Anti-War

Events Anti war protest in Melbourne, Australia, 2003 Anti_war is a name that is widely adopted by any social movement or person that seeks to end or oppose a future or current war. ... Peace symbol File links The following pages link to this file: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament User:ContiE Peace symbol Categories: GFDL images ... Cairo Conference Vietnam War Protests Afghanistan War Protests Iraq War Protests delegates attending the conference The Cairo Conference (against U.S. hegemony and war on Iraq and in solidarity with Palestine) generally known simply as Cairo Anti-war Conference is an anti-war and anti-neo-liberalism conference held in Egypt. ... Protests against the Vietnam War started in 1945 when United States Merchant Marine condemned the U.S. government for the use of U.S. merchant ships to transport troops to subjugate the native population of Vietnam. ... In 2001, a number of small protests against the invasion of Afghanistan occurred in various cities and college campuses across the United States and other countries in the first days after the start of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan. ... This article is about protests concerning the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ... Organizations ANSWER Coalition Anti-War Coalition Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Not in Our Name Stop the War Coalition United for Peace and Justice Veterans for Peace Vietnam Veterans Against the War Other anti-war organizations ANSWER banner at the head of an April 12, 2003 anti-war march in Washington DC. A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism)—also known as International ANSWER and ANSWER Coalition and sometimes written as ANSWER—is a radical protest organization established by... The Anti-war Coalition (AWC) is a South African Anti-war Coalition. ... Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament logo In British politics, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been at the forefront of the peace movement in the United Kingdom and claims to be Europes largest single-issue peace campaign. ... The Stop the War Coalition (StWC) (informally just Stop the War) is a UK anti-war group set up on 21 September 2001. ... United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) is a coalition of more than 1,300 international and U.S.-based organizations opposed to what they describe as our governments policy of permanent warfare and empire-building. ... Veterans for Peace is an American organization founded in 1985. ... Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) is a tax-exempt Non-profit organization and corporation, originally created to oppose the Vietnam War. ... In order to facilitate organized opposition to war, anti-war activists have often founded anti-war organizations. ... Media/propaganda Books Films Peace symbol Protest song Chants and slogans An anti-war book is a book that is perceived as having an anti-war theme. ... An anti-war film is a movie that is perceived as having an anti-war theme. ... A peace symbol is a representation or object that has come to symbolize peace. ... A protest song is a song intended to protest perceived problems in society which can include injustice, racial discrimination, war, globalization, inflation, social inequalities and so on. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... General anti-war Anti-imperialism Conscientious objector Monroe Doctrine Pacifism Peace churches Peace movement 2003 Iraq War Vietnam War 2001 Afghanistan War War on Terrorism Anti-imperialism, strictly speaking, is a term that may be applied to any idea or movement opposed to some form of imperialism. ... A conscientious objector is an individual whose personal beliefs are incompatible with military service, perhaps with any role in the armed forces or just with a particular war. ... U.S. President James Monroe. ... Pacifism is opposition to war. ... A peace church is a Christian group in the pacifist tradition. ... This article is in need of attention. ... It has been suggested that Post-September 11 anti-war movement be merged into this article or section. ... Children run down a road near Trang Bang after an ARVN napalm attack on villages suspected of harboring National Liberation Front fighters in this June, 1972 photo by Huynh Cong Ut, which became a symbol of the international movement against U.S. involvement in Vietnam. ... It has been suggested that Post-September 11 anti-war movement be merged into this article or section. ... Criticisms of the War on Terrorism addresses the issues, morals and ethics surrounding the War on Terrorism. Arguments are also made against the phrase itself, calling it a misnomer. ...

Not in Our Name (NION) is a United States organization founded on March 23, 2002, in order to resist the U.S. government's course in the wake of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks. March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years). ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ...

Role in the anti-war movement

In certain ways, the founding of NION parallels that of ANSWER. ANSWER is an anti-imperialist, coalition that was founded on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, largely by members of the Workers World Party (WWP). (Four years later, however, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, an offshoot of WWP, has replaced WWP's influence in ANSWER). NION was founded six months later, largely by members of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), which continues to be prominent among its leadership. In the common law, an answer is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and served upon the plaintiff within a certain strict time limit after a civil complaint or criminal information or indictment has been served upon the defendant. ... Afghanistan is cool. ... Workers World Party (WWP) is a communist party in the United States founded in 1959 by Sam Marcy. ... The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a Marxist-Leninist party founded to promote revolutionary change. ... The Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP, USA), known originally as the Revolutionary Union, is a revolutionary Maoist organization that was formed in 1975. ...

