MARCH 5 -
National Moratorium
to Stop the War on Iraq

The Next Phase of Conscience and Resistance To Stop the War before it Starts

No School, No Work, No Business as Usual

Whoever you are.

Wherever you are.

What’s that line you haven’t crossed yet to show your determination to stop this war?

The line may be different for everyone. But whatever it is, prepare to cross it on March 5, in large and small acts of courage, singly and together

To stop the war on Iraq!

“One day in March the Air Force and Navy will launch between 300 and 400 cruise missiles at targets in Iraq…more than the number that were launched during the entire 40 days of the first Gulf War…‘so that you have this simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, not taking days or weeks but in minutes.’” (CBS News, January 27, 2003)

If you had known about Hiroshima in advance, what would you have done to stop it? Today’s war-makers are telling us what they plan to do, including the possible use of nuclear weapons. This war will visit unspeakable terror and suffering on the people of Iraq, in the name of “liberating” them. It will put people all over the planet at risk, in the name of protecting them. It will, no doubt, be accompanied by even more severe repression within the U.S. against immigrants and against resisters. And it will mark another terrible step – the most horrific one yet – into a future of endless war and severe repression.

Despite huge outpourings of protest around the world, including here in the U.S., the war-makers refuse to listen. We must build on everything that’s been done to date and intensify our work to stop them.

We must act on our conscience and resist as if the future depends on it – because it does. We must inspire, organize and expand political resistance throughout society – where we live and where we work, where we go to school and where we raise our children, where we play and where we pray. Students have called for March 5 as a day to walk out of class. We are calling on all groups and all people to expand the day to one of society-wide resistance – a day to act together to manifest opposition to this shameful, unjust and racist war and our determination to stop it.

On March 5…

You could call in sick (sick of war, sick of militarism…)
You could close your business.
Professors could cancel classes.
Students could plan citywide high school walkouts and other campus actions, joining with student strikes being organized across the country.
City councils and county boards that have passed resolutions against the war could mark the day with town hall meetings, teach-ins or other ways.
Unions that have passed anti-war resolutions could call job actions.
You could stand for peace at the nearest post office or government building.
You could begin a campaign of bold letters to legislators, the president and his secretaries.
You could establish “no war zones” with signs and banners at strategic intersections (as they are doing in Atlanta).
You could hang banners from major overpasses (as they are doing in Chicago).
You could bring your protest to a military facility, with acts of civil disobedience “supporting” the soldiers by attempting to stop the U.S. military machine from sending them off to war.
Houses of worship could call for special services that day; could call their congregations to protest at military recruiting offices or elsewhere; could open their doors to conscientious objectors.
You could engage in nonviolent direct action at appropriate locations.
You could begin a dialogue on how to bring about a peaceful and just world.
Afternoon or evening convergences could bring together everyone who’s acted earlier in the day to voice opposition in the streets and at community gatherings.

The possibilities are endless, collective and individual.
Lay something important in your life on the line,
Along with hundreds of thousands of others

On the same day.

TO STOP THIS WAR ON IRAQ.

 

Sponsors include:

A First Amendment Center (San Marcos, CA)
Academics for Justice
Addicted to War
African-American Inst for Policy Studies
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - San Francisco Bay Area
American Indian Movement
American Indian Movement, Southern CA
Anathoth Community Farm (WI)
Association of Concerned Africa Scholars
Attorneys Against the War
Aztlannet_action
Baptist Ministers Conf. of Greater NY and Vicinity
Bay Area United Against War
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence
Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism
Chicago Peace Response
Chicagoans Against the War on Iraq
Children of Earth
Church Women United, Northern CA/NV
Coalition for World Peace
Code Pink
Cornell University Anti-War Coalition
Council of Peace (Santa Fe, NM)
Ecumenical Peace Institute (Berkeley, CA)
Elias en Accion
Faith Coalition for Political Action (NYC)
Fellowship of Reconciliation
FOR THE CHILDREN of America (Cleveland, OH)
Forum of Concerned Religious Leaders
Global Exchange
Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts
Idaho Green Party
Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
International A.N.S.W.E.R.
International Indian Treaty Council
International Socialist Organization
Institute for MultiRacial Justice
Jewish Voice for Peace
Latin@s Against the War in Iraq
Libros Revolutcion
Malcolm X Grassroots Mvt for Self-Determination (SC)
Middle East Children's Alliance
Middle East Crisis Committee
National Youth & Student Peace Coalition (March 5 National Student Strike
sponsor)
Neighbor to Neighbor San Francisco
New York City Labor Against the War
New York Youth Bloc
Northwoods Peace Initiative (WI)
Not in Our Name Project
Office of the Americas
Orange County Student Alliance
Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Patriots for Peace
Pax Christi USA
Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County
People's Nonviolent Response Coalition
Poor Magazine
Progressive Natl Baptist Convention USA
Progressive Religious Partnership
RANT (Root Activist Network of Trainers)
Refuse and Resist!
San Francisco Central Labor Council
Soko Bukai and Japanese American Religious Federation (SF, CA)
Southern Christian Leadership Foundation
Take Back Our Future (NYC)
Texans for Peace
The 100 Year March
The Permaculture Activist magazine
United for Peace and Justice
United Teachers Los Angeles, Human Rights Committee
Vanguard Foundation & Vanguard Alliance
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist
Voices in the Wilderness
West Point Graduates Against U.S. Abuse of Power
Wethersfield CT Peace and Justice
Women's Leadership Project (Los Angeles, CA)
Youth Anarchist Resistance (YAR!)

For more information and to add your name as a sponsor, contact the Moratorium Committee at:

email: moratorium2003@yahoo.com
phone: 1-866-54NOWAR
website: www.moratoriumtostopwar.org