This is what I'll be doing on March 5 -- no anthropology class!
As the Not In Our Name folks write:
On March 5...Posted by the wily filipino at February 25, 2003 09:51 PM* You could call in sick (sick of war, sick of militarism?)
* You could close your business.
* Professors could cancel classes.
* Students could plan citywide high school walkouts and other campus actions, joining with student strikes being organized across the country.
* City councils and county boards that have passed resolutions against the war could mark the day with town hall meetings, teach-ins or other ways.
* Unions that have passed anti-war resolutions could call job actions.
* You could stand for peace at the nearest post office or government building.
* You could begin a campaign of bold letters to legislators, the president and his secretaries.
* You could establish "no war zones" with signs and banners at strategic intersections (as they are doing in Atlanta).
* You could hang banners from major overpasses (as they are doing in Chicago).
* You could bring your protest to a military facility, with acts of civil disobedience "supporting" the soldiers by attempting to stop the U.S. military machine from sending them off to war.
* Houses of worship could call for special services that day; could call their congregations to protest at military recruiting offices or elsewhere; could open their doors to conscientious objectors.
* You could engage in nonviolent direct action at appropriate locations.
* You could begin a dialogue on how to bring about a peaceful and just world.
* Afternoon or evening convergences could bring together everyone who’s acted earlier in the day to voice opposition in the streets and at community gatherings.