Press Release February 14th 2003
ARROW/ Voices in the Wilderness UK/ The D10 Group
Call 0845 458 2564/ 0794 7839992

AFTER THE MARCH- Mass sit down

Anti war activists are planning a mass sit down after the February 15th anti
war march. Activists will gather in Green Park at
5pm and make their way to Piccadilly (1), following giant love hearts, where
they will sit down, risking arrest for highway obstruction.

ARROW, Voices in the Wilderness UK and the D1O group, organisers of the
sit-down, which is supported by CND and Women in Black expect several
thousand to join the sit-down after the march.

Milan Rai of ARROW said, "Lots of people who were coming to London for this
huge march asked us to help organise a mass act of civil disobedience after
the march. People's lives in Iraq depend on how great we can make the
political costs of war. One way of increasing the political cost is by
escalating protest into resistance, into nonviolent civil disobedience."

"We believe that civil disobedience and nonviolent action are powerful tools
that we can use to resist an illegal and immoral war.
We believe this war is wrong whether the UN Security Council authorises it
or not"

Look out for the love hearts after the march!
See www.j-n-v.org for more details
Call ARROW/ Voices on 0845 458 2564/ 0794 7839992

Notes for editor
(1) The exact time and location of the sitdown depends on where the march
has got to by 5pm. If, as is now expected the march continues to pass
through Piccadilly until after dark the sitdown will happen at another
central London venue.
(2) The march, which is expected to be the largest ever anti war march in
Britain, will finish at Hyde Park. Organisers CND, the Stop the War
Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain expect the march to be the
largest anti war demonstration ever. Anti war actions will happend in 500
other cities around the world this weekend.
sign the pledge of resistance to the "war on terrorism"
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