VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: "Stop the Wars and Occupations:
Bring All the Troops Home Now"

We still need volunteers for the Saturday, September 29 Rally and March "Stop the Wars and Occupations" (event starting at 11 AM). Please write or call if you can do any of these tasks.

Please note in particular we need volunteers to be Peacekeepers / Stage Security!

Please write or call if you can do any of these tasks, and be a part of our effort to bring the message that ending the surge is not enough, we must bring all the troops home now!

........ BETWEEN NOW AND SEPTEMBER 29 (Day of info, below)

------------

PEACEKEEPERS/STAGE SECURITY: (minimum of 50 total needed)
--There will be a training for those who have not done this before on Monday, September 24 at 7 PM at the Portland Mennonite Church SE 35th and Main Just basic nonviolence, de-escalation stuff, but you must attend
a training if you have not before.
There will be another training the day of the event at 9:30 AM on the 29th.
You may also want to come to brush up even if you have done it before.

To volunteer (must be 18 or older) contact Joe Keating at 503-234-2613

------------------

PHONE CALLING:
--Call 15-25 people from PJW's mail list to turn them out

------------------

POSTERING:
Downloadable originals are available on line. URLS are on the Sept 29 main page.

Sites for pickup:

Peace and Justice Works/Portland Alliance office
2807 SE Stark
In the "hutch" on stilts to the left of the front door, stapled to ceiling and door.

Bread and Roses Center
819 N Killingsworth

------------------

SIGNMAKING PARTY:
Details to be announced, contact Freedom Socialist Party at
503-240-4662
for more information

------------------

ENDORSE/COSPONSOR:

--If your organization isn't already on board with the Sept 29 event and would like to be listed as an endorser, let us know. Cosponsors are expected to donate $50 or more. Cosponsors and endorsers may request table space (but you must bring your own) for the "peace fair" at the World Trade Center at the end of the event; endorser table fee is $10-25 sliding scale.

------------------

DONATE:
--If you have a few dollars to send our way it will help cover expenses for this event, send your check to Peace and Justice Works, PO Box 42456, Portland, OR 97242 and mark it "September 29th event " in the memo field.

------------------

..........DAY OF EVENT (SEPT. 29):

SET-UP/CLEAN-UP

....SET-UP march assembly site (9:30 AM at NW Flanders/Park): Need two people or more to help be sure
traffic and pedestrians and arriving folks know where to go.

....CLEAN-UP (2:30 PM-4:00 PM?)--Stay at the end until the Plaza is clean (Overall length of time is probably one hour, exact end of event is unknown)

..PEACEKEEPERS/STAGE SECURITY (9:30 AM to 3 PM):

(see above, contact Joe Keating.
Some folks should stay on security during the rally)

..FUND-RAISERS:
help pass the buckets to make more big rallies possible!
(minimum 25 needed; on-site training required, time/location TBA)

------------------

Thanks
Feel free to write or call with ideas or questions

Dan Handelman
Peace and Justice Works Iraq Affinity Group

Back to top