62nd anniversary
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Observances
Hartford, Monday August 6, 2007
Riverside Park, Hartford
Pot Luck 6 PM
Remembrance 7 - 9 PM
The Quest for Nuclear Abolition Begins with You. Tell Congress: No More Nuclear Weapons!
Exit 33 from Rte 91 North At Jennings Rd,
Then Go Right on Lebert to Riverside Park.
Sponsored by:
The American Friends Service Committee
Connecticut Coalition for Peace and Justice
West Hartford Citizens for Peace and Justice.
For information call Joseph Wasserman 860- 561-1897.
Pot Luck 6 PM
Remembrance 7 - 9 PM
The Quest for Nuclear Abolition Begins with You. Tell Congress: No More Nuclear Weapons!
Exit 33 from Rte 91 North At Jennings Rd,
Then Go Right on Lebert to Riverside Park.
Sponsored by:
The American Friends Service Committee
Connecticut Coalition for Peace and Justice
West Hartford Citizens for Peace and Justice.
For information call Joseph Wasserman 860- 561-1897.
New Haven, August 6 - 9 , 2007
Monday, August 6, 2007
New Haven Green Flagpole
8:00 - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM: Bicycle the perifery of a New Haven nuclear blast area.
6:00 PM: FILM - "White Light, Black Rain" broadcast first time on HBO tonight and shown at the New Haven Free Public Library, Elm & Temple. Free.
Tuesday, Wednesday, August 7, 8
Noon to 1 PM
Temple & Elm anti-Nuclear Vigils
Nagasaki Day Vigil
Thursday, August 9, New Haven Green Flagpole
11:15 - 11:30 AM.
On August 6, 7, 8, 9
1. sign a letter urging our members of Congress to co-sponsor H. Res. 68.
2. sign a solidarity statement on a peace flag calling for nuclear abolition to be given the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
New Haven Green Flagpole
8:00 - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM: Bicycle the perifery of a New Haven nuclear blast area.
6:00 PM: FILM - "White Light, Black Rain" broadcast first time on HBO tonight and shown at the New Haven Free Public Library, Elm & Temple. Free.
Tuesday, Wednesday, August 7, 8
Noon to 1 PM
Temple & Elm anti-Nuclear Vigils
Nagasaki Day Vigil
Thursday, August 9, New Haven Green Flagpole
11:15 - 11:30 AM.
On August 6, 7, 8, 9
1. sign a letter urging our members of Congress to co-sponsor H. Res. 68.
2. sign a solidarity statement on a peace flag calling for nuclear abolition to be given the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
CT NETWORK TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
Response to the Petit Family Murders in Cheshire
"Murder and the death penalty are simply two sides of the same coin. Let
us not drag the surviving Dr. Petit through the endless appeals of a death
sentence - that would be cruel and unusual. If these men are guilty, then
they must be locked away . . . . Only then will Dr. Petit be able to
grieve his loss and remember the love of his family and not the hatred of
their deaths."
Hartford Food Not Bombs is Back!
Hartford Food Not Bombs is sharing
Saturday meals again. In order to sustain this group we need the
assistance of dedicated volunteers like you, so please come out and
help! As always, we could also use some helping hands on Sundays too.
If you'd like to get involved, come by the Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Ave., Hartford any Saturday or Sunday @ 1pm or call 860.978.3562. We are on the lookout for a used van that is really,really cheap, preferably free. Please let us know if you have any leads. Thanks again for all your support!
If you'd like to get involved, come by the Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Ave., Hartford any Saturday or Sunday @ 1pm or call 860.978.3562. We are on the lookout for a used van that is really,really cheap, preferably free. Please let us know if you have any leads. Thanks again for all your support!
Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness
A vigil for justice on behalf of all
immigrants seeking a better life for themselves in this great country.
Sunday, August 12, 2:00 pm
Kennedy Park, Danbury, CT.
We come together to pray for and commit ourselves to finding a way forward for everyone who lives here or has come here with the will to work and serve the common good of our country. We stand with our founding fathers, who declare everyone having certain unalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
For more information contact Jean at 203-512-3452
Download Flyer (Word Document)
Sunday, August 12, 2:00 pm
Kennedy Park, Danbury, CT.
