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- Bring a table to the rally with information about your group. Please register your table in advance. Details
- Post the flyer and email the press release
- Contact the press before March 17th and ask for coverage. Details
- Volunteer to help with the rally. Details
- Be an endorser.
- Lobby Senators Domenici/Bingaman the week before the rally. Details
- Pre-rally sign making at 10 AM, Civic Plaza. Details
- Rally peacekeepers, please arrive at 10 AM, Civic Plaza. Details
- Rally speeches begin at March 17, 2007 at 11 AM, Albuquerque Civic Plaza. Details
- Rally will march to Senators Domenici/Bingaman offices. Here's why.
- Rally will conclude at Robinson Park with a Peace-a-Palooza, a celebration of Peace, Music and Unity in the Community, with speakers and music. Details
- Rally peacekeepers will be wearing orange vests and will help guide the marchers. All rally participants are expected to share the commitment to making the rally peaceful and safe.
- Event flyer: click here
- Event press release: click here
- March 15 7pm ABQ Code Pink coffeehouse event: Peace, Protest and Political Poems. Details
- March 16 12-1:30pm ABQ Protest Against War on Iran - in front of the Dominici courthouse at Lomas and 3rd
- March 16 4:30pm Corrales - Tom Udall Town Hall. Corrales Municipal Court (Corrales Road across from post office) Details
- March 17 1pm Santa Fe rally and march, The Roundhouse, NM State Capitol. Details
- March 17 5-7pm El Paso Circle of Peace. Details
- March 17 2pm Taos Vigil at Taos Plaza. Details
- March 17 8pm ABQ - Inti-Illimani - Chilean band which has promoted Latin American folk music worldwide, in collaboration with many artists, including Federico Fellini, Mercedes Sosa, Wynton Marsalis, Sting, Pete Seeger, and Bruce Springsteen. 8 pm. National Hispanic Cultural Center. Details (see calendar). Inti-Illimani will also perform at the ABQ rally Peace-a-Palooza! 1701 4th St. SW. Admission: $25, $20, $15. 246-2613.
- March 18 10am - 4pm, ABQ Eyes Wide Open Exhibition of the Human Cost of War, Old Town Plaza, 200 Romero NW. Overview and details
- March 19 9am - 5pm, ABQ Eyes Wide Open Exhibition of the Human Cost of War, Smith Plaza, UNM. Overview and details
- March 19 5-7pm Rio Rancho - Candlelight Vigil and signs - Rio Rancho Blvd.(528) & Southern (Smith's) Details
- Organized by the March 17th Committee and co-sponsors. Join up!
- March 17th rallies nationwide. Details
- Ride share from Albuquerque to the DC rally. Interested?
- Questions or suggestions? Call 505-268-9557 Details
Meet March 17, 2007 at 10 AM and have fun making signs together. Please bring your own poster paper/boards and markers. The NM Zen Peacemaker Circle is planning to meet at 10:00 am at 2nd Street and Copper to meditate for 30 minutes.
Gather on March 17, 2007 at the Albuquerque Civic Plaza, 3rd and Tijeras NW. (map)
The rally will begin at 11 AM (or come at 10 AM for pre-rally signmaking), then proceed to the nearby offices of Senators Domenici and Bingaman, and conclude at Robinson Park for a Peace-a-Palooza, a celebration of Peace and Unity in the Community, with speakers and bands.
The planned route (subject to change): start at the Civic Plaza; down 3rd St. to Domenici's office; then continuing down 3rd to Silver; then Silver to Bingaman's office; back up 7th St. to Central; and finally, from Central to Robinson Park.
This demonstration is part of a global protest on the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the war on Iraq. See the statement Why We March Today by Robb Chavez.
Protestors will tell Congress, especially Dominici and Bingaman, to enact legislation to bring our troops home NOW, stop recruiting in our schools (see anti-recruiting flyer), free Palestine from Israeli occupation, and halt military plans to bomb Iran (see Iran flyer). The demonstration marks the 40th anniversary of the 1967 March on the Pentagon.
The entire event is expected to last for three hours.
Over twenty five New Mexican servicemen have been killed in Iraq (to see their faces and hometowns click here). Over thirty five hundred American servicemen and women have been killed (see their faces here). Tens of thousands of American soldiers have been injured, and over one-half million Iraqi civilians killed.
The march will help pressure Senators Domenici and Bingaman to stop the war, by marching to their offices and expressing citizen concerns and opposition.
Nine citizens attempted as a group to visit the office of Republican Sen. Pete Domenici last September to talk about opposition to the war, were arrested, and now face jail terms. Read the article about their treatment by Dominici's office and Homeland Security.
