Our Top 12 Accomplishments (during the first 2 years):
(Many events were joint efforts)

1. 2/15/03: The San Jose March and Rally to Stop the War!
The largest anti-war rally in San Jose history (over 5,000 people).

2. 2/20/04: San Jose March and Rally to End the Occupation of Iraq!

3. Successfully lobbied San Jose City Council and Santa Clara County
Board of Supervisors to pass resolutions against the War on Iraq.

4. Successfully lobbied San Jose City Council and the Santa Clara County
Board of Supervisors to pass resolutions against the USA PATRIOT Act.

5. Placed anti-war ads in local newspapers, been on local and international
television, radio, and even on the front page of San Jose Mercury News!

6. Politicians seem to prefer the South Bay when they come to visit.
We have been there every time to protest not only George W. Bush
(more than once) and John Kerry, but also most recently, John Ashcroft.
Note: SBM is a non-partisan organization and doesn't endorse candidates.

7. We publicly presented our demands to Lockheed Martin to inspect their
facility for Weapons of Mass Destruction. We publicly presented our
demands to the US Attorney to prosecute Bush administration officials
for war crimes, genocide and crimes against the peace and humanity.
We supported the Mexican farmers to protest the WTO in Cancun, Mexico (flyer)
and supported local peace activists protesting the RNC in New York City (flyer).

8. SBM has established several on-going programs to educate the public
and ourselves, including SBM Movie Night, the SBM Exploration Series,
and the SBM Lecture Series, and we support the Think First! Military
Counter-Recruitment Program at www.JustThinkFirst.org.

9. We have shown major progressive documentary films to educate
the public and ourselves, with our two biggest events being,
"Jenin, Jenin" (flyer) at Camera 3 with over 300 attendees, and also
"The 1953 CIA Coup in Iran" with over 150 attendees. When the
Pentagon showed the film "Battle of Algiers" (flyer) to its own staff,
SBM showed that film here as well. As the Bush administration's
rhetoric against Venezuela increased, we showed the film,
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (flyer) about the attempted
coup of the democratically elected government of Venezuela.
We put on a Palestinian documentary series to educate everyone
about the Palestinian people's struggle against occupation.

10. We have hosted speakers to talk about US foreign policy and the War on Iraq (flyer), patriotism and propaganda (flyer), the media, media distortion of Palestine (flyer), electoral politics (flyer), electronic voting (flyer), depleted uranium (flyer), the war on our civil rights (flyer), and the PATRIOT Act (flyer), report backs from Iraq (flyer), (and another, flyer), report backs from protests against the WTO (flyer) and the RNC (flyer) and others. Our largest event was Greg Palast's talk on 4/28/03 with over 350 attendees, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" (flyer).

11. Web site and email outreach:
The SBM web site is now visited on average by over 225 people every day.
5/01/03 : SBM web site was the Web-Site-of-the-Day at www.CounterPunch.org.
Our home page that day described our next day Bush Protest, 5/2/04.
12/31/03: Almost 500 articles on Global Warming are now on the web site.
SBM sends out a weekly email calendar to thousands of people about
local and regional events of interest, keeping all of us informed.

12. On Oct. 16, 2003, the California State Legislature recognized the
South Bay Mobilization for its dedication to peace and social justice.