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Weekly peace vigil: Fridays from noon to 1PM, at Federal Courthouse,
5th and Hamilton Streets, Allentown, 18101; contact John Clint Fowler, 610-746-5013
Weekly peace vigil: Fridays from 4PM to 6PM, outside the Pennsylvania National Guard Armory, 15th and Allen Streets, Allentown, 18104; contact Carol, 610-262-4644
Weekly peace vigil: Saturdays from 10AM to 11AM, Center Square, Easton, 18042;
contact Reggie Regrut, 908-859-5632
Weekly peace vigil: Saturdays from 10AM to 11AM, at the corner of Main and Noble Streets, Sellersville, 18960; contact Angela Nez, 215-257-1300
Weekly peace vigil: Sundays from 12:30PM, in Kings Plaza parking lot, Rt. 73, Oley, 19547.
Monthly peace vigil: First Sunday of every month from 5PM to 6PM, Bally Mennonite Church, Bally, 19503; contact Greg & Ellen Bowman, 610-845-2436.
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Friday September 5th, 2008, 7pm, Popcorn and Politics Film Series: "Dorothy Day: Don't Call Me a Saint" (2007). Documentary film tells the story of the New York writer, anarchist, and social reformer who co-created the Catholic Worker, a peace and justice movement (which turns 75 years old this year) which began numerous "Houses of Hospitality" and soup kitchens in response to the Great Depression. Directed by Claudia Larson. 56 minutes. Projected on the big screen at the LEPOCO Peace Center.
Saturday September 6th, 2008, 3pm - 7pm, 3rd Annual LEPOCO Peace Picnic at the Lehigh Valley Friends Meetinghouse (a half mile north of route 22 on route 512) in Bethlehem. Join with fellow peacemakers for this end of the summer bash filled with music, games, and great potluck food. Among the activities will be a basket raffle and a cake/goodies walk. Veggie hot dogs and beverages will be provided; please bring a dish to share. In case of rain event will be held inside. $5 donation requested.
Monday September 8th, 2008, 7pm, LEPOCO Action Meeting at the LEPOCO Peace Center.
Wednesday September 10th, 2008, 5:30pm - 7:30pm, Opening reception and book signing for Judith Joy Ross: "Protest the War" at the Pace/MacGill Gallery (32 East 57th Street, 9th Floor) in New York City. Photography exhibit of portraits of many people from the Lehigh Valley at various area demonstrations. Please call 212-759-7999 for more information.
Wednesday September 10th, 2008, 7pm, Association of Students Advocating Peace (ASAP) meeting at the LEPOCO Peace Center.
Thursday September 11th, 2008, 7pm, Lehigh Valley Veterans for Peace meeting at the LEPOCO Peace Center.
Sunday September 14th, 2008, 6pm, Potluck and Politics: “Understanding the Iran-U.S. Stand Off: What’s Behind the Headline” with Faramarz Farbod at the LEPOCO Peace Center. Faramarz Farbod came to the United States from Iran in the 1970s. He graduated from Moravian Academy and Moravian College, and got a masters degree from Lehigh University. In the 1990s he spent several years teaching politics in his native Iran. Since 1998 he has been teaching politics at Moravian College and is pursuing a PhD at Rutgers University. He is an avid soccer player and the single parent of two lovely boys. Please bring some food to share for the potluck dinner at 6pm. The presentation and discussion should begin around 6:30 pm.
Wednesday September 17th, 2008, 7pm, Americas Solidarity Group meeting at the LEPOCO Peace Center.
Friday September 19th - Sunday September 21st, 2008, Exodus for Today: "Let My People Go" with Dan Berrigan and Liz McAlister at the Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center in Bangor, Pennsylvania. We will walk through EXODUS, praying anew, in our context, its theme: LET MY PEOPLE GO! We will walk through EXODUS, knowing that it is biased beyond doubt. It dwells compassionately on those left out of the imperial records. It is good news for the poor and a warning to the Project for a New American Century and their kind. We will walk through EXODUS, knowing that the word of God names things aright. The pharaoh is not named; he is a stereotype, a stone face on a frieze. Like him, the mighty today are moral clones, their methods predictably awful. They make war; are boundless in greed and appetite; waste human lives in forced labor and the lash. But the boundaries of empire are thin and vulnerable. Troubled colonies abroad, resentment at home, a queasy economy, envy in the air. To register or for more information see the Kirkridge website or call 610-588-1793.
Saturday September 20th, 11am - 4pm, 9th Annual Bucks County Peace Fair at Buckingham Friends Meeting and School (5684 York Road, Routes 202 and 263
in Lahaska, Pennsylvania 18931). The LEPOCO Peace Center's "Peace Boutique" will be at this fair dedicated to promoting harmony in the home, the community, the environment, and the world. The Fair provides a comfortable family-friendly atmosphere in which adults and children can learn about how others promote peaceful relations in their organizations and their own lives.
Monday September 22th, 2008, 7pm, Lehigh Valley Peace Coalition meeting at the LEPOCO Peace Center.
Wednesday September 24th, 2008, 6pm - 6:30pm, "Still Serving" radio program on WDIY-FM. Tune your radio to 88.1FM in Bethlehem (93.9FM Easton/Phillipsburg or 93.7FM Fogelsville/Trexlertown) or catch the live web stream to listen to this half hour of news and comment produced by the Lehigh Valley Veterans for Peace.
