multireligious service that will be held at 9 a.m. at the (Lutheran) Church of the Reformation located at 212 E Capitol Street, NE, Washington D.C. It is being planned by the Network of Spiritual Progressives along with The Shalom Center, the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Pax Christi, and a number of spiritual leaders from a wide range of communities and traditions. The service will focus on song, meditation, and teachings from the various traditions that envision a future based not on war and domination but on the weave of world community. From the service, we will walk together as a community of diverse faiths to the larger United for Peace and Justice rally, which begins at 11am. UFPJ has asked faith leaders to begin this rally and set the tone for the entire event. If you are a member of the clergy or the leader of a religious body, please gather near the stage—look for the "Clergy" signs—to participate in this part of the service. Wear your vestments if you like.

Converge with other amazing women to march in a loud, colorful and rowdy group to the United for Peace and Justice rally on the Mall together. Join Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Eve Ensler, Q'orianka Kilcher, Rhea Perlman, Mimi Kennedy, Congresswomen Lynn Woolsey and Maxine Waters, CODEPINK Co-Founders and leaders of our co-sponsors for a fun and powerful gathering! * Co-sponsored by the National Organization for Women, Eve Ensler and V-Day, Feminist Majority, WAND: Women's Action for New Directions, Feminist Peace Network and WATER: Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual.

Meet at the Navy Memorial, 7th Street and Pennsylvania NW.
http://www.codepink4peace.org/downloads/WomensConvgFlyer.jpg

Meeting up at Busboys and Poets prior to the United for Peace and Justice Protest. Where they will head to the protest together, marching with poems— all are welcome to join them.

Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th Street, NW

On Saturday, we will have a NYSPC contingent in the march. We will be meeting up at the Department of Education at 10:30am. Bring your signs, banners, slogans and chants! Take the Metro Green, Yellow, Orange or Blue lines to L'Efant Plaza. Walk north on 7th St, turn right on Maryland Ave. to the Dept. of Education (1 block). We will leave there at 11:30 to join the march and rally on the mall.

“BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!”: The Iraq Commission has spoken. The President has spoken. Now it’s your turn to speak out on the war in Iraq. With buses coming from more than 30 states, Saturday’s anti-war rally in DC provides a chance to demonstrate the breadth of public opposition to the war in Iraq. Organized labor is shaping up to be the biggest organized contingent in Saturday’s march against the war, reports local organizer Denise Lombard. “We will be at the head of the march with military families and Iraq war veterans organizations against the war in front of us.” Local labor activists will gather at 10:45A at CWA and then march to join the main rally (see On The Line for details). “The weather is predicted to be 45 degrees and sunny!” adds Lombard. “Hang out with friends, get some exercise, and vote with your feet this Saturday to tell Congress: Bring the Troops Home Now!”

Assemble at 10AM, then join hundreds of other groups on the Mall at 11AM for the 'March on Washington' against the Iraq War

**We need a BODY COUNT of who can committ to helping us with PUPPETS!! RSVP:: nbloch(at)igc.org &*we will be meeting up with the Rhythm WOrkers Union and their MOther Drum SHip.

Meeting place: MADISON and 4th, on the Mall side.. 11 am listen for the DRUMS and look for the PUPPETS and STILTERS!

**Dress warm, bring snacks, drinks!! *** We will have a giant Red Devil puppet as well as a Goddess of Insurrection and Resistance! It would be GREAT if you could dress either in Reds/Oranges/Black OR WHites/Yellows/Pale colors. We need more Red/Orange Devil minions !!

Here is a draft call to action about the Demo, with the DEVIL theme explained:: Does D.C. Smell of Sulfur? On January 27, BEAT THE DEVIL with the Arts Bloc contingent of the UFPJ march on Washington!

The Washington Action Group (WAG) is calling on culture workers to join together in all of our diabolical (and anti-diabolic) madness to march in a theatrical bloc that will engage themes of a devilish nature, like: Will the Dems fail the test of satan and betray the anti-war vote that brought them to office? Could it be that Hugo Chavez actually saw the devil in Bush? Does D.C. need an exorcism? How can you beat the devil in YOU? How might the angel of light reveal the true forces behind the war?

WHAT WE WILL PROVIDE:

• 16 foot tall Devil puppet.
• Some minion.
• Stilt walkers.
• A Goddess puppet.

WHAT WE NEED:

• Beats! How else will we 'Beat the Devil'?
• Flames! Let's make the Devil feel a false sense of comfort by wearing fire inspired clothing (red, orange, yellow…) and bringing all the fire performers we know.
• Inventive characters that can play in to this dramatic struggle between good and evil in times of war.

