Alabama
Auburn: Friday, Oct. 17, 5-6 pm at Toomer's Corner, Third Friday of every month.You can use one of our signs or get some posterboard across the street at J&M Bookstore and make your own. It's that easy! Alliance for Peace and Justice*
California
Altadena: Oct. 17, 7 pm - 9 pm Altadena Public Library 600 E. Mariposa St. Altadena, CA 91001. Altadena Public Library presents "Memoir Night" on October 17, Moratorium Day, featuring four local authors: Tristine Rainer, Paul Krehbiel, Nancy Mehagian, and Ray Elizondo. Krehbiel will recount the 1969 Vietnam Moratorium from his book, and will talk about the Iraq Moratorium today. The authors' books will be on sale.
Berkeley: October 17. East Bay Gray Panthers & Strawberry Creek Lodge Tenants Assoc. Gather on the 4 corners with signs, to sing, chant, hand out ribbons & info, play music and enjoy good cheer. Bring your positive attitudes and determination to end the wars and build the movement to end the wars. 2 - 4 P.M., Corners of University & Acton
Costa Mesa: Sponsored by the Orange County KPFK Support Group, Corner of Bristol & Anton, Costa Mesa, (infront of Scott's Sea Food) Friday 5:00-7:00 PM contact (714) 956-5037. This will be our seven year anniversary of continuos Orange County, Friday afternoon/eveming antiwar protests against war, racism, empire and occupation.
We invite you to join us for a two hour street corner antiwar protest. We are going to have a celebration and invite all of our former comrades, old and new friends to join us with snacks and drinks. The two wars are still going strong while indigent people resist. Mr. Bush has lost the wars and continues to bomb, maim and kill innocent Iraqi, Afghanistani and Pakistanis. A new war was started in Pakistan and threats of a war against Iran are promised while racism, empire and bellicose are rendered shamelessly from Republican and Democratic candidates. How many years will these senseless wars last? When will Palestine be Free?
When will the wars end? "When you want it!" John Lennon
Please join us. We few are still there and welcome your presence on this special day. Bring a treat, a snack or drinks. Bring your children and dogs. We stand up to the Evil Empire seven years later, thousands and thousands of deaths, of bombing and torture. We are still there at Bristol & Anton and we stand proud.
Jackson: Moratorium vigil in Jackson, CA from 5 to 6:30 on the 17th, by Jackson City Hall
Oakland. Shut Down The War Machine! 10/17/08 4 to 6 pm. Intersection of 40th & Telegraph Avenue. Sponsored by Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party. We'll greet evening commuters at this busy intersection near the MacArthur BART station with our signs: "Shut Down the War Machine" and others you may bring. Contact: dkadlecek@igc.org*
Oakland. Tuesday, October 21, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Living Graveyard. Oakland Federal Building anti-war activists join in the "Living Graveyard." Covered with white sheets, participants lie on the city sidewalk, far enough apart to allow for pedestrian and wheelchair traffic. We read the names of the dead of this war, sounding a gong at intervals. This is legal street theater to make visible the reality of the deaths caused by the war, representing the true human cost of the Iraq War -- the U.S. and allied dead and the untold thousands of Iraqis who have died in the conflict. 1301 ClayStreet, Oakland, CA 94612. For information visit http://www.epicalc.org/
Palo Alto: Friday, Oct, 17, 4:30-6 pm, corner of El Camino Real & Embarcadero Road.
Part of the Iraq Moratorium campaign, a monthly series of actions demanding an end to the war. On the third Friday of each month, local peace groups are taking the time to show our President, Congress, and candidates that our troops must be brought home, now! Peninsula Peace and Justice Center will hold a 'Human Billboard' vigil at the busy corner of El Camino Real & Embarcadero Road, holding antiwar signs and banners and encouraging commuters to actively oppose the war. Please join us!For more information on PPJC and this action, call 650-326-8837 or visit http://www.peaceandjustice.org/ . For a list of ongoing local vigils, check out www.peaceandjustice.org/index.php?topic=Vigils . Sign the Iraq Moratorium pledge and get involved with the campaign at http://www.iraqmoratorium.com/ .
Pasadena: Vigil at Recruiting Station October 17, 12 noon - 1 pm. Military Recruiting Office 1661 E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91106. We will protest in front of the Military Recruiting Office with signs opposing the war and occupation, pass out anti-war literature, and urge prospective recruits not to join the military becasue of the military occupation of Iraq.
