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War and Peace

"Witness Against War" Walkers on their way

By borges, Section War and Peace
Posted on Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 03:39:10 PM CST

The Witness Against War walkers who are making their way from Chicago to St. Paul have visited the Governor's office, reached Mauston and will be in La Crosse soon:

MEET THE WALKERS
Thursday August 14 2008
La Crosse Main Library
6:30 - 8:30 PM
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Sponsored by:
Voices for Creative Nonviolence (vcnv.org)
and Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
(wnpj.org).

They will be here in the La Crosse area
Aug 13 and 14th.
Call 773-878-3815 for more information.

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Hiroshima Remembrance in La Crosse

By borges, Section War and Peace
Posted on Sat Jul 26, 2008 at 09:09:18 PM CST

The Interfaith Justice and Peace Group, Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Lutheran Office for Justice and Peace, Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee, Nukewatch are sponsoring this year's remembrance of the first use of a nuclear weapon. Details below, and for more information, call 786-2816.

hiroshima_flyer_2008.pdf

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Witness Against War Peace Walk--Coming close to the Valley

By borges, Section War and Peace
Posted on Mon Jul 14, 2008 at 10:15:38 PM CST

Witness_Against_War_2008 is a walk from Chicago to St. Paul to challenge and to nonviolently resist the continuing war in and occupation of Iraq. The route will go through Sparta to La Crosse and so is close to our region.

Witness Against War 2008: Map of Route / Dates | Voices for Creative Nonviolence

July 12 is the start date. The journey will begin in the City of 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.

The image of the route above is an interactive_map on their website that estimates the timing of their arrival in our area. Email contacts and other info are on their site, so if you want to join in for part of the walk double check their progress to ensure a good connection.

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Seymour Hersh: The secret war in Iran and WI Games

By borges, Section War and Peace
Posted on Sun Jul 06, 2008 at 08:49:09 PM CST

A couple of hat tips to UppityWis on these new items (video and NYer_article) from Seymour Hersh and his work on the Iran story, plus the latest on the Summerfest flap with the army's virtual reality game of shooting people from a Humvee (simulation.)

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Love and War and Peace

By Edward Barlow, Section War and Peace
Posted on Sun Jun 08, 2008 at 06:06:39 AM CST

Along with countless other violent activities, scholars count over 15,000 brutal, bloody, and senseless wars in the last 5,500 years of recorded history; and there seems to be no end in sight. So, is there a connection between these perpetual wars and the perpetual "war between the sexes"?

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Mother's Day

By borges, Section War and Peace
Posted on Sun May 11, 2008 at 05:21:08 PM CST

[From Anita for mom's day...]

The Originator of Mother's Day .... Julia Ward Howe..not Hallmark.
Please take a moment to read her profound words this Mother's Day...spread the Word...Peace

Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870
by Julia Ward Howe
Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.

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Mother's Day stand for peace

By borges, Section War and Peace
Posted on Wed May 07, 2008 at 06:36:47 AM CST

MOTHER'S DAY MAY 11 - 1:00 PM at CAMERON PARK

Standing Women Global Village, a tradition that began with women from Ohio, call upon the women of the world, from day-old babies to most senior elders both male and female, to stand with us to save the world. Invite all who you care about the future of the world to join you.

Please stand for five minutes of silence at 1:00 p.m. on May 11, 2008, at Cameron Park to signify your agreement with the statement below. You are invited to bring a bell to ring at to signify the beginning of the five minutes of silence and to ring again to signify the end of the period of silence.

During the silence, please think about what you individually and we collectively can do to attain the world described below. If you need to sit rather than stand, please feel free to do so.

Afterwards, hopefully you and your loved ones can talk together about how we can bring about this world .... not only a world of hope but peace as well.
This is part of a worldwide movement http://www.standingwomen.org
STAND WITH US MAY 11 MOTHERS DAY AT 1PM - CAMERON PARK

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Peace Calendar Podcast

By borges, Section War and Peace
Posted on Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 10:20:53 AM CST

Our technical wizard at Radio Driftless created the system for the peace calendar to be available as a podcast. Anyone interested in listening to the calendar and now wanting to adhere to the specific times it plays on the webstream can now access it through this feature.

A link can be found on the Archives and Podcasts page and one on the Peace Calendar Transcripts page. You can't miss it! Or if you do, below is what you are looking for...

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

(www.radiodriftless.org.)

The dated links launch an mp3 file in Quicktime or you can click the RSS to actually have it cast to your computer. Also I'd like to request that any of you with projects and events that relate to peace would send the information to me so that I can include it in the weekly peace calendar. Send it to me at headphones/at/radiodriftless/dot/org.
Blessings,
Marcia

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