Not in Our Name
Not in Our Name (NION) is an American organization founded on March 23, 2002, in order to resist the U.S. government's course in the wake of September 11, 2001. Within the anti-war movement, it is generally considered to be a front group for the
Revolutionary Communist Party. Unlike
ANSWER, however, NION has shown significant willingness to work cooperatively with others in the movement, as shown by their decision to postpone their national moratorium against the war to coincide with the "Books Not Bombs" student strike called by the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition.
NION states:
- We face an unprecedented situation. The U.S. has commenced a series of wars, in which they killed thousands of innocent civilians, and they now openly threaten unilateral war on Iraq, Iran, North Korea and the rest of the world. The government has targeted Arab and Muslim immigrants, rounding up over 1,000 and still holding them in indefinite detention, refusing even to release their names. They have gutted longstanding civil liberties and become a police state. The executive branch of government has seized vast new powers, unchecked by either the legislative or the judicial branches and they have attempted to intimidate all dissenting voices.
- We need a movement of resistance that dares to alter the course of history. We need a resistance movement powerful enough to send a message to the people of the world that we stand with them against this unjust, unlimited war — that "we the people" are NOT in agreement with Bush.
- School administrators should not to turn over the names of Arab and Muslim students.
- Soldiers should not agree to occupy or attack other countries.
- We should support those who come under attack for daring to dissent.
- We must come together now to determine how we can best build the kind of movement that can extend a hand to the people of the world and stop the horrors being unleashed by our own government.
The NION Platform
- 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.
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