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December 20, 2006
IRAQ: A Calendar of Peacemaking and Peacebuilding Campaigns
I want to share with you a calendar of events and campaigns we will focus on for Winter/Spring 2007.
Not One More Death | Not One More Dollar - 3,000th US casualty in Iraq
Location: Nationwide
Date: (December/January)
Tools & Resources: AFSC Vigil System and the NOMD | NOMD Letter to Congress
Message: Remove Troops and Bases | End War Funding | Rebuild | Never Again
Action: Vigils and Advocacy Campaign
Contact: Peter Lems
Web: Wage Peace Campaign
Not One More Death | Not One More Dollar
(English)
(Spanish)
Event/Campaign: Friends For Peace
Location: Worldwide
Launch: Mid-January
End: April 15 (Tax Day) or 1 May (Mission Accomplished)
Tools and Resources: Interactive Web Page
Message: Remove Troops and Bases | End War Funding | Rebuild | Never Again
Action: Showing the human face of peace through portraits holding peace messages
Contact: Peter Lems
Web: Forthcoming
Event/Campaign: UFPJ March on Washington & Lobby Day
Location: Washington DC
Date: March Saturday 27 January | Lobby Day Monday January 29
Message: A Mandate for Peace - Bring the Troops Home Now | Focus Congress
Action: March, lobby training, lobby day
Contact: Allison Budschalow & Peter Lems
Web: United for Peace and Justice
Event/Campaign: Iraq War Funding - Reconstruction not Occupation
Location: Nationwide
Date: (Late January/February)
Tools and Resources: Letters' and Calls to Congress
Message: Remove Troops and Bases | End War Funding | Rebuild | Never Again
Action: Turning in the Names of the NOMD | NOMD Letter
Contact: Peter Lems
Web: Wage Peace Campaign
Dreams and Nightmares: A Memorial to Life and Death in Iraq
Location: US Regions to be Determined
Date: On-going through U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta (June/July 2007)
Tools & Resources: Iraq 101
Message: Remove Troops and Bases | End War Funding | Rebuild | Never Again
Action: Nationwide tour to hold elected official accountable and promote alternatives
Contact: Peter Lems
Web: Dreams and Nightmares
Event/Campaign: International No Bases Conference
Location: Quito and Manta, Ecuador
Date: March 6 - 10, 2007
Tools and Resources: Movement Building & '10 Reasons Why Bases are Bad'
Attending: Peacebuilding Unit | US Regional Staff | International Programs
Contact: Allison Budschalow
Web: No Bases
Event/Campaign: Christian Peace Witness for Iraq
Location: Washington DC & Regionally Coordinated Events
Date: 16 March, 2007
Tools and Resources:
Message: End the Occupation | Rebuild Iraq | No to Torture
Action: Worship at the National Cathedral | Candlelight Procession to the White House | Late Night prayer vigil | Witness for peace in Iraq
Contact: Peter Lems
Web: Forthcoming
Event/Campaign: Declaration of Peace
Location: Nationwide
Date: 16/21 March
Tools and Resources: Iraq 101 and Alternatives
Message: End the funding | Comprehensive Plan for Peace
Contact: Peter Lems
Web: Declaration of Peace
Event/Campaign: 40th Anniversary of MLK's 'Riverside' Speech
Location: Nationwide
Date: 4 April 2007
Message: Racism | Militarism | Poverty
Contact: Angie Berryman
Event/Campaign: United for Peace and Justice National Assembly
Late May or June 2007
Location: To be announced
Contact: Allison Budschalow
Event/Campaign: U.S. Social Forum
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Date: 27 June - 1 July 2007
Tools and Resources: Movement Building
Audience: Peace and Justice movements from around the US - all US domestic programming of the AFSC
Attending: Peacebuilding Unit and US Regions
Contact: Allison Budschalow | Darryl Jordan
Web: United States Social Forum
Event/Campaign: Cost of War Project - Highlighting domestic needs
Location: New Hampshire and Iowa
Date: Summer 2007 | Winter 2008
Tools and Resources: Human Cost of War (National Priorities Project)
Action: Bird-dogging and educational effort for 2008 elections
Contact: Devon Davidson
Web: Forthcoming
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