2003.72.18

The two-sided post card is a call for Emergency Mass Nonviolent Direct Action and Protest. It reads "If War Starts Morning of the next business day @ 7:00 Am meet: Market and Main, Embarcadero BART, S.F." On the other side, the title says "If War Start What You Can Do" below which is a list of actions the public is encouraged to take in the event of war with Iraq.

More than 1,300 anti-war activists were arrested in San Francisco when they blocked streets and struggled with police in a civil disobedience campaign protesting the US invasion of Iraq, in March 2003. Thousands of roving protesters blocked intersections across the city centre and bound themselves together in a bid to resist arrest. The arrests began along with the protests early the morning of Friday, March 21, 2003 and continued well into the evening as demonstrators attempted to block one of the city's main thoroughfares, the Bay Bridge.