4 Years Too Many - Iraq War anniversary events nationwide...

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Here's a sample of marches and other events across the country. The complete list is at: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/calendar.php?sortby=&caltype=51


Phoenix, Arizona
RSVP • 4th Anniversary Protest Against the War
Monday, March 19th 2007 11:30 am
11:30 am Gather at Sen Kyl office
2200 E Camelback, PHX
2:30 pm March to office Sen John McCain
5353 N. 16th St,. PHX
5:00 pm Rally Sen McCain office
Twilight Vigil, reading names



Berkeley, California
RSVP • "The Ground Truth" Conscientious Projector Screening
7:00
Monthly Event
We produce about 2 events per month: Conscientious Projector films, Activist Series, workshops. To receive occasional email notices of Social Justice/Peace alerts and related events at the Berkeley Fellowship of UU's, send any email to: [e-mail]
We will screen this amazing film. Join us in doing something about the horrific human costs of the war on Iraq. BFUU Social Justice Com events are always followed by discussion and ACTION (petitions, letter writing campaigns, protest or boycott organizing, for example.) Bring ideas, or just watch the film and let it and the discussion inspire you. We are a welcoming community of activists

Los Angeles, California
RSVP • Mass Anti-War Protest in Los Angeles
Saturday, March 17th 2007 Noon
On March 17, the 4th anniversary of the start of the criminal invasion of Iraq, tens of thousands of people from around Southern California will come to Los Angeles for a mass demonstration to demand: U.S. Out of Iraq Now! The LA march will be coordinated with a march on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

San Francisco, California
RSVP • Youth and Student Antiwar Event: From Protest to Resistance
Saturday, March 3rd 2007 6pm
AntiWar Youth & Student SpeakOut: From PROTEST to RESISTANCE
Political Discussion, Cultural Performances, Food and Drinks


RSVP • Working Assets Against the War
Sunday, March 18th 2007 noon
On March 18, citizens from across the country will gather in San Francisco to deliver a clear message: End the war in Iraq. We, the American people, need to show our opposition to the ongoing occupation of Iraq by showing up for the March on Washington. Bring your noisemakers, friends, children, parents and neighbors to show your support for peace.


RSVP • Tell Nancy Pelosi to Stop Funding the Iraq War
Monday, March 19th 2007 12:00
Join the Green Party's Peter Camejo, Justin Raimindo of AntiWar.com and Iraq War veteran Sean O'Neill in calling on Speaker Pelosi to cut off funding for the Iraq War and back HR 508. Support our troops by bringing them home now!


RSVP • San Francisco Die-In
Monday, March 19th 2007 12 noon
DIE-IN on Market Street to show what it would look like if downtown San Francisco were filled with dead bodies. Wear all black or wear a black armband, and put a Bring the Troops Home Now sign in the window of your home or car. Go to www.dieinmarch19.org for more information, downloadable leaflet, and ways to help publicize the event.

Denver, Colorado
RSVP • VIGIL TO MARK THE 4TH ANNIV OF THE OCCUPATION
Friday, March 16th 2007 5:30 pm
5:30 p.m. - Service of prayer, poems, and song; First Mennonite Church, 9th Ave and Elati, one block north and west of 8th and Speer.
6:00 p.m. - Procession to Lincoln/Veteran's Park
on Lincoln Avenue
6:30 p.m. - Vigil Lincoln/Veteran's Park on Lincoln Ave, across from the Capitol. We will have signs and candles or bring your own.


RSVP • 4th Anniversary of Iraq War: Interfaith Peace Prayers & Presentation by Imam Kazerooni - "An Iraqi Perspective on Iraq"
Sunday, March 18th 2007 5:00pm
Interfaith Peace Prayers led by Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni (Director of the Abrahamic Initiative), Rev. Dr. Toni Cook (St. Paul's Church & Buddhist Christian Interfaith Community), Venerable Danan Henry (Denver Zen Center), Dr. Lloyd Burton (Insight Meditation Community), and Rev. Dr. Marjorie Lewis (Northeast Denver Ministerial Alliance).

RSVP • March on the Pentagon
Saturday, March 17th 2007 noon
On March 17, 2007, the 4th anniversary of the start of the criminal invasion of Iraq, tens of thousands of people from around the country will descend on the Pentagon in a mass demonstration to demand: U.S. Out of Iraq Now! 2007 is the 40th anniversary of the historic 1967 anti-war march to the Pentagon during the Vietnam War. The message of the 1967 march was "From Protest to Resistance," and marked a turning point in the development of a countrywide mass movement.

