[Imc-cleveland] Oct 27 - Come to Chicago, Stop the War Now!

[Carl Davidson]

AMERICA WANTS PEACE,
NOT WAR! 

Join us on
Saturday
OCTOBER 27th 
1:30 p.m. Union Park Rally
3:00 p.m. March to Loop
4:00 p.m. Federal Plaza Rally

to call upon our government to: 
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
STOP THE VIOLENCE AT HOME & ABROAD; NO WIDER WARS!
DEFEND OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES & IMMIGRANT RIGHTS! 
FUND HUMAN NEEDS, NOT THE WAR!



Why will we take a stand? 
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor
freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without
plowing up the ground. ...Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never
did and it never will."--Frederick Douglass

Who is going to be there?
People who are in groups like African American Alliance for Peace & Justice,
Iraq Veterans Against the War, Jobs with Justice, Protestants for the Common
Good, Women for Peace, United Electrical Workers Union, Centro Sin
Fronteras, American Friends Service Committee, Code Pink, The Woodlawn
Organization, Teachers for Social Justice, SEIU, Campus Antiwar Network,
Familias Unidas, Christian Peacemakers, NAACP, Alliance for Retired
Americans, Adapt, Coalition of Labor Union Women, Citizen Action, Green
Party, Healthcare for All Illinois, Pax Christi, South Austin Coalition,
United Auto Workers Union, Vets for Peace, Faculty Against War, Women for
Democracy and Fair Elections, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Peace
Action, Potluck Democracy, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, ANSWER, World
Can't Wait, IBEW, Illinois Coalition of Refugee & Immigrant Rights,
Progressive Democrats of America, Students for Social Justice, UNITE-HERE,
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, U.S. Labor Against the War, AWARE,
Chicagoans Against War & Injustice, DSA, Fellowship of Reconciliation, UFPJ,
Women's Action for New Directions, and many, many more INCLUDING innumerable
Ward Organizations, neighborhood groups, interfaith organizations, suburban
groups, school groups, individual churches from all around Chicago AND a
large number of similar groupings from Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan,
Missouri, Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota and Downstate Illinoiis.

How can we participate? 
We're coming as ourselves. If we are union members, we'll wear our union
jackets. If we are businesspeople, we'll wear a suit. If we are hospital
workers, we'll wear our lab coats. We'll carry signs that say whatever we
have to say and identify ourselves however we want to identify ourselves.
Well take trains, buses, and cars (arrival and parking info below under
Details & Tips.) We can endorse as a group, or just show up as an
individual. We can gather our neighbors together and come up with a theme of
our own. 

Details & Tips
Parking information is available on our website (upper left hand corner,
under Resources, click on the appropriate maps.) To find parking places
downtown you can go to www.chicagoparking.com or www.grantparking.com
<http://www.grantparking.com/> . 

Union Park is at 1501 W. Randolph. It borders Lake and Ashland Streets
([plus Washington, Ogden and Randolph). That intersection is served by the
Green Line CTA train.

March distance is 1.7 miles. If you are unable to march, you can take the
Green Line CTA train back downtown along with many others from the rally. 

CTA information is available at www.transitchicago.com
<http://www.transitchicago.com/> . That website includes information about
accessibility and phone numbers you can call to confirm that accessibility
elevators are functioning.

Federal Plaza is downtown at Adams and Dearborn. The plaza is located near
the blue line subway. The event ends at 6:00 p.m.

You could bring water, pocket snacks, a cell phone and the cell phone
numbers of others in your group. Your group might plan a place to meet at
the end of the event in case you are separated. The police do not like it
when you put your signs on poles that could be used as a weapon. Slat wood
(like that used in snow fencing) is fine. 

Endorse the event by contacting us at oct27chicago at gmail.com
<mailto:www.oct27chicago at gmail.com> or call us at 773-384-5799 . A $50-100
contribution is encouraged (more if you can afford it.) Checks should be
made to CAWI/Oct.27 and mailed to 3411 W. Diversey, #3, Chicago, IL 60647. 

Additional information & updates can be found at our website:
www.oct27chicago.com <http://www.oct27chicago.com/> .

SEE YOU THERE!

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