San Diego County: Ramona Forum and Vets For Peace We will stop the war when people want it so. Every week we protest to change their minds. Join Ramona Forum and Vets For Peace! We have rallies in 8 locations every weekend(click link for locations). 4:30 to 6 PM every Friday in Hillcrest, corner of 6th and University*
San Francisco: Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Peace Vigil, Masonic at Fell in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle. Everyone welcome. One issue focus--end the war in Iraq. Bring the troops home. We will have signs and candles for you, but you are free to also bring your own. We will also have food and music. Sunset will be about 6:15, so please dress warmly. We will continue our vigil every third Friday of the month until the war is over, so if you can't be with us this month, please put next month's vigil (November 21) on your calendar.
San Francisco: Hayes Valley Neighbors for Peace will meet at Hayes Green in San Francisco Friday, October 17, at 5pm as part of the Iraq Moratorium. Cindy Sheehan will be speaking about her bid for Congress. Music will be provided by Mokai. Meet under the banner. Signs are provided but limited. It would be great to see some new messages about the economic crises and the cost of the war(s). I hope to see you!
San Francisco: Iraq Moratorium folks will be handing out "No on V" leaflets ( no return of ROTC programs to the public schools.) We will also be handing out "Yes on U" leaflets. This latter initiative is a policy statement (like the former) and will be on the s.f. ballot nov. 4. It pressures congressional and senate representatives to no longer fund the deploymentof troops to Iraq, but to appove funds only for their return.
San Pedro: San Pedro NPJ and Veterans for Peace sponsor a vigil on Oct. 17, 5-7 pm, at the corner of 1st and Gaffey Sts. This will be our 287th cconsecutive vigil to End the War since the advent of the War and we will continue to meet there every Friday evening until our troops come home. Contact: jaclin1@pacbell.net *
Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Vets for Peace Chapter 54 will sponser an event @ Santa Barbara City College, on the West Campus lawn across from the campus library, on every third Friday of each month during the Fall, 08 and Spring 09 Semesters, from 10am - 3pm.The event will consist of a mock cemetary of the U.S. Military Teen Dead, from the Iraq & Afghanistan conflicts. To date we have information on 299, 18 & 19 year old casualties from both conflicts.The crosses will be set up by volunteers from the local vets for peace chapers and SBCC students. Then passing by students & community members will be asked to place a placard of the photo and information of a teen casualty on the crosses. Information about the cost of war & the immediate withdrawal of troops from both conflicts will be given out.*
Ventura: Sponsored by Peace Coalition of Greater Ventura. Friday, Oct. 17, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., in front of Pacific View Mall, Main St at Mills Rd.*
Connecticut
Norwich: Iraq Moratorium Vigil, October 17, 2008, 4:00pm - 6:00pm. Chelsea Parade, Norwich CT. This area is located in front of Norwich Free Academy (NFA), the green between Washington Street & Broadway. Come join us at a peaceful vigil with like-minded Americans who want an end to the war & a safe return of our service men & women. Wear black, bring signs, or just stand with us in support of an end to war. The Youth Peace Group at NFA and the War Resisters League will also participate in the Iraq Moratorium. We will stand vigil with signs as reminders of our continued occupation from 4-6 PM. We hope to see a larger contingent of Americans who want this war to end and no new war to start. There will be quite the diversity of ages and backgrounds. Come stand at the Iraq Moratorium Vigil on Friday! YOUR SILENCE, YOUR LEGACY!!!
Norwich: FREE MOVIE - "Stealing America: Vote by Vote." October 21, 2008, 5:30pm, Otis Library, Community Room, 261 Main StreetNorwich, CT 06382.
Employing first-person accounts, extensive research and telling clips gleaned from the nightly news, Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated social issue filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman shines a spotlight on the gritty reality of the last decades most egregious incidents of U.S electoral insecurity. For more than 20 years, exit polls accurately predicted U.S. election results. Over the last 10 years, that reliability has progressively disappeared. Whats going on?Stealing America unveils patterns of anomalies at every level of the electoral process. Controversial partnerships perpetuate a secretive environment, as relevant facts and figures remain hidden from view. As a result, most Americans have no real sense of the threat to free and fair elections. As seemingly unrelated pieces of the puzzle come together, a chilling picture emerges of widespread, artfully crafted glitches that, in the final tallies, have the capacity to alter election results. Throughout Stealing America, we hear from voters who experienced a wide range of problems, including those whose votes flipped from one candidate to another and those whose polls didnt have enough machines to serve the number of voters. With November just a bit beyond this viewing, the premier of this DVD is very timely.
