For Immediate Release: March 11th, 2003
Contact: daswmedia [at] riseup.net

http://www.actagainstwar.org/article.php?id=59

Direct Action at Pacific Stock Exchange Planned for March 14

Now is the Time!
Mass Nonviolent Direct Action to Stop the War


PACIFIC STOCK EXCHANGE
FRIDAY MARCH 14, 6:30AM (Rain or Shine!)
Pine & Sansome, San Francisco (Montgomery BART)



If you are deeply opposed to the war please join this action by risking arrest in civil disobedience or by coming out to support those who do.


Goals:
1) To take stronger action now, before war starts; next step for the anti-war movement!

2) To give an example of our intent to stop business as usual and impose real economic and political costs if war starts.

3) To widely broadcast our call to everyone in this region and in cities across the US to join us in mass nonviolent direct if war starts.


Orientation Meeting:
Thursday March 13, 7-9pm
St Boniface Church, 133 Golden Gate Ave
between Jones and Leavenworth, two blocks away from Market Street and the Civic Center Muni/BART Station.

Everyone is welcome and all considering risking arrest the following morning are encouraged to attend this orientaion and briefing to prepare us for nonviolent direct action, get legal information and build community.

DIRECT ACTION TO STOP THE WAR
ActAgainstWar.org
(415)820-9649

Warren Langley, a retired Lt. Colonel in the air force and the former President and Chief Operating Officer of the Pacific Stock Exchange explained his decision to take non-violent direct action:
"We have to take action now and stop this war before its too late. Non-violent civil disobedience has worked in other struggles for justice, now we must use it to prevent a US attack on Iraq."

Father Louis Vitalie: "The US government is about to engage in a devastating attack that will kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq. We cannot remain silent in the face of this crisis. We hope that by disrupting business as usual - like stock trading and financial speculation - people will recognize the urgency of this crisis and join us in peaceful mass non-cooperation to stop the US attack on Iraq."

Lynn MacMichael, a Bay area resident who recently returned from 28 days in Iraq said "I've seen first-hand the destruction in Iraq from the Gulf War and the last 12 years of bombing. 250 people - mainly children - continue to die every day from the sanctions against Iraq. I've heard first hand from people in Iraq that told me - please go back to the U.S and ask your government not to bomb us. I had an old woman grab my hand and say please let us live. We must take action now to stop this human and environmental catastrophe. We can stop this war!"