
United for Peace and Justice - Bay Area is a regional, movement-building coalition that coordinates and supports the work of existing local groups and strengthens or creates solidarity where few exist.

AFFILIATED MEMBER GROUPS

American Friends Service Commitee American Muslim Voice Bay Area Democratic Socialists of America Bay Area United Against War Bay Area Women in Black Buddhist Peace Fellowship Code Pink Ecumenical Peace Institute Ella Baker Center Fellowship of Reconciliation Global Exchange Haiti Action Committee International Socialist Organization International Solidarity Movement-Nor. Cal. Support Group Jewish Voice for Peace Labor Committee For Peace and Justice, SF Bay Area Mount Diablo Peace Center

NorCal Committee of Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism

NorCal District Communist Party USA Not In Our Name Middle East Children's Alliance Pax Christi, SF Peace Action West Peoples Nonviolent Response Coalition Sept. 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows Tikkun Community Veterans for Peace War Resisters League West War Times/Tiempos de Guerra Western States Legal Foundation Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Ongoing Vigils

Thursdays-San Francisco

Tuesdays

Thursday Vigil-San Francisco

Thursday vigils at noon at the Federal Building, San Francisco:

Among the vigilers pictured is Judith Ross from Military Families Speak Out. MFSO has two web sites, local and national. They're both impressive: www.mfso-bayarea.org and www.mfso.org

Another recommended web site is SF Mike's. He's been coming to the vigil for a couple of months and nearly every week writes about the vigil. His pix are wonderful and his comments, full of insight. Entries about the vigil include "Iraq and the Blogs," "The Murder Cult" (with a quote from Voltaire mentioning Quakers), "Get Out of Iraq Now,""Why Are We Still in Iraq?" and "Ring Around the Federal Building." The URL: http://sfciviccenter.blogspot.com

I hope these web sites inspire you to join us to vigil at the federal building this Thursday - and every Thursday - noon to 1:00 at Larkin Street and Golden Gate Avenue.

In peace, Markley

Tuesday Vigil-Oakland

You are invited to join the weekly vigil to call for an end to the U.S. war on the people of Iraq.
Tuesday, noon, Oakland Federal Building, 1301 Clay Street, two short blocks from the 12th Street BART Station.

This vigil was begun in the spring of 1998, shortly after Madeline Albright toured the country in her unsuccessful attempt to gain support for a war against Iraq.
After a civil disobedience action to oppose the proposed attack, Ecumenical Peace Institute/CALC and Mustardseed Affinity Group decided to organize a weekly vigil to call for an end to the sanctions which were causing the deaths of 5,000 Iraqi children each month.

The vigil has continued since that time and other sponsors have joined in the effort. The focus has changed, now calling for an immediate end to the war and the occupation.
Each week we hand out approximately three hundred flyers. Usually they are different each week, unless upcoming events are being announced.

Please join us.

End the Occupation –– Stop the War
Stop the Killing in Iraq

Join the Vigil • Noon - 1:00 p.m. • Each Tuesday
Oakland Federal Building • 1301 Clay

Berkeley Women in Black • East Bay Coalition to Support Self-Rule for Iraqis
Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace and Justice • Peace & Freedom Party
Women for Peace • Mustardseed Affinity Group
Ecumenical Peace Institute • http://www.epicalc.org/ • (510) 548-4141