MEDIA ADVISORY
For March 19, 2007

RADICAL YA BASTA PROTESTERS MARCH ON WALL STREET

Who Are These Dreamers, All Dressed In Orange?
From NYC Ya Basta, first communiqué
To the international press
To the city of New York and the NYPD
To all the hearts in this America

WE ARE people with ordinary hearts who cannot bear the grief of war. We have watched this nightmare casually kill and maim in Iraq and Afghanistan, seen it take thousands of lives in New Orleans, heard it shoot fifty times in Queens. We have wept with the dead, we have pleaded for the living, and we cry out now in a voice both ours and not our own: Enough, Enough, Ya Basta!

WE WANT those who profit from a 500-year nightmare to wake up with us. We want to walk together, fully awake--in a dream we have tasted around the table and in the streets. We want those who once dreamed with us to wake up again, to taste again. We want the technicians of violence to throw their wrenches into the gears they have maintained. We want them to know, and for once not ignore, the real cost of blood money. If they knew they had murdered, if they knew they had killed, they would have to act.

WE WILL act; we will sound the alarm; we will wear orange. On March 19th, facing five years of war, we will execute our first public maneuvers in the face of the police. We will take the Charging Bull, as it were, by the horns. We will march to and take the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, where instead of stocks, they once sold people as slaves. We will be absolutely nonviolent, because in our dream the dignity of even a single person is as sacred as the dignity of all. As new worlds must emerge from old wounds, so we will emerge, filled with hope, and sound the alarm to awake, awake.

Only an army of dreamers can stop the nightmare of war!
ALL OUT! YA BASTA!

WHAT: Ya Basta Rings the Alarm on the New York Stock Exchange to End War

WHO: NYC Ya Basta

WHEN: Monday, March 19th, 2006 from 9:00 - 11:00 AM

WHERE: Along the Canyon of Heroes, Financial District

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For more information please visit:

http://nymaa.org/anti-war
http://nycyabasta.mayfirst.org/
http://www.myspace.com/orangeoveralls