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AnnaLouise Donating Member (189 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-09-08 07:54 AM
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Ways to End the Wars
25,000 Dockworkers strike against arms shipments

http://www.ilaunion.org/
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050108B.shtml
http://uslaboragainstwar.org/article.php?id=15828
If no one moves the bombs, if no one flies the planes,
if no one goes as a sheep to slaughter, there can be no war.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/us/01cnd-port.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Faculty Forces Georgetown University to end Doug Feith's
Contract


An architect of the Iraq War has his contract unrenewed.

Thousands of peace poets' pens
http://poetsagainstthewar.org/

God's firefall of grace ignite all to the courage of
noncooperation with evil


Weekly vigils for peace continue in front of federal buildings
.. faithful sign carriers for 5 years or more

http://www.protest.net


200 WAYS TO END THE WAR AND UNFOLD PEACE


http://indymedia.org
http://www.protest.net
http://www.worldcantwait.org
http://www.internationalanswer.org
http://www.protest.net
http://www.peaceactionwi.org/
http://www.codepink4peace.org/
http://www.ivaw.org
http://www.mfso.org
http://www.afsc.org
http://www.catholicworker.org

1 Fasting for a few hours, 1 day a week, juice or water, or extended times
http://www.mcc.org/peace/fast/


2
Organize an interfaith prayer in at draft boards, the many factories
of Lockheed world's biggest
amrsmonger, whose burning bombs were dropped from Lockheed planes onto Lebanese
babies, offices of GE, the offices of war profiteers, the homes of their executives.
www.publicintegrity.org/pns


3
Disinvest in pension funds or private investments from mutual funds of Morgan Stanley, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Vanguard, Fidelity, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Charles Schwab and other war profiteer and slaughterhouse
invested funds

4 Hire message planes to fly over warmonger
fundraisers pax.protest.net

5 Have pray in vigils outside churches pastored by warmonger nominal Christians such as John Hagee,
Pat Robertson and others who promote war in the name of
the Prince of Peace

6 Jump in the water... call talk radio ,.no matter what you think of the IQ of
the audience or the host
1 866 55 77377
Bill Press billpress.com
BBC World Have Your Say
bbc.co.uk/worldhaveyoursay
NPR 1 800 989 8255
Diane Rehm 1 800 433 8850

7 Boycott the sponsors of war radio and tv and of war newspapers such
as the Meyer owned Washington Post,
the Sulzberger owned New York Times
and Boston Globe, Gannett owned
USA Today, any paper promoting war.
You will be saving trees. Get news
on the web. Sponsors of warjock
radio include
McDonald's, Aetna, Ford

8 It is up to each person's conscience whether or not he renders bombmoney taxes to the invading Caesars in Washington, Ottawa, London, Mexico City
and other governments overtaken by war profiteers.
www.warresisters.org/

One of many San Francisco war resisters
marched with a sign which said
"I haven't paid for a bomb in many years"

The War Resisters' League has
many resources online.

Many of them forego social security
and work under the table rather
than pay taxes which kill children
and bloat war profiteers

9 One who organizes his neighborhood block by block for peace will connect with others. The blocks will merge to become
a mighty river.

10. Visualize peace and the divinity in each unawakened
infanticide bomber. Communicate joy rather than anger.
Smile at strangers, at all.
(We write what we must learn)

11 Avoid personal attacks. Learn the art of conflict resolution.
State the position of those with different positions to their
satisfaction as a communication tool.

12 Join the thousands of cities around the world and 46 towns in US passing peace resolutions
www.ips-dc.org/citiesforpeace/

13 Peace begins with food? Make our dinner plates nonviolent. Meat and fish are the most violent foods, fruit nuts and other plant gifts the least.
http://fruitarians.blogspot.com
http://postpoems.com/cgi-bin/displaypoem.cgi?pid=594129

14 Make our land nonviolent. Stop the war against plants. 52 reasons not to mow
http://stopmowing.blogspot.com

15 Breathe deeply. Meditate for peace.

16 Water thirsty trees.. who will tell other trees through the roots..
Where there is no rain, plant trees. Irrigate them. Water
them daily.. If billions are planted, rain will come back to
a region through the agency of mist evaporated by the trees.

