Peace Action Cleveland Featured Events

Gather the Women to Save the World

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:10:06 +0100

Gather the Women to Save the World - Join the gathering at Edgewater Park, the upper level, at 6:30 AM on Tuesday, June 19, for a sunrise prayer for peace.

We meditate together, envisioning a world without violence. Call Kathy Baker at 216-383-1684 for more information.

Stories from the Other War: Observing Hope in Columbia

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:50:08 +0100

Friday June 22 - Stories from the Other War: Observing Hope in Columbia - PHOTOGRAPHY, COFFEE, MUSIC, FUN. St . Paul Community Church, 4427 Franklin Blvd. International Peace Observatory and IRTF Details and Flyer

Summer Supper Seminar

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:40:33 +0100

Thursday, June 21 - SUMMER SUPPER SEMINAR AT EDGEWATER PARK - Potluck picnic honoring summer Solstice, drumming, poetry reading and socializing. 6:30 to 8:30pm, upper pavilion inside Edgewater Park, Cleveland. This is a part of the Summer Supper Seminar organized by Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice. Other Summer Supper Seminar programs will meet at the friends' Meeting House on Magnolia Street in the University Circle as usual. Dates: July 5, July 19, August 2.

Directions: From East: take West Shoreway, pass downtown area and continue taking right lane until you reach the end of the Shore Way. You will see the park and picnic area from the Shore Way. Follow the natural exit way and turn right at the first stop and enter the park and follow the long driveway going eastward.

From West. Follow Lake Avenue, pass Cove Ave. and West Blvd.
junctions. At the beginning of the West Shore Way turn left at the traffic light. You can see the park entrance driveway on your right. Enter the park and follow the long driveway through the park going east.

See you there. E-mail _yikuta@aol.com_
(mailto:yikuta@aol.com) or _veggiepark@sbcglobal.net_
(mailto:veggiepark@sbcglobal.net) for more information.

Rumage Sale

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:50:30 +0100

Friday and Saturday. June 29 & 30 - Cleveland Peace Action Rummage Sale - Noble Rd. Presbyterian Church, Cleveland Hts. (2780 Noble Rd.), Times: Friday 11:00am - 6:00pm, Saturday 9:00am - 3:00pm. Those interested in donating items or helping out during the sale and/or for set up on Thursday, June 28th, contact either: David Berenson - (216) 321-9201, DavidB@Berenson.net or Nelli Johnson - (216)

Rummage Sale

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:52:32 +0100

Summer Supper Seminar

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:32:33 +0100

Thursday, July 19 - "Peace in Pieces: Is Resolution Possible? Personal Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" Summer Supper Seminar at Peace House - Pot Luck Supper at 6:30pm - Program at 7:30 pm

This presentation will include a brief historical synopsis of the US role in major 20th century events in the Middle East, our observations from a trip a year ago to Beirut, Damascus, Jerusalem, and the West Bank, and comments about current obstacles to peace making. Douglas and Mary Ann Kerr, sponsored by Cleveland Peace Action

PAND Concert

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:56:57 +0100

PAND Concert

Monday, August 6, 2007, 8:00pm

Fairmount Presbyterian Church [corner Fairmount and Coventry

The Passion Arias of J.S.Bach, a program of arias with instrumental obbligato from the composer's liturgical works, conductor Kelly Corcoran. This concert is for the benefit of Cleveland Peace Action Education and American Friends Service Committee. For information call 216 321-4259. details/download flyer

Remembering 9/11

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:28:37 +0100

Remembering 9/11: Come Together - The People and the Power of Peace

Antioch Baptist Church

An intercommunity, interfaith worship service remembering September 11, 2001. Reflections, prayers, and music from many faith traditions: Budist, Catholic, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Protestant, Sikh, Unitarian.

Details and Flyer

Channel 5 Covers 9/11 Service

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:30:29 +0100

Rev. Felix Carrion and Imam Abbas Ahmad will be discussing 9/11 service on Channel 5's Kaleidoscope.

Peace Vigil

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:59:27 +0100

Thursday, July 19 - Gather the Women to Save the World - Join the gathering at Edgewater

Park, the upper level, at 6:30 AM on Tuesday, June 19, for a sunrise prayer for peace. We

meditate together, envisioning a world without violence. Call Kathy Baker at 216-383-1684

or E-mail for more information.

Hiroshima Day

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:07:01 +0100

Commemoration of Hiroshima Day

Peace is in Our Hands

Saturday, August 4 - 6:30pm

Rockefeller Park (the pond) on Martin Luther King Blvd. and E. 105th St.

This commemoration will include: live music, Buddhist chanting, live performances by local artists, speakers, and lantern making. The ceromony will conclude by floating our lanterns on the water at the pond and having a moment of silence. This practice is a long time Buddhist tradition to remember the souls of those passed, used since the Hiroshima tragedy to also commemorate those who specifically died in this nuclear holocaust.

For more information contact Elizzabeth at 216-231-4245 or Email

Fundraising Comm Mtg

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:36:55 +0100

Crane Folding/Events Mtg.

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:38:27 +0100

Help the events committee fold paper cranes for Hiroshima day.

Film: The Day After Trinity

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:11:11 +0100

Film night at St. Augustine Church (West 14th Street in Tremont), in commemoration of the tens of thousands of lives sacrificed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

One of the most incredible documentaries ever produced, The Day After Trinity, is a haunting journey through the dawn of the nuclear age, an incisive history of humanity's most dubious achievement and the man behind it--J. Robert Oppenheimer, the principal architect of the atomic bomb. Featuring archival footage and commentary from scientists and soldiers directly involved with the Manhattan Project, this gripping film is a fascinating look at the scope and power of the Nuclear Age.

-Tim Musser for Cleveland Pax Christi and St Augustine Church

Meet and Greet Jane Platten

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:02:59 +0100

Meet the new director of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections at a town hall meeting sponsored by the Greater Cleveland Voter Coalition.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at the Laborers Local 310 Hall,
3250 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland beginning at 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland Peace Action is a member and sponsor of the Greater Cleveland Voter Coalition. The meeting is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served be from 5-5:30.

Cleveland Peace Show

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:32:48 +0100

Cleveland Peace Show

Noon to 6:00pm

Labor Day Monday September 3, 2007

Willard Park, E 9th St. and Lakeside Ave

The Free Stamp

Rain Location: Cleveland State University

Peace Rocks! Live music by the I-TAL

New KidsStage

2nd annual Peace Plane Launch

Presentation by Eyes Wide Open and much more

Details and Flyer

Voinovich Double Talk Express

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:26:33 +0100

Sen. Voinovich spoke out against the Iraq War but when it came to voting, he was for it. Send him a message - noon at Voinovich Park in Cleveland and 3pm at Rep. LaTourette's office, on the square in Painesville.

Join this tour of the mobile billboard (below) which calls on Senator Voinovich to back up his talk with his vote. Sponsored by Iraq Summer and Progress Ohio, with support from Cleveland Peace Action.

Full tour schedule for today is: 10a: Elyria- Ely Park Corner of Middle Ave and Broad Street- Noon: Cleveland- Voinovich Park, 800 E 9^th Street - 3p: Painesville- In front of LaTourette' district office, 1 Victoria Place - 5:30p: Youngstown- Youngstown Federal Plaza

In 24 hours, Progress Ohio received over 700 votes in the Voinovich Double Talk Express Slogan Contest!

Votes have been tallied and the winner is: Tracy Meisky of Columbus, Ohio.

The Voinovich Double Talk Express will kick off on Tuesday, August 21 at 10am. Please join us at one or all of the stops!

Voinovich Double Talk Express

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:14:36 +0100

8a: Akron- Federal Courthouse Plaza, 2 South Main Street - 10a: Mansfield- Hamilton Park, off Route 30 and Fern Road - 1p: Columbus- ProgressOhio office, 251 S. 3^rd Street - 4p: Cincinnati- City Hall (Plum Street side), 801 Plum Street

Sen. Voinovich spoke out against the Iraq War but when it came to voting, he was for it. Send him a message. Join this tour of the mobile billboard (below) which calls on Senator Voinovich to back up his talk with his vote. Sponsored by Iraq Summer and Progress Ohio, with support from Cleveland Peace Action.

In 24 hours, Progress Ohio received over 700 votes in the Voinovich Double Talk Express Slogan Contest!

Votes have been tallied and the winner is: Tracy Meisky of Columbus, Ohio.

The Voinovich Double Talk Express will kick off on Tuesday, August 21 at 10am. Please join us at one or all of the stops!

Voinovich Double Talk Express

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:24:33 +0100

10a: Dayton- Cooper Park, E. 2^nd Street and St. Clair Street -1p: Lima- Town Square in front of City Hall, 50 Town Square -3p: Toledo- In front of the Toledo Blade, 541 N. Superior Street

In 24 hours, Progress Ohio received over 700 votes in the Voinovich Double Talk Express Slogan Contest!

Votes have been tallied and the winner is: Tracy Meisky of Columbus, Ohio.

The Voinovich Double Talk Express will kick off on Tuesday, August 21 at 10am. Please join us at one or all of the stops!

Take A Stand Against the War

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:17:05 +0100

Vigils in Cleveland Hts, Tremont, Chagrin Falls, Akron, Painesville (see below) - details at MoveOn.org

Today is a national day for over 40 pro-endless war legislators to listen to their constituents. We will meet with Congressman Steve LaTourette in Painesville and call on him to end the war.

Eastern Cleveland Take A Stand

Tuesday, August 28 at 7:00 PM

Veterans Park Gazebo at 7 Richmond Street

Town Square in Painesville, OH

Take A Stand is a national day for over 40 pro-endless war legislators to listen to their constituents and end the war. We will meet with Congressman Steve LaTourette and call on him to Take A Stand with his constituents and not with George W. Bush's reckless and endless war in Iraq.

We'll also be doing a 24-hour candlelight stakeout before Take A Stand adding to the drama and force Congressman LaTourette to come and face his constituents. If you're
interested in taking part of the candlelight stakeout, email L.M. Clinton at ohio5@iraqsummer.org or call him at 202-421-0239.

March and Rally to End the War - Washington, DC

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:33:26 +0100

Bus from Cleveland, $45, departs 11pm, Friday

Buses will be leaving Cleveland at 11:30
PM on Friday, Sept. 28, from Gordon Square, W.65th and
Detroit. Parking is available off of W.65th (northwest
quadrant) but the buses will be on Detroit. Tickets are $45
with some subsidies available. For more information call
216/531-4004 or email <pfcenter@sbcglobal.net>. Make checks
out to Peoples Fightback Center and mail to Peoples
Fightback Center, P.O. Box 5963, Cleveland OH 44101.

September 29, 2007 March Info:

<http://www.troopsoutnow.org/>
<http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_24999.shtml>

Women in the Military

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:56:07 +0100

Join Women Speak Out for a conversation about Women and War.

GENERAL MEETING: Thursday, September 20, 2007,
Women Speak Out For Peace and Justice, The Cleveland Chapter of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

WOMEN IN THE MILITARY:Facilitated by Mary Reynolds Powell,Captain Army Nurse Corps, Vietnam 1970-71, Author, A World of Hurt: Between Innocence and Arrogance in Vietnam

Refreshments: 6:45 PM, Program 7:15 PM

Trinity Commons, 2230 Euclid Ave, enter from Prospect

Free and Open to the Public, for more information, contact Linda Park, 216-851-0968

Iraq and Iran: What Next? Panel discussion and community dialogue

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:05:54 +0100

What are current US policies re Iraq and Iran, and what are the down-sides of pursuing them? If these policies are ineffective, what are reasonable alternatives?

What’s happening politically: in congress, in the presidential race, in the media?

What are the implications for the Middle East region, for “real security”, and for peace movement strategy?

PARTICIPANTS: our panel and you!

Our panel includes:

· Peter Moore, CWRU professor of political Science

· Norman Robbins, CWRU Professor Emeritus, Coordinator CASE for Peace; Cleveland Peace Action Advocacy Committee

· Francis Chiappa, Adjunct Faculty Member in the Department of Psychology, CSU and Cleveland Peace Action President

· Nina McLellan, Cleveland Peace Action Advocacy Chair

7:30 pm at Peace House, 10916 Magnolia Dr., Cleveland - in University Circle, free on-street parking after 6 pm. Stay for refreshments and conversation.

Gather the Women to Save the World

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:13:30 +0100

Prayer and meditation at Ghandi statue.

Sept. 21 is the International Day of Peace. The Ghandi statue is in the Indian Cultural Garden, Rockefeller Park, on Martin Luther King Blvd. Join us for 45 minutes, starting at 6:30 am.
Call Kathy at 216-383-1684 for more details.

Potluck for Members & Volunteers

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:29:04 +0100

Share a meal, discuss the issues, connect with like-minded people.

At Peace House, 10916 Magnolia Dr., Cleveland - in University Circle.

SPECIAL OFFER: Come the the potluck and get a free T-shirt - any T-shirt in stock - if you are a 2007 Peace Action member, or if you join/renew at this potluck.

Come meet and eat with new and old CPA volunteers, members, boardmembers, and staff. This is your opportunity to ask questions about Cleveland Peace Action and how you can be involved. We'll also learn about what Iraq Summer is planning next. You can pick up free Iraq Summer yard and window signs and bumperstickers (Support the Troops - End the War; Iraq War - Wrong Way).

The Israeli Lobby and US Foreign Policy

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:32:42 +0100

Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer at Cleveland City Club at noon and CWRU's Ford Auditorium at 7pm, followed by a book signing.

The Case event is free and open to the public.

Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt

On Wednesday September 26, 2007, at 7 PM, in Ford Auditorium, on the Case Western Reserve University campus, two foremost international relations scholars, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, will discuss their new major work The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy. Originally published as an article in the London Review of Books in March 2006, The Israel Lobby has entered the canon of contemporary political culture while it provoked both howls of outrage and cheers of gratitude for challenging what had been a taboo subject for the American press and frequently within academia: the power and impact of AIPAC, the American Israeli Political Action Committee. Professors Mearsheimer and Walt contend that AIPAC has a far-reaching influence on America's image throughout the Middle East,in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and upon the players in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mearsheimer and Walt argue that these policies, encouraged and supported by AIPAC, are neither in America's national interest nor Israel's long-term interest. Further, the lobbys influence affects Americas relationship with European and Asian allies, increasing dangers that all states face from global terror.

In this major work of scholarship, heavily documented and researched, Mearsheimer and Walt deepen and expand the argument of their earlier article, and confront recent developments in Lebanon and Iran, as a further imposition of AIPAC upon US foreign policy. No lobby, they write, has managed to divert US foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that US and Israeli interests are essentially identical. They describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel (more than $23,000 per Israeli in 2007), concluding that this support cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds. AIPAC counters that such aid to Israel has long been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy and is a cost-effective way of ensuring that America's closest ally in the Middle East can defend itself against regional threats. Like President Jimmy Carter, Mearsheimer and Walt have faced ugly and unsubstantiated allegations of racism and anti-Semitism for drawing attention to the imbalance in US Middle East policy and AIPACs clout.

Who They Are and What They Wrote

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago. He has published several books, includingThe Tragedy of Great Power Politics.

Stephen M. Walt is the Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and was academic dean of the Kennedy School from 2002 to 2006. He is the author of Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy, among other books.

Peace Action Fundraiser Lunch/Dinner at Johnny Mango

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:32:58 +0100

Just go to Johnny Mango's Restaurant, 3120 Bridge Ave., Ohio City for lunch or dinner, anytime on Monday, October 22. The Cleveland Peace Action Board will try to arrive at 6pm. Just tell them you're with Cleveland Peace Action, show the server your copy of the flyer, and you will be donating a portion of the bill to CPA, while enjoying some wonderful, healthy and unique Carribean and Central American influenced cuisine.

Please print the following flyer and bring it with you to insure that CPA receives credit for your purchases. Jonny Mango Flyer

Army of None

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:26:45 +0100

ARMY OF NONE Book Tour Comes to C-Space, 7pm

**Cosponsored by NOAC and C-Space

44th and Clark, Cleveland

Join Army Vet Aimee Allison and Global Justice Organizer and puppeteer David Solnit in celebrating their book release and launching a 40-city tour to support local counter recruitment and anti-war efforts.

Come hear what other communities and activists are doing to demystify the tactics of high school and college campus
military recruiters. Without deception, illegal wars cannot be waged; without soldiers, occupation is impossible.

www.noacinfo.org for more info

NOAC Concert 5 Years of War

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:29:31 +0100

North East Ohio Anti-War Coalition (NOAC)

presents

A BENEFIT CONCERT

5 YEARS OF WAR:

WE WILL NOT BE SILENT!

Celebrate the Resistance!

With musical guests:
Charlie Mossbrook, Sue Jeffers, Zach, Victoria Parks, and Mifune

$10 / $12 day of show

Beachland Ballroom

02.10.08 7pm

North East Ohio Anti-War Coalition (NOAC)
for tickets and more info: noacinfo@aol.com

Click here for Flyer

ENOUGH protest

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:40:06 +0100

“ENOUGH” protest

Every Sunday

Noon-1 PM

E.9th and Lakeside, Cleveland

Once again, Kathy Hazelton and I and our husbands (we who have sons in the military) will be heading up this Sunday's ENOUGH protest from noon till 1 pm at E.9th and Lakeside Downtown (near the FREE stamp). This is a PERSISTENT (not one shot) grassroots (not sponsored by any organization) effort to awaken Mr. and Mrs. Ordinary American to the fact that there's trouble in paradise and that citizen action is required. We simply stand with our signs that Say ENOUGH (or IMPEACH) to give visibility to what so many people are thinking but can't figure out what to do about it.

There is a good amount of traffic at that corner on Sundays because of visitors to the Rock Hall and Great Lakes Science Center, and reactions are mostly positive. You can park for free at the meters nearby on E.9th or on Lakeside going east. It does your heart good to express yourself among likeminded people for just an hour a week. Bring your signs and join us!

ENOUGH protest

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:40:06 +0100

“ENOUGH” protest

Every Sunday

Noon-1 PM

E.9th and Lakeside, Cleveland

Bringing the War Home to Sen. Voinovich

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:05:00 +0100

Protest Sen. Voinovich's Ongoing Support of the Iraq War/Occupation

4:00 PM - Wildwood Park, 17206 Neff Rd., Cleveland

We call for Sen. Voinovich to end his support since 2003 for the Iraq war and for war funding (already more than $450 billion -- over $423 million from taxpayers in the City of Cleveland alone!)
We call on Sen. Voinovich to support the troops by bringing them home now!
We call on Sen. Voinovich to seek redirection of war spending to meet human and security needs of neighborhoods (housing, education, jobs, transportation, health care, infrastructure, etc.)

4:00 PM: Rally at Wildwood Park
4:30 PM: Short march to home of Sen. Voinovich
5:00 PM: Demonstration in front of Sen. Voinovich's home and delivery of "Sunday Dinner."

