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Actions for March 5th Moritorium/Student Strike -- Beginning List

March 5: Moratorium to Stop the War!
Many anti-war actions are planned throughout the day, from student walk-outs to business closures. Then local groups will converge at 4:30 at Federal Plaza to show our collective strength. Convene your own action, and get involved!
Moratorium to Stop the War March 5th, 2003

High school and college students will join others across the metro area on March 5 for a National Moratorium to Stop the War. Check out www.mar5.chicagohumanist.org to post -- or get -- details of local actions, and check out the calendar below for news of actions already in the planning stages. To show our diversity, groups are planning a convergence at 4:30 at the Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago to show our collective strength.

Ideas for actions:
* Call in Sick
* Keep you business closed
* Do street theater
* Wear a black arm band
* Civil Disobedience at a military recruiting location
* START THE DAY AT MAJOR TRANSIT CENTERS
**Pass out armbands (either made of Duct Tape or black cloth) along with leaflets inviting people to join in and help stop this war!! Pick-up locations for leaflets will be announced soon, so check out the website.
* Roving Toll Booth Action
* Construction Party this weekend (March 1 or 2) to make signs the width of a lane of traffic, high enough to allow cars and SUVs to pass under, held up by poles on each side
* March 5 - as cars slow to go under and between us, we pass out literature with our anti-war message (showing the link to car culture) and inviting them to the 4:30 convergence at Federal Plaza and the 5:30 Critical Mass bike ride that evening at Daley Plaza.
* Call 312-738-4981 for details or to participate.
* Columbia College - March 5th planning & action: see the url for info
ontheground.okcancel.org/caaw
* Strike the class agenda! We are encouraging students to turn their classes towards discussions of the war.
* There will also be guerilla street theater performed around campus and possibly an art show and poetry slam/speak-out.
*Check the site for more information.

* AURORA - March 5 - info & contact - mailto:AuroraPeace (at) usa.com
* 12:00pm meet at City Hall (broadway & Downer) to present the Mayor and City Council with a resolution against war!
** We will then march to Millenium park (Downer & Stolp) where we will Have a Rally with FREE food, music and speakers.
** Then we will all march Down Broadway to the Train station to board the 2:20 Train for chicago.
** We will then converge @ Union Station with other suburbanites. At 4:00 We will all martch east to Federal Plaza!

* '''Suburban Convergance !!!''' - March 5, All Suburban folk to meet at Union Station @ 4:00, to march East to Federal Plaza!

* '''University of Chicago - March 5 -- Student Strike!!'''
** Walk Out -- with a Teach-in to be held from 2:30 to 4:30
* '''University of Illinois - Chicago - March 5 -- Student Strike!!'''
**Professors will be bringing their classes to a teach-in from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm organized by Students for Social Justice
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For more info or to download a flyer, go to www.notinourname.net/call_for_the_moratorium.html
 
 

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