Partly Sunny for SF's Peace March on 2/16

The weather forecast is partly sunny, with a predicted high of 60 degrees F, with 10 miles visibility for San Francisco's grand finale peace march today, February 16, 2003. It is dry now; the rain stopped in the early morning hours.

The entire route of the march, our main street, Market Street, is closed to traffic. All buses crossing Market are re-routed after 9 a.m. for most of the day. Extra buses have been added. See http://www.sfmuni.com and click on "service changes." BART will have longer trains than usual on Sunday. Golden Gate Ferry will add ferry service from the Larkspur terminal, with additoinal runs at 10:25 a.m., 11 a.m., 12 noon, and 1 p.m. For the schedule, see http://www.goldengate.org

We had 100,000 march on October 26, 2002, 200,000 on January 18, 2003, and we hope the doubling pattern follows, or better. The goal is always 1 million people in the streets of San Francisco! We do that for Gay Pride Day, let's do it for world peace!

If you are in or between San Francisco and Ukiah, Sacramento, Modesto, Fresno, Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Jose, please make every effort to come to this peace march. It is, after all, a three-day weekend for many of us, and attending a peace march is one of the best ways you can spend it, exercising our First Amendment rights to free speech, freedom of assembly and freedom to petition for redress of grievances.

KPFA, 94.1 FM, Berkeley's listener-sponsored, no commercials radio station, http://www.kpfa.org, will be broadcasting our peace march live from 1:30 to 5 p.m. and a wrap-up from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Bring your radios to the demonstration or if you cannot be at the demonstration, listen to streaming radio at:
https://secure.transbay.net/kpfa/forms/0_aud.htm

The assembly is scheduled at 11 a.m., the march at 1 p.m. and the rally at the Civic Center at 2 p.m. I suggest you get to the beginning of the march at Market and the Embarcadero at 10 a.m. We started marching at 10:30 a.m. on January 18, and this one will be bigger.

Speakers include:

Speakers include:
From: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/calendar.php?calid=1138
Alice Walker
Danny Glover
Joan Baez
The Coup
Dolores Huerta
Jeremy Corbin, British Labor M.P.
and many others

Meeting Points

Here are some of the meeting points for the labor, faith, women, people of color and student & youth contingent marches:

Labor Contingent: Assemble with Labor for Peace and Justice at the intersection of Spear St. & Folsom (Three blocks south of Market). Please bring signs or banners from your organization, loved ones and co-workers.

Interfaith Contingent: 11AM Gather at Civic Center for an interfaith Service. Please bring others from your place of worship, loved ones and materials to express you desire for peace.

Women Contingent: 10AM Join with the Code Pink women's cluster and the Pagan Cluster, at 10 AM at Montgomery and Market St.

Women and People of Color Contingent: 10AM Assemble at Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission St. between 3rd and 4th. For more information, please call 410 444 2700 x304.

Environmentalist Contingent: It is being planned, please contact us for the location! (415) 575-5555 or peace [at] globalexchange.org

Student & Youth Contingent: Student and Youth pre-march SPEAK OUT and Contingent

Where: Golden Gate University, 536 Mission Street (corner of First Street)
When: Speak Out begins at 11am, SUNDAY, February 16
How: Get off at Embarcadero BART (Mission St. is 1 block South of Market
St.)
Who: All Bay Area students! Campus Anti-War Network (CAN), Not In Our Name
Student and Youth Project, International ANSWER Student and Youth, United for Peace and Justice Student and Youth and YOUR SCHOOL!
Why: Show Bush that Students are ORGANIZED and ANTI-WAR!

For more information, please contact Campus Anti-War Network at Feb16Students [at] aol.com or 510-333-4604.