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Madinat al-Muslimeen Islamic Message Board
| NYC : Palestine Protest : 6/6 |
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| se7en |
| 06/02/02 at 00:42:04 |
| June 6 - Washington Square Park, 5:30 p.m., NYC GATHER TO PLEDGE RESISTANCE On Thursday, June 6, in gatherings across the U.S., people will commit themselves to resist in different ways the horrors that the U.S. government is inflicting on people around the world and here at home. The government claims to do it for our benefit. They claim to do it in our name. Join with us to say: War on the World - Not in Our Name! Detentions and Roundups - Not in Our Name! Police State Restrictions - Not in Our Name! We refuse to allow President Bush to speak for all the people living in this country. We will not give up our right to question. We will not hand over our consciences in return for a hollow promise of safety. We acknowledge that we in this country have a special responsibility to resist what our own government is doing, from military interventions to supplying arms used to shoot down and terrorize people from Palestine to the Philippines. Together as one we say "NOT IN OUR NAME." On June 6 we will come together to take the Not in Our Name Pledge of Resistance (see below) and invite you to endorse and be part of this effort. We are people from different backgrounds, cultures, communities and political beliefs in common refusal to go along with the government's war without limits, with its roundups and detentions of immigrants, and with its attacks on civil liberties. The events will launch efforts to spread the Pledge throughout society, to strengthen and expand resistance in diverse ways. In NYC we will gather at Washington Square Park at 5:30 p.m. Together we will hear the stories of those who have felt the effects of U.S. military actions abroad and immigrants who have been detained here. We will herald resistance in words and music. And we will, all together, take the Pledge of Resistance, declaring our determination to stop this course and sending a message to the peoples of the world that we stand with them. We will affirm that "another world is possible and we pledge to make it real." We welcome and encourage your ideas, participation and endorsement as individuals and organizations. Send your endorsement to nycnotinourname@yahoo.com. We also invite you to publicize the event by posting this broadly. Please send financial contributions to NION c/o WILPF, 339 Lafayette St., NY, NY 10012. (Make out checks to Not in Our Name/IFCO. Contributions are tax deductible.) Endorsers include: Philip Berrigan, Plowshares activist; Rev. Elizabeth A. Braddon, Park Slope United Methodist Church (Brooklyn); Brooklyn Parents for Peace; Brooklyn Heights Peace Action; Ethical Action Committee of the Brooklyn Ethical Culture Society; CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) - New York; Rabbi Michael Feinberg, Executive Director, Greater NY Labor-Religion Coalition*; Rev. Dr. James Fitzgerald, Minister for Mission and Social Justice, the Riverside Church*; Mary Lou Greenberg, Revolutionary Communist Party, NY Branch; Islamic Center of Long Island (Domestic Harmony Committee); Rev. Dr. Earl Kooperkamp, Pastor, St. Mary's Episcopal Church, West Harlem*; Rev. Peter Laarman, Senior Minister, Judson Memorial Church*; MADRE; New Yorkers Say No to War; Network in Solidarity with the People of the Philippines (NISPOP); New York Fellowship of Reconciliation; Pax Christi Metro New York; Peace Action of New York State; Refuse & Resist!; SAKHI for South Asian Women; South Asians Against Police Brutality and Racism; Rev. Ian B. Straker, Member NY Annual Conference, The United Methodist Church*; Women in Islam; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, NY Metropolitan Branch; SALAAM (South Asians League of Artists in AMerica); Starhawk; Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory; Vieques Support Campaign. (* for identification only) To add your name, email nycnotinourname@hotmail.com or call 212-969-0592. __________________________________________ Not In Our Name Pledge of Resistance We believe that as people living in the United States It is our responsibility to resist the injustices done by our government, in our names Not in our name will you wage endless war there can be no more deaths no more transfusions of blood for oil Not in our name will you invade countries bomb civilians, kill more children letting history take its course over the graves of the nameless Not in our name will you erode the very freedoms you've claimed to fight for Not by our hands will we supply weapons and funding for the annihilation of families on foreign soil Not by our mouths will we let fear silence us Not by our hearts will we allow whole peoples or countries to be deemed evil Not by our will and Not in our name We pledge resistance We pledge alliance with those who have come under attack for voicing opposition to the war or for their religion or ethnicity We pledge to make common cause with the people of the world to bring about justice freedom and peace Another world is possible and we pledge to make it real (See www.notinourname.net for more information about the Not in Our Name Project; contact us at nycnotinourname@hotmail.com or telephone 212-969-8058.) |
| 06/02/02 at 00:45:09 |
| se7en |
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