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May 2008 Vigils: Wed. May 21, 6:30 - 7

NOTE: All vigils at corner of Patrick and Market Streets, Frederick. Beginning in May, 2008, the first Friday noon vigils have been suspended. Third Wednesday vigils continue.

Wednesday, April 2nd, 7:00 p.m.

Israeli peace activist, Dorothy Naor

Will speak on the Costs of Occupation to Israelis and Palestinians

New Profile's Dorothy Naor attempts to bring the current Middle East activities to light, to create transparency, where all the information relevant to so many of us is heard in the public sphere, so that none of us will later need to fall back on the excuse for complicity: "I didn't know."

"Transparency is guaranteed by CONNECTIONS of one to the other, in all our differences. We have become afraid to CONNECT. But we must connect, if we are to prevent inept, unethical leaders from acting and making poor to fatal decisions IN OUR NAME." Excerpt From Transparency for Peace; Recognition of Harm in the Middle East

Location: Hood College, Marx Center, 401 Rosemont Avenue, Frederick

Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsored by Women in Black Frederick and Hood College Bonner Scholars Program

Presented as part of the Seasons for Nonviolence

Jerusalem Women Speak: November 1. WIB Frederick and Hood College sponsored the internationally acclaimed program Jerusalem Women Speak, November 1, at Hood College. We hosted 3 women from Jerusalem-- one Palestinian Muslim , one Israeli Jew, one Israeli Arab Christian who will share their compelling personal stories, their hopes and fears. This is a unique opportunity to hear a truly powerful and inspiring presentation from three women living with the reality of war and conflict, and choosing to work for positive change.

All three of these accomplished women have been devoted voices for peace. All three have suffered losses in the decades old conflict.

Wejdan Jaber is a Muslim Palestinian and USAID Clinton Scholar in 2000;

Abir Kopty is a Christian Palestinian citizen of Israel nominated as one of the country's 12 People of the Year in 2005; and

Hagit Ra'anan, is a Jewish Israeli member of the Bereaved Families Forum and founder of Bridges of Peace.

The idea is to bring the voices of people who have been involved in the peace movement there," said Susanne Waldorf, program director at Partners for Peace, headquartered in Washington. "People's personal stories reflect what's important in this struggle and they don't get heard in the mainstream media."

War and Fear, Violence and the Poor.....

Martin Luther King became an opponent of Vietnam precisely because he could see how it shifted the focus from the problems on the home front. He said:

"Since I am a preacher by trade, I suppose it is not surprising that I have seven major reasons for bringing Vietnam into the field of my moral vision. There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor -- both black and white -- through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such."

Coretta Scott King, (1922-2006)

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.

Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.

No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

--Reinhold Niebhur

-WIB Frederick

Peace depends on me, on, you, on all of us.....

Peace is too important to be left to politicians.

Peace is too important to be left to warriors and soldiers.

-WIB Belgrade