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Lake Superior Day
Military Waste Barrels Campaign
Walk for the Lake
Sunday, July 20, 2008
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Duluth, Minnesota
Brighton Beach to Canal Park (6.5 mi.)
&/or
Leif Erikson Park to Canal Park (1.5 mi.)
Start longer leg:
Brighton Beach to Leif Erikson Park (5 mi.)
10:00 a.m. converge
11:00 start
1:30 arrive at Leif Erikson
Start shorter leg:
Leif Erikson Park to Canal Park (1.5 mi.)
2:00 start – 3:00 arrive Canal Park
Finish: 3:30 Canal Park with rally & music
We want sediment testing now!
Contact: Nukewatch
nukewatch@lakeland.ws
(715) 472-4185
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
Witness Against War 2008
Peace Walk
From Chicago, through Wisconsin, to St. Paul, Minnesota to challenge and nonviolently resist our country’s continuing war in and occupation of Iraq.
July 12 – start at NOON from Grant Park in Chicago – site of the 1968 Democratic Party convention in the midst of the Vietnam war. The walk will conclude on August 31 in St. Paul – in time for the start of the 2008 Republican Party convention in the midst of the Iraq war.
Detailed information about the walk:
http://vcnv.org/witness-against-war
Sign up as a support person or day-walker:
http://vcnv.org/signup-waw
Visit the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice website for dates, stops & point-contacts along the way:
www.wnpj.org & www.wnpj.org/event/2008/7
Become a part of this historic event
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
1249 W. Argyle Street, #2, Chicago, IL 60640
Phone: (773) 878-3815
Email: info@vcnv.org attn: Dan Pearson
July 12, 2008
7:00 p.m. First evening gathering:
Potluck - St. Gertrude’s Social Hall
1401 W. Granville, Chicago
Seeds of Peace
Free Action Camp
July 5 - 13, 2008
Anathoth Community Farm
740 Round Lake Road
Luck, Wisconsin
anathothcommunityfarm.org
This camp is for all those who demand an end to the illegal war in Iraq; for those who don’t support the return to a nuclear program for our country; for those who seek an end to unjust economic practices. This camp is for those who seek meaningful ways of organizing our communities and direct ways of voicing our political program of peace, justice and economic freedom for all. The Camp will be located at Anathoth Community Farm near Luck, Wisconsin, home of Nukewatch.
Nonviolent Action Camp
The Free Action Camp will include trainings in nonviolence, direct action, community organizing, blockades, mobile kitchens, group consensus decision-making, legal defense, affinity groups, street theater, jail support and other topics. The dates for the Seeds Of Peace Free Action Camp are July 6-13, with a dinner and orientation on the night of the 5th. The Direct Action Camp is free and open to all. Seeds Of Peace is requesting donations to help cover costs.
Wilderness First Responder and
Action Medical Training
Immediately following the Free Action Camp, Seeds is sponsoring a full Wilderness First Responder/Action Medical training, open to anyone interested in learning to provide certified first aid for the activist community.
The staff of Aerie School Of Backcountry Medicine, based in Missoula, Montana, will teach the Wilderness First Responder section, which will be nationally certified. All of our trainers are EMT’s or WFR’s and are long-time medics. Because Aerie supports the work we do, they have offered us a substantial discount on their usual fee.
The fee for this course is $450.00.
July 5th to the 13th
for the Action Camp
July 15th to the 24th
for the Wilderness First Responder training
July 25th to the 27th
for the Action Medical section training
Registration forms for the Wilderness First Responder course, and information about the Free Action Camp: seedsofpeace@riseup.net
Rally for Peace
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NO ATTACK ON
March marked the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war and people from all walks of life gathered in cities around the country in a national expression of the breadth and depth of antiwar sentiment in this nation. For many people, it was their first step in transforming their antiwar feelings into antiwar action. Regional actions enable larger numbers of people to participate.
People everywhere want the war to end, but Washington has failed to take decisive action. With each passing month, the Iraq disaster claims the lives of nearly 100 service people and countless Iraqis as it drains billions of our tax-dollars. Our communities are neglected and suffer the consequences.
KEEP WORKING FOR PEACE
See the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice for actions and vigils in Wisconsin
For actions and events nationwide visit http://unitedforpeace.org/article.php?list=type&type=28
Peace and Justice
Studies Association
The Peace and Justice Studies Association is pleased to announce
that its annual conference will be hosted at: Portland State University
in Portland, Oregon, in collaboration with the Peace and Conflict Studies Consortium
from September 11-14, 2008.
The conference theme of “Building Cultures of Peace” will explore historical, current and potential future elements of the local, regional, national and transnational struggles toward peace and justice by peaceable means.
Streams & Sessions: There will be twelve categories (streams) representing aspects of the Conference Theme, including a film section and authorial book reading section. Each stream will have sessions 90 minutes in length which focus upon a topic relevant to that stream.
The twelve streams for conference proposals included the following: Peace Education in Colleges and Universities; Peace Education from Birth through High School; Women, Gender and Sexuality; Race, Class and Intersectionality; Art, Media and Communications; Responding to Genocide and War; Theories of Nonviolence and Conflict Resolution; Grassroots Organizing, Coalitions and Movements; Environmental Sustainability and Alternative Futures; Faith and Peace; Film; Authorial Book Readings.
For more information, please contact us at pjsa@usfca.edu.
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On September 9 and 10 CANVAS will conduct its first North American nonviolent campaign design training at Portland State University. The training is a Peace and Justice Studies Association preconference event sponsored by the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
For more on CANVAS:
http://www.canvasopedia.org/content/about/about.htm
This is a free training but is limited to successful applicants. CANVAS trainers are all veterans of successful nonviolent campaigns (e.g. overthrow of Milosevic in Serbia, ending apartheid in South Africa). Apply online now:
http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/
VETERANS FOR PEACE
Annual National Convention
August 27 to 30
Bloomington, Minnesota
Ramada Inn
Registration info:
NATIONAL: 314-725-6005
LOCAL CHAPTER 27: 612-821-9141
www.twincitiesvfp.org
Email: vfpchapter27@gmail.com
Nevada Desert Experience
PROTECT - HEAL - PRESERVE
August 7-9, 2008
NDE’s 2008 August Desert Witness
and Environmental Justice Teach-in
“Earth, Wind, Fire, Water”
Christ Episcopal Church
2100 S Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada
Featuring Colonel Ann Wright
and other speakers
Please register by June 30th.
Email <megan@NevadaDesertExperience.org>
or mail to: NDE, ATTN: ADW08, 1420 W. Bartlett Ave
Las Vegas, NV 89106
(suggested donation $20, optional) www.NevadaDesertExperience.org (702) 646-4814