NION has a broad set of endorsers and is generally regarded as a cooperative participant in the broader anti-war movement. Typical among expressions of this sentiment is an October 2002 article by Michael Albert and Stephen R. Shalom in Z magazine. After excoriating the RCP for holding various positions that Albert and Shalom find abhorrent, they then write, "Despite these views, however, RCP does not push its specific positions on NION to the degree that IAC does on ANSWER. For example, while the ANSWER website offers such things as… [an] IAC backgrounder on Afghanistan…, the NION website and its public positions have no connection to the sometimes bizarre views of the RCP." [1] This is reflected in the wide range of signatories to their "Statement of Conscience". Categories: Stub | 1947 births | 20th Century philosophers | U.S. philosophers ... Stephen Rosskamm Shalom is a professor of political science at William Paterson University in New Jersey. ... Z Magazine is an independent monthly magazine focusing on political, cultural, social, and economic life in the United States and considered to be very left-wing. ... The International Action Center is a radical activist group founded by former United States attorney general Ramsey Clark, with the goal of coordinating activism and information opposing domestic and international injustices. The IAC has offices in major cities including New York City, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Boston. ...

Also, NION is itself now a member of a broader coalition United for Peace and Justice, founded in October 2002 (a year after ANSWER) by individuals and groups seeking to curb ANSWER's influence in the antiwar movement. United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) is a coalition of more than 1,300 international and U.S.-based organizations opposed to what they describe as our governments policy of permanent warfare and empire-building. ...

An example of NION's willingness to cooperate came when they postponed their national moratorium against the war to coincide with the March 5, 2003 "Books Not Bombs" student strike called by the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition. In law, a moratorium (from Latin morari, to delay) is a legal authorization postponing for a specified time the payment of debts or obligations. ... March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Antecedents of the Name

Prior to the founding of Not in Our Name, other anti-war groups had used the name, including a group of families who were victims of the 9-11 World Trade Center attach, and Jewish youth protesting Israel's militarism in Palestine. "Not in Our Name" is also a slogan used by the UK Stop the War Coalition The Stop the War Coalition (StWC) (informally just Stop the War) is a UK anti-war group set up on 21 September 2001. ...

Two key documents

Early in their existence, NION produced two documents -- the "Pledge of Resistance" [2] and the "Statement of Conscience" [3] -- that are widely credited with providing focus and expression to the U.S. anti-war movement.

"Pledge of Resistance"

The Pledge is written by Starhawk and Saul Williams, in the style of free verse, beginning: Starhawk (born Miriam Samos in 1951) is a American writer, activist and Witch. ... Photo of artist. ... Free verse (or vers libre) is a style of poetry that is based on cadences that are more irregular than those of traditional poetic meter. ...

We believe that as people living
in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government,
in our names

Not in our name
will you wage endless war

and concluding

Another world is possible
and we pledge to make it real.

The pledge opposes what it characterizes as "endless war", "transfusions of blood for oil", invasions of foreign countries, bombing civilians, and killing children. It goes on, "Not in our name / will you erode the very freedoms / you have claimed to fight for." It implicitly accuses the Bush administration of deeming "whole peoples or countries" as "evil" and pledges, among other things, "...alliance with those/ who have come under attack / for voicing opposition to the war / or for their religion or ethnicity." War is a state of widespread conflict between states, organisations, or relatively large groups of people, which is characterised by the use of lethal violence between combatants or upon civilians. ... Blood transfusion is the taking of blood or blood-based products from one individual and inserting them into the circulatory system of another. ... Red blood cells (erythrocytes) are present in the blood and help carry oxygen to the rest of the cells in the body Blood is a circulating tissue composed of fluid plasma and cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets). ... Oil is a generic term for organic liquids that are not miscible with water. ... A civilian is a person who is not a member of a military. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States. ... Look up Country in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In political geography and international politics a country is a geographical territory. ... ...

"Statement of Conscience"

NION's "Statement of Conscience", drafted in spring 2002, first lists a series of criticisms of the Bush Administration and (secondarily) the U. S. Congress and calls on the people of the U.S. "...to resist the policies and overall political direction that have emerged since September 11, 2001, and which pose grave dangers to the people of the world." Congress in Joint Session. ...

Among the specific principles advocated in the statement are the right of self-determination for peoples and nations and the importance of due process and dissent. The statement expresses "shock" at "the horrific events of September 11, 2001" but, evoking "similar scenes in Baghdad, Panama City, and, a generation ago, Vietnam", describes Iraq as "a country which has no connection to the horror of September 11", and deplores the administration's "spirit of revenge" and the "simplistic script of 'good vs. evil': "In our name, the Bush administration, with near unanimity from Congress, not only attacked Afghanistan but arrogated to itself and its allies the right to rain down military force anywhere and anytime." Self-determination is a principle in international law that a people ought to be able to determine their own governmental forms and structure free from outside influence. ... Due process of law is a legal concept that ensures the government will respect all of a persons legal rights instead of just some or most of those legal rights, when the government deprives a person of life, liberty, or property. ... Average temperature (red) and precipitations (blue) in Baghdad Baghdad (Arabic: , Persian: بغداد prenounced in arabic as Barhdad) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Province. ... Panama City (Spanish: Ciudad de Panamá), population 708,738, is the capital of Panama, located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, at 8°58´N 79°32´W. Panama City is the political, administrative and cultural center of the country. ...