17. Create a vacuum for higher flow by recycling, giving away, throwing away
unneeded objects.

18. Circulate peace links

19. A country in which unions
are organized and not coopted
would have transit workers
refusing to take fares until
the war ended.. etc.

20 Avoid inflammatory speech. Build peacebridges with words. (poster
writes what she must learn)

21. David Krieger: Lose an argument to a loved one.
www.wagingpeace.org

22. Those without family or other constraining influences and heroism blockade planes bound for Israel, trains with weapons for Iraq, or create other acts of civil disobedience and direct action.

23. Horseman suggests:take over the Fox News mikes or tthose of other
chickenhawk warjocks.. Others
suggesting storming the ABC initiated Rush Limbaugh show
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/08/347602.html
(Pray for 500 Mexican women who took over a tv station)

24. Organize against violence in movies, television and video games.
Sony is one marketer of violent video games.

25. Acquaint militaristic members of religious groups with the nonviolence in their scriptures
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthrea...?threadid=96761

26. File lawsuits against war profiteers and their government operatives.

27. Boycott unionbusters linked to war profiteers
(McDonald's, Walmart, FedEx etc.)
www.mcspotlight.org
www.walmartwatch.org

28. End the war on seacreatures.
Eating fishes enables Canadian seal
clubbers.
http://postpoems.com/cgi-bin/displaypoem.cgi?pid=594129

29. Picket BP, Exxon, Shell, Texaco, Arco, Amoco, all of the many residences and newspapers of Rupert Murdoch and other warmonger broadcasters such as CNN, sometimes the CBC, ABC in both
the US and Australia, and the homes of
MP's, senators and congressmen and governors and 'justices', the homes and offices of
media anchors who are puppets of the Pentagon. indymedia.org around the world www.oregongasprices.com

30. Students around the US
have picketed military recruiters.
31. Cairns Australia:
American troop ship protested
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/features/anti-war/
32.
In the ancient spiritual language
of Sanskrit, the word for peace is
shanti. When shanti is repeated,
it becomes Shantish, God who is Peace,
and invokes God's presence.

33. Publicize the victims in every
country Unfortunately the following
link is coopted by war profiteers: http://www.pva.org

34. Listen to antiwar radio
http://www.democracynow.org/

35 http://www.thankyoult.org/
Encourage those who stand up
to the military machine

36 stop the War lawn signs from VotersForPeace.us

37 Show

Robert Greenwald documentary:
The Selling Of Iraq
http://iraqforsale.org/buy.php?track=alternet

38 If you've never been on the
internet, buy a computer for under $500.. or go to your public library..
have a librarian show you how to
get free email and search for forums.
Organize for peace



39 Show children the beautiful
animated movie written by James
Howard Kuntsler and narrated
by Garrison Keillor.. called Johnny
Appleseed.. a biography of the
nonviolent saint



40
Monitor warmongers

Father Mother God You answer
to all names in all paths by which
You are called. End all war and
violence to any being now

41 Training in nonviolence
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
Martin Luther King's letter from
Birmingham jail

42 Zen's link
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/86.html

43. Email those who haven't seen
LooseChange
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...&q=loose+change

Demand tv stations show
http://911tv.org/ videos

44. pickets at the homes of
chickenhawk warjocks and
board members and major stockholders
of media promoting the war

45. Organize phoe campaigns to
House and Senate offices of those
voting war funds.. from their
own constituencies.
202 224 3121

46 Work in the Democratic, Socialist, Green,
Libertarian, and other parties for the election
of peace candidates.

47 Multiply good. Provide a cabin or room
free to the world's travelers..
for overnights or what you will

48. The illegitimate regime in the US
has stolen money from the Social Security funds, the
US Postal System etc. It is better to email than to give
money to the war through purchase of stamps.

The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.
-Albert Einstein-

(put peace messages on cars:
http://peacemonger.org/)
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