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ORANGE FRIDAY: 24 Hours to End the Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan
by Spyder Saturday, Aug. 06, 2005 at 2:34 PM
orangefridayithaca@gmail.edu

This text is a national call to action to ends the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. On September 30, 2005 (Orange Friday), our cities shut down: instead of going to work or going to class, instead of driving our cars or buying anything, we attend teach-ins, lectures, workshops, and demonstrations. We mourn, learn, organize and resist.

*Post Far and Wide*
National Day of Action to End the Occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and the “War on Terror”

Friday, September 30
ORANGE FRIDAY
Call for Actions in Communities Across the Country

Twenty-four hours to learn, to mourn, to organize, to resist

ORANGE FRIDAY is a day of learning, a day of reflection, a day of resistance. For twenty-four hours we skip class, we skip work, we leave our cars at home, we buy nothing, we fast. For one day we set our lives aside to examine and understand this occupation; professors hand over their podiums to discussion about peace and justice; teach-ins spring up across our communities; businesses close their doors; our cities shut down.


Why ORANGE?
The media and the government are pretending that there is no war. Every day we wake up without thinking about the occupation is a day we ignore hundreds of deaths, thousands of captives, and millions of lives turned upside down. To date, no unifying symbol calling for the end to this occupation has been cultivated. ORANGE is what our peace movement needs to be: bright, bold, and impossible to ignore.

Call to Action
Citizens around the world are called to action on September 30, 2005.
• Coordinate teach-ins and events in your hometown and organize resist business as usual.
• Do not go to work or class, do not drive a car, buy nothing.
• To plug into actions happening in communities across the country, e-mail ORANGEFRIDAYITHACA@gmail.com.
• Sign the online pledge of resistance http://www.petitiononline.com/OFS30/petition.html
• Check out the website http://www.studentpeaceproject.net.

studentpeaceproject.net

"Orange"!?!
by red and black Saturday, Aug. 13, 2005 at 6:39 PM

See:

http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/40110/index.php

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get out
by bloody red shirt
(No verified email address) 07 Aug 2005

Orange is the color of the racist zionist colonist movement in gaza and the franchised "revolution" in the ukraine. What is with the color coded, theam and costume protest? are you trying to send the wrong message? i cant believe that cornell college eliets could be this niave.

spell check by dan quale

Re: Orange Friday: 24 Hours of Action to End the Occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan
by Irish
(No verified email address) 07 Aug 2005

Not to mention the pro-occupation orangemen in northern ireland

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Ignore The Spook Droppings
by Jordan Thornton Friday, Aug. 19, 2005 at 3:09 PM
pilgrim112@hotmail.com

Cindy Sheehan's courage should be enough to draw the AntiWar Movement back into the streets. Here are some techniques and tactics to keep in mind. Let's send a message of unity to the world.

Since the demonstrations which reversed the electoral decision in the Ukraine, I've heard and seen many Ukrainians talking about large groups of foreigners who were pivotal to their planning. Many of these groups were the ones responsible for paying for the food, shelter, and orange banners used by the protestors. I didn't think much of this, or the accusations of funding from agencies such as the CIA, until I saw the same thing occuring in Lebanon.

Then, a reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (http://www.cbc.ca), Carol Off, did a piece explaining that the "spontaneous, grassroots" protests in the Ukraine were the result of CIA funding and planning over a period of ten years.

Sadly, the report lauded these tactics of Regime Change, but nonetheless, proved my point.

One thing I've noticed is the tightly-controlled Western media's willingness to ignore the unsubstantiated allegations made in Syria and Lebanon that the Central Intelligence Agency, or Israel's Mossad, or both, were responsible for actions like the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, and behind the recent Opposition Movements, while at the same time, parroting over and over the same unsubstantiated claims about Syria, emanating from the White House den of LIARS and thieves. Even media outlets which I consider better than the rest, like the CBC, are guilty of such irresponsibility. When pro-Syrian demonstrators turned out in the hundreds of thousands, proving the anti-Syrians to be the minority voice, the media downplayed these numbers.

Just feels a bit too staged for my taste ... What I find the most irresonsible about all of this is the fact that whoever is behind this, they are attempting (and succeeding) to divide the Lebanese People, and cause conflict both within the country, and towards Syria. This, of course, aids the Israelis and PNAC Americans, who both have an interest, and want to invade and occupy Syria (and perhaps Lebanon as well), as called for repeatedly by the agenda which has seen Bush/PNAC illegally invade two Arab nations already.

The CBC chose Janice Stein, a Zionist "Middle East Expert" to comment on the situation, and she said when she saw the demonstrations she "saw the colour orange". This was after the first anti-Syrian demo, when the colour scheme wasn't so pronounced. Since then, orange flags, placards, etc. have started "spontaneously" appearing in great numbers.

When I was in university, my Design professor brought in some Colour Researchers from the University of Edmonton, who lectured on the psychological, but also the PHYSICAL effects, colours have on the human body and mind. This red-orange colour is one of the "comfort colours", and you will no doubt remember seeing it in countless commercials (ING Direct, and the creepy, stereotypical European banker, anyone ... ?).

Since the CIA, or Mossad, or whoever is ultimately behind these carefully stage-managed displays, you know they understand what they're doing. I believe that we should be taking a cue from them, and striking while the iron is hot.

This orange colour scheme has been carefully crafted in order to transmit "armchair understanding" of these two manufactured crises.

Even though it was our Enemy putting it out there, for their own purposes, we should seize the opportunity to claim it for ourselves. After all, we have been granted an unprecedented look inside the CIA's "Handbook for Non-Violent Revolution", and you know damn well that they have studied all of the relevant psychological factors.

If you are to protest, from now on, DRESS IN ORANGE, and CARRY SIGNS OF ORANGE, rally at the feet of power, and the media, DEMANDING that the democratic Will of the People not be ignored. I guarantee this will send an instant message, not only to the Bush/PNAC/Bliar Regime, but to all Americans and to the world that sees it.

Keep your signs easy to read and understand, things such as "FIRE THE LIARS", "INVESTIGATE, IMPEACH, PROSECUTE" and at media centres, "LIARS", or "TRAITORS", or "COWARDS".

Groups should design some Talking Points, and designate members to speak with the reporters on-scene. In larger centres, you should inform the media of what's going to happen, and call the stations' News Director or Assignment Editor, and request to be interviewed. You could even take it further, and offer your services as an Activist Analyst for the day, just like they use ex-military personnel, and members of Right-Wing "Think-Tanks".

Let's test these LIARS and War Criminals, and their media puppets, and see just how much they truly respect "Freedom & Democracy", the words upon which they attempt to justify the attrocities upon which they've built their fortunes.

Regardless of what happens, the message will be sent. We have nothing to lose. If something comes of this, then great. Follow up and celebrate. If the rallies are ignored, or treated by the police as those in the past, then you've just PROVEN these men to be the Hypocrites we all know them to be.

I'd like to see as many people as can not simply Rally for a few hours, but for DAYS. Those who cannot make it there, plan and hold your own local rallies, and not only gather where your Government officials meet, but also where the media does its business.

Let's take this thing that was designed to dupe people into supporting what the Fascists in DC want, and turn it on its head.

Let's use it as a tool for bringing that Fascism to its knees, and demonstrate the good intentions that were to be assumed about the "Orange Revolutionaries".

Remember, that we are the Majority, and Truth is our greatest Ally.

The only way we can fail, is if we fail to ACT.

P E A C E . . . ?

"No matter how far you have traveled down the wrong road, turn back"
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb

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