NOW is the time to act!! Today, tomorrow, and the day after. Banner hangings, people with signs at intersections, students leaving school, people leaving work or calling in sick ("sick of war..."), calling our emergency phone trees, telling our places of worship to ring their bells, and all over forms of resistance.
Other cities actions..March 20, 2003
Cleveland Artists Against War - Highway Banner Hanging and Streetcorner Activism NION - Youth Walk-Out and March CNVN "Soldiers and Sailors Action - Pre-Action Meeting" CNVN Non Violent Direct Action NOAC "Day After" Vigil and Open Forum / Rally Candlelight Vespers Service Canton Contacts: Jeff Seamann [email protected] Columbus Akron
You can come there to hook up with activities, make signs, pick up fliers and gather with like-minded people.
For info, you can also call in the Day of/Day After phone line: 216-631-2727 ext. 207
7:30 AM
Various locations
Contact Artists Against War at [email protected] for more info
Noon - Student Walk-Out
3:00 PM - March at the Tower City Quadrant of Public Square
Noon (1PM for Peace Keepers)
Trinity Cathedral
East 22nd and Euclid (park off Prospect Avenue)
For all with specific roles in the direct action (see below) - peace keepers, press collective, those risking arrest, those providing direct logistical support, and those providing leadership for the sidewalk solidarity vigil. (We need a volunteer to make sure those risking arrest get something to eat before the action. Contact [email protected] if you are willing to do that!)
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Public Square (southeast quadrant)
Downtown Cleveland
Cleveland Nonviolence Network will transform the Soldiers and Sailors Monument into a Peace Monument. Be there to offer your solidarity and support by respectfully and solemnly helping us to convey our message that the cost of war is too high, and that we respect the dead by protecting the living. Contact [email protected] for more info. Bail Funds Needed!
6:00 PM
Southwest Quadrant
Public Square
Downtown Cleveland
7:30 PM
Unitarian-Universalist Society of Cleveland
2728 Lancashire Road, Cleveland Heights
The vigil will be held at 9 pm at the square in Canton (at
Market Avenue at the intersection of Tuscarawas Street). A
vigil has long been planned anticipating adminstration
frustration with the United Nations Iraq weapons of mass destruction inspection process.
All are welcome to pray, express their concerns for all
involved and affected, discuss ways to pressure for troop
withdrawal, and to discuss how members of the military and
their families and Iraqi victims and refugees can be
supported in the time of conflict. Participants are asked
to bring candles or flashlights. Street parking is
available near the square.
Should the invasion be announced after 8:00 pm in the
evening EST, the vigil will be held the next night.
phone 330/493-9755
Judy Byrd [email protected]
phone 330/453-2609
4:30pm. Gather at the Akron Federal Building.
University of Akron Walkout
9:00 tentative meet time at Buchtel Common for those interested in pre-rally flyering
11:45 Walkout of classes
12:00 gather for rally at Buchtel Commons.
Rally will include speakers, music, drumming
March on campus to follow.
Bring drums and any dramatizing apparel/gear necessary. Open to the public--
not just students and instructors.
Kent
Thousands of innocent Iraqis will die in this war. When the bombings begin,
they will watch American war planes shock and awe their children, wives,
brothers, mothers, friends; the Iraqi people will see their rivers run red
and their deserts light up with the flames of a thousand hands screaming for
help. And we cannot just sit by and let this happen! We must stand up, shout
out and walk out of our classes! Thousands of people might die and we cannot
be idle any longer!
WALKOUT AGAINST THE WAR
When: The day after the bombings begin, at 12:30 pm. If the war starts over
Spring Break, it will be the Monday that classes resume.
Where: Walk to the KSC Plaza for a rally against the war.
Why: Because it's the least we can do! Because over 300 Cleveland students
walked out 2 weeks ago, including 80 high school students! Because we cannot
let them kill thousands in our name!
How: If you feel comfortable doing so, announce to the class that you will
be walking out and ask them to join you. The Faculty Senate is against the
war,so it's quite possible that your professor is, too. If you don't have
class at the time, go to a large lecture class that isn't yours and walk
out. These are just suggestions. Let's be creative and brave! LET'S MISS
CLASS FOR A REAL REASON!
CARPOOL TO CLEVELAND DEMONSTRATIONS
Cleveland has planned a massive day-after demonstration, and we are going to
join them! There will be a variety of events, from banner and poster making,
to civil disobedience, to marching in the streets.
When: Carpool leaves at 2:00pm
Where: The KSC Bus Stop
Saturday, March 22nd
Cleveland
NION/Blue TriangleAkron
Sunday, March 23rd
Sandusky
Unitarian Universalists meeting
10:30 AM
Frost Center, Erie MetroParks, Sandusky, OH.
The topic is "The Patriot Acts I & II" -
guest speaker Chris Link from ACLU.
We will follow that with a peace and justice meeting.
We also have yard signs: 'ANOTHER FAMILY/ ANOTHER VOICE/ FOR PEACE" if anyone is interested. It will outlast this war we are about to enter.
Wednesday, March 26th
NOAC-sponsored Town Hall meeting on the war on IraqThursday, April 3rd
NOAC Meeting