Dear Supporter,
Please forward to your lists and congregations:
Peres Picket, "EMMA" Play, Muslim Concerns, Peace Conferences
People of Faith CT e-newsletter
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
CONTENTS
Middle East Peace
1. Palestinian & Israeli Families for Peace: Talk and Dinner, Nov. 28, New Haven
2. Shimon Peres Picket, "Stop Supporting Apartheid & Massacre," Nov. 29, New Haven
3. Second Annual "Tree of Life" Conference, December 3, Old Lyme
4. "Sir, No Sir" Film & Discussion on Vietnam-Iraq, Dec. 5, West Hartford
5. "How Do We Bring Them Home" Peace Conference, Dec. 9, New Britain
Politics
6. "EMMA" a play based on the life of Emma Goldman, Early Dec., New Britain
Civil Liberties
7. Muslim Concerns Town Hall Meeting, Dec. 1, Cromwell
Economic Justice
8. "Making Ends Meet for Working Families" Dec. 6, Hartford
9. Petition Campaign for a State Earned Income Tax Credit
10. "Seeking Health Coverage for All" OpEd
Interfaith Understanding
11. Mar Elias Educational Institutions Accepting Tax-Deductible Donations
Spirituality
12. Advent begins Sunday, December 3
Quotable:
"You can't separate peace from freedom
because no one can be at peace
unless he has his freedom."
- Malcolm X
World AIDS Day: Friday, December 1
Light a web candle to raise money for AIDS Research:
https://www.lighttounite.org
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Middle East Peace
1.
The Parents' Circle:
Palestinian & Israeli Families for Peace:
Tuesday, Nov. 28
6:00pm talk
7:00pm dinner
Yale Law School Auditorium, New Haven
The Parents Circle is an organization
of over 500 Israeli and Palestinian families
that are working together to end
the fighting between their communities.
500 Bereaved Palestinian and Israeli Families
Work Together for Peace:
Hear Two Members of the Parents Circle
Discuss Their Journey From Loss to Advocacy
Ali Abu Awwad and Robi Damelin of The Parents' Circle
Peter Salovey, Dean of Yale College and Professor of Psychology
Miroslav Volf, the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology, will also speak.
Sponsored by Yale's Divinity, Law and Medical Schools
Yale's Center for the Study of Globalization,
Council on Middle East Studies,
Yale Religious Ministries
and the Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale.
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2.
Shimon Peres Picket, "Stop Supporting Apartheid & Massacre"
Wednesday, Nov. 29
6:30 PM
in front of Woolsey Hall
500 College St.(corner Grove St.) New Haven
Message:
"Peres, Phoney Man of Peace",
"Stop Starving Gaza" ,
"Peres, Stop Supporting Apartheid and Massacre"
"Israel Has the Weapons of Mass Destruction"
"Nuclear Free Middle East"
Parking:
after 5:30 in the Yale lots near the Yale Gym
and near the New Haven library.
Best advise to come early and car pool.
Sponsored by the Middle East Crisis Committee
Co-Sponsored by People of Faith CT
Latest developments about the picket:
http://www.TheStruggle.org
Who is Shimon Peres?
The father of Israel's atomic weapons program.
Prime Minister of Israel during the 1996 Lebanon attack
during which 100 civiliians were blown to pieces
in the first Qana massacre.
Currently Deputy Prime Minister in the government
which attacked Lebanon and massacred people
in Qana again this year
and which has mounted a total siege of Gaza.
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3.
Second Annual "Tree of Life" Conference
Sunday December 3rd
1:30 to 8:30 PM.
First Church of Christ Old Lyme
Old Lyme, CT.
Speakers include Palestinians and other human rights advocates
http://www.fccol.org/
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4.
"Sir, No Sir" Film & Discussion on Vietnam-Iraq
Tuesday, December, 5
7:00 PM
St. James Episcopal Church
1018 Farmington Avenue, West Hartford
Discussion lead by local Vietnam Veterans,
Fred Louis and David Ionno,
who are now active members of Veterans for Peac
Sponsored by West Hartford Citizens for Peace & Justice
to provide a comfortable space and opportunity
for people with concerns, questions, curiosity
about the legacy of the Vietnam War
and the current crisis in Iraq.
INFO: Martin Wittmann, 860 324 0512
Gregory Spear, 860 655 4179
Light refreshments provided.
Donations accepted.
Proudly endorsed by People of Faith CT
http://www.sirnosir.org
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5.
"How Do We Bring Them Home" Peace Conference
Saturday, December 9
Noon -- 6 PM
Bellin Gallery, Student Center (off Ella Grasso Blvd.)
CCSU, New Britain
How Do We Bring them Home? How do We Stop Israel’s Savagery?
