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For more on student activism,
go to http://grassrootspeace.org/student_activism.html
Press Contact: Lauren
Ciszak – George Washington University- (202) 302-7335 (Cell), Festival of Peace
(202) 242-1722
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WHO: Washington D.C. area students and other antiwar groups in
conjunction with the Campus Antiwar Network’s call for April 5th as
a national day of action
WHAT: A Festival of Peace, www.antiwarnetwork.org
WHERE: The Ellipse
WHEN: April 5th, all day and possibly into the night
Festival of Peace to be organized as a part of C.A.N.’s national day of action
The Campus Antiwar Network
(C.A.N.), a national grassroots student antiwar group founded in January 2003,
called for a national day of action on April 5th. Students from the D.C. area have come
together to plan a Festival of
Peace which will be an all-day celebration held on the Ellipse.
CAN is a group of over 200
antiwar groups from universities, colleges, high schools and middle schools
across the country, which was created in an effort to unify the growing student
peace movement. We recently held a
national conference in Chicago, in which 138 schools came together to plan a
nation-wide student-led day of action on April 5th. Our festival will be held in
conjunction with massive actions in both Chicago and Oakland. To find out more about CAN, please
visit www.antiwarnetwork.org.
The
festival, which will include a host of different groups and a range of
activities, will hopefully be a welcome break from the old, march and rally
style protests that we have all become accustomed to. We wish to bring in as many groups and ideas as possible, so
as to create an atmosphere fit for the celebration of life and peace. We feel that this would portray another
side of the antiwar movement.
Perhaps we do not always need to march and scream to make our point.
Perhaps the best way to work towards peace is to demonstrate it ourselves. We believe that it is imperative that
the peace movement be portrayed as the diverse and multi-faceted movement that
it is. We hope to abolish the
stereotype that we are more about protesting than we are about peace.
Many groups have come
together in support of the student effort to organize and have joined us in
preparing for this event. United
for Peace and Justice, the DC antiwar Network, and the Traprock Peace Center
are just a few of the local and national antiwar groups who will be
participating in our event.
In light of recent
developments, the students feel the need to emphasize that peace is an option,
that a world of mutual respect and peaceful coexistence is not an unfathomable
one. The antiwar movement is not an antimilitary movement or an antigovernment
movement it is simply a peace movement, composed of people who want nothing
more than to see the world finally become a place where every human being is
exempt from the treacheries of war, and we have set out to make it clear that
such a world is possible.
For more on student activism,
go to http://grassrootspeace.org/student_activism.html