Sunday dinner delivery to Senator Voinovich will consist of:
- PORK - to represent the "pork" contracts in Iraq paid by US taxpayers to reconstruction corporations and military production corporations close to the Bush administration.
- BACON - to represent what Sen. Voinovich has not brought home to his neighborhood (money for infrastructure, health care, education, housing, transportation, energy, etc.).
- TURKEY - to represent what the Iraq war/occupation has been from day 1.
- WATER - to represent what the people of Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq do not have in sufficient quantity.
- OIL (olive, corn, or substitute) - to represent what the Iraq war/occupation has been about from the beginning.

Cleveland Peace Action supports the AIDS Walk

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:12:53 +0100

Cleveland Peace Action will be tabling and walking in the AIDS Walk - to sponsor, click here

Lois Becker Jewelry Fund Raiser

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:32:24 +0100

Lois will donate a significant portion of her sales to Cleveland Peace Action. Please print and bring the attached flyer to the show: Flyer

CASH OR CHECKS ONLY PLEASE, NO CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED

Lois Becker Jewelry Fund Raiser

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:41:53 +0100

Lois will donate a significant portion of her sales to Cleveland Peace Action. Please print and bring the attached flyer to the show: Flyer

CASH OR CHECKS ONLY PLEASE, NO CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED

Lois Becker Jewelry Fund Raiser

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:00:25 +0100

Lois will donate a significant portion of her sales to Cleveland Peace Action. Please print and bring the attached flyer to the show: Flyer

CASH OR CHECKS ONLY PLEASE, NO CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED

Lois Becker Jewelry Fund Raiser

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:57:42 +0100

Lois will donate a significant portion of her sales to Cleveland Peace Action. Please print and bring the attached flyer to the show: Flyer

CASH OR CHECKS ONLY PLEASE, NO CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED

Weekly Peace Vigil

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:22:42 +0100

At West Side Market. Bring signs, flags, or banners and stand for peace with other concerned individuals from around our area. Meet at the main parking-lot entrance to the market, every Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m

Gather the Women

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:47:12 +0100

Gather the Women to Save the World

Wednesday, October 24, 7:45-8:30AM

Trinity Cathedral chapel, 2230 Euclid Avenue

"Gather the Women to Save the World" will meet on October 24, United Nations Day, from 7:45-8:30AM in the Trinity Cathedral chapel, 2230 Euclid Avenue, to pray for peace and a world without violence. Enter the parking lot off of Prospect, behind the Cathedral.

Call Kathy at 216-383-1684 for more information.

National Mobilization to End the War in Iraq

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:47:58 +0100

Regional Action in Chicago, Illinois - 1 of 11 Massive Demonstrations for Peace - Boston, Chicago, Jonesborough, Tenn., Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Seattle.

Join the Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition (NOAC), United For Peace And Justice, Us Labor Against The War & Progressive Democrats Of America in a National Mobilization to end the war.

Buses from Cleveland to Chicago depart Saturday, October 27, 2007, 7:00 a.m., Laborer’s Hall (3250 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland) returning Sunday, October 28, early morning. Seats are $45 per person. Some financial help may be available. For reservations, call 216/736-4716, or e-mail: noacinfo@aol.com. You can also download and mail a reservation form with your check. Just follow the
mailing instructions on the reservation form. Go to
http://www.noacinfo.org

ENDORSED BY: US Labor Against the War, North Shore
Federation of Labor AFL-CIO, Progressive Democrats of
America, Peace Action, Veterans For Peace, ANSWER Chicago, Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice, Chicago Green Party, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Voices for Creative Non-Violence, Christian Peacemakers, and many others.

For a full list of endorsers and detailed information go to
http://www.oct27.org and click on the Chicago box.

Voter Registration Training

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:57:27 +0100

Voter Registration Training

The Greater Cleveland Voter Coalition

Three Free Training Sessions on Registering Voters

Thursday, Nov 8 at either 11:00 a.m. or 5:00 p.m. at the United Labor Agency, 3328 Carnegie Ave., Cleveland .

Or Saturday, Nov. 10 at 11:00 a.m. at the Shaker Hts Library (corner of Lee Road and Chagrin Blvd. Address: 16500 Van Aken Blvd.

These sessions are great refreshers for people who have done voter registration in the past, as well as for new people. Everyone is welcome, but please RSVP for the sessions at the Carnegie location to 216-391-0900, ext. 13, and for the Shaker Hts,. location at pearliving@ameritech.net. Sessions will include the latest information on rules and regs about voting, ID requirements, type of equipment in use, etc.

The Coalition plans to register voters on Saturday, Nov. 17 and Sat., Dec. 15. Times are 11a.m. to 3:00 p.m. both days. The Coalition will also register voters every Sat and Sun from Jan. through the end of registration in Oct. Please call 216-391-0900, ext. to volunteer or for more information.

Voter Registration Training

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:07:08 +0100

Voter Registration Training

The Greater Cleveland Voter Coalition

Three Free Training Sessions on Registering Voters

Thursday, Nov 8 at either 11:00 a.m. or 5:00 p.m. at the United Labor Agency, 3328 Carnegie Ave., Cleveland .

Or Saturday, Nov. 10 at 11:00 a.m. at the Shaker Hts Library (corner of Lee Road and Chagrin Blvd. Address: 16500 Van Aken Blvd.

First Year of Military Com. Act

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:29:58 +0100

Action on the 1 year anniversary

Passage of the Military Commissions Act

Stripping Away the Right of Habeas Corpus

4:30-5:50 PM, Federal Building

E. 9th and Lakeside, Cleveland.

Contact: mjm@noninourname.net

Sponsored by Not in Our Name and World Can’t Wait.

Protest BRUTALITY & REPRESSION

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:55:40 +0100

National Day of Protest

STOP Police Brutality, Repression,

and the

Criminalization of a Generation

Cleveland protest info:
4:30 pm Assemble at Luke Easter Park, in the parking lot near the corner of MLK and Kinsman
5:00 pm March down Kinsman to the 4th District Police Station

NOAC will be there with a banner. Join us!

In the short time between when you read this, and October 22, get organized. Contact the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation. Organize everyone you know and meet to wear black on October 22, and to be at the protest nearest you, or if there is not a protest in your area, organize one right now. Reach out to unions, neighborhood and social organizations, religious communities, teachers and students, and beyond.

More info: http://october22.org/

Vets for Peace Letter Readings

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:19:48 +0100

Veterans for Peace

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Letters Home from American Military Women & Men

Please Spread the Word!

On Sunday, November 11, 2007, at 1:30 pm, Veterans for
Peace, Chapter 39, will commemorate Veterans Day with a
program at the Peace Arch at the corner of Coventry Road and
Euclid Heights Blvd. in Cleveland Heights.

Veterans will read letters sent home by American military
women and men, past and present, who witnessed war at its
ground level. The public is encouraged to attend.

Veterans for Peace (VFP), founded in 1985, is a non-profit
educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the
abolishment of war. The Northeast Ohio Chapter, # 39, was
also started in 1985.

Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, its membership has grown to
forty-eight men and women who represent all eras of military
service and each war since World War II.

For additional information about VFP, call: 216/371-6056.
or write P.O. Box 181084, Cleveland Hts, Ohio 44118.
Come Join Us.

mary r. powell mailto: mary.r.powell@sbcglobal.net

Bridges to Peace

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:20:31 +0100

BUILDING BRIDGES TO PEACE

featuring

Anita Gray and Samir Mohammad

Ismael and Isaac, the sponsoring organization, is working to build successful coexistence between Cleveland's Arab and Jewish communities.

TRINITY CATHEDRAL

2230 EUCLID AVE., 7 PM

CALL 216-378-2204 FOR RESERVATION

The Faith Club: "What if Jewish, Christian and Muslim People Engaged in Conversation?"

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:02:16 +0100

The Faith Club: "What if Jewish, Christian and Muslim People Engaged in Conversation?"

Panelists, including Julia Shearson, will discuss the book, "The Faith Club" in which three mothers (Christian, Jewish and Moslem) discuss what to tell their children about what is common and different in their religions.

SHAKER HTS. LIBRARY

Wednesday, Nov 14, 2007, 7 PM

LEE AND VAN AKEN

Anna Baltzer

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:11:13 +0100

Anna will give her standard presentation with lots of photos for a program at CWRU SUNDAY, NOV. 18 from 1 to 4 pm at Adelbert Gym, 2128 Adelbert Rd.

(info: 513-324-5851 or 330-283-4057)

Also see Monday, November 19, 2007, Middle East Peace Forum

Middle East Peace Forum - Anna Baltzer

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:21:17 +0100

Middle East Peace Forum: A Dialogue With Anna Baltzer

On MONDAY, NOV. 19 Middle East Peace Forum will host a dialogue with Anna starting a 3 pm at the CAIR office, 2nd floor of Asian Plaza, E. 30th and Payne.

(more info: 440-884-0936) Thanks, Kim Hill

Anna Baltzer, is a Jewish-American, granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, Columbia University graduate, Fulbright scholar and volunteer with the International Women’s Peace Service.

She is touring the United States describing her experiences documenting human rights abuses in the West Bank and supporting Palestinian and Israeli nonviolent resistance to Israel's Occupation of Palestine. Anna’s presentation covers checkpoints, settlements, demonstrations, Israeli activism, environmental issues, the Sepa- ration Wall, and more. She provides photographic documentation and critical information which is often misrepresented or ignored in the U.S. media. Anna’s presentation encourages dialogue towards taking informed action.

In 2003, Anna Baltzer visited the West Bank to discover for herself the realities of daily life for Palestinians under the Occupation. What she found would change her outlook on the conflict forever. Baltzer lived and worked with farmers, Palestinian and Israeli peace activists, and the families of political prisoners, traveling with them across endless checkpoints and roadblocks to reach hospitals, universities, and olive groves. Anna's journal of her eight months in Palestine over a four year period is a compelling, trying, and inspiring description of daily
life under the Occupation.

Baltzer's book, Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories, reveals the truth about the Occupation and the countless everyday acts of nonviolent resistance that remain largely gnored by mainstream Western media. Her probing and honest examination of the Occupation and the pervasive spirit of nonviolence offers a fresh look at Palestine today.

"Moving and vivid." --Tanya Reinhart, Israeli activist and author of Israel/Palestine and Roadmap to Nowhere
"Captivating text and artistic photography... a deeply personal story that will inspire you not only to have hope but to actively seek and work for peace and justice." --Mazin Qumsiyeh, author of Sharing the Land of Canaan.
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ENOUGH protest

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:40:06 +0100

“ENOUGH” protest

Every Sunday

Noon-1 PM

E.9th and Lakeside, Cleveland

Iraq Moratorium - Chagrin Falls

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:37:05 +0100

Iraq Moratorium by Patriots for Change

Inspired by opposition to the Iraq war, the Iraq Moratorium which originated in California has now been organized in the Chagrin Valley. A small group of Patriots for Change met Thurs. evening, 11/8, at the home of Becky Thomas to put the details of a local campaign together. Our first demonstration will take place Sat. Nov. 17th in the Village of Chagrin Falls at 12:30. We will meet in front of Township Hall, so bring your homemade peace signs, your "Support the Troops - End the War" signs and join us.

We'll be passing out information about America's involvement in the Middle East, and we will continue meeting the third Saturday of every month until
we begin to pull our troops out of Iraq.We invite everyone to join us on the 3rd Saturday of every month at 12:30.Organizations who have joined the Iraq
Moratorium nationally include labor unions, Iraq and Viet Nam veterans, student groups, university professors, musicians, actors, and artists. For more info, email Becky Thomas at robrebthomas@sbcglobal.net. You can obtain
more information at the national website:
www.iraqmoratorium.org.

For more information click here.

Elliott Berenson
12801 Wellswood Trail
Chesterland OH 44026
440-729-8304

ellb@sbcglobal.net

film: Poison Dust WSO Meeting

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:54:02 +0100

Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice

General Meeting and film: Poison Dust

Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice, the Cleveland branch of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom General Meeting: Thursday, November 15, 2007

A Conversation on Women and War

View the film Poison Dust:
Radioactive Depleted Uranium Weapons in Iraq

Followed by a discussion

General Meetings:
Refreshments: 6:45 P.M. Program 7:15 P.M.

Note New Location
Peace House
10916 Magnolia Dr., University Circle Cleveland
Free and Open to the Public

Bringing the War Home to Sen. Voinovich

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:25:24 +0100

END THE IRAQ WAR & OCCUPATION NOW!

BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!

MONEY FOR CLEVELANDERS, NOT WAR

NO WAR ON IRAN!

Sunday, November 25, 2007 @2:00 PM

Meet at Wildwood Park and March to the Senator's Home

We will deliver a "Holiday card" to the Senator, saying

"THANKS, BUT NO THANKS"

The "THANKS" portion of the card will be signed by:

- US weapons contractors (i.e. Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman) -- which have seen profits explode since the start of the war and occupation.
- US reconstruction corporations (i.e. Halliburton, Bechtel, Blackwater) -- which have seen business boom to rebuild and provide security after the bombs were dropped and communities destroyed.
- The Bush/Cheney administration -- which has depended on Sen. Voinovich to support war, occupation, the troop "surge," and funding to bankroll the Iraqi quagmire.
- The Pentagon – which is very grateful for the over-$400 billion tax dollars Sen. Voinovich has approved for war and occupation.
- Supporters of US military empire - who've applauded the construction of numerous permanent military bases in Iraq and the largest (and most expensive) US Embassy in the world; as well as the Senator's vote to label a portion of Iran's military a "terrorist organization" -- paving the way for a military invasion.

The “NO THANKS” portion of the card will be signed by:

-Clevelanders who’ve seen $436 million of their tax dollars fund the Iraq war/occupation (and counting) rather than housing, health care, education, roads/bridges, and jobs in their neighborhoods.
- Residents who’d rather see funds invested in alternative and sustainable energy than the Iraq war/occupation.
- Voters who’d rather have tax dollars stay in their pockets than be flushed down the Iraq war rat-hole.
- Family members of troops in Iraq who believe their loved ones should not risk their lives for profit and empire.
- War veterans who believe the war is for profit, power and empire.
- Iraqi civilians - a million of whom have been killed, millions displaced, and many others poisoned by depleted uranium from US weapons.
- People of Middle Eastern background who’ve been stereotyped as possible “terrorists” and, thus, legitimate targets of spying, interrogation, imprisonment and worse.
- Ohioans who believe democracy should be fought for in our state and country --- and believe we don’t have much of it given that public officials like Sen. Voinovich continue to vote funds for the war when constituents want to see it end.

Join the Northeast Ohio Antiwar Coalition (NOAC) for another action in our effort to bring the war home to Senator Voinovich. We will meet at Wildwood Park In Cleveland (enter Cleveland Lakefront State Park at 8701 Lakeshore Blvd., go to end of entrance road and turn right, Wildwood Park is at end).

For more information, call 216-736-4716, or e-mail noacinfo@aol.com

[NOTE: We have flyers available for distribution. If you would some to pass around to your group or neighborhood, email noacinfo@aol.com with your name, number and email.]

Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition [NOAC]
Phone: 216-736-4716 Website: www.noacinfo.org Email: noacinfo@aol.com

WSO Holiday Bazaar

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:27:05 +0100

Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice 2007 Holiday Peace Festival and Bazaar - work of local artists for sale, peace and justice-oriented gifts, cards, calendars, T-shirts, books, plants, poinsettias, bake sale. Lunch: soup, chili, sandwiches.

Pilgrim Congregational Church, 2592 W. 14th St., Cleveland, in Tremont neighborhood adjacent to Lincoln Park, at Starkweather. Fully accessible. For info call 216-228-5790. Free admission/free parking.

Movie Night: Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:38:07 +0100

Movie Night: Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

St. Augustine church , 2486 West 14th St Tremont , Walsh Hall

Tuesday January 15, 7:00pm

We will show the superb film documentary Ghosts of Abu Ghraib. We intend to begin at 7 pm. Please try to be prompt. And please fwd this message widely.

"There is no such thing as a little bit of torture." -- Alfred W. McCoy, author "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror"

For more info on the film and/or to view the trailer go to:
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/ghostsofabughraib/synopsis.html

Tim Musser - for Pax Christi, Cleveland, Friends of peace through nonviolence

Gather the Women to Save the World

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:18:11 +0100

Gather the Women to Save the World will be meeting to pray for peace and meditate on nonviolence on Monday, December 10, International Human Rights Day, at 7:45AM in Trinity Cathedral Chapel (2230 Euclid Avenue; enter the parking lot behind the Cathedral, off Prospect). Please join us. Contact Kathy Baker (216-383-1684 or jhardeeb@aol.com) for more information.

Global Youth Service Day 2008

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:18:14 +0100

Peace Action's Alternatives to Military Recruitment Committee is planning actions for this date. The actual event may be on April 25-27. Details to follow.

Community Peace Vigil

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:27:30 +0100

Community Peace Vigil - Remember, Remind, Renew

View flyer with map/download for distribution

Sunday, December 2, 2007
4:00-6:00 pm
At Heights Christian Church
17300 Van Aken Blvd. - Shaker Heights
Sponsored by the following churches: Christ Episcopal, First Unitarian, Plymouth
United Church of Christ, and Heights Christian (Disciples of Christ)

An opportunity to remember those who have sacrificed
their lives in the war in Iraq, to remind ourselves and
our elected officials of the cost of war and the need
for peace, and to renew our commitment to working for
peace in our community, our nation, and our world.

During each half hour we will light candles and read the names of
soldiers and civilians from Ohio who have died in the conflict in
Iraq. There will also be music, prayer, and meditation. Speakers,
including the Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, will bring messages
of challenge and inspiration

Heights Christian Church is located on
Van Aken Blvd at the intersection of
Avalon and Daleford Rds. Parking is
available in the Rapid Transit lots on Van
Aken, on Daleford and Winslow Rds, and
in the Shaker Towne Centre parking lot.
Please enter through the main sanctuary
doors facing Van Aken Blvd.

Close School of the Americas

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:00:41 +0100

Bring the Movement Home! Gather to Close the SOA!

St. Augustine School, 2486 West 14th Street, Cleveland (Tremont Area)

The Annual Vigil to Close the SOA is an important and vibrant event, but in order to close the SOA we must begin to work at home! Join us to build the movement!

We will gather together to:

Share poetry, pictures, and testimony
from the trip!
Listen to movement music!
Write letters to our elected officials!
Support the 11 prisoners of conscience
Figure out where we go from here to
shut down the SOA!
Students & past travelers
are strongly encouraged
to come!!

Film Showing:
“On the Line”
Susan Sarandon
Martin Sheen
Fr. Roy Bourgeois
John Perkins
Brian Derouen
A bold new look at U.S. foreign Policy
in Latin America & the movement
to shut down the School of Assassins

For more information, contact:
IRTF www.irtfcleveland.org
216.961.0003
InterReligious Task Force on Central America

Caroling & Weekly Peace Vigil

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:22:42 +0100

Caroling

Building on the success of our first gig outside Channel 19,
the Cleveland Alternative Holiday Carolers will host another
caroling this weekend along with the Saturday peace vigil at
the West Side Market.

