Being a local coordinator can range from spreading the word and encouraging people to come to DC, to arranging
buses, car caravans or rideshares and helping people find housing in DC, to just hosting a sign-making party. Here are some ideas and resources to help you (keep checking back; we'll be posting more): Resources Ideas
- Plan to create and bring symbols of your community's peace majority to display at the mobilization and present to your Representative.
- Does your Representative favor speedy withdrawal from Iraq? You might want to bring cards and letters of support from others in your district, flowers, or even something hokey but sweet like peace-sign cupcakes.
- Is your Representative critical of the war but reluctant to support troop withdrawal? Stubbornly supporting Bush's failed Iraq policies -- or calling for more troops to be sent to Iraq? Make a stronger statement by creating posters or displays that dramatize the cost of the war to your community (using information provided by the National Priorities Project). Bring large photographs of servicepeople from your Congressional district who have been killed in the war. Gather large numbers of cards and letters from people in your community calling on your Representative to bring the troops home now.
- Other ideas for things to bring, no matter where your Representative stands on the war:
images from Iraq, of the destruction wrought by U.S. policies and the suffering of the Iraqi people; copies of anti-war resolutions passed by city councils, school boards, labor unions, houses of worship, or other community institutions in your district; artwork by children in your community representing hopes for peace; big posters showing the strength of antiwar sentiment in your community via polling data; photographs of people, places, or institutions in your community that are hurting because so much money is being spent on the war: the community health clinic that was forced to close; the school that doesn't have adequate books, much less music classes or art supplies; the crumbling infrastructure; the overcrowded, inadequate housing.
If you have other creative ideas we haven't listed here, please send them to lak [at] unitedforpeace.org
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