In Boston United Nations International Day of Peace September 23 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

United Nations International Day of Peace

September 23 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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Music, Dance, Song, Poetry,

Artwork, & Peace Education

 

Face-painting and Activities for Children

Followed by

 

Walk to Garden of Peace

 

 

 

 

United Nations Theme for 2018 International Day of Peace:

“The Right to Peace – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70”

The celebration (our ninth annual) will be focused on the United Nations’ theme for this year – “The Right to Peace – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70”. Similar to the 2013 World Council of Churches General Assembly in Busan, we expect to have program elements featuring Human Rights for the Earth, its peoples, the marketplace, and the community. 

The program will include brief presentations by peacemakers about their work, performances of music, dance, song, and poetry, and activities for children. It will conclude with the reading of a list of recent local victims of violence. We will then walk to the nearby Garden of Peace to pray for peace among stones engraved with the names of local victims of violence.

Please help us celebrate peacemaking and nonviolence at the local UN International Day of Peace gathering. We are hoping you will attend this program. 

It is time to end the cycle of violence we have experienced for far too long. We call on all to put down weapons, open up our hearts, loosen our tight fists, and start to build a united community based on peace with justice for all. We see the celebration of the UN International Day of Peace as an excellent opportunity to take a step along this path.

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Date:

September 23

Time:

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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International Day of Peace

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http://www.idpboston.org/

Organizer

International Day of Peace Boston

Email:

InternationalDayofPeaceBoston@gmail.com

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http://www.idpboston.org/

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Boston Common – Park St

Tremont & Park Streets
Boston, MA 02108 United States + Google Map

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Celebrating Patrick Kaufman: father, teacher, leader in the Fair Food Nation… Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Celebrating Patrick Kaufman: father, teacher, leader in the Fair Food Nation…

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Celebrating Patrick Kaufman: father, teacher, leader in the Fair Food Nation… Patrick Kaufman, left foreground, with his son, Jeremiah, bottom right, are pictured with fellow fasters during the CIW’s Return to Human Rights Tour in March of 2017. They joined 17 other members of the Columbus, Ohio, community and students from the University of Ohio in support of the Wendy’s Boycott with a week-long fast. Patrick passed away a few days ago of Stage IV Melanoma, leaving behind his wife and three children. Today, with incredibly heavy hearts, we mark the passing of Patrick Kaufman, a passionate, unwavering voice for justice and leader of the Fair Food Nation in Columbus, Ohio. As the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, we can only do our best to embrace, support, and love those who are grieving Patrick with the same grace and tirelessness that Patrick embraced, supported, and loved farmworkers from Immokalee and their families as they struggled for a dignified life. We ask all who are able to support the Kaufman family during this difficult time to visit the Kaufmans’ Go Fund Me page:  https://www.gofundme.com/kaufmans A celebration of life is being held at the Methodist Theological School of Ohio (MTSO) in Delaware, Ohio this morning at 11 am. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Franklinton Farms or the  Methodist Theological School in Ohio . Even as we share in a moment that is inevitably, and sometimes unbearably, difficult, we must also lift up and celebrate the many gifts that Patrick gave us. Patrick was a tremendous father and husband, and an irreplaceable member of his local community. Since 2016, Patrick has been a central figure in the Ohio Fair Food community, opening his church to CIW members, encouraging his brilliant children – themselves budding human rights leaders – to join delegations to Wendy’s managers, educating fellow Methodist Theological School in Ohio students about the fight for Fair Food, and supporting the movement for human rights and farm labor justice in a thousand other moments too many to count.  We want to share our gratitude, and help the beautiful life he lived while with us to continue to reverberate and inspire others even after he is gone, by sharing a few moments and words of inspiration that he left with our community of Immokalee. Please celebrate Patrick with us by listening to and sharing his inspiring words, which you can find at the CIW website. Coalition of Immokalee Workers (239) 657 8311 | workers@ciw-online.org | www.ciw-online.org Connect with us

The “Cold” Civil War Rages In America-In The Second Year Of The Torquemada (Oops!) Trump Regime- Immigrants, Trans-genders, DACAs, TPSers, Media People, Leftists, Hell, Liberals Know Your Constitutional Rights-It May Save Your Life

The “Cold” Civil War Rages In America-In The Second Year Of The Torquemada (Oops!) Trump Regime- Immigrants, Trans-genders, DACAs, TPSers, Media People, Leftists, Hell, Liberals Know Your Constitutional Rights-It May Save Your Life     

By Frank Jackman

Over the first year of the Trump regime as this massive control freak regime has plundered right after right, made old Hobbes’ “life is short, brutish and nasty” idea seem all too true for a vast swath  of people residing in America (and not just America either) I have startled many of my friends, radical and liberal alike. Reason? For almost all of my long adult life I have been as likely to call, one way or another, for the overthrow of the government as not. This Republic if you like for a much more equitable society than provided under it aegis. This year I have been as they say in media-speak “walking that notion back a bit.” Obviously even if you only get your news from social media or twitter feeds there have been gigantic attempts by Trump, his cronies and his allies in Congress to radically limit and cut back many of the things we have come to see as our rights in ordinary course of the business of daily life. This year I have expressed deep concerns about the fate of the Republic and what those in charge these days are hell-bend of trying to put over our eyes.

Hey, I like the idea, an idea that was not really challenged even by the likes of Nixon, Reagan and the Bushes in their respective times that I did not have to watch my back every time I made a political move. Now maybe just every move. This assault, this conscious assault on the lives and prospects of immigrants, DACAs, TPSers. Trans-genders, blacks, anti-fascists, Medicaid recipients, the poor, the outspoken media, uppity liberals, rash leftist radicals and many others has me wondering what protections we can count on, use to try to protect ourselves from the onslaught.

I, unlike some others, have not Cassandra-cried about the incipient fascist regime in Washington. If we were at that jackboot stage I would not be writing, and the reader would not be reading, this screed. Make no mistake about that. However there is no longer a question in my mind that the “cold” civil war that has been brewing beneath the surface of American society for the past decade or more has been ratchetted up many notches. Aside from preparing politically for that clash we should also be aware, much more aware than in the past, about our rights as we are confronted more and more by a hostile government, its hangers-on and the agents who carry out its mandates.

I have been brushing up on my own rights and had come across a small pamphlet put out by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a good source for such information in these times. I have placed that information below.

As the ACLU disclaimer states this information is basic, should be checked periodically for updating especially the way the federal courts up to and including the U.S. Supreme  Court have staked the deck against us of late. In any case these days if you are in legal difficulties you best have a good lawyer. The other side, the government has infinite resources, so you better get your best legal help available even if it cost some serious dough which tends to be the case these days with the way the judicial system works.

Most importantly when confronted by any governmental agents from the locals to the F.B.I. be cool, be very cool.