Plans for civil disobedience in the event of an attack on Iraq http://www.j-n-v.org/contingency.htm

ARROW - Active Resistance to the Roots of War

Pledge of Resistance - http://www.j-n-v.org/pledge/pledgeletter.htm

OBSTRUCT AND RESIST!
Push For Peace

A Week of Non-violent Action to stop the War

17th – 23rd March At a recent gathering of activists from around the country it was decided to put out a call for the 17th -23rd March to be a national week of non-violent action to stop the war, so obstructing, hindering and resisting George Bush & Tony Blair’s mobilisation for war. The aim of the week is to slow down, halt and embarrass the government’s war machine, as well as targeting those arms and oil companies who are supporting an Iraqi conflict. The week already includes some large scale actions such as the blockades and protests at USAF Fairford and Menwith Hill on Saturday, 22nd of March. We hope others will use their imagination and ingenuity to create similar actions, industrial action, occupations and protests during the rest of the week, especially on the Monday,17th, which kicks off the week, and has been proposed as a mass day of “die in”!!!

Monday 17th March - National “Die In Day” Express to this government and its supporters what a war really does, the suffering, pain and loss. We hope groups and individuals will amass and demonstrate this in city centres, air bases, oil, arms/financial market offices etc, wherever visible. And that this creativity is further expressed through street theatre, image projection on public buildings, adbusting, music, bloodied hands, shrines, wailing women and “symbolic painting”, to capture the sentiment and creativity of the day.

Shutting Down the War Machine

We have already seen some groups begin to target the distribution centres for this war, train depots, air bases and naval ports, but this has been sporadic. We now call on all groups and organisations to maximise the effect of these tactics both locally and regionally during the week, so that we effectively obstruct and halt the transportation of armaments, troops, (by train, road and sea). Similarly, we need to obstruct the leaving of military aircraft and naval ships.

It is not just the MOD, who needs to be reminded of our displeasure, we must also discourage those corporations, especially the arms and oil industry who will most benefit from this war. We ask for blockades, dock invasions, office occupations, mass street parties, raves, boycotts, closing particular petrol stations (esso, BP etc), guerrilla gardening, plowshares/pixieing, hacktivism, adbusting, and disruption of companies’ AGM’s/conferences etc.

International Day of Industrial Action – Friday 21 March has been called ‘a day of workplace solidarity against war by (by Stop the War coalition
in 27 countries) This action is encouraging workplace assemblies and various forms of industrial action. Mass Military base blockades 22nd March

To finish off the week, as we started it, then please support and network on the mass actions which have been called at USAF Fairford and At Menwith Hill for Saturday the 22nd of March. For more details and background information on these actions then contact: Fairford: http://www.cynatech.co.uk/gwi//whats-next.htm and Menwith Hill: http://cndyorks.gn.apc.org/mhs/foil-the-base.htm

‘Obviously, though we call for creativity and imagination for this week, your action should not harm or dehumanize any other person.’ ‘For more information about anti-war actions taking place during the week (and beyond) you may find the following web-sites useful: http://www.j-n-v.org/ (ARROW); www.stopwar.org.uk (Stop the War Coalition);
www.schnews.org (SchNews); http://uk.indymedia.org/ (UK Indymedia).’ And your regional anti-war alliances. www.j-n-v.org/