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Sunday, July 22 2012 @ 12:30 am
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Replace the Death Penalty Fundraising Event
Monday, August 6, 7pm
Channing House, 850 Webster St., Palo Alto
11th floor
Speaker: Reginald Reese, Retired Associate Warden, San Quentin Prison
Discussion and Refreshments You are invited to contribute to the cause of replacing the death penalty with life impresonment. Come and learn how and why we must pass Prop. 34 this November! |
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Tuesday, March 27 2012 @ 02:40 pm
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Long-time steering committee member, the late Father John Butcher, participated in the Good Friday action at Lawrence Livermore Labs for many years and in his spirit we invite you to join the multitudes in "proclaiming good news to the poor" at the labs this Good Friday. Nichola Torbett, Founding Director of the Seminary of the Streets will be preaching. Details: - Gather at Vasco and Patterson Pass Roads in Livermore at 6:45 a.m.
- Opening music 6:45 a.m.
- Worship 7:00 a.m. followed by procession to the gate, stations of the cross & nonviolent acts of witness.
- Afterwards, about 10 a.m. - noon, community gathering to share our work and actions, at Asbury United Methodist Church, 4743 East Avenue, Livermore Sponsored by Ecumenical Peace Institute/CALC and Livermore Conversion Project.
For further information:
(510) 655-1162 or (510) 654-4983 www.epicalc.org Click here to download and print a flyer for the event. |
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 MVPJ and the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center invite you to attend this event on Tuesday April 10th at 7:30pm.
The State of the National Security State 2012 A talk by Ray McGovern
Former CIA Intelligence Analyst
Founding Member, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 7:30 PM
First Baptist Church, 305 N. California Avenue, Palo Alto
(Between Waverley and Bryant, one block off Oregon Expressway)
FREE and open to all. Contributions will be requested.
Wheelchair accessible. Ray McGovern came to Washington in the early Sixties as an Army infantry/intelligence officer and then served as a CIA analyst from the administration of John F. Kennedy to that of George H. W. Bush. Ray's duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing the President's Daily Brief. In January 2003, Ray helped create Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to expose the way intelligence was being falsified to "justify" war on Iraq. His continues to be a leading voice to challenge the lies that lead us to war, spying on citizens, torture and indefinite detention. Sponsored by the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center and Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice
In 1870 Mother's Day was instituted by Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation. Ward called for
all women who have hearts
to join with the voice of a devastated earth
and say: Disarm! Disarm!
Let women then solemnly take counsel with each other
as to the means whereby
the great human family can live in peace. These all occasion cards make great Mother's Day Cards OR
a pack of 6 makes an awesome Mother's Day GIFT! Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice commissioned the cards. They are being sold in many local congregations, or can be ordered online from our website (click "read more" below). Art by Design Action, printed on recycled paper with soy inks by Inkworks Press, a worker-owned cooperative union shop, and distributed by Reach And Teach, a local peace and social justice learning company, the cards can be used to carry their profound message all year long. (To sell them in your own community, email craig@reachandteach.com.) Why not buy a few extra and send them as Mother's Day greetings to women such as our First Lady, Secretary of State, Senators, or local Congresswomen?
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 Please mark your calendars to join us for this event on March 22nd at 8pm at the First Baptist Church Palo Alto. Marjorie Cohn is the editor of the book The United States and Torture and will present excerpts from the book and discuss this important issue. Read more for details about the event.
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Wednesday, December 14 2011 @ 08:09 am
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Candlelight Vigil in Defense of the Bill of Rights!
PROTEST INDEFINITE MILITARY DETENTION WITHOUT TRIAL!
Thursday, December 15, 5-6pm
Lytton Plaza in downtown Palo Alto Our Bill of Rights was adopted on December 15, 1791, and in 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt declared December 15 "Bill of Rights Day." Recently passed legislation (see article below) threaten those rights - allowing for indefinite military detention of anyone (including U.S. citizens) without trial. Stand together for the right to trial, separation of powers and presumption of innocence this Thursday evening, 5-6pm at Lytton Plaza. We must speak out loudly and clearly against such action! JOIN US for songs, prayers and speakers. SPREAD THE WORD! |
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Monday, December 05 2011 @ 07:57 am
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The National Defense Authorization Act 2012 (NDAA), passed by the Senate and House and now on its way to the White House includes detention provisions that allow for indefinite military detention of anyone, including U.S. citizens, without charges, court review, or a trial and make it more difficult to close the prison at Guatanamo Bay. The President needs to hear from us to have the courage to say "No!" to this alarming legislation.
CALL AND EMAIL PRESIDENT OBAMA TODAY and urge him to veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). EMAIL: With the help of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, it takes less than 1 minute. Just click here to send your email now! Call 202-456-1111, and simply say, "I urge President Obama to veto the National Defense Authorization Act. We must not pass legislation allowing indefinite detention and making it more difficult to close Guatanamo." Multifaith Voices for Peace & Justice is working with the Muslim Peace Coalition, Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC), National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Center for Victims of Torture, and American Muslim Voice to raise awareness of this issue.
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MVPJ Steering Committee member Samina Sundas invites all to attend this year's American Muslim Voice Convention on December 11th. Read more for all the information.
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The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) is calling on people across the country to talk to their Senators about the national budget. 
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