[Peace-discuss] report: 9/11 direct action

[Alfred Kagan]

I think a mass turn-in is a creative idea.  If we do this before 
Sept. 1th, I would still advocate doing something of our own on Sept 
11th itself.

At 12:16 PM -0500 7/22/02, Lisa Chason wrote:
>Last night's AWARE meeting at the end broke into three working groups
>(publicity/media/outreach, speaking event, direct action) to make
>preparations for the anniversary of 9/11.
>The direct action working group was attended by Sharyn DuPuy, Andy Assad,
>Robert Dunn, Michael Walcher and Lisa Chason. We realized it would take some
>thinking before we came up with the right idea, and that an activity on Sept
>11 itself might require some solemnity. Perhaps when we hear about some
>mainstream or university-sponsored event taking place that day the best
>thing will be to leaflet there, getting across an alternative perspective.
>
>The most developed direct action idea we came up with focuses on the FBI
>office, as the organizers of last night's meeting had suggested. It is based
>on the new TIPS initiative which is in the news now, so if people like the
>idea perhaps it should be carried out sooner rather than 'keeping' it for
>9/11. Andy is going to research the TIPS program itself -- he thinks it
>allows you to register on the website and then you can turn people in. If
>that's the case then the plan, still vague, would have something to do with
>going en masse to the FBI bldg and turning ourselves in. Say that President
>Bush and his administration say we are either with them or against them. We
>want to admit it -- we are against them. Then make a further farce of the
>program, and gum up the bureaucracy, by turning lots of people in (like the
>neighbor whose flag is drooping...).
>
>Just an idea. Reactions please. We all agreed we would spend the week
>looking into what other people we know in other places are planning to do.
>
>Lisa
>
>Direct Action Working Group:
>Sharyn DuPuy     337-6855    sharynd at HKUSA.com
>Andy Assad        762-6855    assad at monticello.net
>Robert Dunn        359-1241    prorobert8 at hotmail.com
>Michael Walcher  367-0693    solaraycer at yahoo.com
>Lisa Chason          344-6832    jnp at ux6.cso.uiuc.edu
>
>
>
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