City-wide No F-35s Caravan & Creative Celebration

media release: No F-35 Bike and Car Caravan:

Sunday, Oct. 17

* 1:00 - 1:20 - Caravan comes together at State St. Corner of Capitol Square.

* 1:30 - Caravan leaves Capitol Square for Demetral Park (601 N. 6th St.)

* 2:00 - Caravan Ends and the Celebration begins! Free Food! Family Friendly Art-Making! Live Music includes Tani Diakite and the Afrofunkstars and Clare Norelle.

Congregations, neighborhoods, businesses, groups, and people from all over the Madison Area are showing their solidarity with Madison's East and North side residents. We all know the Madison neighborhoods, schools, congregations, businesses, and homes in these parts of town don't need more noise and pollution.

* This is a racial justice issue.

* This is an economic justice issue.

* This is an environmental justice issue.

* This is a health & safety issue.

* This is a peace and security issue.

* This is a quality of life issue for the good people living in Madison.

Learn more about why basing the F-35s in Madison is a horrific idea at: https://www.safeskiescleanwaterwi.org

Cosponsors of this event include: 350 - Madison, Critical Mass Madison, Eken Park Resistance, Family Farm Defenders, First Unitarian Society - Madison Justice Ministry, Interfaith Peace Working Group, Madison Chapter of Veterans for Peace, Madison-Arcatao Sister City Project, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, Peace Action Wisconsin, People’s Green New Deal Madison, Safe Skies Clean Water Coalition, Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice, and the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice.

This caravan will be a part of GreenFaith's Global Multi-Faith Actions for Climate Justice https://greenfaith.org/faiths4climatejustice/ and actions for climate justice that are happening all over the world on Oct. 17 and 18 in advance of COP26 conference in Glasgow.

Caravans will gather at different places around Madison, and they will come together into one big caravan on the State Capitol Square on between 1:00 and 1:20 PM. (join the caravan on State St. as it comes around the square.)

*** A bicycle contingent will be joining us at the State St. Corner.

If your house of worship, center, neighborhood, group or business would like to help create a meeting place for caravan formation, please call Tim at 608-630-3633.

*** Volunteers are needed for this event - If you can help - please call Tim at 608-630-3633.

*** Help this event be a huge success by sharing this event on Facebook and with your email network. The details are continuing to develop so watch this Facebook Event for more details as they are available

Please sign up to show your support for this exciting and historic solidarity action:

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Please sign and share our on-line petition.

*** If you would like to help with outreach and planning of this No F-35 action or our campaign as a whole, please call Tim at 608-630-3633