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ARKANSAS PEACE NETWORK Newsletter April 25, 2008 Saturday, April 26, 11am to 4pm, ARKANSAS EARTH DAY FESTIVAL, will be held on the Clinton Library grounds. This Saturday, come out and enjoy and celebrate the earth with us! Arkansas Coalition for Peace and Justice will share a booth with WAND. You can still volunteer to help--call Doug at 920-5348.
Monday April 28, 6:30 pm, Dim Sum and Discussion
Lilly’s Dim Sum, Then Some Restaurant in the Market Place, 11121 N Rodney Parham. The speaker will be Dennis Beavers of the Solutions Group, a for profit computer service, and the founder of the Compassion Coalition, a network of non-profits working for the good of all in this community. In addition, he will talk about his innovative residential program to help the homeless. Dennis is also the guru of the ACPJ website www.acpj.org
Saturday, May 3, Stop the War in Iraq demonstration, at the corner of Chenal Blvd. and Bowman Road. 12 noon to 1:00 pm. Come join us for our monthly protest of the war. We have signs or you can bring your own. Let's continue to be a consistent voice for change in our policy towards Iraq war.
Please check out an ACPJ Board Meeting! We meet the first Monday of every month. Our next meeting is Monday, May 5th at 6:30 p.m. Come join us at the Quaker House at 3415 West Markham in Little Rock to bring issues or just listen in. Call Steve at 944-9297 for more info on the meeting. Friday, May 9, 12 noon. WAND’s 5th Annual MOTHER’S DAY for PEACE LUNCHEON, at the Little Rock Club honoring Anna Cox, the Founder of Dharma Friends Prison Outreach. Their keynote speaker is Susan McDougal, author of The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk". See arkwand.org for more details. You won't want to miss this special event! PASTORS FOR PEACE The pastor peace train will be making it's way through Little Rock in June on their way to Cuba. We'll be hosting them for dinner on June 26th and a night's stay. More info coming to you soon! THANKS to all of you who responded to our membership update inquiry. We're trying to serve you better with email updates. Please send us any new information on your address, phone, or email if you haven't so already. You can send it to stevesullivan77@yahoo.com The Arkansas Coalition for Peace and Justice(ACPJ) is an association of individuals and organizations who support a vision of harmony with the Earth and all its peoples through education, dialogue, and actions that promote social and economic justice, ecological sustainability and stewardship, non-violent ways of living, and alternatives to war.
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Spring/Summer Internship Help Stop Global Warming! (Arkansas)Reply to: burke@ecoconservation.org
Date: 2008-04-21, 12:02PM CDT
For the Spring/Summer 2008 help stop global warming by interning with ECO (Ecological Conservation Organization) here in Arkansas.
There are two coal-fired power plants proposed here in the Natural State and we need your help to protect the environment and move Arkansas to a Clean and Green Energy Future!
Join us to:
Effect local environmental change
Promote visionary solutions
Build one-on-one relations with volunteers in the community
Hold decision-makers accountable
Build a strong grassroots base across the state
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Support the IFCO/Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba this June/July – End the Blockade of Cuba
In
June/July 2008 14 different routes of the Pastors for Peace Caravan to
Cuba will be on the road visiting more than 120 US and Canadian cities.
We will travel in school buses, trucks, and cars to Cuba via Mexico
with medical and educational supplies collected from groups across the
US and Canada as a collective challenge to the inhuman and immoral US
blockade and travel ban.
Full information about the
2008 caravan will soon be available on the website for the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization. To immediately get
more information about joining the caravan, or hosting an event as a
route passes through - email cucaravan@igc.org or acpjcalendar@yahoo.com .
What's it like to go on a caravan?
Watch this 8 minute audio slide show from the 2006 Cuba caravan and find out!
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Hi everyone, I have some big news for everyone working on the coal campaign. Dynegy the company constructing the plant in Osceola will be having their annual shareholders meeting on May 14th in Houston, TX. The National Sierra Club is organizing a massive demonstration inside and outside their headquarters on that day. We have proxies who have agreed to provide us tickets to enter the shareholders meeting and we will also organize a massive rally outside with people from all across the country. The Sierra Club has agreed to pay volunteers airfare, bus ticket, train ticket or whatever form of transportation you want. We need people fromArkansas to go down to Houston and tell Dynegy to move away from coal and invest in renewable energy. Next week we will have a conference call with the Sierra Club discussing the event as well as deciding how to get volunteers down to Houston. Please contact me if you are interested ASAP. An all expense paid trip to Houston for a rally sounds good to me so hopefully some folks will want to go. One more thing…a good friend of the Sierra Club, Jack Sundell is starting an organic café in Little Rock and he is having a fundraising party April 10th8pm at the Arkansas Flag and Banner. The Damn Bullets will be performing and it should be a great night. While we need to continue to fight coal we should also support our local green businesses. Here is Jack’s # if you have any question 501-944-8500 Finally thanks to everyone who attended our rally this Saturday it was really fun! 
James Burke Arkansas Sierra Club 1308 West 2nd Streeet Little Rock, AR 72201 (501) 301 8280 (336) 455 1065 (c) www.arkansas.sierraclub.org
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These photos and the text below appeared in the Online Edition of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Tribute to the Fallen Soldiers (March 25, 2008)
A tribute to the fallen soldiers was held in the Heights area on Tuesday the 25th were participants held a candle light vigil ceremony to recognize the 4,000 men killed in the line of duty while serving in Iraq.
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Please join us every Tuesday at 11:45am at the corner of Kavanaugh and Palm near Laughing Moon Cafe in Hillcrest in Little Rock for a 15 minute peaceful protest of the war in Iraq. |
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Anti-War/ Pro-Peace Demonstration: Each Tuesday 11.30am-11:45am; Corner of Capitol and Broadway; for info: Robert Johnston 375-5625 or robertj1940@hotmail.com |
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The ACPJ Board meets monthly at the Quaker Meeting House. Please feel free to attend the board meeting. It usually meets on the first Monday of each month at 6:30pm. The address is:
3415 West Markham
(corner of Markham and Valmar)
Little Rock, AR
It's a great way to get involved. Several board members initially began their involvement with ACPJ in this manner. After attending a couple of meetings, they realized what a wonderful group of people it is and a really meaningful way to take action with like- minded individuals here in Little Rock.
Membership in ACPJ is not required to attend a meeting or to help in whatever way that you feel so inclined.
For more information call Doug Barton at 501-920-5348. |
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The Unitarian Universalist Church is holding a Peace Vigil at the church on the first Sunday of each month at 6 pm. The September vigil will have a special event- the enactment of Mark Twain's -The War Prayer-. He wrote this piece but only allowed it to be published after his death because he said that only dead men can speak the truth. It is a wonderful peace play. All are welcome.
linda vanblaricom |
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Hot Springs Peace Group Events
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A New Generation of Nuclear Annihilation |
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War in Iraq is costing America a great deal of money.
And a great deal that cannot be measured by money!
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Cost of the War in Iraq
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