Iran Town Meeting with Scott Ritter

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:53:38 +0100

Iran Town Meeting

Trinity Cathedral, January 24, 7:30 pm

2230 Euclid Ave., across from CSU

Cleveland Peace Action and Trinity Cathedral present a town meeting on Iran with former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter and former chief of mission in Iraq Edward Peck as speakers at Trinity Cathedral, January 24, 7:30 pm. A book sale and signing will follow the presentation.

Suggested donation: $10 general, $5 students.

Trinity Cathedral is at 2230 Euclid Ave., across from CSU. Free parking is available in the Trinity Cathedral lot: entrance on Prospect Ave at E. 22nd.

More details as of 1/8/2008 click HERE

Please distribute this notice.

Additional flyers will be available for pickup and distribution from Peace
House starting Thursday, January 3.

NOAC Film Series

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:03:32 +0100

NOAC Progressive Film Series
Talkies Coffee and Film Bar
2521 Market Avenue, Cleveland
January 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2008, 1:00 p.m.

Come in from the cold and join NOAC for 4 newly-released, progressive films. NOAC will facilitate a discussion after each film.

Saturday, January 5, 2007
NO END IN SIGHT
A chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the backgrounds of those making decisions - immediately following the overthrow of Saddam: no occupation plan, an inadequate team to run the country, insufficient troops to keep order, and three edicts from the White House announced by Bremmer when he took over: no provisional Iraqi government, de-Ba'athification, and disbanding the Iraqi armed services. The film has chapters (from History to Consequences), and the talking heads are reporters, academics, soldiers, military brass, and former Bush-administration officials, including several who were in Baghdad in 2003.

Saturday, January 12, 2007
WAR MADE EASY

Saturday, January 19, 2007
IRAQ FOR SALE

Saturday, January 26, 2007
THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE

Details on all the films will be posted soon at our website — www.noacinfo.org

NOAC Film Series

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:05:20 +0100

NOAC Progressive Film Series
Talkies Coffee and Film Bar
2521 Market Avenue, Cleveland
January 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2008, 1:00 p.m.

NOAC Film Series

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:06:52 +0100

NOAC Progressive Film Series
Talkies Coffee and Film Bar
2521 Market Avenue, Cleveland
January 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2008, 1:00 p.m.

NOAC Film Series

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:07:50 +0100

NOAC Progressive Film Series
Talkies Coffee and Film Bar
2521 Market Avenue, Cleveland
January 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2008, 1:00 p.m.

Gather the Women

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:15:50 +0100

Gather the Women to Save the World

Gather the Women to Save the World meets the third Saturday morning of the month to pray for peace and meditate on nonviolence. Please join us on Saturday, February 16 from 7:45-8:30AM in the chapel at Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Avenue (enter the parking lot behind the Cathedral, off Prospect). Call Kathy Baker at 216-383-1684 for more information.

Gather the Women

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:54:06 +0100

Gather the Women to Save the World meets the third Saturday morning of every month to pray for peace and meditate on nonviolence. Please join us for 45 minutes of prayer and meditation as we pray in an ongoing and collective way for peace—for the end of violence in our lives and in the lives of people throughout the world.

Times vary with the season, so check listings below -
download flyer

Dates of Future Vigils—Third Saturday of Every Month

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 7:45 – 8:30 a.m. :

Feb. 16^:---Nonviolent Protests in African American History (Feb. 1^st )

Mar. 15^th---Bread and Roses Day, Garment Workers Strike (Mar. 14^th)

April 19^th---Earth Day (April 22)

At Edgewater Park 6:30 – 7:15 a.m. :

May 17^th---International Conscientious Objector’s Day (May 15^th)

June 21^st---Father’s Day (June 15^th)

July 19^th---First Women’s Rights Convention (July 19^th)

Aug. 16^th—Remembering Kathe “Never Again War” (Aug. 2^nd)

At the Gandhi Statue on Martin Luther King Blvd. 6:30 – 7:15 a.m. :

Sept. 20^th---International Day of Peace (Sept. 21^st)

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 7:45 – 8:30 a.m.

Oct. 18^th---Day of Unity Against Domestic Violence (Oct. 6^th)

Nov. 15^th---Buy Nothing Day and Children’s Day (Nov. 28^th)

Dec. 20^th---Chanukah, Festival of Lights,

For information contact:

Susan Greene: greenemidwife@hotmail.com

Susan Hannibal: suehannibal@gmail.com

Kathy Smith Baker: jhardeeb@aol.com

Joan Southgate: gonnawalk439@hotmail.com

Together we stand in solidarity with all women to envision a world without violence.

Iraqi Kurdish Atrocities

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:29:54 +0100

HOLDING THE HUSSEIN REGIME

ACCOUNTABLE FOR ATROCITIES
The Iraqi High Tribunal and Justice for
the Kurdish Victims of the al Anfal Campaign

A presentation by the President of the Iraqi High Tribunal
and the Iraqi High Tribunal Anfal Trial Chamber Judges

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Moot Courtroom (A59)

CPA Annual Meeting

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:06:19 +0100

2008 Annual Meeting

Cleveland Peace Action

and

Cleveland Peace Action Education Fund

50th Anniversary Celebration of Peace Action

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Pilgrim Church, 2592 West14th Street, Tremont

Potluck dinner 6 pm, Annual Meeting convenes at 7 pm.

Please download and distribute this flyer: Click Here

Keynote speaker is Joan Southgate.

Joan Harris Southgate is a community organizer, peace and justice justice activist, and founder of Re-store Cleveland Hope. She walked 519 miles across the state in homage to the ancestors who traveled to freedom on Ohio's Underground Rail-road, author of In Their Path and 'Bout Time.

Cleveland Peace Action/Education Fund members will be electing board members for both organizations. We will also celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Peace Action (nee SANE and Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign), including the recognition of many dedicated Cleveland peace activists.

More About Joan Southgate - Keynote speaker Joan Southgate's activist career in
Cleveland is as long as Peace Action's own. Since graduating
from Western Reserve with a degree in social work in 1954,
she has advocated for civil rights, the poor, senior
citizens, foster children, women, the environment, and peace
in Cleveland's neighborhoods and the world: as counselor for
Preterm; organizer and director at Senior Citizen's
Coalition, demonstrator/protester in Congress on Racial
Equality, Women Speak Outm and other social justice
organizations.

In 2003, Joan Southgate completed her 519-mile walk to honor
freedom seekers and abolitionists of the Underground
Railroad journey through Ohio to freedom. She founded
Restore Cleveland Hope, to preserve the historic Cozad-Bates
house in University Circle and start an Underground Railroad
Resouce and Education center.

Southgate is the author of IN THEIR PATH and a memoir `BOUT
TIME. Like Martin Luther King, Joan sees peace and justice
as inextricably bound.

Guantanamo Poems

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:14:43 +0100

POEMS FROM GUANTANAMO

Mac's Backs-Books on Coventry

1820 Coventry Rd. in Cleveland Heights

Friday, January 11, 2008 at 7 p.m

On January 11, 2002 the first "unlawful enemy combatants"
were rendered to the United States run detention center at
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Groups throughout the country will be commemorating this
illegal detention of the prisoners with various actions.

Mac's will sponsor a poetry reading from the collection
Poems from Guantánamo: the Detainees Speak (University of
Iowa Press), collected and edited by Marc Falkoff, a lawyer
for 16 Yemeni detainees who has made 10 trips to
Guantanamo. Copies of the book and related materials will be
available.

Some of the poems in this book were originally scratched on
styrofoam cups since inmates writing is restricted to
occasionally writing to family via the International Red
Cross.

The poems in the collection were sent at various times to
the detainees lawyers, who then had to submit each line of
each poem to Pentagon scrutiny.

Code Pink: Iraq Vets Against the War

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:22:53 +0100

IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR

Wednesday, January 16 at 6 p.m.

Mac's Backs-Books on Coventry

1820 Coventry Rd. in Cleveland Heights

Join CodePink in welcoming Leonard Shelton, Combat Veteran
and Cleveland’s Chapter President of Iraq Veterans Against
the War.

The evening begins with a meet & greet and light
refreshments at 6:00 p.m.

At 6:30, Leonard will begin sharing with us the efforts of
IVAW in the Cleveland area. Leonard will also offer a
first-hand, eyewitness account to tell the truth about the
Iraq occupation and the impact on the troops and their
families. We will wrap up the evening with planning a
powerful year of peace with actions to help end the Iraq War
and create a peaceful world in 2008.

Come join CodePink for an evening of peace. Please contact
Carla, clcarter94@yahoo.com for more info or For more info call
216/321-2665 or visit www.macsbacks.com

IRTF Social Justice Teach In

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:47:31 +0100

The InterReligious Task Force on Central America (IRTF)
Presents our 9th annual Social Justice Teach In
Raise your voice for Justice!

Saturday, Feb. 2nd, 2008, 10:00am to 5:00pm
Saint Martin de Porres High School
6111 Lausche Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44103
Join us for a multi-generational day of education, skill learning,
and community building !!

Registration: $10
Student group rate:
$50 (6-20 students)

See our website for PRE-REGISTRATION, co-sponsors and workshop
descriptions:
www.irtfcleveland.org, 3606 Bridge Ave. Cleveland, OH 44113
216-961-0003

Schedule:
9-9:45 Registration
10-10:45 Keynote
11-12:00 Session 1
12-12:45 Lunch
1-2:00 Session 2
2:15- 3:15 Session 3
3:30-4:30 Session 4

Choose from 10 workshops by experts from local & national organizations to gain the information and practical skills needed to work for human rights and economic justice!

Skills based learning:
Lobbying
Making democracy work
Effective use of the media
Resisting Sexism
Campus campaign organizing
Consensus decision-making
Creating social change through photography
Resisting racism
Strategic campaign planning
Nonviolent Communication

Issue based learning:
Human rights crisis in Colombia
U.S. intervention in Latin America over the past century
Spiritual components of Nonviolent social movements
The international Debt crisis
The Prison industrial Complex
Women in Social Justice Movements
Immigrant Rights

CWRU MLK Week Lecture

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:05:09 +0100

CWRU Event Information

The Audacity to Believe: Justice, Peace and Human Dignity

Friday, January 25, 2008, 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Wolstein Research Building, Room 1413

Contact: Pamela Carson

Part of the university's observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Week, the
program will feature Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences alumnus
Dr. Darlene Grant. The lecture will include songs about breaking the
cycle of violence in order to bring justice and peace. Open to the
entire community.

JCU MLK Week Lecture

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:11:16 +0100

A lecture by Rev. Dean Brackley, SJ, Professor of Theology

Universidad Centroamericana (El Salvador)

7:30 PM, Tues. Jan. 29, 2008

Free and open to the public

Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Center for Science and Technology
John Carroll University, 20700 N. Park Blvd., University Heights, OH

Directions: http://www.jcu.edu/about/map.htm

Sponsored by JCU*s Poverty and Solidarity Program and JCU*s Program in Applied Ethics.

Gather the Women

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:41:57 +0100

Times vary with the season, so check listings below.

Dates of Future Vigils—Third Saturday of Every Month

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 7:45 – 8:30 a.m. :

Feb. 16^:---Nonviolent Protests in African American History (Feb. 1^st )

Mar. 15^th---Bread and Roses Day, Garment Workers Strike (Mar. 14^th)

April 19^th---Earth Day (April 22)

At Edgewater Park 6:30 – 7:15 a.m. :

May 17^th---International Conscientious Objector’s Day (May 15^th)

June 21^st---Father’s Day (June 15^th)

July 19^th---First Women’s Rights Convention (July 19^th)

Aug. 16^th—Remembering Kathe “Never Again War” (Aug. 2^nd)

At the Gandh Statue on Martin Luther King Blvd. 6:30 – 7:15 a.m. :

Sept. 20^th---International Day of Peace (Sept. 21^st)

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 7:45 – 8:30 a.m.

Oct. 18^th---Day of Unity Against Domestic Violence (Oct. 6^th)

Nov. 15^th---Buy Nothing Day and Children’s Day (Nov. 28^th)

Dec. 20^th---Chanukah, Festival of Lights,

Download flyer

For information contact:
Susan Greene: greenemidwife@hotmail.comSusan Hannibal: suehannibal@gmail.com
Kathy Smith Baker: jhardeeb@aol.comJoan Southgate: gonnawalk439@hotmail.com

Together we stand in solidarity with all women to envision a world without violence.

Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma & Reslience

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:27:46 +0100

Broken Promises, Broken Dreams

Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma &

Resilience

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

4:30 at Clark Hall
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland

Author & Peace Activist Alice Rothchild, MD

Sponsored by the Hallinan Project for Peace and Social
Justice at CASE

Please view, download, and distribute this flyer : Click here

Alice Rothchild graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1970
with a BA in psychology and subsequently attended Boston
University School of Medicine, class of 1974, followed by a
medical internship at Lincoln Hospital in the south Bronx
and an obstetrics and gynecology residency at Beth Israel
Hospital in Boston. She was also Medical Director of the
Women's Community Health Center in Cambridge , Mass. from
1977-1979.

After completing her residency, she co-founded Urban Woman
and Child Health, Inc. in Jamaica Plain , Mass. and worked
in this non-profit organization of physicians, midwives, and
nurse-practitioners from 1979 to 1988. They provided ob-gyn
and pediatric care to a unique mix of urban poor, a number
of neighborhood and women's health centers, as well as to
the general population. She also joined the staff of Beth
Israel Hospital, now Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
In 1988 she became a member of the staff of Harvard
Community Health Plan which subsequently became Harvard
Vanguard Medical Associates. She is also an Assistant
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive
Biology at Harvard Medical School.

Alice currently lives with her husband, cabinet maker Dan
Klein, in Brookline and they have two daughters, Emma and
Sasha. She and her husband sing in the Boston Workmen's
Circle Yiddish chorus, A Besere Velt (A Better World) and
are both active in the organization as well.

Alice developed an interest in progressive politics in the
1960s and 70s starting with campus opposition to the Vietnam
War and moving on to her discovery of feminism and health
reform movements while in medical school and residency.

She contributed to the first edition of Our Bodies, Our
Selves, joined women's consciousness raising activities, and
worked for health care reform on the grassroots level.
Political analysis thus increasingly informed her
understanding of the world. She also became active in a
number of social justice organizations and began speaking
and writing on topics ranging from childbirth to menopause
to caring for underserved populations. In 1997 she joined
the Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care, now The Alliance
to Defend Health Care, and until June 2007 was president of
the Alliance Board.

In 1997, through her involvement in the Boston Workmen's
Circle, a progressive secular Jewish organization, Alice
turned much of her non-medical focus to understanding the
Israeli/Palestinian conflict and its relationship to US
foreign policy and American Jewry.

She co-founded and co-chairs Visions of Peace with Justice
in Israel Palestine , now Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston,
and co-organized the Jewish American Medical Project, now
the JVP Health and Human Rights Project.

Gather the Women

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:41:57 +0100

Times vary with the season, so check listings below -
download flyer

Dates of Future Vigils—Third Saturday of Every Month

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 7:45 – 8:30 a.m. :

Feb. 16^:---Nonviolent Protests in African American History (Feb. 1^st )

Mar. 15^th---Bread and Roses Day, Garment Workers Strike (Mar. 14^th)

April 19^th---Earth Day (April 22)

At Edgewater Park 6:30 – 7:15 a.m. :

May 17^th---International Conscientious Objector’s Day (May 15^th)

June 21^st---Father’s Day (June 15^th)

July 19^th---First Women’s Rights Convention (July 19^th)

Aug. 16^th—Remembering Kathe “Never Again War” (Aug. 2^nd)

At the Gandh Statue on Martin Luther King Blvd. 6:30 – 7:15 a.m. :

Sept. 20^th---International Day of Peace (Sept. 21^st)

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 7:45 – 8:30 a.m.

Oct. 18^th---Day of Unity Against Domestic Violence (Oct. 6^th)

Nov. 15^th---Buy Nothing Day and Children’s Day (Nov. 28^th)

Dec. 20^th---Chanukah, Festival of Lights,

For information contact:
Susan Greene: greenemidwife@hotmail.com

Susan Hannibal: suehannibal@gmail.com

Kathy Smith Baker: jhardeeb@aol.com

Joan Southgate: gonnawalk439@hotmail.com

Together we stand in solidarity with all women to envision a world without violence.

Gather the Women

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:54:06 +0100

Times vary with the season, so check listings below -
download flyer

Dates of Future Vigils—Third Saturday of Every Month

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 7:45 – 8:30 a.m. :

Feb. 16^:---Nonviolent Protests in African American History (Feb. 1^st )

Mar. 15^th---Bread and Roses Day, Garment Workers Strike (Mar. 14^th)

April 19^th---Earth Day (April 22)

At Edgewater Park 6:30 – 7:15 a.m. :

May 17^th---International Conscientious Objector’s Day (May 15^th)

June 21^st---Father’s Day (June 15^th)

July 19^th---First Women’s Rights Convention (July 19^th)

Aug. 16^th—Remembering Kathe “Never Again War” (Aug. 2^nd)

At the Gandhi Statue on Martin Luther King Blvd. 6:30 – 7:15 a.m. :

Sept. 20^th---International Day of Peace (Sept. 21^st)

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 7:45 – 8:30 a.m.

Oct. 18^th---Day of Unity Against Domestic Violence (Oct. 6^th)

Nov. 15^th---Buy Nothing Day and Children’s Day (Nov. 28^th)

Dec. 20^th---Chanukah, Festival of Lights,

For information contact:

Susan Greene: greenemidwife@hotmail.com

Susan Hannibal: suehannibal@gmail.com

Kathy Smith Baker: jhardeeb@aol.com

Joan Southgate: gonnawalk439@hotmail.com

Together we stand in solidarity with all women to envision a world without violence.

Gather the Women

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:41:57 +0100

Times vary with the season, so check listings below -
download flyer

Dates of Future Vigils—Third Saturday of Every Month

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 7:45 – 8:30 a.m. :

Feb. 16^:---Nonviolent Protests in African American History (Feb. 1^st )

Mar. 15^th---Bread and Roses Day, Garment Workers Strike (Mar. 14^th)

April 19^th---Earth Day (April 22)

At Edgewater Park 6:30 – 7:15 a.m. :

May 17^th---International Conscientious Objector’s Day (May 15^th)

June 21^st---Father’s Day (June 15^th)

July 19^th---First Women’s Rights Convention (July 19^th)

Aug. 16^th—Remembering Kathe “Never Again War” (Aug. 2^nd)

At the Gandh Statue on Martin Luther King Blvd. 6:30 – 7:15 a.m. :

Sept. 20^th---International Day of Peace (Sept. 21^st)

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 7:45 – 8:30 a.m.

