VOLUNTEERS NEEDED:
"Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad:
Keep Oregon's Guard Home from Iraq and Afghanistan"

We need YOU as a volunteer for the Sunday March 15 Rally and March "Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad" in Salem (event starting at 1:00 PM).
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 the National Guard should not be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan!

........ BETWEEN NOW AND MARCH 15 (Day of info, below)

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PEACEKEEPERS/STAGE SECURITY: (minimum of 30 total needed)

We need thirty peacekeepers for the March 15 Peace Rally and March in Salem!

Peacekeepers are needed to coordinate the safety of pedestrians and automobiles along the route. This task is vital to ensure a safe and efficient rally and March.

It is necessary to get coordinated before the event to go over the basics of peacekeeping and the logistics of the traffic requirements.

To that end, there will be a training for those who have not done this before on Wednesday, March 11, 7 PM at the Friends Meeting House, 4312 SE Stark.

Just basic nonviolence, de-escalation stuff, but you must attend a training if you have not before.

To volunteer (must be 18 or older):
Contact Joe Keating at 503-234-2613 or keats [at] aracnet.com (replace @ for [at] when emailing)

Day-of details below, including transportation for Portland peacekeepers.

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PHONE CALLING:

--Call 15-25 people or more people to turn them out
Contact: Peace and Justice Works 503-236-3065
other organizations may also do phone banking

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POSTERING:

Downloadable originals are available on line.
URLs:
11x17
http://pprc-news.org/press/demo_draft_poster_3.pdf
http://www.pprc-news.org/press/march1509_11by17.pdf

8.5x11
http://www.pprc-news.org/press/march1509flyerb.pdf
http://www.pprc-news.org/press/march1509v3full.pdf

Quarter page
http://www.pprc-news.org/press/march1509flyer_4up.pdf
http://www.pprc-news.org/press/march1509_4up.pdf
Sites for poster 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.

Bread and Roses Center
819 N Killingsworth
503-240-4462 (call to find open hours)

Check our website at http://www.pjw.info/march1905vols.html for updates on poster drop sites

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SIGNMAKING PARTY:

Details to be announced, contact Portland Peaceful Response Coalition at
503-344-5078
for more information

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ENDORSE/COSPONSOR:

--If your organization isn't already on board with the March 15 event and would like to be listed as a cosponsor or endorser, let us know.

Cosponsors are expected to donate $50 or more. Endorsers just say "we support your event" and your name will be added to the list (though it may be cut off of some publicity for space reasons).

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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 "March 15th
event " in the memo field.
(Donations are also accepted at Portland Peaceful Response Coalition, War Resisters League, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility and East Timor Action Network/Portland)

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..........DAY OF EVENT (March 15):

SET-UP/CLEAN-UP

....SET-UP march assembly site (11:30 AM at Capitol Mall):
Need two people or more to help be sure traffic and pedestrians and arriving folks know where to go.

....CLEAN-UP (1:45-2:45 and 3:15 PM-4:15 PM?):
Help keep the march route clean (1:45-2:45)
and/or
Stay at the end until the Mall is clean
(Overall length of time is probably one hour, exact end of event is unknown, predicting 3:15 PM)

..PEACEKEEPERS/STAGE SECURITY (11:30 AM in Salem to 3 PM):

(See above, contact Joe Keating 503-234-2613.)

On Rally and March day (Sunday, March 15) peacekeepers will gather in Portland @ 10:15 AM at The Daily Grind parking lot, 4026 SE Hawthorne, and travel to Salem on the bus named COOL.

There will be an additional peacekeeping orientation in Salem @ 11:30 AM at the Capitol steps

Dress warmly, prepared for rain. Bring a sack lunch, a bottle of water, and your cell phone if you have one. Some folks will be on security during the rally. Expect to be "on duty" at least until 3 PM when the march is expected to end. The bus should have you back in Portland by 4:30 PM.

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

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Thanks
Feel free to write or call with ideas or questions

Dan Handelman
Peace and Justice Works Iraq Affinity Group
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