We come together to pray for and commit ourselves to finding a way forward for everyone who lives here or has come here with the will to work and serve the common good of our country. We stand with our founding fathers, who declare everyone having certain unalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
For more information contact Jean at 203-512-3452
Download Flyer (Word Document)
ACT NOW TO END THE WAR
Protest Bush in Kennebunkport, Saturday, Aug. 25
Join the ANSWER contingent at this march
and rally to protest Bush and demand an end to the war and
occupation. Volunteer to help with leafleting, carrying banners,
outreach and more. Check in at the ANSWER table. Start gathering
at 9 am at the rally site. Action starts at 10 am. If you would
like to ride in a carpool from CT call 203-404-9965. Currently
just a few seats left in the carpools so more people willing to
drive their cars are needed! Call 203-404-9965 if you can drive
your car.
This march was initiated by the Kennebunk PEACE Department.
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This march was initiated by the Kennebunk PEACE Department.
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March on Washington, Saturday, Sept. 15
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September 15 is the date that General Petraeus and the Bush Administration must report to Congress on the progress of the Iraq war and "surge."
The eyes of the country and world will be focused on Washington DC.
On September 15 people from every corner of this country will descend on Washington DC to demand: End the War Now!
More Info on the March
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Catholics for an End to the War in Iraq
"As a Catholic, I stand in support of an
immediate and responsible end to the Iraq war.
I ask our nation's leaders to commit to diplomacy, reconstruction, and responsible withdrawal of U.S. troops."
Sign the Petition
I ask our nation's leaders to commit to diplomacy, reconstruction, and responsible withdrawal of U.S. troops."
Sign the Petition
CT Impeachment Movement
Impeach Bush & Cheney!
Please join the movement to impeach Bush and Cheney. On September
26, the Democratic State Central Committee will discuss and vote
on an
Impeachment Resolution.
This may be the only way to end Bush's abuse of power and end the Iraq War.
Bill Moyers discussed impeachment on PBS on July 13, interviewing conservative Bruce Fein and liberal John Nichols. Read the transcript.
Join the Connecticut Impeachment Movement.
This may be the only way to end Bush's abuse of power and end the Iraq War.
Bill Moyers discussed impeachment on PBS on July 13, interviewing conservative Bruce Fein and liberal John Nichols. Read the transcript.
Join the Connecticut Impeachment Movement.
UPCOMING PLAYS ON SOCIAL JUSTICE
Fool for Christ: The Life of Dorothy Day
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
7:30-8:30 pm
Unitarian Society of Hartford
50 Bloomfield Ave, Hartford, CT
For over 50 years of her life, Dorothy Day served the poor in New York City. With Peter Maurin, she founded a movement and a newspaper, both called The Catholic Worker, which challenged Christians to work for a just future while standing in solidarity with the poor. She was an avid anti-war protester who challenged the hierarchical church to condemn war. Her soup kitchens and houses of hospitality were gathering spots and places of refuge for the poor but for the socially and religiously concerned, for intellectuals and activists, for reformers and radicals. When Dorothy Day died in 1980 at the age of 83, it was observed, "she was the most influential, interesting, significant figure in the history of American Catholicism."
Please join us in celebrating her life, her message of love, and her vision of a just and equitable world.
Doors open at 6:45pm. Light refreshments in Fellowship Hall following show.
There will be a free will donation taken at the door to benefit the work of several area social justice organizations. Please bring one non-perishable item of food.
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7:30-8:30 pm
Unitarian Society of Hartford
50 Bloomfield Ave, Hartford, CT
For over 50 years of her life, Dorothy Day served the poor in New York City. With Peter Maurin, she founded a movement and a newspaper, both called The Catholic Worker, which challenged Christians to work for a just future while standing in solidarity with the poor. She was an avid anti-war protester who challenged the hierarchical church to condemn war. Her soup kitchens and houses of hospitality were gathering spots and places of refuge for the poor but for the socially and religiously concerned, for intellectuals and activists, for reformers and radicals. When Dorothy Day died in 1980 at the age of 83, it was observed, "she was the most influential, interesting, significant figure in the history of American Catholicism."
Please join us in celebrating her life, her message of love, and her vision of a just and equitable world.
Doors open at 6:45pm. Light refreshments in Fellowship Hall following show.
There will be a free will donation taken at the door to benefit the work of several area social justice organizations. Please bring one non-perishable item of food.
Download Flyer.pdf
Hartbeat Ensemble's Plays in the Parks Series
Plays focus on people who are homeless in
Greater Hartford.
HartBeat Ensemble will perform five free outdoor shows in Hartford neighborhood parks this August and one in New Britain. Each park show will consist of three to four short plays about people who are homeless in Greater Hartford and will be interspersed with live music from Hartford's best musicians.