Florida
Lutz: Iraq Moratorium in Lutz, sponsored by Veterans For Peace/MoveOn/CodePink. October 17, 2008, 4:30 - 6:00 PM, at the intersection of N US Hwy 41 and Sunset Ln in Lutz. October's "IRAQ MORATORIUM" is THIS FRIDAY. Please come join us as we call out to END THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ! and BRING THE TROOPS HOME! Park in the Winn-Dixie parking lot on the SE corner of the intersection. This is a monthly vigil. We hold signs, wave and give thumbs-up to all the passersby who honk to support ending the occupation and bringing the troops home. This vigil is a reminder of the catastrophic costs of this occupation, most importantly the human lives that are irreplaceable. Won't you join us?
Naples: A group of military veterans and spouses from WWII, Korea, Vietnam and who have sons in Iraq, standing on the corner of Pine Ridge Road and US 41 with signs to stop the War in Iraq. 4:30-5:30 pm, Pine Ridge & US 41*
Pinellas Park: Iraq Moratorium in Pinellas Park, sponsored by members of VFP chapter 119. We meet on the third Friday of the month and join with over 1500 Iraq Moritoriums world wide at the intersection of US 19 and Park Blvd, Pinellas Park, Florida. Ample parking is located at the "Friends of Strays". Join with members of Veterans for Peace who will demonstrate against the Occupation of Iraq and urge folks to VOTE. Gain awareness of the Friday evening rush-hour commuters. Many of them work in the military and the defense industry! Sign on the National Petition for the Reactivation of the US Civilian Conservation Corps (Give our youth and Veterans a shovel to put on their shoulder rather than a rifle!) http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/national-petition-for-the-reactivation-of-the-us-civilian-conservation-corps
Georgia
Brunswick: GlynnPeace: Citizens To End the War In Iraq Friday, October 17, 2008. Brunswick U.S. Post Office(Federal Building) 805 Gloucester Street 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Bring a friend. More info: http://www.glynnpeace.org/
Illinois
Chicago. New Hope United Methodist Church, Peace Vigil at 7 p.m. every Third Friday, 7115 W. Hood, Chicago, 773-775-1215.
Chicago. Art Against War. Monthly Iraq Moratorium event, with music and more protesting the war in Iraq. Featuring the Jesters and some of Chicago's finest young musicians and poets. Heartland Cafe, 7000 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago, $5. Variety of music. Show at 9 p.m.
DeKalb: Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice. Join us for a special Iraq Moratorium Peace Vigil at Memorial Park on the corner of North First Street and Lincoln Highway in downtown DeKalb, Oct. 17, 5 to 6 p.m., Memorial Park, North First Street and Lincoln Hwy.* Contact: Dan Kenney
Oak Park. Peace Vigil. We have prayed, sang, stood in silence, "testified" for Peace on Fridays for more than five years.This is a faith based Vigil but ALL are welcome!! 7 p.m., First United Church of Oak Park, 848 Lake Street.*
Maryland
Takoma Park/Silver Spring: Takoma Moratorium Vigil. October 17, 6-7pm. Our group alternates between the Takoma and Silver Spring Metro stations; we pass out leaflets and hold a vigil from 6-7. This month we will be back at Silver Spring. Bring your own sign or use one of ours.
Massachusetts
Boston: Friday, 17 October 2008, 5 pm, at the corner of Mass Ave. and Boylston St., outside the Berklee College of Music by the Hynes Convention Center T station on the Green Line. Join the Socialist Party and the Stop the Wars Coalition on the third Friday of every month, to establish a De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) where all those who wish can congregate to denigrate and repudiate the war machine and celebrate the movement against war and oppression. DMZ is our contribution to the Iraq Moratorium project, which complements large regional and national demonstrations with regular local actions, helping keep opposition to the war in Iraq alive and agitation against it active. Bring your signs and minds, ready to chalk, talk, play music, paint art, and sing leftist songs with caring and sharing, in unity declaring that we are "chilling against the villins" in this zone to show our independence from the state.