Invited speakers:
Michael Klare, Mariee Najimy, Cyrus Bina, Nir Rosen
PANEL:
LOCAL ANTIWAR GROUPS SHARE THEIR PERSPECTIVES
ON THE MEANING OF THE ELECTIONS, AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:
WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT?,
HOW BEST TO MOBILIZE THE MAJORITY IN THE SPRING OF 2007?
SPONSORED BY CONNECTICUT UNITED FOR PEACE AND
THE CCSU ANTIWAR REFERENDUM COMMITTEE
Proudly endorsed by People of Faith CT
Info: David Amdur, 860-523-1534
Stan Heller, 203-934-2761
Chris Gauvreau, 860-478-5300
Directions:
http://www.ccsu.edu/Viewbook/find_us.htm.
http://www.hopeoutloud.org/Dec9_Meeting.html
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Politics
6.
"EMMA" a play based on the life of Emma Goldman
Written by Howard Zinn
December 1,2,8,9
8:00 PM
Hole in the Wall Theatre
116 Main Street, New Britain
Directed by Ted Guhl
Zinn aficionados and radical thinkers
will want to see this play.
Reservations: (860) 229-3049
http://www.hitw.org or 860 223-9665.
Info on Howard Zinn:
http://www.howardzinn.org
Sponsored by The Socialist Party, USA of CT
http://www.sp-usa.org
Proudly endorsed by People of Faith CT
Emma Goldman Quotes:
"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."
"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution ...
revolution is but thought carried into action."
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Civil Liberties
7.
Muslim Concerns Town Hall Meeting
Friday, Dec. 1
6:30pm-9:30pm
Crowne Plaza
100 Berlin Road
Cromwell, CT 06416
860-635-2000
Share the Concerns of your Muslim Community
Open Forum with the FBI, Homeland Security and
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Hamza I.J. Collins:860-995-6628
Farah Refai: 203-623-4468
DONATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED
http://www.cair-ct.com
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Economic Justice
8.
"Making Ends Meet for Working Families" Dec. 6, Hartford
Wednesday, December 6
5:30 p.m.
Hartford City Hall Function Room
This is an Informational Meeting about:
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Sites in Hartford
Federal Earned Income Tax Credit for Working Families
A CT State EITC – Let’s Make It Happen in 2007!
Speakers:
Mayor Eddie Perez
Hartford City Councilman Jim Boucher
Reverend Jesse White
and Voices from the Community
Sponsored by Hartford Councilman Jim Boucher
the Greater Hartford Interfaith Coalition for Equity and Justice,
Connecticut Association for Human Services
and Hartford Asset Building Collaborative
Proudly endorsed by People of Faith CT
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9.
"Seeking Health Coverage for All" OpEd
"Sadly, the proposals of the working group and Connecticut's
Democratic and Republican candidates offer nothing
but business as usual:
insurance and drug firms reaping kingly profits
while so many go without needed care."
http://mobile.courant.com/detail.jsp?key=23812&rc=op-ed&p=1
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10.
Petition Campaign for a CT Earned Income Tax Credit
"To: Governor Jodi Rell, Lt.Governor Kevin Sullivan,
and All State of Connecticut Senators and Representatives
Connecticut Association for Human Services (CAHS),
Greater Hartford Interfaith Coalition for Equity and Justice (ICEJ)
and the undersigned respectfully ask the public officials of
Connecticut to work together in a bipartisan manner
to enact a Connecticut Earned Income Tax Credit
equal to 25% of the corresponding federal EITC.
A state EITC would provide tax relief to hard-working,
low-income families.
It would help them close the gap between what they earn
and what they need to make ends meet.
In 2003, over 162,000 Connecticut households (10.1% of tax filers)
received federal EITC benefits totaling over $256 million;
the average payment per household was $1,578.
A 25% Connecticut match would add another $64 million
($394 per household.)"
The goal is to collect 25,000 signatures to deliver
to the Governor and Legislature in the 2007 session.
We urge you download and print out the petition
and bring it with you everywhere you go to collect signatures.
Ask members of your congregation, organizations, neighborhood,
and family to sign on!
Download Petition
http://www.faithCT.org/eitcpetition.pdf
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Interfaith Understanding
11.
Mar Elias Educational Institutions
Accepting Tax-Deductible Donations
MEEI runs 8 educational institutions
ranging from kindergarten to a 4-yr college
(affiliated with the University of Indianapolis)
which have been built up to attend to the educational needs
of the Arab citizens of Israel
whose needs are seriously underfunded by "the Jewish State."
An American office has been established
for the mailing of contributions
that are tax-deductible on US income tax returns.
Checks should be made out to:
Pilgrims of Ibillin
638 Escondido Circle, Livermore, CA 94550.
http://www.pilgrimsofibillin.org
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Spirituality
12.
Advent begins Sunday, December 3
"Behold the days are coming . . .
when I will raise up a just shoot;
He will do what is right and just
in the land . . . ."
-- Jeremiah 33:14-15
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