At 10 in the morning, local time, explain why you are walking out of
class and do so. The explanation doesn't need to be complicated or
elaborate - just be something like:
I am walking out of class to show that I am against the war on
Iraq. I want to show our administration and our entire Nation that our
generation is not going to sit idly and watch as our peers are sent
off to war to take the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi
bystanders.
Once you are out of class, the possibilities are endless. Here are
some ideas to get you started:
- Go to a park, or downtown area, and start up conversations with
people, strangers or friends, about war. Ask others what their views
are, be respectful, but don't !
be afraid to share your own views also.
- Make signs with antiwar slogans, get groups together, and
head to an area where there are many people around, hold up the signs and
talk to passersby.
- Print out flyers or make leaflets
and hand them out or put them up on phone posts, etc.
- Do a mass mailing. Bring pencils, pens and paper, stamps, and write
letters to the president or your
local representatives, and flood their mailboxes - remember that these
are people elected to represent you, and your input does matter.
- Block up the phone lines to the white house. If you and your friends
have cell phones, do a mass call to the white house
and clog up their phone lines with calls.
- Go home and get on the Internet, or go to your local library and find
information
on Iraq. Many people don't even know where exactly it i!
s, or how
large of a population Baghdad, for example, has (it is a city
of 5 million people).
- Call your school radio station or write a letter to a local paper
explaining why you participated in the walkout and what you think about
this war.
- Contact local antiwar groups (they exist in every state) and ask what you can do to help their cause.
- Bring flowers to the graves of people
who have died in past wars (Vietnam, World War 2, etc).
- Get a bullhorn or microphone and have a public reading of
facts on Iraq, the Draft, and the US military budget, as
well as anything else you find valuable to share with the public.
- Make silkscreen prints that you can apply to peoples' clothes. Many
people would wear antiwar garb if they had it.
Contact us for information on how to make a screen print.
- Take photographs of others who have parti!
cipated in the walkout. Send them to local papers or straight to the white house.
- Start a petition and circulate it.
- If you are in a capital city, go to the capital building, or go to the town hall or city hall. Picket.
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