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  • American Muslim Voice
  • Bahá'í Community of Palo Alto
  • Beyt Tikkun Synagogue
  • First Congregational Church (United Church of Christ) Palo Alto
  • First Evangelical Lutheran Church Palo Alto
  • First Presbyterian Church Palo Alto
  • First United Methodist Church Palo Alto
  • Mountain View Buddhist Temple
  • Palo Alto Buddhist Temple
  • Palo Alto Friends Meeting
  • St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Palo Alto
  • St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, Palo Alto (Catholic)
  • Social Action Committee of the Redwood City Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship
  • Trinity Church in Menlo Park (Episcopal)
  • Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto
  • Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Los Gatos
  • West Bay Chapter, Buddhist Peace Fellowship

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9/11 Multifaith Peace Picnic in San Jose

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MVPJ is please to cosponsor a
Multifaith Peace Picnic

hosted by American Muslim Voice and Santa Clara County Superviser Dave Cortese.

Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm 
James P. McEntee, Sr. Plaza
70 West Hedding Street. San Jose

 
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Hiroshima Day Event at Livermore

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Mark the 67th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Sunday, August 5, 4-6pm
Livermore Lab in Livermore, CA

Foreclose on the bomb, not the people!

Join other peace & justice advocates for musicians and speakers, symbolic art and nonviolent action to highlight the economic reality of ever-increasing nuclear weapons spending while people's basic needs go unmet.

Meet at Wm. Payne Park in Livermore, located near I-580 on Vasco Rd & Patterson Pass Rd., across from the Livermore nuclear weapons lab.  We will gather under shade trees for the commemoration, with a procession to the Livermore lab following.

Note that 4:15pm local time Sunday is 8:15am August 6 in Hiroshima, the precise time the A-bomb exploded.

 

 
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Replace the Death Penalty!

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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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Occupy Good Friday (April 6th) at Livermore Labs

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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.
 

The State of The National Security State 2012: A Talk by Ray McGovern

Ray McGovernMVPJ 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

 

 



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Mother of Mother's Day - Greeting Cards for Peace

Julia Ward Howe

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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A Week of Action

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PNCLThe Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) is calling on people across the country to talk to their Senators about the national budget.

Click here to visit the FCNL web site to learn more and take action.

 

The United States and Torture - Attend Talk on March 22nd

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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