Not in Our Name Update for 8/29

Special edition from the New York City frontlines

1. "NO to the Bush Agenda" Not in Our Name kick-off rally.
Sunday, August 29. 10 am. Union Square, New York City

2. History demands that we see each other in the park!
Sunday, August 29--when the whole world will be watching.


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"NO to the Bush Agenda" Not in Our Name kick-off rally.
Sunday, August 29. 10 am. Union Square, New York City

Permitted rally with stage featuring musician Steve Earle, spoken word poet Saul
Williams, live music by Outernational, and much more.

10 am
Not in Our Name kick-off rally, Union Square

Noon
Join the Not in Our Name contingent for the mass march past Madison Square Garden

4 pm
Tune into WBAI 99.5fm for the Not in Our Name Pledge of Resistance performed by Saul
Williams. Where ever you are (such as a park), turn up the radio or read aloud.

Volunteers: Please meet at Union Square at 8 am


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History demands that we see each other in the park!
Sunday, August 29--when the whole world will be watching New York City.

Tanya Mayo and Sunsara Taylor
Not in Our Name organizers
August 28, 2004

Right now there are two futures coming into sharp contrast right before our eyes: a
future of unending war and police state restrictions where even the right to
question is criminalized, or a future where the people, defying the threats and
intimidation by the police and FBI, grow in our strength and resistance and stand
together with the people of the world to bring about a new way of relating to each
other with equality and respect.

These two futures are on an accelerating collision course. Only one or the other
will gain the upper hand. And nowhere does this take on a more concentrated
expression than right here and now in New York City on the eve of the Republican
National Convention.

To be clear: If we do not want the world cast under the shadow of a New Rome and to
live in a razor-wire police state here at home, then people must be in the park. We
need to deliver a huge "NO!" to Bush and all he represents in Central Park on August
29th.

Together we need to declare a loud and clear "NO" to sending the NYPD across the
country to intimidate and stalk protesters. "NO" to equating political protest with
terrorism. "NO" to using the so-called "War on Terror" to justify the unjust, like
the recent Iraq and Afghanistan Wars (which were planned before 9-11). "NO" to
labeling resisters as "extremists" or creating false specters of "lawbreakers" and
"violence inciters" when no one even comes near the Bush Regime when it comes to
extremism, trashing the rule of law or inflicting mass violence. "NO" to the
attempts to hide and marginalize the opposition of millions. "NO" to which ever war
candidate wins if they claim to prosecute this course of war and repression in our
name. "NO" to fearing the people of the world when it is our own government that is
raining terror down on whole countries and entire immigrant communities right here
at home. No more! No way! No how! Just NO!

On Sunday, August 29th, we call on everyone to act together with courage and much
love for the people of the planet and with great joy and confidence in the better
world that we can bring closer by resisting the injustices of the present.

We are on the move and picking up steam. Let's give people the sense of right and
collective strength that we will all need to continue to fight until the whole
juggernaut of war and repression is decisively derailed. Let us show everyone, and
give them a way--and the confidence--to join us as we rip the future out of the
hands of the empire-builders and the police state engineers.

The eyes of the world will be watching. Let's be in the park in our numbers. Let's
be in the park with our dreams and our consciences intact. Let's make good on our
pledge to resist. Let's demonstrate to the people of the world that we will take
responsibility for the actions of our own government.

Another world is possible. Let's make it real.

Join us at 10 am at Union Square for the Not in Our Name kick-off rally with Steve
Earle, Saul Williams and others. Then march with us past Madison Square Garden RNC
Headquarters along with hundreds of thousands of others. And, later, let's have a
beautiful day in the park.


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