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