Post by flyby on Sept 1, 2004 14:36:34 GMT -5
Join the City of New York in Delivering a Huge, Unmistakable NO!! To the Bush Agenda!!
R&R! Was a Co-sponsor at the August 28th Planned Parenthood March for Womenâ?Ts Lives
August 29th: No to Bush and All He Stands For
National Lawyers Guild Issues New Report Called 'The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent'
from: Refuse & Resist! E-News & Alerts.
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1) Join the City of New York in Delivering a Huge, Unmistakable NO!! To the Bush Agenda!!
This past Sunday, 750,000 people flowed past Madison Square Garden, and many thousand turned up in Central Park, in spite of police harassment and a denial of a rally permit. The mood was defiant and celebratory.
Thursday, Bush is coming to NYC to be crowned the Republican nominee. We have an enormous opportunity to ride this wave of momentum to continue delivering a huge NO to Bush and the entire Republican agenda. People are looking for a way to act together, and we must flood the city with NO, to show the world that Bush and the Republicans are most unwelcome in New York City.
This week culminates with Bushâ?Ts speech on Thursday night. We must continue resisting in these next two days, we must create a NO that spreads far and wide; that reaches way beyond the movement, to all the thousands who are so disgusted by the Republicans and all they represent.
Everywhere you look, on tens of thousands of T-Shirts, on stickers, posters, hanging from banners and written on walls, in many different and creative ways, must be the simple and defiant word NO! Some had the opportunity to protest in the streets. For those, and for the millions who were not in the streets, but were affected and inspired by the massive rejection of the Bush agenda seen on Sunday, we suggest:
Wear a T-Shirt with the word NO. Buy one, or make your own.
Hang a poster in your window
Chalk NO on the streets
Write NO on your rooftop
Organize your neighborhood to shout NO! at 8 pm when Bush will deliver his "coronation speech"
Participate in one of the many protest events organized for that day.
Dream up your own creative, visual piece of resistance using the word NO and let us know!!
For more information on this effort, contact:
The Not in Our Name Project at (212) 760-1722
Email: info@notinourname.net
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2) R&R! Was a Co-sponsor at the August 28th Planned Parenthood March for Womenâ?Ts Lives
Refuse & Resist! marched with over 25,000 people for Womenâ?Ts Lives across the Brooklyn Bridge to the door steps of City Hall speaking out against the assaults on reproductive freedom. Amanda from Hampshire College spoke for R&R! about her abortion and why women need the right to choose.
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3) August 29th: No to Bush and All He Stands For
There were hundreds of thousands of us: you couldnâ?Tt see the front and you couldnâ?Tt see the end! People spilled over the barricades onto the sidewalks. It was like wall to wall people. People were chanting. People were drumming. People were rocking. People were joyous. People were saying No to Bush and all he stands for!
There were signs hanging down from windows. Banners draped over windows.
In spite of the judgeâ?Ts decision to deny the permit to Central Park; the NY Postâ?Ts screaming headlines about the NYPD tracking extremist groups (Refuse & Resist!, International A.N.S.W.E.R. [Act Now to Stop War and End Racism] and 3 other organizations); the FBI interrogating activists around the country about the DNC and the RNC; headlines about possible â?oterrorist actsâ?, thousands of police on the streets, in the subways, police drills around the city: in the face of all this hundreds of thousands took the streets of NYC and over 10,000 were in Central Park!
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4) National Lawyers Guild Issues New Report Called 'The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent'
National Lawyers Guild has issued a new report called 'The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent' about the violations of first amendment rights in the US.
www.nlg.org/resources/DissentBookWeb.pdf
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R&R! Was a Co-sponsor at the August 28th Planned Parenthood March for Womenâ?Ts Lives
August 29th: No to Bush and All He Stands For
National Lawyers Guild Issues New Report Called 'The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent'
from: Refuse & Resist! E-News & Alerts.
------------------------------------------------------------
1) Join the City of New York in Delivering a Huge, Unmistakable NO!! To the Bush Agenda!!
This past Sunday, 750,000 people flowed past Madison Square Garden, and many thousand turned up in Central Park, in spite of police harassment and a denial of a rally permit. The mood was defiant and celebratory.
Thursday, Bush is coming to NYC to be crowned the Republican nominee. We have an enormous opportunity to ride this wave of momentum to continue delivering a huge NO to Bush and the entire Republican agenda. People are looking for a way to act together, and we must flood the city with NO, to show the world that Bush and the Republicans are most unwelcome in New York City.
This week culminates with Bushâ?Ts speech on Thursday night. We must continue resisting in these next two days, we must create a NO that spreads far and wide; that reaches way beyond the movement, to all the thousands who are so disgusted by the Republicans and all they represent.
Everywhere you look, on tens of thousands of T-Shirts, on stickers, posters, hanging from banners and written on walls, in many different and creative ways, must be the simple and defiant word NO! Some had the opportunity to protest in the streets. For those, and for the millions who were not in the streets, but were affected and inspired by the massive rejection of the Bush agenda seen on Sunday, we suggest:
Wear a T-Shirt with the word NO. Buy one, or make your own.
Hang a poster in your window
Chalk NO on the streets
Write NO on your rooftop
Organize your neighborhood to shout NO! at 8 pm when Bush will deliver his "coronation speech"
Participate in one of the many protest events organized for that day.
Dream up your own creative, visual piece of resistance using the word NO and let us know!!
For more information on this effort, contact:
The Not in Our Name Project at (212) 760-1722
Email: info@notinourname.net
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2) R&R! Was a Co-sponsor at the August 28th Planned Parenthood March for Womenâ?Ts Lives
Refuse & Resist! marched with over 25,000 people for Womenâ?Ts Lives across the Brooklyn Bridge to the door steps of City Hall speaking out against the assaults on reproductive freedom. Amanda from Hampshire College spoke for R&R! about her abortion and why women need the right to choose.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3) August 29th: No to Bush and All He Stands For
There were hundreds of thousands of us: you couldnâ?Tt see the front and you couldnâ?Tt see the end! People spilled over the barricades onto the sidewalks. It was like wall to wall people. People were chanting. People were drumming. People were rocking. People were joyous. People were saying No to Bush and all he stands for!
There were signs hanging down from windows. Banners draped over windows.
In spite of the judgeâ?Ts decision to deny the permit to Central Park; the NY Postâ?Ts screaming headlines about the NYPD tracking extremist groups (Refuse & Resist!, International A.N.S.W.E.R. [Act Now to Stop War and End Racism] and 3 other organizations); the FBI interrogating activists around the country about the DNC and the RNC; headlines about possible â?oterrorist actsâ?, thousands of police on the streets, in the subways, police drills around the city: in the face of all this hundreds of thousands took the streets of NYC and over 10,000 were in Central Park!
-------------------------------------------------------------
4) National Lawyers Guild Issues New Report Called 'The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent'
National Lawyers Guild has issued a new report called 'The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent' about the violations of first amendment rights in the US.
www.nlg.org/resources/DissentBookWeb.pdf
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Phone: 212-713-5657
email: info@refuseandresist.org