Oct. 18^th---Day of Unity Against Domestic Violence (Oct. 6^th)

Nov. 15^th---Buy Nothing Day and Children’s Day (Nov. 28^th)

Dec. 20^th---Chanukah, Festival of Lights,

For information contact:
Susan Greene: greenemidwife@hotmail.com

Susan Hannibal: suehannibal@gmail.com

Kathy Smith Baker: jhardeeb@aol.com

Joan Southgate: gonnawalk439@hotmail.com

Together we stand in solidarity with all women to envision a world without violence.

Gather the Women

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:54:06 +0100

Times vary with the season, so check listings below -
download flyer

Dates of Future Vigils—Third Saturday of Every Month

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 7:45 – 8:30 a.m. :

Feb. 16^:---Nonviolent Protests in African American History (Feb. 1^st )

Mar. 15^th---Bread and Roses Day, Garment Workers Strike (Mar. 14^th)

April 19^th---Earth Day (April 22)

At Edgewater Park 6:30 – 7:15 a.m. :

May 17^th---International Conscientious Objector’s Day (May 15^th)

June 21^st---Father’s Day (June 15^th)

July 19^th---First Women’s Rights Convention (July 19^th)

Aug. 16^th—Remembering Kathe “Never Again War” (Aug. 2^nd)

At the Gandhi Statue on Martin Luther King Blvd. 6:30 – 7:15 a.m. :

Sept. 20^th---International Day of Peace (Sept. 21^st)

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.

Oct. 18^th---Day of Unity Against Domestic Violence (Oct. 6^th)

Nov. 15^th---Buy Nothing Day and Children’s Day (Nov. 28^th)

Dec. 20^th---Chanukah, Festival of Lights,

For information contact:

Susan Greene: greenemidwife@hotmail.com

Susan Hannibal: suehannibal@gmail.com

Kathy Smith Baker: jhardeeb@aol.com

Joan Southgate: gonnawalk439@hotmail.com

Together we stand in solidarity with all women to envision a world without violence.

Kucinich: Iran, Georgia, What Next?

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:56:57 +0100

Public Meeting

WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM

Thursday, October 16, 2008
Light Refreshments at 6:45 pm
Issues Facing Ohio at 7:00 pm
Dennis at 8:00pm

Laborer's Local 310 Union Hall
3250 Euclid Avenue
Free parking from Prospect Avenue entrance

ISSUES FACING OHIO at 7 pm
Speakers: PETER LAWSON JONES, MICHAEL SKINDELL, MARCIA FUDGE
Sponsored by Cuyahoga Democratic Women's Caucus
...............................................................

IRAN, GEORGIA: WHO OR WHAT'S NEXT? AT 8 PM
Speaker: Congressman DENNIS KUCINICH
Sponsored by Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice
THE CLEVELAND BRANCH
OF WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM

Now is the time we need to learn more about what is going on at home and in the Middle East and what our government is doing of not doing. It is important for all of us to hear from these political leaders before we face the national election in a few weeks. So, I really hope you can come and join us.

Make SOA History

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:53:22 +0100

Make the School of the Americas History!!

“They tell us they’re teaching democracy. We say “How do you teach democracy through the barrel of a gun?’” — Fr. Roy Bourgeois

Join us for the 2008

Vigil to Close the SOA!

Join the IRTF delegation—and 25,000 others from across the hemisphere—at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, to Close the School of the Americas!       Nov. 21-23, 2008

The School of the Americas (aka WHINSEC) trains Latin American soldiers and officers in “counter-insurgency” warfare. SOA graduates have been linked to major human rights violations in Latin America for over 50 years. SOA soldiers murdered Cleveland church women Jean Donovan and Sister Dorothy Kazel, OSU in 1980 and numerous others since! There can be no healing and reconciliation without truth, an apology, and reparations to the thousands who have suffered from SOA violence and oppressive U.S. foreign policies. Each year we gather at the gates of Ft. Benning in Columbus, Georgia, and demand justice for the martyrs and for the thousands who continue to suffer the brutal consequences of the combat training at the SOA. Don’t miss this largest and longest standing annual peace and justice gathering in the U.S!

Outside the gates of Fort Benning, activities go on all weekend.

Fri., Nov 21: workshops, film screenings, and direct action planning (participation requires Thursday departure from Cleveland)

Sat., Nov 22: day-long rally with music, dance, and speakers (including family members of SOA victims)

Sun, Nov 23: solemn funeral procession to remember the victims and pledge “no more blood in our name!”

Details:                 Depart from Cleveland at 6 pm either Thursday, Nov. 20 or Friday, Nov. 21

                              Return to Cleveland in the early morning on Monday, Nov. 24

Cost:                     $220 - Leave Thursday, Nov. 20 ($100 non-refundable deposit to reserve your seat due by Oct. 31)

                              $190 - Leave Friday, Nov. 21 ($50 non-refundable deposit to reserve your seat due by Oct. 31)



Includes:               Nonviolence training and SOA orientation, sample press release, background information, round-trip bus travel, Days Inn motel stay in 4-person room, a “Close the SOA” sweatfree t-shirt, and a $15 donation to the scholarship fund

Training:              Saturday, Nov. 15, 9 am - 4 pm, John Carroll University, Dolan Science Ctr., Rm. 202

                              Nonviolence training and SOA orientation is provided for all participants as a way to continue your education about the SOA and the nonviolence movement, learn about changes to this year’s vigil, and receive media training. We hope all will attend.

Scholarships:       Limited scholarships are available for those who need financial assistance. Please contact us for an application.

To register, download the registration flyer from our website at:

www.irtfcleveland.org/calendar/flyers/IRTFSOARally.pdf

and mail it in or sign-up online at:

www.irtfcleveland.org/repression/soa/signup.shtml.

PS. Come to the IRTF Annual Commemoration of the Martyrs, Sunday, Nov. 2, 5-8 pm. The evening will include a fair trade market, an interfaith prayer service, a Central American dinner and a human rights speaker. This year’s speaker is Rev. Milton Mejia from Colombia. He was persecuted in Colombia for his human rights work and eventually had to flee with his family to the US. Rev. Mejia is the former executive secretary of the Presbyterian Church in Colombia.

For more information on the Commemoration or to reserve tickets, please see

www.irtfcleveland.org/calendar/flyers/IRTFCommemorationOfTheMartyrsSponsorshipForm.pdf.

Sarah Sommers

Administrative Coordinator

Sarah@IRTFcleveland.org

Being Jewish in 21st Cent - Mark Ellis

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:12:36 +0100

Marc Ellis guest of
Hallinan Project for Peace and Social Justice
October 22, 2008, 5 PM, Clark 309
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

I am delighted to invite you and your friends to a lecture given by Professor Marc H. Ellis, Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University

Marc Ellis will be the guest of the Hallinan Project for Peace and Social Justice on October 22, 2008. His lecture will be at 5 PM, Clark 309 with a small reception to follow.

His talk will examine what it is to be a Jew in the 21st century. What religious values and ultimate vision would you wish to pass along to your children? How does one sort through what is authentic and inauthentic in a religious tradition today and forge its future? These are the questions Marc Ellis attempts to answer in this personal yet programmatic work. Ellis reflects on the encounters that have been decisive in his own religious realms: the personal and the political. His work is a meditation on what can be learned and retained from his encounters with the Catholic Worker movement, post-Holocaust theology, Latin America Liberation Theology, engagement with the Palestinian cause, and acknowledgment of Israeli violence.

Professor Ellis has authored fifteen books and edited five others. Perhaps his best-known work is Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation, currently in its third edition.
A Jewish Theology of Liberation, 3rd edition, The latest edition of Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation has been praised by many notable thinkers. Susannah Heschel states that it is "a book for people who want to think. Challenging our conventional ideas, he forces us to reconsider our assumptions regarding Jewish identity and politics. What emerges is a fascinating and original reconfiguration of some of the most hotly debated political and religious topics today."

According to Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the book "shows, as it has since the first edition, that the voice of prophecy has not been silenced in the Jewish community." Gustavo Gutierrez, the father of liberation theology, calls it "a vigorous and important work, passionate for justice, rooted in a strong love for Ellis' people, and with a deep sensitivity to other human communities." Calling the first edition already "something of a classic," Rosemary Radford Ruether says "It is wonderful to have this book in a new and expanded version that covers Marc Ellis's life and prophetic thought up to the present."

Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff adds these thoughts: "Ellis masterfully uses the central, Jewish story of Exodus and Sinai to call for a contemporary Jewish (and Christian) theology of liberation. He argues against current political policies based on Jewish vulnerability, with the Holocaust as the chief lens, and issues a prophetic call for contemporary Jews to return to the liberation theology embedded in the Exodus, seeking justice for all. In the Israeli-Palestinian context, that requires both sides to "embrace revolutionary forgiveness" as they find ways to come to less-than-ideal but tolerable resolutions of their conflicts, and it requires Americans living in a post-9/11 world to reevaluate their understanding of Muslims and Islam. Whether you agree with Ellis' conclusions or not, you cannot help but be stimulated by his serious and meaningful use of this central Jewish story to understand and respond creatively to some of the most pressing issues of our time."

In 1998 Ellis was appointed Professor of American and Jewish Studies at Baylor University, where the next year he was named University Professor of American and Jewish Studies. In 1999 he founded Baylor University's Center for American and Jewish Studies. In 2006, the Center was renamed the Center for Jewish Studies.Professor Ellis has been inducted into the Martin Luther King Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College. He is a member of the editorial board of the progressive Jewish journal Tikkun and has served as a consultant to the Programme to Combat Racism of the World Council of Churches and as a member of the steering committee of the Religion, Holocaust and Genocide Consultation of the American Academy of Religion. On January 5, 2008 Professor Ellis was elected to the Board of Directors for the Society of Jewish Ethics.

I look forward to seeing you at the lecture.

In peace,

Alice Bach

Archbishop Hallinan Chair of Catholic Studies

Professor of Religious Studies

Director, Hallinan Project for Peace and Social Justice

Program in Women and Gender Studies

Program in Ethnic Studies

105 Mather House

CWRU 10900 Euclid Ave.

Cleveland OH 44106 216--368-1637 (office)

216-761-7227 (home)

Clinton-Obama debate action

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:17:52 +0100

Call for End to Occupation/War NOW at Obama-Clinton Cleveland debate

Tuesday, February 26, 2008
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
In front of Wolstein Center
Cleveland State University
[details on where to assemble later]

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will take part in a
nationally televised debate in Cleveland sponsored by MSNBC
on February 26.

NOAC will be there with signs and handouts.

Our messages:
There’s No Debate: End the Iraq Occupation & War NOW!
No Debating This: Bring the Troops Home NOW!

The local and national press will be there in full force. So
must we.

We must show the candidates, the Democratic Party, the
nation and world that Clevelanders want an end to the
foreign illegal occupation and war of Iraq now.

Join us!

Peace Action National Congress

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:01:50 +0100

SAVE THE DATES AND START MAKING YOUR PLANS TO ATTEND THE PEACE ACTION NATIONAL CONGRESS IN DC JULY 18-20!

DETAILS & REGISTRATION FORM BELOW

This is going to be an exciting year for the peace movement, so don't miss Peace Action's National Congress this summer! The National Congress will be held July 18-20 at Trinity University in Washington D.C. (http://www.trinitydc.edu/) with optional lobby days on Capitol Hill July 21-22. The Congress schedule is not yet finalized, but we will likely not convene until late afternoon or evening on Friday, July 18, so you don't need to plan to travel on Thursday for a 9 am start on Friday, most folks should be able to travel on Friday (The exception is for Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund board members, a joint board meeting is planned, likely for Friday afternoon). We expect to adjourn the Congress by 4:00 pm or so on Sunday, for those that need to travel back home Sunday evening.

So make sure to SAVE THE DATES and start making your travel plans now!!! Registration information and other details will be distributed soon. We hope that this year's National Congress will be a successful one, so please help make that possible by joining us!

Peace,

Sarah Tarighi, National Congress Coordinator

Kevin Martin, Executive Director

CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION FORMS

GET TWO CONFERENCES AT THE SAME TIME AND SEE WHAT OUR STUDENT POLITICAL ACTION NETWORK IS PLANNING!

2008 SUMMER SPAN CONVERGENCE.
July 18 – 21, 2008
Trinity College, Washington D.C

The SPAN Summer Convergence is a national gathering of SPAN chapters and other students interested in peace and social justice activism. It's a fun weekend full of skill shares, strategizing sessions, trainings, opportunities to network with other activists, and free entertainment!

For Details Click Here
For the Flyer Click Here

Westshore Unitarian Vigil

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:50:19 +0100

March 19 is the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq.
We will gather to hold our
PEACE VIGIL
Please join us
at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church
20401 Hilliard Blvd. in Rocky River
We will gather in our rotunda at 7:30 p.m. and line up along
the side walk
considering the weather - note the change.
We will line up in front of the church, under the canopy,
at 7:40 for 15 - 20 minutes, holding our candles.
Stay longer if you wish.
In our silence we will honor and remember the people who
have lost their lives being heroes as well as victims of the
war.

Persepolis Film Showing and Author Lecture

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:11:16 +0100

Public Lecture and Film Showing: Marjane Satrapi
Author of Persepolis,
Academy Award Nominee for Best Animated Feature Film

Friday, April 4 at 4:30 pm
Amasa Stone Chapel, CWRU, 10940 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
Free and open to the public

Persepolis film showing at 7:30 pm at Cinemateque, at the Cleveland Institute of Art, East Blvd. and Bellflower Dr., across the street from the Cleveland Museum of Art, and a short walk from CWRU's Amasa Stone Chapel

Best-selling author of the critically acclaimed book, Persepolis, graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi will speak of her youth in Iran in the 1970s and 1980s, and of living through the Islamic Revolution and the war with Iraq. The film adaptation of her book is nominated for a 2007 Academy
Award for Best Animated Feature Film, and it won the 2007
“Prix du Jury” at the Cannes Film Festival. Book signing by Appletree Books immediately following the lecture. Seating is limited.

Registration recommended on-line at:
http://artsci.case.edu/bakernord/doku.php or call 216/368-8961.

Registration does not guarantee a seat. First come, first
served. Admission tickets are not required.

A lecture co-sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the
Humanities, CWRU, The Rose Wohlgemuth Weisman Women’s Voices
Lecture; and The Cleveland Institute of Art, The Kacalieff
Lecture Series 2008, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Visitor Parking:

Severance Hall underground lot (entrance on East Boulevard)
Visitor Parking on Adelbert Road:
      • Surface Lot (behind Allen Medical Library)
      • Rainbow Babies Hospital Garage
       • Veale Center Garage
Cornell Road Garage (entrances on Cornell and Mayfield Road)
For more information visit the Baker Nord website
http://artsci.case.edu/bakernord/doku.php
or call
216/368-8961.

UFPJ DC ACTION

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:56:57 +0100

Make plans now to join us in Washington on Wednesday, March 19th. Visit www.5yearstoomany.org/march19dc for more info and to register to join us in DC. The call for the actions in Washington is included below -- please share it with your friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, people you go to school with and everyone else you know and encourage them to make the trip to DC.

IRAQ MEMORIAL & MARCH

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:23:09 +0100

Progressive Democrats of America - Ohio

Sat, Mar 15, 2:00pm – 4:30pm

Cuyahoga Falls River Square Amphitheater

Please join us on March 15th at 2pm to commemorate the deaths of Americans and Iraqis as a result of the American occupation of Iraq. The memorial will be followed by a peace rally and march. The event will be held at the Falls River Square Amphitheater in Cuyahoga Falls.

Greg Coleridge will speak

The program's purpose is to show what the occupation is costing us in terms of lives, human suffering, dollars, resources, and our moral standing in the world.

The Eyes Wide Open exhibit will be on display.

We will then begin our march to include Broad Blvd and Portage Trail. (Two of the highest traffic count spots in Summit County.) Yes, it's March in Ohio and yes, it's all outdoors. But the cause is too great to let weatherstop us. Please plan to attend and pass along this information to others.

Please see a picture of the venue and more info about the event below.

www.pdaohio.org

Presidential Candidates Forum for Jewish Community

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:12:46 +0100

The Israel Project and the Cleveland Jewish News
Cordially Invite you to a Presidential Candidates Forum

Sunday, March 2, 2008
3:30 - 5:00 pm

Beachwood High School Auditorium

25100 Fairmount Blvd.

Beachwood, OH

Find out answers to your questions about the candidates positions on:
Israel, the threat of Iran and other issues of concern to the Jewish community.

Senior-level representatives of the four leading candidates have been invited to participate:

The Honorable Adam Schiff,
United States House of Representatives
for Senator Barack Obama

The Honorable Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
United States House of Representatives
for Senator Hillary Clinton

Governor Mike Huckabee*

Senator John McCain*
(* not yet confirmed)

Moderator: CJN Editor Cynthia Dettelbach, audience questions will be included.

No campaign literature, signage or active campaigning by audience members will be permitted.

Registration is requested.

Click to RSVP

The Israel Project (TIP) is an international non-profit organization that does not rate nor endorses any candidate. TIP simply supplies information as a public service.

Questions? Please contact Sarah Marcus at 202-857-6617or sarahm@theisraelproject.org

AMERICANS FOR PEACE NOW Honors Al Stern

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:39:03 +0100

AMERICANS FOR PEACE NOW

Honors Al Stern

An Evening For Peace

Thursday March 27th, 2008 7 p.m.

Fairmount Temple

23737 Fairmount Boulevard

Sharing fully in the Israeli Peace Movement beliefs, AMERICANS FOR PEACE NOW is the sister organization to SHALOM ACHSHAV in the United States. The mission of APN is to help Israel and Israel’s SHALOM ACHSHAV movement achieve a comprehensive political settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict consistent with Israel’s long-term security needs as well as its Jewish and democratic values. Giving voice
to the majority of American Jews supporting peace in the Middle East, APN seeks to educate the American public and political and civic leaders on the need and possibility for peace.

For over thirty years Al Stern has worked as a tireless activist in service of peace and security for Israel and her neighbors. Al has been a leader in many organizations including, American’s For Peace Now, The International Center For Peace In The Middle East, The Shalom Network, and The New Jewish Agenda. He is a founding member of the Jewish Secular Community of Cleveland. Since retiring from the business world in 1993 Al took on a full time volunteer job with ACLU of Ohio as the Legislative Coordinator.

For all the information on this event see and download this Flyer: Click Here

Film and Discussion: Searching For Peace In the Middle East

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:23:28 +0100

Film and Discussion: Searching For Peace In the Middle East

Cleveland Peace Action presents the film "Searching for Peace in the Middle East" on Wednesday, March 12th, 7:15 PM, at the Euclid Avenue Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The church is located on Mayfield Rd, at Yellowstone, across from Severance Town Center, in Cleveland Heights.

The film is by Landrum Bolling and the Foundation For Middle East Peace. This 30-minute film, on DVD, is a vivid, compassionate portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Landrum Bolling is a veteran peacemaker and former President of Earlham College. He has also had a distinguished career as an advisor to world leaders.

Discussion will follow the film, facilitated by diverse representatives of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities.

