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SIGN-ON for Peace Campaign

Background
To protest the continued US occupation of Iraq, on the March 2006 third anniversary of the war, Women Against War organized a campaign to decorate the Capital District with a billboard and 1700 free matching yard signs. 
 

·        Participating organizations gathered below the huge billboard on Central Avenue in Albany for a media conference.  Women Against War’s statement stressed that Iraqis and US GIs both supported bringing the troops home. Sign-On for Peace Media Statement. 



·        On March 15^th, in a coordinated action, lawns blossomed across the Capital Region with yard signs for peace.

     Women Against War recruited 24 other peace and justice organizations to support the campaign by distributing the yard signs and contributing toward expenses. In the fall of 2006, a sister organization, Hamilton Fulton Montgomery Peace and Justice, carried on the effort, distributing 1000 more yard signs across the region.

  Women Against War involved many organizations - faith, labor, peace and justice - in distributing the free yard signs across the region: