RESISTORS K-Z -- NOT IN OUR NAME NEW YORK TIMES 2-PAGE SPREAD MONDAY
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The Pledge of Resistance
We believe that as people living
in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices
done by our government,
in our names
Not in our name
will you wage endless war
there can be no more deaths
no more transfusions
of blood for oil
Not in our name
will you invade countries
bomb civilians, kill more children
letting history take its course
over the graves of the nameless
Not in our name
will you erode the very freedoms
you have claimed to fight for
Not by our hands
will we supply weapons and funding
for the annihilation of families
on foreign soil
Not by our mouths
will we let fear silence us
Not by our hearts
will we allow whole peoples
or countries to be deemed evil
Not by our will
and Not in our name
We pledge resistance
We pledge alliance with those
who have come under attack
for voicing opposition to the war
or for their religion or ethnicity
We pledge to make common cause
with the people of the world
to bring about justice,
freedom and peace
Another world is possible
and we pledge to make it real.
Ron Kovic
Barbara Kruger
Tony Kushner
James Lafferty, executive director, National Lawyers Guild/L.A.
Ray Laforest, Haiti Support Network
Beth K. Lamont, Corliss-Lamont.org
Jesse Lemisch, professor of history emeritus, John Jay College of Justice, CUNY
Harriet Lerner
Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, TIKKUN magazine
Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead
Richard Lewontin, Professor Emeritus of Biology, Harvard
Lucy R. Lippard
James Longley, Filmmaker
Barbara Lubin, Middle East Childrens Alliance
Janet L. Abu-Lughod
Staughton Lynd
Arturo Madrid, professor of humanities, Trinity University
Dave Marsh
Rabbie Robert Marx
Rep. Jim McDermott
Aaron McGruder
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
W.S. Merwin
Susan Minot
Anuradha Mittal, co-director, Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First
Malaquias Montoya, visual artist
Tom Morello
Robin Morgan
Viggo Mortensen
Minister Benjamín Muhammed, Hip-Hop Summit Action Network
Jill Nelson
Robert Nichols, writer
Linda Nochlin
Kate Noonan
Claes Oldenburg
Pauline Oliveros
Yoko Ono
Rev. E. Randall Osburn, exec. v.p., Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Ozomatli
Grace Paley
Michael Parenti
Jeremy Pikser, screenwriter
Frances Fox Piven, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Katha Pollitt
James Stewart Polshek
Harold Prince
Jerry Quickley, poet
John T. Racanelli, Presiding Justice (Ret), California Court of Appeal
Bonnie Raitt
Margaret Randall
Marcus Raskin
Michael Ratner, president, Center for Constitutional Rights
Amy Ray, Indigo Girls
Rev. George Regas, Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
Adrienne Rich
David Riker, filmmaker
Boots Riley, hip hop artist, The Coup
Kate Robin
James Rosenquist
Judith Rossner
Matthew Rothschild
Ed Sadlowski
Edward Said
Angelica Salas, director, Campaign for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
Luc Sante
Susan Sarandon
Saskia Sassen, professor, University of Chicago
John Sayles
Jonathan Schell, author and fellow of the Nation Institute
Carolee Schneemann, artist
Ralph Schoenman & Mya Shone, Council on Human Needs
Juliet Schor, director of women's studies, Harvard
Annabella Sciorra
Pete and Toshi Seeger
Mark Selden, historian
Peter A. Serkin
Frank Serpico
Richard Serra
James Schamus
Rev. Al Sharpton
Wallace Shawn, playwright & actor
Martin Sheen
Ron Shelton, filmmaker
Alex Shoumatoff
Russell Simmons
John J. Simon, writer, editor
Kevin Smith
Kiki Smith, artist
Jack Steinberger, Nobel Laureate
Michael Steven Smith, National Lawyers Guild/NY
Norman Solomon, syndicated columnist and author
Scott Spenser
Nancy Spero, artist
Art Spiegelman
Starhawk
Bob Stein, publisher
Jack Steinberger, Nobel Laureate
Gloria Steinem
Oliver Stone
Mark Strand
William & Rose Styron
Peter Syben, major, US Army, retired
Ron Takaki, ethnic studies, Berkeley
Jonathan Tasini, president, National Writers Union, NYC
Michael Taussig, anthropology, Columbia
Tony Taccone, director
Studs Terkel
Marisa Tomei
Marcia Tucker, founding director emerita, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Lief Utne
Nina Utne
Kinan Valdez, El Teatro Campesino
Coosje van Bruggen
Gore Vidal
Anton Vodvarka, Lt., FDNY (ret.)
Kurt Vonnegut
Alice Walker
Rebecca Walker
Naomi Wallace, playwright
Immanuel Wallerstein, sociologist, Yale University
Rev. George Webber, president emeritus, NY Theological Seminary
Leonard Weinglass, attorney
Cornel West
Haskell Wexler
John Edgar Wideman
Cora Weiss
C.K. Williams
Saul Williams, spoken word artist
S. Brian Willson , activist/writer
Jeffrey Wright, actor
Mary A. Zimmerman
Howard Zinn, historian |
