Plans for Actions This Month

A wide range of peace and justice organizations have planned activities around the country and in Washington, D.C., marking the 5-year point in the occupation of Iraq and demanding an end to the funding of the occupation and the impeachment of the president and vice president who launched it. For the full range of activities, see http://resistinmarch.org

The timing of these efforts could not be better, with Congress planning to take up in late March the president's request for another $105 billion for the occupation of Iraq, with nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz having just testified in Congress to the true costs of the occupation reaching over $3 trillion, and with awareness spreading that Congress has the power to simply stop voting on additional funds. Here is how you can explain this power to your representative and senators: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/31397

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MARCH 10 to 12, 2008 (Monday to Wednesday) in Washington, D.C.: Stop-Loss Congress
This March, while tens of thousands of Americans in Washington, D.C., and all over the United States will be participating in acts of nonviolent civil resistance to protest the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and involuntarily deployed U.S. soldiers and innocent civilian victims will begin another year of occupation, torture, and murder, U.S. congress members will be on vacation (from the 15th to 30th, technically a "district work period"), ignoring the killing and suffering they have enabled, supported, and financed.

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.

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.

http://www.stop-losscongress.org

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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.

Click here:




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MARCH 13-16, 2008 (Thursday-Sunday) in Silver Spring, Maryland: Winter Soldier

Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War will testify to crimes witnessed and participated in in Iraq. Audio and video of panels will be available live online on satelite TV and on Pacifica radio.

http://www.ivaw.org/wintersoldier


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MARCH 13-16, 2008 (Thursday-Sunday) Everywhere

Groups around the country and the world have planned local events supporting Winter Soldier, and all sorts of other events for peace, justice, and impeachment. See:

http://resistinmarch.org

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MARCH 16 to 18, 2008 (Sunday, Monday and Tuesday) in Washington, D.C.: Training, Lobbying, Restoring the Constitution

March 17th and 18th All day trainings & workshop at the Warehouse Theatre in preparation for March 19th

March 18th, Tuesday: CODEPINK Action Day to Take Back the Constitution

For detailed schedule see: http://resistinmarch.org

Events are also planned around the country on March 17-18, including events in support of impeachment and demanding an end to funding the occupation. See: http://resistinmarch.org

Impeachment advocates are using this opportunity to advance a new strategy modeled on what achieved the resignation of Richard Nixon: http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/31481

A reborn Students for a Democratic Society has planned campus events on March 17 to 21.[br />

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MARCH 19, 2008 (Wednesday) Nonviolent Civil Resistance in All 435 Congressional Districts and in the Nation's Capital on the Fifth Anniversary of the Occupation of Iraq

Locations in each congressional district, to be determined locally, will include congressional offices (Congress Members and Senators will be in their districts on this day), federal buildings, military recruiters, weapons makers, war profiteers, or corporate media outlets. In Washington, with Congress out of town, the focus will be on war profiteers in the military industrial disaster-capitalism complex. Events will include rolls for people not wanting to risk arrest.

http://www.5yearstoomany.org



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!

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: http://www.5yearstoomany.org

World Can't Wait Events in DC on 19th



Join in acts of creative non-violent civil resistance: http://resistinmarch.org

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Sick of It Day

Something else that anyone anywhere can do on the 19th:




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Student Involvement and Leadership

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/sites/afterdowningstreet.org/files/images/ospbrk_0

http://www.ourspringbreak.org

March 20 SDS Campus Protests

Students for a Democratic Society Campus Events

http://www.newsds.org/march20

March 22 Teach In at American University in Washington DC

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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.

Very helpful!

I especially liked the SICK OF IT idea and hope it does go viral -- that would be a wonder to see, I think.

Will check further into the excellent options for March.

Again, thank you for the information!