World Can't Wait-Reno encourages all other peace forces to join us in solidarity with nationwide actions to head off the drive toward yet another war. We will have signs and banners to alert hundreds of Reno motorists of the danger; if you have your own, please bring them.
Where: Northeast Corner of McCarran at S. Virginia (Chili's parking lot)
When: Saturday August 2nd at 2 p.m.
Los Angeles:1 PM, Rally at Pershing Square (5th & Olive) downtown.
Tacoma/Olympia WA:
Resistance at the Port
12-3 PM, No War on Iraq! No War on Iran Demo!
(A family-friendly demo and overpass rally)
At I-5's Exit 119, outside Fort Lewis
Brought to you by IVAW, G.I. Voice, and Olympia SDS
Olympia carpool will meet at the corner of Harrison and Division @ 11 am
4-6 PM, Port Militarization Resistance Rally and Protest
(Family friendly event. Come & hook-in for later actions)
Federal Courthouse--1713 Pacific Ave
8 PM, Port Action Meeting Point
At Puyallup Avenue & East D St. (5 minute walk from courthouse)
Atlanta:
At 11:00am-12:30 pm Join a lively visible outreach action at the busy shopping center
of Midtown Place located at 650 Ponce de Leon, across from City Hall East,
Below is the statement sent to us by an activist from ANSWER:
On June 26, the Stop War on Iran Campaign issued a call for emergency actions on August 2 to stop the Bush Administration’s drive towards an attack against Iran.
We have heard back from activists and organizers who are planning protests, rallies, and pickets in more than 50 cities, including a major demonstration in New York City in Times Square and a demonstration in front of the White House in Washington.
We are working on compiling a list of the growing number of local actions now, which we will have online soon at:
http://stopwaroniran.org/aug22008orgcents.shtml
It is urgent that we act now, and that we make every possible effort to stop a war against Iran.
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Tacoma WA:
IF military shipments are still being unloaded from the previous days.
4-6 PM, Port Militarization Resistance Rally and Protest
(Family friendly event. Come & hook-in for later actions)
Federal Courthouse--1713 Pacific Ave
8 PM, Port Action Meeting Point
At Puyallup Avenue & East D St. (5 minute walk from courthouse)
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WCW and other organizations are calling for FREEZE ACTIONS on this day, the anniversary of the U.S. dropping the Atom Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945 killing over 140,000 people within 4 months. For more information go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
Participants of the FREEZE ACTION gather in a public place (transportation hub, park, downtown crossroads) where there are a lot of pedestrians. At a pre-determined time, with a designated signal, they "freeze" in place for 5 or 10 minutes. No talking, no interaction, just statues frozen in place. A whistle is blown to end the action. Often followed by people breaking into chants, such as "No Attack on Iran!"
This is not a protest march with banners and placards but flyers are good for handing out afterwards. Let's make this happen in hundreds of places to mark Hiroshima Day.
Bay Area:
Join us 5 PM at Powell & Market St. in San Francisco.
Los Angeles:
Gather at Union Station's Coffee & Bagel Shop, 800 N. Alameda St, Los Angeles at 4:45 PM sharp.
NYC:
Meet at 5:00 PM lower Manhattan, under Staten Island Ferry blue sign outside terminal. Take #1 Train to South Ferry. "Freeze" at precisely 5:30.
Omaha, Nebraska:
August 5 through 9, Atomic Bombings of Japan Vigils. The schedule is below.
Contact people are Jerry Ebner, cwomaha@gmail.com, 402-502-5887 or
Frank Cordaro frank.cordaro@gmail.com 515-282-4781.
August 5, Evening - Vigilers arrive in Omaha and set up in basement of St. John's
Church on Creighton University Campus.
August 6, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Vigil at Kinney Gate at Offutt Air Force Base in
Bellevue. Please participate in all or some of the four days’ vigils that start on
the 6th and end on the 9th.
August 6, 7:00 p.m. Movie "The Day After Trinity: J Robert Oppenheimer and the
Atomic Bomb" at McFoster's Natural Kind Cafe at 38th and Farnam Streets.
August 7, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Vigil at Kinney Gate.
August 7, 6 p.m. - Mass and Potluck at Omaha Catholic Worker house 1104 North 24th
Street, Omaha.
