Occupation Project Action Ideas

This list includes action ideas for affinity groups that fall within the scope of the statement of nonviolence for the Occupation Project.

• Ringing a Bell
• Chanting / Singing
• Reading names of the dead
• Unfurling a banner
• Holding a die-in or sit-in
• Packing the office with a large group
• Distribution of information to anyone in the office
• Theatre tactics:

a) Body bags
b) Dead Soldiers
c) Doing role-plays

• Duct-taping mouths
• Holding up visuals: quotes of representatives and the contradictions in voting
• Presenting a bill to the office for the cost of US social needs

resources:

• The President’s Budget: State-level Factsheets
• or More Troops, More Dollars
• or Federal Budget Trade-Offs

• Reciting a list of war making interests that the representative is beholden to
• Holding a memorial service
• Lockdowns
• Presenting photos of Iraqis and/or U.S. soldiers in Iraq
• Reading of a letter from an Iraqi civilian and/or US soldier