From wikipedia:

The Devil is a title given to the supernatural entity, who, in Christianity, Islam, and certain other faiths, is the most powerful evil entity and the tempter of humankind. God and the Devil are usually portrayed as fighting over the souls of humans, with the Devil seeking to lure people away from God and into hell. The Devil commands a force of lesser evil spirits, commonly known as demons. The Devil is destined to be destroyed at the end of this age, but not before he has led many humans, some say the vast majority, to perdition.

The Devil is commonly associated with heretics, infidels, and other unbelievers.

Student and youth call for mobilization during the Jan. 27 DC march.

Students, youth, and radicals alike:

On January 27th, United for Peace and Justice is organizing a mass demonstration in DC to end the war and bring the troops home. Howard Community College Students for a Democratic Society (HCC-SDS) calls upon all radical youth in the area to unite and ensure that our voice is heard. We believe that direct participation is necessary for a country to label itself a democracy, and this is not something we believe the Democrats will grant us with their new Congress. We must converge on the streets of DC to express our frustration with US global policy.

HCC-SDS is calling upon radical student/youth contingent to assemble at Dupont Circle at 11am on the day of the march.

March in solidarity with students and youth from across the country on Saturday January 27th in D.C. Join the Campus Anti-War Network (CAN), Members of SDS, and World Can't Wait in this Unified Youth and Student contingent.

The meeting place for the unified student and youth contingent will be on the steps of the Smithsonian Institute at 11 AM. It's the red brick building on the mall, next to Hirshorn, and near the Air and Space Museum. The address is 900 Jefferson Drive SW. For a visual representation please see the following link, note that the UFPJ rallying point is on the Mall between 3rd and 7th. The Smithsonian is right across the street, we will all congregate together and then head over to the rally as a strong and unified contingent.
Google Maps

The closest Metro strop is the "Smithsonian" Metro on the blue/orange lines. As you exit the metro you will probably be in the middle of a large demonstration (I believe it has two exists, one drops you off on Independence, the other in the middle of the park), and you can also check the street signs or ask anyone around for directions should you need them.

Iowa for example will be riding the Metro in from Shady Grove and will be getting off at Gallery Place - Chinatown, which drops us off 6 blocks north of the mall on 7th street. Not a bad walk.

http://www.campusantiwar.net
Troops Out Now!
See you in D.C
Chris Schwartz, Coordinating Committee of the Campus Anti-War Network, University of Northern Iowa Students for Social Justice

JOIN EmpowerDC
Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007
11:00 AM – 7th & Constitution Ave., NW

Money for Affordable Housing NOT for WAR!
$378 Billion spent on the war could have built Three million, two hundred, forty seven, nine hundred and forty three units of public housing!

Use the $255 million per day on the war, to abolish hunger, homelessness, and joblessness!

Gather at 11:00 AM at 9th and O Streets, NW (Yellow Line: Mt Vernon Square/Convention Center at 7th and M Sts, or Green Line: Shaw/Howard University at 8th and R Sts) -March at 11:30 AM (1.4 miles) to our gathering point at the UFPJ rally at 4th St. and Constitution, NW (Yellow and Green line: Archives/Navy Memorial stop at 7th and Pennsylvania). You can also join us there.

• US out of the Middle East Now
• End Israeli Apartheid
• Stop US Aid to Israel

Connecticut United for Peace (CTUP), The Coalition for Justice and Accountability (D.C.), and Adalah-NY: The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East are calling for a national contingent to march against the occupation of Iraq, against the occupation of Palestine, against the attacks on Lebanon, against attacks and other aggressions on Iran and Syria, and for justice in all of the Middle East. We need to come together and mobilize in a loud, visible presence that links these attacks and raises our demands for JUSTICE.

This past year saw a massive escalation in the destruction unleashed by the United States and Israel on the Middle East:

• This year marked 655,000 Iraqis and over 3,000 US soldiers killed since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
• More than 600 Palestinians and 1,200 Lebanese killed by Israeli forces.
• A US veto against a United Nations Security Council resolution requiring Israel to cease its attacks.
• Billions of dollars in US aid given to Israel, including an emergency bomb shipment.
• Sanctions against the Palestinian Authority that have impoverished millions of Palestinians, especially in Gaza.

Israel has finally admitted to being the only country in the Middle East with a nuclear arsenal. Moreover, Bush has proposed a major escalation in Iraq and implied possible war on Iran and Syria.

Clearly, Israeli aggression is supported by the US, and is closely tied to the illegal occupation of Iraq and larger U.S. strategies for regional hegemony. The anti-war movement must make these connections apparent if peace and justice is ever to be brought to the region and to the world.

We invite everyone who wants a Middle East free of injustices and oppression to march with us on Jan 27th.

