Dear
Friends,
We
are writing to invite you to join with us in a dialogue to discuss how we can
work together, through nonviolent civil resistance, to bring about real change
and bring an end to the war crimes of our government.
Malachy
and Joy have both been engaged in nonviolent civil resistance with the National
Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) since its earliest days in 2002, when
it was known as Iraq Pledge of Resistance. Now we find ourselves at a
juncture and believe that there could be a better way to continue this work.
As
we have thought deeply about this over the last several months, it seems clear
that we need to reach out to broaden our efforts and to work together with a
larger group of people who have the same concerns in engaging in nonviolent
civil resistance against the empire and militarism.
Though
many of us are engaged in local actions throughout the country, we would like
to invite you to come together to discuss with us how we could join together in
a concerted collective effort to confront empire at least once a year at its
heart, in the Washington, DC area.
The
community of good people who we have worked and witnessed with in NCNR over the
last 16 years are truly wonderful and inspiring friends. We’ve experienced so
much, and have grown a lot together. However, the juncture we find ourselves at
today is, it seems, far from 2002 and the violence of empire is more oppressive
today than ever. We think a conversation is needed about how we can all expand
our work. The future of a movement practicing nonviolent civil resistance
is vital to bringing about real change.
We
would like to invite you to enter into a conversation about working together
and organizing for at least one annual mass action of nonviolent civil
resistance in or around Washington, DC confronting the US imperial War
Machine. We are looking at Saturday Sept. 29 or Sunday Sept. 30 in the
Washington, DC area.
**We
want to reduce long and cumbersome email threads. Please do not reply
all, but just send either Malachy or Joy a note stating whether or not you are
interested in this idea and whether you can meet in DC Sept. 29 or 30.
In
peace and resistance,
Joy
and Malachy
Donations can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325
E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD 21218. Ph: 410-323-1607; Email:
mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.net. Go to http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/
"The
master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought
the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while
the subject class has had nothing to gain and everything to lose--especially
their lives." Eugene Victor Debs
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