[IMC-Editorial] Not In Our Name - October 6
Not In Our Name
info at notinourname.net
Fri Oct 4 17:33:13 PDT 2002
I'm sure you have heard about the October 6 Not In Our Name event in Central
Park. We hope you will cover it on the day and do an article on your front
page this week. You can feel free to use any and all materials on our
website: www.notinourname.net.
The focus is on the Pledge of Resistance.
It's first lines read: We believe that as people living
in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government,
in our names
You can click here for some messages we've received around the country (and
world!) responding to the Not In Our Name project and Pledge of Resistance.
http://www.notinourname.net/quotes.html
On to October 6!
Kayla
NION New York/National Office
www.notinourname.net
The Pledge of Resistance
We believe that as people living
in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government,
in our names
Not in our name
will you wage endless war
there can be no more deaths
no more transfusions of blood for oil
Not in our name
will you invade countries
bomb civilians, kill more children
letting history take its course
over the graves of the nameless
Not in our name
will you erode the very freedoms
you have claimed to fight for
Not by our hands
will we supply weapons and funding
for the annihilation of families
on foreign soil
Not by our mouths
will we let fear silence us
Not by our hearts
will we allow whole peoples
or countries to be deemed evil
Not by our will
and Not in our name
We pledge resistance
We pledge alliance with those
who have come under attack
for voicing opposition to the war
or for their religion or ethnicity
We pledge to make common cause
with the people of the world
to bring about justice,
freedom and peace
Another world is possible
and we pledge to make it real.
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