13 Photos of Jan 18 Anti-War Events in Salt Lake City : Utah IMC

Following a Teach In that featured a documentary about Amerikkkan foriegn policy, particpants gathered for the March to the Rally!

http://www.slccriticalmass.org - Critical Mass of Salt Lake participated in the March and Rally!

The People for Peace and Justice of Utah banner led the March of around 1,000 people.

Members of the Radical Cheerleading group, "PomPoms, not BombBombs" at front of march.

almost to the Rally, these diverse people have at least one thing in common, a desire to stop war in their names

Saturday's peace march was the largest such event in Salt Lake City since the 1991 Gulf War buildup.

People peacefully assembled to petition the government for redress of grievences. Rally participants assemble!

More than 1,000 people have assembled, most of which took part in the March, some are still arriving for the Rally

A wide range of diverse people expressed themselves with signs and chants

Ed Firmage, a longtime activist who helped keep the M-X Missle system out of Utah, addresses Rally about the threat of WMD posed by weapons stored in Utah

A banner calls for Pre-Emptive compassion, not destruction.

Deb Sawyer, from the Gandhi Peace Alliance of Utah addresses the crowd.

Music by Andy Monaco was enjoyed between speakers

The Salt Lake City Peace March was well done and JEDI was very proud of our city and the people who organized this rally. We must all unite as a people to keep the threat of more extended wars from being a reality. The lives and futures of all children are at stake.
Children are 25% of are Population but 100% of our future. We must not continue to put them at risk. Respectfully in Peace JEDI Women

Congratulations Salt Lake City!! It was wonderful seeing all the activists that I usually see at rallies and marches, but, what was truly commendable was to see all of the "regular folks" in attendance. Now we know what we can do as a collective. I would like to share this with you.

The Low Road
by Marge Piercy from THE MOON IS ALWAYS FEMALE

What else can they do to you? Whatever they want . They can set you up, they can bust you, hey can break your fingers, they can burn your brain with electricity, blur you with drugs till you can't walk, can't remember, they can take your child, wall up your lover. They can do anything you can't stop them from, doing. How can you stop them? Alone, you can fight, you can refuse, you can take what revenge you can but they roll over you.

But two people fighting back to back can cut through a mob, a snake-dancing file can break a cordon, an army can meet an army.

Two people can keep each other sane, can give support, conviction, love, massage, hope, sex. Three people are a delagation, a committee, a wedge. With four you can play bridge and start an organization. With six you can rent a whole house, eat pie for dinner with no seconds, and hold a fund raising party. A dozen make a demonstration. A hundred fill a hall. A thousand have solidarity and your own newsletter: ten thousand, power and your own paper: a hundred thousand, your own media: ten million, your own country.

It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care
to act, it starts when you do
it again after they said no,
It starts when you say We
and know who you mean, and each
day you mean one more.

Deep Peace,
Vickie Jones, JEDI for Women for Peace

Tonight, Tuesday, Salt Lake city council will decide if they are united for Peace and if SLC representatives will pass the peace resolution. Maybe next my oppressive town of Highland. Bottom up democracy. Be at the city county building 7:00.