Starting Date: 01-20-2005
Starting Time: 4:00pm
W. Burnside And Park
Portland, Oregon 97213
United StatesA CALL TO ACTION
Despite our best efforts, somehow we find ourselves having to bear four more years of the Bush administration. Our country will again be used as a tool to wage war and environmental destruction. Racism, sexism, poverty, education, oil dependencey, unemployment, health care and the hundreds of other issues that many of us care about deeply will again be pushed aside. It's enough to make anyone curl up in a ball and watch television, hoping it will all go away.
That's what the Bush administration is counting on.
It's time to come out of our disappointment, anger and despair. It's time to come out of our homes. Now more than ever, we need to remember that we are still here. We are still working to create the world in which we want to live. We need to look at each other, express our terror and fear for the future and find ways to remember what we are fighting for. We need to send the message loud and clear that we will not go away and we will not give up. Now is the time to exercise our civil liberties and show our dissent.
On Thursday, January 20, 2005, George W. Bush will be inaugurated as president of the United States. For the millions of us who believe in peace and justice, it is a perfect time to renew our commitment to resist this administration and its deadly policies of war and greed. We will not give Bush a mandate and we will not support his destructive agenda.
For us, this day will not be business as usual. We will join millions of other protesters all over the world in the streets of Portland to let Bush, the media and each other know that we are still here. There are more of us than we can possibly imagine. We will not cooperate silently.
Please join us for a protest march beginning at 4pm. We will meet at Portland's North Park blocks downtown, W Burnside and Park St, and march to several locations including the Oregonian, the Forest Service Headquarters, and the FBI building. Please bring signs, costumes, banners, puppets, drums and your voices. There will also be various activities after the march sponsored by other peace and justice groups. There will be two art parties on the weekend prior to the action at the Cascadia Rising Infoshop on 16th and Clinton, Saturday Jan 15th from 11am-4pm and Sunday Jan 16th from 12-6pm. Please bring paper, cardboard tubes, paint, markers and other art supplies to use and donate.
We're aware that one day of protest will not change the world. Please come ready to network with your projects and groups or with a curiousity about what other people are involved in. Let's show Bush and Co. that our movement is energized, mobilized and determined. Let's connect with each other, knowing that we can't put our allies through too fine a sieve in times like these. We are still here, working to create our visions. Above all, let us demonstrate that this is just the beginning. Geographical Scope: Metro Protest |
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