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4th Anniversary of the start of the Iraq War Vigil, March 19, 2007
Upcoming and Current Events:
Blueprint for Peace in Afghanistan
A Community Conversation
Sunday, February 28th
4 – 6 p.m.
What would a blueprint for peace in Afghanistan include?
What are the issues and factors affecting the prospects for peace?
Come join the conversation as we learn more about Afghanistan and the region, share insights, knowledge and experience, ask questions and share hopes and concerns.
Those who have lived, worked, served, studied or have connections to Afghanistan and the regions are especially encouraged to attend.
Panelists:
Linda Pappas Funsch - Adjunct Professor, History and Political Science – Middle East Studies, Hood College
Fahima Vorgetts - Board Member, Women for Afghan Women and Director of the Afghan Women’s Fund
Ellen Barfield – Veterans for Peace
John Darnell, Ph.D. - biochemist, consultant on sustainable energy technology, Energy Advisor to Congressman Roscoe Bartlett
Location: Friends Meeting, 723 N. Market St., Frederick, MD. 21701
For more info: This event is part of the Seasons for Peace and Nonviolence series. See www.unityfrederick.org/SNV2010.html; call 301/834-7581; email info@wibfrederick.org
Afghan made handicrafts and other items will be available for purchase. All proceeds to benefit projects of the Afghan Women’s Fund. This event is free and open to the public - light refreshments provided.
Sponsored by Women in Black Frederick and Peace and Social Concerns Committee, Frederick Friends Meeting (Quakers).
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."
Women in Black is a means of communicating our refusal to accept the logic of war and violence.
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
The silence we use is in solidarity with those who are silenced everywhere. We choose silence, knowing that our silence is voluntary and limited, while others are restricted, tortured and killed for their efforts to speak out.
-WIB Frederick
I am not responsible only for what I am doing, but also for what is done in my name.
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
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