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ORANGE FRIDAY: 24 hours of resistance to the occupations or Iraq and Afghanistan |
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by cornbread
Email: orangefridayithaca (nospam) gmail.com (verified)
Phone: 607 857-0128 |
06 Aug 2005
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ORANGE FRIDAY is a day of learning, a day of reflection, a day of resistance. For twenty-four hours we skip class, we skip work, we leave our cars at home, we buy nothing, we fast. For one day we set our lives aside to examine and understand this occupation; professors hand over their podiums to discussion about peace and justice; teach-ins spring up across our communities; businesses close their doors; our cities shut down. |
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National Day of Action to End the Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and the “War on Terrorâ€
Friday, September 30
ORANGE FRIDAY
Call for Actions in Communities Across the Country
Twenty-four hours to learn, to mourn, to organize, to resist
ORANGE FRIDAY is a day of learning, a day of reflection, a day of resistance. For twenty-four hours we skip class, we skip work, we leave our cars at home, we buy nothing, we fast. For one day we set our lives aside to examine and understand this occupation; professors hand over their podiums to discussion about peace and justice; teach-ins spring up across our communities; businesses close their doors; our cities shut down.
Why ORANGE?
The media and the government are pretending that there is no war. Every day we wake up without thinking about the occupation is a day we ignore hundreds of deaths, thousands of captives, and millions of lives turned upside down. To date, no unifying symbol calling for the end to this occupation has been cultivated. ORANGE is what our peace movement needs to be: bright, bold, and impossible to ignore.
Call to Action
Citizens around the world are called to action on September 30, 2005.
• Coordinate teach-ins and events in your hometown and organize resist business as usual.
• Do not go to work or class, do not drive a car, buy nothing.
• To plug into actions happening in communities across the country, e-mail ORANGEFRIDAYITHACA (at) gmail.com.
• Sign the online pledge of resistance http://www.petitiononline.com/OFS30/petition.html
• Check out the website www.studentpeaceproject.net. |
See also:
http://www.studentpeaceproject.net
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