NOT IN OUR NAME PROTESTS JUNE 6TH NYC, SF ,LA

nion manifesto and list of endorsers


War on the World
Detentions and Round-ups
Police State Restrictions

We are people of conscience who cannot stand silent as our government wages war without limits of time and space. We cannot stand silent as immigrants are rounded up and detained. We cannot stand silent in the face of new police state restrictions threatening the very right to dissent.

We refuse to allow President Bush to speak for all the American people. We will not give up our right to question. We will not hand over our consciences in return for a hollow promise of safety. Together as one, we say Not in Our Name.

We extend a hand to those around the world suffering from these policies. 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. We encourage everyone to take up the globe as a symbol of solidarity with people worldwide.

The Not in Our Name project draws strength and inspiration from the important anti-war and anti-repression efforts to date. At the same time we all know that much more is needed. The Not in Our Name project is being developed to strengthen and expand the existing movement of resistance—resistance that must take many forms. (Photo from "NOT IN OUR NAME" contingent at April 20, 2002 demonstration in Washington DC.)

Resistance of critical thought, resistance by speaking out, resistance through creating powerful art, and resistance through finding ways to halt the machinery of war and repression. Resistance by individuals and resistance through mass action. There already have been inspiring examples of resistance, and we would hope the Not in Our Name project would inspire more things like:

Campuses erupting with debates and protests.

People uniting together to defend Arab, Muslim and South Asian immigrants who come under attack, working to free those detained and supporting those who are targeted.

Civilians supporting soldiers and reservists who resist illegal and unjust orders.

Support for writers, artists, activists and everyone who comes under attack for breaking ranks and daring to dissent.

We will not “watch what we say.” We will dare to do what is necessary.

We encourage everyone to take up the Not in Our Name project and to help launch it on June 6. On that day, thousands of people in cities across the country will take a common Pledge of Resistance, declaring their determination to resist now in diverse ways and to stop this course. Following this launch, the pledge must be spread throughout society. We urge all people of conscience to take up the pledge and help make it a force in society against this war and repression. We also must be prepared to respond to major escalations. Throughout the summer, the Not in Our Name project and pledge will be taken out across the country, leading to a Day of Mass Resistance in the fall.


We must dare to change the course of history.


To contact us, email notinrname [at] hotmail.com or leave a message at 212-969-8058 and we will return your call.
Signed (partial list - affiliations listed for identification only):

Anti-War Coalition, UC Santa Barbara
Richard Aoki, social activist
Araby, Cincinnati Refuse & Resist!
Masad Arbid, Arab-Palestinian physician, USA; Editorial Board — Kana’an Quarterly
Ashton Applewhite, writer
ASIAN! (Asians for Ideas in Action Now!)
Adrian Bankhead, student activist
BAYAN International - USA
William Blum, author, Killing Hope, Rogue State
Lela Brown, student activist
Rev. Richard Meri Ka Ra Byrd, KRST Unity Center, Los Angeles; Oct. 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression & the Criminalization of a Generation
Father Robert W. Castle, Episcopal Priest
Roger Dittman, Prof. Of Physics Emeritus, CA State University; UN Rep. Of the World Federation of Scientific Workers
Carol Downer, Board of Directors, Chico (CA) Feminist Women’s Health Center
Brian Drolet, producer/editor
Earth Neighborhood Productions and TriCity Peace Action Network-Fremont, Union City, Hayward, CA
Becka Economopoulos
Riva Enteen, National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco
Nina Felshin, curator/writer
Paul S. Flores, author and performer
Diane Fujino, professor Asian-American Studies UC Santa Barbara; ASIAN!
Paul George, Director, Peninsula Peace & Justice Center, Palo Alto, CA
David Graeber
Mary Lou Greenberg, Revolutionary Communist Party, NY Branch
Matef Harmachis, All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party
International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS-USA)
Inang Bayan (Motherland) Movement (Filipino community)
Kabataang maka-Bayan, Pro-People Youth (L.A.)
Kent State Anti-War Committee
Yuri Kochiyama, activist
Sonali Kolhatkar, Vice President, Afghan Women’s Mission
The Rev. Earl Kooperkamp, Pastor, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, NYC
Rev. Peter Laarman, Senior Minister, Judson Memorial Church, NYC
Jim Lafferty, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles
Ray Laforest, Organizer DC 1707, AFSCME and Haitian community activist, NYC
Karen Lane, Pres., UCLA Undergraduate Students Assn
Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children’s Alliance
Daniel Magpali, activist, ASIAN!, Red Phoenix
Miguel Maldonado, Immigrant Workers’ Assn, NYC
Eric Mar, SF Board of Education
John Martinez, Aztlan Media Collective, East L.A.
Anuradha Mittal, Co-Director Institute for Food & Development Policy/Food First, Oakland, CA
Richard Montoya, Culture Clash
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano/a de Aztlan (MEChA), Pasadena City College, CA
Jettie Mwenge, Freedom B4Peace
Dyan Neary, NYC Indy Media
Network in Solidarity with the People of the Philippines (NISPOP)
Mo Nishida, revolutionary activist
Efia Nwangaza, African-American Institute for Policy Studies, Greenville, SC
National Oct. 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression & the Criminalization of a Generation
Raul Pacheco, Ozomatli
Jose Palafox, Ethnic Studies Dept., UC Berkeley
Andrea Prichett, Co-founder Berkeley CopWatch
Rakaa Iriscience, hip hop artist, Dilated Peoples
Red Phoenix
Rev. Dr. George F. Regas, Rector Emeritus, All Saints Church, Pasadena, CA
Emily Reilly, Students for Fair Trade, Seattle
La Resistencia, Los Angeles
Mike Rhodes, Editor, Community Alliance magazine, Fresno, CA
Matthew Rinaldi, San Francisco Bay Chapter, National Lawyers Guild
Robert Rockwell, National Secretary, Refuse & Resist!
Prof. Rodolfo Rosales, University of TX at San Antonio
Adel Samara, Editor, Kana’an Review, Ramallah, Palestine
Edith Sargon, UC Santa Barbara Student Commission on Racial Equality
Evanne Scott
Lori Silverman, Peace Action Collective (Antioch College)
Miles Solay, Refuse & Resist!
Bianca Sopoi-Bellchap, student activist
South Asians Against Police Brutality and Racism
Bob Stein, publisher
Stop the War Brigade & Vietnam Veterans Against the War-Anti-Imperialist (Germany)
Students for Justice in Palestine, UC Berkeley chapter
Students United for Peace, Occidental College, L.A.
Joe Urgo, Vietnam Veterans Against the War-AI
Kinan Valdez
Vieques Support Campaign
Rev. George W. Webber, Prof. of Urban Ministry and President Emeritus, NY Theological Seminary
Saul Williams, spoken word artist

To contact us, email notinrname [at] hotmail.com or leave a message at 212-969-8058 and we will return your call.



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