If so, I wish you well and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3101#mondayEvent Details: Massive Nonviolent Direct Action
REMEMBER AND RESIST
A call to action for mass civil resistance at the White House on 9/26/2005
Monday, September 26
(This is a working timeline that will be finalized and posted one week before the action.)
* We will call on all participants - but certainly all that plan to risk arrest - to gather Monday morning by no later than 10 AM in a local church or other site to be determined. They will be inspired by a few words but mostly use this time to share last-minute information about the civil resistance, hear a report on how authorities have set up in the White House area, be briefed on the likely consequences of arrest and distribute informational materials as needed, and to form up for a brief march.
* The ministers of CALC-I and perhaps Gold Star Families for Peace and others will lead a somber, permitted march from the morning gathering place to the Ellipse area that all are encouraged to join. Others who plan to participate may converge on the Ellipse by 11:45 AM
* By 12:15 PM we will gather for a permitted gathering on the Ellipse south of the White House. There will be a very short 15-minute series of people who will speak only briefly to convey the basic messages of the day for media who are gathered there, but there will be no speeches. We are there to launch our action, not to do speeches.
Action materials such as names of American and Iraqi dead will be available as needed, but affinity groups are strongly encouraged to bring their own names, signs and banners. Everyone participating will be asked to tie a small placard around their neck with the names of an American soldier and Iraqi civilian killed in Iraq. The name placards and banners should be made so that they can be hung or tied to the White House fence.
* By about 12:30 PM two bells will begin tolling in a cadenced rhythm and we will form two lines behind each bell and proceed for a slow walk around both sides of the White House where we will meet up in Lafayette Park for a continuation of the permitted gathering. If there are 2,000-3,000 in our number, the march around the White House may become an encircling presence that may pause briefly for a few moments of silence to honor the dead.
* The gathering in Lafayette Park should form up by about 1:15 PM. It will be brief, just long enough to know that everyone has arrived and is ready to act. It will allow for communicating some last-minute directions for the nonviolent direct actions about to take place. No speeches, just preparation to act.
* By about 1:45 PM the bells will toll again as names of the dead are called out, and while that proceeds the CALC-I delegation and perhaps Gold Star Families for Peace will approach the White House to insist that they be received to meet with the President. They will attempt to deliver the names of American and Iraqi dead and get an agreement from him to end the occupation. No doubt a short dialogue will ensue, observed by the media. If Pennsylvania Avenue is open as it normally is (since cars no longer are allowed on this section), we will move into the street behind the initial delegation to support them.
* If refused as expected, the CALC-I delegation will lead the civil resistance action they have planned. If they are arrested as expected, their actions will be followed by one wave after another of affinity groups stepping forward to deliver names of the dead, placing names on the fence, and otherwise taking actions that may cause police to arrest them. Most of these waves of nonviolent resistance will occur on the Pennsylvania Avenue sidewalks, but other actions may occur at other entryways and fencing of the White House as the afternoon unfolds, according to what affinity groups have planned. Such details will be discussed over the weeks before September 26. Every affinity group planning to risk arrest will be coordinated with UFPJ organizers so that the results of their actions are effectively communicated and the public gets accurate information about what takes place on that day.
* After all those who have chosen to do civil resistance have done so, the mass action will end and affinity group support people and UFPJ organizers will follow up to help people with what they need.
Clearly there will be many contingencies of the day and an action of this sort will require disciplined thinking and acting on our feet. UFPJ organizers and the mass action Coordinating Committee will do what they can to anticipate contingencies, but in the end it the preparation for and discipline of nonviolent action by affinity groups that will make this the most successful mass civil resistance action yet seen to end the war in Iraq.
ARE YOU IN? If so, please start the process of communicating with us by going to
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/nvdaform and completing the form.
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