Call to Action: Return to the Scene of the nonCrime

Return with us, to the scene of the nonCrime!
(where the CA National Guard and the DOD spied on us on Mother's Day)


Monday, January 16th, Martin Luther King's Birthday, we're heading back to
Sacramento for two days of trademark CodePINK Actions - which will lead to a
landmark decision by our State Assembly and AJR36!

We urge you and all our allies to bring your hot pink participation to make these
events newsworthy & successful!
Help us put AJR36 front & center this Monday and Tuesday as we march, rally, and
lobby our Assembly folks - and return to the scene of the nonCrime!

We begin 8:30a.m. Monday morning, with a Hot Pink presence in the MLK365 March -
http://www.mlk365.org - from Oak Park Community Center to the Sacramento Convention Center.
(We're hoping the Mother Lode, North County, and San Luis Obispo chapters will help
spearhead this - with Diana!)

From 10:00-3:00, we have a booth at the Celebration inside the Convention Center -
we ESPECIALLY need a large pink presence as we hear tons of recruiters are probably
going to be there! (We're hoping cp'ers and everyone else committed to
counter-recruitment, will help & sign up for 1 1/2 hour shifts - we need a volunteer
to make a schedule & collect names)

Beginning at 3:00 until 5:15 (ending with live 5p.m. coverage we hope), we will hold
our "Return to the scene of the nonCrime" event. Gathering in front of the
Convention Center, we will march once again to the original scene of the nonCrime:
the Vietnam War Memorial (NE end of the Capitol grounds, 15th & Capitol Blvd) where
the National Guard - whom we want home but NOT for this - spied on us last Mother's
Day.

Medea Benjamin will MC this event; Jan Kearney will lead us in a wailing as we begin
again by commemorating the dead; national guard and family members will speak; the
Raging Grannies will lead us in song; Natalie Wormeli, (also ACLU), will update us
on the spate, I mean state, of spying; Aimee Allison (also a veteran) will inform us
about Kathering Jashinski, the first public national guard woman Resister. AFSC will
set up a National Guard installation of Eyes Wide Open for both days.

We have housing for folks who want to stay overnite in Sacramento and continue
moving AJR36 forward in the morning as we embark on our Day of Lobbying.

Tuesday, January 17th, Our Day of Lobbying; we will begin 9:00a.m. lobbying those
Assembly Members who are "undecided" or "non-supporting" AJR36. We will break into
Hot Pink Teams, armed with Resolutions, Talking Points, and CodePINK Determination,
as we head to their offices. By 1:00p.m., we will hold another Press Conference on
the North Steps of the Capitol to share the results of our lobbying!

For more information, please go to http://www.bayareacodepink.org and check out the
calendar. To participate in this event, please email info [at] bayareacodepink.org or
call 510-524-2776.

AJR36 campaign endorsers: CodePINK, Gold Star Families for Peace, Central Committe
for Conscientious Objectors, Raging Grannies, Physicians for Social Responsibility,
Next Generation, Grandmothers for Peace, California Peace, Action, Coalition for
World Peace, Veterans for Peace, Green Party AFSC, and many more.
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