If you want to influence the government’s reactions to terrorism in the USA on September 11th here are some suggestions for what you can do.
TALK
- to your friends and colleagues
- to your local clubs and societies about non-violence and the alternatives to war
- in your school, college, workplace, church or pub
- to your union or professional organisation and encourage it to discuss publicly and advocate long-term, non-violent solutions to the current situation and the addressing of the underlying problems which breed terrorism
WRITE
- letters to your local MP
- letters and articles to your local paper to encourage those national figures who also advocate addressing the underlying problems
- to world leaders and the United Nations
JOIN
- with like minded people, form a local group to promote and work for Peace
- your local Peace group, if you have one, and take part in their activities
- any national demonstration
HELP
- your local group to organise meetings, demonstrations etc
- get signatures on any petition that is organised
PHONE any relevant radio phone in so your views are widely heard
STICK UP a poster
WEAR a badge
COPY this and give it to someone else
Be Seen Picasso’s beautiful peace image can be used on badges, t-shirts, window stickers, placards etc. He gave it to the peace movement to use - let’s use it!