Some of these details are still evolving and therefore some of what is below is subject to change. We will update the website regularly as coordination and planning continues through various meetings and spokescouncil processes.
Blockade the IRS at 8 am with War Resisters League, CODEPINK and friends at 12th and Constitution Ave. Help expose the real cost of war by shutting down the IRS first thing in the morning and making a clear statement to stop FUNDING war! Click here for more info. Email nycwrl@att.net to get involved with this action
Disrupt the War Profiteers with No War, No Warming, PeaceAction, Student Peace Action Network (SPAN), Campus Anti-War Network, and a whole host of student groups who are planning a variety of creative actions using nonviolent civil disobedience, mobile teams and delegations to offices in the K St. Corridor.
Self-Guided Monopoly Board Walking Tour will provide opportunities to creatively communicate with the War Profiteers in the K St. Corridor Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, Halliburton, Lockheed Martin, Bechtel, the IMF/World Bank, the American Enterprise Institute, and lobbyists and lawyers for many, many more!
Separate Oil and State at the American Petroleum Institute in the early morning with No War, No Warming. Help create a People's Green Zone in front the American Petroleum Institute. Big Oil pours millions into political campaigns and lobbying, helped get us into Iraq, is keeping us there in a planned long-term occupation and is obstructing the shift to a clean energy economy. Our Green Zone will highlight our opposition but also our commitment to building a future built upon wind, solar and other urgently-needed clean energy sources. Nonviolent civil disobedience, street theatre, creative props and leafleting and more! Click here for more info. Email info@nowarnowarming.org to get involved with this actions.
Veterans March for Peace will gather on the Mall at 7th Street at 9 AM. They will begin their march around 10 am and proceed to the American Indian Museum, several sites on Capitol Hill, the National Archives, Justice department and more, culminating with creative acts of civil resistance at the White House and Veterans Administration. Click here for more info and the call to action. Email tkauff@hvc.rr.com to get involved in this action.
Critical Mass: Kick the Oil Addiction that Fuels the War. We will ride around the city focusing on specific areas that support the war as well as riding by other actions to show our solidarity. We will meet in Dupont Circle at 5:30 pm and leave around 6pm. Please come with costumes or signs about no oil.
Granny Peace Brigade Knit-In: The Grannies will as they knit stump socks for soldiers returning from Iraq & Afghanistan with amputated limbs to draw attention to this virtual epidemic among Iraq veterans.and the lack of care provided our veterans.
Funk the War: Student Power Dance Party Against Empire with Students for a Democratic Society, Baltimore Algebra Project, and Our Spring Break in a dance party in the streets, touring the war profiteers, recruiters and media sites in the K St corridor. Click here for more info. Email jaberger1213@gmail.com to get involved.
March of the Dead with Activist Response Team (A.R.T.) and other activists who join us will imagine what would happen if the dead, civilian and military, return to enter Washington to seek justice for the crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan because of U.S. foreign policy. In death masks, all in black, some wearing the name of someone killed, others with statistics measuring the scale of the tragedy, we will proceed through the city in small groups riding the metro, walking the streets and haunting the periphery of the other actions. We will then converge at a given time all-together to make the long march for justice with stops at the State Department, Justice Department and Supreme Court culminating with acts of civil resistance. We want to make this a very powerful presence so we are encouraging large numbers of people to join us. Contact: arrestbush@gmail.com if you are interested in participating in this action.
End Torture - Drive the War Criminals from Office! Join World Can't Wait in acts of civil resistance. Gather in LafayettePark at 1:30 pm in an action against torture. Join with people in a sea of orange jumpsuits in solidarity with and representing those that are being tortured in Guantanamo Bay Prison, Abu Ghraib, Bagram in Afghanistan, and CIA "black sites" around the globe. A demonstration showing that waterboarding is torture is planned directly in front of the residence of the biggest war criminal in history. For more info, go to worldcantwait.org. Contact dc@worldcantwait.org to get involved with this action.
Die In at the CAT office on K St. Meet at 12:30 at 1445 K St. Demonstrate your opposition to U.S. foreign policy in Gaza and highlight the connections between the occupations of Iraq & Palestine. Organized by the Coalition for Justice & Accountability. Email oelmasri@gmail.com to get involved in this action.
The Silenced Majority Speaks: Through a number of permitted sites including McPherson Square (15 & K Streets NW), Lafayette Park, Farragut West and other areas around the Capitol, as well as organized marches and creative affinity groups activities people express their desire for true democracy, liberation and justice. We will call for respect of our basic political freedoms and rights while we show our disdain for the state of our union.
Surprise Media Actions! Depending on coverage earlier in the day will help determine our afternoon actions! The media has continued to stand by our warmongering president and Congress by refusing to conduct proper investigative reporting, withholding information, and giving scant coverage to voices opposed to the war. If they don't come to us, we will go to them. Check in at the Public Assembly in McPherson Sq.
March on the DNC Headquarters! Gather at Reflecting Pool on the West side of the Capitol at 5:00 PM and march with pots and pans in a cacophony of resistance to the Democratic National Committee Headquarters. We want the Democrats to know~~-we hold them accountable for the death, destruction and lies, what kind of change and experience we want and that we will continue to take action and intervene in their business until our call for peace is honored and all of our troops come home. Email dc@5yearstoomany.org for more info.
NEW UPDATE! We have mass housing available Sunday, March 16th through Wednesday, March 19th. If you need housing, please contact Leslie Harris at jharris866@aol.com
Legal Info on Demonstrations & Civil Disobedience in DC- click here for the most common charges you can expect, how the system works, info for high risk groups, and intro to solidarity, and basic DC demonstration laws.
Permitted Areas
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There will be a permitted convergence site at McPherson Square, (15th and K St.) all day. Set-up will begin at 7:00 AM. There will be information, schedules, maps, food, medical and legal support and more.
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You can get up to the date information through out the day as well as orientation and mini-trainings. There will be opportunities for performance, speak-out, poetry and more throughout the day.
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Public Assemblies will also be held, most likely at at 11 AM and 2 PM to brief everyone on action happenings and plans for what is ahead!
Training Info
All trainings and meetings on March 16th - 18th will be held at the Warehouse Theater, 1017 7th St NW - click here for directions.
March 16th
Warehouse Theater Convergence Space hours: 5pm-9pm
5-6pm - Legal Observer Training
5:30pm - Dinner at the Warehouse Theater
7pm - Spokescouncil Meeting
March 17th
Warehouse Theater Convergence Space hours: 10am - 10pm
1pm - 4:30pm - Action Training, including Nonviolent Direct Action, Blockades, Mobile Tactics, Know Your Rights, and basic health & safety
6pm - 9pm - Action Training, including Nonviolent Direct Action, Blockades, Mobile Tactics, Know Your Rights, and basic health & safety
7pm - Action Orientation & Volunteer Meeting
8pm - 10pm - Cluster/Affinity Group meetings
8pm - Student Spokescouncil
March 18th
Warehouse Theater Convergence Space hours: 10am - 11pm
Noon - 3pm - Action Training, including Nonviolent Direct Action, Blockades, Mobile Tactics, Know Your Rights, and basic health & safety
5pm - Sound the Alarm at Union Station
6pm - Dinner at the Warehouse Theater
7pm - 10pm - Final Spokescouncil Meeting
Other Important Info
