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Chgo. Holds Anti-War Press Conference |
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by Peace Response
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24 Mar 2002
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Chgo. hoilds press conference to announce A20 anti-war mobilization |
Monday March 25 11:00am
Announcing the Chicago Mobilization to Demonstrate in Washington DC on April 20th
Grace Place, 2nd Floor
637 S. Dearborn
Chicago, IL 60605
Speakers:
Ella Harath (sp?)
Ben Manski, National A20stopthewar
Andy Thayer, CCAWR
Jawanza Malone, CPRC (Chicago Peace Response Coalition)
The following promotional info came from Ben Manski.
Dave Trippel
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ORGANIZE AN A20 MOBILIZATION KICK-OFF EVENT IN YOUR COMMUNITY!!
Goal: To mobilize YOUR community to come to DC on April 20th
How: Organize one day of CONCERTED OUTREACH and GENERATE MASSIVE MEDIA
COVERAGE as soon as possible
The Media/Message Working Group needs YOU to organize an A20 Mobilization
Kick-Off Event during the month of March!
All the information is below and attached.
Please contact Andy Burns at andyburns (at) tao.ca or 501-244-2439 if you can
organize an event.
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A20 MOBILIZATION KICK-OFFS
THE GOAL:
Generate media coverage about the A20 Mobilization and hold a day of
coordinated outreach. Events are a much more effective way to get the word
out about the mobilization than having press conferences. Press
conferences are boring. No change, conflict, or personalities.
WHEN: As soon as possible! The last two weeks of March would be great.
THE VISION:
We would like to see Mobilization Kick-Off Events at well-known national
monuments around the country that embody the kind of America that WE want
to be part of (e.g. the Statue of Liberty, the bridge where civil rights
marchers got attacked on the Selma to Montgomery march, the FDR Memorial,
the place they signed the Declaration of Independence, etc.). We are
reclaiming the ideals that Bush is using to justify a War Without End, and
telling everyone that we are standing up for freedom and justice by
opposing the Bush war policy.
We the media team will email you sample press advisories, press releases,
and a press packet that you can photocopy and give to reporters, but it's
up to YOU to do turn-out (As many people as you can! Aim for at least
100!!), outreach to reporters, and organize the speakers and the content of
the event.
We are asking people to not get distracted by the corporate media and to
make sure to emphasize the CORE MESSAGE of the mobilization.
CORE MESSAGE:
As people who live in the U.S. who believe in freedom and justice for all,
we oppose military aggression abroad and attacks on civil liberties and
social services at home waged in the name of a 'War on Terrorism'; we
demand that Congress and the President instead take measures to promote
global justice in order to make the world safe for all of us.
EVENT CONTENT:
We imagine that you will want to gather everyone in one spot, preferably at
a monument or some other place that emphasizes our commitment to freedom
and justice. You will probably want to have a few speakers. And then you
will want to send everyone out to DO SOMETHING. THIS IS NOT A RALLY. THIS
IS A 'MOBLIZATION KICK-OFF'. What are your most pressing outreach
needs? What could you really use 100 to 200 people for? Get everyone to
do something useful for 3-4 hours and then regroup to report back and eat
donated snacks. We hope that you organize a mobilization kick-off that
best meet the outreach needs in YOUR community.
Some ideas: You could send everyone out to go door-to-door in targeted
neighborhoods or dorms to give people fliers about A20 and get them to
sign-up if they are interested. You could send people in groups to pass
out fliers on street corners or in shopping malls or put posters up around
the city or chalk or put fliers on door knobs or stand at key intersections
with signs. On a weekday you could visit local elected officials or
professors or administrators and ask them to sign a petition to endorse the
event. You could send people to make presentations at churches and
synagogues, or stand outside with fliers.
Get Speakers to cover our Three Main Points:
(1) Domestic - Stripping away civil liberties will not make Americans any
safer, and violates the principles upon which America was founded.
(2) International - We cannot fight the terrorism inflicted upon us by
sowing terror among innocent civilians in other parts of the world.
(3) Our Alternative - In a globalized world the only way to ensure our
safety is to tackle the root causes of terrorism and promote human rights,
economic equality, and social justice.
TIPS:
. Use visuals to reinforce ourselves as the true defenders of justice and
freedom
. Find speakers who are real people tell their stories in their own words -
people who have been victims of the civil liberties crackdown, people who
have lost innocent family members from US bombing actions in Afghanistan,
and students who are losing basic social services because of funding cuts
GOOD WORDS AND PHRASES:
-United We March!
-War, terror, and poverty reinforce each other, as do peace, justice, and
equality.
-We cannot fight terror with terror.
-A war without end sows global insecurity.
Target Outlets during March (for maximum mobilization):
1 - Indymedia/Alternative Media
2 - Community Newspapers - Weeklies - Black, Rural, Latino, LGBT, etc.
3 - Campus Newspapers
4 - Mainstream National Press (NYT, ABC, CNN, etc.)
5 - Established Left Media (NPR, The Nation, etc.)
