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October 2005
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Years of Peacemaking • 1980 - 2005 |
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Saturday, November 12 •
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
The Billionaire Follies
of Billionaires for Bush |
Ira Shorr
Comedian for Peace |
CFPA Members must Pre-register by November
FREE ADMISSION
for members and one guest
Thank you for your support
Advanced Reservation Required
Event Details
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25th Anniversary
Interfaith Service and
Conference for Peace
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 |
Morality of War and Alternatives for Peace
Interfaith Service for Peace: 11:00 am Princeton University Chapel
Conference: 1:30 - 5:00 pm McCosh 10, Princeton University
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SPEAKERS:
Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector and Team Leader in Iraq, and leading expert critic
of the Bush Administration’s preemptive war in Iraq
Christopher Hedges, former New York Times
war correspondent and author
Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, renowned Harvard University psychiatrist and author
on moral and psychological effects of nuclear weapons.
Wayne Madsen, former National Security Agency staffer
and Washington-based journalist and author.
Grace Kennan Warnecke, Advisory Council, Kennan Institute,
global leader of women’s empowerment; Official Observer, Ukraine elections.
PREACHER:
The Rev. Dr. Bob
Edgar, Secretary General, National Council of Churches; former Member of Congress. |
Scott Ritter
Former United Nations
Weapons Inspector and Author
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 Peace Fest
October 15, 2005
7:00 - 10:00 P.M.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton
50 Cherry H ill Rd. Princeton, NJ
$5.00 Donation (includes food and music)
New Jersey Students for Peace (SFP), the student affiliate of the Coalition for Peace Action, are presenting their third Peace Fest and featuring four local high school bands, Goosey, Retrospect, 2 little girls, and Scott Nanos.
In addition to music, there will be fantastic food and crafts, including Henna tattoos. Everyone will be invited to decorate a peace flag, make T-shirts, and add a signature to a banner saying “America’s Youth Want Peace.” Petitions and information handouts will also be available. For more details call the Coalition office at (609) 924-5022.
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The Age of Frozen Scandal:
Torture and Truth after Abu Ghraib
Wednesday, November 9
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton
50 Cherry Hill Rd., 8:00 pm
Mark Danner, who will speak November 9, has been reporting on and writing about foreign affairs for twenty years. A longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, Danner has covered Central America, Haiti, the Balkans and Iraq. His work has been honored with a National Magazine Award, two overseas press awards, and an Emmy. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. His work is archived at markdanner.com
Sponsored by the Coalition for Peace Action, Mercer County Democracy for America, Amnesty International, and the Princeton Unitarian UniversalistCongregation of Princeton.
Community Forum
Military Recruitment in the Community and Schools
Tuesday, October 25, 7:00 pm, Princeton Public Library
65 Witherspoon St., Princeton, NJ
A panel of speakers, with representatives from the military, conscientious objectors, constitutional lawyers, medical practictioners and high school students, will address military recruitment of young adults in and outside of schools. Everyone is invited to join in the discussion that follows.
The documentary, Before You Enlist, produced by Princeton-based Telequest Inc., will also be shown. The Coalition for Peace Action is the Regional Sponsor of Before You Enlist. Information on the production can be found, and contributions for the production and distribution can be made, at www.peacecoalition.org.
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