Iraq Commemorative Service at Unitarian Society

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:20:03 +0100

Unitarian Commemorative Service - "Remembering,"

The Beginning of the United States Invasion and Occupation of Iraq

7:00 pm March 19, 2008, at the congregation's sanctuary in
Cleveland Heights' historic Coventry Village

CONTACT:
Carol Splaver
Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland
2728 Lancashire Rd.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44106
216.932.1898
216.932.1516 (fax)
uuscleveland@yahoo.com

Cleveland Heights, Ohio--The Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland, in Cleveland Heights' historic Coventry Village, will offer a worship service in the congregation's sanctuary on March 19th, 2008 to
commemorate the beginning of the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq. The service, "Remembering," will start at 7:00 p.m. and continue until the names of all Americans who have died since March 2003 have been read. The names of a representative sample of Iraqi dead will also be read. Candles will be lit in honor of both Americans and Iraqis. Everyone is welcome to participate in this service and those who have lost loved ones in Iraq are invited to their bring pictures and momentos to place on the altar.

A portion of the service will dedicated to those who have been wounded in Iraq. If you would like your injured honored please contact the Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland Society's office at 216.932.1898 or uuscleveland@yahoo.com. For more information about the service please contact the office. The Rev. Colin Bossen, minister of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland, will conduct the service.

ABOUT

The Unitarian Universalist of Society of Cleveland is a liberal religious community located in the Coventry neighborhood of Cleveland Heights. Services are 11:00 a.m. on Sundays. More information about the

Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland can be found at http://uusocietyofcleveland.tripod.com/ and more information on Unitarian Universalism can be found at http://www.uua.org/.

Rev. Colin Bossen
Minister
Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland
http://uusocietyofcleveland.tripod.com/
216.932.1898 (office)
216.702.5538 (cell)
216.371.3385 (home)

5 Years Too Many - Protest on Public Sq.

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:35:46 +0100

5 YEARS TOO MANY
5th Anniversary of Iraq War/Occupation
Unite. Resist. Stand Up. Speak Out.
From Protest to Resistance

Thursday, March 20, 2008, 4:00 PM

4:00 PM — Gather at Soldier’s and Sailor’s monument on
Public Square, downtown Cleveland
NOAC will display around the monument a portion of the
nearly mile-long of string of almost 4000 names of killed US
troops in Iraq. Come read the names and reflect on the human
cost of the continuing US occupation of Iraq.
[Note: If you help string names, please meet us at the
monument at 2:00 PM]

4:30 PM — March to the the office of US Senator George
Voinovich at the Federal Building.

5:00 PM — Students for a Democratic Society-led rally on 9th
Street Plaza at the Federal Building.

We have secured permits for both the monument and federal
building.

Students from several Cleveland-area high schools and
colleges will be walking out on the 20th to take part in
this action.

Sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society. Co-sponsored
by NOAC and other groups.

Meet Cleveland area chapters of Students for a Democratic Society and other peace groups for a march from the Veterans Memorial in Public Square to George Voinovich's office .

SDS Contact Name: Libby
Contact Email: lccsds@hotmail.com
Contact Phone: 440.951.9372

http://www.newsds.org/march20/

Peace Action National Congress

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:01:50 +0100

SAVE THE DATES AND START MAKING YOUR PLANS TO ATTEND THE PEACE ACTION NATIONAL CONGRESS IN DC JULY 18-20!

DETAILS & REGISTRATION FORM BELOW

Peace,

Sarah Tarighi, National Congress Coordinator

Kevin Martin, Executive Director

CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION FORMS

GET TWO CONFERENCES AT THE SAME TIME AND SEE WHAT OUR STUDENT POLITICAL ACTION NETWORK IS PLANNING!

2008 SUMMER SPAN CONVERGENCE.
July 18 – 21, 2008
Trinity College, Washington D.C

Peace Action National Congress

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:01:50 +0100

SAVE THE DATES AND START MAKING YOUR PLANS TO ATTEND THE PEACE ACTION NATIONAL CONGRESS IN DC JULY 18-20!

DETAILS & REGISTRATION FORM BELOW

Peace,

Sarah Tarighi, National Congress Coordinator

Kevin Martin, Executive Director

CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION FORMS

GET TWO CONFERENCES AT THE SAME TIME AND SEE WHAT OUR STUDENT POLITICAL ACTION NETWORK IS PLANNING!

2008 SUMMER SPAN CONVERGENCE.
July 18 – 21, 2008
Trinity College, Washington D.C

MoveOn - New Priorities Vigil

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:24:32 +0100

Vigil for New Priorities:

The MoveOn.org vigil will be combined with the Unitarian Society's vigil, just one block away - details

On Wednesday, thousands of us will gather at candlelight vigils to mark the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. In addition to honoring the fallen, we'll send a clear message in this sinking economy: it's time to end the war, and start using the billions wasted every week on the Iraq occupation to help folks here at home.

Republicans are trying to tell a story that opposition to the war is declining. The media will be looking to this anniversary as an indicator, and we need to turn out in force.

There's a vigil in Cleveland—can you make it on Wednesday?

Here's the closest vigil to you - Wednesday, Mar. 19, 2008, at 7:00 PM

Here's the link to RSVP: http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=45662&id=12316-1228985-1OiCoM&t=1156

Publish your Peace piece

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:26:59 +0100

WHAT MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT

PEACE

View/download flyer

As a gift to your mother, and to mothers and grandmothers everywhere, write a paragraph, a poem, or a memory about what the mother or mother figure in your life taught you about peace.
Make it short!
No more than 150 words.
Include your name and age if you choose.
Email it to jhardeeb@aol.com
before April 15, 2008

These will be compiled into a book to be distributed at a Mother’s Day Peace Party
on Mother’s Day, May 11, 2008, at 2 PM
by the Gandhi statue in the India Garden
on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

This book will be our gift to you.

Cleveland Peace Action; Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice; Federation of India Community Associations; National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund Northeast Ohio Chapter

Mother's Day Peace Party

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:35:41 +0100

May 11 Mothers’ Day Event To Celebrate Original Anti-War Intention
Initial antiwar sentiment co-opted by commercial sentimentality, say program planners

View/download flyer

Event: Sunday, May 11, 2008, 2-4 pm
Place: India Garden, Martin Luther King Blvd.
Contact: Linda Park: 216/851-0968, (cell) 216/337-9392

A Mother’s Day celebration, patterned after the original
concept of the event’s being a national call for women to
support peace and disarmament, will occur on Sunday, May 11,
from 2-4 pm in the India Garden on Martin Luther King
Boulevard.

“Mothers’ Day has become a fully commercialized event,” said
Linda Park, spokeswoman for event sponsor Women Speak Out
for Peace and Justice, “and this was not originally meant to
be. Julia Ward Howe, in her ‘Mother’s Day Proclamation’ was
clear that her intended holiday should be a national day to
unite women against war.”

Park quoted a portion of the Proclamation to support the
anti-war theme: ‘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.”

Most persons know Julia Ward Howe as author of “The Battle
Hymn of the Republic” which she wrote in 1862 during the
Civil War. She wrote her Proclamation in 1870 after she had
seen the horrendous human casualties and destruction of that
war, Park said.

Activist Sharon Habat and her son, Edward, will read the
Proclamation in full. Singer Shruti Aring will perform the
Hindu Peace Anthem, and Cleveland folk artist Deborah Van
Kleef will perform American folk songs.

Yvonne Pointer, nationally known Cleveland anti-violence
activist and member of the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame, is the
featured guest speaker. Ms. Pointer is founder of Positive
Plus, a support group for women who have lost children
through violence, and co-founder of PACK, Parents Against
Child Killing. She is the author of three books dealing with
violence and redemption, and will be available for signing
sold copies.

Cleveland civil rights and peace activist Joan Southgate
will also receive the “Ione Biggs Humanitarian Award”.
Presented annually by Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice,
the award honors outstanding service and personal
contribution toward social justice.

“There will be free light refreshments with creative fun and
family activities, “ said Ms. Park. “We’ll create a large
banner honoring mothers, learn to make Japanese origami
paper peace cranes, and all attending will get a free
booklet: “What Mothers Taught Us about Peace’”.
Additional sponsors are Cleveland Peace Action, Federation
of India Community Associations, and National Campaign for a
Peace Tax Fund – NE Ohio Chapter. Free parking is available
near the site of the India Garden, along Martin Luther King
Boulevard.

For more information, phone 216/383-1684.

Muslim Peacemaker Iran Lecture

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:59:48 +0100

SAMI RASOULI
FOUNDER OF "MUSLIM PEACEMAKER
TEAMS" TO SPEAK

at St Paul's Church, Fairmount and Coventry,

Cleveland Heights, at 7:00 pm, Sunday, April 6

In 2005, Sami Rasouli, a naturalized US citizen, gave up a
comfortable life in Minneapolis to return to his native Iraq and work
for reconciliation. He co-founded Muslim Peacemaker Teams,
patterned after the Mennonite/Quaker Christian Peacemaker Teams
in various parts of the world. MPT works amid every manner of
danger and difficulty to attain peace and justice throughout Iraq.
Sami will speak at St Paul's Church, Fairmount and Coventry,
Cleveland Heights, at 7:00 pm, Sunday, April 6. This is a rare
chance to hear, meet and talk with someone who actually lives in
Iraq---by choice---under the present conditions of abysmal security
and extreme deprivation. Sami will bring with him, and offer for
sale, paintings by Iraqi artists, including professionals, amateurs and
children. Proceeds are divided between the artist and Muslim
Peacemaker Teams.

Sami appeared at St Paul’s in May 2006. Anyone who attended that
talk will remember him as a man of “pronounced views”. He reports
just what he sees and says exactly what he thinks.

Contributions for the work of Muslim Peacemaker Teams can be made
in the form of a check written to St Paul’s Church and memoed to
Sami Rasouli. The church address is St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
2747 Fairmount Boulevard, Cleveland Heights OH 44106.

MIddle East Peace Series: Media Coverage

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:42:33 +0100

The second in a three-part program series highlighting Middle East peace issues will occur on Sunday, April 6, at 2 pm at Cleveland Heights-University Heights Main Library, 2345 Lee Road, in Cleveland Heights.

Unlike the program initially scheduled for March 12 and co-sponsored and then cancelled by the Library, this time will simply provide a venue for the event. The sole sponsor is Cleveland Peace Action.

Titled Balancing Middle East News, the April 6 program will present a series of TV news reports from Israel and Palestine by a local Youngstown TV station whose reporters traveled the region and reported on different aspects of the conflict nightly for an entire week.

The two organizers of the tour, who also accompanied the Youngstown reporters in Israel and Palestine, will involve the audience in watching each segment, then rating and discussing each segment in terms of balanced coverage. The program aims at educating the public while looking at issues of balance in news coverage.

Our goal is for the series to stimulate constructive community dialog on these difficult and usually polarizing issues. "The controversy over the previous program illustrates how taboo is the subject peace between Israel and Palestine," said Francis Chiappa, president of Cleveland Peace Action. "Yet without civil discourse, how are we to make any progress toward a solution?

"Everyone is invited to come with an open mind, a respectful tone, and participate in breaking the taboo on talking about peace in the Middle East."

MIddle East Peace Series: Panel Discussion

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:53:20 +0100

Please DOWNLOAD and DISTRIBUTE this flyer.

"Next Steps in the Search for Middle East Peace," the third in a three-part program series highlighting Middle East peace issues will occur on Thursday, May 15, at 7 pm at Cleveland Heights-University Heights Main Library, 2345 Lee Road, in Cleveland Heights.

"Next Steps in the Search for Middle East Peace" presents a panel discussion with audience participation , including brainstorming of issues, barriers and potential long- and short-term solutions to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Panel members are Debra Hirshberg, Coordinator, Cleveland Tikkun Community Chapter; Brian Amkraut, Provost and Professor, Siegal College of Judaic Studies; Peter Moore, Associate Professor, Political Science, Case Western Reserve University; and Fuad Hamed, Adjunct Professor, Islamic Studies, Cuyahoga Community college. Peace Action's Douglas and Mary Ann Kerr will moderate the program.

Unlike the program initially scheduled for March 12 and co-sponsored and then cancelled by the Library, the April and May programs are sponsored solely by Cleveland Peace Action and the Library will simply be the venue for the event.

Our goal is for the series to stimulate constructive community dialog on these difficult and usually polarizing issues. "The controversy over the previous program shows just how taboo is the subject of balanced Israeli/Palestine peace discussions," said Francis Chiappa, president of Cleveland Peace Action. "Yet without civil discourse, how are we to make any progress toward a solution?

"Everyone is invited to come with an open mind, a respectful tone, and participate in breaking the taboo on talking about peace in the Middle East."

Non-Violence Training

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:41:56 +0100

Non-Violence Training
Cleveland Nonviolence Network
April 5, 2008 from 9:30 AM-2:30 PM
Trinity Commons, 2230 Euclid Avenue

Every spring, the Cleveland Nonviolence Network holds a teach-in on nonviolent action. This year it will be April 5, 2008 from 9:30 AM-2:30 PM at Trinity Commons, 2230 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH.

Art and Peggy Gish will be the keynote speakers at noon. The attached flyer provides the details.

Click Here for the Flyer and Details

Middle East Interfaith Dialogue

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:41:56 +0100

Interfaith Dialogue & Discussion

Speakers:

Prof. Ramez Islambouli

Rabbi Eric J. Bram

Prof. Stephen C. Cory, PhD

Wednesday 4.09.2008
Doors Open– 6:30 pm; Discussion—7:00 pm
CSU Waetjen Auditorium
2001 Euclid Avenue

FREE event!
Just Bring an Open Mind!
Light refreshments will be served.

Brought to you by CSU Muslim Students Association

Question, concerns ? Email Nael : nackel140@yahoo.com

Amnesty Int. Benefit Dinner

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:13:30 +0100

Amnesty International Benefit Dinner

for

Sami Rasouli

On April 7th from 7-9pm in the 1914 Lounge of Thwing, we will be having Sami Rasouli speak to us regarding the war in Iraq and how the Iraqi people feel about the American presence there. We will be charging $5 student / $10 non-students. The following link is a transcript of a radio interview he had last year:

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/04/03/sami-rasouli/

All proceeds will go toward his efforts for humanitarian charity work in Iraq for the Iraqi people.

Click here for Flyer

Click her for More Details

Aaron Miller Mid-East Book Signing

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:21:42 +0100

Aaron David Miller Book Signing

THURSDAY, APRIL 10th, 7:00 PM.

JOSEPH-BETH BOOKSELLERS - LEGACY VILLAGE,

LYNDHURST

For the past two decades, Aaron David Miller served at the

Department of State as an advisor to six secretaries of state, with

whom he helped formulate US policy on the Middle East and the

Arab-Israeli peace process. Miller gives an insider's view of the

peace process from a place at the negotiating table, filled with

unforgettable storioes and raw honesty.

Read publisher's (Random House) extensive notes on the book and

the author:

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97805538
04904

Read Amazon.com's editorial reviews and book description:

http://www.amazon.com/Much-Too-Promised-Land-Arab-Israeli/dp/
0553804901
Love and Peace!
-Red- carole gilchrist
red44@mac.com
http://www.mepforum.org
The Middle East Peace Forum

Action for Darfur

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:05:08 +0100

Hope is Global

An Interreligious Call to Action for Darfur

April 13th Interfaith Center at the Church of the Covenant 3 pm

11205 Euclid Ave, University Circle

There will be an interreligious gathering to shine light on the genocide that continues to take place in Darfur, and a call to action to people of all religions on April 13th, beginning at 3pm at the Interfaith Center at the Church of the Covenant (11205 Euclid Ave, University Circle). There will be music, guest speakers, art projects, and opportunities to sign up for future activities at state and national levels, including a rally on the Mall in Washington DC in October of this year. Please join us in speaking out to local and national governments as one voice on behalf of the people of Darfur.

For full color detail, click HERE

Tax Day Actions to Highlight Military Spending

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:37:46 +0100

Peace Action, the Inter-religious Task Force on Central America, the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund Northeast Ohio Chapter, and the Cleveland Nonviolence Network need you to help raise taxpayers' awareness of the terrible tradeoffs our country makes with military spending that dwarfs spending on human needs. Read more on military spending.

We need volunteers to hand out flyers - view/download flyer - with the eye-opening figures at lunch time (noon to 1 pm) at post offices around the Cleveland Area on Tax Day, Tuesday, April 15. Activists will also be passing out flyers and raising consciousness at main post office on Orange Avenue from 5 pm to midnight. All you need to do to is volunteer.

Call Peace Action at 216-231-4245 or e-mail volunteer@peaceactioncleveland.org.

Our volunteer coordinater will get back to you and let you know what post offices near you still need flyering volunteers. Go with a friend! Two are better than one.

Pick up your packet of flyers at one of two locations. Flyers are already available on the West side and will be available on the East side later Friday afternoon at these locations.

East siders, pick up on Penny Allen's front porch.

3118 Edgehill Road

Cleveland Heights, OH 44118

The house is on Edgehill just three houses before it ends one block short of Lee between East Overlook and Redwood behind Zagarra's grocery store. If you have difficulty finding the location call 216-832-7090.

West siders, pick up at the Catholic Worker house

3601 Whitman Ave, Cleveland 44113
(Ohio City/Near West neighborhood)
To schedule your pick-up, 9am - 9pm, please call the house at 216.631.3059 or
call the IRTF at 216.961.0003

National Assembly to End the Iraq War: Cleveland

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:37:25 +0100

May 1, 2008

Contact: Greg Coleridge 330-928-2301
Mary Nichols-Rhodes 330-928-5347
Five years after “Mission Accomplished”:

Major National Anti-war Assembly to be Held in Cleveland in June

More information and to register: www.natassembly.org

Hear Jeremy Scahill speak on “Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army” from 5pm - 7pm. For details click HERE .

Join Cleveland Radical Youth for a protest at the Peace Monument Fountain, St. Clair Ave., (outside Crowne Plaza Hotel) from 8pm - 11pm. For details click HERE

Plans were announced today for a major national anti-war assembly in Cleveland, Ohio in June. The National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation is set for the weekend of June 28-29, 2008 in Cleveland and is open to all those opposed to the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq.

“May 1st marks five years since the ‘mission accomplished’ speech by President Bush on the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier,” said Greg Coleridge, spokesperson for the National Assembly organizing committee and Director of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee. “In the past five years, the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq has resulted in the deaths of more than 4,000 U.S. soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. More than 4 million Iraqis have been injured or displaced. More than $500 billion US tax dollars have been wasted. The US-led war and occupation has been a military, human, and economic disaster.”

The purpose of the June National Assembly “is to place on the agenda of the entire U.S. antiwar movement a proposal for the largest possible united mass mobilization(s) in the future to stop the Iraq war and end the occupation,” a statement issued by organizers says.

“Everyone — every organization, every coalition, everywhere in the U.S., all who oppose the war and the occupation — is warmly and enthusiastically invited to attend this open democratic U.S. national antiwar conference and to join with us in advancing and promoting the coming together of an antiwar movement in this country with the power to make a mighty contribution toward ending the war and occupation of Iraq now,” the organizers statement asserts.

