Charlottesville CodePINK: Women for Peace

Join Charlottesville CodePINK and coalition groups on Friday July 18 and Monday July 21 to Oppose an Attack on Iran

!STOP THE NEXT WAR NOW! Charlottesville CodePINK is joining in coalition with other local peace groups this Friday and Monday to participate in a nationwide call to action opposing an attack on Iran.

Friday, July 18th
Street Theater and Petitioning
Starting at 6 p.m., meet at the Freedom of Expression Wall on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall. Street Theater Parade begins after 7 p.m.

This Friday evening, join visitors to Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall during the free Fridays After Five concert to see giant puppets on stilts, posters and banners, hundreds of people wearing free “Don’t Attack Iran” stickers, and dozens of people collecting signatures on a petition to urge Charlottesville City Council to take a position against the United States attacking Iran. Please meet us near the Freedom of Expression Wall at any time from 6 p.m. on. Please, if you can, bring signs and posters opposing an attack on Iran.

We need all Citizens of Charlottesville to join in and sign a petition to urge our Charlottesville City Council to become a City of Peace with Iran and pass a Resolution Against Attacking Iran.

We will present the resolution and signatures to Charlottesville City Council on August 4, 2008.

Here’s the resolution we’ll be urging City Council to pass:
http://charlottesvillepeace.org/iranresolution

Here’s a blank petition form you can print in order to collect your own signatures:
http://charlottesvillepeace.org/files/iranpetition.pdf

Read “No More Walls: I Want My Country Back” by Farzaneh Milani, professor of Persian literature and women studies at the University of Virginia. Published in the Charlottesville Daily Progress on May 06, 2007.

Monday, July 21st
Forum: Alternatives to Attacking Iran, with Helena Cobban and Carah Ong
7 p.m. at the County Office Building

Helena Cobban, who for 17 years was a columnist on global affairs for The Christian Science Monitor, is the author of the newly-published citizen’s handbook “Re-engage! America and World After Bush” (copies of which will be available at the event). She is a member of Charlottesville Friends Meeting (Quakers) and last visited Iran in December 2004. Helena blogs at JustWorldNews.org; two of her recent articles include Iran: Israeli muscle-flexing, US vulnerability and ElBaradei, Powell, and the key role of legitimacy.

Carah Ong is the Iran Policy Analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation where her work focuses on Iran and the greater Middle East. She most recently visited Iran in February and March 2008. She currently serves on the National Advisory Board of the Alsos Digital Library on Nuclear Issues at Washington and Lee University and is a consultant to the Peace and Security Funders Group, based in Charlottesville. In Fall 2008, Ong will be a graduate student in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. She blogs at IranNuclearWatch.blogspot.com and has written several articles for the Center website, see Time for a Diplomatic Surge with Iran and Iran Sanctions Bill Could Undermine Diplomacy.

The Albemarle County Office Building is located at the intersection of McIntire Road and Preston Avenue in downtown Charlottesville, Va., at 401 McIntire Road.

For flyers and more information go to: CharlottesvillePeace.org

These actions are part of a national effort organized by IraqMoratorium.org and UnitedforPeace.org.

The coalition of peace groups sponsoring these local Friday and Monday actions are: Batesville Action Coalition, Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice (CCPJ), Charlottesville CodePINK: Women for Peace, DontAttackIran.org, Little Flower Catholic Worker, and the People United.