The free summer theater series is a continuation of HartBeat's mission to create plays about citizens of Greater Hartford. This year's plays come from interviews conducted with clients of several homeless shelters in Hartford.
Plays in the Parks 2007 is co-sponsored by the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness. "When people experiencing homelessness have the opportunity to speak their truth and when we truly listen, it informs and inspires our commitment to end this grave social injustice," says Carol Walter, Executive Director of the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness.
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HartBeat Ensemble will perform five free outdoor shows in Hartford neighborhood parks this August and one in New Britain. Each park show will consist of three to four short plays about people who are homeless in Greater Hartford and will be interspersed with live music from Hartford's best musicians.
The free summer theater series is a continuation of HartBeat's mission to create plays about citizens of Greater Hartford. This year's plays come from interviews conducted with clients of several homeless shelters in Hartford.
Plays in the Parks 2007 is co-sponsored by the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness. "When people experiencing homelessness have the opportunity to speak their truth and when we truly listen, it informs and inspires our commitment to end this grave social injustice," says Carol Walter, Executive Director of the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness.
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ANIMAL RIGHTS
National Homeless Animals Day, Saturday, August 18
The
Queenie Foundation, Inc., a humane education organization for
the protection of animals presents Connecticut's First
National Homeless Animals' Day, Saturday, August 18, 2007.
Meet & Greet: 5 - 7 pm
Blessing of the Animals: 6:30 pm
Presentation: 7 - 8 pm
Northwest Park at the Warming Shed
145 Lang Rd.
Windsor, CT 06095
Directions
Special Guest Speaker: Julie Lewin, founder of National Institute for Animal Advocacy and author of Get Political for Animals and Win the Laws They Need.
Meet rescue groups from around the state and some of their adoptable animals.
Live music provided by The Corby's.
This is a free event.
Call 860.649.4488
National Homeless Animals' Day, Saturday, August 18, 2007.
Meet & Greet: 5 - 7 pm
Blessing of the Animals: 6:30 pm
Presentation: 7 - 8 pm
Northwest Park at the Warming Shed
145 Lang Rd.
Windsor, CT 06095
Directions
Special Guest Speaker: Julie Lewin, founder of National Institute for Animal Advocacy and author of Get Political for Animals and Win the Laws They Need.
Meet rescue groups from around the state and some of their adoptable animals.
Live music provided by The Corby's.
This is a free event.
Call 860.649.4488
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EMPLOYMENT opportunities
Director of Development
JUNTA for Progressive Action, New Haven's oldest Latino community based organization, is seeking a Director of Development.
JUNTA's mission is to provide services, programs and advocacy that improve the social, political and economic conditions of the Latino community in Greater New Haven, while nurturing and promoting its cultural traditions as it builds bridges with other communities.
PROPHESY
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be
in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the
most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the
germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these
proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes
are the known instruments for bringing the many under the
domination of the few.
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the
provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
-- James Madison
WOMEN'S EQUALITY DAY, AUG. 26
National Women's Fightback Network
We Are Fighting For Our Rights!
Women's Equality Day, August 26, commemorates the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment legalizing women's right to vote.
But it has taken fierce struggle in the streets and in our communities — against racism and sexism - to make that right real for all people.
It will take that kind of struggle to defend the rights of all women now.
So let's make a Women's Equality Day full of living struggle! Let's come out in the streets to say NO to attacks on reproductive rights, NO to anti-woman inequality, racism and poverty, and YES to reproductive freedom, rights and equality for all!
Watch the online Video of Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, and Sam Brownback - for an "enlightening" discussion on pro-choice issues.
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queer rights
BUSTED: A Fashion Show & Fundraiser
for the CT TransAdvocacy Coalition
Friday, Sept 14, 7PM
Tommy's Restaurant
825 Old Saybrook Road, Middletown
$10 at the door (Pay what you can, no one turned away for lack of funds)
21+
BUSTED! A fashion show by and for the trans and gender non-conforming community, its allies and friends.
BUSTED! Every time someone's messed up your pronoun, read you on the street, asked you about your genitals five minutes after shaking your hand.
BUSTED! Because you just had top surgery and want to show off your new chest.
BUSTED! Because it's someone else's turn to feel like they don't fit in.
BUSTED! Because you know how hot you are and want to strut your stuff.
Free Food, Cash Bar, Strut Your Stuff.
More info on BUSTED!
Madison, Thursday August 9th: Courting Equality Book Presentation at 7pm at RJ Julia Booksellers
Co-sponsored by Love Makes a Family, Jewish Family Service, Pfizer Rainbow Alliance, All Souls Unitarian Church, Multicultural Leadership Institute, PFLAG (New Haven and New London), and GLAD.