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EMBARGOED UNTIL MARCH 4, 9:30 AM: NEWS CONFERENCE at National Press Club
Contact: April 20 Mobilization 202/265-7997, Washington Peace Center 202/234-2000
Eleiza Braun 202/421-6938 (cell), Terra Lawson-Remer 858/449-1010 (cell)
UNITED WE MARCH: Coalition of over 100 Organizations
Announces Historic March On Washington, April 20
Open-Ended War Breeds Terror and Endangers Americans;
Youth, Students Lead the Charge to ‘Take Back Democracy’
(Washington, DC) - A broad-based coalition of over 100 progressive organizations, led by the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition, announced today at the National Press Club, plans for a March on Washington April 20 to oppose domestic and global impacts of the Bush Administration's open-ended war.
“This is an historic turning point,” said Maria Ramos, national co-coordinator for the April 20th mobilization. “People from all over the country are heading to Washington to present a vision of a world truly free of terrorism – one in which peace and the needs of people and the planet are given top priority.”
The coalition is making six demands of Congress and the Administration:
1. A U.S. foreign policy based upon social and economic justice, not military oppression;
2. Government funding for victims of the 9-11 attacks and the recession;
3. An end to racial profiling and military recruitment targeting youth of color and working class youth;
4. An end to the degrading and secret imprisonment of immigrants;
5. Full disclosure of military contracts with universities;
6. Increased funding for non-military-based financial aid for education.
"Since September 11, the Bush Administration has been taking advantage of our grieving in giving more money to weapons manufacturers, airlines and other giant corporations," said Eleiza Braun, national organizer for the Student Peace Action Network (SPAN). "This increases economic injustice and the gap between haves and have-nots – conditions in which terrorism thrives.”
More than 100 organizations, including over 50 national, have endorsed the march, with more joining weekly. The event will occur in solidarity with the Colombia mobilization, a series of events the same weekend to demand an end to U.S. military intervention in Colombia. Both these mobilizations are being organized in cooperation with demonstrations at the meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund demanding grassroots, rather than corporate-driven, globalization, also held that weekend.
"Let us work toward a world beyond war and terrorism," said Damu Smith, national co-coordinator for the April 20th mobilization and coordinator of Black Voices for Peace. “Let’s invest in education and health care, instead of war – and in eradicating hunger and disease around the world, instead of war – and in our children’s safety, instead of war."
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See www.A20stopthewar.org for sponsor list, demands and background.
“Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 20 Mobilization to Stop the War · 1328 Florida Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20009 · 202/265-7997
APRIL 20
MARCH TO STOP THE WAR as of 3/4/02
NATIONAL COALITION MEMBER GROUPS (Over 50)
HOSTING COALITIONS:
National Youth and Student Peace Coalition
National Coalition for Peace and Justice
9-11 Emergency National Network
NYC Labor Against War
180/Movement for Democracy and Education
Acts for Peace
American Friends Service Committee
Black Radical Congress
Black Radical Congress-Youth Division
Campaign for Access and Reproductive Equity 2000
Campus Greens
Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Peace and Human Security
Citizen Soldier
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism
Community Party USA
Communist Party USA
Dynamics of Leadership
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Foro de la Sociedad Civil San Salvador
(Coalition of 48 institutions, churches, human rights, environment, women, etc.)
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Global Exchange
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
IFCO/Pastors for Peace
Independent Progressive Politics Network
International Socialist Organization
Iraq Solidarity
JustAct: Youth Action for Global Justice
Muslim Students Association of the US and Canada
National Youth Advocacy Coalition
Non-Profit Progressive Community Educational Org.
Not with Our Money Campaign of Prison Moratorium Proj.
Online Progressive Civil Rights Organization
Pax Christi
Peace Action
ProLibertad
School of the Americas Watch
Shundahai Network
Solidarity
Student Environmental Action Coalition
Student Peace Action Network
Students Transforming and Resisting Corporations
Students United for a Responsible Global Environment
United States Student Association
United Students Against Sweatshops
Veterans for Peace
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
War Resisters League
Women's Action for New Directions
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Young Communist League
Young Democratic Socialists
Young People's Socialist League
INTERNATIONAL COALITION MEMBER GROUPS (9)
Communist Party of Slovakia Bratislava
Coordinadora de Defensa del Agua y de la Vida Cochabamba, Bolivia
Japan Peace Assembly Sendai Miyagi
Madhead Productions Hamburg
Newmarket Ontario Small Christian Communities
NOOR Pakistan Islamabad
People for Authentic Living Halifax NS
Stop the War Coalition London, Great Britain
Tokyoprogressive Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
LOCAL COALITION MEMBER GROUPS (Over 100)
8th Day Center for Justice Chicago
Albuquerque Peace and Justice Center
Arab Students Against Hate Brooklyn NY
Arise for Social Justice Springfield MA
Artists Connection for Peace and Social Justice Philadelphia
Atheists for Justice and Peace in Palestine
Austin Against War Austin TX
Bay Area Anti-War Coalition San Francisco
(Coalition of 25 organizations in the Bay Area)*
Bohemian Grove Action Network Occidental, CA.
