Pledge of Resistance

On June 6th, people nationwide, from all walks of life, will take the poetic "Pledge of Resistance" as a creative way to launch a new anti-war project called "Not In Our Name." The campaign will be promoted throughout the Summer in order to build for a day of mass resistance in the Fall.

Locally, CANVRT ( The Committee for an Active Non-Violent Response to Terrorism of the Chapel Hill Friends' Meeting ) is calling a Meeting for Worship for June 6th in support this nationwide anti-war project.

Where: Friends Meetinghouse; corner of Raleigh Rd. and Club Road.
When: June 6th from 7:30 to 8:30PM.

After the worship we will have a meeting to plan for action.

THE PLEDGE OF RESISTANCE:

We believe that as people living in the United States it is our responsibility to resist the injustices done by our government, in our names.

Not in our name
will you wage endless war
there can be no more deaths
no more transfusions of blood for oil

Not in our name
will you invade countries
bomb civilians, kill more children
letting history take its course
over the graves of the nameless

Not in our name
will you erode the very freedoms
you have claimed to fight for

Not by our hands
will we supply weapons and funding
for the annihilation of families on foreign soil

Not by our mouths
will we let fear silence us

Not by our hearts
will we allow whole peoples or countries
to be deemed evil

Not by our will and Not in our name

We pledge resistance

We pledge alliance with those who have come under attack
for voicing opposition to the war or for their religion or ethnicity

We pledge to make common cause
with the people of the world
to bring about justice freedom and peace

Another world is possible and we pledge to make it real