The Agape Community Annual St. Francis Day Celebration
Speakers:
Kathy Kelly, veteran peace activist, initiator of the Voices in the Wilderness campaign in Iraq, and current coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-violence.
Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg, poet, educator, a founder of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality (IJS), speaking on the Jewish Roots of Nonviolence.
Raymond Helmick SJ, Boston College School of Theology, who has worked for reconciliation for years in the Middle East.
Skip Schiel, photo-journalist, teacher, Quaker, Agape Mission Council, photos and comment on this year's multi-year trip to Gaza and The West Bank.
Talal Eid, an Imam beyond borders, peace lover and activist, educator, advocate of freedom of religion, believes in reviving the Abrahamic connections.
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Members of UJP and its affiliated groups will gather on Saturday, October 3, from 1-5pm, for our next strategy conference. This time, we'll meet at the Democracy Center, 45 Mt. Auburn St., in Harvard Square. The agenda will include a new film on Afghanistan, building the October 17 protest, revising the UJP structure, and reports from UJP task forces. To start off the program we will view the powerful and thought-provoking new film, Rethink Afghanistan, by noted documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald. The film, which has been released in installments over the past four months, is now complete and addresses the 2009 escalation, the costs of the war, the impact on Pakistan, on Afghan women, the civilian casaualties, and the security implications for Americans. We will also mention how UJP members who view the film Oct. 3 can organize screenings in their communities or house party screenings in their own homes. View the trailer at left. The film will be followed by a discussion on the peace movement's response to the Afghan war. While Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold and conservative columnist George Will have come out against escalation in recent days, and while 51% of the American public opposes the war according to polls, the Pentagon and much of the Washington establishment appear determined to send more troops and escalate the conflict once again. The peace movement must raise our voices and continue to increase the political cost of escalation so that the Obama Administration "rethinks" its war policy. | ||