Saturday September 27th, 2008, 8:30am - 1pm, Annual LEPOCO Yard Sale at the Forte Building (corner of 5th & William Streets, south Bethlehem). Please come out for this important fundraiser and take home a treasure or two. No rain date – this is indoors, in a spacious room. Proceeds to benefit the LEPOCO Peace Center.
Saturday September 27th, 2008, 8:30am - 3pm, "Health Care: Not Everybody Gets It" seminar at Hope United Church of Christ (1031 Flexer Avenue) in Allentown. Keynote speaker will be the Reverend Sandra Strauss, Director of Public Advocacy for the Pennsylvania Council of Churches. Sponsored by the Lehigh County Conference of Churches. For more information please call 610-439-8118.
Tuesday September 30th, 2008, 8:30am, Lehigh Valley Committee Against State Killing meeting at the LEPOCO Peace Center.
Thursday October 2nd - Sunday October 5th, 2008, Creating a Culture of Peace Nonviolence Training with Janet Chisholm at the Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center in Bangor, Pennsylvania. This training empowers you to live a peace-making life and build a like-minded community! Discover your power. Learn peacemaking skills. Explore active nonviolence, social change and community-building. Plan projects and actions you care about. This is an interactive, skill-building retreat on the spirituality and practice of peacemaking. To register or for more information see the Kirkridge website or call 610-588-1793.
Friday October 3rd, 2008, 7pm, Popcorn and Politics Film Series: "The Burmese Harp" (1956). Kon Ichikawa's lyrical anti-war statement tells the story of a Japanese soldier in Burma at the close of World War Two who is sent on a mission by his Captain to inform another unit of the Japanese surrender and to convince them to stop fighting. Along the way the soldier witnesses the ravaged land, bodies, and souls of his country and undergoes a spiritual transformation. With stunning black and white cinematography and haunting music this classic is a universal testament not only to the madness that prevailed in the South Pacific, but to the unspeakable horror of all war. In Japanese with English subtitles. 116 minutes. Projected on the big screen at the LEPOCO Peace Center.
Wednesday October 8th, 2008, 6pm, Nuclear Abolition Sisters meeting at the Olive Branch Cafe & Restaurant (355 Broadway) in Bethlehem.
Thursday October 9th, 2008, 7pm, Lehigh Valley Veterans for Peace meeting at the LEPOCO Peace Center.
Monday October 13th, 2008, 7pm, LEPOCO Action Meeting at the LEPOCO Peace Center.
Saturday October 18th, 2008, 9am - 3pm, Youth Peacemaker Training "Building the Ideal School" at the Lehigh Valley Friends Meeting in Bethlehem (one half mile north of route 22 on route 512). The Association of Students Advocating Peace (ASAP) are posing the question "What if you could create your own school?" and boldly answering "You can" by presenting this one day workshop where high school students will be encouraged to dream up a perfect learning environment and learn how to make real change within their own schools. To register or for more information please contact the LEPOCO Peace Center 610-691-8730.
Friday October 24th - Sunday October 26th, 2008, Veteran's Program: The Healing of Memories with Michael Lapsley at the Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center in Bangor, Pennsylvania. Exclusively for military veterans, this is an experiential workshop for healing, focused on storytelling and confronting issues at an emotional and spiritual level, rather than intellectually. Participants will find emotional release and gain insight into and empathy for themselves and others, preparing the ground for forgiveness and reconciliation. Father Michael Lapsley lost both hands and an eye in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, the result of a letter bomb. His Institute for Healing of Memories works internationally with military veterans and others who experience violence on their personal and social healing, reconciliation, and forgiveness. To register or for more information see the Kirkridge website or call 610-588-1793.
Friday October 31st - Sunday November 2nd, 2008, Love Force:The Peacemaker's Way with Richard Deats, and Ralph and Christine Dull at the Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center in Bangor, Pennsylvania. Called to live on the growing edge, we can take cues from peacemakers Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Aung San Suu Kyi, Jim Lawson, Thich Nhat Hanh, Abdul Ghaffar Kahn and Abraham Heschel. Together we will explore nonviolent ways to engage personal and national enemies and consider creative, fresh movements of the Spirit. Richard Deats, a leading authority on active nonviolence from FOR, is an activist, writer, story teller, and trainer who has traveled internationally witnessing for justice and peace. Chris and Ralph Dull, tax resisters, peace and environmental activists, worked for peace in over 50 countries and founded the Dayton Peace Museum. To register or for more information see the Kirkridge website or call 610-588-1793.
Monday November 10th, 2008, 7pm, LEPOCO Action Meeting at the LEPOCO Peace Center.
Thursday November 13th, 2008, 7pm, Lehigh Valley Veterans for Peace meeting at the LEPOCO Peace Center.
Monday December 8th, 2008, 7pm, LEPOCO Action Meeting at the LEPOCO Peace Center.
Thursday December 11th, 2008, 7pm, Lehigh Valley Veterans for Peace meeting at the LEPOCO Peace Center.
Friday December 12th - Sunday December 14th, 2008, Veteran's Program: War – Trauma or Transformation with Tracey Allyson at the Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center in Bangor, Pennsylvania. Specifically for military veterans: Traumatic experiences like war affect the fundamentals of life trust, relationship, and meaning. War changes a person, leaving him better or worse, but not the same. This course will help veterans decide how to truly come home, honoring their experiences without narrowing life and its possibilities. Application required. Tracey Alysson holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a License in Massage Therapy. She has a general practice, including a specialty with combat veterans and trauma survivors and their families. To register or for more information see the Kirkridge website or call 610-588-1793.
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