Referring to the U.S. government's treatment of immigrants in the wake of September 11, the statement accuses the U.S. government of creating "two classes of people: those to whom the basic rights of the U.S. legal system are at least promised, and those who now seem to have no rights at all," and evokes "the infamous concentration camps for Japanese-Americans in World War II." A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ... Serving from 1999 to 2003, Army General Eric Shinseki of Hawaii became the first Asian American military chief of staff. ... Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 7 million military deaths World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is accepted as the largest and deadliest...

Protesting "a pall of repression" and referring specifically to the USA PATRIOT Act as emblematic of that repression, it accuses the executive branch of usurping "the roles and functions of the other branches of government," and continues, "We must take the highest officers of the land seriously when they talk of a war that will last a generation and when they speak of a new domestic order. We are confronting a new openly imperial policy towards the world and a domestic policy that manufactures and manipulates fear to curtail rights." President George W. Bush signing the Patriot Act in the White Houses East Room on October 26, 2001. ... ...

NION urges a movement of resistance: "President Bush has declared: 'you’re either with us or against us.' Here is our answer: We refuse to allow you to speak for all the American people... We refuse to be party to these wars and we repudiate any inference that they are being waged in our name or for our welfare..." It indicates as inspiration "...Israeli reservists who, at great personal risk, declare 'there IS a limit' and refuse to serve in the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza", the abolitionists, and "those who defied the Vietnam war" and concludes, "we will resist the machinery of war and repression and rally others to do everything possible to stop it." Refusal to serve in the Israeli military includes both refusal to obey specific orders and refusal to serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in any capacity due to pacifistic views or disagreement with the policies of the Israeli government as implemented by the army. ... The city of Gaza is the principal city in the Gaza Strip. ... This poster depicting the horrific conditions on slave ships was influential in mobilizing public opinion against slavery in the United Kingdom and the United States. ... The Vietnam War or Second Indochina War was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the National Liberation Front (NLF, or Viet Cong) against the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam), and its allies — notably the United States military in support of...

Signatories

NION's web site lists a broad array of signatories to the pledge, listing only those who signed before July 17, 2002. Among those are: July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• James Abourezk, former U.S. Senator
• Dr. Patch Adams
• Robert Altman, film director
• Laurie Anderson, performance artist
• John Perry Barlow, co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Medea Benjamin
• Noam Chomsky
• Deepak Chopra
• Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and founder of ANSWER
• John Cusack, actor
• Angela Davis
• Ossie Davis
• Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine
• Ruby Dee
• Mos Def
• Ani DiFranco
• Diane DiPrima
• Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party
• Bernadine Dohrn
• Michael Eric Dyson
• Steve Earle
• Barbara Ehrenreich
• Daniel Ellsberg
• Brian Eno
• Eve Ensler
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Fifty-three Maryknoll priests and brothers
• Jane Fonda
• Michael Franti of Spearhead
• Terry Gilliam
• The Guerrilla Girls
• Tom Hayden
• bell hooks
• Rev. Jesse Jackson
• Mumia Abu-Jamal
• Fredric Jameson
• Jim Jarmusch
• Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback
• Casey Kasem
• Barbara Kingsolver
• Yuri Kochiyama
• Tony Kushner
• Spike Lee
• Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun
• Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead
• Jim McDermott, U.S. representative
• Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. representative
• David McReynolds
• W.S. Merwin
• Toni Morrison
• Walter Mosley
• Odetta
• Claes Oldenburg
• Ozomatli
• Grace Paley
• Michael Parenti
• Harold Prince
• Bonnie Raitt
• Adrienne Rich
• Edward Said
• Luc Sante
• Susan Sarandon
• John Sayles
• Pete and Toshi Seeger
• Frank Serpico
• Richard Serra
• Rev. Al Sharpton
• Wallace Shawn
• Martin Sheen
• Russell Simmons
• Art Spiegelman
• Gloria Steinem
• Oliver Stone
• William & Rose Styron
• Studs Terkel
• Gore Vidal
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Alice Walker
• Wavy Gravy
• Cornel West
• Howard Zinn

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2005 Statement of Conscience

NION issued an updated Statement of Conscience in January 2005, expressing dissent on the occasion of the re-inauguration of George W. Bush as president of the United States. [4] Among the signatories is the abovementioned Michael Albert. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States. ... The President of the United States (unofficially abbreviated “POTUS”) is the head of state of the United States. ...

Slogans

The group uses the following phrases in its rhetoric: Rhetoric (from Greek ρήτωρ, rhêtôr, orator) is one of the three original liberal arts or trivium (the other members are dialectic and grammar) in Western culture. ...

• Not by our will
• Not in our name
• Not by our hearts
• I Say NO to the Bush Agenda
• No War On the World
• No Police State Restrictions
• No Round-ups and Detentions

External link

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