Bring The War Home

On June 27th to July 4th, thousands of people will come to San Francisco to bring the war home.

Bring The War Home is a non-violent direct action campaign, centered around independent autonomous actions by related and unrelated affinity groups.

Join us for independent direct action to stop the war machine and war profiteers, breakaway rally & march, street theatrics, anti war-profiteering actions, art attacks, air raids, martial law, military occupation, music, celebration, and resistance.

Bring The War Home is a grassroots campaign, an idea that has been germinating for a few years as we become more and more frustrated by the arrogance and hostility of those who claim to represent us and less and less able to ignore our hopes for the changes we wish to see in the world.

Some of us come from an activist tradition, some from the arts, a few of us seem to be quietly involved in just about everything, and a few of us feel like total newbies to it all and have become politically active only within the last few years (but can no longer stand by and watch things that feel so wrong). Bring The War Home started as an affinity group of random people who've run into each other and worked together through protests, burning man, art collectives, parties, and neighborhood mischief. We found to our surprise that many of us were coincidentally arrested together at the same place on March 20th last year. From there the campaign has grown.

Some of us want to fix the system, while some of us want to blow it up. A great majority of us believe that radical change is the answer. That is, our problems won't be solved at the ballot box. And we agree that there is no likely good outcome of November's election. We'll choose between a conservative that acts like a tyrant and a moderate that acts like a conservative (and doesn't oppose tyranny). Instead, we choose to vote in the streets.

So far, it's only us behind the campaign, but we're hoping you'll join us.

Our hopes for Bring The War Home go well beyond the usual protests. Beyond street blockades and breakaway marches. Well beyond art attacks, symbolic protest, and street theater. Beyond everything we've said here.

We vow not to hurt other living things, but we'll smash the mechanisms of war, of control, and of economic power.

The powerful continue to fan the hot little coals of our discontent, our self-righteous indignation and anger. We won't accept the few bones they may throw our way. We want peace, freedom, security, and justice -- not just here, but in other lands. It is long long overdue. We want it now. And we're willing to fight for it.

I know there is a lot going on this summer, but we're hoping you'll join us to step up the resistance one more notch within the empire.

http://www.bringthewarhome.net