April 4th: UFPJ calls for activities at schools, in workplaces and in our communities that highlight the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by linking our work for peace to the struggle for economic and social justice: marches, rallies, educational events, vigils, and mass leafleting.

April 5th: (a) Citizen Works calls for teach-ins, rallies, protests, parades, and other events as part of this year's Big Business Day. Under the theme of Challenging the Business of War, these activities will ask: Who pays and who benefits from this war? For more information, see www.citizenworks.org or call 202-265-6164. (b) Campus Anti-War Network is organizing a Festival of Peace in Washington, DC and demonstrations in Chicago and San Francisco under the theme of "no war at home and abroad." For more information, see www.antiwarnetwork.org

April 6th: Local educational and protest activities linking the cost of this war to the cuts in housing, health care, environmental clean-up, mass transit, veterans benefits and other critical programs. Sermons and discussions at churches.

April 7th: Direct Action to Stop the War (SF/Bay Area) calls for a National Day of Direct Action and Civil Disobedience to Stop the War at Home and Abroad with non-cooperation targeting federal and government buildings, oil corporations, arms manufacturers and arms transportation systems. Instead of going to work or school, sustain the resistance to this war by participating in or supporting mass nonviolent direct action. For more information and resources, see www.actagainstwar.org or call 415-820-9649

Looking ahead, UFPJ supports the activities being organized by the Latin American Solidarity Coalition from April 10th to 15th in Washington, DC. In addition to a major national conference, LASC is organizing a march and rally on April 13th and two days of Congressional lobbying on April 14th and 15th. For information, see www.lasolidarity.org or call LASC at 202-234-3440.

April 14th and 15th will also be two days of non-violent civil disobedience organized by the Iraq Pledge of Resistance. For more information, see www.peacepledge.org.