice, Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, Sacramento for Democracy, World Can't Wait Events in DC on 19th:
Join in acts of creative non-violent civil resistance! 1:30 p.m. in Lafayette Square Park join World Can't Wait and a sea of orange jumpsuits in solidarity with and representing those being tortured in Guantanamo Bay Prison, Abu Ghraib, Bagram in Afghanistan, and CIA “black sites” around the globe. A demonstration showing that waterboarding IS TORTURE, is planned directly in front of the residence of our biggest war criminal other than Dick Cheney. The Park will become a rallying center for all those who are determined to put an end to this illegitimate and immoral occupation and demand justice by driving the war criminals from office now, not waiting for 2009! We are done with secret renditions, warrantless spying, lying to the public, using signing statements to disobey laws, rounding up immigrants and detaining them. 3:30 p.m. in Lafayette Square Park join Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War. Sundown in Lafayette Square Park: view the film exposing the ultimate crimes committed by this regime: The Bush Crimes Commission. No War, No Warming Events in DC on 19th:
On the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war, TAKE ACTION at the American Petroleum Institute in Washington D.C. at 13th and L Sts. NW, On the morning of Wednesday, March 19 - END the War in Iraq - Veterans for Peace Events in DC on 19th: Something else that anyone anywhere can do on the 19th: Something you can do while you're home: IRAQ FAX-IN
International Actions on 19th: March 20 SDS Campus Protests Students for a Democratic Society Campus Events March 20-23 Split This Rock Poetry Festival Stick around to TALK about what you've been doing, with Split This Rock in Washington, D.C. Cosponsored by D.C. Poets Against the War, the Institute for Policy Studies, Sol & Soul, and Busboys & Poets. MORE EVENTS AROUND THE WORLD March 22 in Tokyo, Japan AND IN THE UNITED STATES March 22 in Charlotte, NC _______ March 22: Teach-In on Iraq: A Dialogue on the War Join American University Patriots for Peace for a teach-in on the war in Iraq on Saturday, March 22nd from 10:30 am - 4:30 pm. Learn about the consequences of failed policies and the case and the means for withdrawal. Take action by participating in an Iraq Veterans Against the War Truth In Recruiting workshop and a brainstorming workshop about how to continue resistance against the war. Please see the attachment for details. Contact AUPatriotsforPeace@gmail.com with questions. Saturday, March 22nd 10:30 am Registration and Introduction 11:00 am Panel: The Consequences of Failed Policies 12:15 pm Panel: The Logic of Withdrawal 1:30 pm Free Lunch 2:00 pm Building an Activist Movement 2:30 pm Iraq Veterans Against the War - Truth In Recruiting Workshop 3:30 pm Individual and Collective Action Brainstorming Workshop: Developing a Plan to End the War Please RSVP to AUPatriotsforPeace@gmail.com to help us determine how much food to prepare. Include your name, email, and if you’re a vegetarian! Questions? Email AUPatriotsforPeace@gmail.com American University is located at 4400 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. ______
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HOUSING OPTIONS IN WASHINGTON D.C.Submitted by davidswanson on Sun, 01/06/2008 - 04:52.Open for info.  |
