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The War Stops Here!

The War Stops Here!. An Introduction to Direct Action This workshop will cover: A brief history of direct action movements and events A role-play: direct action planning and execution An open discussion on movement strategy.

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The War Stops Here!

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  1. The War Stops Here! • An Introduction to Direct Action • This workshop will cover: • A brief history of direct action movements and events • A role-play: direct action planning and execution • An open discussion on movement strategy

  2. Sit-down strikers guarding window entrance to Fisher body plant number three. Photo by Sheldon Dick, 1937

  3. Whites pour sugar, ketchup and mustard over the heads of sit-in demonstrators at a restaurant lunch counter in Jackson, Miss., in 1963. (AP photo/Jackson Daily News/Fred Blackwell)

  4. Title: Anti-Vietnam sit-in in front of Sheraton Palace 1968 Creator/Contributor: Bill Young Contributing Institution: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.

  5. The Mayday Tribe, 1971: “If the Government Doesn’t Stop the War, We Will Stop the Government! "We need to be clear that we are not talking about an exercise in martyrdom; we are not talking about negotiated arrests; we are talking about using a tactic to attain an objective." - Mayday Tactical Manual, 1971 "Affinity groups at Mayday were both a tactical approach in terms of the street and also something more, connected to people's linkages to one another." - John Froines, Chicago 7 "There were people just running through the streets, there were cops running after them. Any time you stood still you'd be arrested, so you had to keep moving.“ [Paul Brass] There was more order to the protest chaos than there seemed to be, thanks to the affinity groups and a sophisticated communications system.

  6. Some notable Affinity Group-based Mobilizations since Mayday 1971 • On April 30, 1977, more than 1800 people from 30 states organized by the Clamshell Alliance walked onto the site of a nuclear power plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire; 1414 were arrested and held for 13 days in six New Hampshire national guard armories. The incarceration garnered international media attention and energized the occupiers to go home and work harder. - www.clamshell-tvs.org • On March 17, 1988 the U.S. sent 3,200 troops to Honduras in apparent preparation for an invasion of Nicaragua. The response to this action was massive and largely carried out by the Progressive Student Network. In countless cities government buildings or offices were occupied in sit ins. The demonstrations went on day after day for a week until Reagan announced that the troops would be brought home. A couple months later a leak from the Pentagon indicated that plans to invade Panama were put on the back burner in the wake of the resistance to the invasion of Honduras. • November 30, 1999, the “Battle of Seattle, was a culmination of decades of separate movements coming together to oppose a common enemy, the World Trade Organization. Tens of thousands of environmentalists, organized labor, feminists, radicals, people of color, youth and others shut down the downtown area, causing the WTO’s meetings to collapse.

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  8. Iraq Veterans Against the War / IVAW’s Strategy to End the War 1.) IVAW is organizing on and around military bases to bring this war to an end. IVAW members will be touring the country, visiting military bases and their surrounding communities to recruit new members and inform servicemen and women about their rights. 2.) IVAW is supporting members of the military who resist this war. More and more troops are courageously coming out against the war at great personal risk to themselves and their families. IVAW members will put themselves on the line to protect these service members. 3.) IVAW is spreading the truth about recruiting and military service. IVAW members, including former recruiters, will bring the Truth in Recruiting campaign to recruiting centers and schools around the country to reach out to active duty recruiters and to inform potential recruits about the realities of military service and the Iraq war.

  9. WHAT NEXT?! • Port Militarization Resistance – Mid-Atlantic www.PMRMidAtlantic.org/ • SDS National Convention – To Be Determined • Republican National Convention in the Twin Cities, Minnesota Sept 1-4 www.RNCWelcomingCommittee.org/ • Fall ’08: Day of Direct Action in Hartford?

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