“The mission that attendees at the National Assembly in Cleveland will be seeking to accomplish is nothing short of ending the Iraq war and occupation now, bringing all troops and contractors home now, and letting Iraq’s future be decided by Iraqis. We seek to accomplish this through the encouragement of mass education and mobilization of people at the grassroots from coast to coast,” said Mary Nichols-Rhodes, National Assembly coordinating committee member and Progressive Democrats of America, Ohio organizer. “If the politicians and military won’t end the war and occupation, then the people of this country must exert massive unified pressure to bring change.”

More than 400 organizations and individuals have already endorsed the National Assembly, including U.S. Labor Against the War, Veterans for Peace, Progressive Democrats of America, Iraq Moratorium, A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, North Shore AFL-CIO Federation of Labor (formerly Cleveland AFL-CIO), United Teachers Los Angeles, National Education Association Peace and Justice Caucus, and California Federation of Teachers.

Among the speakers at the June program in Cleveland will be Donna Dewitt, President, South Carolina AFL-CIO; Fred Mason, President of the Maryland AFL-CIO and President of the Metro Washington D.C. Central Labor Council; Cindy Sheehan; Greg Coleridge, Program Director Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee; and Jonathan Hutto, Navy Petty Officer, author, Anti-War Soldier and co-founder of Appeal for Redress.

The June 28-29 national assembly will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Cleveland. More information on the Assembly, including speakers, workshops and how to register, is at www.natassembly.org. For more information, call 216-736-4704.

Mid-East Peace or Pieces?

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:56:42 +0100

Our World Around Us…. The Congregation of St. Joseph invites you to….
Israel and Palestine: Peace or Pieces?
Presented by: Mary Ann and Douglas Kerr
Members of the Leadership Council of Churches for Middle East

The Kerr's will present an informative evening about their experiences in Israel and Palestine. They participated in the Interfaith Peace Builders Olive Harvest delegation to Israel and Palestine in 2007, and in a delegation for Churches for Middle East Peace in 2006. Please join us on :

Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
at
St. Joseph Center Worship Space
3430 Rocky River Drive
Cleveland Ohio 44111

For more information please call: 216.252.0440

National Assembly to End the Iraq War: Cleveland

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:39:18 +0100

May 1, 2008

Contact: Greg Coleridge 330-928-2301
Mary Nichols-Rhodes 330-928-5347
Five years after “Mission Accomplished”:

Major National Anti-war Assembly to be Held in Cleveland in June

More information and to register: www.natassembly.org

Epstein Art Sale Vets for Peace

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:46:41 +0100

Epstein Family Art Sale

Benefitting Veterans for Peace

Saturday and Sunday April 25 and 26

5340 Hamilton Ave. #206 & #207

Cleveland, Ohio

Ninety-year old Mort Epstein, an amazing artist-designer who is still vital and active, is closing out his studio which contains his and his artist family's work. The sale will be Saturday and Sunday April 25 and 26. All profits will go to Veterans for Peace in which Mort is active.

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Veterans For Peace, Chapter 39, Cleveland

1585 Coventry Road-#7C, East Cleveland, OH 44118

Event Date: Saturday . April 26 and Sunday, April 27 -- Contact: Art Dorland, 216-371-6056

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Proceeds of Epstein Family Art/Craft Exhibit & Sale

to Benefit Peace Programs, Cleveland Chapter, Veterans For Peace, to conduct "final sale" of family's art and craft objects - A two-day limited-hours sale of original artworks created by noted Cleveland Heights artist Mort Epstein, his wife Marion, and daughter Gene will take place April 26-27 in the artists' studio/gallery in downtown Cleveland.

All proceeds will be donated to Veterans For Peace, Cleveland Chapter 39, to support programs furthering an end to war as national policy.

A World War II veteran and long time peace activist, Mort Epstein's design career spans six decades. He is a graduate of Cooper Union, former professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and a partner (emeritus) of Epstein Design Partners. He has donated photographs, photo-mosaics and unique wooden tables and bowls to the sale, the result of a successful career spanning 69 years.

Marion Epstein's archives include an assortment of intaglio prints, gum-bichromated prints and photographs. Also a graduate of Cooper Union and Case Western Reserve University, Marion was an artist, art educator and community activist, her art often expressing political and social concerns. She died in April, 2002.

Daughter Gene Epstein has exhibited through the Midwest and taught painting, drawing and design at Cuyahoga Community College and CWRU. Her input includes oil paintings, pastels, watercolors, small sculpture and ingeniously altered books.

Exhibit/Sale hours are 4pm-7pm on Saturday, April 26, and 3pm-6pm, Sunday, April 27. To access the studio/gallery from Chester Avenue, drive north at East 55th street proceeding to Hamilton Street, crossing St. Clair and turning left to the address, 5340 Hamilton, suites #206 and #207. Ample free parking is available.

Epstein Art Sale Vets for Peace

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:48:14 +0100

Epstein Family Art Sale

Benefitting Veterans for Peace

Saturday and Sunday April 25 and 26

5340 Hamilton Ave. #206 & #207

Cleveland, Ohio

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Veterans For Peace, Chapter 39, Cleveland

1585 Coventry Road-#7C, East Cleveland, OH 44118

Event Date: Saturday . April 26 and Sunday, April 27 -- Contact: Art Dorland, 216-371-6056

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Proceeds of Epstein Family Art/Craft Exhibit & Sale

All proceeds will be donated to Veterans For Peace, Cleveland Chapter 39, to support programs furthering an end to war as national policy.

Iraq and Recession MoveOn Press Conference

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:19:39 +0100

Iraq and Recession Press Conference
Sidewalk, Anthony Celebrezze federal building
1240 East 9th Street,
Cleveland, OH 44199
24 Apr, 1:00 PM
MoveOn members will gather in front of the building housing Sen. George Voinovich's Cleveland office to release reports on groundbreaking state-by-state polling data.
These reports show that voters strongly believe the Iraq war hurts our ability to fix the ailing economy. Since this is an election ...(more)
Address: 1240 East 9th Street, (Map)
Location: Cleveland,, OH 44199
Host: Rosemary Palmer
Status: Public, open for RSVP, 24 Guests (Max 200)

RSVP

Kent State Anti-war March

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:04:03 +0100

May 4, 2008 Anti-War March at Kent State

Time: 02:30 - 4:30 pm

Event Description: Following the 38th Commemoration of the May 4 1970 shootings at Kent State - approximately 2:30 - the march will leave from the commons on the Kent State campus. We will first visit the parking lot where students were killed and wounded in 1970, then make our way to Main St and march to downtown Kent.

A Peace Parade is planned in memory of Bill Schultz , community activist and council member at 4pm, going from the corner of Depeyster & Main down to the river to plant a tree. There will be a speakout against the war at the gazebo , corner of franklin Ave and Main St following the march.


Location: Starting on the commons of Kent State Campus, Kent OH.


More Information: http://portagepeace.org

Red Tag Project

Fri, 02 May 2008 14:00:09 +0100

RED TAG PROJECT

This is a project being organized by Cleveland Institute of Art student Lauren Sammon that will be on public display from May 5 - May 31 as part of her thesis exhibition. It is comprised of 100,000 that represent the number of lives lost in Iraq - civilian and soldier.

More information about the project can be found at www.myspace.com/NESTCOLLECTIVE

Volunteers are needed to number the tags. Each tag needs to have the word civilian or soldier written on it as well as a number. If you would be interested in hosting an event for this, attending an event for this, or participating as an individual volunteer please contact Lauren at LNSammon@gmail.com. She is hoping to collect images of all of the numbering volunteers and compile a photo album upon the completion of the project.

This is a great community project that all can engage in that both commemorates and comments of the lives lost as a result of the US occupation of Iraq.

TRANSFORMING ART TO ACTIVISM - Bachelors of Fine Art Thesis Exhibition

The Red Tag Project is going to be one of many pieces of art publicly displayed during the BFA thesis exhibition. Most students at the Cleveland Institute of Art display their work in the Factory building on Euclid. Lauren (with the Red Tag Project) will be displaying her work in a store front next to the factory building at 11586 Euclid Blvd. between Mr. Hero and McDonald's. All are welcome.

Opening is May 5
Closing for BFA's in the Factory Building May 9
Closing for Lauren's BFA May 31

Rally for The End of the US Occupation of Iraq

May 10 2:00 PM University Circle

As part of her thesis project, Lauren is organizing a rally. It will meet at the exhibition space at 11586 Euclid Blvd. Details are still being worked out. If you have suggestions or would like to become more involved in this event, please contact Lauren at LNSammon@gamil.com

Circle Discussion Night - Iraq - What we know. What we have experienced. Where we can Go from here.

May 29 7:00 PM 11586 Euclid Ave.

As part of her thesis project, Lauren is planning a circle discussion. All people are welcome, the more diverse the opinions the better. We have to come together and be honest about our thoughts, feelings, and fears concerning this war. The exhibition is a platform where this discussion can take place. Refreshments will be served. If you have a distinct and personal view of the war based on a unique experience and would like to be one of the featured members of the discussion please contact Lauren at LNSammon@gmail.com

Red Tag Project: Rally to End Iraq War

Fri, 02 May 2008 14:02:50 +0100

Red Tag Project: Discussion on Iraq Options

Fri, 02 May 2008 14:04:00 +0100

Film: Occupation 101

Sat, 03 May 2008 09:28:38 +0100

Viewing of OCCUPATION 101, Wednesday, May 14, 6:30pm at TALKIES COFFEE AND FILM 2521 Market Street, Cleveland 44113, Across from West Side Market.

Award-winning documentary film on the root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The film depicts life in occupied Palestine under Israeli military rule.

http://www.occupation101.com/

Please join the Middle East Peace Forum (www.MEPForum.org) at Talkies on, May 14, the Eve of the 60th year of the Nakba ("the catastrophe") : the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and the taking of their homes and property as ordered by a League of Nations (western powers) Mandate to create the State of Israel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_of_Palestine.

Dunk cookies with folks of the MEP Forum and Northeast Ohio's Palestinians of the diaspora. You may see some familiar faces and meet some new ones. An international gathering to help create understanding of each others' views.

Remember all the innocent victims of the violence in Palestine and Israel. www.rememberthesechildren.org, http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

With a special tribute to Joanne McKenna, deceased, our beloved secretary, a Middle East scholar, and our inspiration. We hope for comfort for her Husband Dr. Carl M. McKenna and son Carl M. McKenna III (Mary Catherine), and family.

For more information contact Don Bryant 440-623-0492

Israelis/Palestinians Who've Lost Family In The Conflict

Sat, 03 May 2008 09:31:19 +0100

Israeli/Palestinian Natives Who Have Lost Family In The
Conflict Speak On Peace

Catholic Relief Services National U.S. Speakers Tour

In their only Cleveland appearance
Sponsored by: theDiocesan CRS Office, Diocesan Social Action Office ,
Diocesan Council on Global Solidarity and the Interfaith
Council for Peace in the Middle East.

Monday, May 5, 2008 - 7 pm
Congregation of St. Joseph Worship Center
3430 Rocky River Drive
Cleveland, Ohio 44111

   Two members of the Parents Circle Families Forum, Rami
Elhanan and Mazen Faraj, will be speaking on, what is it
like to turn your most tremendous loss and grief into a
mission for peace.

Five hundred parents, sisters and brothers on both sides of
the conflict in the Holy Land are using their personal pain
as a bridge to cross the historic divide between their
peoples. Together, as The Parents Circle Families Forum they
promote dialogue between members, create peacebuilding
programs in the Holy Land, and send speakers throughout the
world carrying their urgent message.

Catholic Relief Services was formed in 1943, with its work
focused on the resettlement of war refugees in Europe. Today
the Catholic Relief Services focuses on the poor overseas.
The Catholic Relief Services seeks to help those most in
need, providing need-based assistance without regard to
race, creed or nationality.

The U.S. Speakers tour reminds audiences how they can
connect with artisans in the Holy Land by choosing to buy
Fair Trade from the region.   Fair Trade provides vital
income to producers with restricted access to local and
international markets.   The Fair Trade network is a program
of Catholic Relief Services.

For more information email <jabood@neo.rr.com>

Peace Action Open House

Wed, 21 May 2008 16:40:32 +0100

Tuesday, June 10, 7:00 PM

Peace House (Religious Society of Friends meeting house)
10916 Magnolia Drive in University Circle
(parking in rear or on the street)

Interested in Cleveland Peace Action? You're invited for iced tea, cookies and informal talk with other Peace Action folks, our Volunteer Coordinator and a board member to find out more about Peace Action and what we're doing.

Parade the Circle for Peace

Tue, 06 May 2008 21:06:01 +0100

Cleveland Peace Action will be part of the parade, as we make an artistic statement for peace and against war. Parade starts at 12 noon and circles Wade Oval in University Circle.

For more, go to www.universitycircle.com

We need help to create the artwork we will feature in the parade and to parade it around the Circle. Contact Elizzabeth Shiros for info

Conversation with John Ryan

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:09:29 +0100

Hear John Ryan, longtime labor leader and currently staffer for Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, talk about peace and the important role of older voters. Conversation at 10 am, at Peace house with potluck brunch to follow. Contact Elizzabeth Shiros

Eyes Wide Open

Mon, 12 May 2008 20:37:54 +0100

Eyes Wide Open Ohio

West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church

20401 Hilliard Boulevard, Rocky River

Over the Memorial Day weekend, West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, 20401 Hilliard Boulevard, Rocky River will sponsor the American Friends Service Committee's exhibit entitled "Eyes Wide Open Ohio", which is a memorial display honoring our troopers killed in the Iraq War. Each military casualty from Ohio will be represented by a pair of combat boots placed on the front lawn of the church and laid out in a pattern of rows and columns. Walking among the boots allows you to remember our fallen while contemplating the cost of this war in a unique and powerful way. We offer this experience as a way to honor their sacrifice while at the same same time asserting our belief in the ultimate futility of war and violence.

This free exhibit will be open to the public, weather permitting, as follows:

- Saturday, May 24, 2008, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Sunday, May 25, 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm
- Monday, May 26, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm

Eyes Wide Open

Mon, 12 May 2008 20:39:51 +0100

Eyes Wide Open Ohio

West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church

20401 Hilliard Boulevard, Rocky River

Eyes Wide Open

Mon, 12 May 2008 20:41:11 +0100

Eyes Wide Open Ohio

West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church

20401 Hilliard Boulevard, Rocky River

Voter Registration Training

Mon, 19 May 2008 21:33:25 +0100

Voter Registration Training

Volunteers are urgently needed to assist in registering new voters for the November 4th, 2008 Presidential election.

It's fun and hours are flexible. You will work with other volunteers usually at grocery stores or shopping malls. No door-to-door activity is involved.

New volunteers will be asked to attend any 1 of 3 short training sessions conveniently scheduled for:

Thursday, May 15th, 2008 at 10:00 am at the United Labor Agency, 3328 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115, or

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 at 7:00 pm at the Shaker Heights main library, Room G. The library is located on the SW corner of Lee Rd. and Van Aken Blvd., or

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 at 5:00 pm at the United Labor Agency, 3328 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44115

Call the Greater Cleveland Voter Coalition at 216-391-0900 ext. 17 for details and to RSVP. You can also email us at voter@ClevelandVotes.org.

Please do your part to help promote and protect democracy. Volunteer NOW!

If not you, then who?

Voter Registration Training

Mon, 19 May 2008 21:37:56 +0100

Voter Registration Training

Summer Supper: Palestinian Human Rights

Tue, 27 May 2008 20:40:10 +0100

Summer Supper Seminar

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Friends Meeting House
10916 Magnolia Dr., University Circle, Cleveland

Human Rights of Palestinian People

Speaker: Hanan Awad, Ph.D., scholar, writer, poet - founder of WILPF Palestine chapter

Pot Luck: 6:30 PM, Program: 7:30 PM

This is the first of four Summer Supper Seminars jointly sponsored by Women Speak Out For Peace and Justice, the Cleveland Chapter of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Cleveland Peace Action and American Friends Service Committee.

Free and Open to the Public
For further information, 216/231-4245

BIOGRAPHY of Dr. Hanan Ahmad Awwad

Scholar, writer, and poet Hanan Awwad is a Palestinian woman with a life time of knowledge of the strife torn history of her country. Hanan was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, into a family of scholars whose legacy has been a deep attachment to her homeland. She has held to an abiding resolve to witness the end of Israel’s illegal occupation of her people and their lands, and the establishment of an independent sovereign State of Palestine. She is an impassioned advocate of universal rights and freedoms.

After receiving a Diploma in Education [1970] Ms Awwad gained a B.A. Hons in Arabic Language and Literature, Beirut [1974], a graduate Diploma in Literary Criticism, Cairo [1976], and an M.A in Arab Literature and Humanities, Jerusalem [1977]. She gained a second Masters from McGill University in Montreal, Canada [1981]. Her thesis “Arab Causes in the Fiction of Ghadah Saman.” She was awarded a Ph.D. for her paper “The Image of Woman in the Writings of Ghassan Kanafani.” Hanan worked as a teaching Assistant in Islamic Studies at McGill [1980-1982], and researcher at the National Museum of Man. From 1982-1986, she was Head of the Department of Cultural Studies, and the Department of Humanities at the College of Science and Technology at Abu Deis in Jerusalem. During the same period Hanan lectured on Arab Literature at Bir Zeit University.

In 1988, Ms Awwad founded the Palestine Section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Over the past 20 years, Hanan has worked tirelessly both on behalf of the Section, her people and her country. She was a member of the Coordinating Committee for the ‘March for Peace’ and the human chain formed around Jerusalem [1990]; and a member of the preparatory Committees on behalf of the Palestinian delegation to the very first official Peace Conference, Madrid [1991].

WILPF Palestine promotes the principles of the cultural and individual’s dignity. In particular as its Chair, Hanan works continuously to strengthen the social, economic and political rights of the Palestinian woman. Hanan has introduced WILPF Palestine to distinguished bodies such as IPRA, and is the Specialist Advisor on the Middle East Region to WILPF ‘s Executive Committee as well as being a member herself of its Executive and Middle East Committee. At such venues, Hanan endeavors to build bridges of understanding between the Arab world and the international community.

Each year Hanan participates in peace and human rights Conferences all over the world addressing issues of imperialism, conflict resolution, and ways to strengthen the role of women in promoting peace both in the Middle East, and elsewhere, such as in eastern Europe, Africa and Latin American countries. As Chair of WILPF Palestine and as a poet and writer Hanan often combines these two roles on such visits

In the way of freedom and peace stand all the obstacles Israel places in its path. Uppermost stands Israel’s violation of international law and United Nation’s Security Council Resolutions. Most visually stands Israel’s high concrete Separation wall that stretches the length and breadth of Palestine, some 650 checkpoints and with them the abuse of every basic individual human right. It is crucial that this Wall be brought down, that Palestinians be granted the right of self-determination, and the right to a sovereign independent State of Palestine alongside Israel.

