March 5 - National Moratorium to Stop the War on Iraq

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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).
    * 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 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 at pacbell.net, phone 626-683-9004;
Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children's Alliance
Rev. Peter Laarman, religiousforum at hotmail.com, ph
212-477-0351;
Not in Our Name Project, info at notinourname.net, ph
212-969-8058
(www.notinourname.net for information and updates);
Southern Christian Leadership Foundation,
SCLfoundation at earthlink.net, ph
404-659-7253;
International A.N.S.W.E.R., ph 212-633-6646,
www.internationalANSWER.org .


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