• Connecticut: www.ctunitedforpeace.org, E-Mail - ctunitedforpeace@yahoo.com
• New York: contact Adalah-NY at justiceME@gmail.com, or visit us on the web: www.mideastjustice.org
• Washington, D.C.: The Coalition for Justice and Accountability justice_accountability@yahoo.com, voicemail: (888) 810-6202

TO DOWNLOAD A FLYER PLEASE VISIT: http://tinyurl.com/ybxnsl

BRING SIGNS, FLAGS, AND KEFFIYEH!

Adalah-NY : The Coalition for Justice in the Middle East demands an immediate, unconditional, and permanent end to U.S. and Israeli aggression in the Middle East. The coalition includes: Action Wednesdays Against the War, American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - NY, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign, International Socialist Organization, International Solidarity Movement – NYC, Jews Against the Occupation – NYC, National Council of Arab-Americans – NYC, Network of Arab-American Professionals of NY-PC, Socialist Action, Solidarity, Queens Anti-War Committee, WESPAC Foundation

Stop Global Warming/No More Oil Wars contingent CCC and Other Climate Action Groups to Join D.C. Peace March on January 27th! The Climate Crisis Coalition (CCC), Friends of the Earth (FOE) & Oil Change International (OCI) are spearheading the Stop Global Warming/No More Oil Wars contingent on the January 27, 2007 march on Washington D.C. This march has been organized by United for Peace and Justice, and demands that Congress take immediate action to end the war in Iraq. The location for our stop global warming/no more oil wars contingent has been set. You can download the map for the march by going to http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3499 Participants in this contingents are urged to wear green will be given green armbands. For further information contact: Raya Ariella raya@kyotoandbeyond.org or call 413.243.5665 Ted Glick usajointheworld@igc.org or call 973.338.5398

On Sunday, January 28th, United for Peace and Justice will have an afternoon training for people joining the Congressional Lobby Day on Monday, Jan. 29th.
www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php
At Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School
4301 East West Highway
Metro stop: Bethesda (on the Red Line)
Exit station using the main exit, walk 1/2 block north on Wisconsin, turn right on East

West Highway — the school is on your left in about 2 blocks. The main entrance is in the back of the school.

Note: The school won’t open to us until 9 a.m. Some workshops and organizing sessions are longer than others, so start times are staggered. Room assignments will be posted at the door, and on the UFPJ website. This is a public school, please respect the classroom teachers and leave their classrooms as you find them. There is NO food allowed in the classrooms or theater.

Morning Workshops — 9:10 – 11:55
Lunch – on your own — 12:00 – 12:40; Music in the theater
Lobby Day Training and Meetings — 12:40 – 4:30

Morning Workshops
9:10 – 10:30
“Cut Funding for War” — McGovern Update/PDA check in with Mimi Kennedy, Tom

Hayden, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Steve Cobble, Jeff Cohen, Tim Carpenter

Talking to Your Rep. About Iraq’s Oil, U.S. Contractors and Reconstruction in Iraq.

Antonia Juhasz, visiting scholar, Institute for Policy Studies and author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time

U.S. Weapons of Terror, the Global Proliferation Crisis, and Paths to Peace, An educational workshop, previewing the forthcoming book: Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security? Speakers are contributing authors: Jacqueline Cabasso, Western States Legal Foundation and convener of UFPJ’s Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining

Security working group; Andrew Lichterman, Western States Legal Foundation; and Michael Spies, Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy.

“De-funding the War: Why This Is the Way Forward, And Why Now Is the Time,” a workshop led by Military Families Speak Out, Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace.

10:05 – 10:55
Mobilize for the 40th Anniversary of Israeli Occupation — A massive protest, teach-in and lobby day on June 10-11, 2007. Get yourself and/or your organization involved!. Josh Ruebner, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

Lobbying 101 — Tips for an effective lobbying visit, Peace Action

Ending Oil Wars through a Clean Energy Revolution, a workshop by Ted Glick, U.S. Climate Emergency Council

Immigration, civil liberties and civil rights — building the peace and social justice movement. Lee Siu Hin, National Immigrant Solidarity Network.

10:30 – 11:55
Iraq: an indepth briefing and discussion in preparation for Congressional visits, an opportunity to discuss issues and ask questions. With Rusti Eisenberg, Prof., American

Foreign Policy and Raed Jarrar, Iraq Project Director, Global Exchange

Confronting anti-Arab Racism and Islamophobia. The speakers are Bassam Haddad, a professor at St Joseph’s university and producer of the documentary “Arabs and Terrorism,” and Steven Salaita, author of “Anti Arab Racism in the USA.”