In reading Hanan Awwad’s biography we are not only reading about the struggle of one woman, or the work of one Palestinian organization but of the struggle of the entire Palestinian people for survival.

Jerusalem: April 2008

Pangs of the Messiah

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:38:55 +0100

"Pangs of the Messiah" is a staged reading of a contemporary piece by Israeli playwright and screenwriter, Motti Lerner, which depicts an extended family of West Bank settlers' resistance to dismantling their settlement. Please call 800 766 6048, or www.clevejcc.org for ticket info.

Performances Sat., June 7 @ 8:30, and Sun., June 8 @ 2 in Stonehill Aud. of the Jewish Community Center on S. Woodland.

Pangs of the Messiah

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:40:16 +0100

Performances Sat., June 7 @ 8:30, and Sun., June 8 @ 2 in Stonehill Aud. of the Jewish Community Center on S. Woodland.

National Call-In Day on Iran

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:47:07 +0100

National Call-in Day on Iran: Tuesday, June 10

Tell Congress You Want Direct Dialogue, Not War with Iran

Read background by Norman Robbins

The same people who called for attacking Iraq now are raising the drumbeat for military action against Iran. Despite the November 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate concluding that Iran had halted it's nuclear weapons program, the Bush administration is bolstering its case for war by labeling Iran one of the greatest threats to American security.

Bombing Iran would bring disastrous consequences.
·The entire Middle East likely would descend into further violence putting
the well-being of innumerable civilians at risk.
·U.S. standing in the world would plummet and oil prices would soar.
·A U.S. attack would only strengthen hardliners in Iran.

Current U.S. policies are not working. Threats of military attacks and regime change, while refusing to talk with Iran until they stop enriching uranium is only heightening tensions.

Call your Congressional Representatives on Tuesday, June 10th:

1-800-788-9372

·Tell them to work for direct, unconditional, and comprehensive talks between the U.S. and Iran
·The U.S. and Iran share a common interest: a stable Iraq, Middle East and Afghanistan.
·The U.S. pursued negotiations with North Korea and Libya-it's time to talk with Iran.

Tell your Congressional leaders that you want dialogue not war!

National Call-In Day for Dialogue with Iran, Tuesday, June 10th

Sponsored by: The Campaign for a New American Policy on Iran www.newiranpolicy.org

FILM: Anybody's Son Will Do

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:14:13 +0100

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 7 PM

"Anybody's Son Will Do"

West 14th Street in Tremont in Cleveland.
Walsh Hall, next door to St. Augustine Church

Photographed on location at the United States Marine Corps'
Parris Island Training Depot in South Carolina, this film follows a
group of young recruits through their gruelling ten-week 'basic
training.'

Anybody's Son Will Do provides insight into techniques that all
armies use to indoctrinate recruits with a new set of
morals--techniques that transform ordinary citizens into soldiers
ready to kill, even to die, for their country.

Part two of the seven-part series War, hosted by Gwynne Dyer,
examining the nature, evolution and consequences of modern
warfare.

More Info: tim musser timbevmusser@hotmail.com

Gather the Women

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:54:06 +0100

Times vary with the season, so check listings below -
download flyer

Dates of Future Vigils—Third Saturday of Every Month

At Edgewater Park 9:00 – 9:45 a.m. :

May 17^th---International Conscientious Objector’s Day (May 15^th)

June 21^st---Father’s Day (June 15^th)

July 19^th---First Women’s Rights Convention (July 19^th)

Aug. 16^th—Remembering Kathe “Never Again War” (Aug. 2^nd)

At the Gandhi Statue on Martin Luther King Blvd. 9:00 – 9:45 a.m. :

Sept. 20^th---International Day of Peace (Sept. 21^st)

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 9:00 – 9:45 a.m. :

Oct. 18^th---Day of Unity Against Domestic Violence (Oct. 6^th)

Nov. 15^th---Buy Nothing Day and Children’s Day (Nov. 28^th)

Dec. 20^th---Chanukah, Festival of Lights,

For information contact:

Susan Greene: greenemidwife@hotmail.com

Susan Hannibal: suehannibal@gmail.com

Kathy Smith Baker: jhardeeb@aol.com

Joan Southgate: gonnawalk439@hotmail.com

Together we stand in solidarity with all women to envision a world without violence.

"Bombies" - Cluster Bombs: Summer Supper Seminar

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:55:12 +0100

Supper Summer Seminar

Peace House, 10916 Magnolia Drive, Cleveland, OH 44106

Potluck at 6:30, Program at 7:30, Thursday, July 17

Bombies, Cluster Bombs

"Bombies",,DVD 57 minutes long funded by Corp. for Pub. Broadcasting

Between 1964-73, the U.S., in a secret air war, dropped over 2 million tons of bombs on Laos. Many of these were cluster bombs, which id not explode, resulting in massive contamination with " bombies". This DVD looks at this,thru' the personal experiences of Laotians and foreigners and argues for their elimination as a weapon of war.

The U.S. Campaign to Ban Cluster Bombs was organized in 2006, following Israel's heavy use of these weapons in Lebanon. It is associated with the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines, a coalition of of approx. 500 groups and affiliated with the Friends Committee on National Legislation.

A campaign to educate Americans was stimulated by a growing international movement, which started in Feb. 2007 in Oslo.
The recent (May 2008 ) World Conference on Cluster Munitions held in Dublin, Ireland, resulted in an International Treaty to ban these weapons, which was signed by more than 100 countries. The U.S. had no official representative present, altho' actions were taken to pressure other countries to oppose the treaty.
The Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act has been proposed in Congress. Action has not been taken.

Gather the Women

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:54:06 +0100

Times vary with the season, so check listings below -
download flyer

Dates of Future Vigils—Third Saturday of Every Month

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 7:45 – 8:30 a.m. :

Feb. 16^:---Nonviolent Protests in African American History (Feb. 1^st )

Mar. 15^th---Bread and Roses Day, Garment Workers Strike (Mar. 14^th)

April 19^th---Earth Day (April 22)

At Edgewater Park 9:00 – 9:45 a.m. :

May 17^th---International Conscientious Objector’s Day (May 15^th)

June 21^st---Father’s Day (June 15^th)

July 19^th---First Women’s Rights Convention (July 19^th)

Aug. 16^th—Remembering Kathe “Never Again War” (Aug. 2^nd)

At the Gandhi Statue on Martin Luther King Blvd. 6:30 – 7:15 a.m. :

Sept. 20^th---International Day of Peace (Sept. 21^st)

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 7:45 – 8:30 a.m.

Oct. 18^th---Day of Unity Against Domestic Violence (Oct. 6^th)

Nov. 15^th---Buy Nothing Day and Children’s Day (Nov. 28^th)

Dec. 20^th---Chanukah, Festival of Lights,

For information contact:

Susan Greene: greenemidwife@hotmail.com

Susan Hannibal: suehannibal@gmail.com

Kathy Smith Baker: jhardeeb@aol.com

Joan Southgate: gonnawalk439@hotmail.com

Together we stand in solidarity with all women to envision a world without violence.

Gather the Women

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:54:06 +0100

Times vary with the season, so check listings below -
download flyer

Dates of Future Vigils—Third Saturday of Every Month

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 7:45 – 8:30 a.m. :

Feb. 16^:---Nonviolent Protests in African American History (Feb. 1^st )

Mar. 15^th---Bread and Roses Day, Garment Workers Strike (Mar. 14^th)

April 19^th---Earth Day (April 22)

At Edgewater Park 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.:

May 17^th---International Conscientious Objector’s Day (May 15^th)

June 21^st---Father’s Day (June 15^th)

July 19^th---First Women’s Rights Convention (July 19^th)

Aug. 16^th—Remembering Kathe “Never Again War” (Aug. 2^nd)

At the Gandhi Statue on Martin Luther King Blvd. 6:30 – 7:15 a.m. :

Sept. 20^th---International Day of Peace (Sept. 21^st)

At Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave. 7:45 – 8:30 a.m.

Oct. 18^th---Day of Unity Against Domestic Violence (Oct. 6^th)

Nov. 15^th---Buy Nothing Day and Children’s Day (Nov. 28^th)

Dec. 20^th---Chanukah, Festival of Lights,

For information contact:

Susan Greene: greenemidwife@hotmail.com

Susan Hannibal: suehannibal@gmail.com

Kathy Smith Baker: jhardeeb@aol.com

Joan Southgate: gonnawalk439@hotmail.com

Together we stand in solidarity with all women to envision a world without violence.

SPAN Convergence

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:47:58 +0100

2008 SUMMER SPAN CONVERGENCE.
July 18 – 21, 2008
Trinity College, Washington D.C

SPAN Convergence

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:11:11 +0100

2008 SUMMER SPAN CONVERGENCE.
July 18 – 21, 2008
Trinity College, Washington D.C

SPAN Convergence

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:12:34 +0100

2008 SUMMER SPAN CONVERGENCE.
July 18 – 21, 2008
Trinity College, Washington D.C

Hiroshima / Nagasaki Day

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:05:24 +0100

Peace Cranes Take Flight on August 10 at Rockefeller Park Lagoon

Cleveland Peace Action will remember those who died in the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and promote peaceful resolution of conflict in an event “Peace Cranes Take Flight,” at the Rockefeller Park Lagoon in the Rockefeller Park Cultural Gardens on Sunday, August 10, 7 pm to dark.

Download Event Flyer for Distibution

The event features the acclaimed musicians and artists Icho Daiko, Northeast Ohio’s Japanese taiko drumming group; spoken word artist E&JNtoxicated; and Jocelyn Chang, Harp, and Michael Leese, Flute.

The audience can participate in Buddhist dances of peace, led by the Buddhist Peace Fellowship’s Cleveland Chapter; folding origami peace cranes, which will be sent to Iraq as a gesture of peace and goodwill; and making Japanese-style lanterns.

Cleveland peace activist Yoshiko Ikuta, who lived through WWII in Japan will speak, and Zen priest Dean Williams from Jijuyu-ji Zen Group of Cleveland, will lead traditional Buddhist chants as participants float their lanterns on the pond at dusk in memory of those who have died.

About the performers:

Icho Daiko, sponsored by the Cleveland Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, draws its members from the Cleveland, Akron, and Oberlin College communities. The group builds its own drums, and plays at cultural and social events, including the Cleveland Cavaliers half-time show, the Asian Festival in Columbus, and the International Folk Festival at Lakeland Community College. Their goal is to strengthen Asian American communities by instilling pride and cultural awareness and to build bridges between Asian Americans and other groups through the dynamic cultural expression of taiko.

E&JNtoxicated, aka Edwin Moses Jackson, is a gifted spoken word artist who brings messages of peace and justice (instead of the usual violence) into mainstream “ghetto” music. He is a political/community activist, poet, singer-songwriter, business owner, mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters, and loving husband. He and his band have released three albums, Ghetto Wisdom, the Welfare Poet, and My Animal Self.

Jocelyn Chang, Harp, and Michael Leese, Flute will create an original composition, “Flight of the Peace Cranes” for this event. Jocelyn Chang is a founding member of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Composer Michael Leese recently premiered his composition “In Memoriam: For the Victims of War” with the Grammy Award winning Cleveland Chamber Symphony. The duo gives more than 100 performances a year. They have played at many peace and justice events, including the Brigid Peace Festival and the Vigil for Peace—Masumi Hayashi/John Jackson memorial.

Contact: Elizzabeth Schiros, Volunteer Coordinator, 216-231-4245, volunteer@peaceactioncleveland.org

The Peace Show

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:08:03 +0100

2008 Cleveland Peace Show

Peace Cranes, Not War Planes

Monday, September 1 (Labor Day)

Free Stamp/Willard ParkE. 9th and Lakeside

Please download and distribute this cool flyer.

Featuring Live Music and Spoken Word
Community Action Opportunities – Bloodmobile – 3rd Annual Peace Plane Launch – Games for :

Kids and Adults – Food and Real Lemonade

NONVIOLENCE WORKS – WAR DOESN’T

For all the other details click here.

Presented by the Cleveland Peace Action, Cleveland Non-Violence Network, and Artists for Peace, American Friends Service Committee and Eyes Wide Open, Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Cleveland Catholic Worker Community, the Council on Arab-Islamic Relations, the Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network, Military Families Speak Out, the Northeast Ohio Antiwar Coalition, the Peace Tax Fund, St Paul's Community Church, the Sisters of St. Joseph, Trinity Cathedral, Veterans for Peace, and the Wolpert Foundation.

Volunteers needed. Call 216-926-4806

Summer Supper Seminar Political Change

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:07:18 +0100

Summer Supper Seminar

Thursday, July 3, 2008
7:30 PM (potluck at 6:30 PM)
Cleveland Friends Meeting House
10916 Magnolia Ave
University Circle, Cleveland

Politics and Drama - what could be better?

The Spirit of Change

Political candidates in 2008 are talking "change". Are they offering real change or just cosmetic?

A dramatic reading of a dialogue written by Greg Coleridge between US founding father Samuel Adams, William Lamb, organizer of the Populist movement of the 1880's and 1890's, and Presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Discussion and action suggestions to follow.

Sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee and the Cleveland Committee on Corporations, Law & Democracy

Peace Camp Benefit / Iraq Refugee Project

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:30:05 +0100

Saturday, July 12, 2008 4-9 pm

Sue Jeffers Insurgent Folk
Cleveland-Activist Poet Katie Daley
and more rock, folk and vegetarian food.

2225 Overlook Rd, Cleveland Hts., OH 44106

The Iraq Border Refugee Project is a first step for Extreme
Peace, a local grassroots plan for the beginnings of a
secular nonviolent peace force in targeted war zones,
designed to deflect military aggressors by mobilizing large
numbers of people to get in the way of war.

For the 2008 project we will document, with video and
web-blogging, the Iraq refugee crisis in Syria which has
taken in 2 million Iraqis since the US occupation of Iraq.
We plan to be on the Syria/Iraq border in September and
October 2008.

Extreme Peace has relied on consultations with activists
from the Cleveland Catholic Worker Community, Vets for Peace/
Iraq Water Project, Muslim Peace Maker Team, Voices for
Creative Nonviolence and others.

Extreme Peace also calls for:
Immediate End to the US Occupation of Iraq.
Call for World Cease Fire! Sept. 21 thru Oct. 2
Future Goal: Nonviolent Peace Shield;
Halt Military Aggressors
Work for the Abolition of War in Our Lifetime

Donations suggested

"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it
requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then,
I say, break the law." -Thoreau

Contact Don Bryant
<www.xtremepeace.blogspot.com>
<xtremepeace@gmail.com>
440/623-0492

Iran Days of Action

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:26:08 +0100

Responding to the renewed threats of a U.S./Israeli attack on Iran before President Bush leaves office, United for Peace and Justice calls for coordinated Days of Action across the United States on July 19-21. Now is the time to speak out against any U.S./Israeli military attack on Iran.

Details to follow.

Film: MEETING RESISTANCE

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:38:20 +0100

This film has won several 2008 national and international film festival awards, and
offers “a new glimpse into the hearts and minds of those who have dedicated themselves
to ridding Iraq of its invaders,” (Variety Magazine). The film documents the
sentiments experienced and actions taken by a nation's citizens when their homeland
is occupied and presents what many view as an essential link in understanding
the Iraq war. The Washington Post has declared the film “a remarkable piece of war
reporting.”

Visible Voice Books &
The Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition Present:

The 2008 Summer of Resistance Film Series
This July, the Northeastern Ohio Antiwar Coalition (NOAC) will sponsor a
series of films that document war resistance from a variety of perspectives.
The films, which are free and open to the public, will be shown each Monday
at 7:30 PM at Visible Voice Books in Tremont (1023 Kenilworth, Cleveland,
44113, 216-961-0084). Doors at the bookstore will open at 6:45 PM, and
moviegoers are encouraged to come early to browse the shop’s wide selection
of books.

Film: SIR! NO SIR!

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:40:10 +0100

This film is a recipient of several film festival and documentary association awards.
Sir! No Sir! tells the formerly suppressed story of the GI movement to end the war
in Vietnam. The film documents a movement that had, in the words of one colonel,
“infested the entire armed services” by 1971. Using the stories of those involved in
the movement as well as archival material, the movie explores the impact this internal
resistance had on the military and the war itself while also revealing how and
why this movement has been intentionally erased from the public memory.

Visible Voice Books &
The Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition Present:

The 2008 Summer of Resistance Film Series
This July, the Northeastern Ohio Antiwar Coalition (NOAC) will sponsor a
series of films that document war resistance from a variety of perspectives.
The films, which are free and open to the public, will be shown each Monday
at 7:30 PM at Visible Voice Books in Tremont (1023 Kenilworth, Cleveland,
44113, 216-961-0084). Doors at the bookstore will open at 6:45 PM, and
moviegoers are encouraged to come early to browse the shop’s wide selection
of books.

Film: THE FOURTH WORLD WAR

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:41:49 +0100

This film is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated
in the so-called “War on Terror.” Narrated by generals and filmed from the
noses of bombs as well as from the front lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina,
South Africa, Palestine, Korea, Seattle, New York, Afghanistan and Iraq, the movie
brings together the images and voices of the war on the ground as well as the stories
of those who resist it. Directed by the makers of This Is What Democracy Looks
Like and Zapatista.

Visible Voice Books &
The Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition Present:

Film: SHOCKING AND AWEFUL

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:43:49 +0100

This is the complete series put out by Deep Dish TV, a grassroots satellite network.
In response to the attempt to "shock and awe" Iraq into submission, Deep
Dish TV put out a call to artists, filmmakers and editors to create a response of
resistance. The result is a vivid collage that addresses the war from a variety of
angles, including the US occupation from Iraqi perspectives, war profiteers, the
privatization of the Iraqi economy, the Homeland Security attack on Arab and
Muslim Americans, and the international resistance to the war.

Visible Voice Books &
The Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition Present:

PAND Concert: 25th Anniversary

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:52:29 +0100

PAND - Performers and Artists for Nuclear Disarmament

25TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

in observance of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima

and Nagasaki, August 6 and 9, 1945

presents Gabriel Faure's "Requiem"

Download flyer for distribution

St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Fairmount and Coventry, Cleveland Heights

Monday, August 4, 8:00pm

Kelly Corcoran, conductor

Readings by Sarah Morton and Scott Plate

Free-will offering, suggested minimum contribution $10.

For more information please call 216 321-4259.

PAND: 25th Anniversary Dinner

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:05:52 +0100

PAND - Performers and Artists for Nuclear Disarmament

invites you to join in our

25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner

Sunday, August 3

Judson Manor

1890 East 107th St.

5:00 pm

Cash bar and complimentary hors' d'oeu'vres

View a collection of PAND'S history: Posters, flyers,programs, awards, press coverage.

Gab-fest with friends old and new and reconnect with people who share the belief that

ethics and aesthetics working together can lead us to a more peaceful world.

