March 5 - National Moratorium to Stop the War on Iraq

[S.R. Prozak]

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From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:42:37 -0800 (PST)
To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Subject: March 5 - National Moratorium to Stop the War on Iraq

> Some email groups plan to honor the March 5 Moratorium
> by focuing discussion on the War on Iraq. I suggest we
> do the same on Pynchon-L.
> -Doug   
> 
> 
> 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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