Norwalk, Thursday August 9th: Presidential Candidates Debate GLBT Issues on the Logo Channel at 9pm
Let's watch it together at St. Paul's on the Green, Norwalk (Doors open at 8:30pm)
Co-Sponsored by Love Makes a Family, Triangle Community Center, Human Rights Campaign
workers' rights
Worship Resources for Economic Justice on Labor Day Weekend
The worship service on Labor Day weekend is an excellent time to lift up the workers among us, especially those who lack basic economic necessities, experience demeaning or unsafe work conditions, or suffer harassment or discrimination on the job.
Many middle-class White Americans fail to see the low-wage workers in our midst because they may be immigrants or native-born people of color.
As people of faith, we ask for eyes that can truly see these workers and their reality, for ears to hear their stories and their cry for justice, and for warm hearts to respond to their pain with actions for justice.
Interfaith Worker Justice, has many Online Resources to assist you in planning a Labor Weekend service.
SPOTLIGHT ON TORTURE, OCT 21 - 28
SHOW HBO'S FILM "GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB" IN YOUR CONGREGATION
In a nation-wide project called "Spotlight on Torture," the National Religious Campaign Against Torture has arranged for DVD copies of "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" to be available on a first come, first served basis to 950 congregations during the week of October 21-28. Congregations can choose the date and time they wish to schedule a screening and discussion within that week.
"Ghosts of Abu Ghraib," an 80-minute HBO film, features the familiar and very disturbing pictures of torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and raises many questions:
How did torture become an accepted practice at Abu Ghraib? Did U.S. government policies make it possible? How much damage has the aftermath of Abu Ghraib had on America's credibility as a defender of freedom and human rights around the world?
Acclaimed filmmaker Rory Kennedy looks beyond the headlines to investigate the psychological and political context in which torture occurred.
If you have additional questions, please contact John Humphries, NRCAT's Director for Program Coordination and contact person for the Spotlight on Torture project, at spotlight@nrcat.org and 860-216-7972.
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Beliefs in the Afterlife Grow With Age, Survey Shows
Friday, August 3, 2007(RNS) As Americans get older, their confidence in an afterlife increases, according to a recent survey of people over 50 conducted by the AARP, the advocacy group for seniors. by Michelle C. Rindels
Video Draws Attention to Child Sex Trafficking in U.S.
Friday, August 3, 2007A charity dedicated to prevention and rescue of women and children from sexual exploitation for money has released new video about child sex trafficking in the United States. by Bob Allen
Immigration: What Should Lawmakers Do?
Friday, August 3, 2007Nobody should think--lawmakers included--that illegal aliens are in their situation by choice. Given the option, most if not all would welcome the possibility of becoming a law-abiding citizen of this country. by Daniel Carro
Huckabee Urges No Compromise on Abortion, Gay Marriage
Friday, August 3, 2007Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee hinted in a recent speech to pastors in Iowa he might seek office as an independent or a third-party candidate if the Republican nominee for president is pro-choice. by Bob Allen
Toilet Company Turns the Other Cheek After Church Complains
Friday, August 3, 2007(RNS) The toilet company that burned the backside of a New York City megachurch with plans to post a billboard with naked buttocks on a building where the church rents space has replaced the ad with a less cheeky version. by Daniel Burke
Romney's Faith Faces Uphill Fight in South Carolina
Friday, August 3, 2007WASHINGTON (RNS) Can a Mormon win the White House? It's a question on the minds of many voters watching former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney--not to mention Romney's campaign itself. by Alexandra Steigrad
Albuquerque Journal: Christians Plan Rally on Nukes, Iraq
Thursday, August 2, 2007Hundreds of Christian activists are planning to meet in Los Alamos and Santa Fe this weekend to call for the end of nuclear weapons production and ...
UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday, Sept. 27
Dorothy Day Play
Hartford
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Sunday, Aug. 26
Women's Equality Day
CIVIL LIBERTIES
Saturday, Sept. 8
Practicing Law in the Cowboy Republic
Hamden
QUEER RIGHTS
Friday, Sept. 14
BUSTED: A Fashion Show
Middletown
PEACE & ANTI-WAR
Saturday, Aug. 25
Protest Bush in Kennebunkport
Kennebunkport, ME
Sunday, Sept. 9
Hope Out Loud Peace & Music Festival
Hartford
Saturday, Sept. 15