Speaking Authentically and Listening with Compassion, training in Nonviolent Communication, will give us the opportunity to uncover and express our own feelings and needs as well as to listen to others’ expression in a way that will increase the likelihood that everyone’s truth can be heard. Staying rooted in our deepest intention to dialogue, we will role play listening and speaking to lobbyists, exploring how to create social change in the world without falling into enemy images of the people with whom we are in contact. Lynd Morris, Roberta Wall, Inessa Love

Congress: Listen to the Women! In this session, we will focus on how we hold Congress accountable, what are the strategies to influence their vote to end this war, advocate for binding resolutions that could have a very real impact, timetable for withdrawal, and funding issues. Not one single individual in Congress can make this happen; we, the people, need to pressure them to end this and end it NOW. Discussion about investigations on the treatment of women in the military. Workshop by NOW and CodePink.

Investigation – impeachment on the table. With: David Swanson, John Nichols, Antonia

Juhasz, Tim Carpenter

11:00 – 11:55

Israeli Apartheid: Is Jimmy Carter Right? This workshop will examine Israel’s policies toward the Palestinian people-living under military occupation in the West Bank, East

Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip; as second-class citizens of Israel; and as refugees-using an
anti-apartheid frame of reference. Noura Erakat, National Grassroots Organizer/Legal Advocate, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

Cost of War to Local Communities — Building Peace and Economic Justice. This workshop will provide information on the enormous cost of war to communities and your congressional district, and identify strategies and new groups to work with nationally and in your community to bring this war to an end. National Priorities Project and USAction

Iran Update, a workshop by the National Iranian American Council, Shervin Boloorian

3rd Party Alternatives, workshop by Kevin Zeese, Green Party and John Walsh

Strategy and Organizing Sessions

9:10 – 11:55
GI Resistance: a networking and organizing meeting open to all groups and individuals interested in or already working on supporting soldiers who are actively resisting the war in Iraq. Initial convener is Gordon Clark of the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance – please contact him at pledgecoordinator (at) starpower.net for additional
information.”

The Occupation Project: how to Organize Direct Action to Defund the War, Voices for Creative Non-Violence and CodePink, facilitated by Jeff Leys, Rae Abileah, and Jodie Evans

Organizing Civil Disobedience for March 16-19, an organizing session with Declaration of Peace

Lobby Training

12:40 – 2:30
Plenary – in the theater

Speakers include Rep. Maxine Waters, Rep. Tom Andrews, Phyllis Bennis, Shervin

Boloorian, David Swanson, Paul Martin, Gael Murphy, Tim Carpenter, Rusti Eisenberg.

2:40 – 4:30
Meetings by state and congressional district

Meet together with others from your state and congressional district to plan your lobby visits, and to make plans for continued work when you return home.

Noon

CALL TO CACEROLAZO FOR OAXACA ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 28TH!

Oaxaca Solidarity action Sunday,
Jan 28: Gather 12 PM Murrow Park
March 12:30 PM to Mexican Embassy 1911 Penn
Bring pots and pans!

As the people of Mexico continue their struggle for justice, autonomy, and dignity, the United States physically and economically supports violence against the poor.

In DC, we will gather in Murrow Park at 5pm, across from the World Bank (18th and H, NW). The World Bank props up governments that destroy poor and indigenous communities in Oaxaca. At 12:30 we will march to the Mexican Embassy (1911 Pennsylvania Ave, NW) to demand that the Mexican government be held accountable for the atrocities committed in Oaxaca.

Bring pots, pans, drums, loud noisemakers, and your friends for a raucous cacerolazo!

We demand:

• the release of all political prisoners
• the resignation of the Oaxacan governor
• an investigation into all the disappearances
• and that the demands of the APPO be met.

DC-Industrial Workers of the World

LLAMADO A UNA MOVILIZACION PARA EL 28 ENERO EN SOLIDARIDAD AL PUEBLO DE OAXACA!

Mientras el pueblo de Mexico continúa con su lucha por justicia, autónomia y dignidad, los Estados Unidos apoya la violencia en contra de los mas pobres, física y económicamente.

En Washington, D.C., nos vamos a reunir en Murrow Park a las 12:00 PM frente a las oficinas del World Bank (Banco Mundial) 18th y H,NW. El Banco Mundial, es la institución responsable de implementar las políticas que destruyen a las comunidades indígenas en Oaxaca. A las 12:30 marcharemos hacia la embajada mexicana, (que esta localizada en 1911 Pennsylvania, Ave NW) para exigirle al gobierno mexicano que de cuentas de las otrocidades cometidas en el estado de Oaxaca.

Traigamos pucheros, cacerolas, y algo que hacen ruidos fuertes para una manifestacion al estilo "cacerolazo" bien ruidoso.

Exigimos:

• La Libertad de todos los Presos Políticos.
• Salida inmediata del Gobernador Ulises Ruiz
• La presentación inmediáta de todos los desaparecidos.

Apoyamos todas las demandas de la Asamble Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (APPO)