August 8, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Vigil at Kinney Gate.
August 8, 7:00 p.m. PowerPoint Slide Show "The Story of StratCom at Offutt, its New
Mission in the World and Our Resistance to It" by Frank Cordaro. Basement of St.
John's Church at Creighton University.
August 9, 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Vigil at Kinney Gate. Closing ceremony and prayer
(and line crossing if anyone is up to it).
Mark Welsch, Omaha Coordinator
Nebraskans for Peace
P.O. Box 6418
Omaha, NE 68106
Office: 402-453-0776
NFPOmaha@NebraskansForPeace.org
www.NebraskansForPeace.org
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1 PM Pleasant Hill Recruiting Station Bay Area(across from Sun Valley Mall). World Can't Wait and Contra Costa Radical Action to "Take the war resistance to the suburbs!"
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10 AM San Jose Recruiting Station, Steven's Creek and Rosewood.
END THE WAR, END RECRUITMENT
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San Francisco:
8 PM - 2 AM "Military Recruiters Out of our Schools" Hip-Hop/Open-Mic/Live-Art Benefit Show at Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center, 2981 24th St San Francisco. Featuring music from Yung Mars and Repo Man. $5-10 (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Los Angeles:
When: Saturday, Aug. 9th, 10 AM - Noon
Where: Peace Center, 8124 W. 3rd St. (& Crescent Hts.), Los Angeles
What: Viewing of important new film "Iran Is Not the Problem"* AND
Update on Major Plans for the Protests at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, August 23-28
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Mountain View:
If you would like to participate in spreading orange and enjoying the music, email sf@worldcantwait.org for more information.
For more Warped Tour information, go to:
http://www.warpedtour.com/warpedtour/index.asp
Cleveland:
August 15, 2008 7 pm and August 16, 5:30 pm -BATTLE FOR HADITHA- at the
Cinematheque. The events that sparked the 11/05 massacre of 24 Iraqi men,
women, and children (most of them noncombatants) by U.S. Marines in Haditha are
re-enacted in this searing but humanistic new movie by veteran Brit
documentarian Nick Broomfield (Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, Kurt
& Courtney, Biggie & Tupac). But this film is a dramatic reenactment
and not a
documentary; it follows a Marine platoon, Sunni insurgents, and an Iraqi family
during the 24 hours leading up to the tragedy. “Straddles the line between
blistering exposé and Spielbergian heart-tugger.” –Village Voice. “A
hell of a picture.” –New York Magazine. Cleveland premiere. 35mm. 97 min.
For more information see:
http://www.cia.edu/academicResources/cinematheque/cinematheque.php
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Obama & McCain at Saddleback Megachurch. As both candidates court the religious right at a forum at Rick Warren's megachurch, join in saying NO to theocracy, NO to their unjust and endless wars, NO to torture, NO to the rape of the environment. Meet at 4 PM with WCW & other organizations:
Saddleback Church, Orange County
Gather El Toro Rd & Portola Pkwy, Lake Forest (NE side of the intersection).
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Cleveland: August 17, 2008 - 6:00 pm Winter Soldier Testimonies; Iraq & Afghanistan at Revolution Books 2804 Mayfield Rd, at Coventry, in Cleveland Heights. Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan featured testimony from U.S. veterans who served in those occupations, giving an accurate account of what is really happening day in and day out, on the ground.
This four-day event brought together veterans from across the country to
testify about their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan - and present video and
photographic evidence. In addition, panels of scholars, veterans, journalists,
and other specialists gave context to the testimony.
http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier
Chicago 1:00PM -- Come and Flyer the Air and Water Show
Over one million people come to the Air & Water Show each day. This show is the largest military commercial to promote war, huge military budgets and recruitment. There is an insanity to it all because spectators are drawn to the "wonder" of high tech weaponry.
THIS IS NOT FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT.
We will join 8th Day Center for Justice and other anti-war activists to banner and leaflet participants as they stream across the pedestrian bridge by the tens of thousands, a perfect audience. We will call for end to war crimes and the
recruitment of youth to commit them, no matter who is in the White House or running Congress!
Some people say recruiters have a "right" to do their Business. World Can't Wait says the people in Iraq have the right to be free from occupation.
SHUT DOWN MILITARY RECRUITERS!
