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Stunting Meets Networking
Stunts and other ways to make mainstream media call
attention to yourself are familiar tactics to gain publicity. These
days people are also amplifying that approach with a web presence.
EXAMPLES
Baring
Witness
An antiwar protest by 45 women in Northern California, who formed
the word PEACE with their naked bodies, garnered worldwide attention.
More, it gave rise to more than 45 such protests around the world,
with the website offering all the information an activist needs
to do and publicize a similar protest.
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Florida
Men Strip For Peace
Poets
Against The War
Poet Sam Hamill launched a website and a demonstration when he was
asked to a poetry event at the White House. Instead he asked fellow
poets to post antiwar poems to a new website. The White House cancelled
the event.
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Poetry
slams into politics at White House
CODEPINK:
Women's Preemptive Strike for Peace
Code Pink, an ad-hoc organization created by peace veterans,
rallies women to demonstration sites, each one wearing pink.
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Code
Pink, Women in Black say no to war, Females protest from Union
Square to D.C.
Women
Add a New Shade to Antiwar Protest Effort
Women
in Black
The informal Women in Black vigils, begun in Israel in 1988 by women
protesting against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza,
have become a phenomenon in many moments of crisis, including the
war on Iraq. The effort is volunteer-driven. The website serves
as a point of reference for people looking for more information
about the movement, links to press materials, photos of previous
actions and links to like-minded organizations. It is funded by
individual donations.
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Women
in Black: Silent vigils at Lowdermilk Park intended to show commitment
to peace
Cities
for Peace
Cities for Peace uses the Web to get local governments to pass resolutions
against a war on Iraq. This campaign, which has resulted in 90 cities
joining the effort, is a partnership between the Institute
for Policy Studies, the Education
for Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC), National
Priorities Project, and some American Friends Service Committee
chapters.
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Cities
for Peace brings an anti-war message to capital
Protesting
for peace
The
Lysistrata Project
Anti-war activists read Aristophanes' comedy in which wives refuse
sex with bellicose husbands, Lysistrata. Readings of the play are
scheduled for 59 countries and all 50 states in America. The project
is sponsored by The Field, a New York non-profit that serves the
performing arts community, and individual contributors.
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Make
Love, Not War-Or Else
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