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| May 6: "I'M VOTING FOR BOOKS NOT BOMBS"
National Youth and Student Lobby Day
On March 5th, almost 500 high school and college campuses participated in the "Books Not Bombs" student strike to tell politicians and school administrators that we were against a war with Iraq. Despite opposition here at home and around the world, the Bush administration escalated its attack on Iraq. The United States today is engaged in an unjust war and occupation with untold human and financial costs. At the same time our schools and social services are under attack as local, county and state governments find themselves in deep financial crisis. In fact, the cost of one day of war on Iraq (about $1.1 Billion) is enough money to prevent cuts to education programs in the entire 2003 fiscal year.* |
| CAN Call to Action for April 5 Bay Area Actions
by Campus Anti-war Network
A broad coalition of labor, community, religious, high school and anti-war groups has agreed to co-organize the April 5 action. The action will feature a student march from UC Berkeley to downtown Oakland, where 1,000 public school teachers just received layoff notices. |
| Statement from New York Youth Bloc
by New York Youth Bloc
Youth Bloc is the New York City coalition of high school students for peace, justice, and empowerment. The Bloc has mobilized around issues from school budget cuts to workers' rights to war with Iraq. On March 5th, Youth Bloc
co-organized the citywide anti-war walkout, in which thousands of students
from over thirty schools took a stand. |
| Why We Strike! - Call for Action on March 5th
by Called by NY Youth Bloc & Not In Our Name Youth
STRIKE because they're sending young people to die in the desert while they sit in the comfort of their offices & mansions
STRIKE because we refuse to go along with their transfusion of blood for oil
STRIKE because they're about to launch 400 missiles a day at a defenseless people ("There will not be a safe place in Baghdad...rather like Hiroshima" - H. Ullman, U.S. military planner)... |
| Emergency Response Plan
If the bombs do start falling, we call on you to get out on the streets immediately and visibly express strong opposition to this war and demand peaceful, nonviolent alternatives. |
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