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World Can’t Wait plans to confront the anti-abortion activists during the DNC. Here is their schedule:
Friday August 22 at 7pm: Prayer/Rally To Be Announced
Saturday Aug. 23: 9am: Planned Parenthood at 7155 E. 38 Avenue, Denver . Anti-abortion protesters plan to be at Denver ’s newest Planned Parenthood clinic. Planned Parenthood has a scheduled community event at that location for the same day. World Can’t Wait will support the clinic and confront the antis. Bring banners, signs, etc. to show your opposition to these anti-woman fanatics.
Noon: The Antis plan to be at Civic Center Park .
1pm: Prayer at Pepsi Center , including the laying of roses around the building
6pm: Antis will vigil at Skyline Park (near Pepsi Center )
World Can’t Wait will announce counter protest plans.
Rock the Bells Concert: World Can’t Wait outreach at Fiddler's Green Ampitheatre in Evergreen CO (details TBA)
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9am - Bring your orange jumpsuits, join the World Can’t Wait Contingent at the End All Occupations Home and Abroad March called by Recreate68.org. (March will begin at the WEST STEPS OF THE CAPITOL and end on Speer Blvd in front of the Pepsi Center)
CODE PINK is planning a 5pm FREEZE Against the War on Iran.
An Evening of Conscience: 7:00 pm, A cultural event of resistance to Bush's crimes against humanity and a repudiation of the Bush regime's program.
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theater
119 Park Ave West Denver
For Tickets and Info: (303) 295-1759
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Democratic National Convention - August 25-28.
World Can’t Wait, other organizations, and thousands of Denver activists will march against the war & torture, attacks on immigrants & women’s rights; gather in parks with permits, drop banners, and meet the world press with the our demand to bring the Bush program to a halt, no matter who is president!
* World Can’t Wait will be tabling at the Festival of Democracy Aug 24-28
* Recreate 68 will be based in Civic Center Park during those dates.
* 7:00 pm: What's Behind the US Threats on Iran, and How Can We Stop Them? Location TBA
Talk by Larry Everest, author of "Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda" http://www.larryeverest.com/
Human Rights/Free All Political Prisoners Day
Civic Center Park and other areas will have feeder marches. 9am
Join the WCW Orange Jumpsuit Contingent! One of the most egregious parts of the Bush Program –and the Democrats’ collusion with it- is the legalization of torture. People of conscience act when torture has been legalized and when war crimes are being carried out in our names.
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Tuesday AUGUST 26: – Immigrant Rights March has been changed to Thursday Aug. 28
7:00 pm: Film: "Iran is Not the Problem" by Aaron Newman, http://iranisnottheproblem.org/
Mercury Theater, 1308 Pearl, Denver
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Rage Against the Machine has joined forces with the Iraq Veterans Against the War and Tent State University to perform as part of the “Tent State Music Festival to End the War” on Wednesday, August 27 at the Denver Coliseum. They will join the Flobots, The Coup, State Radio, and Wayne Kramer. Doors open at 9:30 am, show begins at 11 am.
Tickets are free and available by lottery. Sign up for the lottery, with a valid photo ID (person must be present) at Tent State University at Cuernavaca Park between 11 am and 6:30 PM (look for the Tent State Music Festival booth near the IVAW Tower) Sunday, August 24 through Tuesday, August 26 during the D.N.C. Winners will be notified by email Tuesday evening, August 26. Go to www.tentstate.org for more info.
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No Ice Raids! No Militarization of the Border: No Detentions! No Human Being is Illegal!
March Step-off at 9am
2855 W. Howard PL. (Rude Park) Rally to follow @ La Alma /Lincoln Park (W. 12th Ave and Mariposa St)
World Can’t Wait will be marching to demand an immediate end to the Gestapo-style ICE raids on immigrants and families that create a climate of terror in immigrant communities and workplaces all over the country. We demand an end to the terrorizing and the criminalization of a whole people! No human being is illegal! As new detention facilities which can house hundreds of thousands are constructed within U.S. borders, as walls go up between the US and Mexico, as the border is patrolled by this government in collaboration with armed vigilante groups who hunt migrants down with viciousness; we stand and say no! No militarization of the border! No detentions! No ICE raids! Bring this to a halt!
Nationwide demonstrations against an attack on Iran from Reno to DC