RSVP • Vigil at Congressman Rahm Emanuel's office
Saturday, March 17th 2007 10:00 a.m.
We will visit the Congressman's office to ask him to publicly oppose the war. We will hold a vigil outside to engage the public.


RSVP • Mass Mobilization, March and Rally to "Stop Funding War and Occupation, Troops Home Now!"
Tuesday, March 20th 2007 6:00 pm
Chicago area's response to the 4th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq: Mass Mobilization, Michigan Ave March and Rally to "Stop Funding War and Occupation, Troops Home Now."
6:00 pm Assembly at 25 E. Walton
7:30 pm March down Michigan Avenue
8:30 Rally in Daley Plaza
Sponsored by the M.20 Coalition, a group of more than 40 organizations and scores of individuals.

Ann Arbor, Michigan
RSVP • Downtown Ann Arbor Rally - Stop the War, the Time is Now!
Saturday, March 17th 2007 Noon
Various groups from Washtenaw County will be hosting our Week of the People - a week full of events focusing on exercising the power of the people - starting March 10th and ending on Saturday, March 17th with a noon rally at the UofM Diag.



East Lansing, Michigan
RSVP • Out of Iraq: Voices of Experience
Sunday, March 18th 2007 2:00 pm
Out of Iraq: Voices of Experience - teach-in at Michigan State University, with Dahlia Wafsi MD, speaking on Iraq's women and children, a veteran from Iraq Veterans Against the War, and others. Networking, resources, and action opportunities.

New York, New York
RSVP • Living Peace Sign
Friday, March 16th 2007 6:00 PM
On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Iraq War, Greenwich Village will be illuminated by a living peace sign in Washington Square Park, where hundreds of torch-bearing New Yorkers will be
demanding an end to wars and nuclear arms. The human peace sign will be one of dozens simultaneously constructed in cities around the world, including Rome, Paris, Budapest, Bogota, Sydney, Athens,
London, Madrid, Maputo and Mumbai.


RSVP • March in NYC to End the War
Sunday, March 18th 2007 1pm
3 days of action planned citywide. Join UFPJ/NYC to mark the 4th anniversary of this immoral war. Let's mobilize our communities, unions, schools and places of worship to march for peace and call on Congress to end the war.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
RSVP • Parade for Peace
Saturday, March 17th 2007 1:00 pm
Parade for Peace: End the Violence Here, There, and Everywhere" will be a two-mile parade through three neighborhoods of Northwest Philadelphia: Chestnut Hill, Mount Airy, and Germantown.


RSVP • PARADE FOR PEACE: connecting local gun violence and the violence of war
Saturday, March 17th 2007 1:00
March on Germantown Ave. from High School for Peace and Social Justice (7500) to Vernon Park (5800). About two miles with banners, puppets and music.


RSVP • 4th Anniversary Commemoration
Saturday, March 17th 2007 1:00PM
Hundreds of people from Philadelphia and Delaware County, PA, will gather with signs and banners at major intersections along the entire length of Baltimore Pike in Delaware County from the Philadelphia/Delaware County line, to Chadds Ford. We are asking folks to come out for 1 1/2 hours (or longer, if you want), to send a clear message of conviction: BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW. After the local vigils, some will gather at 2:30 at the Peace Center of Delaware County, 1001 Old Sproul Road, in Springfield, Delaware County, for refreshments & reflection.
For the Philadelphia Line location, contact: David Kalkstein
[e-mail]
856-482-254


RSVP • Declaration of Peace Philadelphia Area Candlelight Vigil at Independence Mall Visitors Center
Sunday, March 18th 2007 6:30PM
Sunday, March 18 (Iraq War's 4th Anniversary Eve), 6:30PM, "We Declare Peace!" Philadelphia Area Candlelight Vigil, Independence Mall Visitors Center, 6th & Market Sts., Phila., PA. The solemn candlelight vigil will include: reading of names of Iraq war dead - U.S. and Iraqi - bell-tolling, Declaration of Peace "Mourning to Resistance" memorial, music, religious leaders and other speakers.

Seattle, Washington
RSVP • Global Day of Action Against the Iraq War
Sunday, March 18th 2007 12 noon
Rally and March to say: US out of Iraq Now! From Iraq to New Orleans, fund peoples needs, not the war machine. Speakers, music, march at 1:30 pm.


RSVP • Global Days of Action Against Iraq War
Sunday, March 18th 2007 12 noon
March and rally against the war machine.