Inauguration Day Action / Jan 20th 2005

Citywide Action Call for Inauguration Day, Jan 20th

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The Seattle Not In Our Name Project is calling for citywide actions to
declare continuing and intensifying resistance to the Bush agenda of war
and repression on Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th. Not In Our
Name will host a convergence rally at 2:00pm at Westlake Park, 4th and
Pine, in downtown Seattle.

Why do we call it a convergence rally? Because we are calling for
neighborhood gatherings followed by street or sidewalk marches, car
caravans, or group bus rides to Westlake Park. Because we are calling
for school and campus walk-outs that march to Westlake Park. Because we
are calling for diverse and creative actions and events throughout the
day and night that can come together and show the power of our numbers
and unity at the convergence rally.

We envision many organizations, schools, neighborhoods and places of
worship participating, but it is up to all of us to step up our
resistance and make this call a reality.

The call:
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War Without End?
Round Ups & Detentions?
Police State Restrictions?
The Whole Bush Agenda?

NOT IN OUR NAME!

On Inauguration Day, January 20,

No Work
No School
No Business-as-Usual

The whole world is watching, let your voice be heard:

Have a rally
Plan a teach-in
Perform street theater
Present an art show
Put on a concert
Put a sign in your window
Declare your church a sanctuary for resisters
Wear a t-shirt with a message
Walk out of school
March from your neighborhood

CONVERGE AT WESTLAKE PARK 4th and Pine
2:00 pm for Music and Speak-Out
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NO WORK, NO SCHOOL, NO BUSINESS AS USUAL
If you're an employee, make plans now to take the day off of work. If
you're a small business owner, close up shop that day and hang a sign in
your window saying why. Talk with and organize friends, family,
co-workers, and classmates to make their voices heard in ways large and
small on January 20th.

IF YOU ARE A "PERSON IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD" (as the Sesame Street song
goes...)
You may be part of a SNOW neighborhood group or a more informal
neighborhood network of friends or concerned citizens. Whoever you are,
get together and make plans for a neighborhood gathering or event on
Inauguration Day. Set a time and place to meet on the 20th and we will
help you publicize it on a citywide calendar of January 20th events and
list you on the press release. Let us know who from your group can keep
in touch with us about your neighborhood plans and email us their
contact info with NEIGHBORHOOD CONTACT in the subject heading. Choose
someone from your group to give a "shout out" representing your
neighborhood from the convergence rally stage. Come to a special
convergence meeting on Sunday, January 9th at 7pm at the NION meeting
location mentioned below. We'll meet each other and share and coordinate
plans.

IF YOU ARE A STUDENT
Campus protests and school walk-outs have been a powerful form of
protest against war in American history. Here is how other students have
done it:
They passed the idea of a walk-out to friends and students in their
schools and discussed their ideas and plans.
They set up meetings with students from other schools and formed
networks. They started with phone lists--but now we have email!
They spread the word to lots of students! They handed out flyers, talked
it up, hung posters, etc.
When they thought parents, teachers, or school administrators might be
supportive, they talked with them about why they felt it was right to
take a day off or walk out of school to stand with the people of Iraq
and the world.
When they thought they wouldn't be supportive, they had to make their
own decision and had to weigh the fact that their actions could result
in serious consequences such as suspension or expulsion.
Sometimes students decided not to walk out of school (or failed to make
it out of the building!) so they had a sit-in (a protest inside the
school), wore identical t-shirts or armbands, or had an after-school
rally instead.

If you're interested in helping organize a January 20th action at your
school or on your campus, large or small, email us with SCHOOL CONTACT
in the subject line. We'll hook you up with other students from other
schools and help in any way we can. If you make it to the convergence
rally, we'd like one student representing each school to do a "shout
out" from the stage sometime between 2 and 5pm. Send a rep to a special
convergence meeting on Sunday, January 9th at 7pm at the NION meeting
location mentioned below. We'll meet each other and share and coordinate
plans.


WHAT EVERYONE CAN DO TO HELP:
Forward this email widely to friends, family, co-workers, organizations,
etc.

Print out and copy the poster and get it up all over the city. You can
find it in PDF format at: http://againstthewall.net/NoBusinessAsUsual.pdf
Posters are also available for pickup at Westlake Park (4th and Pine) at
the NION table this Saturday from 3-6pm.

Go postering with a team:
Friday, Dec 3rd, Meet at 7pm in front of the Seattle Central Community
College bookstore(Broadway and Pine, across the street from the main
entrance of the college).
Saturday, Dec 4th, Meet at 3pm at the same location.
Bring tape (wide, clear kind is best) and staple guns if you can.

Come to a work party to help make signs and banners for overpass and
roadside advertising: 4pm, this Sunday, December 5th at the meeting
location below. Bring supplies if you can: paints, markers, bed
sheets/banner material, cardboard, poster board, wooden sign stakes,
paintbrushes, staple and staple guns, duct tape, etc.

Join us for weekly promotional tabling/leafleting at Westlake Park (4th
& Pine) on Saturdays from 3-6pm.

Attend a folk music benefit on Wednesday, Jan 5th (likely around
7:30ish--we'll send an updated announcement) at Hugo House, Cafe Stage,
1634 Eleventh Avenue (about a block from Seattle Central Community
College, on the other side of the reservoir)

Come to our next weekly meeting on Sundays at 7pm. We meet at the
Community Service Center at 1609 19th Ave, on the corner of 19th & East
Pine, one block south of Madison in Capitol Hill.

Make a donation to the Not In Our Name Project this holiday season. Your
donations make a huge difference in how widely we can publicize this
event and how many people we can reach with newspaper ads, radio spots,
professionally printed posters and leaflets, etc.

To Donate: go to our website at www.notinourname-seattle.net and donate
through paypal or send us a check made payable to "Media Island
International"
and mailed to NION at 4509 Interlake Ave N #190, Seattle, WA 98103.
Donations are tax-deductible and we'll mail you a receipt.

Thank you so much for your ongoing support. If we could hug each and
every one of you who has sent in a donation, volunteered at an event, or
helped us put up posters, we would!

Sincerely,

Not In Our Name-Seattle
206-322-3813
seattle@notinourname.net