Monthly Archives: February 2007

Today ACTIVATE delivered a packet to the Grand Rapids Press calling on the Press to take specific steps to improve its coverage of the Iraq War. Citing an analysis performed earlier this week as well as numbers compiled at various … Continue reading →

ACTIVATE has launched an email action targeting Michigan’s 3rd United States Congressional Representative Vern Ehlers. The group is targeting Representative Ehlers because of his ongoing support for the Iraq War since 2002. The letter specifically asks Ehlers to support an … Continue reading →

This week, ACTIVATE has two events planned at local media outlets as part of our “Days of Resistance” campaign. On Wednesday (2/28) at 9:00am we will be holding a demonstration at the Grand Rapids Press and on Thursday (3/1) we … Continue reading →

ACTIVATE is organizing an antiwar march on Saturday, March 17. The march will take place at 12:30pm and we will meet at the corner of East Beltline and Burton. The march is designed to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the … Continue reading →

ACTIVATE held another action at the Armed Forces Career Center located in the Celebration Cinema entertainment complex. An article, video, and photos are available. We will continue to both protest military recruiters at the area recruitment centers and challenge them … Continue reading →

ACTIVATE is encouraging folks to sign an electronic petition asking to get the independent news program Democracy Now on the public airwaves in Grand Rapids. Media Mouse is organizing a campaign to get the program aired on both community radio … Continue reading →

ACTIVATE, a Grand Rapids-based group working for social change through community building, education, and direct action, is announcing its “Days of Resistance to the War” campaign. Over the next month or so leading up to the fourth anniversary of the … Continue reading →

February 7 – 7:00pm ACTIVATE will be showing the documentary “Caught in the Crossfire: The Untold Story of Falluja” by US and Iraqi filmmakers. The film details the conditions experienced by the civilians of Falluja as they endured the violent … Continue reading →