6:00 pm

Dinner in the Manor Ballroom

Free adjacent parking

Tickets - $50

If you can’t attend, you can still support PAND

with a tax-deductible contribution.

Please make checks payable to: “PAND”

and mail to: Gino Raffaelli

3165 Monmouth

Cleveland Hts., OH 44118

RSVP by July 29

Tickets will be held at the door

Questions? Contact Gino at 216.321.4259

ginor@att.net

Focus: Iran

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:26:46 +0100

Middle East Peace Forum (MEPF) Presents -
Focus: Iran

Local Iranian-Clevelanders will speak and offer a power-point
presentation about their history, culture, and life in the USA

MEPF searches for ways to build bridges with the people
of Iran. MEPF will provide a brief summary on US
involvement, in the Iran/Iraq War when the US, Britain and
Germany provided Saddam Hussein with mustard gas and nerve
gas to kill Iranians and Kurds; and the USS Vincennes
shooting down of an Iranian civilian airliner in 1988, as
described in the "The Great War For Civilisation: The
Conquest Of The Middle East" by Robert Fisk. Current
information about the US blockade against Iran will be
available.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 6 pm-7:45 pm at Talkies Coffee and
Film, 2521 Market Street, Cleveland 44113.

Call Don for more info at 440/623-0492

Please visit www.mepforum.org

Don't Bomb Iran: March and Rally

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:46:24 +0100

We need your help to stop the next war now!

Announcing Cleveland March and Rally - Don’t Bomb Iran

Saturday, August 2

We need diplomacy, not war

Download flier for info and distribution

Assemble: 12:30 p.m. at the Free Stamp, East 9th & Lakeside, Downtown

March: 1:00 p.m. from the Free Stamp down East 9th Street to the Rock Hall & Science Center ending at Voinovich Park

Rally: Voinovich Park, following the march. Both Ohio Senators and All Local Congresspeople are being invited to make statements of their positions regarding a US attack on Iran.

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT?

Both Ohio Senators and all local US Representatives have
been invited to make public statements of their positions
regarding a US attack on Iran. Come and let them hear what
YOU have to say about it!

The following local organizations have been asked to have a
representative read at the rally a very short statement on
Iran: Peace Action. Code Pink, Women Speak Out, Middle East
Peace Forum, Veterans for Peace, Troops Out Now, American
Friends Service Committee, World Can't Wait, West Shore
United Church of Christ, Immigrant Support Group, Cleveland
Nonviolent Network, Military Families Speak Out, and US
Labor Against the War.

Everyone is invited! Groups are encouraged to organize their own feeder marches to the Free Stamp in advance of the march to Voinovich Park.

Event is sponsored by the Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition (NOAC)

For more information contact NOAC at 216-736-4716 or email us at noacinfo@aol.com

Check us out on the web at www.noacinfo.org

Gather the People: remembering 9/11

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:03:33 +0100

Remembering September 11

“Gather the People and Change the World”

Date and Time: Saturday, September 13, 9am-3pm
Location: – Trinity Commons

Please download and distribute this flyer

Program:
9:00 – 9:30 – registration and coffee

9:30-11:45 – Co-facilitators – Rev. Felix Carrion and Sr. Donna Wilhelm

Keynote presentations: Francis Chiappa and Dean Williams

Why Activist and Spiritual Groups Need One Another

Response: (15 minutes each)
Rev. Valentino Lassiter –local peace issues –Peace by Way of Justice
Yvonne Pointer – global peace issues

11:45-12:00 – segue to workshops; explanations of various groups

1 2:00- 1:00 – lunch

1:00 – 1:45 – workshop series 1
Microlending - Anne Osborne

Practicing Nonviolence – Doug Horner

Peace Advocacy – Nina McClellan

Achieving Inner Peace – Dean Williams

Peace in the Neighborhood – Yvonne Pointer

Peace Activism – Tim Musser

1:45- 2:30 – workshops repeated

2:30-3:00 - Summation

Sponsorship: Network of Spiritual Peace Activists
Funding – us and freewill offering

Voter Registration Night

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:10:25 +0100

Vans to Republican Convention

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:46:44 +0100

NOAC Truth Commission

Cleveland vans to Republican National Convention

These are the details of the trip:
As of right now we are renting two 15 passenger vans to take to Minneapolis/St. Paul, about a 12 hour drive. The vans will be leaving Friday morning, August 29 and be returning to Cleveland, Wednesday evening, September 3.

The key activities will be as follows on August 30-September 2 are as follows:

8/30-Workshops to end poverty in our communities and Minnesota Truth Commission, Poverty reality tours in St. Paul/Minneapolis
8/31-Arts and Culture day (performances and discussions on using arts and culture to end poverty)
9/1- Peace march (afternoon) National Truth Commission putting our nations failure to recognize the rights to housing and health care in trial before a panel of national and international commissioners
9/2 Rally and March for Our Lives calling for and end to poverty.

The transportation costs (rental per person, gas and tolls) is $125 per person. Once in St Paul, Minnesota we will be camping out in a park (no cost) and meals will be provided.

People interested should call me at 216-548-0935, or email me and I can provide further information. If you need anything else, please let me know.

Larry Bresler
Economic Human Rights Campaign
2671 Haddam Road
Cleveland, Ohio 44120

www.economichumanrights.org

Body of War Phil Donohue

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:08:47 +0100

Body of War / Phil Donohue Award Event

On Sunday, September 14, 2008
Ohio Citizen Action

Cinemateque at the Cleveland Institute of Art

On Sunday, September 14, 2008, Ohio Citizen Action will present their highest award, the

Howard M. Metzenbaum Award to Phil Donahue. Following presentation of the award, Mr.

Donahue's film, "Body of War," will be shown and he will answer questions after the

showing. This documentary made with Ellen Spiro is the story of an Iraq war veteran who is

injured and his subsequent treatment and life in the U.S. It will be shown at the Cleveland

Cinemateque at the Cleveland Institute of Art at 7 pm. A dessert reception will follow.

Tickets are $20 regular admission, $10 for students, seniors and veterans and may be

purchased online at http://www.ohiocitizen.org/ or by calling

216-861-5200.

If you want more of a description the web site is http://www.bodyofwar.com

Impressions of an American Israeli

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:29:16 +0100

IMPRESSIONS OF AN AMERICAN ISRAELI

Guest speaker Michael Greenberg

Yoga for Peace

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:16:31 +0100

Yoga for Peace

Yoga for Peace will meet this Sunday, August 17, 2008, and
every Sunday in August and September, weather permitting, at
Coventry Peace Park, located at the intersection of Euclid
Hts. Blvd. & Coventry Rd in Cleveland Heights. This free,
beginner friendly yoga practice begins at 10 am. Please
bring whatever props you may need and a mat if you like.

This week's focus for peace is Georgia (in Europe, silly!),
so even if you can't make it, please take a moment or
several to focus your unlimited power of intention upon
channeling peace to the area and its inhabitants.
Following that, you can focus some peace on yourself. Go
ahead, you deserve it.

Be the change you wish to see in the world!

Posted by:
rebekka willow janedoe963@gmail.com

Yoga for Peace

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:18:34 +0100

Yoga for Peace

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:20:15 +0100

Yoga for Peace

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:22:40 +0100

Yoga for Peace

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:23:57 +0100

Yoga for Peace

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:25:23 +0100

Yoga for Peace

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:26:55 +0100

Yoga for Peace

Protest Michael Chertoff

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:26:29 +0100

Protest Michael Chertoff
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Wednesday, August 20
Outside of the Cleveland City Club
850 Euclid Ave, Cleveland

Chertoff will be speaking at the City Club at Noon. Doors open at 11:30 am.

Chertoff has been widely criticized by civil liberties groups and human rights organizations for his role in authoring the USA PATRIOT Act, his policies as Secretary of Homeland Security, and his role in advising the Central Intelligence Agency on the use of torture. He has also been criticized for the Department of Homeland Security's inaction following Hurricane Katrina, and in 2008 he raised the ire of environmental groups for suspending environmental oversight of the construction of a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border.
Chertoff issued waivers allowing the Department of Homeland Security to ignore a total of 30 laws, including laws protecting the environment, Native American graves, and religious freedom.

Northeast Ohio Anti-War Coalition [NOAC]
Phone: 216-736-4716 Website: www.noacinfo.org Email: noacinfo@aol.com

Antiwar Forum with OSLP

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:15:39 +0100

Public Forum

The Antiwar Movement and the November Elections

Saturday, September 20, 2008
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Cleveland Heights Public Library
2345 Lee Road
Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Please download and distribute this Flyer

What are the candidates for President and Congress saying about wars, occupations, and funding for wars and occupations?

What should those favoring an end to the war and occupation of Iraq and elsewhere be saying and doing this election season and beyond?

Attend this important public forum to hear and discuss these and related issues.

Speakers:

David Berenson, Green Party Ohio

Michael Carano, Co-Coordinator, Progressive Democrats of America-Ohio

Francis Chiappa, President, Cleveland Peace Action

Greg Coleridge, Ohio State Labor Party; Northeast Ohio Antiwar Coalition;
Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee

Martha Grevatt, Troops Out Now Coalition; Executive Board Member and
Trustee, UAW Local 122* (*for identification only)

Tony Minor, Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Free and Open to the Public

Sponsored by the Ohio State Labor Party
For more information call 216-736-4777

Million Doors for Peace

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:37:04 +0100

Become one of 25,000 volunteers to knock on one million doors for peace - sign up now

- Peace Action is one of many co-sponsoring organizations -

On Saturday, Sept. 20, 25,000 volunteers from all 50 states will contact one million people and ask them to sign a petition urging the next Congress to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq within one year.

Million Doors for Peace will be the year's largest anti-war mobilization. It is different from previous anti-war mobilizations because volunteers will be talking to people where they live instead of gathering in one place – such as the National Mall in Washington, D.C. – for a traditional protest.

Most Americans oppose the war in Iraq, but have never been directly invited to participate in an anti-war action. By engaging people where they live, neighbor-on-neighbor, Million Doors for Peace will elevate the debate over the war and its costs.

Million Doors for Peace will depend on a unique combination of grassroots organizing and netroots activism. Neither can succeed without the other.

Groups participating in Million Doors for Peace include Catholics United, Cities for Peace, CodePink, MoveOn.org, Pax Christi USA, Peace Action, Progressive Accountability, Progressive Democrats of America, United for Peace and Justice, USAction & TrueMajority.org, Voters for Peace and Win Without War. Combined, the coalition boasts a membership in the millions and hundreds of state and local affiliates.

Volunteers will visit a web site – www.MillionDoorsforPeace.org – and will download contact information. They may then walk neighborhood precincts and canvass people by themselves or in groups, or they may call individual households. Between calls and direct door-knocking, at least one million people will be contacted and asked to sign the petition. These names will be used to expand the existing database of war opponents.

Million Doors for Peace is entirely volunteer-initiated and will not rely upon professional canvassers. Volunteers will be able to receive canvass training materials from the web site.

Peace Party/Potluck - Bread and Puppet Theater

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:00:29 +0100

Sunday, September 21 [International Peace Day]
Peace Party and Potluck / Bread and Puppet Theater
If you’re looking for some early fall fun, here’s a great place to go.
Entertainment. Food. Art. Yoga, Music. Origami. Face painting. Chalk for Peace
Featuring the world-(in)funmous Bread and Puppet Theater from Vermont. Simply not to be missed!

2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Coventry Peace Park
Coventry Rd and Euclid Heights Blvd
Cleveland Heights

Bring your drum and a dish to share.

Bread & Puppet Theater performance starts at 3:00 pm
[20-30 people are needed for the production. If you want to be a part of the fun, please show up at Coventry Peace Park at 11:00 am. Please dress in white].

http://www.breadandpuppet.org/

Sponsored by NOAC and Food Not Bombs

Peace Meditation

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:13:14 +0100

Sunday, September 21 - International Day of Peace

Meditation and prayer - 10-10:45 am

India Cultural Garden on Martin Luther King Blvd by the statue of Mahatma Gandhi

Dean Williams from the Jijuyu-ji Zen Group of Cleveland will lead a meditation for peace.

Poems from Guantanamo

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:32:57 +0100

Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak

ACLU event 2:00 pm-4:00 pm

Oberlin Public Library

65 South Main Street , Oberlin,Ohio

Join fellow ACLU supporters for the North Central Chapter’s Annual Meeting, which will feature selected readings from Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak, a collection of poems written by detainees and edited by Marc Falkoff, attorney for 17 Guantanamo prisoners.

Hear in their own words - some originally written in toothpaste or scratched into foam cups with pebbles – the poignant experience of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

For over six years detainees have been held at Guantanamo Bay, in violation of the Geneva Convention and U.S. laws on torture and detention. Our treatment of these prisoners has blackened our reputation internationally. Worse, it has shaken the founding principles of our nation

This event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, click the link above or call (216) 472-2220.

Click here for more.

UFP&J National Assembly

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:14:00 +0100

THE 4th NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
OF
UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
CHICAGO IL – DEC. 12 – 14, 2008

United for Peace and Justice is working hard to galvanize and organize a re-energized movement for peace. We are convening our next National Assembly just 6 weeks after the elections to keep building on the momentum of this period and to quickly prepare ourselves for the year ahead. Representatives of our 1,400 member groups will have an opportunity to come together and plan effective and united action on new post-November terrain.

We believe that if the peace and justice movement aims high and works hard, 2009 can be a breakthrough year:

More later

UFP&J National Assembly

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:15:30 +0100

THE 4th NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
OF
UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
CHICAGO IL – DEC. 12 – 14, 2008

UFP&J National Assembly

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:16:24 +0100

THE 4th NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
OF
UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
CHICAGO IL – DEC. 12 – 14, 2008

Ban Cluster Bombs

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:44:37 +0100

Ban Cluster Bombs

Photo exhibit, speakers, hors d’oeuvres
ACCESS—Ohio, 11555 Lorain Avenue, Cleveland
Saturday, 11 October, 4-6 pm

A group of cluster bomb survivors will be touring the Midwest during October, trying to raise awareness about the toll these inhumane weapons take on civilians—most prominently children and farmers. They are coming to our country and our city from southern Lebanon, western Afghanistan, and Portland, OR to encourage Sen. Voinovich and other Midwestern Senators to help bring the United States into a global treaty banning cluster bombs.

Come and learn what you can do to support a U.S. ban on cluster bombs, dangerous and ineffective weapons that more than 100 countries have already agreed to stop using and exporting. I hope you can make it, and find out how we can stop the indiscriminate damage done by cluster bombs.

Find out more about the tour: www.uscbl.org

Please see and distribute these cool flyers: Flyer Mini-Flyer

Network of Spiritual Peace Activists

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:15:56 +0100

Pray for Peace & Justice

7:30 pm on Wednesday, Oct. 15th
St. Paul's Community Church
4427 Franklin Blvd., Cleveland

Dear friends,
For those of you who were in attendance at the program held on Sept. 13th at Trinity Cathedral which was put on by the Network of Spiritual Peace Activists, you may recall that near the end of my opening talk that morning I mentioned our plan to begin holding monthly sessions at various churches around town which will consist of a period of silent meditation/prayer followed by an offering of short readings that people bring with them to share. Occasionally there may be a short film or guest speaker in lieu of readings.

Our first such gathering will be at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, Oct. 15th at St. Paul's Community Church located at 4427 Franklin Blvd. on the near westside of Cleveland. We will meet in the sanctuary. If you have meditation cushions you are invited to bring them with you. You're also invited to bring a short reading if you have something you'd like to share with the rest of us.

Please give me a call if you have any questions.

Peace,
Dean Williams
440-537-7104

USA vs Al-Arian

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:40:51 +0100

USA vs Al-Arian

Coming to Ohio

This award-winning documentary, filmed in Tampa, Florida, by Norwegian film-maker Line Halvorsen chronicles the effects of a terrorism trial on the family of the accused. The film will be presented by Friends of Human Rights, and followed by discussion.

Donations will help us take the film to other locations.

"Of fifty-one charges against the four men, not one resulted in a conviction."
—Defense Attorney Linda Moreno

More Information: www.usavsalarian.com

Friday, October 10, 7:00 p.m.
Olmsted UU Congregation • 5050 Porter Road
North Olmsted, OH 44070-3164 • (440) 777-6622

Saturday, October 11, 7:00 p.m.
UU Society of Cleveland • 2728 Lancashire Rd.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44106-2505 • (216) 932-1898

Sunday, October 12, 12:00 noon
Southwest UU Church
Kulas Musical Conservatory • 96 Front St.
Berea, Ohio 44017 • (440) 816-1686

Wednesday, October 15
Maumee Valley UU Congregation • 20189 N. Dixie Hwy.
Bowling Green, Ohio • (419) 353-8353

For more information, call 813-215-3403

USA vs Al-Arian

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:49:06 +0100

USA vs Al-Arian

Coming to Ohio

This award-winning documentary, filmed in Tampa, Florida, by Norwegian film-maker Line Halvorsen chronicles the effects of a terrorism trial on the family of the accused. The film will be presented by Friends of Human Rights, and followed by discussion.

Donations will help us take the film to other locations.

"Of fifty-one charges against the four men, not one resulted in a conviction."
—Defense Attorney Linda Moreno

More Information: www.usavsalarian.com

Friday, October 10, 7:00 p.m.
Olmsted UU Congregation • 5050 Porter Road
North Olmsted, OH 44070-3164 • (440) 777-6622

Saturday, October 11, 7:00 p.m.
UU Society of Cleveland • 2728 Lancashire Rd.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44106-2505 • (216) 932-189

Sunday, October 12, 12:00 noon
Southwest UU Church
Kulas Musical Conservatory • 96 Front St.
Berea, Ohio 44017 • (440) 816-1686

Wednesday, October 15
Maumee Valley UU Congregation • 20189 N. Dixie Hwy.
Bowling Green, Ohio • (419) 353-8353

For more information, call 813-215-3403

USA vs Al-Arian

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:21:45 +0100

USA vs Al-Arian

Coming to Ohio

This award-winning documentary, filmed in Tampa, Florida, by Norwegian film-maker Line Halvorsen chronicles the effects of a terrorism trial on the family of the accused. The film will be presented by Friends of Human Rights, and followed by discussion.

Donations will help us take the film to other locations.

"Of fifty-one charges against the four men, not one resulted in a conviction."
—Defense Attorney Linda Moreno

More Information: www.usavsalarian.com

Friday, October 10, 7:00 p.m.
Olmsted UU Congregation • 5050 Porter Road
North Olmsted, OH 44070-3164 • (440) 777-6622

Saturday, October 11, 7:00 p.m.
UU Society of Cleveland • 2728 Lancashire Rd.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44106-2505 • (216) 932-189

Sunday, October 12, 12:00 noon
Southwest UU Church
Kulas Musical Conservatory • 96 Front St.
Berea, Ohio 44017 • (440) 816-1686

Wednesday, October 15
Maumee Valley UU Congregation • 20189 N. Dixie Hwy.
Bowling Green, Ohio • (419) 353-8353

For more information, call 813-215-3403