February 3, 2008

The New Spring Break

The youth is taking the lead! Instead of keg parties, there will be nonviolent civil disobedience, direct action and TELLING CONGRESS THEY MUST DO STAY AND THEIR JOB! Check out the links:

Our Spring Break Will End the War!
Graphic by Adam Kokesh
This March, join a mass of students and youth for spring break in Washington, D.C. to end the war in Iraq.
We’ll have sit-ins, demonstrations, marches, rallies, protests… We’ll sing and dance… We’ll do Nonviolent Civil Resistance, we’ll do banner drops, we’ll do creative nonviolent direct action, and we’ll do everything in our power to bring an end to the war in Iraq, telling Congress, “Our spring break will break your war!”
http://www.ourspringbreak.org/
MARCH 7-9, 2008 in Washington, D.C.: NCOR National Conference on Organized Resistance
MARCH 10 to 12, 2008 in Washington, D.C.: Stop-Loss Congress

This March, while tens of thousands of Americans in Washington, D.C., and all over the United States will be participating in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience to protest the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and involuntarily deployed U.S. soldiers and innocent civilian victims will begin another year of occupation, torture, and murder, U.S. congress members will be on vacation (from the 15th to 30th, technically a "district work period"), ignoring the killing and suffering they have enabled, supported, and financed.
To intensify the irony, Congress has condoned a widespread stop-loss policy in the military which requires soldiers to involuntarily extend their tours and prolong the killing. It is time to Stop-Loss Congress!
On Monday March 10, and Tuesday March 11, we will deliver "official" stop-loss notices to all members of Congress in their Capitol Hill offices. These will notify them that all of their LEAVES, VACATIONS and HOME VISITS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED until further notice. Just as they require that active-duty personnel endure involuntary extensions of their tours of duty, we, the people for whom they work, are notifying them that they, too, will have their tours of duty INVOLUNTARILY EXTENDED until every foreign soldier and mercenary is out of Iraq, and home. When all the troops and contractors get home, then Congress can go home, and no sooner.
http://www.resistinmarch.org/
http://www.stop-losscongress.org/

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