The South West Organizing Project is organizing music and dancing for the Peace-A-Palooza at Robinson Park. Aztec dancers will be performing as the march reaches Robinon park to bless the festivities. Plans include Slam Poets (ABQ Slam Team), Bands (including Mezcla Experience, Hakim Bellamy and Members, Raging Grannies), Dance Groups, live painting by local aerosol artists, and Inti-Illimani a Chilean band, which has promoted Latin American folk music worldwide and collaborated with artists such as Federico Fellini, Mercedes Sosa, Wynton Marsalis, Sting, Pete Seeger, and Bruce Springsteen. (Inti-Illimania is also performing March 17 at 8 pm at the National Hispanic Cultural Center; see NHCC calendar).
The goal of the event is to be as inclusive as possible, and to ensure a multi-cultural/multi-generational day of peace.
Please sign up to have an informational table for your group. Information in both English and Spanish is welcomed and encouraged. Please send in your table registration by March 15th (click here for the form) to Rodrigo at the SouthWest Organizing Project 211 10th street SW, or send it via email Rodrigo@swop.net. For more info please call 505-620-1476.
All are invited to participate in an important organized effort to lobby the offices of Senators Domenici and Bingaman in the week before the rally. Contact pauleichhorn@1hop2.com.
The Jan 27, 2007 rally in Albuquerque received good press, including a long article in the Albuquerque Journal and TV coverage. Examples can be seen here and here. The March 17th demonstration is expected to be much larger and more newsworthy, so alert the press beforehand of your interest. Please contact (preferably call, then email):
- Albuquerque Journal: Charlie Moore, City Editor, 505-823-3840, cmoore@abqjournal.com
- Albuquerque Tribune: Bill Slakey, City Editor, 505-823-3642, bslakey@abqtrib.com
- KUNM radio: General number, 505-277-4806
- KRQE-TV Channel 13: 505-764-5240
- KOB TV Channel 4: 505-764-2453, news@KOBTV.com
- KOAT Channel 7: 505-884-6324, www.koat.com/contact/index.html
Volunteers are needed to help with the demonstration. Email Citizen@comcast.net.
About 15 people have expressed interest in going to the DC or LA rally. We were unable to charter a cost-effective bus for this number of people. However, if you are interested in ride-sharing (or organizing ride-sharing) email Citizen@comcast.net.
Information about the Los Angeles rally is here.
Groups are invited to endorse the March 17 demonstration in Albuquerque by calling contact 401-4808 or writing to StoptheWarMachine@comcast.net.
Organizations endorsing this march include:
Action Coalition Taos
ADA Collective
Albuquerque CodePINK
Albuquerque Cop Watch
Albuquerque Industrial Workers of the World
Alternative Radio
Atheists and Free Thinkers NM
Bernalillo County Green Party
Calming Four Primordial Swing Dance Group
Center for Action & Contemplation
Columbia Solidarity Committee
Dare to Dream Network
Democracy for New Mexico
The Eastern Shore,Va. Society for Peace and Justice
Free Tibet NM
Grassroots Press
Gray Panthers of Greater Albuquerque
Green Party Bernalillo County
Justice First Community, New Mexico Remembers Rachel Corrie
Las Vegas Committee for Peace and Justice
Las Vegas Peace & Justice Center
League of Pissed-off Voters
Loretto Community Disarmament Committee
Los Alamos Study Group
Middle East Peace and Justice Alliance
Military Families Speak Out ABQ
National Union Hospital Health Care Employees 1199NM
New Mexico Coalition Against a War with Iran
New Mexico Grassroots Democrats
New Mexico Zen Peacemaker Circle
Nukes Out of Duke City
Pax Christi Holy Rosary
Peace and Justice for Animals
Progressive Action Coalition UNM
Raging Grannies ABQ
Salam Coalition, University of New Mexico
La Semilla Bookstore
School of the Americas Watch, NM
Social Action Committee - Unitarian Universalist West Side Congregation
South West Organizing Project
Stop the War Machine
Student Socialist Coalition UNM
Students Organizing Action for Peace UNM
Unitarian Fellowship
Taos Food Not Bombs
United Staff UNM Local 6155
UNM Humanist Society
Vets for Peace ABQ
Warriors for Conscience
Wild Watershed
Women for a Better World ABQ
Women in Black - Albuquerque
Women Kicking Racism
See the March on the Pentagon and the Answer Coalition websites for national protest information.
Call 505-268-9557 or email StoptheWarMachine@comcast.net.
For more information about anti-war events and peace groups in Albuquerque, New Mexico, see the websites Stop the War Machine and Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice. The SouthWest Organizing Project, host of the Peace-a-Palooza, has worked since 1980 for racial and gender equality, and social and economic justice, in New Mexico. Please join and support these organizations!
This webpage is at www.ABQMarch17.org.
For web page corrections and updates write to Vicki Johnson, vlj@interconnect.com.