Arundhati Roy's now classic speech at the WSF in January 2003 is an inspiration! Major coordinators of protests and resistance are A.N.S.W.E.R. and Not in Our Name, which now has new, expanded, campaign materials and an excellent What You Can Do page. Other essential sites are the Stop the War Coalition and United for Justice and Peace each with calendars and many good links, while the ICUJP has details of vigils and protests local to California. The California Peace Action site is an affiliate – with Action Alerts – of National Peace Action, which has good resources and a well thought-out platform for some of the necessary changes to militarism and destruction.

Join the moves to impeach members of the US government at the R.I.S.E. site; work with the Green Party to indict them as war criminals. Call, too, for the Office of the Independent Counsel to investigate the US government's lies about 'weapons of mass destruction' as a pretence for the rape of Iraq.

It is clearly inappropriate for the invading forces – especially US ones – to have anything to do with 'reconstruction': this ZNET article explains the issues. As Bush, not an Iraqi citizen, 'decides' who will take over that country and announces the name of Paul Bremer, this Information Clearing House article describes an equally bigoted, racist authoritarian clearly unfit for such a job. A similar assessment comes from Alternet. Amnesty International has an Action insisting that the US forces respect international law as it applies to an occupying force. It is also necessary to stop the imminent appointment by Bush of Daniel Pipes (a leading anti-Muslim fanatic) as a director of the U.S. Institute of Peace. This clear, well-documented article from Information Clearing House sets out plainly and chillingly just how appallingly unfit for such a(n illegitimate) task as its 'reconstruction' the members of the right-wing, militaristic, terrorists imposed on Iraq by Bush really are.

Good, relevant non-violent direct action sites are: Direct Action to Stop the War, the very wide-ranging Protest.net as well as Nonviolence.org, the Resource Center for Nonviolence, Urban75 and Mobilization for Global Justice. One good site detailing an impressive number of peace boycotts of US companies is Peace-Action.