EVERY CHURCH A PEACE CHURCH - Twin Cities

 

. . (1) Cleansing the Temple / Self Protection -

     7/13 Potluck Meeting: Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy

. . (2) Ten Years of Resistance to War - June 17, 2009

     Lake St. / Marshall Ave. Peace Vigil

. . (3) 7th Annual Pigstock - A Gathering for Peace

     An activity of local and national interest

 

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The next regular ECAPC bimonthly potluck supper meeting will be on Monday, July 13, 2009; 6:30 p.m. at >

. . . St. Luke Presbyterian Church

. . . 3121 Groveland School Road

. . . Minnetonka, MN  55391

. . . 952-473-7378 - - http://www.StLukeWeb.org

 

The program will consist of a video presentation of Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy followed by an ample opportunity for discussion. The program title will be:

Cleansing the Temple / Self Protection -

Addressing the Arguments Against Nonviolence

This recorded presentation is an excerpt from Fr. McCarthy's 15-hour retreat: "Boldly Like God, Go Against the Swords"

 

Please, download the attached document file. It is a flyer/poster. Print some copies! Post and distribute them at your church. You know fellow-members who are or should be interested in our mission.

 

Emmanuel Charles McCarthy is a priest of the Eastern Rite (Byzantine) of the Catholic Church. He was formerly a lawyer, university educator and founder and original director of The Program for the Study and Practice of Nonviolent Conflict Resolution at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a co-founder of Pax Christi-USA. For over forty years he has directed educational programs and conducted spiritual retreats throughout the world on the issue of the relationship of faith and violence. He was the keynote speaker for the 25th anniversary memorial of the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

He is author of three books: All Things Flee Thee for Thou Fleest Me!: A Cry to the Churches and Their Leaders to Stop Running from the Nonviolent Jesus and His Nonviolent Way, August 9, and Christian Just War Theory: The Logic of Deceit. He has also authored numerous essays and articles on the subject of violence and religion. His audio/video series on Gospel Nonviolence, Behold the Lamb, is internationally recognized as the most spiritually penetrating and logically ordered presentation on this dimension of the person and teaching of Jesus available in this format. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his life's work on behalf of peace within people and among people.

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Come to a Special Vigil, Potluck and Speakout to remember 10 years of consistent public witness against sanctions, war and occupation and to share our “bridge stories.”

 

Wednesday, June 17

5:00 pm Vigil on the Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Bridge

6:30 pm Potluck dinner at St. Albert the Great Church, 2836 – 33rd Avenue South, Minneapolis (parking: Enter driveway on 33rd Avenue between 28th & 29th streets)

7:00 pm Music by Bret Hesla and Linda Breitag Story telling: sharing of memories on the bridge

 

During the spring of 1999, in response to the U.S. bombing of Yugoslavia, a group of peace activists started a weekly vigil on the Lake Street/Marshall Avenue bridge over the Mississippi, that continues to this day... and has been an inspiration to others who started vigils in their own communities across the state of Minnesota and beyond.

 

Over the years, the vigil has focused primarily on opposing U.S. policy in Iraq, but vigilers have frequently raised their voice relative to other issues: threats of war against Iran, North Korea, Syria; torture, attacks on civil liberties, opposing the war on Afghanistan and U.S. support for the occupation of Palestine, and calling on the government to fund human services... not war.

 

Over the past ten years, the numbers at the bridge vigil have varied from seven persons on a freezing day in January to 1,200 on the day that the BBC filmed Mary and Nick Eoloff, adoptive parents of Mordecai Vanunu, during one of the vigils.

Thousands of people from the Twin Cities and many outside the Twin Cities area have been to the vigil on the bridge. We hope June 17 will be an opportunity to come together to share our stories and to support one another in our continuing struggle to end the wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop the bombing of Pakistan and focus our government’s attention on issues of jobs, education, housing, health care and other human needs.

 

Info: Twin Cities Peace Campaign–Focus on Iraq at 612-522-1861

 

   http://www.worldwidewamm.org/special/10yrbridge/061709.html  

 

 

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PIGSTOCK - 2009   (7th Annual)

Sponsored by Veterans for Peace, Chapter 115

 

Featuring:

 

Chris Hedges, 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner, 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism, noted author including War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning  and Collateral Damage, and his new book Empire of Illusion, he  has reported from all over the world for Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in NYC.

Helen Benedict, Columbia Univ. professor of journalism and author of The Lonely Soldier on a panel led by Chante Wolf and IVAW members Coleen Rowley, Nigel Parry, Jeff Nygaard, will participate in a discussion with Chris Hedges

 

Music: during the day and in the evening by the campfire

 

WHEN:  Saturday, July 18, 2009, 9:00 AM till the campfire burns out.

     We provide chairs but bring your own comfortable chair if you prefer

 

WHERE:  Windbeam Farm, located four miles north of  Red Wing, MN

     at N2934  750th St., Hager City, WI 54014; http://www.windbeamfarm.com for map

 

COST:  $25 per person, $40 couples, advance;

     $30 per person at the event or $50 per couple;

     $10 student, children free; includes supper of either roast pork or vegetarian, lunch wagon available 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM (no one refused entry for inability to pay)

 

Camping: Friday and Saturday night available but no hookups

 

Contact:  Bill Habedank     habedank@...

1913 Grand View Ave.; Red Wing, MN 55066; 651-388-7733

Rod Olsen     rolsen6376@...     651-228-7224