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101 Things You Can Do to Stop A War

By the BuzzFlash Readers:

1. Organize a town hall meeting in which the community is invited to speak out.
2. Call your Representatives and tell them you oppose war. (Vivian Phillips, Chapel Hill, NC)
3. Sign the Iraq Pledge of Resistance and join the National Campaign of Civil Disobedience. LINK
4. Write a letter to the editor or op-ed. LINK
5. Initiate anti-war resolutions in your city council or other local organizations. LINK (SE, Dallas, TX, source)
6. Join the "Freedom Flyer" Yahoo Group and distribute their flyers everywhere you can. LINK (Mary P., New Jersey)
7. Voice your opinion on national TV and radio. Call C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" program 4AM PST-7AM EST. They put the call numbers on screen. Keep trying, use your redial button or Email them at journal@c-span.org -- thousands watch every morning (K.N., Baker City, OR)
8. Put a sign in your front yard.
9. Hang a peace banner on your house. (Kathy G.)
10. Make/buy an anti-war banner/flag for your car, similar to the ones used by
    sports fans to display their favorite teams. I was lucky enough to find one
    ready-made by a local artist "Just Say No to War" (Randall Meeks, Charlotte, NC)
11. Use your garage as a billboard
12. Display a peace flag
13. Join a vigil
14. Start a peace group at your church
15. Hang a banner in a public place
16. Participate in a demonstration
17. Wear a button with a message
18. Talk to your neighbors
19. Encourage your church to oppose war
20. Perform a drama or paint a sign
21. Join a march
22. Hold a mock funeral
23. Go to a teach in
24. Read international news
25. Boycott American TV news, and tell them!
26. Strike or walkout
27. Boycott weapons manufacturers
28. Encourage the military to resist
29. Withdraw money from your bank
30. Purchase socially responsible stocks
31. Withhold taxes
32. Slowdown at work
33. Organize a sick in
34. Refuse to legitimize this administration
35. Acts of civil disobedience
36. Thank foreign countries who support peaceful solutions
37. Pay for ads in newspapers
38. Send a check to peace and justice groups
39. Guerilla theater
40. Support antiwar signs on buses
41. Write to the United Nations ([country]@un.int)
42. Support veterans opposed to war
43. Visit alternative news websites
44. Sign online petitions
45. Initiate anti-war resolutions in your town
46. Voice your opinion on c-span
47. Put a sign opposing war in your front yard
48. Put a peace sign on your umbrella using tape or paint
49. Support anti-war elected officials
50. Put an anti-war bumper sticker on your car
51. Drive a car with responsible gas mileage
52. VOTE
53. Make a commitment to PEACE (from Vivian)
54. Read www.wsws.org. Even if you don't like the name of the website or agree with its politics, you won't find more intelligent or thorough analysis elsewhere. If I were a professionally paid right-wing liar I would still read this website daily in order to fully understand what is going on. (Wellen Reiter)
55. Ride your bike instead of driving your gas hog.
56. Buy an electric car; EPA says that 80% of most city dwellers’ driving is short trips around town. NEVs (Neighborhood Electric Vehicles) are perfect for this. Plug them into your garage electrical outlet when not in use. Go ahead and drive your gas guzzler for the other 20% of your driving needs.
57. Buy or build a solar water heater (I’ve done this for 27 years; most I’ve paid has been $100 plus an old electric water heater tank)
58. Hang up your laundry! If every Californian had used a clothesline (a primitive solar/wind clothes drying technique successfully used by your grandparents), the "energy crisis" would never have happened. (Malcolm Drake)
59. Inform co-workers and friends by printing and/or cutting out articles
    relating to anti-war issues and passing them out for them to read.
60. Set up discussion groups with others so you will be able to intelligently
    explain your views, with out spamming with fliers or articles. (If above
    doesn't work) (Justin G., Livonia, MI)
61. Refuse to engage in sex of any sort with any repugnican, no matter
    how much money they offer you. Applies to right-wing stooges
    dressed in Democrat clothing. (gardner p. / Raleigh, NC)
62. Fashion your own anti-war sign, gather a few friends and stand on a prominent street corner in your town for two hours once a week. (Jim B., Memphis, TN.)
63. Support every anti-war organization you can find. Don't worry about how much you can afford. Even the most minimal contribution allows an organization to claim you as a supporter, if not a member, and adds to its political clout. Swell the ranks of those who speak truth to power. (Robert Lipton, Holyoke, Mass)
64. Distribute No War lawn signs throughout your neighborhood. Make a thousand and one lawn signs sprout in you community. (Mark, Chicago, IL)
65. Make a protest sign [like "anything War can do Peace can do better" or "War is good for Nothing"] and hold it up in a public place. http://kciraqtaskforce.org/ (MB, Warrensburg, MO)
66. Fly the UN flag at your home.
67. Host "book club" style parties. Instead of discussing a book, you discuss the war and other urgent political issues. (PM, Michigan)
