Join us in DC
March 18-21
Four days of creative resistance; theater, teach-ins; rallies and marches marking the anniversary of the United States’ “shock and awe” attack on Iraq and occupation in a completely illegitimate, immoral war.
12 Years Since “Shock & Awe” Invasion of Iraq:
NO MORE U.S. War on Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen… Stop the Endless War!
Join us.
Photos, right, from nationwide protests against the war in Iraq over the past 12 years.
Wednesday March 18
5 – 7:30 pm Meet & Greet 7:30 pm Concert – David Rovics & friends
Plymouth United Church of Christ 5301 N. Capital Street NE Donation
Thursday March 19
9:00 am – 1:00 pm “Challenging Congress” – a morning of lobbying against U.S. wars
Meet in Rayburn House Office cafeteria 45 Independence Avenue South
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm People’s Uprising Tour: From Empire and War to Justice with Peace.
1:00 pm pick-up U.S. Capitol (specific place TBA) End, White House. Bus tour organized by the Peoples’ Soapbox Network to offices of those agencies & companies who plan, profit from and are complicit in war crimes of empire. Get your bus ticket now >
7:00 – 9:00 pm Teach-In Part One: The Threat of Climate Catastrophe and Militarism: The Imperial Agenda’s Assault on People and the Environment
Peter Kuznick, Mai Abdul Rahman, David Schwartzman, John Tharakan
La Casa 3166 Mount Pleasant Street NW
Friday March 20
11:00 am – 9:30 pm Teach-In Part Two
UDC David A. Clarke School of Law School 4340 Connecticut Avenue NW #454
11:00 am – 12:30 pm From Ukraine to ISIS to Drones: Why We Must Demilitarize US Foreign Policy
Marjorie Cohn, Matthew Hoh, Raymond McGovern
1:00 – 2:30 pm Stopping Targeted Killing by the U.S. Around the World & Stopping Killing with Impunity by U.S. Police; Connections & Challenges
Speakers: Marsha Coleman-Abedayo, Hands-Up Coalition; Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party & Stop Mass Incarceration Network; Kymone Freeman, WE ACT Radio; Nick Mottern, KnowDrones.com
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3:00 – 4:30 pm End These Endless Wars: Perspectives from Veterans and Military Families
Kevin Lucey
5:00 – 6:30 pm World Beyond War: An Alternative Global Security System
David Swanson, Matthew Hoh, Robert Fantina
7:00 – 9:00 pm U.S. Wars of Aggression and Islamic Jihad: What is the Danger, and How Should the Anti-war Movement Respond?
William Blum, author: Alan Goodman, writer for revcom.us; Raed Jarrar, Policy Impact Coordinator at the American Friends Service Committee; Cindy Sheehan
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Saturday March 21
12:00 pm Rally at Lafayette Park in front of the White House
1:00 pm March from the White House, through Chinatown to the Capitol
Invite friends via Facebook.
Warming Centers
…will be available for music, cultural exchanges, meeting up, banner making.
For info on the following Warming Centers, please email janezara at gmail.com or call 202-390-2449.
St. Stephen’s
1525 Newton St., NW (northeast corner of 16th and Newton Sts., NW)
- March 19 Noon – 5 pm
- March 20 10 am – 5 pm
La Casa
3166 Mount Pleasant Street NW
- March 18th 5 pm – Midnight
- March 19th 5 pm – Midnight
- March 20th (basement only) 5 pm – Midnight
Listen to podcast: Debra Sweet and Cindy Sheehan Discuss Plans for An Antiwar Spring Rising
Also see Schedule of Events at Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox.
This nonviolent intervention was originally proposed by Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox and the Soapbox People’s Network. It has been endorsed and will be supported by Amnesty International Charlottesville, the ANSWER Coalition, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, the Baltimore Pledge of Resistance, CND CYMRU, CODEPINK, the Granny Peace Brigade of New York City, KnowDrones.com, Maryland United for Peace and Justice, Military Families Speak Out, the National Association Against Police Brutality, the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, the Network to Stop Drone Surveillance and Warfare, the No Fear Coalition, United National Antiwar Coalition, Veterans For Peace, Voices for Creative Non-Violence, WarIsACrime.org, Washington Peace Center, Witness Against Torture, World Beyond War, and World Can’t Wait.
To endorse, volunteer, get involved or learn more, go to: SpringRising.org or contact World Can’t Wait.
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