Minnesota
Duluth: Northland Anti-War Coalition. Join us for a one hour picket where we'll be holding signs and handing out leaflets on the corner of College St. and Woodland Ave. near the campus of the University of Minnesota-Duluth.
New Mexico
Santa Fe: Every Friday (since 2002!) We meet at the corner of Cerrillos &St. Francis, noon to 1pm. Santa Fe Vets for Peace.*
Albuquerque: Our Albuquerque event is every Saturday at noon, at Central & Tulane.
Ohio
Tennessee
Sewanee: The Sewanee TN group will host a peace vigil Friday, Oct. 17 at thecorner of Universtiy Ave. and 41A at 4:30 pm.Wisconsin
Chippewa Falls: Saturday, Oct. 18, 11 am Weekly Peace Vigil, in honor of the Iraq Moratorium. At the corner of Bridge and River. Contact Thomas Chisholm, Gaylord Oppegard and others at mailto:lagoclam@aol.com
Green Bay The public is invited to an ecumenical prayer service for peace in Iraq at 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 17, West Side Moravian Church, 1707 S. Oneida St., Green Bay. For more information, contact Rev. Marian Boyle, 499-4433.
Hayward: On Friday, October 17, from 4-6 pm, Peace North and Veterans for Peace Chapter 153 will be holding a Vigil for Peace at the corner of Highways 27 and 63 in downtown Hayward. The vigil is in observance of Iraq Moratorium Day #14. Bring your own sign or use one of ours. Good parking! Good people! All are welcome to attend!!!
Janesville: Rock Valley Fellowship of Reconciliation continues to hold an Iraq Moratorium vigil which is held on the 3rd Friday of every month.The next event will be held on October 17th. Meet at 4 p.m. on the corner of Blackbridge Rd. and Milton Ave. in Janesville. We have signs. Contact: kholcombe8117@charter.net
LaCrosse: We will be meeting (vigil style) the afternoon/evening of the 17th from 5-6 on the corner of 3rd and Cass. Bring peace signs, wear arm bands against the war in Iraq. Contact: napeacefulwarior@yahoo.com
Madison Saturday, Oct. 18, monthly peace vigils at the malls, for the Iraq Moratorium. West Towne mall this month: intersection of Odana Rd and Gammon Rd. The monthly peace vigils are an exciting and invigorating way to express your opposition to the "War on Terrorism." Help us count the honks for peace, over 400 an hour! Brings signs if you have them or borrow ours. Bring the whole family! The next vigil will be at East Towne Mall the third Saturday in November.For more information go to MadPeace.org or call Helena (608) 249-2097 for details.
Manitowoc. Peace Vigil. Lakeshore Peacemakers hold a weekly vigil for peace, and on the Third Friday for the Iraq Moratorium, at 4:30 p.m., 8th Street & Maritime Drive. Contact: huntel@comcast.net
Milwaukee: Peace Action-Wisconsin and Milwaukee Coalition for a Just Peace sponsor a rush hour vigil in the heart of downtown, from 5 to 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 17, at Water Street and Wisconsin Avenue. There are signs, flags, banners, music, pets for peace, leafleting, and interaction with drivers and pedestrians. Join us. Peace Action 414/964-5158 or email IraqMoratorium@wi.rr.com*
Rice Lake: The People for Peace in Rice Lake Wisconsin will be standing for Peace from 4-6 pm, on Friday, October 17th, in observance of Iraq Moratorium Day #14. We'll be at the corner of Knapp and Main streets on the north end of downtown Rice Lake. Bring a sign, a friend, a loved one, and let's continue to show our opposition to this war!
Woodruff: A silent prayer vigil from noon to 1 pm will be held in the small chapel of Holy Family Church, Woodruff. All are welcome to join in this weekly witness for peace. crossings@holycrosssisters.org
Wyoming
Laramie: Stand Up for Peace on the corner of 3rd and Grand every Friday evening, 4:45-5:15, since January 2003. Come join us. Bring a sign or use one of ours.*
Australia
Brisbane: Enogerra Military Base Vigil. Australian soldiers are deployed from the Enoggera barracks to illegal war in Iraq. A team of us holds a vigil near the entrance to our local Army Barracks every Friday-from 4 pm till dusk. This vigil has been going for more than a year.*
