Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Not one more death. Not one more dollar.
416 demonstrations/vigils scheduled across the country tomorrow. Pick one and be there.
Update: MoveOn seems to have their own list of events, some of which are identical to the ones at the AFSC website, and some of which are not.
Second update: Here's a picture of the event I went to. As you can see the organizer (a friend of mine) took my advice to have large signs with few words, absolutely required in this case since this was one corner of an intersection with 7 lanes (3 each way plus a left-turn lane) of traffic in each direction, i.e., it's a long way from one corner to the diagonally opposite corner. Picking up on the thread from the comments, although the large sign called out the 2000 dead (Americans), which was the occasion of the event, smaller signs did take note of dead Iraqis as well as injured Americans (one of whose mothers was at the event). A group of about 40 people (it was impossible to get them all in the picture without risking my life standing in the middle of the very busy intersection) spent two hours holding up signs, and received an almost continuous stream of honking in return from passing cars (there are no pedestrians anywhere in this or most cities in California).
