How to Fight a War in Wartime

How to Fight a War in Wartime
Michael J. Coyle

WILL I MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

• How many joined the movement to create equality for all women? Very few!
• How many brought the fruit of the 1960's Civil Rights movement to all? Very few!
• How many stood up with Gandhi against the colonialists? A tiny fraction of the population!

IT DOESN'T TAKE EVERYBODY!

Agitate - Advocate - Demonstrate - Educate - Organize

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

• Develop a presentation and deliver it to schools, churches, & community groups
• Start a reading/discussion group
• Make your own media
• Build talking points against the war that address the way those you speak to listen
• Engagingly educate yourself about the war: makes you a more effective advocate
• Talk to others: educate by intentional calls & conversations (family, friends, strangers)
• Create an online petition demanding the end of the war
• Speak out online - publish a blog or post on existing blogs
• Create podcasting content on your online space and ask others to do the same
• Write an op-ed piece or a letter to the editor for your local newspaper
• Design, post and distribute flyers detailing the death, horror and cost of the war
• Donate resources: money, time, creativity
• Write local and national political representatives
• Respond to biased reporting
• Participate in activist groups and coalitions
• Attend rallies
• With legal issues in mind, peacefully and nonviolently occupy a building/street/etc.
• Use your creativity: write music, street theatre, and more - all against the war
• Use the web: visit pro-war or uncritical sites and post effective comments
• Share all the work you create with others (verbally, web, email, print, etc.)
• Do one thing a week (whether you take 5 minutes or hours)

LET YOUR GRATIFICATION BE THAT YOU ARE NOT JUST A BYSTANDER

SHARE RESPONSIBILITY AND WORK WITH OTHERS

A MOUNTAIN IS MOVED ONE STONE AT A TIME

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