DIRECT ACTION TO STOP THE WAR

If a War Starts....
Emergency Mass Non-Violent Direct Action & Protest

Morning of the next Business Day 7:00 a.m.

Embarcadero BART/Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco

Transform our city from Profit and War into Life and Resistance! - Shut down the Corporate Warmakers!

What You Can Do:

Don’t go to work or school. Call in sick, walk out, don’t go—and get your co-workers/ schoolmates to join you. Head downtown-- leave early or come the night before-- things may be jammed in the morning. Or ride your bike and join Bikes not Bombs. People from all over California will converge-- this is a regional action.

Bring friends, music, art, performance, and food to share

Join / create an ongoing transformation/occupation

Form an affinity/action group now to get prepared. Get a group of five to 25 of your friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, or schoolmates to prepare for and participate in the emergency morning-after action. Make a plan of how you will get together, get downtown and what you will do if war starts. Send one or two people from your group to the weekly action "spokescouncil" to coordinate with other groups. Participate in a nonviolent direct action training to get prepared. Several affinity groups can join together as a "cluster."

Our Goals:
1) If the government and corporations won’t stop the war, we’ll shut down the warmakers! We will impose real economic, social and political costs and stop business as usual until the war stops. We are publicly declaring and organizing mass nonviolent direct action now, before war begins, with the express intention of deterring a war against Iraq and future wars.

2) Assert our power to transform our city from profits, oil and war to resistance and life! We will create an open, welcoming, inspiring space that gives voice to the anti-war majority as an assertion of real democracy.

3) Uproot the system behind the war (and behind the war at home—racism, poverty…); help catalyze mass movements to challenge corporate and government power and create socially just, directly democratic, ecological, peaceful alternatives.

Action Menu
We are asking affinity (action) groups to choose an item from the menu. Take over and transform one of the following key intersections and corporate and government offices/buildings. Or join the "Take Out" mobile Bikes not Bombs actions. Or plan your own action and menu item. Attend the weekly spokescouncil meeting to coordinate and help organize.

On the business day the morning after war starts you may wish to just go directly to a "menu" location. Otherwise go to Main and Market where people will come out to support the actions. There are many ways to reclaim, transform, occupy or blockade spaces. Sit-ins, street parties, lockdown, objects, performance, street murals, gardening, large sculpture, die-ins…

Plan Ahead. Invite everyone you know. We will have fliers and encourage everyone to make an effort to talk to, diffuse or get support from those who get stuck on their way to work, school or other business.

National Call to Action
Direct Action to Stop the War (San Francisco Bay Area) call on other cities to organize widespread noncooperation; Instead of going to work or school, we call on everyone to resist this war by particpating in or supporting mass nonviolent direct action, particularly focussed on the corporations, financial districts and other institutions involved in the war.

Direct Action to Stop the War
http://www.actagainstwar.org
(415) 820-9649