THIS IS THE WEEKEND! The whole world's talking! Speak up US!

Most events are Saturday but you'll find activities all weekend long if you take a look. It's time to BE SEEN AND HEARD folks!
Can we keep this kicked for the weekend? PJ

SATURDAY, MARCH 19: GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST ON THE TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE IRAQ WAR


Check these sites to locate or START an activity in your community -

Not in our name site:
http://www.notinourname.net/archive/19-20mar05.htm

Answer Coalitions site:
http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage

UPJ site:
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/

Sojourners Peace Vigils
http://sojo.demaction.org/event/nationalEventSearch.jsp?national_event_KEY=9



LOOK! THERE WILL BE WORLDWIDE ACTIVITY ON THIS -
International AND US sites:
http://amigaphil.planetinternet.be/cgi-bin/show.cgi?nowar33

strike back?

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supporting the troops?
No one at any of these rallies thinks the troops are at fault - they are just doing the job doled out to them by the fascist Bush regime. They are under orders to do this job and no one BLAMES the troops for complying with both military law and sworn duty.
However, we cannot support a war that unnecessarily put your son and others in harm's way. There were no WMDs, the Iraqi people didn't ask us to get rid of Saddam for them and they simply don't want us there.
Tell him this: war protestors of this era are actually SUPPORTING him by NOT supporting this illegal war. We have his and his unit's best interests at heart because he and his friends should not be dying to secure Bush's oil lust.

Maybe you can get through to him that way. It's worth a shot.

Of course YOU understand that this is all about spinning the obvious---make the war protesters look like the criminals instead of the administration who started this immoral, illegal invasion of a sovereign country. Don't back down from that argument. Bush and Co. need to be labeled un-American and unpatriotic and terrorists. Because they are.

the destruction of the modern city of Fallujah? The use by the US military of napalm and enriched uranium shells (reported by an Iraqi official and numerous others) which will cause Iraqi people to die from the effects of radiation for thousands of years to come? The destruction of antiquities? The US$80m stolen from Iraq first by Saddam and then by the US occupiers when they found it in his palaces?

For starters.

Dear Americans, the social security thing could be a massive distraction: while you are all shroud-waving about it (and I would probably do the same in your place), seen from outside the US it really looks as if your civilisation is collapsing: all the values for which America used to stand, for the past 50-70 years, seem to have become necrotic. Your politicians still talk about freedom and liberty and democracy and justice etc etc but it is just a smokescreen of words. The Republican administration is a collection of indecently greedy, cruel, dangerously unaccountable, racist and ignorant peasants (I mean, at heart): like American Ceausescus. You HAVE GOT to identify and capture the moral high ground, if your society is not going to implode altogether and become bankrupt within your own or your children's lifetime.

After all, if it isn't on CNN, it never happened.

I'll bet the world press covers it if turnout is impressive.

www.ucomics.com/rallcom, cartoon for 17 March ("Four years into the nightmare a united America takes a stand") - see calendar at foot of page.

If I disappear
it is because I am protesting an unjust war.

If I disappear
it is because I oppose the current regime.

If I disappear
it is because Dubya or Alberto or one of their minions say I no longer have any rights.

If I disappear
it is because I am now speaking out against fascism.

If I disappear
Be afraid – you have read this and may be next.

in order to reach the best cross section of viewers here.

Bless your ever lovin', bumpin', kickin' hearts!

Greens to Join Global Day of Protest Against Iraq War, March 19.
Thursday, March 17, 2005

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-487-0693, mclarty@greens.org
Nancy Allen, Media Coordinator, 207-326-4576, nallen@acadia.net

GREENS PLAN AND JOIN RALLIES AND ACTIONS ACROSS THE U.S. IN THE MARCH 19 'GLOBAL DAY OF PROTEST' AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR

Military threats against Iran and Syria risk a greater war between the U.S. and Middle East, warn Greens.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party members across the country will participate in the 'Global Day of Protest' against the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, planned for Saturday, March 19, the second year anniversary of the invasion.

"The Green Party of the United States took a strong position against the invasion from the very beginning," said Rebecca Rotzler, Deputy Mayor of the Village of New Paltz, New York (see event listing below). "We opposed the vote by Democrats and Republicans in Congress to surrender the legislative branch's power to declare war to the White House, warning of massive violation of national and international law."

http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2005_03_17.html