Brooklyn Temple Project Brooklyn NY
Broward Citizens for Peace & Justice Hollywood FL
Campaign for Access and Reproductive Equity 2000
Campaign to End the Sanctions Philadelphia
Center for Education & Social Action, New College of CA
Center for Progressive Political Communication Blue Bell PA
Charlotte ANSWER/Charlotte Coalition For Peace & Justice
Chico PeaceWorks Chico CA
Citizens For Just Democracy Amarillo TX
Cleveland Peace Action Cleveland Heights OH
Coalition Against Global Exploitation Baltimore
Coalition for Peace and Justice Linwood NJ
Coalition for Peace and Justice (Trinity University) San Antonio Texas
Coastal Convergence Society Huntington Beach CA
Collier County Anti-War Coalition Naples FL
Columbus Campaign for Arms Control Columbus Ohio
Connecticut Coalition for Peace and Justice Hartford
Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action
Conscience Struggle of the Oppressed Ile-Ife Osun
Detournement! Mauldin SC
Eastern Townships Social Justice Committee Sutton Qc
Efficacy Windsor CT
Food Not Bombs, Richmond VA
Global Democracy Forum Houston TX
Global Toxin Lutherville MD
Greater Camden Unity Coalition Camden NJ
Green Party - Wisconsin Green Party Madison WI
Green Party of Michigan
Green Party of Pima County Tucson AZ
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee Manassas VA
Holland Peacemakers Holland, MI
Houston Global Awareness Collective Houston TX
Hudson County Coalition for Peace and Justice
Instant Antiwar Action Group Burlington VT
Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace Pasadena
International Revolutionary Truth And Freedom Association Troy MI
International Socialist Organization Chicago IL
Kensington Welfare Rights UnionKoinonia Partners Americus GA
Kwame Ture Work-Study Institute and Library
LA Petrophysical La Habra Heights CA
Latinos United for Justice of Lawrence MA
LIVING LAND DESIGN SONOMA CA
Lower Columbia Clinic / Mothers and Midwives Against War Astoria OR
Mad Anarchist Bakers League
Mid-Missouri Peaceworks Columbia MO
Mintwood Media Collective Washington DC
Progressive Public Affairs Media Group
Muslim Students Association
National Campus Antiwar Network (NCAN)
National Youth Advocacy Coalition
New York Coalition for Peace and Justice
NJ Independent Alliance Hackensack NJ
Notre Dame/SMC Peace Coalition
Pacem in Terris, Delaware Wilmington DE
Peace Action of Old Greenwich CT
Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Young Friends ProgressOWU, Ohio Wesleyan Univ., Delaware OH
Promoting Enduring Peace
QERN Academy
Queers For Racial & Economic Justice NYC
Rainbow Coalition Party of MA Boston MA
Refuse and Resist! NYC
Rhode Island Global Action Network Providence
Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center Boulder
Rosenberg Institute for Peace & Justice
SafePittsburgh.Net
Sept. 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Cary NC
Socialist Party of Florida
Socialist Party USA New York NY
SpiritHouse: The Jonathan Daniels and Samuel Young Forum For Justice
Student Committee Against Labor Exploitation (SCALE)
Student Environmental Action Coalition
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Orange CA
Student Political Awareness and Responsibility Coalition (SPARC) UVM, Burlington VT
Students for International Peace and Justice Altamonte Springs FL
Students Transforming and Resisting Corporations
Students United for a Responsible Global Environment
TACENDA Marshfield MO
The Democratic Socialist Frisbee Club, Columbus OH
The Restorative Justice Center of the Inland Empire Upland CA
Third Rail: The Political Arts Magazine of the College of Staten Island/CUNY
Thomas Merton Center Pittsburgh PA
Tidewater Action Group (TAG!)
Unity Party, New York
US Peace Council New Haven CT
UU Ignite
Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice
Veterans for Peace
Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Voices in the Wilderness Chicago IL
Washington Peace Center
Westchester People's Action Coalition/WESPAC
Western Antiwar Movement Bellingham WA
Western New York Peace Center Buffalo
Women's Action for New Directions
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Workers International League Fargo ND
World of Peace Brush Prairie WA
YCL - San Antonio TX
Young People's Socialist League Waltham MA
Youth Leadership Support Network Takoma Park MD
*Bay Area Anti-War Coalition San Francisco
(Coalition of 25 organizations in the Bay Area):
San Francisco Town Hall Committee; Veterans for Peace, Berkeley Stop the War Coalition; Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines; International Socialist Organization; Radical Women; Socialist Alternative; Filipinos for Global Justice; Coalition for Justice, Not War; Marin Peace and Justice Coalition; Peace and Freedom Party; International Action Center; Santa Cruz Peace Coalition; Santa Cruz Peace Network; Global Exchange; Peninsula Peace and Justice Center; East Bay Coalition Against the War; U.S.-Japan No War Network; Freedom Socialist Party; Socialist Workers Organization; Bay Area Committee for Peace and Justice; Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Sonoma County Peace and Justice Committee; San Francisco Labor Committee for Peace and Justice; American Muslims for Global Peace and Justice.
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