68. Join http://www.truemajority.org/ and use their system to easily send faxes to congress.
69. If you manage a website, put an anti-war image on it. See: http://www.nowarsign.org/addus.htm.
70. Publicise civilian war casualties on your website. See:
    http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
71. If you have an office with a window that pedestrians can see from the street, face your computer monitor out the window and display changing anti-war slogans (such as body counts) in *big* letters, creating a mini-billboard. (David Flanagan, Bellingham, WA)
72. Inform public about BuzzFlash.
73. Take out ads in the local papers.
74. Put anti-war information on the local access channel.
75. Call your elected officials every day. Get your friends to do the same.
76. Sign petitions: rescinding Iraq resolution: http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?ItemId=14423
77. Vote to Impeach:
    http://votetoimpeach.org/
78. Center for Economic and Social Rights (various petitions) http://www.cesr.org/Emergency%20Response/petitions_on_the_wtc.htm
79. Citizens for Legitimate Government
    http://www.legitgov.org/index.html
80. International Appeal for a French Veto at the Security Council of the UN
    http://veto.ht.st/
81. Participate in Indymedia. Listen to Internet radio.
82. Boycott Action News
    http://www.boycotts.org/
83. Ethical Consumer
    http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/boycotts/boycotts_list.htm
84. Boycotts in Action
    http://members.primary.net/~gmarshal/boycotts.htm (VP, CH, NC)
85. Tell everyone you know, what you know about the unjust action, since most people are getting biased views from television and newspapers.
86. Hand out flyers with the facts, on it i.e.; the manufacturing of evidence, the cost in human life (ours and theirs). the lack of evidence. etc. (Patti D. Youngstown, Ohio)
87. As you encounter any REAL pictures of Iraqi children, copy and forward them in an email to everyone on your list with a slogan ("In September 2001, 15 Saudi Arabian Criminals carried out acts of CRIME against Americans. Why does that make it right to kill these Iraqi Children for oil? Honorable People Arrest and Try Terrorists and their Financiers. Cowards kill children.") Encourage the others to forward them as well. (D.M. Riverhead, NY)
88. Pass on Wendy Tremayne's idea: send your stinky socks to the White House
    in protest. Get friends to send theirs. (dawa)
89. Find a pretty postcard with the name of your town, and send it to the White House with your anti-invasion sentiments: no envelope, fewer security concerns. President George W. Bush, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500. (Jennifer Poole, Willits, CA)
90. Join a peace group in your town or area. If there isn't one, start one. You will be amazed at who wants to join.
91. Write to the embassies of France, Germany, China, and Russia and tell them that as a patriotic American you want them to vote against any new resolution in the UN, and thank them for opposing the war so far. (JC, Ann Arbor, Michigan)
92. Send Bush a bag of rice. LINK (Bob Gaiek, Atlanta)
93. Call and write your local affiliate television and radio news programs to request that you would like to see a more balanced coverage of the anti-war efforts that are happening (across the nation).
94. Call and write your local affiliate television and radio news programs to request that they give equal coverage of the ongoing bipartisian Congressional effort to reject the previous "broad based" powers given to the White House regarding [war] maneuvers due to the terrorist attacks.
95. Organize (national) local efforts in silent protests against the war by initiating "non-purchase" days. In essence, local communities can purposely refuse to buy ANYTHING from ANY businesses within their communities on specific days to showcase what this concentrated effort to war and the expense of it has and will continue to do to our economy. If coinciding national efforts provide enough force, businesses then may realize how much all of this madness is costing (them) and start speaking up more about not going to war. I.E. - without AN an active economy their is no money to support our government's effort.
96. Flood the phone lines of local hard-right radio talk shows with calls against the war. Jamming the lines (via local groups) during a broadcast will work either way. They will either air the "contrary" views or will have to offer "dead" phone air time and a rambling host without a sounding board. Note: to do this effectively, when being "pre-interviewed" before going on air, those calling in will not be able to be completely truthful of the views they wish to discuss on air.
97. Tell your pastor, your preacher, your reverend, etc. at your institution of worship that you are against killing people for oil. Ask others in your congregation to do so too. Have your church(es) as a group sign a "combined" letter and send it to your local, state, and federal representatives. Groups have more say than individuals. (Katherine Hovey, San Francisco, CA)
98. Stay informed.
99. Stay strong.
100. Believe that you can stop this war.
101. Forward this page to everyone you know.

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