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Our mission is to bring together people who believe in using nonviolent methods to build and sustain a peaceful world.
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AFSC Speak for Peace Tour -- Iraqi and Iraq Vet
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...AFSC Speak for Peace Tour -- Iraqi and Iraq Vet SPEAK FOR PEACE TOUR Join us to hear from an Iraqi and an Iraq War veteran as they tell the stories of war that we seldom hear and ways that we can bring an end to the suffering. Raed Jarrar, Iraqi Political Analyst Currently working as the Iraq consultant for the American Friends Service Committee, based in... more »
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Events This Week
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I want to especially lift up the Cluster Bomb Survivors Tour on
Sunday, October 12 at 7:00 pm at the Northwood Building. We tried to
get them for COFP, but their schedule wouldn't allow it.
Deb Oskin, President
Central Ohioans for Peace
October 10, 2008 (Friday) - 11:00 a.m., Peace Voter meeting with... more »
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Calls for Volunteers
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We need volunteers to work on two urgent projects:
(1) The U.N. Peace Essay Contest, Sunday October 26 at 4pm at North
Broadway United Methodist Church. Volunteers are needed for the
reception:
(a) to bring in food and food donations
(b) to set up the food
(c) to clean up afterward... more »
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Ralph Nader in Columbus
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Presidential candidate RALPH NADER to appear at the DREXEL! Attorney, author and consumer advocate Ralph Nader will hold his only election rally in Columbus at the Drexel East Theatre, 2254 E. Main St. on Monday, September 8th from 1:00 until 3:30 pm. Named by Time Magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential Americans of the 20th Century", Ralph Nader has for more than four decades exposed problems and organized millions of citizens into more than 100 public interest groups advocating solutions to major problems in America. He led the movement to establish the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Consumer Product Safety Commission and was instrumental in enacting the Safe Drinking Water Act, The Motor Vehicle Safety Act and the Freedom of Information Act. Because of Ralph Nader we drive safer cars, eat healthier food, breathe better air, drink cleaner water, and work in safe environments.... more »
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August 4: "White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
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Dear Friend, With the sixty-third anniversary of Hiroshima Day just over two weeks away, we invite you and your faith community to remember the devastating atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Visit Faithful Security's website to view links to various prayers and materials for study. As you reflect on the only times that nuclear... more »
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Congo presentation at Wed, July 23 - CODSN meeting
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Fred Suter will be giving a talk and slide presentation on the
Democratic Rebublic of Congo at the July 23 meeting of CODSN.
Fred Suter has served as an aid worker in the Congo (then the
Republic of Zaire) during the
1960s and 70s for the Mennonite Central Committee, the national
relief, service and peace organization of the Mennonite and... more »
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Fighting in Congo Rekindles Ethnic Hatreds - NY Times
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January 10, 2008
Fighting in Congo Rekindles Ethnic Hatreds
By LYDIA POLGREEN
MUSHAKE, Congo — Andre Simwerayi looked on with satisfaction as the
army blasted rockets over a verdant hillside, pummeling what officers
said were the positions of forces loyal to a renegade Congolese Tutsi
general.... more »
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Tent of Hope
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I wrote the below as an attempt to notify the members of the
Peace and Justice Action Committee of First Community
Church of the beginning of the work to organize the Tent of
Hope event in the memory of Bill Barndt. Perhaps others
may find it of use in their attempts to communicate the
with others the work being done on the Tent of Hope.... more »
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