Pro-invasion and pro-peace groups in the area have some plans - some tentative, some firm - for what they'll do to get their message out in the next few weeks.

The North Dakota Federation of College Republicans, which held a pro-Bush "Unity" rally at the State Capitol Feb. 19 doesn't have any plans for additional rallies. Spokesman Joe Miller said the group is busy right now preparing for its convention. But he said if it's noticed that there's a "huge thrust" of anti-Bush sentiment in the next two or three weeks, the group will probably hold another rally.

"We'll do something. I just don't know what yet," Miller said.

The North Dakota Peace Coalition - which held a peace rally at the State Capitol Feb. 15, and last Sunday had a candlelight vigil at McCabe United Methodist Church - will continue to have pro-peace vigils from 12:30 to 1 p.m. on Thursdays, said Brian Palecek, a coalition member. Participants of the "We in Black Vigils" gather on the south end of the State Capitol grounds next to Boulevard Avenue. They dress in black and stand silently in a row, looking out at the street.

Palecek said that if and when war breaks out, an immediate peace rally will be held in Fargo, organized by the Red River Anti-War Coalition, he said. It's hoped that people will support that effort by traveling to Fargo, if possible, to participate in it, Palecek said.

According to the Red River's Web site, if war breaks out, anti-war protesters are to converge at 5 p.m. that day at Fargo's downtown post office. If the war starts in the evening, the anti-war rally will take place at 5 p.m. the following day.

On the Web site it states that if war breaks out, protest efforts need to be stepped up - that the anti-war movement doesn't end, that it's just the beginning: "It took years for the protest movement in the 1960s and 1970s to put a halt to the Vietnam War."